This week's theme, "What She Said," was something I had planned to do before the wife started watching "The Office" (the American version) on The Netflix in the evenings. Though I wasn't really paying attention - the first episodes are really just pale versions of the superior British series - I confess, over time, I got sucked in. The characters really drew me in. & then the wife & I scrambled to watch the entire series. In all of this, I forgot about this show I had vaguely planned with the theme "what she said" & never even thought about it when I heard Steve Carell's character's oft-repeated punchline: "That's what she said!"
It's such a character trait that it is (spoiler alert!) the last thing the character says (or mouths, really) as he leaves the show to be with his perfect love in Colorado.
That's not on this (unfortunately unembeddable) Youtube collection of slightly out-of-sync clips from the series, featuring Carell & others using the line.
This has happened before, & it's the fault of planning things in advance - the weird coincidence of culture coinciding with my dumb little radio show. Although to be fair, Carell left the show over a year ago - I can't recall if people use the line as much or as often anymore.
That's what I say, anyway.
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