The office : the untold story of the greatest sitcom of the 2000s

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Office (Television program : U.S.)
Television comedies.

ISBN: 9781524744977
Physical Description 447 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2020.

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The Office : The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of The 2000s

by Greene, Andy

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The Office : The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of The 2000s

Section	Section Description	Page Number
	Author's Note	p. xi
	Cast of Characters	p. xiii
	Introduction: An American Workplace	p. 1
1	The Original Office	p. 11
	("I became fascinated with embarrassment")
2	Coming to America	p. 24
	("The Americans will ruin it")
3	Casting	p. 33
	("She just looked like a person who'd work at a paper company for twenty-five years.")
4	Setting the Stage	p. 53
	("It looked like they were shipping aluminum out of there.")
5	The Pilot	p. 58
	("That seems kind of dangerous.")
	Key Episode 1: "Diversity Day"	p. 65
6	Season One	p. 71
	("It felt like we were making a student film.")
7	The Fight for Survival	p. 76
	("Things literally got insane.")
8	Dwight	p. 85
	("He would have made a good Nazi")
9	Season Two	p. 92
	("It's a love story disguised as a workplace comedy.")
	Key Episode 2: "The Dundies"	p. 102
	Key Episode 3: "The Injury"	p. 107
	Key Episode 4: "Casino Night"	p. 111
10	The Rise of Creed	p. 117
	("I didn't know him from a hole in the wall")
11	Mindy	p. 126
	("I thought I had the scarlet letter on me.")
12	Season Three	p. 132
	("All of the Hondas and Toyotas turned into Mercedes and BMWs.")
	Key Episode 5: "Beach Games"	p. 149
13	Who Is Michael Scott?	p. 154
	("Loneliness is the most universal emotion.")
14	Filming The Office	p. 162
	("They perfected the art of shooting us like animals in the wild")
15	Season Four	p. 176
	("I would never have gotten them together till the end.")
	Key Episode 6: "Dinner Party"	p. 189
16	The Writers' Room	p. 202
	("I've watched grown men cry when they're being rewritten.")
17	Greg	p. 224
	("My image of him is of the absentminded professor.")
18	Season Five	p. 233
	("I feel like I'm in a horror movie and I'm the only one that sees the monster.")
	Key Episode 7: "Weight Loss"	p. 249
	Key Episode 8: "Stress Relief".	p. 256
19	13927 Saticoy Street	p. 263
	("You wouldn't want to walk around there at night, for sure.")
20	The Trouble with Movies	p. 273
	("You made it work for Ed Helms. You need to make it work for me.")
21	Season Six	p. 278
	("Are we jumping the shark? It shouldn't be this slapsticky.")
	Key Episode 9: "Niagara"	p. 291
22	Spin-off Blues	p. 300
	("Parks and Recreation should have been a spin-off")
23	Steve	p. 305
	("He would stand there and help every single person out of the van.")
24	Season Seven	p. 313
	("Somebody didn't pay him enough. It was absolutely asinine")
	Key Episode 10: "Threat Level Midnight"	p. 325
	Key Episode 11: "Goodbye, Michael"	p. 330
25	Meet the New Boss	p. 337
	("What if Queen Latifah becomes the manager?")
26	Season Eight	p. 348
	("It was Cheers without Ted Danson.")
27	Life in the Background	p. 362
	("I learned not to count lines in a script.")
28	Season Nine	p. 371
	("A lot of us were low on gas")
	Key Episode 12: "Finale"	p. 389
29	The Aftermath	p. 402
	("My fifteen-year-old niece is a fanatic")
30	Reboot?	p. 411
	("I hope we can do it before any of us kick the bucket")
	Acknowledgments	p. 419
	Sources	p. 423
	Index	p. 435

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