11th March 2012, 5:05 PM
I'll agree with you there. I was being hyperbolic. However, The Office, for example, trades in nothing but awkwardness. At a certain point, it just comes off as lazy and boring.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)