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The Office UK - S2E1 'The Merger'

🕑 Added 2025-06-17 06:30:02 +0000 UTC

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Kevin Liversage

I don't agree with that in the workplace

Smiffy

Just spent 20 minutes fiddling with my speakers, then read the comments! :)

Nathalie Grainger Bradbury

The Muppet Show is where it came from -)

PEPETOTHEMOON

bnbn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na4qLIBUIaI

PEPETOTHEMOON

pretty sure the opening is BN BN McVitie's BN Chocolate Flavour Biscuits

James Thompson

Yo this upload is crushed. Fix it you pair of wankers!

The Snow Dog

Great video! though it seems at about 28 minutes into the video the audio quality drops a bit

Darren Seymour

The Intro was from The Muppets. David even said 'The Muppets' before it cut to the credits.

david mitchell

I remember the intro from the muppets when I was a kid

Tass

I'm pretty sure that tune at the start you thought was from Dr pepper was originally from the muppet show.

Thomas Wilkinson

You guys are so cute!

emu cat

don't remember anyone giving a flying one about Tim & Dawn, or when we became so conservative and moralising over the conduct of the characters, or maybe I was too high during this period.

bearfacecat

Hi guys, just a note to Jess please don't put two fingers up that way round to a British audience, it mean F OFF 😂

Fordy7169

Hey Mike and Jess, how about a music reaction to David Brent & Foregone Conclusion's 'Life On The Road' full album after you've watched The ' Life On The Road' movie? The song lyrics are a piece of work.

Nathan Davey

Great intro and reaction, shame about the sound.

Fordy7169

Before their time.

Fordy7169

Probably could get the BBC World Service on those hats. You'd be bored shitless but hey ho

Jason Bonner

The reason the Muppet version of the “Mah Na Mah Na” song is more familiar in the UK than the US is because when Jim Henson couldn’t get The Muppet Show commissioned in America, ITV in the UK picked it up. Due to shorter commercial breaks in the UK compared to the US, UK producers had to add approximately four extra minutes of content per episode. As a result, additional musical numbers like “Mah Na Mah Na” were included to fill the time and satisfy British broadcasters’ scheduling requirements.

AngieG

I know it from "The puppet show" 😂 https://youtu.be/TbZ_hTEOKZc?feature=shared

Jazz Chilli

This is exactly what i want to say whenever someone say the US Office is better....it's not imo but it's also impossible to compare them because to me the US Office is just a sitcom without a laughter track.

New Fish

What an entertaining Boss David Brent is. Makes a dull job fun. Hilarious. You should watch the Extras Series he did as well. Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant are great writers.

Megatron

Na, fair play to Gareth for being honest about his 'mate' in the wheelchair. At least it shows he treats people equally and doesn't pander to someone just because they're disabled.

Fordy7169

Luckily I was in Infant and Primary school during the 1970's and got a small bottle of full-fat every day. Loved a cold milk on a warm day.

Jay Lo

Those antennas are the sound issue 😂

Dylan Mc

You guys need to react to this country on bbc it’s so funny and you would love it I know for sure it’s a tv series similar to some of the characters in the office uk

Sigma

That song was popularised by The Muppets, but it was originally from the soundtrack of a Swedish movie from 1968: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTKs0-UPguA

brownchopper

Audio awful

Right Said Brett

Um, the opening tune they were humming was originally from The Muppets. Ya know, the iconic American television show... where you live? :P

Ash C

Oh great idea. This would be Patreon merch that would actually sell. I’m in

Ash C

oOoOo Hat FM friends, novelty headwear friends. Think you were picking up BBC radio there with those antennas 🤣 classic episode and reaction

Mark E

Yes guys 🤣

TheHigh

BNBN da di di did do! BNBN da did di do! BNBN da di di did do! BNBN da did di do! its crazy how powerful advert/commercial themes tunes can be when you are young , that theme song / melody only means one thing to me and that's the biscuit BN's , even though its from the Muppets officially , that's permanently linked to them for me hehe

TheHigh

love the outfits!

Frank Mac

Anyone else notice lots of crackling on the audio? Maybe HAT FM is not tuned in correctly 😉

Rob Brown

I grew up with The Muppets and Sesame Street!

Rob Brown

Amazing outfits, love it

Daniel Cooper-O'Reilly

WHERE THE HELL IS MY HAT?!!!!!

Tez

Thought it was just me...

M9tthew

"Lee love Dawn. Marriage. Question mark."

Danny

Nice job on the hats too! 🙂👍

Danny

Dawn has absolutely nothing in common with Lee. Dunno how they ever got together.

Chrono_Punk

Mike has definitely came over a little queer 😂

Jon

When will 'Hat-FM' merch be made available to Patreons? ;)

Fordy7169

Yes Brent's delusions about being a comedy genius have been well and truly punctured and his jealous streak insecurity about his new boss Neil is fermenting. P.S. the Welsh girl from Swindon's comment to Brent about being offended on someone else's behalf and him having only 1 non-white member of staff highlights the start of the DEI wokery which has become prevalent through-out this century. She desperately wants to be seen a 'good right-on' person, ironically the same as Brent does, but he doesn't quite pull it off. Her moral superiority comes into question in a later episode though.

Thomas

Watching from Stockholm. It was nice to be reminded of milk monitors. They were a kind of shit prefect back in the day when every primary school child was given a free half-pint bottle of milk every day by the government. All part of a drive to ensure kids had a healthy start to the school day. Margaret Thatcher, then a mere government minister for education, caused uproar when she decided to axe the milk. There were massive protests but to no avail, and Mrs T became known as “Thatcher, The Milk Snatcher’ long before the old bat became the so-called Iron Lady. The milk was delivered in crates to each classroom, and the milk monitor had the task of handing the bottles out and all the empties collected.

PoPaDoMZz

Are the Antennas on the hats affecting the audio?

David Broome

Personally I give women enough credit to live their own lives and make their own minds up about relationships, but that's me. Affairs are a normal part of life, even after marriage. It doesn't make it right or something that should be promoted but let's not pretend every relationship and marriage is perfect and neither partner should ever seek someone else. Yes ideally you leave one relationship before starting another but we don't live in an ideal World and life is complicated and sh*t happens when we least expect it. Once kids are involved then there is more responsibility and need to put aside your own feelings.

Emma Edwards

“I can maybe pull off Jim”… whatever floats your boat Mike!! 😂

Scarlett

i agree. I work with a bunch of guys at my work and we're really pally. to misinterpret it as romantic (Lee) is his own insecurity/mistrust of Dawn, something that he needs to work on. but then this just leads to the argument/debate that men and women cannot just be friends.

David Broome

American office, like all US comedy shows and some UK sit coms, had cut-out cookie characters and the mocumentary style barely exists, the UK version has more realistic personalities with flaws and realistic motivations more in fitting with a documentary and all the more clingier and funny for it IMO.

Mark McKeown

"I can't be as cool as Tim, but I can maybe pull off Jim" - what you get up to in your own time, is your business, Mike! TMI

Shuayb

loool loving the outfits! Where did you find the hats?!? I need one 🤯

Steve Small

Jim did treat Pam like that after she rejected him, and after Roy tried to attack him. At the end of last season Dawn rejected Tim. By doing anything with Tim, she's cheating, anyway. I don't really see their overfamiliarity as romantic - nor Pam and Jim's.

Emma Edwards

Lovin the hats guys 😂

RegenerationNationTV

Thought I had it sorted. We have someone on it now and will take this down and reupload the new one with hopefully better audio as soon as we can.

RegenerationNationTV

No, but it's hilarious that everyone thinks that. That's where my mind would go to as well, with these long antennas popping out of our heads. lmao

RegenerationNationTV

It's not that I'm rooting for them. It's clear that Tim and Dawn are a better match. I'm just saying that it's not that hard to call it quits with Lee and start something up with Tim with a clean slate. Firstly, I don't want some dude always lingering in the background who has it out for me. Secondly, I just don't want to start a relationship with semi-cheating being the foundation. That's my view on it, and this is a peek into why Jess hates me watching certain shows with her 😂

James Welsh

I changed my headphones, thinking they were playing up, lol, forgot that you were having audio problems

Ryan

Mike rooting for Lee & Dawn.. interesting take haha

Kourga

All the way from the UK you mean! American show but actually recorded/filmed in Blighty.

Josh Read

Is the audio problems because of the hats? Brilliant reaction though guys.

bobby g

Love that Office is back! (Audio is awful btw!)

Dan G, Leicester

Did you think "There goes David Brent - I must remember to thank him"?

David Cole

I started watching this this morning, then passed Ricky Gervais in the street an hour later.

Markos

the ma-na ma-na song at the begining they were doing was from the muppet show which used to play in the UK all the way from the USA on weekends way back in the 70's and 80's so for anyone around GenX you would have heard it non stop in school classrooms and teachers shouting SHUT UP !!! lol

Andy

Mike with the shirt and tie, hat and tache looks like the class joker who's been kept behind about 20 years in school.

Tom H

YYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH. I LOVE Still Game but I was starting to resent it waiting for this.

James Ososki

Love the outfits!!! 1000% appreciated

Chester

I noticed the 24 hour garage and hobnobs reference too. Damon and Iain decided to pinch a few lines I think. After they were made gay by Ricky in Extras I guess they get some latitude 🤣

Chester

If you need a hand with your setup there are plenty of people on here who can help out. Your PC is clearly struggling to record your two mics. Maybe put up a video of your setup and we can give you some tips? It’s no fun having these kinds of issues when you appear to have decent equipment. I’m guessing you have a fairly recent PC so there’s no reason why it can’t handle it. Especially as you must be going through an ASIO interface with the XLR connections. Let us know what we can do to help because we love the reactions so we don’t want these kinds of technical difficulties to keep happening 🫡👍

Joseph Potter

Great reaction thank you guys. Crazy awkward episode to open the season with 🤣 gets even better!

Ryan Lynch

Brent says "leetle beet drunk" about the Ipswich conference, the way that Simon said "leeetly spleef" in recent Inbetweeners. Now Im wondering if it is coincidence or a reference.

Paul

Cool hats. But the aerial's are messing with your mics. Lol!

James Hyde

It’s from the film ‘Heaven and Hell’ which came out before The Muppets show used it. But the Muppets made it famous.

Chester

‘24 hour garage and get me some hobnobs’ First time I’ve noticed the writers of the inbetweeners lifted that one as an easter egg. Payback for Ricky making them both gay in Extras maybe lol

Chester

You might need this on your audio track. They have a lot of good tools on a subscription: https://www.izotope.com/en/products/rx/features/de-click.html

Rachie

The opening song is from The Muppet Show.

Chester

I thought it was the HatFM interfering

Christian Rolfe

It definitely gets funnier and more cringy the deeper you go, prepare for extreme cringe

Simon Cross

Bad sound quality guys, same on the Mitchell and Webb reaction, just thought you should know.

DG

About Tim and Dawn, they didn’t really do anything wrong, it’s not like they kissed or anything. And as you learn the further it goes, Lee is a bit of a dick who kind of dictates what Dawn does in life and doesn’t consider her aspirations, whereas Tim genuinely cares about her. Anyway this vid was such a nice surprise, thanks :)

Silk

Yep. Muppets. 😁

James Hyde

The song “Mah na mah na” originated in Europe in the 1960’s on a film called ‘Heaven and Hell’ but most people know it from The Muppets show, who popularised it within a funny sketch.