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HelveticaFont — 9 years ago(September 28, 2016 01:59 PM)

The show only ran for two series with two Christmas specials because the sort of docu-soap it was mimicking would've only ran that long too.
It just seems people think it finished because it was unsuccessful. For a show that was on Tuesday nights on BBC2 with no fanfare it didn't do too badly.

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Larry David and Christopher Guest are massive influences on him as well as John Cleese.
He has said that the bigger influence on the characters within The Office is Laurel and Hardy.

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Who cares where his influences come from? Or that he has been influenced? What artist hasn't been influenced?

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He has his American influences but he has his British ones too and the same can be said of comedians on either side of the Atlantic.

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As well as
Fawlty Towers
, another successful comedy that only ran for two seasons was
The Young Ones
. Mind you, it had a pretty definite ending for the final episode: the four main characters are in a bus that crashes through a Cliff Richard billboard, which then tumbles down a literal cliff. When it finally reaches the bottom of the cliff, we hear voices from the badly wrecked bus saying "Phew, that was close." Then the bus blows up. Doesn't really leave room for another season.
As you said, a real documentary about a sub-branch paper merchant's in Slough would not go on and on for several seasons.

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