Of sorts. Impressions: At the start, it seemed like it was going to be a parody of The Office, but then they completely ignored that except for a couple very, very lazy and half-assed jokes that they deceptively edited it. Which was revealed at the halfway mark, and then repeated another ten minutes later. […]
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