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Over 1,000 people voted in our recent poll What Is The Best Show On TV and The Office came out on top with 13% of the votes. So, you want more Office content? Ask and you shall recieve.
I bet you didn’t know that Steve Carell called out of work on the first day of the writers strike citing “enlarged balls.” Pretty sweet fact right?!
Up your Office trivia knowledge by checking out 13 Things You Didn’t Know About The Office after the jump!
- Dwight is a big fan of bobble-heads as he has four on his desk. The first is his “Dwight Schrutte Bobble-head, two are former Philadelphia Phillies stars, Mike Lieberthal and John Kruk and the fourth is former guard for Syracuse University and Scranton native Gerry McNamara.
- 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.
- To pay homage to the British version of The Office, that he is said to rarely watch, Steve Carell placed a Union Jack flag on his characters desk.
- 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.
- Similar to the secondary characters in the movie Knocked Up four Office actors have the same names as the characters they play - Angela (Angela Kinsey), Oscar (Oscar Nuñez), Phyllis (Phyllis Smith) and Creed (Creed Bratton).
- The British version of The Office takes place in a town calle Slough. To pay homage to this Dunder-Mifflin’s street address 1725 Slough Road, Scranton, PA.
- B.J. Novak’s character Ryan Howard is named after former Scranton/Wilkes Red Baron and current Philadelphia Phillie, NL All-Star and league MVP Ryan Howard.
- Some video used in the opening credits of The Office, specifically the exterior shot of the “Dunder-Mifflin office,” was taken by John Krasinski and his friends when they road tripped to California after he was hired to play the part of Jim.
- The Office has many real life high school connections, as John Krasinski (Jim) and B.J. Novak (Ryan) graduated from Newton South High School in Newton, MA together in 1997. And Brian Baumgartner (Kevin) and Ed Helms (Andy) graduated from The Westminster Schools in Atlanta, Georgia.
- The cast frequently refers to Poor Richard’s Pub. In real life this bar is actually called South Side Lanes and is located at a bowling alley in South Scranton.
- In the opening credits we see a document being highlighted. This is actually a copy of the Los Angeles Municipal Code, Section 12.22 that relates to building codes and permitting
- Michael is the “Proud Owner of a Quality Seyko Timepiece” or at least that’s what the “Certificate of Authenticity” hanging on his wall states.