
James Spader’s performance is obviously next-level to elicit such feelings, but oh my god is it cringey. And then he came back the next season, and every scene he’s in is just uncomfortable. Robert California’s first appearance in the Season 7 finale was weird but fine in that small dose. Every single episode with Robert California - Season 8 Just thinking about it makes my stomach do flips. Michael accidentally letting it slip during a skit that the Buffalo branch of Dunder Mifflin would be closing down - IN FRONT OF THE BUFFALO EMPLOYEES - due to the recession is just the worst. He drags it on and on only to then lie about them being stolen. This is not close to the worst thing Michael pretends to have - more on that later - but it’s awkward nonetheless when he fakes having Bruce Springsteen tickets to auction off. So we’re here to address one aspect from The Office that remains regularly debated on the internet: Which episode is the cringiest? Here’s our ranking of the top 10.

Those impossibly awkward exchanges or silences can make the show painful to watch - sometimes simply because of the situation and other times because several episodes haven’t aged particularly well. Because, as Wayne Gretzky Michael Scott says, “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.”įor all its laughs or heartwarming moments, The Office is built on cringeworthy moments. For the show that’s still so embedded in American and internet culture, we’ll break down everything from the best sports moments to the best couples. That’s the perfect way to introduce For The Win’s tribute to The Office, the NBC comedy that celebrates the 15 th anniversary of its premiere this week (March 24). After an entire episode emphasizing how sensitive Michael is over his creation, the boss-with the help of Holly-comes to term with the fact that Threat Level: Midnight is kind of terrible.and that’s kind of okay.“Sometimes, I’ll start a sentence and I don’t even know where it’s going. Novak manages to take what could have been an empty gag and turns it into a major personal turning point for Michael Scott. To the show’s credit, episode writer B.J. The plot is genuinely too much to sum up in so small a space (as all great, misunderstood art is), but just know that an NHL All-Star Game is in danger, Jim plays a dastardly villain with a golden face (named Goldenface), and Pam’s mom makes a scantily clad cameo. “Threat Level Midnight” is essentially just a screening of Michael’s work-in-progress film, but the cast has the time of their careers with it. The most gimmicky entry The Office ever produced also happens to be a whole hell of a lot of fun. “It'll take a lot more than a bullet to the brain, lungs, heart, back and balls to kill Michael Scarn.” RELATED: The Top 50 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' Episodes, Rankedĥ0) Season 7, Episode 23: The Inner Circle Eventually, though, after a lot of effort, I was finally satisfied.* Honestly, I didn’t think I could fit everything in to such a small space. There were times when I almost pulled out. So, naturally, narrowing this show’s entire run down to 50 episodes was a process as hard as it was long. “There's a lot of beauty in ordinary things,” Pam says in the series’ final line. It was able to take the dull greys of a conference room and the sounds of clock too-slowly ticking to 5 and turn them into a home.
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At its best-and there really was so much more good than bad- The Office strode the line better than anything else on TV between earnestly heartfelt and painfully uncomfortable. You may notice the list below doesn’t contain a single entry from Season 8, a season whose sole bright spot was James Spader declaring himself the “fucking Lizard King.” But like any 9-to-5 job that you come to begrudgingly love and that eventually changes your life for the better, you accept the lows because the highs are worth it.

Yes, The Office’s low points are well-documented. Novak), and even-once in a rare blue moon-caught Stanley Hudson ( Leslie David Baker) voluntarily standing up from his chair. The crew followed an unstable beet farmer called Dwight Schrute ( Rainn Wilson), chronicled the descent into douchebaggery of a young temp named Ryan Howard ( B.J. We watched the Regional Manager Michael Scott ( Steve Carell) grow from a childish buffoon to a slightly less childish man, and then to an ever-so-slightly less childish husband to HR representative Holly Flax ( Amy Ryan). We got to watch a doofy-haired salesman named Jim Halpert ( John Krasinski) fall in love with the engaged receptionist Pam Beesly ( Jenna Fischer) five feet away. But man, the things their cameras captured. A documentary crew decides to follow the employees of the Dunder Mifflin paper company (Scranton branch) for eight straight years, for reasons that are never made quite clear. counterpart-is as simple as a blank sheet of paper. The premise of The Office-borrowed from its original U.K.
