Gift-giving can be stressful, but never more so than at the Scranton branch of Dunder Mifflin. We are screwed.”) Ryan and Kelly’s literally on-and-off relationship and Michael and Dwight thinking they saved the day by going to David Wallace’s house. This is The Office’s version of that episode: With the Stamford branch set to subsume the Scranton branch, a last-second shake-up reverses that course, in fairly stunning fashion, closing the Stamford branch and sending Jim back to Pennsylvania (along with Andy and Karen).īut aside from the inter-office dramatics, “Branch Closing” is great for a few other reasons: Michael’s inability to keep a secret or maintain calm (“It’s over. Have a Seat”) where Don Draper and Sterling Cooper thwart the closing of their firm by creating a new one altogether. There’s a great episode of Mad Men (“Shut the Door. This is not the definitive list of the best Office episodes, but The Ringer ’s personal list-and we’ll scream it from the mountaintops the way Michael Scott once screamed “I. It wasn’t easy to do this, of course: The Office certainly has more than just 50 good episodes, and by the time you get into the top 25, they’re all either great or iconic, so you’re mostly splitting hairs. On the day of its anniversary, it only felt right to recall the series’ best episodes. Between then and now, The Office grew into one of the best modern comedies ever made-filled with excellently written characters, supreme awkwardness, hilarious set pieces, and sneaky heart-and then grew into one of the most-watched shows of the streaming era. Fifteen years ago this Tuesday, cameras started rolling inside Dunder Mifflin, the most dysfunctionally run small paper company ever seen on television.
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