Which character from The Office are you?

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― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I am Brent. Fuck.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm Rachel. The last question is the best.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

just what I was scared of - Keith

― chris (chris), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm lovely dawn. which doesn't seem quite accurate. but then again...i guess i can't be *that* motivated if i'm taking quizzes like this in the middle of the work day.

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Apparently I am Rachel. I don't know who that is. But I've only seen Season One.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Neil.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Tim

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Can someone else get Brent now please, just so I don't disappear into a bottomless pit of despair? Thanks.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Even worse... I'm Simon the IT nerd.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Brent. Bugger.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

brent :(

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Finchy. Oh dear.

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

he he, matt's a slapper.

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

"Brent? Bugger!" No thanks.

I am Tim.

― Phoebe Dinsmore, Friday, 9 January 2004 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I am 'lovely dawn', it says. I have no idea who 'lovely dawn' is, and I have never seen this programme.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm Jennifer. Christ.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Finchey?! wtf?!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Simon the IT Nerd. Didn't occur to me before, but now seems oddly correct.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Definately David Brent. I don't have the beard anymore, but it is far too close for comfort. I am a sleezy boss.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm Neil, but I hardly think that's appropriate.

Nick: haha!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I am Neil. Christ.

― robster (robster), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Neil is what i aspire to be i think

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyone getting Brent - let me guess, you answered The Glass Is... "as full as you want to make it" Right?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, Neil kind of likes to think he's Christ doesn't he?

(Is it just me or does anyone else find Neil 20 gazillion times more annoying than Gareth or Brent?)

― Phoebe Dinsmore, Friday, 9 January 2004 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Neil is oddly repellant for no apparent reason.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

who's Neil? the manager from the other branch who took over (I stopped watchuing after a while as it was just like spending another half hour at work every week)

― chris (chris), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

If we had had "Carry On Office," Neil would have been played by Jim Dale. Sid James as Brent, Kenneth Williams as Gareth, Charles Hawtrey as Tim, Barbara bloody Windsor as Dawn.

― Phoebe Dinsmore, Friday, 9 January 2004 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Neil Godwin. Blimey. When's that going to happen?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 9 January 2004 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Sid James as Brent? no chance, it would have been that short curly haired one with a twirly tache, Kenneth someone?

― chris (chris), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Kenneth Connor

― chris (chris), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

What, Kenneth Connor? Yeah that might have worked. Sid James as Lee, then.

― Phoebe Dinsmore, Friday, 9 January 2004 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

how did they know i hate my job???

― lovely dawn (ken c), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Hattie Jacques as one of Brent's blind dates

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually being Jennifer is not so bad, she is quite hott in a stern sort of way. But I wanted to be Simon, just because he has the most devastatingly great line in the entire programme: 'So, you've gone off Dawn then?'

I liked Neil at first but rapidly went off him especially given his suspect friendship with Finchy.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Sid James as Finchy?

― chris (chris), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Jennifer = way hott. In the Carry On film she would be played by Joan Sims.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Eww. That sounds all wrong.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm Jennifer Taylor Clarke

― leigh (leigh), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm Tim, thankfully.

For me, the whole story of The Office is about Tim. I sometimes wonder if how widespread this view is amongst viewers.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Very widespread, if the reaction to the last episode is anything to go by. See also - the quiz episode.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

no I don't think it's about him but I do sympathise and empathise with him.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

it's what I always thought Nick, he's also the one I always identified with

― chris (chris), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Lovely Dawn, somehow.

Neil's thing is that he is the type that doesn't find the Lemsip Max Strength ads deeply annoying.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I am Tim. This doesn't surprise me in the slightest.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I would have preferred it if Dawn had just cried and not come back, but then that's miserable me for you.

(pedantic me says wouldn't US Immigration Control have turned her back anyway for outstaying her 3 month tourist visa waiver?)

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh god that's it, Swygart.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

But anyway, how the fuck am I Finchey?! wtf?! I don't even read a book a week! I've never thrown a kettle over a pub!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't have a moustache, damn you!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

By which I mean if you watch the last two episodes, he is very sour and snippish towards Brent about his lack of woman. There isn't anything to really hate about him, but you'd struggle to think of much to like either. His introduction is probably what weakens series 2, as it sort of becomes stooge-style comedy in the vein of Little Britain, sort of "Ha-ha, look at this twat," as we see Brent desperately trying to keep up with Neil, which he won't do, and which no-one would do. Neil is Mr Perfect, at least in the world of paper merchants in Slough.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

He had a nice jacket, mind.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

with all these quizzes around, has anyone made a 'which ILXOR are you?' quiz yet?

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm Matt DC!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I think they had no option but to focus on the Tim and Dawn story in the last episode because everyone else had really become exhausted, Brent in particular morphing into Alan Partridge; the irony of course being that if Brent/Gervais were to do a PA at a crappy nightclub in Bracknell or wherever, he'd actually go down a storm.

That being said, I felt it a pity that the writers opted out at the end with Dawn coming back, which was out of place and out of character, and that they didn't have the courage to stay with what in reality would have happened, i.e. that Dawn would look at the oil paints and the "don't give up" message, but then she would look at her overdraft and stay in the cab. Her tragedy is that she literally cannot afford to have a life of her own.

― Phoebe Dinsmore, Friday, 9 January 2004 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Neil.

― i'll be better than you today (starry), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought Neil was quite sexy in his white suit too

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Neil was Peter Egan to Richard Briers' Brent, until the xmas special nastied him up.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Archel is Penelope Winton!

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Err - Penelope Wilton I mean.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm Ned Raggett.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Neal's integration into series 2 was not a bad thing - Brent needed that impetus this time to show himself up and reveal his flaws further. he started off as #1 but ended up being outshone by someone else - very true to life. i don't think we are 'supposed' to hate Neal (i.e. not Gervais/Merchant's intention to make him hateful) and indeed i don't, but then they were not intending Brent to be hateful either and they succeeded there too really (he gets pity and sympathy from viewers rather than disdain perhaps? but this would be the case if it was someone you knew in real life?)

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

That's nonsense, Nick. In a real quiz, you'd get Calum and then spend the rest of the thread fretting about it.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Neil is about five years away from becoming Jerry in The Good Life.

― Phoebe Dinsmore, Friday, 9 January 2004 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Tim and Dawn turn into Richard Briers and Felicity Kendal?

― Phoebe Dinsmore, Friday, 9 January 2004 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

pretty much!

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

in the American version they will turn into Dharma and Greg

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Self-sufficiency in Slough, with only Hat FM to keep them company on the cold dark nights.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Colette, I actually did write a "which Sinister person are you" but binned it because a couple of the options weren't keen on the idea.

I'll get me coat.

(I'm Brent, btw)

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I would absolutely not pity Brent or sympathise with him if I knew him in real life. I know everyone says this, but I have worked with someone who is uncannily like him, and I neither pitied him nor sympathised with him. I actively despised him. He was a grade A cockfarmer, and my life is better for not knowing him any more.

Saying that, I liked in the last episode when Brent was all "please come out for a drink with me" and everyone looked around and shuffled and Tim eventually said he would go for a drink. Perhaps it would be easier to sympathise and have time for such a knob if they weren't actually your boss.

(mega x-post, this was a reply to stevem)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 January 2004 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

is it in the bin still, mark? please send it to me so i can play it in private! i bet i'm isabel lark.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 9 January 2004 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Sinister people should do the "Which Droolz Member Are You" quiz. Racial Australian stereotyping? A not at all concealed go at D***d K*****n? Something about cider? It's all on.

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 9 January 2004 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, me too if you've got it!

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 9 January 2004 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

What? This must be what ILX injokes all look like to an outsider.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 9 January 2004 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Hahahaha the Roolz website is STILL UP. I nearly just did a wee with laughter.

Joss had returned to his father's Guinness farm in Limerick where he spent his hours meditating, working out and writing heartfelt ballads on the family harp.

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 9 January 2004 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

THE MAGIC IS STILL THERE

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 9 January 2004 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

ailsa, exactly! a real-life Brent would attract far less (if any) sympathy - but because he's a character nay cariacture on TV it's different

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 9 January 2004 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, our old boss became more tragic than obnoxious once he'd been made redundant. No one felt sorry for Brent, viewers or characters, until he'd been sacked.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 9 January 2004 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the existence of Brent will make (office) life easier for real-life Brent-alikes, since people will be able to poke fun in a specific and easily understandable way - thus, the Brent-alike will hopefully take a look at him/herself and realise exactly why they're so derided, where before they might just have shrugged and dug their heels in.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 9 January 2004 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not sure... the very bedrock of the Brent-alike's character is a complete lack of self-awareness isn't it.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 9 January 2004 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I always thought part of the problem of a Brentalike was too much self-awareness (hence a degree of self despising and constantly trying to fit in with others). That's my problem. I just asked some of my staff for drink and they stared at their shoes and shuffled out of the room.
"Haha, I wouldn't have a drink with the boss either. Its Friday Night" I bellow over-effusively, dying inside.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 9 January 2004 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I am Brent. Everybody is surprised by this right?

― TOMBOT, Friday, 9 January 2004 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

there were a few situations prior to Brent's sacking that i think warranted sympathy, just as with Alan Partridge - they escape me right now tho.

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 9 January 2004 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Brent

― C-Man (C-Man), Friday, 9 January 2004 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Lovely Dawn; not that I've ever seen the show.

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 9 January 2004 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

so I'm still the only Keith? weird

― chris (chris), Friday, 9 January 2004 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Jennifer Taylor Clarke?

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 9 January 2004 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

she's the dark-haired woman from head office right?

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 9 January 2004 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I hate it when I don't like *any* of the answers to the these quizes. Your favourite type of film? Where's "Poncy euro-arthouse wank" when you need it? So I gave up in a fit of pique.

Ah, the Roolz site. I actually stumbled on it at one bored night a few weeks ago. "There's rule like a king does, and there's "hey man, you rool. Apart from the "man" bit, that's hippy talk".

Happy days...sorry, dayz.

― Tag (Tag), Friday, 9 January 2004 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Apologies for the in-jokery.

― Tag (Tag), Friday, 9 January 2004 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

I am Jennifer Taylor Clarke

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 3 May 2004 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

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