Anyone watch The Office on NBC
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Art at ISP
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Yes I saw it, and made the same observations. The show is based in Scranton, so it's natural to use PHL as the airport, although the scene for the return appears to have been filmed at concourse A at LGA, overlooking the US terminal--I see planes taxiing for takeoff on 31, and an AC jet to the left, which would fit the assumption that they were leaving Canada.
Oh---did anyone catch that they were supposed to have been in Winnipeg, yet the FA said no meals on flights under 2 hours? Since when does Butte Air have SSTs?
Oh---did anyone catch that they were supposed to have been in Winnipeg, yet the FA said no meals on flights under 2 hours? Since when does Butte Air have SSTs?
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I liked how it was obviously US (from the livery and the plastic cups in FC), yet the FA said that they serve meals on flights 2 hours or longer....HELLO....when did they upgrade their meal policy...you can't get a meal on a 3 hour flight.
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I don't watch THE OFFICE, but it sounds like the producers and the stock footage librarians were not doing their homework. If Dunder-Mifflin were good corporate citizens, they would be supporting their local airport (AVP), which does not have E190 service.....or service to LGA. (But we do have service to EWR......on CO!)
Huge :down: for this continuity error!
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This posting will probably be deleted my the moderators. If so, I have no problem with it. But for you to say so many things that are negative against this company and it's empoyees says a lot about you.
Whew..I feel so much better now.
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That was funny, especially how she didn't even bat a false eyelash. She must have been CLT based--I've only seen CLT gals use a cart in FC. An Air Jamaica FA did that to me once, but it was my head....luckily, I already had some rum punch...and again, the FA acted like I stopped the cart and kept on moving down the aisle.
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I thought the joke was more along the lines of.... Michael is such an idiot that he put the eye shades on and banged himself into the cart.
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Sorry, Art. They don't have that big of a production budget. "The Office" (my favorite show, BTW) is shot at an office park in the San Fernando Valley (subbing for Scranton). The airport shots were all done at LAX. The scene referenced above was done at Terminal 2 at LAX. You can see the 'alleyway' between T2 and T1 with the AC aircraft at 2 and the US plane at 1.
Amazing that there wasn't a WN plane in the shot as well, at the close-in T1 gates!
And the aircraft interior shots are done at one of any a few Hollywood sound stages that have just about any type of aircraft interior. Clearly the interior used was not a USAirways one. The F seats looked like old TWA or AA. Not sure about the coach seat patterns, though....
The US Airways aircraft shown is tail number 179 - that's an Airbus A321. Also, no 190's were painted in the "old" livery of dark blue. As stated before, the interior aircraft shots were not US Airways.
And yes, all of the airport scenes are at LAX. The show's studio is in Van Nuys, CA.
And yes, all of the airport scenes are at LAX. The show's studio is in Van Nuys, CA.
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I wish they would shoot the exteriors on location at AVP. At least make it authentic. It would be a great advertisement for CRJ's and DASH's!!!
I could understand where the interior shots would have to be filmed on a soundstage, but they could always get the prop department to add some filth and grime, and wrap half the interior in duct tape, to make it look authentic, too.
I could understand where the interior shots would have to be filmed on a soundstage, but they could always get the prop department to add some filth and grime, and wrap half the interior in duct tape, to make it look authentic, too.
For the final episode of season 3 in '07 the production did do some exterior shooting in Manhattan, but that's the only time they've ever gone 'on location'. Like I said, the production budget just doesn't allow it. There was an "Office" convention in Scranton last fall, though (during the writer's strike) that a good number of the cast attended.
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If the budget is so tight, they should be doing those exteriors in Scranton, not Manhattan.
Off-topic, but THE OFFICE convention was held a few weeks prior to the Writers strike. The convention was at the end of September, and the WGA contract expired Wednesday, October 31. The writers began picketing on Monday, November 5.
