The Office (American TV series)

The Office.

An obscure documentary series on the relatively unknown network NBC, The Office follows a group of characters in their day-to-day routines at a paper-selling firm. Lauded for its hard-hitting, factual style, it presents the workers in a clear, respectful manner. Amidst high ratings, it has gained a British offshoot, which is expected to tank within one season.

Characters

The first scene for Steve Carrell to come out of his closet and reveal that he is infact an American.

Michael Scott (Manager) - The authority figure of the office. Also, a fully-trained improv actor. A genuinely hilarious man, he is misunderstood by his dour, humorless employees. Nevertheless, he tirelessly continues to lift everyone’s spirits with his one-of-a-kind, off-the-cuff humor. Michael Scott's name backwards is also the passcode for Osama Bin Laden's secret underground cave of forbidden mysterious pop songs. The source of this information was recently shot to death with a gun that fires bullets at high speeds.

Dwight Kurt Schrute III (Assistant to the Regional Manager/Sales Rep) - The only member of the office staff who appreciates Michael's witty efforts to boost morale. He also attempts to maintain a light-hearted atmosphere, but his nonsensical efforts, such as encasing his own stapler in Jell-o and putting his personal belongings in the break room vending machine and cutting the faces off of CPR dummies often fall flat.

Jim Halpert (Sales Rep/Former Co-Regional Manager) - A lackluster employee who often shows up to work only half-groomed with disheveled hair, and supporting a fish-hooked lip. Despite months of filming, he has yet to grasp that he is in a documentary and continually looks at the cameras in confusion. Jim married Pam, the office receptionist, after years of stalking and death threats. He owns a Jeep. Jim has a fear of commitment and Puerto Ricans.

Pam Morgan Beesly-Halpert (Office Administrator/Former Sales Rep/Former Receptionist) - Often confused for a coat rack by other employees. Pam is so dull and unnoticed that she has resorted to placing bowls of candy around her workspace to entice and ensnare her coworkers into deathly boring small talk about how she has hopes and dreams. She slept her way into a sales position at Dunder Mifflin, but quickly realized she was god awful at it so she the obtained the position of Office Administrator by simply going around and saying she's the Office Administrator. Pam recently gave birth to a baby girl although she is unsure who the father is since she slept with all of the male office staff (including the warehouse workers and 2 custodians). Her hobbies include complaining and breast feeding other peoples children. Pam completed 3 stints in rehab for her addiction to mixed berry yogurt and crack.

Andy Bernard (Sales Rep) - A level-headed community-college graduate whose only quirk is an inexplicable fixation on seafood, to the point where he confuses the names of coworkers with those of types of fish.

Ryan Howard (Temp) - A known pyromaniac and Cokehead, he was a constant usurper around the office until his eventual termination due to his indecent advances toward coworker Kelly Kapoor. He also happens to strongly resemble a baby vulture from those old Warner Bros. cartoons. Not to be confused with the Philadelphia Phillies first baseman of the same name.

Angela Martin (Accounting Supervisor) - The resident cat lady. She is known to have a giant stick lodged permanently up her ass. She collects pictures of naked babies playing instruments and is a registered sex offender in the state of Pennsylvania.

Phyllis Lapin (Sales Rep) - A quiet, pleasant grandmother who was Upswept in a whirlwind romance with a roguish refrigerator person though she still has many suiters and frequently seduces Jim for bathroom sex.

Kelly Kapoor (Customer Service Representative) - A former Bollywood actress who took the job to gain exposure to an American audience. After the ruse was discovered, the producers allowed her to stay provided she wore more attractive clothing and adopted a perkier attitude to counterbalance the other, less attractive females. Kelly is the most reserved and conservative member of the office.

Kevin Malone (Accounting) - A former NASA rocket scientist and theoretical physicist on the popular television sitcom The Big Bang Theory. Kevin is also a member of the up-and-coming band Scrantonicity II. NOT Scrantonicity. Despite little financial success the band’s popularity has lead to a cover band known as The Police (a reference to a Scrantonicity album name). He is played by the famous american actor Ted Cruz.

Creed Bratton (Quality Assurance Officer) - Possibly the only person in the office that can fathom the entirety of what is occurring.

Meredith Palmer (Supplier Relations Representative) - Once featured in the popular “Girls Gone Wild” series, she occasionally reverts and flashes a guy or two. It's no big thing. Pretty much every character (male and female) has flirted/had their way with Meredith at some point in the show.

Kelly "Erin" Hannon (Receptionist) - Erin goes by her middle name so as not to be confused with Kelly Kapoor, and to evade the IRS. Erin took over as the Dunder Mifflin receptionist after Pam left for her second stint in rehab. Erin is also known for her performance as "Blow Job Girl" on You tube.

“Toby Flenderson “Toby” - merely a nickname given by the producers to a mysterious shadowy presence sometimes sighted incidentally on camera. Other phenomena attributed to “Toby” are indistinct murmuring and a vague sense of self-deprecation. Kind of like Niles's wife on "Frasier", before he got with Daphne and screwed everything up. But hey, that's another sitcom.

Unfortunately steve carell has refused to film another season. When a party took place in celebration of shooting the season finale "whistleblower" the producer Ricky Gervais couldnt find Steve Carell at the party. So Ricky looked in the bathroom, where he found Steve Carell kissing an illegal alien. Steve Carell released a statement that he doesn't ever want to see Gervais again, so he dropped out of the cast to avoid awkward moments. When Gervais heard this, he tracked down the illegal alien and publicly executed him on a live feed on the internet. (it was a male "friend" of Carell) Gervais got his friends to strap him down to a chair next to a local vigalante, formerly known as 'Big Daddy'. After strapping the two down, they recorded the video and it was streamed on the live news and was televised. Unfortunately, Big Daddy was burned alive, but the illegal alien escaped with the help of "Big Daddy's" daughter. After Steve Carell watched this live stream, he publicly announced he will "definitely NOT EVER be 'Micheal Scott' ever again!!!"

Cultural impact

Although the show is virtually unknown, a throw-away joke in the pilot episode — “That’s what she said” — has gone viral. Millions of people use the line without knowing where it comes from. Editors of humor wikis use the line, knowing where it comes from, but believing that it counts as a "joke."

Romantic subplots

Part of the attraction of a show based on mundane life in an office is that it avoids the usual, Other then the very engaging relationship between Phyllis and Jim. Phyllis and Jim's relationship is known for being one of the sadist love stories on television. This is mostly because of Jim's well known relationship with the needle. The producers said in an interview,"The show stays away from trite romantic clichés, and avoids spinning out unnecessary pseudo-romantic tension between the only two pretty people on camera, elevating it above its rating-grubbing reality show contemporaries."

Nevertheless, its billion or so fans speculate that Jim and Pam might be an Item. The show's producers have denied this repeatedly. One stated: "We fully intend to kill off Pam as soon as the opportunity presents itself. And man, will it be hard. That's what she said!"

Trivia

• 'The Office' is also the name of a popular chain of clubs open all day, serving decaffeinated coffee instead of alcohol. They are notorious for containing hoards of loose women who usually dress as secretaries or receptionists.
• Late in season 5, Dunder Mifflin - Scranton is set to host a local dodgeball tournament. Proceeds will be donated to a third-world school, improving the local image of the company. Undisclosed to the rest of the office workers, Meredith is on the board of the International Dodgeball Federation. In this episode, Dwight says, "to build a stronger generation is to build a dodgeball dynasty and to meet Zach Braff on the set of Scrubs."
• I just want my kids back.