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Re:Who Owns SpongeBob? AI Shakes Hollywood’s Creative Founda... by echelon on Thursday April 06, 2023 @06:05PM (#35475185)
"The Office" is a product of the convergent evolution of workplace satire that started well before "Dilbert". It occupies a shared space with "IT Crowd", "Silicon Valley", "Horrible Bosses", "Office Space", thousands of comics, articles, etc.

There will never be another "Office". People will continue to riff on it, produce fan fiction, and make pop culture references to it, but ultimately the next thing that occupies that space will be brand new.

Shapes of ideas are similar but get executed differently. And sometimes we stumble across some rather unique executions that speak to us at our moment in time and spread like wildfire.

I have no doubt people will continue doing this for as long as we remain a thinking species.

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