the world large inside joke . the world large and most exclusive inside joke . emulate the brash and everyman humor of office space and this film drive the appeal of this film into the ground by make the humor such that it would only be properly appreciate by legal secretary write book . the audience be ask to assume the unfamiliar role of a legal secretary and and then empathize with the excruciatingly dumb protagonist . the entire film be center on the legal secretary find free time and listen to music and write a novel while work . these be his goal . you can not imagine the slap in the face it be to the audience when ( around halfway through ) they find out he have have a job which fit all three of those criterion and but then give it up . the director and screenwriter ( jacob kornbluth and josh kornbluth ) completely remove the audience motivation to empathize or even find entertain a protagonist that have previously throw away that which he be complain about the lack thereof . apart from that major stumble block and the legal secretary insider humor fails because they must be explain explicitly to the audience each time they happen . without these aside and the audience wouldn not have notice anything particularly strange . humor be only effective if it doesn not need to be thoroughly explain to the audience what be funny .