HANK RANKS No. 18
My 9 Predictions About The Upcoming Spin-Off From The Office
I'm 99% certain that rumors are true that NBC will be spinning off a new sitcom from The Office sometime during this upcoming TV season...Here then are my 9 predictions of exactly what that spin-off should, could, and might be...
But before I do that, let me just suggest this - what if NBC were to spin-off any number of these shows at the same time? Imagine an entire night of nothing but sitcoms centered in or around Scranton, PA, all of them tangents of that core, The Office? It would be completely unprecedented in television, and I think it would be utterly brilliant...Your opinion may vary...
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09: Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration: Talk about a tangential spin-off, consider a sitcom centered around Bob Vance and his refrigeration business...Instead of an office, this would be more of a warehouse setting, which leads directly to the next prediction on this list, which is 100% more likely in reality...
08: The Warehouse: Well, this is a pretty obvious idea, since we're already quite familiar with many of the characters in the Dundler-Mifflin warehouse, and in fact, Darryl, the warehouse supervisor really came into his own last season, and has certainly become as beloved as any of the actual office workers on The Office...
07: Darryl & The Seamonster: This is really just an alternate to The Warehouse, wherein we follow the exploits of Darryl and "The Seamonster", who are roommates when not working together at the warehouse. Fans of The Office will know that "The Seamonster" is the nickname given to the big black warehouse worker by Kelly Kapour in the "Safety Day" episode...
06: Miss Beesly: It appears that Pam will be spending the beginning of season five of The Office at the Pratt School of Design in NYC, and I'm guessing that this situation might put some strain on her relationship with Jim. My prediction is, of course, that she will meet another guy at school who is every bit as great as Jim, and there will be much temptation, and perhaps even a mistaken kiss or more...Now, what if we take all of this to it's logical extreme and this causes Pam and Jim to split up? Then Pam graduates design school and begins her new life at a new job as a graphic designer in NYC...Miss Beesly would follow Pam in this new life, in a new city, without Jim...I realize that if any of this actually happened, hardcore fans of The Office would absolutely puke and cry and become enraged over such developments, and yet, it's a story arc that I think would be very interesting to see, and if anyone on The Office has spin-off potential, it's probably Jenna Fischer...
05: Whatever Happened To Toby Flenderson? : Fans know that Toby quit Dunder-Mifflin at the end of season four to move to Costa Rica and presumably become a wildlife photographer...Well, that's exactly what this show would be about...Of course, Toby tends to have pretty bad luck in life, and so he will meet with many hilarious trials and tribulations while living in a tropical paradise...
04: Serenity: Fans of The Office know that during season four Jan started up her own candlemaking business out of her and Michael Scott's condo, and it was called Serenity By Jan...Well, on this show, we follow the life of Jan Levinson as she attempts to get this business off the ground, all the while trying hard to be a single mother. In the process, we'll witness her heavy wine drinking, her attempts at dating (perhaps an ongoing situation with her former assistant, Hunter), and from time to time, Michael Scott will attempt to become a part of her life again, so there's the easy crossover appeal...
03: Prison Bitch: This spin-off will naturally follow wunderkind Ryan Howard, who was busted for securities fraud at the end of season four, as he attempts to survive prison. This may not be easy, because as Michael Scott himelf explained, as a good-looking young man, Ryan would be "da belle of da ball" if he ever landed in prison...Of course, it would make more sense if Ryan went to one of those cushy prisons since he committed a white-collar crime...If that were the case, imagine that cushy prison setting, but the tone is much like The Office, wherein Ryan is once again the new guy, and he's mentored by an older prisoner who is every bit as stupid as his old boss, Michael Scott...
02: ...Meanwhile, Mose...: Mose is Dwight Schrute's cousin, and the two of them share an inherited beet farm in rural Lackawanna County...This show will follow Mose during the day, when Dwight is away from the farm at the office...Each episode, however, will be bookended by scenes including Dwight as he leaves for work in the morning and returns from work in the evening...Brilliant, if I may say so myself...
01: Creed Thoughts: A blog already exists at NBC.com entitled Creed Thoughts, so this spin-off of The Office makes a ton of synergistic sense...Creed Bratton is definitely one of my favorite characters on the show, and I believe that's true for alot of fans...This guy is certifiably insane, more than a little criminal, and funnier than fuck...Now, imagine that Creed is offered a job as a blogger by some bigtime blogging network, like Gawker Media, and we get to follow his life as a criminally insane 60 year old among the young and hip 20-somethings of New York City...Guaranteed hilarity...
NBC - where you at?
Hotcha! Hank
I'm 99% certain that rumors are true that NBC will be spinning off a new sitcom from The Office sometime during this upcoming TV season...Here then are my 9 predictions of exactly what that spin-off should, could, and might be...
But before I do that, let me just suggest this - what if NBC were to spin-off any number of these shows at the same time? Imagine an entire night of nothing but sitcoms centered in or around Scranton, PA, all of them tangents of that core, The Office? It would be completely unprecedented in television, and I think it would be utterly brilliant...Your opinion may vary...
HPHPHPHPHPHPHPHPHPHPHPHPHPHPHPHPHPHPHPHP
09: Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration: Talk about a tangential spin-off, consider a sitcom centered around Bob Vance and his refrigeration business...Instead of an office, this would be more of a warehouse setting, which leads directly to the next prediction on this list, which is 100% more likely in reality...
08: The Warehouse: Well, this is a pretty obvious idea, since we're already quite familiar with many of the characters in the Dundler-Mifflin warehouse, and in fact, Darryl, the warehouse supervisor really came into his own last season, and has certainly become as beloved as any of the actual office workers on The Office...
07: Darryl & The Seamonster: This is really just an alternate to The Warehouse, wherein we follow the exploits of Darryl and "The Seamonster", who are roommates when not working together at the warehouse. Fans of The Office will know that "The Seamonster" is the nickname given to the big black warehouse worker by Kelly Kapour in the "Safety Day" episode...
06: Miss Beesly: It appears that Pam will be spending the beginning of season five of The Office at the Pratt School of Design in NYC, and I'm guessing that this situation might put some strain on her relationship with Jim. My prediction is, of course, that she will meet another guy at school who is every bit as great as Jim, and there will be much temptation, and perhaps even a mistaken kiss or more...Now, what if we take all of this to it's logical extreme and this causes Pam and Jim to split up? Then Pam graduates design school and begins her new life at a new job as a graphic designer in NYC...Miss Beesly would follow Pam in this new life, in a new city, without Jim...I realize that if any of this actually happened, hardcore fans of The Office would absolutely puke and cry and become enraged over such developments, and yet, it's a story arc that I think would be very interesting to see, and if anyone on The Office has spin-off potential, it's probably Jenna Fischer...
05: Whatever Happened To Toby Flenderson? : Fans know that Toby quit Dunder-Mifflin at the end of season four to move to Costa Rica and presumably become a wildlife photographer...Well, that's exactly what this show would be about...Of course, Toby tends to have pretty bad luck in life, and so he will meet with many hilarious trials and tribulations while living in a tropical paradise...
04: Serenity: Fans of The Office know that during season four Jan started up her own candlemaking business out of her and Michael Scott's condo, and it was called Serenity By Jan...Well, on this show, we follow the life of Jan Levinson as she attempts to get this business off the ground, all the while trying hard to be a single mother. In the process, we'll witness her heavy wine drinking, her attempts at dating (perhaps an ongoing situation with her former assistant, Hunter), and from time to time, Michael Scott will attempt to become a part of her life again, so there's the easy crossover appeal...
03: Prison Bitch: This spin-off will naturally follow wunderkind Ryan Howard, who was busted for securities fraud at the end of season four, as he attempts to survive prison. This may not be easy, because as Michael Scott himelf explained, as a good-looking young man, Ryan would be "da belle of da ball" if he ever landed in prison...Of course, it would make more sense if Ryan went to one of those cushy prisons since he committed a white-collar crime...If that were the case, imagine that cushy prison setting, but the tone is much like The Office, wherein Ryan is once again the new guy, and he's mentored by an older prisoner who is every bit as stupid as his old boss, Michael Scott...
02: ...Meanwhile, Mose...: Mose is Dwight Schrute's cousin, and the two of them share an inherited beet farm in rural Lackawanna County...This show will follow Mose during the day, when Dwight is away from the farm at the office...Each episode, however, will be bookended by scenes including Dwight as he leaves for work in the morning and returns from work in the evening...Brilliant, if I may say so myself...
01: Creed Thoughts: A blog already exists at NBC.com entitled Creed Thoughts, so this spin-off of The Office makes a ton of synergistic sense...Creed Bratton is definitely one of my favorite characters on the show, and I believe that's true for alot of fans...This guy is certifiably insane, more than a little criminal, and funnier than fuck...Now, imagine that Creed is offered a job as a blogger by some bigtime blogging network, like Gawker Media, and we get to follow his life as a criminally insane 60 year old among the young and hip 20-somethings of New York City...Guaranteed hilarity...
NBC - where you at?
Hotcha! Hank
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