There’s no shortage of unlikely love connections at the Scranton branch of Dunder Mifflin. 15īecause Michael is the best (worst) boss ever Check out this collection of laugh-out-loud funny, heartwarming memes to remember just why we love The Office so much. The best The Office memes remind us why we loved the show and the crazy cast of characters in the first place, and often manage to provide poignant insight into our own lives. ![]() Now, over three years since the series went off air, we are still watching it, still talking about it, and still sharing quotes and memes with friends on the internet. For all the disenchanted employees out there who daydreamed of outsmarting the boss, exacting revenge on the office narc and winning the heart of the girl from two desks down, The Office offered a bit of escapism that didn’t seem so far out of reach. It portrayed office culture in a way that struck a chord with many 9-to-5ers-and it did so in hilarious fashion. It might not get any better than Dunder Mifflin in our professional or personal lives, but we can still hope to have some fun, weird times along the way.Our love affair with The Office began over 11 years ago, when NBC first introduced Michael Scott and co. Whether we’re in a classroom or office, like the show and its characters itself, we’re trying to tolerate a fluorescently-lit, beige walled world. We continue to share Office memes because we see ourselves in the Dunder Mifflin employees - in their mishaps, their relationships, their ambitions, or lack thereof. Even our online tools encourage the use of The Office moments to communicate our feelings. If you search common emotions like “sad,” “confused,” “funny,” “no,” or “good,” a character or moment from the show will usually be in the first few rows, if not the first. In an article for Medium, strategy and content associate Richard Yao writes, “GIFs, by virtue of being animated, naturally carries more visual information than a still image does and thus can tell the jokes better.” Thusly, it’s worth noting that GIFs from The Office continue to be some of the most popular and ubiquitous to pop up in any GIF keyboard or social media channel. I would find myself tacking Michael Scott’s “That’s what she said!” onto a friends corny joke, or reciting in my best Kelly Kapoor voice, “Number one: how dare you?!” ![]() But while I did not watch The Office when it originally aired, I was extremely online and I became familiar with The Office through memes. I just finished my first watch of the entire series last summer, and I plan on having it as a background show at least until Netflix moves it over to NBCUniversal’s future streaming platform. The show attracted almost 3 percent of the total user minutes, which means that Netflix users spent about 45.8 billion minutes hanging out with the Dunder Mifflin crew. This past April, the Wall Street Journal reported that The Office was the most-watched show on Netflix during a 12-month period that ended last summer. Furthermore, binging The Office is what people (from all generations) were, and are still doing. According to Forbes, Generation Z and Millenials “hate television” and note that they prefer to binge-watch their films and television shows on streaming platforms, with 61% of them choosing Netflix as their main source. In 2012, while social media was booming, The Office had also become available to stream on Netflix. ![]() Who hasn’t felt like their own office has a resident oddball like Dwight Schrute or couple hiding their romance like Pam and Jim? As viewers of the series started to use image-friendly apps like Instagram, Tumblr, and Twitter, it makes sense they’d use screencaps or moments from The Office to represent their experiences or summarize their own stories.
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