The Office co-stars and best friends, Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey, are doing the ultimate The Office re-watch podcast for you. Each week, Jenna and Angela will break down an episode of The Office and give exclusive behind-the-scene stories that only two people who were there, can tell you.Now that The Office’s entire run can be found on Peacock, NBC's streaming service, we thought we’d salute our favorite sitcom by ranking our favorite episodes ever. A Benihana Christmas (Season 3, Episodes 10 & 11)Error: please try again.
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NBC's long-running show The Office is the latest comedy series to join the list of those to become casualties of cancel culture.That's as viewers familiar with one of America's favorite mockumentaries watching a recent Sunday marathon on Comedy Central noticed that the show's "Diversity Day" episode was omitted from the rotation.Ironically, the politically incorrect episode satirizes contemporary corporate "diversity and inclusion" policies. Be Star Wars and alternative titles could be Episode IV and A New Hope.While Pam and Karen (played by Rashida Jones) forming a friendship is a sweet B-plot, and I do like how their conflict is resolved with Angela, I must say that Michael won this episode for me, and therefore, it needs to be the best.Gosh, writing this makes me want to watch some fun Christmas movies on Netflix or get into the holiday feeling. Maybe even re-watch the Christmas episodes again for The Office. All I know is that when that time of the year comes around, I’ll be ready to watch some of my favorite office workers celebrate the holidays again. Now, all we need is a Christmas reunion.
The episode finds the Seinfeld gang stuck in a traffic jam during New York City's annual Puerto Rican Day Parade. Previously, they were unavailable to stream on services like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Comedy Central, iTunes and South Park Studios.Likewise, NBC pulled Seinfeld's "The Puerto Rican Day" from syndication despite it being the show's second-highest-rated episode of all time with 38.8 million viewers. Those episodes unavailable include "Super Best Friends" from Season 5, "Cartoon Wars" Part I and II from Season 10, "200" from Season 14 and "201" from Season 14. Mike Coppola/GettyIt follows previous comedic content taken out of viewing line-ups including episodes from Comedy Central's South Park and NBC's Seinfeld.It was in June of 2020 that HBO Max acquired South Park, except for the five most controversial episodes depicting religious figures, including the Prophet Muhammad. During the seminar, he speaks in an exaggerated Indian accent and reprises Chris Rock's notorious standup routine about different kinds of Black people.The segment, which was the second in the series' first season that originally aired on March 29, 2005, is just the latest example of content censored in an increasingly woke era with corporations and big tech companies now deciding what audiences can and cannot see.Actor Steve Carell attends Comedy Central Night Of Too Many Stars at Beacon Theatre on Februin New York City.
Just wait until they get to the episode where Michael dons an Afro wig to mock Darryl. Newsweek also reached out to comedian Larry Wilmore, who was the central guest star in the segment, but he declined to comment.Meanwhile, Twitter was aghast last week with comments from disappointed fans regarding the "Diversity Day" deletion."It was only a matter of time. In the case of 1941's Dumbo, objections were raised to the film's singing crows that paid homage to racist minstrel shows while Peter Pan and Swiss Family Robinson include negative portrayals of Native Americans and foreigners.The removal of that content has occurred while classic Looney Tunes characters like Pepe Le Pew and Speedy Gonzales have been cancelled and even re-created due to shifting public attitudes.While Newsweek reached out to multiple spokespeople at Comedy Central and ViacomCBS about its recent omission of The Office episode, no one responded to our query as to why it was removed. Disney's rationale behind the removals was that this younger audience might not be of reading age to understand advisories noting "negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures" added to certain content. The move meant that children under 7 could no longer watch titles like Dumbo, Peter Pan, Swiss Family Robinson and The AristoCats. The episode with the flag-burning scene unedited was added back to syndication in August of 2002.Outside of comedic content, Disney+ in October 2020 dropped several of its classics featuring stereotypical character portrayals from their Kids Profile.
Cleese himself has seen an episode of his own Fawlty Towers canceled for a scene in which racist language was used in an anecdote about the West Indies cricket team.Needless to say, both Ricky Gervais, who created The Office and starred in the original British series version, and Carell have said publicly that the show would be banned if it were to air for the first time through today's uber-sensitive lens."I mean, the whole idea of that character, Michael Scott, so much of it was predicated on inappropriate behavior," said Carell in a 2018 interview.There may be no doubt that characters like Michael Scott take situations too far and Seinfeld's Kramer, who often didn't intend to be inappropriate, seemed to always put himself in such situations.Still, it's also worth noting that Greg Daniels, who adapted the U.K. In it, the star of Monty Python and Fawlty Towers will meet various people who have been "cancelled" because of their actions or statements along with activists who have led opposition to certain public figures. It truly is the only thing holding me together at this point." Both were responding to a tweet about the deleted episode by sports and pop culture blog Barstool Sports.That's while British actor John Cleese announced last week he's taking on the topic of "cancel culture" in the forthcoming TV documentary series Cancel Me.
ET: An earlier version of this article misspelled the title South Park and misidentified Disney's The Aristocats as "The Aristocrats. Instead, it mocks the wrong-mindedness of racism."Emily Jashinsky, cultural editor of The Federalist, said "It's pathetic that a network dedicated to comedy lacks the courage or will to air sharp satire like 'Diversity Day'."But for now, whether it's a TV watcher who recently discovered the show's quirky humor through re-runs that ran during the pandemic, or a die-hard fan lapping up the show's quick-witted one-liners, television viewers aren't likely to see the "Diversity Day" episode in the future.Corrected , 4:08 p.m. "Diversity Day" doesn't promote racism. It also introduced the characters of Kelly and Toby, which set up the forthcoming feud between Toby and Michael and began Kelly's journey.Read more 5 Episodes of 'The Office' That Haven't Aged WellAnd then there's the point that the purpose of comedy is to make us laugh and it can't always exist in the context of what others find appropriate or inappropriate.As writer Bobby Burack of the sports media website Outkick put it in a recent article, he penned, "The brilliance of comedy is that it not only makes us laugh but it's powerful. As each character is forced to tape cards to their forehead with a different ethnicity and to speak about it in a small conference room, the cast built chemistry between them.
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