We Need To Talk About Your TPS Reports: 101X Presents Office Space

In case you hadn’t noticed, the watery pummeling we have been subjected to of late mercifully subsided, and the giant death ball in the sky has returned to rid the earth of its perpetual moistness. Hooray! We can get back to the business of summer, which is of course, sweating while walking, sweating while driving and sweating while watching movies on big blow-up outdoor screens. Wednesday night, all of this can be yours thanks to 101X, Central Market and the Alamo Drafthouse as they present Office Space.

We wonder, has there ever been a movie so perfect in its disparagement of all things corporate, popular and franchisable? Who has not been tempted to go “office space” on their work printer after it spat out some indecipherable error message? And who of the professional waiting world has not been tempted to throw down their flair, give their boss the finger and walk out on what is, when you get right down to it, a whorehouse that, instead of willing ladies, dishes out jalapeño poppers? (We walked out on a restaurant job once and it was possibly the most empowering thing we ever did!) All people can relate to this movie’s basic moral which is: Work Sucks.

Mike Judge doesn’t like to speak about Office Space, even though more people ask him about the film than any of his other memorable works (most notably, Beavis & Butthead and King of the Hill). We can only hope that he realizes that what he created on film perfectly captures the dreams of an entire generation of people, who if they had a million dollars, would sit around and do nothing all day, right after, you know, doing two chicks at the same time.

Austinist wonders, what is your favorite quote from Office Space?

101X Summer Movie Series Presents Office Space
Wednesday, August 8th
Central Market - 38th and Lamar
8pm, Movie starts at 9pm, Free
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By oh, steph in Arts & Entertainment on August 7, 2007 2:08 PM 0 Comments

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gorfette

Peter: Good luck with your layoffs, all right? I hope your firings go really well.

Milton Waddams: [talking on the phone] And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were married, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire...

Fabulous movie...watch it everytime I see it on TV. lol.

Hey little sista!! I'm reading your posts now!

-Kimmy

guest

Lawrence: ...chicks dig a dude with money.

Peter: Well, not all chicks.

Lawrence: Well the kind of chicks that'd double up on a dude like me do.

guest

Peter Gibbons: I sit in a cubicle and I update bank software for the 2000 switch.

Joanna: What's that?

Peter Gibbons: Well see, they wrote all this bank software, and, uh, to save space, they used two digits for the date instead of four. So, like, 98 instead of 1998? Uh, so I go through these thousands of lines of code and, uh... it doesn't really matter. I uh, I don't like my job, and, uh, I don't think I'm gonna go anymore.

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I very agree with you.. "Peter Gibbons: I sit in a cubicle and I update bank software for the 2000 switch."

guest

I don't think so Bob

cymblue

Samir Naga... Naga... Not gonna work here anymore

guest

It has different conclusions...that you can JUMP to...get it?

Bre

Why does it say paper jam when there IS NO paper jam?!

guest

This is a...This is a Fuck!

guest

Idiocracy is fantastic. It gives me hope for humanity because I like dumb people.

guest

"Looks like somebody's got a case on the Mondays."

oh steph

I find that whereas Office Space gives me hope for humanity, Idiocracy takes it away. And I prefer to live in a fairytale world of rainbows, puppy dogs and stupid animated characters who teach us life lessons, like don't eat all the candy in the pantry unless you want to turn into the anti-superhero cornholio.

guest

"his [Judge's] other memorable works (most notably, Beavis & Butthead and King of the Hill)"

You are remiss if you do not mention his criminally under-appreciated Idiocracy.

If you haven't seen it, get aholt of it as soon as possible and enjoy.

oh steph

Patrick C - I just left a message for the promotions person at KROX to see if they were planning on rescheduling Wayne's World. I did notice that they rescheduled The Princess Bride for August 20th, though. Holla!

And as far as quotes go....

"For my money, I don't know if it gets any better than when he sings 'When a Man Loves a Woman.'"

"Bob - Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately.

Peter - I wouldn't say I've been 'missing' it, Bob."

"You know, the Nazis had pieces of flair that they made the Jews wear."

deadflowers

Awesome! Can't wait for this.

libgal12

Samir:...why don't you just go by Mike instead of Michael?

Michael Bolton: No way! Why should I change? He's the one who sucks.

guest

"I hereby sentence you to a term of no less than forty years in federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison."

truecraig

"no-talent assclown"

Patrick C

I wonder if they'll reschedule the thrice-cancelled Wayne's World? I love Office Space but I'd be more excited about seeing WW at one of these outdoor showings.

heyzeus

I celebrate the man's entire catalog.

guest

"It's not that I'm lazy. It's that I just don't care."

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We walked out on a restaurant job once and it was possibly the most empowering thing we ever did

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who if they had a million dollars, would sit around and do nothing all day, right after, you know, doing two chicks at the same time.