The Office Mentions Vaccinating New Borns
Submitted by zapatista on Fri, 09/25/2009 - 15:32
Anyone out there a fan of The Office? I noticed something interesting about the first episode of this new season. In the episode, it comes out that Pam and Jim are having a baby. When it is announced to the office, everyone gets excited gives thier congratulations. However, at 18:04, you can clearly hear Ryan say, "Don't vaccinate it". Anyways, I thought it was interesting, and was just wondering if anyone else noticed it. Here is the link to the episode:
http://www.nbc.com/The_Office/video/episodes/?vid=1158372#vi...
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Yup, noticed that too
I thought it was really funny! (even though as far as a hidden political message you could take it either way) The character Ryan is supposed to be a bit paranoid, so maybe it was just something the writers (who include B.J.Novak who plays that character) thought would be appropriate for him to say - or maybe the writers tried to sneak in a reference to an issue on which they have an opinion.
As someone who strongly advocates parental freedom of choice in vaccination, I saw no reason to take offense to that line and no reason to be too excited about it either. Regardless of the motive, it is kinda cool to see mainstream TV making a subtle reference to the issue to a very large general audience. Anything that may increase awareness of an issue regarding personal freedom is good in my book.
Yes I saw that
I watch it online because I don't have cable. I think there's a new episode up today.
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