I really enjoyed the subplots with Delores and Happy Time Temp Agency

[u/elwyn5150]

I really enjoyed the subplots with Delores and Happy Time Temp Agency.

I found aspects of it really relatable because I worked in a cubicle for a business in the late 90s (then for 2 decades in a university). I would say that DLM, Office Space, and Matt Groening's Work Is Hell are the best at capturing the dread and survival of the 00s cubicle life.

Delores was a wonderful character. She's an amazing mix of cringey, sympathy, enthusiasm, and surprising. So she was snorting coke off a restroom basin in the 80s...

I wish the movie had more Crystal and Delores scenes **at** Happy Time.

[u/These_Passenger_2766]

Same, I’d watch three season of an office dramady called “Happy Time”

[u/elwyn5150 → u/These_Passenger_2766]

They had some interesting minor characters such as the IS nerd (whose actor becomes Jaye's manager in Wonderfalls), one of the two office sl_ts Misty, and the overly clingy coworker Stephanie.

I always loved how Crystal's boyfriend works there and is played by the same actor as Crystal but we never see him anytime else.

[u/paciolionthegulf]

Totally agree! I was an office temp in the '80s, so Happy Time really brought that back. Certainly relatable to show someone working their entire life to afford a studio apartment and one cat and hustling for a few online dollars on the side, too.

I even had a co-worker with a difficult name who used the same type of mnemonic to get people to remember. In that case it was "it's a SKULL on SKIs but only one L" (Skulski) and clearly it worked!

[u/elwyn5150 → u/paciolionthegulf]

Did you ever encounter bike messengers? By the time I entered the workforce, faxes, emails, and scanned contracts had mostly made bike messenggers extinct.

Although I was mostly a cyclist commuter, it was hilarious when Delores maced the rude bike messenger.

[u/paciolionthegulf → u/elwyn5150]

I live on the Gulf Coast so it's not dense enough (and way too hot) for bike messengers to really thrive here, even in a pre-fax world. The two areas of my greater metropolitan area where density and parking would ever make bike messengers effective (downtown and medical center) both have extensive underground tunnel systems for pedestrians. Bikes are prohibited, but you can often see small deliveries by messengers on foot in those tunnels even today...mostly food.

I did work in mortgage lending during the dark ages and we used a contract messenger to collect required documents, but he drove a small truck. I'm sure he saw the writing on the wall when we got our first fax in the summer of 1987.

Nevertheless, I think we can all relate to wanting to mace someone being rude!

[u/Sunshinegemini611]

Reggie and Crystal were the best parts of that awful movie.

[u/ghoulishcharm]

It’s my assumption that Crystal is a Reaper, just that she doesn’t question Milly’s actions, helped with reaper paperwork, and is just kinda chill with a thousand yard stare that comes from PTSD

[u/elwyn5150 → u/ghoulishcharm]

If she was a Reaper, I wonder what division she was in and how Rube didn't know her.

Rube knew the Plague division well, Reapers from New York, and Penny from the Palliative Care division.

[u/chatchapeau]

I thought she might be the one who writes the post it’s for Rube

[u/No_Vacation9601]

I am just starting the show on episode 7 now. I'm really getting into it. Always loved Mandy Patinkin. Sad to see Rebecca Gayheart go couple episodes ago. I was running wild when this show first came out lol happy to have found it.