As a native of Scranton, I was glued to “The Office” for 5 seasons, marveling at ALL of the local references to my hometown. (Dunmore,
my high school!) Imagine my excitement when I got the opportunity here at LITO to chronicle these local references for Season 6! This “golden ticket” just happened to coincide with “The Office,” uh… moving away from using local references. Writing “Scrantonicity” got pretty challenging, and some episodes I had to dig pretty deeply to find anything. Luckily, I never had to resort to just making things up, although don’t think that didn’t cross my mind! And… luckily-er, “The Cover-Up” featured plenty of local references, including probably the wildest, most personal local reference that there will ever be for me… which in true show-biz fashion I will save for the very end of this column.
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