There are countless numbers of different office buildings across the country and each has their own specific purposes and business to participate in. Some offices need highly specialized supplies such as imagesetters and screen platesetters. However, other offices are paper supply companies, and that is the case with fictional company Dunder Mifflin on the Emmy winning program The Office. The Office, as the title suggests, revolves around an office at the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of Dunder Mifflin paper company and the off beat staff that work there. The show was first created in England by a man named Ricky Gervais, who now is a part of the production crew for the American version, and was also a big hit across the sea.

The boss and provincial manager of the Scranton division of Dunder Mifflin is Michael Scott. Michael, played brilliantly by actor Steve Carell, is almost exactly what most people don't want as their boss. Michael tries to be friends with all of his employees, but lacks any kind of social tact or knowledge of what people like. Often a part of cringe worthy humor that's painfully awkward, Michael often unknowingly offends his employees because he is, simply put, kind of stupid.

Another of the crucial characters on the series is Dwight Schrutte. Dwight is the assistant regional manager, a position that Michael refers to as assistant to the regional manager in a long running joke on the show. Dwight is a very strange man and has all kinds of different quirks. For example, Dwight farms beets on a beet farm which he has an obsession with the crop, and has since he was a child. Despite the fact that he is absurdly socially awkward, Dwight is constantly sucking up to Michael and trying to get ahead and the two are essentially best friends on the show.

Dwight's biggest enemy on the show is certainly Jim Halpert. Jim is a very talented, but also very lazy, salesman who constantly picks on and pulls pranks on Dwight because he thinks it is funny. On one Christmas themed episode Jim actually takes Dwight's desk apart and then wraps it up with wrapping paper and puts a bow on it, telling Dwight not to open his desk until Christmas. On a different episode, Dwight comes in to work and his desk is completely missing. Jim then jokes with Dwight that clearly Dwight has misplaced his desk and tells him whether he is getting closer or further away from it when he moves around the office. It turns out that Jim decided to place the desk in the lavatory. In one of the more important stories on the show, Jim is involved in a close friendship at first and then a romance with secretary Pam Beasley.

The Office has won numerous awards based on its accuracy in comparison to what life working at an office is actually like and during its run has been one of the most popular TV shows on the air, and will probably continue to be for at least a few more years before it runs out of steam and eventually goes off the air.