Life In The Office

Here at “Life In The Office,” we are sadly clearing out our desks and emptying the break room refrigerator. Kevin just took the last sixpack of Pepsi, and bundled up his many scripts of the finest Office fan fiction ever written. Jossifer whisked away the box with the crumbs of her outrageously good homebaked desserts, along with her well-worn manual of how to keep a rickety, outdated website up and running. Donna has packed away her many hats, including the LITO Regional Manager cap, and the Assistant to the Assistant LITO Regional manager cap. Suri has hauled away her keyboard on which she banged out all those heartfelt episode recaps, resplendent with her wit and wisdom. And I just boxed up my coveted LITO Oven Mitt, presented to me for, uh… “Scrantonicity’s” many contributions to LITO, such as filing up the most space.

I will always remember the impromptu dancing that we all did in the LITO office to “Boogie Wonderland.” And let’s not forget that LITO “Booze Cruise,” when I ended up on the deck in the moonlight, just staring at you guys…………………….. for 27 seconds. Yeah, I Will Remember You.

Thanks everyone for reading, commenting and contributing to “Life In The Office.” I think we all wish there was a way to know that we were in the good old days before we’ve actually left them.

~ Broccoli Rob

The art of making paper airplanes is affectionately known as “aerogami,” which is a play-on-words of “origami,” the Japanese art of folding paper. This leads me to think that  The Office missed an opportunity with “Paper Airplane,” to have the contest won easily by the mysterious warehouse worker Hidetoshi Hasagawa. The show still could have kept the dynamic between Dwight and Angela, as they each tried to “lose.” But it would have been cool to see Hide casually throw his carefully folded plane for a vast, jaw-dropping distance at the end, when almost nobody (but the camera) was watching. I just thought I’d “speak my truth.” Now I suppose I should speak about this episode’s Scrantonicity. Read on »

Our old friend Steve catches up with Jay Leno and lets us know what he’s been up to since leaving The Office, including a brand new movie. See the full interview below:

Look out Pete, Andy is on the warpath.
 

Can’t wait for a full hour of The Office tonight!

There has been much speculation lately about Meredith’s baldness; is it real or fake? We’ve seen the writers keeping up with story arc of Meredith shaving her head by putting her in various wigs in the past few episodes, so did she really do it?

Well, in keeping with reality, Meredith’s hair wouldn’t instantly grow back within a week, so they keep showing her bald and wearing wigs, but the hair and make-up department has revealed the truth about Meredith’s baldness and what it took to get her looking from this:

To this:

The following illustration shows just how they did it:

So now you know the truth, Kate Flannery did not actually shave her head. It still looks pretty real though, doesn’t it?

Kevin and Bob, this is for you. If anyone can come up with a clever idea for a Superbowl commercial featuring Dunder Mifflin, it’s you guys. Get crackin’—the deadline is TODAY!

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I always think that the quality of any particular Office episode can be reasonably predicted by the “cold opening.” A good cold opening usually bodes well for the rest of the show. So, what do we do about “Dwight Christmas;” that rarest of rarities, an episode without a cold opening? How do we predict the quality of the show now? Well, another way of looking at it is that maybe this was the longest cold opening in the show’s history, lasting the entire first act. I find that oddly comforting, so we’ll go with that. And I thought that this extra-extra long cold opening was pretty good, and once again, my theory held up; the remainder of the episode was pretty good, too.  Read on »