<Li> Orlando Jones as Steve </Li> <Li> Mike Judge (credited as "William King") as Stan </Li> <P> Office Space was shot primarily in Austin, Texas . It originated in a series of four animated short films that Judge created entitled Milton about an office drone named Milton . They first aired on Liquid Television and Night After Night with Allan Havey, and later aired on Saturday Night Live . The inspiration came from a temp job which he had that involved alphabetizing purchase orders and another job as an engineer for three months in the Bay Area during the 1980s, "just in the heart of Silicon Valley and in the middle of that overachiever yuppie thing, it was just awful". </P> <P> The setting of the film reflects a prevailing trend that Judge observed in the United States . "It seems like every city now has these identical office parks with identical adjoining chain restaurants", he said in an interview . "There were a lot of people who wanted me to set this movie in Wall Street, or like the movie Brazil, but I wanted it very unglamorous, the kind of bleak work situation like I was in". </P>

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