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13 Things You Didn’t Know About 'The Office'

coedmagazine.com — #2 - The exterior of the Dunder-Mifflin office in the opening credits is really the Penn Paper building located on Mifflin Avenue in Scranton, PA. Up until a few years ago a bar named The Office was located across the street from the Penn Paper building.

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  • AHolmes360, on 07/09/2008, -55/+6Thing number 14 - it was adapted from a British TV show. Oh wait, everyone knows that. Never mind.
    • nishay, on 07/10/2008, -0/+8uhh did u even read the article?
      it referred twice to the UK version
    • DatoeDakari, on 07/10/2008, -2/+6Thing number 15 - you're retarded, Oh wait, everyone knows that. Never mind.
    • jasarien, on 07/11/2008, -2/+113 things I don't care about "the office".
      • AmICoolNow, on 07/11/2008, -1/+1That doesn't make grammatical sense...
  • lazychris2000, on 07/09/2008, -1/+58I tried the excuse 'enlarged balls' once, got me off work........permanently.
  • krsone2424, on 07/09/2008, -4/+30I hate it when my balls are enlarged and I can't go to work
    • Skuzzlbut, on 07/10/2008, -1/+13We all have our own cross to bear
  • nav353, on 07/09/2008, -7/+24Number 14-The origin of Schruted It: "It's just this thing people say around your office all the time. Like when you screw something up in a really irreversable way, you Schruted it. I don't know where it comes from though. You think it came from Dwight Schrute?"
    • paterade724, on 07/10/2008, -0/+3See that would not fall in under "things you didn't know..."

      I could make a 2000 things I DO know about the office list and it would consist of quotes from episodes.
    • blackbeardtron, on 07/10/2008, -0/+3Who knows how words are formed?
    • asnider, on 07/10/2008, -3/+21. If you've watched the show regularly, you already know that.
      2. Andy made that phrase up to try and make Dwight look bad.
    • EGGN, on 07/11/2008, -0/+0Are footballs really made of pigs' skins?
  • Tyler2tall147, on 07/10/2008, -21/+2I knew most of these...
  • tropican8, on 07/10/2008, -1/+46In a deleted scene from the Booze Cruise episode it was mentioned that Creed Bratton was a member of The Grass Roots. He actually was: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creed_Bratton
  • Lawrencesss, on 07/10/2008, -24/+2"Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither."
    Ben Franklin

    We can't say they didn't warn us.... But hey the constitution is just a piece of paper right?
    • Djilas, on 07/10/2008, -0/+31Michael: Mr. Franklin, I would say you are probably one of the sexiest presidents ever.
      Ben Franklin: Well, actually, I never was president.
      Michael: Yes, but Ben Franklin was.
      • brstilson, on 07/10/2008, -1/+8Dwight: Are you near-sighted or far-sighted?
        Ben Franklin: Both, that's why I invented bi-focals!
        Dwight: AAAAAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!
    • viserov, on 07/10/2008, -1/+13That is NOT the real Ben Franklin. I am 99% sure.
    • LLLSecretChimp, on 07/11/2008, -0/+1"The Office" is about people who sell paper, so that comment is entirely relevant.
  • gebsta, on 07/10/2008, -33/+1#15 JIm gave an HJ to steve carell
  • JaggOff, on 07/10/2008, -47/+7Another one not on the list - The show is no longer funny- too aware of itself.
    • wedges, on 07/10/2008, -1/+15JaggOff is no longer insightful - too full of itself.
  • redheadguy719, on 07/10/2008, -0/+12Also, the character Andy Bernard was going to be named after the writer "Brent Forrester" just because it was the whitest sounding name they could find.
    • jankind, on 07/10/2008, -0/+4He would rather be called "Drew" from now on.
  • mbonzo531, on 07/10/2008, -0/+30Angela Kinsey (Angela) is married to Paul Liberstein's (Toby) brother.
  • DamageInc, on 07/10/2008, -5/+23http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZcZ7jJnMThM @ 1:49, haha
    • nishay, on 07/10/2008, -0/+4lol whoa its creed...and hes got hair!
    • lennybird, on 07/10/2008, -0/+3That song is awesome... Our family's 'vacation song'.

      /random...
      • DatoeDakari, on 07/10/2008, -0/+2Really? I wanna feel you deep inside me?
      • lennybird, on 07/10/2008, -0/+1we put ear muffs on when that part comes.
    • jefuchs, on 07/10/2008, -0/+1LOL Thanks!
  • Lasereth, on 07/10/2008, -15/+814. The first two seasons were way funnier than the last two
    • evo8ftw, on 07/10/2008, -4/+3hardly
    • B1ackmath, on 07/10/2008, -10/+1Not at all. The show didn't even come into it's own until the 3rd season when they stopped ripping off the UK version.
      • Timmyftw, on 07/10/2008, -1/+11It not ripping off when one of the creators also created the UK version.
    • j3ff86, on 07/10/2008, -2/+2The show has gotten progressively better. I re-watched the first season last week, and while it has its moments, it's not as funny as later seasons.
    • cash0utcurse, on 07/10/2008, -10/+3Agreed.

      15. It is inferior to the original BBC version.
      • OuTLaWOwnz, on 07/10/2008, -0/+2Why are you getting buried when your so right...
    • homah, on 07/10/2008, -0/+4Well, certainly funnier than Season 4. If I had to rank the seasons, it would go:

      2 (by a longshot)
      3 (barely beats 1)
      1
      4
      • CCB0x45, on 07/10/2008, -1/+3Weird, I'd definitely go:
        3,2,4,1
        1 was almost an exact copy of the british show.
      • B1ackmath, on 07/24/2008, -0/+1I agree, and I think it's hilarious that my comment was dugg down.
  • Eavesdropping, on 07/10/2008, -0/+10Dwight Schrute for Vice President.
    • goldfenix, on 07/10/2008, -2/+46Assistant to the Vice President.
      • cJw314, on 07/10/2008, -1/+8Vice Assistant to the President.
      • Netrilix, on 07/10/2008, -1/+2I think what you were all looking for was "Vice [to the] President".
  • pat7047, on 07/10/2008, -10/+2i love surfing the intenet
  • darthzaphod, on 07/10/2008, -3/+5I saw a promotional photo for The Office on the internet a few months back. It depicted two inter-office golf leagues, one with Jim and Pam on a team and one with Dwight and Ryan. Jim and Pam's team was called the "Just Friends" and Dwight/Ryan was called "The Sharp Schruters".

    Hilarious!
  • andy2125, on 07/10/2008, -6/+8314. Jenna Fischer can be smoking hot.

    See blades of glory: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v469/Rapscillion ...
    • bearcat8543, on 07/10/2008, -3/+81buried as inaccurate. jenna fischer is always smokin hot.
    • rockefeller2, on 07/10/2008, -8/+2Any chick can be smoking hot with the help of a highly skilled cameraman, makeup artist, hair stylist, fashion consultant, etc. etc. Take Beyonce for example, she was trashy ass ghetto before she hit it big, and look at her now.
      • candidkiss, on 07/10/2008, -1/+1That picture is now my desktop background.
    • Testiculese, on 07/10/2008, -0/+4Yea but Jenna doesn't need any of that!
      • honthraj, on 07/10/2008, -2/+0I'd say her face is kind of jowly despite the three layers of makeup base that she'll need a chisel to remove.

        But then, on the upside - that's authentic Scranton.
    • unfinite, on 07/10/2008, -0/+4higher resolution http://thebestthings.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/b ...
    • rockefeller2, on 07/11/2008, -7/+1Not impressed. Just an average white chick right there.
    • Betogonza, on 07/11/2008, -0/+1damn i would of never noticed that was her.
  • zosoIV, on 07/10/2008, -25/+4#14. The UK version is funnier.
    • mrmayor92, on 07/10/2008, -3/+11your so unique and different
    • thebza451, on 07/10/2008, -4/+3i've noticed that everyone who says that usually has never even seen the UK version and very little of the US version..
      • zosoIV, on 07/10/2008, -2/+3Actually, I used to watch the UK version before they even announced it for the US. Don't be so quick to judge.
    • homah, on 07/10/2008, -0/+5It's like comparing apples and oranges. Michael Scott is so much different than David Brent. I really enjoy them both in different ways.
  • jgaspar, on 07/10/2008, -3/+5514. Bears eat beets.
    15. Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica
    • FortyCaliber, on 07/10/2008, -0/+9I thought the preceding question, "What Bear is Best?" was a funnier line.
      "Well that depends on..."
      "WRONG. The Black Bear."
      • jgaspar, on 07/10/2008, -0/+17"What kind of bear is best?"
        "Thats a ridiculous question."
        "False. Black bear."
        "Well thats debatable. There are basically two rules of though.."
        "Fact. Bears eat beets. Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica"
        "What is going on here?! What are you doing!?"
      • zerobackup, on 07/10/2008, -0/+9IDENTITY THEFT IS NOT A JOKE, JIM!
      • EGGN, on 07/11/2008, -0/+1"MICHAEL!"
        "MICHAEL!"
  • sump22, on 07/10/2008, -0/+8Don't forget about the webisodes that start today!! Can't wait for september 25th either!
  • NikkiA, on 07/10/2008, -17/+7Number 0 : The original UK version was funnier, sorry.
  • Chel85, on 07/10/2008, -4/+1714. Anyone else notice Steve Carrell gained more hair after Season 1?
    • nishay, on 07/10/2008, -1/+4na he doesnt have more, he just didnt slick it back
    • DHohen, on 07/10/2008, -1/+6Well not only did he change his hair, but loose weight.
  • mlvassallo, on 07/10/2008, -1/+6What if I did know these things.
  • grantmoore3d, on 07/10/2008, -0/+17Each Schrute buck has a cash equivalent of 1/100th of a cent
    • FortyCaliber, on 07/10/2008, -0/+9How many Stanley Nickels is that worth?
    • asnider, on 07/10/2008, -0/+1I prefer Stanley Nickles.
    • Flatlineskillz, on 07/10/2008, -6/+2I prefer Pickles Nickles. The most metal currency on the planet
  • ketchup923, on 07/10/2008, -2/+13goddamnit, I did know these things! You lied to me!!

    You owe me at least 5 things that I really didn't know about the office.... I'll be stalking your house until then.
  • arbouler, on 07/10/2008, -3/+8"Characters have admitted to surfing the internet while shooting background scenes as the computers on the Dunder-Mifflin office set are connected to the intenet."

    i caught meredith playing solitaire in one of the episodes. so great.
    • josephbloseph, on 07/10/2008, -0/+10I just assumed that was what everyone else does at work.
    • rockefeller2, on 07/10/2008, -3/+9"you caught meridith?" Are you guys on a first name basis now? How did she react when you caught her? Was she embarrassed?
    • bearcat8543, on 07/10/2008, -0/+4uh if you notice, everyone plays that in the show. on a frequent basis as well.
  • RowersAlmanac, on 07/10/2008, -10/+4I'm in the minority that absolutely loved The Office through Season 3, but can't even bear to watch the new episodes. There's some laughs, but the characters I loved being turned into caricatures before my very eyes to ensure an infinite run of episodes is disheartening. It's a slow death for this show, now that I know they aren't going to end it tastefully as they did for the UK version.

    I liked the show when the theme of dreadful banality in an office setting was much more pronounced as the backdrop for the comedy.
    • homah, on 07/10/2008, -2/+2Dead on. Office season 4 to me is like Simpsons season 10-11. I still watch it for the occasional gem of an episode, but I know it's no longer the show it once was.
    • CleoQKazoo, on 07/10/2008, -1/+5all those words and you really didnt say anything
      • Testiculese, on 07/10/2008, -3/+1Don't skip over the ones with more than one syllable... ;)
    • RowersAlmanac, on 07/10/2008, -1/+2What the ***** is your problem? Do all the comments on Digg have to be as idiotic as yours to pass the bar? I gave my opinion on the show. I'm sorry if it wasn't concise enough for you.
  • pitchblack16, on 07/10/2008, -1/+8imagine how much money youd get from a lawsuit if you had a boss like that...
  • honthraj, on 07/10/2008, -10/+5I find the Office extremely entertaining, until they start to talk about Scranton and Lackawanna County.

    I grew up just outside of Scrantion and went to school there.

    The town that they depict is the opposite end of the spectrum of what I knew. It was an extremely depressed area with a huge share of depressed, alcoholics. It had the highest concentration of black lung and cancer in the nation for awhile and it was quite common to walk into a public restaurant which was buried in a cloud of cigarette and cheap cigar smoke.

    Underage drinking was a passion and the Dunmore cemetary was the best place to have open keg parties.

    In the 80s - two partygoers thought it would be a kick to steal a body from a tomb and pose it around the town with a cigarette in its mouth and a beer can in its hand.

    • new2u, on 07/10/2008, -3/+2that is sick but toooooooo funny. Did that really happen??
      • honthraj, on 07/10/2008, -0/+0Absolutely did. My biology teacher was the mayor of Dunmore at the time.
    • ruffc23, on 07/10/2008, -0/+2I'm sure they didn't depict that in the show because they like entertaining people and actually want to make money instead of just depressing everyone
      • honthraj, on 07/10/2008, -0/+1Oh I agree.

        But the lack of authenticity can sometimes grate on you if you are from the area.

        Even the exterior shots are kind of annoying. With the exception of the opening credits, the area that they are constantly filming is flat terrain. The Lackawanna river valley is framed to the east and west by mountain ranges and the valley itself is filled with rolling hills.
  • teh_spazz, on 07/10/2008, -1/+16The writers strike only made this shower better. The characters are much more pronounced and vicious.

    I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!
  • Synn, on 07/10/2008, -11/+21I'll never understand why B.J. Novak always seems to be in cast photos and appears in the opening credits of the show. Angela is more of a main character than he is and she gets squat.
    • jermscentral, on 07/10/2008, -0/+20Because he's a producer?
      • Synn, on 07/10/2008, -6/+7Yeah, but that's usually not something you are given a spot in the opening credits for. Why not Kelly and Toby then since they are writers on the show?

        And ***** you to whoever buried my original comment. It was a vaild question/comment to make.
      • bearcat8543, on 07/10/2008, -0/+2producers are way higher up on the food chain than mere writers.
      • bubba9999, on 07/10/2008, -0/+1The main writer for the episode often gets a producers credit - you'll see credits for Mindy and Paul in the mix as well as BJ, depending on who the primary writer was for the episode. Go back and watch your DVDs.
  • nighthwk1, on 07/10/2008, -7/+2There's also a great bar in Champaign-Urbana, IL called The Office...
  • keithnoir, on 07/10/2008, -4/+11Did you also know that it was based on a japan show?
    http://www.hulu.com/watch/20337/saturday-night-liv ...
  • voetsjoeba, on 07/10/2008, -0/+15Well great, this is just IMDB's trivia page only thinly disguised. Huzzah for manual copy/paste!
  • jankind, on 07/10/2008, -1/+19Let me say first that The Office is my absolute favorite show on TV, without a doubt. But one day I thought to myself "Why in the world would anyone need 4 years worth of documentary footage from a paper supply company?" But for all I care, they can do ten more years and I'll still be watching it. That said. Here's my quote:

    "Hey, beer me those Cds"
  • rooeeez, on 07/10/2008, -1/+10Alot of these and more can be found here
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386676/trivia
  • runfastr, on 07/10/2008, -6/+0Which bear is best?

    FALSE.

    Black bears.
  • djepik, on 07/10/2008, -10/+1Burried for calling it "Pour Richards Pub"

    It's spelled "Poor". Don't be an idiot, coed magazine.
  • tewcewl, on 07/10/2008, -1/+15WHY is the phrase "after the jump" (especially when there is no jump!) STILL IN EXISTENCE?!?
    • Testiculese, on 07/10/2008, -0/+3Why did it materialize in teh first place? What jump? I've never seen a jump?
  • timothy53, on 07/10/2008, -2/+3someone just read IMDB.com and copied the triva there....because its the same exact thing. except this has pictures.
  • ImperialSoren, on 07/10/2008, -13/+233. the show is rarely funny and mostly dead air
    • bearcat8543, on 07/10/2008, -0/+1let me guess, you have the entire boxed set of 'dharma and greg'.

      queer.
      • ImperialSoren, on 07/11/2008, -0/+1not sure what dharma and greg is but I'm not afraid to accept your proposition
  • Manhunt545, on 07/10/2008, -0/+1Most of the stuff on the list is said in the commentary. Which everyone should listen/watch. It's hysterical
  • PhoenixReborn, on 07/10/2008, -1/+49That's weird. Firefox labels the site as an attack site but when you look at the details there's nothing wrong with it.
    • Tag89, on 07/11/2008, -0/+1I couldn't access it with Firefox. When I tried with IE avast went crazy and said a virus had been detected. I don't recommend visiting the site anytime soon.
  • gnixon70, on 07/10/2008, -3/+9yea apparently this site has been blocked as malicious for me too. bury this *****...
    • Synova, on 07/11/2008, -0/+1If you look at the details it was possibly one download over 3 months ago and it's been clean since.
  • ShowPatrolman, on 07/10/2008, -4/+0Nice "Office" details! See what stars Brian Baumgartner and Mindy Kaling have to say at http://weblogs.redeyechicago.com/showpatrol/2008/0 ...
  • epsd101, on 07/10/2008, -1/+9It was blocked for me too. Again, there seems to be no reason for it. Anybody know WTF is up?
  • tacapd42, on 07/10/2008, -6/+1How the hell did this piece of crap get 1000+ diggs. My balls sweat better content than this.
  • mikedeezy33, on 07/10/2008, -3/+6This is a Firefox reported attack site. This should not be so high on Digg!!
  • 2oonhed, on 07/10/2008, -0/+63wtf?
    --------------------------------------------
    Reported Attack Site!
    This web site at www.coedmagazine.com has been reported as an attack site and has been blocked based on your security preferences.

    Attack sites try to install programs that steal private information, use your computer to attack others, or damage your system.

    Some attack sites intentionally distribute harmful software, but many are compromised without the knowledge or permission of their owners.
    ------------------------------------------
    Yet no reason is given......Odd.
    • fritzx007, on 07/11/2008, -0/+2What is the current listing status for www.coedmagazine.com/entertainment/?

      Site is listed as suspicious - visiting this web site may harm your computer.

      What happened when Google visited this site?

      Of the 5 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 0 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 04/22/2008, and suspicious content was never found on this site within the past 90 days.

      Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?

      Over the past 90 days, www.coedmagazine.com/entertainment/ did not appear to function as an intermediary for the infection of any sites.

      Has this site hosted malware?

      No, this site has not hosted malicious software over the past 90 days.

      How did this happen?

      In some cases, third parties can add malicious code to legitimate sites, which would cause us to show the warning message.
  • epsd101, on 07/10/2008, -1/+5It's not that the Site is an attack Site...it's that the Site was attacked by a bot that batch reported it for malicious content, but THERE IS NO MALICIOUS CONTENT on the Site.
    • BabyBrumak, on 07/10/2008, -0/+1Will wonders never cease? Thanks for the info!
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