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Talking Head Contest winners!

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

With over 2,100 votes cast, here are your OfficeTally Talking Head Contest prize winners:

  • Adam Lauver — Michael
    “I’m a huge fan of The Office and of Steve Carell … so the Michael Scott talking heads were the obvious choice for me. They’re just so funny, and I had a lot of fun filming them … by myself … in my dorm room … despite the horrible acoustics …!”
  • Torrey Speer — Pam
    After rifling through every episode of The Office, I found (in the VERY LAST episode) the magical Pam scene. I studied it for a good couple hours
    becoming a lil more Pam with each try, it was freaky awesome! I had a blast, feeling like I could be on the show for that night.
  • harveypekar — Kelly
    “My girlfriend, Cheryl, is an avid reader of OT. She let me know that the contest was going on and really encouraged me to enter. I had Cheryl gather the props (her clothes and mascara) and meet me at my own office after work on that Friday. We skulked about until everyone else had left and then scampered into a meeting room. We filmed several, a few Dwights for fun, and then the Kelly scene.”
  • Alex S. (PGP) — Michael
    “While I was filming a take, the idea struck me to actually wear a woman’s suit, so I grabbed the most horrid thing I could find in my grandma’s closet and voila! She’s probably never going to wear that again now.”
  • Donna — Jim
    “Matt is a ham … since he is only 4, I … picked [a talking head] I thought he could memorize w/o too much trouble. I dressed him in a dress shirt and the tie he wore at Christmas and sat him in front of our dining room window. I think we did four takes before he got bored and wanted to go outside and play Tonka trucks with his big brother.”

Thanks to Kent and company for judging the entries and providing the prizes, congratulations to the prize winners, and thanks to ALL who participated! Hope you had as much fun making these vids as we’ve had watching them. :)

Aside from those that won, here are some of my favorite vids, after the jump.

Some of Tanster’s favorite Talking Head entries

While I can’t offer you anything in the way of an actual prize, you have my undying affection and admiration. Tallyheads really got their drama on. And funny on.

What’s next?

While this is OfficeTally’s final “big ticket” contest of the summer, we have more fun and prizes planned! Our other intrepid mod, Jim Mosby, will be leading the charge on that one. Details coming soon …

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  1. I wasn’t in the top 5, so as a consolation prize my family bought me Season 3 of The Office. My husband, mom, sister, 6 year old son, 5 year old daughter, 22 month old son, and 8 week old son (with no help at all-he’s a genius)autographed it for me. I thought that was the coolest freakin thing ever! Office marathon, here we come!!!

    28 | dinkinflicka  Fri. Sep. 7, 2007 at 6:16am

  2. I love the Karen one with the Jim faces! Maybe she could be his sister (Larissa-or is that his mom?).

    Also, the Kevin one is fantabulous-and I just watched that episode, so it’s still quite fresh–she nailed it! Spot on!!

    27 | jenn  Thu. Sep. 6, 2007 at 6:46pm

  3. The Kevin one was so great. It should have been a winner!

    26 | Kelly  Thu. Sep. 6, 2007 at 6:24pm

  4. Fun fact.
    #8 and Mindy Kaling share the same birthday…it was just meant to be!

    25 | cherzzz  Thu. Sep. 6, 2007 at 2:49pm

  5. ahaha thanks for the props tanster!
    i was beaming when i read the part about kelly’s sister.

    and congratulations to all the winners!

    24 | nv  Thu. Sep. 6, 2007 at 1:19pm

  6. OMG, how did that last Kevin video not win?

    Some kind of consolation prize should be considered.

    I love that video

    23 | Gobias  Wed. Sep. 5, 2007 at 5:07pm

  7. Congrats to all the winners! And thanks so much, Tanster, for posting this list of videos =)!! What an honor to be on it! It has made my day. Thanks also to the people leaving such nice comments. =)

    This was a great contest. We’re VERY lucky office fans!! HUGE THANKS to everyone who made it happen.

    22 | Juliet  Wed. Sep. 5, 2007 at 2:36pm

  8. KTKoopers’ Karen was awesome!! Wow those Jim faces were spot on!!

    21 | big haircut  Wed. Sep. 5, 2007 at 12:42pm

  9. Everyone was great, but I thought it just had to be you and the camera. Torrey sat in front of a window with someone working on the computer in the background. I thought stuff like that wasn’t allowed. I think next time the rules should be more clear…

    20 | Amanda  Wed. Sep. 5, 2007 at 11:36am

  10. I’m very happy to see the top two (in my opinion, for what it’s worth) won. (Torrey and Alex S.). Congratulations!

    19 | Adriana  Wed. Sep. 5, 2007 at 8:26am

  11. Congratulations Torrey Brooke Speer! I am so proud of you for accomplishing this. Wonderful job! Congratulations too, to everyone who submitted a video - putting in the work and creative know-how so very apparent in all of these videos.

    18 | Shannon  Wed. Sep. 5, 2007 at 7:53am

  12. Congrats to the winners! Wow, Torrey’s was amazing! That was so Pam.

    17 | Lindsay  Wed. Sep. 5, 2007 at 7:23am

  13. Yay, I’m so glad that Torrey Speer won! Hers was fantastic!

    16 | Yogurt Lid  Wed. Sep. 5, 2007 at 6:31am

  14. Those are great! Oh, and hey! I saw this while I was out there looking at them all. I thought it was great, and of course, incorporates one of the BEST scenes from The Office… EVER.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZTd_OmjhAE

    15 | Purple Belt  Wed. Sep. 5, 2007 at 6:15am

  15. Waahhh! I’m mourning over the loss of the coveted autographed DVD. Although it was obviously beyond my grasp with the talented competition. Congrats to all on your accomplishments. I was really disappointed that “Oompa loompa Andy” wasn’t in the top 5 (which was not me). It seems gimmicks are a little overappreciated. It was super fun while it lasted! Thanks Tanster! (Loved your favs)

    14 | dinkinflicka  Wed. Sep. 5, 2007 at 5:53am

  16. Wow.. that Kevin by Juliet was… fantastic. just, wow. kinda sorry i didn’t get in, but that’s ok.. when i saw i didn’t make finalists i took my vids down in a hurry! now i kinda wish i’d left them up.. anyways, congrats to the winners!!!

    13 | Roni  Wed. Sep. 5, 2007 at 1:03am

  17. Nice work everyone. I’m a little sad I didn’t get my own autographed DVD, but these five are all fantastic. Good work everyone. Thanks tanster, Kent, and crew for putting this on! I was bashworth236 - Andy. I’m just glad everyone could see how crazy I am about The Office. Can’t wait for Sept 27th!

    12 | BenA  Tue. Sep. 4, 2007 at 11:14pm

  18. Juliet’s Kevin should have won! That was amazing!

    11 | Lucy  Tue. Sep. 4, 2007 at 10:20pm

  19. This is so exciting! Thanks tanster for the amazing contest and thanks everyone who voted! Congrats to the other winners :).

    10 | Adam Lauver  Tue. Sep. 4, 2007 at 10:06pm

  20. What an awesome contest. Many congrats to all of you You all deserve to be memorialized in Office Tally history. I am glad that the Michael (which is at the very least bi-sexual)was one of the big winners. I loved that video

    9 | Damian  Tue. Sep. 4, 2007 at 10:03pm

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