The Office
It's from 2005, before you were born.
- Network
- NBC
- Genre
- Mockumentary sitcom
- Premiered
- 2005
- Setting
- a paper company
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About
As of 2026, it's 21 years old.
The Office turned the soul-crushing tedium of a paper company into one of the most beloved comedies ever made by simply pointing a documentary camera at it and letting an excruciating boss perform for it. The mockumentary format, the awkward silences, the looks straight to camera — it's cringe comedy perfected.
It became a generational comfort-watch so durable that a huge share of its devoted fans discovered it long after it ended, quoting it endlessly.
Awkward, warm, and impossibly rewatchable, The Office is the show that made a beige office park feel like home and 'that's what she said' a permanent reflex.
The Office season by season
The Office ran for 9 seasons (2005–2012) across 186 episodes. You're older than the seasons in green.
