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Episode Guide
Series 1 | Series 2 | The Specials
Special 1 [Tx 26/12/2003]
Captions:
In January 2001, a BBC documentary crew filmed the everyday goings on in a typical workplace.
Now, nearly three years later, we return to find out what has happened to the employees of...the office
We open on Brent complaining how the producers took all the bad moments from his otherwise fairly normal working day and used them to make him look like a prat. Tim gives some paperwork to Gareth, who is now working in Brent’s old office, and locks him in for a joke. Dawn’s replacement, Mel, gets a call from Gareth and asks Tim for the keys so she can unlock him, totally failing to get in on the joke.
Brent is in a grocers where he meets a member of the public, who mistakes him for Jeremy Spake from the BBC documentary about an airport, which was the kind of show that inspired the style of The Office. He isn’t recognised by a shopper in there, and this leads to him talking about some of the insults that get thrown at him when he is recognised.
We see who has replaced Gareth working next to Tim. Anne, a pregnant woman who is clearly very annoying. Very annoying. Very. Get the picture?
Out on the road with Brent again, and he’s selling cleaning products, with a sideline in tampons.
Back to the office, Brent pays a surprise visit, which he does a lot now, enough for even Gareth to get slightly annoyed with him.
Tampa, Florida, and Lee and Dawn are by the side of a swimming pool with a baby. They are living with Jackie (Lee’s sister) and Gary, her husband. The baby is Jackie’s, and Dawn spends most of her day babysitting it seems.
Brent is explaining how Gareth isn’t doing his exact job, but it’s revealed this is a technicality, because Brent sued the company over his redundancy, and won. The money was used to set up Juxtaposition Records, which Brent produced his single “If you don’t know me by now” of which 150 copies total sold. Gareth still has 5 copies in his garage.
Neil turns up and is also a bit annoyed at Brent for distracting all the employees. Chris Finch turns up and Brent starts spouting crap about living it up on the road. Neil is getting married to Rebecca, a very attractive doctor, and pushes Brent on if he’ll be bringing someone along to the office Christmas party to which Brent says yes.
The evening now, and Brent is driving along to a club, Mumbo Jumbos, where he putting in an appearance as a “surprise TV personality”. Brent’s agent is there, and tells us about some of his other acts, including a Michael Douglas look-alike, who most people don’t recognise. At 2 minutes to 1am, the Mumbo Jumbos’ compere introduces Brent to near silence. For once though, Brent manages to get on and off stage without embarrassing himself, although he’s disappointed that at the moment his most important job seems to involve just waving at some pissed students.The next day, and back at the office Gareth has persuaded Brent to register his details on an online dating service. Anne is telling Tim about her trip to Euro Disney with her husband Andrew, and how she managed to trick into getting to the front of the queue for Space Mountain, by implying that she had a terminally ill kid. Brent is filling out the form with Gareth, while Anne describes and mimes to Tim how her baby was conceived.
Back in Florida, Dawn is asked whether she has time to go back to Slough in the near future, but she says the cost is too much. The BBC crew offer to pay for a round trip for her and Lee, which he snaps up the chance of having. Gareth thinks that Brent is 45, and puts that down as his age as he sends off the form to the dating agency.
Later on, and Gareth, Sheila, Emma, Tim, Keith and Trudy are having a meeting about the Christmas party, and what to have. They decide to have a Secret Santa, and a wet t-shirt competition, though not one involving any OAPs. Gareth announces a few old faces are coming along; Pete Gibbons and his wife Sheryl, Geoff Lamp, and Lee and Dawn.
In the evening Brent is taking part in The Love Lottery, which is basically Blind Date but in a bar, with no cameras. The other contestants are Bubble from Big Brother, and Howard Brown from the Halifax adverts. Whereas last night he got on and off a stage without anything going badly...
Brent ends the evening wearing a ripped, soaked Austin Powers outfit. His agent gets him another beer.
Special 2 [Tx 27/12/2003]
Gareth and Brent are going through the profiles of the women the agency has sent Brent, and deciding who he likes the look of. Neil arrives and mentions Brent’s need for an extra ticket the to Christmas party. Gareth announces that Dawn is coming back to the office in the afternoon. Over lunch, Brent meets up with the first of his choices, and starts the meal off badly by talking about breasts and necklaces.
Dawn is being driven to Wernham Hogg, and is talking about why she’s decided not to become an illustrator. Tim explains that he’s not planning to ask out Dawn for a a third time, and that she would have to ask him when they finally meet again. When Dawn does arrive, everyone gathers round to greet her, andTim takes her in to see Gareth and his new office.
Back on the road, Brent calls up another one of his agency ladies, but when he mentions that he was on The Office, she asks is he was that awful boss, and Brent hangs up. Back in the office, Tim and Dawn start taking the piss out of Gareth with the whole gay/army thing they used to do. Tim and Dawn are chatting away until Anne comes up and starts being all annoying, so Dawn leaves. Tim has noticed that while they were chatting, Dawn drew a little picture of him and left it on his desk.
Brent is off to meet his second agency chick, who he doesn’t like the sight of, and fails completely to hit it off with, though to be fair he’s not really trying.
Trudy is handing out names of the staff for the secret Santa. When Tim sees his name, he says he doesn’t want it, and swaps his name with Jamie’s. Keith and Tim are having lunch, during which Keith hands out some invaluable advice about how Tim should handle all the ladies.
Brent has bought in his dog Nelson to the office, whom he named after Nelson Mandela. Neil arrives and tells Brent that he can’t keep coming into Wernham Hogg, disrupting the staff. Neil bars Brent and Nelson from the office.
Later that night, and Brent is doing another one of his personal appearances, this time he’s throwing out cuddly toys to pissed people. Afterwards he complains to his agent that he doesn’t want to do that sort of thing any more as he gets pants thrown at him. Brent asks Pete his agent to get him on Parkinson, but it’s not going to happen. In a motorway hotel room, Brent drinks himself to sleep on whiskey.
The next day, the day of the party, and Brent turns up at Wernham Hogg to find out that he can’t go to the pre-party dinner, as he’s no longer a member of staff. One of the agency ladies will be accompanying Brent at the party that evening. The party starts at 9.30pm, and Brent is left alone in the office for three hours while everyone goes and eats.
The party. Mini bits of food, crappy Christmas music and lots of drink, Keith on the decks, all going to plan. Neil again quizzes Brent about his date, and where she is. Tim meets Lee and Dawn. Outside, Brent is waiting for his date to turn up, and gets worried when, well, someone very fat turns up. Tim asks Lee about why Dawn isn’t drawing anymore, but Lee says that making a living has to come first.
Brent’s date Carol turns up, and he is soon chatting and getting on very well with her. She didn’t see the documentary when it went out. Brent tells her about his rubbish jobs that he has to do, which Carol sympathises with. Anne is being very annoying again, until some workers from the warehouse come up and insult her, and she finally just buggers off.
Slade comes on. Everyone sings along.
The slow songs come on, and most of the staff pair off and dance together.
Dawn has a nostalgic sit at reception, and soon she and Tim are winding up Gareth over his army skills, until Lee turns up and tells Gareth what they’re doing. Lee also drags Dawn away from the party early, as they have their flight the next day. He remembers to get her her secret Santa present with the coats.
While Tim talks to us about how much Dawn meant to him, we see her in her taxi, opening her secret Santa gift. It’s the drawing of Tim with the words “Never give up” written on, and a box of oil paints.
Brent tells us that he really likes Carol, and Carol does likewise for Brent.
Brent is telling Tim and Gareth a riddle, when in the background we see Dawn entering the room. She walks up to Tim, and without saying a word, they kiss.
We see around the office now, and everyone is drinking and dancing and laughing. They are gathered for a photo, and Brent asks for one with him in place of Neil. The camera doesn’t quite work first time, and Brent starts doing his Frank Spencer impression. And on one of those very rare occassions, we see him genuinely making people laugh.The end.
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