Comedy Central Pulls Controversial Episode Of The Office From Circulation

Comedy Central has determined to drag an episode of The Office, one of the widespread tv comedies in fashionable historical past, from its rotation. Throughout a weekend marathon of the present on Comedy Central, viewers seen that the second episode of the sequence, ‘Range Day,’ was not included. The episode was the primary to function authentic writing, because the sequence pilot that aired earlier than it was merely an adaptation of the British model of The Workplace.

In ‘Range Day,’ Michael (Steve Carell) makes an attempt to mimic a well-liked Chris Rock comedy routine however as an alternative offends his subordinates and causes the Scranton department of Dunder Mifflin to endure a racial variety seminar. Regardless of the efforts of Mr. Brown (Larry Wilmore), a variety coach, Michael tries to take over the seminar and finally creates his personal seminar. As anticipated, Michael’s views of racism and variety are stuffed with stereotypes.

This leads him to create an train wherein the workers put on index playing cards with races or particular individuals of colour on them, and different workers are alleged to say their impressions of no matter is on the cardboard. Michael finally begins speaking to Kelly (Mindy Kaling), an Indian American who joins in on the train late and doesn’t have a card. Regardless, Michael begins chatting with Kelly in a racist impression of an Indian particular person. Offended, Kelly slaps him within the face, embarrassing Michael and abruptly ending his model of variety day.

The episode is basically praised as the start of what The Workplace would turn into, a cringe comedy that loves to make use of stereotypes to point out the ignorance of a number of workers, however most particularly the boss Michael.

If it is a signal of issues to return, ‘Range Day’ is way from the one episode that may very well be on the chopping block. The Workplace routinely joked about sexual harassment, homophobia, racism, and sexism, so there may be actually no scarcity of probably controversial materials to drag from.