Worst TV Offices (MSNBC)

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Tony’s crew, "The Sopranos"
There’s just no good way to quit the mob. Try telling Tony Soprano, the short-tempered patriarch of New Jersey’s most powerful crime family, that you’d like to take some time off, and there’s a pretty good chance you’ll end up sharing a bed with a severed animal head, or floating at the bottom of the Hudson River. In the words of another infamous gangster: “Just when I thought I was out, they keep pulling me back in.” Working for the mob? Ah, fuhgeddabadit.

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Las Vegas crime lab, “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”
When producers sat down to sell the CSI concept to TV execs, the question was: How do you make a drama about forensic science sexy? The answer: Give it a glitzy Hollywood makeover. They added fast cars, an exotic setting and a dose of futuristic gadgetry, but no matter how much they glammed it up, at its core, the show still revolves around the science of death. And there’s no amount of movie magic that can make working elbow deep in a cadaver’s chest cavity look enjoyable.

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Dunder Mifflin, “The Office”
Armed with an arsenal of bad puns, jokes and advice, you can’t help but cringe when Michael Scott, “The Office’s” bumbling, socially inept N.J. paper company manager, playfully quips before the camera: “You may look around and see two groups here: white collar and blue collar. But I don’t see it that way. You know why not? Because I’m ‘collarblind.’” Or “You are very exotic looking. Was your dad a G.I.?” Working for a boss like Scott requires patience ... but even patience has its limits.

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Springfield nuclear power plant, “The Simpsons”
”Monday morning. Time to pay for your two days of debauchery, you hung over drones.” Mr. Burns’ sinister outbursts make for a nasty villain, and an even worse boss. Sitting atop his corporate thrown as the Machiavellian CEO of Springfield’s nuclear power plant, Burns bides his time planning elaborate plots — boosting the energy company’s profits by blocking out the sun, or utilizing a maniacal Richard Simmons robot to increase work productivity. Working at the plant may not offer much in the way of morale building, but on the plus side, there’s free donuts.

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Seattle Grace Hospital, “Grey’s Anatomy”
The dysfunctional cavalcade of doctor-doctor relationships continue to keep the cast of “Grey’s Anatomy” on edge. Throw in Meredith Grey’s on-and-off fling with Derek Sheppard; Cristina Yang’s rocky romance with Preston Burke; Izzie Stevens’ shattered engagement with transplant patient Denny Duquette; Alex Karev’s wandering eye; Chief Richard Webber’s resurfacing affair with Ellis Grey; and the Callie Torres-Addison Montgomery-George O’Mally-Mark Sloan love triangle (whew, that’s a mouthful) and it’s a wonder anything gets done at Seattle Grace Hospital. Talk about “McDrama.”