Putting the "O" in O.R.

MRS. SHALLOW Center is quite a fan of ABC's soapy medical drama Grey's Anatomy, surely the worst good show on television, and so I "watch" (read: am in the same room as she while she's watching) most episodes. A recent plot line has featured George's father being hospitalized at Seattle Grace, where, naturally, things take a turn for the worse, necessitating the arrival of George's entire family to monitor the situation. George is sensitive and passive, and so the producers have given him a couple of testosterone-fueled, meathead brothers, one of whom is played, of course, by ... wait for it ...

... Mr. Greg Pitts, whom you may know better as Drew from Office Space. I realize that Mike Judge's masterpiece is the very definition of a cult movie, and that nowhere near the number of people have seen it that its reputation among men (and some women, Mrs. SC included) in their 20s and 30s would suggest, but do you think that anyone will ever see Pitts in anything and not say, "Hey, it's that dude from Office Space with the 'O-Face'!"? And if you're Greg Pitts, do you fume about being typecast as, well, a meathead, or do you revel that your 3 minutes of screen time in a movie from years and years ago still resonates? (And, let's be honest, still gets you tail?) Me, if I'm Greg Pitts, I go with the latter.

Comments

[Jeff Martin]

Your post title brings to mind another quote from another cult movie...

"These are O.R. scrubs."
"Oh, are they?"

[Tom Durso]

Max Fischer rules.

[Chris Durso]

It would appear that Mr. Pitts also hews toward the latter. From his website: "During the filming of Office Space, Mike Judge (the director) said it would okay if I wanted to improvise some of my own dialogue as an alternative to what was written in the script. It was then that the words 'If things go well I might be showing her my Oh-face, oh, oh, oh!' came out of my mouth, unscripted. I've often thought that if I removed that one credit from my resume it would be like removing the load bearing brick in a large damn, and the whole thing would crash."