Thanks also for making me laugh at the absurdity of office life. Thanks for being out there, fighting the good fight against office regimen. Thanks for working in the most generic office space possible to create one of the funniest web series in this millennium, Scotty Got An Office Job.
I challenge anyone out there to watch this show, at least three of them (at about a minute or so each, you’re looking at three minutes of your life) and tell me you are more productive than Scotty, the most-slash-least productive office employee on the planet. This, dare I say, reality web series is not only funny, but tense, entertaining and deeply creative as its creator Scotty Iseri walks the tightrope of employment by way of rapping, office synchronized swimming, office chair ballet and personal grooming, among other things, all while in the office and on the clock at work. No joke.
And that’s the thing, we’ve all kind
of wanted to do it on some level, but Scotty’s beaten us to the punch. He’s carrying out our fantasies and it’s all too relatable. I mean, how many of us surf the web, Facebook, twitter, fall asleep, take unnecessary bathroom or kitchen breaks at work? All of which are skewered in Scotty’s own absurd way and taken to the next level. He even has the audacity to record a Facebooking intern that he doesn’t like, as though he’s going to rat on her…while he’s making his show!Be aware though this is not to be tried at home, or work as it were, folks, a lot of what he does is very calculated. His songs are not sung out loud at work, but lip-synched to pre- or post-recorded music – a little of both it seems. And his talking is below a whisper and subtitled. But all of this adds to the tension, the inevitability that he will be caught at some point, or at least the feeling of it. There is even a snippet at the end of season one in which it appears he is being reprimanded for bad behavior by his superior, for reals.
Bottom line is that you should watch this show. Every Monday on Vimeo, MySpace, YouTube, Blip.tv or iTunes. I think it’ll be a good way to start your work week and maybe inspire you to do something productive with your time at the office, even if it doesn’t have anything to do with your job. Where do you think I’m writing this review?
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