{"id":18186,"date":"2026-08-28T12:22:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T12:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=18186"},"modified":"2026-08-28T12:22:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T12:22:43","slug":"11-years-later-nbcs-113-episode-office-sitcom-deserves-to-be-as-massive-as-the-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=18186","title":{"rendered":"11 Years Later, NBC’s 113-Episode Office Sitcom Deserves To Be as Massive as ‘The Workplace’"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The Workplace<\/em> was lots fashionable when it first aired all through its preliminary run on NBC. As soon as it hit streaming, nonetheless, it managed to tackle a fair greater following<\/a>, at the very least a decade after its preliminary look. In case you had been to ask a dozen folks to record what they thought the preferred sitcom of all time was, most of the time, The Workplace <\/em>is all however assured to rank towards the highest; for good purpose too, its everyday-man kind of comedy is relatable to most people tuning in to look at.<\/p>\n

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Whereas The Workplace <\/em>has most definitely already secured its place within the sitcom corridor of fame, there’s one other office comedy deserving of a spot proper alongside it. And it was additionally written by an alumnus of The Workplace<\/em>, thoughts you.<\/p>\n

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\n Superstore is tv’s most underappreciated comedy
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Created by Justin Spitzer, credited as a author and producer on over 130 episodes of The Workplace, Superstore <\/em>takes a well-recognized office comedy formulation and drops it inside Cloud 9, a fictional big-box chain the place workers grapple with company nonsense, unusual prospects, and even stranger coworkers.<\/p>\n

On the root of Superstore <\/em>is the retail model of Jim and Pam, Amy Sosa (America Ferrera) and Jonah Simms (Ben Feldman). Even then, the present ultimately turns into an ensemble in a lot the identical manner of its religious predecessor. Dina, Glenn, Garrett, Cheyenne, and Mateo all turn into characters able to carrying total episodes (and story arcs) themselves.<\/p>\n

Past that, among the present’s funniest jokes come from fast cutaways exhibiting prospects doing fully inexplicable issues within the retailer, whether or not they’re ruining shows, testing merchandise in weird methods, ruining product-filled shows, or just wandering by way of Cloud 9 like they’ve by no means encountered human life earlier than.<\/p>\n

Like with any glorious sitcom, although, Superstore <\/em>carries far more on its thoughts aside from gut-busting jokes. All through its six-season run, Superstore <\/em>tackled healthcare, maternity go away, immigration, unionization, wages, and the overall instability that comes with hourly retail work. The present not often stops to ship a speech about any of it \u2014 save for any variety of Jonah’s soapbox moments \u2014 however as an alternative, these points are baked straight into the lives of the its characters.<\/p>\n

And that is what makes Superstore <\/em>nice. It is extremely humorous, however it additionally understands why a job that appears meaningless from the skin can develop into enormously necessary to the folks working it. Like Dunder Mifflin, Cloud 9 ultimately turns into much less in regards to the office and extra in regards to the folks caught there collectively.<\/p>\n

If The Workplace <\/em>might develop into even greater after leaving the air within the age of streaming, there’s no purpose Superstore <\/em>should not get<\/a> the identical probability.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Workplace was lots fashionable when it first aired all through its preliminary run on NBC. As soon as it hit streaming, nonetheless, it managed to tackle a fair greater following, at the very least a decade after its preliminary look. In case you had been to ask a dozen folks to record what they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[10354,98,9219,10353,6587,3927,7416,1745],"class_list":["post-18186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-113episode","tag-big","tag-deserves","tag-nbcs","tag-office","tag-sitcom","tag-workplace","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18187,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18186\/revisions\/18187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}