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Am I the only one who thought that the commercial crefted by the Dunder-Mifflin Scranton team, for all its homemade amateurishness, was better than the on the pros made? (Don’t know what I’m talking about? Watch the “Local Ad” episode of The Office, streaming in full below.) I thought it did a better job of telling the Dunder-Mifflin story, a better job revealing that, behind the outrageous behavior, confessional asides, devilish pranks, and cringeworthy social faux pas, was a group of ordinary men and women just trying to earn a living. That sense of heart, along with the wince-while-you-laugh tone, is what landed NBC’s Britcom remake at No. 61 on our list of the Top 100 TV Series of the last 25 years in the current EW 1000 issue.
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