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Doesn’t originality count for anything?
Puzzled as I was by Barbara Lippert’s inexplicably glowing review of the unexceptional new Burger King work [“Whoppers Well Done,” March 1], one sentence in particular had me scratching my scalp: In citing the ads’ all-too-familiar “cubicle-based humor,” she added in an aside: “The BBC sitcom The Office also has a similar look.”
Similar? It’s exactly the same, right down to the awkward pauses and deadpan delivery of the glassy-eyed Dilberts.
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