Your trusty tour guide through NBC must-see (or mustest-see, anyway) comedy Thursday, Nathan Rabin, couldn’t be with us this evening due to unforeseen circumstances, so you’re stuck with me. Apologies in...

In terms of both quantity and quality The Office probably has the best deleted scenes in the history of television. Does any other television show even come close? I recently picked up the third season DVD of The...

First an apology for posting this TV Club entry so late: yesterday was my birthday so I was all like “I’m going to be a rebel and not post until tomorrow morning”. Sorry bout that. I know I shouldn’t have left...

Judging by the comments here on The Office blog it seems like the biggest question this season is “How dark is too dark?” For me the answer is “really fucking dark”. I think it’s safe to say that both...

Oh, the agony! The sweet, sweet comic agony! For me the best episodes of The Office in both its British and American incarnation, are also the most excruciatingly uncomfortable. On that level,...

Finally, a half-hour-long episode as weird, dark, and resonant as some of the show’s hour-long excursions into personal and professional despair. Tonight, or rather last night’s episode, poignantly echoed the Monica...

Just about the only upside to the writers’ strike is that it more or less coincides with the sinking feeling in my stomach that I might just be running out of new and/or interesting things to write...

Tonight’s episode saw the semi-triumphant return of Karen and the introduction of the Finer Things Club, a collection of prance-about girlymen and dainty ladies devoted to the fine art of eating finger sandwiches,...

Like a lot of Office fans, I’ve been eagerly awaiting the return of half-hour, filler-free, gleefully non-padded Office episodes all season long. But tonight I found myself wistfully pining for the...

Like a lot of Office fans, I’ve been eagerly awaiting the return of half-hour, filler-free, gleefully non-padded Office episodes all season long. But tonight I found myself wistfully pining for the...

Last week, a reader commented that Michael Scott seemed headed for a full-on nervous breakdown this season. After tonight’s episode, I’m considering transforming this blog into an unofficial Michael Scott suicide...

I’m still not entirely sold on these hour-long episodes of The Office, but there was a pleasing symmetry to tonight’s episode. The first half was very funny in a low-key, observational way. I thought the...

Throughout both the American and English versions of The Office, certain nagging questions have persisted. Namely, how do operations as poorly run, wasteful and anachronistic as the titular businesses manage to...

Well, sports fans, it appears that Sprinkles, the most beloved fixture of The Office is officially dead. Long live Sprinkles. But that’s hardly the only bad news on the Office fourth season premiere. It’s...