Office Ladies Do: Armageddon!
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What fan requests prompted a full Armageddon breakdown?
This is the Earth at a time when the dinosaurs roamed a lush, fertile planet.
A piece of rock just six miles wide changed all that.
It hit with a force of 10,000 nuclear weapons.
A trillion tons of dirt and rock hurtled into the atmosphere, creating a suffocating blanket of dust. The sun was powerless to penetrate for a thousand years.
It happened before. It will happen again. It's just a question of when. Everyone, buckle in for Armageddon.
I'm Jenna Fisher. And I'm Angela Kinsey. We were on The Office together. And we're best friends. And now we're doing the ultimate Office Lovers podcast just for you.
Each week, we will dive deeper into the world of The Office with exclusive interviews, behind-the-scenes details, and lots of BFF stories. We're The Office Lady 6.0. Hello, everyone. Hey, we have a
big, big episode today. We really do. Welcome to our breakdown of the 1998 summer blockbuster Armageddon. Explosions. So many explosions. So many. We said we might do this a while back and we got mail. Amber W. from Brighton, Michigan wrote us to say, you mentioned doing a watch of Armageddon and you guys will podcast the crap out of that. I need it in my life. And Kelly B. from Westfield, Indiana, who listens with her family said, I've been listening to your podcast since the first episode and it's truly my favorite one I listened to. We desperately want you to break down Armageddon. You mentioned it and we are all in. I showed it to my kids recently because you mentioned it and it is so bad. We totally need you to break it down.
Please, please.
Podcast the crap out of something might be my new favorite expression, Amber. You guys also know that this movie, Armageddon, does live in the lore of The Office. Yeah. We briefly discussed this movie in the very early days of our podcast when we broke down the episode, The Fight. So you guys, if you remember, Michael Scott is wanting Jim to punch him really hard in the stomach. And Jim suggests that he have Dwight do it. And then we learned this tidbit about Michael and Dwight.
Go ahead, do it. Just have Dwight punch you. Oh, yeah. Well, that would be kind of worthless because I know a ton of 14-year-old girls that could kick his ass. You know a ton of 14-year-old girls? What belt are they? Look, Dwight is a wuss. When we rented Armageddon, he cried at the end of it.
Michael,
I told you. That was because it was New Year's Eve and it started to snow
at exactly
midnight. Bruce Willis, I'm going to leave him on the asteroid.
Okay,
I'll punch you. Oh, okay, here we go. All right, come on, go! Fuck!
Amazing. So Michael and Dwight watched Armageddon. On New Year's Eve. And now, lady, we have watched it. We have. There's so much to discuss. But let's dive into the facts and stats.
Yeah, I'll kick us off. As you said, Jenna, it was released in 1998 on July 1st. So kind of like around the July 4th holiday. Oh, yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Here's a little description. After discovering that an asteroid the size of Texas will impact Earth in less than a month, NASA recruits a misfit team of deep core drillers to save the planet.
Yeah, they do.
You want to hear the tagline? I do. It's so good. Ready? It's closer than you think. I feel like that's what she said. I have another tagline. What?
Explosions and yelling.
Oh, that's very good. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. It was rated PG-13. Jenna, I haven't told you. We don't know what each other are both sharing today, guys.
It's been... been very hard not to share my thoughts about this movie with you I've been sharing them a little bit with Sam because I couldn't help myself yeah
you needed someone
to bear
witness we have been living in a vacuum but Jenna I want to tell you something right now I know more about this movie than I feel like I did about any subject I took in college There is a DVD commentary that has been lost. You can't find it anymore. It was on a laser
disc.
I found it online. Amazing. It's two hours and 35 minutes. It's Michael Bay, Bruce Willis, Jerry Bruckheimer, and Ben Affleck. I listened to it. The whole thing? I crapped out at about two hours. Okay, so the last 35 minutes, I was like, I get it now.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What fan requests prompted a full Armageddon breakdown?
0:02–12:08
2
How did Michael Bay decide to make Armageddon a PG‑13 blockbuster?
12:08–24:34
3
What were the box‑office earnings and award nominations for Armageddon?
24:34–36:53
4
Why did critics like Roger Ebert hate the movie so much?
36:53–50:00
5
What NASA and drilling‑engineer facts did the hosts uncover?
50:00–1:03:01
6
How did the eight‑step space‑mission plan get explained?
1:03:01–1:15:26
7
What were the most dramatic moments in the film’s climax?
1:15:26–1:26:17
8
What final thoughts did the hosts share about Armageddon’s legacy?
1:26:17–1:35:46