The Office: Tropes

Signature tropes

The ones that say the most about The Office. Pick one to read it.

• Karma Houdiniin 6,658 titlesIt's the only possible explanation for why Michael has never been fired (or arrested); although he is known to be an extremely good salesman (and in one episode, it's alluded to that he was in fact o…Read →
• Wild Mass GuessingRare · in 23 titlesFor most of the show's original run, fans put a lot of effort into explaining exactly why a documentary crew had been filming the Scranton office for nine years, with no indication that the documenta…Read →
• Genre Deconstructionin 407 titlesThe low key, humanistic approach to the series ends up exploring a lot of consequences to things that are romanticized elsewhere.Read →
• Acceptable Breaks from Realityin 130 titlesThe documentary format can raise the question of just how long these people are going to keep filming before they have a finished product.Read →
• Flanderizationin 839 titlesMeredith and Creed eventually show up every episode just to make either a gross-out joke about sex and/or alcohol and a non sequitur, respectively.Read →
• Dumbass Has a Pointin 524 titlesStopped clocks are right twice a day, and even Michael Scott stumbles into some legitimate points one or twice a season.Read →