This scene is one of my favorite scenes from The Office. I agree that The Office’s setting is what makes the show truly special. As millions of Americans push through their dull, dreary corporate jobs, they are able to go home and watch their all too familiar workplace be completely flipped upside down.
Working as a paper salesman in a small branch of a large paper company in small city, sounds like it could be so many average Americans. No one in The Office is overly attractive, well dressed, intelligent, or wealthy. None of the characters placed in shocking circumstances or have impressive responsibilities. They are portrayed to represent the average American which American viewers like me can relate to and appreciate. The mockumentary style of the show allows us to believe that the people have been randomly chosen to be documented and observed. It could be any of us!
Incongruity begins to play a part in humor of The Office and why millions of people find it so funny. The setting of everyday America transforms into a center of hilarity and chaos with every new episode. A regular place filled with regular people is put in fairly regular situations like CPR training and 5K run fundraisers, but these characters take things to the extremes and and can be so serious that we find it so funny. Jim often works as the straight man of the group as he points out the strange reactions of many characters and often eggs on characters like Dwight.
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