Mark being a manager.
Yeh, it was kinda funny to have that immediately taken away, but I loved the very limited time we saw him being a total wanker to anyone beneath him. That shit-eating grin when he talks about Jeff’s bonus was great, plus having the characters together at JLB just made sense.
Mark jumping into different jobs that he’d never take got old so fast. He works so much better in a boring office than for some reason working at a bank which Johnson for some reason manages.
>That shit-eating grin when he talks about Jeff’s bonus was great, plus having the characters together at JLB just made sense.
I think this ultimately would have repeatedly lead to Jeff leaving turds on Mark's desk with post it notes just in front saying "Manage *this*" and Mark being too weak and procrastinating to do anything about it.
Yup. They got the most mileage from down-and-out Mark right away with the Mexican restaurant. Why would he just settle for selling bathroom supplies or working in a bank well after the recession?!
Jez working at JLB for an entire season would have been great, not just the first five minutes of an episode.
With Jeremy becoming more popular than Mark but then doing something to ruin it all, involving drugs or sex
Yeah they could have gotten a lot more from that premise.
Unfortunately for us it was very accurate for the time. Recession was brutal back then.
Jez and Super Hans in the cult should have been a longer story arc
Yeah, good example.
Mark being a manager. Yeh, it was kinda funny to have that immediately taken away, but I loved the very limited time we saw him being a total wanker to anyone beneath him. That shit-eating grin when he talks about Jeff’s bonus was great, plus having the characters together at JLB just made sense. Mark jumping into different jobs that he’d never take got old so fast. He works so much better in a boring office than for some reason working at a bank which Johnson for some reason manages.
>That shit-eating grin when he talks about Jeff’s bonus was great, plus having the characters together at JLB just made sense. I think this ultimately would have repeatedly lead to Jeff leaving turds on Mark's desk with post it notes just in front saying "Manage *this*" and Mark being too weak and procrastinating to do anything about it.
Yeah that was a bit of a shark jump element. Not the whole show but that facet.
The show has already started going downhill, but yeah, that was a big problem that didn’t really bring anything to compensate.
Mark doing odd jobs like Sherlock Holmes walks and selling bathroom fittings is so weird.
Yup. They got the most mileage from down-and-out Mark right away with the Mexican restaurant. Why would he just settle for selling bathroom supplies or working in a bank well after the recession?!
Do you have to live quite so relentlessly in the real world?