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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