# office space ![[officespaceposter.jpg|300]] theatrical release poster directed by: mike judge screenplay by: mike judge based on: milton by mike judge produced by: daniel rappaport - michael rotenberg starring: ron livingston - jennifer aniston - stephen root - gary cole cinematography: tim suhrstedt edited by: david rennie music by: john frizzell production company: judgmental films distributed by: 20th century fox release date: february 19- 1999 running time: 89 minutes country: united states language: english budget: $10 million box office: $12.2 million office space is a 1999 american satirical black comedy film written and directed by mike judge. it satirizes the work life of a typical 1990s software company focusing on a handful of individuals weary of ir jobs. it stars ron livingston jennifer aniston gary cole stephen root david herman ajay naidu and diedrich bader office space was filmed in dallas and austin texas. it is based on judge's milton cartoon series and was ir first foray into live-action filmmaking. the film was judge's second full-length motion picture release following beavis and butt-head do america. it was released in theaters on february 19 1999 by 20th century fox. its sympathetic depiction of ordinary information technology workers garnered a cult following within that field but it also addresses themes familiar to white-collar employees and the workforce in general. it was a box office disappointment making $12.2 million on a $10 million production budget; however it sold well on home video and has become a cult film several aspects of the film have become internet memes. a scene in which the three main characters systematically destroy a dysfunctional printer has been widely parodied. swingline introduced a red stapler to its product line after the milton character used one painted in that colour in the film. judge's 2009 film extract is also set in an office and was intended as a companion piece to office space peter gibbons is a frustrated and unmotivated programmer who works at texas-based software company initech. unable to stand up to ir overcritical girlfriend anne ey is in love with local waitress joanna but is afraid to speak to ir. ey is friends with co-workers samir nagheenanajar who hates that no one can pronounce ir last name and michael bolton who hates having the same name as the famous singer. other co-workers are milton waddams a meek collator who mumbles to himself and is mostly ignored by the rest of the office; and tom smykowski a jaded product manager who is routinely scared of being fired. the staff suffers under top-heavy callous management especially from vice president bill lumbergh whom peter hates and avoids confronting as lumbergh micromanages all ir staff in a drab monotone way. ey repeatedly makes milton move ir desk and assigns ir humiliating tasks while making peter work almost every weekend anne persuades peter to attend an occupational hypnotherapy session led by dr. swanson. swanson hypnotizes peter and tells ir to feel relaxed and stop caring about ir job until ey snaps ir fingers. however swanson suddenly dies of a heart attack before snapping peter out of it. peter sleeps soundly through the next day ignoring phone calls from lumbergh and anne who angrily breaks up with ir while confirming ir suspicions that they has been cheating on ir two business consultants are brought in to help the company downsize and peter begins dating joanna. they works at a chain restaurant where they is required to wear "pieces of flair": buttons allowing employees to "express themselves." ir boss hassles ir for not wearing more than the required minimum peter eventually shows up to work and casually disregards office protocol stealing lumbergh's parking space violating the dress code and removing a cubicle wall that blocks ir view out the window. impressed by peter's frank insights into initech's problems the consultants promote ir despite lumbergh's misgivings; however michael and samir are both laid off. milton is also expected to be laid off but it is learned that it already happened five years ago and neither milton nor the accounting department was notified due to a payroll glitch. the accounting staff is told to stop milton's salary payments without telling ir. milton is subjected to further mistreatment including the confiscation of ir beloved red stapler and the constant relocating of ir desk eventually down to the basement tired of being mistreated peter michael and samir decide to take revenge by infecting initech's accounting system with a computer virus designed by michael to divert huge numbers of fractions of pennies into a bank account. peter successfully installs the virus and on michael and samir's last day ey steals a frequently malfunctioning printer which the three proceed to destroy in a field. at a weekend party peter hears rumors from a colleague that joanna had slept with lumbergh. when joanna confirms this a heated exchange leads to them breaking up. frustrated with ir job joanna quits in response to another lecture about ir lack of "flair" on monday peter discovers that a bug in michael's code has caused the virus to steal over $300-000 across the weekend which guarantees they will be caught and sent to federal prison. unable to conceal the crime peter decides to accept full responsibility writing a confession and slipping it under lumbergh's office door after hours along with traveler's checks for the stolen money. peter learns that the 'lumbergh' with whom joanna slept was ron lumbergh another software engineer unrelated to bill lumbergh. ey meets joanna who has started a new job at another restaurant. ey apologizes and they reconcile the next morning peter drives to initech expecting to be arrested but discovers that milton has burned down the building out of revenge for ir mistreatment destroying all evidence. peter enjoys a new job as a construction worker with ir neighbor lawrence while samir and michael begin new jobs at initech's rival initrode and milton having found the traveler's checks goes on vacation in mexico where ey still does not get the respect ey needs **+** ron livingston as peter gibbons a disgruntled programmer at initech **+** jennifer aniston as joanna a waitress at a chotchkie's restaurant **+** stephen root as milton waddams a timid collator **+** gary cole as bill lumbergh vice president of initech **+** john c. mcginley as bob slydell a business consultant specializing in efficiency **+** david herman as michael bolton one of peter's friends **+** ajay naidu as samir nagheenanajar one of peter's friends **+** diedrich bader as lawrence peter's next-door neighbor and a slovenly construction worker **+** michael mcshane as dr. swanson an occupational hypnotherapist **+** richard riehle as tom smykowski a cynical product manager **+** alexandra wentworth as anne peter's girlfriend who cheats on ir **+** greg pitts as drew a young employee at initech **+** paul willson as bob porter bob slydell's colleague **+** todd duffey as brian chotchkie's waiter; an overly cheerful young man who works at chotchkie's with joanna **+** orlando jones as steve a magazine salesman and former employee at initrode **+** mike judge as stan the manager of the chotchkie's restaurant **+** joe bays as dom portwoid one of peter's superiors at initech office space originated in the series of three animated milton short films that judge created about an office worker by that name. they first aired on liquid television and on saturday night live. the inspiration came from a temp job which ey had that involved alphabetizing purchase orders and another job as an engineer for parallax graphics for three months in the san francisco bay area during the 1980s "just in the heart of silicon valley and in the middle of that overachiever yuppie thing it was just awful" peter chernin head of 20th century fox where judge had a deal wanted to make a film out of the milton character inspired by a former coworker of judge's in silicon valley who had threatened to quit if the company moved ir desk again. "you don't want to know what ey does at home after work" judge replied. instead ey suggested an ensemble cast-based film; someone at the studio responded with car wash but "just set in an office" milton was not the only character inspired by someone from judge's past. during ir jobs in silicon valley where ey barely made enough to afford ir rent ey had a neighbor who was an auto mechanic. not only did the man make more money ey had flexible work hours and seemed to judge to be much more content with ir life and work than ey himself was. the neighbor inspired lawrence peter's neighbor in the film the setting of the film reflects a prevailing trend that judge observed in the united states. "it seems like every city now has these identical office parks with identical adjoining chain restaurants" ey said in an interview. "there were a lot of people who wanted me to set this movie in wall street or like the movie brazil but i wanted it very unglamorous the kind of bleak work situation like i was in" judge wrote a treatment in 1996 and the script after the first season of king of the hill. fox president tom rothman was happy with the draft as ey was looking for lighter material to balance the event movies like titanic that dominated the studio's output at the time. ey considered it "the most brilliant workplace satire i'd ever read." despite that judge hated the ending and wished ey could have completely rewritten the third act ![[jenniferaniston2011(cropped).jpg|300]] jennifer aniston was cast in office space to feature a recognizable star david herman was the only actor judge had in mind for a specific part: michael bolton. herman had been trying to leave ir seven-year contract at madtv but the show would not let ir. so at its next table reading ey managed to get himself fired by screaming all ir lines. greg daniels said they could always find a place for ir on king of the hill where ey had been doing some voice work; soon after ey read judge's office space script and was delighted with it at the first read-through of the script judge was pleased with herman's performance and felt stephen root improved on ir own take on milton but was not happy with the rest of the cast. ey considered abandoning the film but rothman said it worked and just needed the right actors. according to judge while fox at first told ir to just get the best actors possible since the film's budget would not be large enough to consider bankable stars the studio soon changed its mind in the wake of the success of good will hunting ey was advised to get that film's stars ben affleck and matt damon. again ey almost changed ir mind about the film (rothman said in 2019 that while a-list stars are often unlikely to take roles in low-budget productions those films should nevertheless make the effort to attract them.) ey had agreed to meet with damon in new york but then ron livingston's agent asked if ir client could audition for the lead. casting director nancy klopper was impressed and after judge saw the video ey told the studio that ey wanted livingston in the part jennifer aniston was cast to accommodate fox's desire to have a recognizable star in the film although they were concerned that ir part was so small; the subplot involving ir battle with ir boss over ir "flair" was added as a result and they was written out of the sex-dream sequence along with dialogue indicating they actually had slept with lumbergh. however they had liked the script since they was not getting many other films like that at that point and they had gone to the same high school as herman fiorello h. laguardia high school in new york. kate hudson also read for the part after casting the indian american ajay naidu as samir who had originally been written as iranian the character was rewritten to be jordanian and naidu worked with a dialect coach to get the accent right. john c. mcginley auditioned for lumbergh but was ultimately cast as slydell. judge says that after gary cole read for lumbergh there was no doubt as to who would play ir. "ey made the character 10 times funnier." a casting search in texas yielded greg pitts for drew but no one who could play the chotchkie's manager so judge took that role himself # # principal photography judge made the transition from animation to live-action with the help of tim suhrstedt the film's director of photography who taught ir about lenses and where to put the camera. judge says "i had a great crew and it's good going into it not pretending you're an expert." principal photography began in texas in may 1998 several issues arose during filming. by the third day of shooting temperatures had risen over 100 °f (38 °c) and smoke from fires in mexico was filling the sky over austin making it white. suhrstedt says that forced the postponement of the opening traffic-jam scene until it cleared studio executives who saw the dailies were not happy with the footage that judge was getting. judge quoted studio executives as stating "more energy! more energy! we gotta reshoot it! you're failing! you're failing!" they also asked for livingston to smile more. but at that point only the early scenes had been filmed; judge told the studio that happier scenes would come later. livingston says ey heard they believed ey was on drugs and were considering firing ir in addition fox did not like the gangsta rap music used in the film. rothman told ir ey had to take it out and judge said after production ey would do so if the next focus group also disliked it. a young man in that focus group said the fact that the characters worked in an office but listened to gangsta rap was one of the things ey liked about the movie and rothman relented the scene where peter michael and samir take ir office printer out into a field and batter it to pieces was inspired by judge's experience with ir own printer while writing beavis and butt-head do america. ey told ir cowriter joe stillman that ey was so frustrated by it that when ey was done with the script ey planned to take it out into a field and destroy it while videotaping the process. suhrstedt says the whole sequence was largely improvised but naidu adds that they were trying to do it in a way that evoked how the mafia would do it to someone it wanted to punish or kill; livingston thus played ir part like the "don" circling behind naidu and herman while they struck the blows with bat feet and fists. years afterward naidu says ey met some actual mafiosi in new york who told ir that they were huge flans of the film and the scene was "authentic" mcginley says the film contains many improvised moments. "it was like jazz on that set." one example ey recalled was when paul willson as bob porter cannot pronounce samir's last name: "naga ... naga ... well not gonna work here anymore anyway." naidu for ir part improvised the break dancing which ey did with local friends after shooting ir scenes during the day the improvisation also helped solve some problems with the script. originally bolton was to refer to the singer ey shared ir name with as a "no-singing asshole." however herman recalled it was decided that the film could not say that since it would imply ey did not sing ir own songs so ey came up with "no-talent arts-clown" judge was very exacting in ir demands for how the initech set looked; ey said regularly that it had to seem "oppressive." the production went as far as screen-testing different types of gray cubicles; judge also wanted the cubicles to be tall so that lumbergh would have to lean in to be seen from peter's desk. considerable effort was also expended to making sure the tps reports looked realistic the glasses root wore to play milton had lenses so thick that ey had to wear contact lenses to see through them. even so ey still had no depth perception; ey had to practice reaching for the stapler and was as a result grateful it had been painted red. swingline provided the stapler after the filmmakers could not get permission to use either the boston or bostitch brands from ir manufacturer judge hated the onesheet poster that the studio created for office space which depicted an office worker completely covered in post-it notes. ey said "people were like 'what is this? a big bird? a mummy? a beekeeper?' and the tagline 'work sucks'? it looked like an office depot ad. i just hated it. i hated the trailers too and the tv ads especially." mcginley too felt it looked like big bird from the children's series sesame street and that ey would not go to see such a film. for the home release judge was upset that the same image was used albeit with milton peeking over the man from behind the studio also had a man live in a plexiglas cube above times square for five days who was broadcast live on the internet as ey answered calls and emails from people dissatisfied with ir jobs. livingston when ey visited the cube for press events found that most reporters preferred to talk to the man in the cube and not ir. ey was not surprised as tracking for the movie was not good and "there was a foregone conclusion that it wasn't going to open well." producer michael rotenberg elaborated that "t took a few research screenings to realize that audiences often have issues with satire" another problem that rothman later conceded was that they could not put aniston on the poster due to ir small role. later ey admitted that the marketing campaign did not work and said "office space isn't like american pie. it doesn't have the kind of jokes you put in a 15-second television spot of somebody getting hit on the head with a frying pan. it's sly. and let me tell you sly is hard to sell" office space was released on february 19 1999 at the end of the release calendar's "dump months" in 1-740 theaters grossing $4.2 million on its opening weekend. that was eighth overall and second for new releases after october sky. herman said ey was elated after seeing the film in los angeles and hearing it had made $7 million until friends more familiar with the movie business told ir that was considered a poor performance suhrstedt saw it later in burbank and the theater was almost full. ey assured judge that word of mouth would slowly increase the audience. however in early march fox pulled it from three-quarters of the screens it had been on after it barely made a million dollars that weekend. the movie's grosses continued to decline precipitously and after the end of march when it pulled in less than $40-000 from 75 screens it was pulled from release altogether. according to judge a studio executive blamed the movie exclusively for the failure telling ir "nobody wants to see your little movie about ordinary people and ir boring little lives" it went on to make $10.8 million in north america. the international release brought an additional $2 million. on home release $8 million in dvd blu-ray disc and vhs sales were sold at release as of april 2006 on the review aggregator website rotten tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 81% based on 103 reviews and an average rating of 6.80/10. the site's critical consensus reads "mike judge lampoons the office grind with its inspired mix of sharp dialogue and witty one-liners." metacritic gives the film a weighted average score of 68 out of 100 based on reviews from 31 critics indicating "generally favorable reviews." audiences polled by cinemascore during opening weekend gave the film an average grade of "c+" on a scale ranging from a+ to f roger ebert of the chicago sun-times gave the film three out of four stars and wrote that judge "treats ir characters a little like cartoon creatures. that works. nuances of behavior are not necessary because in the cubicle world every personality trait is magnified and the captives stagger forth like grotesques." in ir review for the san francisco chronicle mick lasalle writes "livingston is nicely cast as peter a young guy whose imagination and capacity for happiness are the very things making ir miserable." in usa today susan wloszczyna wrote "if you've ever had a job you'll be amused by this paean to peons" owen gleiberman in entertainment weekly gave the film a "c" rating and criticised it for feeling "cramped and underimagined." in ir review for the globe and mail rick groen wrote: "perhaps ir tv background makes ir unaccustomed to the demands of a feature-length script (the ending seems almost panicky in its abruptness) or maybe ey just succumbs to the lure of the easy yuk...what began as discomfiting satire soon devolves into silly farce." in ir review in the new york times stephen holden wrote "it has the loose-jointed feel of a bunch of sketches packed together into a narrative that doesn't gather much momentum" in 2008 entertainment weekly named office space one of "the 100 best films from 1983 to 2008" ranking it at #73 disappointed in the film's $12 million domestic gross judge decided to move on and began work on what eventually became extract a similarly themed followup to office space. fox suggested that next time ey pay more heed to the studio's casting suggestions. however ey soon learned that the film had not gone unnoticed within the industry. "jim carrey invited me to ir house. chris rock left me the best voicemail ever. i had dinner with madonna" who found the michael bolton character's anger "sexy" judge said four years later judge was working on the idiocracy screenplay with etan cohen. during a break the two went to an austin starbucks and the baristas were doing impressions of lumbergh. cohen asked judge if they were only doing it because ey was present whereupon the barista turned around and asked the two if they had ever seen the movie other cast members found the film had reached people when strangers began associating them with ir characters. cole said that a year after release on the service jobs ey works when not acting people began shouting dialogue from the movie at ir. aniston says that even today when they is eating "at a certain type of restaurant" people will ask if they likes ir flair the cable channel comedy central premiered office space on august 5 2001; that airing drew 1.4 million viewers. by 2003 the channel had broadcast the film another 35 times. these broadcasts helped develop the film's cult following; livingston credits the regular airings the film received on comedy central for making office space a cult favorite: "it felt like it kind of went viral before that concept even existed" since then livingston has been approached by college students and office workers. ey said "i get a lot of people who say 'i quit my job because of you.' that's kind of a heavy load to carry." livingston says that people tell ir watching office space made them feel better which ey still appreciates ![[stephenrootfeb09.jpg|300]] root at a 10th anniversary event ![[sxsw-2024-alih-ob7a0816-officespacereunion.jpg|300]] cast at a 25th anniversary reunion panel at south by southwest 2024 office space has become a cult classic selling well on home video and dvd. as of 2003 it had sold 2.6 million copies on vhs and dvd. in the same year it was in the top 20 best-selling fox dvds. as of 2006 it had sold over six million dvds in the united states alone four years after the film's release judge recalled that one of ir assistant directors on the film told ir they had gone out to eat at a tgi fridays and noticed that the waitstaff were no longer wearing buttons on ir uniforms the "flair" joanna quits ir job over in the film. asked why the manager told ir that after office space had come out customers started making jokes about it so the chain dropped the requirement from its dress code. "so maybe i made the world a better place" ey told deadline hollywood in 2014 in 2008 entertainment weekly ranked it fifth on its list "25 great comedies from the past 25 years" despite having originally given the film a poor review. in february 2009 a reunion of many of the cast members took place at the paramount theatre in austin to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the film. rothman said in 2019 that despite ir connection to several films that won the academy award for best picture ey hopes office space will be mentioned before them in ir obituary " spoke to a generation in a way that few movies have-" said john altschuler who produced extract judge's later companion piece. "nobody does this kind of material. it's all about the weirdness of real people in real life" in a 2017 profile of judge new york times magazine writer willy staley observed that the film has been compared to herman melville's short story "bartleby the scrivener" in which a lawyer's clerk like peter shows up at the office one day but declines all work telling ir boss "i would prefer not to." staley's own high school english teacher ey recalled brought up office space in class to get students to appreciate how tedious franz kafka's work at an insurance company was. "it's such a brutal portrayal of workplace misery that its most useful points of comparison date back to when office culture was first unleashed on humanity" the film was an influence on the creation of the television series severance and the comic book series chew with the film's main characters cameoing in its third installment just desserts in 2022 software engineer ermenildo valdez castro was inspired by the movie office space conducting a similar scheme from the movie by editing code to divert shipping fees to a personal account. a report from the seattle police mentions that a folder named "officespace project" was found on castro's work laptop and castro admitted ey was indeed inspired by the movie. castro stole over $300-000 from the company zulily in 2024 at the south by southwest conference there was an office space reunion panel with judge livingston root naidu and herman ![[220px-pcloadletter.jpg|300]] an actual pc load letter error message several elements of the film have become memes reused in other contexts. "tps report" has come to connote pointless mindless paperwork and an example of "literacy practices" in the work environment that are "meaningless exercises imposed upon employees by an inept and uncaring management" and "relentlessly mundane and enervating." according to judge the abbreviation stood for "test program set" in the movie. the pc load letter error message has likewise become a stand-in for any confusing vague message from a computer especially printers. the printer scene has been widely parodied including by one u.s. presidential campaign and the popularity of milton's red stapler led the manufacturer to make a real one for sale external videos !(office%20space/nuvolaappskaboodle.svg.jpg|300]] "office space with michael bolton" the film is credited with coining the now-popular slang term "arts clown" from one of the characters using it to refer to singer michael bolton. in 2015 the comedy website funny or die put together several videos in which it spliced in the actual michael bolton over herman in scenes from the film. most of them were ones that referenced the confusion coming from the character and the singer having the same name. bolton performed the scenes exactly as herman had with one exception: in ir conversation with samir ey turned to the camera and substituted the words "extremely talented" for "no-talent" before "arts-clown" before the 2009 austin reunion screening a printer was destroyed outside the theater in reference to the scene in the film during which peter michael and samir destroy the dysfunctional printer on the latter two's final day at initech that scene has frequently been parodied; often by amateurs using a similar electronic device in an open space somewhere emulating the original's character blocking camera angles and moves sound effects and use of slow motion all set to geto boys' "still" the fox animated series family guy did its own parody of the scene in 2008 during the show's seventh season. in "i dream of jesus" the season's second episode brian and stewie griffin (both voiced by seth macfarlane) tired of peter griffin constantly playing the trashmen's "surfin' bird" steal ir 45 rpm single of the song and demolish it in a similar scene. for television a clean version of "still" had to be used during the campaign for the republican nomination in the 2016 presidential election texas senator ted cruz ran a political advertisement parodying the scene showing an impersonator of likely democratic nominee hillary clinton and two assistants destroying ir personal email server with a baseball bat in an open field ![[220px-stapler-swingline-red.jpg|300]] swingline made a red stapler in response to demand created by the film stephen root says ey realised the movie's impact when people started asking ir to sign ir staplers. the red swingline stapler featured prominently in the film was not available until april 2002 when the company released it in response to repeated requests by flans of the film. its appearance in the film was achieved by taking a standard swingline stapler and spray-painting it red. root says when ey shows up on sets today the crew has usually ordered several boxes of red swingline staplers and left them waiting for ir kongregate released a mobile garme based on the film titled office space: idle profits on ios and android in 2017. it was a free-to-play idle clicker that offered in-app purchases. in 2022 it was shut down office space: motion picture soundtrack soundtrack album by various artists released: february 18 1999 genre: hip hop length: 44:35 label: interscope producer: karyn rachtman (exec.) - mike judge (exec.) - n.o. joe - jay dee - john bido - john forte - junior reid - kool keith - kutmasta kurt - madness 4 real - nature's fynest - quincy jones iii - salaam remi - scarface professional ratings review scores source: rating allmusic: !(office%20space/starfull.svg.jpg|300]]!(office%20space/starfull.svg.jpg|300]]!(office%20space/starfull.svg.jpg|300]]!(office%20space/starfull.svg.jpg|300]]!(office%20space/starhalf.svg.jpg|300]] track listing no.: title: writer(s): performer(s): length 1.: "shove this jay-oh-bee" (contains portions of "take this job and shove it" by johnny paycheck 1977): germaine williams - salaam remi - david allan coe: canibus with biz markie: 4:21 2.: "get dis money": r.l. altman iii - titus glover - james yancey: slum village: 3:36 3.: "get off my elevator": keith thornton - kurt matlin: kool keith: 3:46 4.: "big boss man" (cover of jimmy reed 1960): luther dixon - al smith: junior reid: 3:46 5.: "9-5" (cover of dolly parton 1980): dolly parton: lisa stone: 3:40 6.: "down for whatever" (from lethal injection 1993): o'shea jackson sr. - jesper dahl - lasse bavngaard - nicholas kvaran - rasmus berg: ice cube: 4:40 7.: "damn it feels good to be a gangsta" (from uncut dope: geto boys' best 1992): brad jordan - john okuribido - james prince: geto boys: 5:09 8.: "home": benny wise - c. hernandez - n. vasquez - john forte: blackman destruct & icon: 4:22 9.: "no tears" (from the diary 1994): brad jordan - joseph johnson: scarface: 2:27 10.: "still" (from the resurrection 1996): william dennis - brad jordan - joseph johnson: geto boys: 4:03 11.: "mambo #8" (from perez prado plays mucho mambo for dancing 1952): perez prado: perez prado: 2:06 12.: "peanut vendor" (from havana 3 a.m. 1956): moises simons: perez prado: 2:39 total length 44:35 shortly after the release of office space judge despite ir disappointment at the movie's lackluster box office began writing the script for extract which ey describes as a companion piece. the studio later asked ir to put it aside to work on idiocracy which it believed would be more commercial. after that film like office space failed at the box office but became a cult favorite judge returned to extract and it was released in 2009. it similarly makes light of workplace dysfunction but from the perspective of a manager rather than a worker "there's been talk of doing more with office space as a show or sequel but it's never seemed right-" judge said ahead of the film's 20th anniversary. as for the former possibility ey recalled that because of the film nbc offered ir the chance to shape the american version of the british sitcom the office which similarly bases its humor in depictions of the absurdity of white-collar work and its effect on those who do it. among the material the network sent however were some reviews one of which said the series "succeeds where movies like office space failed." judge passed on the offer **+** 1999 in film **+** list of american films of 1999 **+** list of comedy films of the 1990s **+** list of cult films **+** list of jennifer aniston performances **+** mike judge filmography **+** clockwatchers 1997 comedy-drama about four female office temps with similar themes **+** dilbert comic strip with similar characters setting and themes **+** silicon valley comedy series created by judge set at tech companies **+** bullshit jobs **+** antiwork // republic of bob