So here’s a shocker: I’m a huge fan of The Office! And I know it is cliche, but I like Dwight. Like other fans, I watched this show and short clips of it on YouTube so many times. I used to use Michael Scott’s favorite phrase “that’s what she said” a lot in the office, but you know things changed socially, and that I had to stop saying that because some might have thought it is offensive or something!
While The Office was the most-watched show on any streaming service in 2020, there are still people out there that never watched it. There are people that have no idea who Dwight Schrute is. I guess they are living under a rock or something, right? Anyway, I’m not here to judge anyone. If The Office or Dwight is not your thing, then you might not enjoy this pretty damn funny story.
Keep this first part here and we will get back to you later. Now, the second part and the main story is that I started doing quarterly potluck lunch in the office. First, it was just my team, and then other teams were invited too, or as my manager used to say the more the merrier. If it was up to me I wanted to keep it just to my team – I am very territorial! The other team could come up with something, right?
Anyway, I usually booked a bigger conference room and tried to schedule around 10 people’s calendars; it wasn’t easy. I think this story is actually about our last team potluck. We had two big screens in that room and someone came up with this idea to play something off of YouTube. Obviously, you can’t find a show or a video that pleases everyone, but for the most part, everybody loved The Office. So, he played a random episode of The Office on YouTube. I forgot the episode’s name, but it was the episode that ended with Phyllis walking into the Office and catching Dwight and Angela making out. You can see this scene here (play from 6:23). My manager was very religious and that made me worried. I mean, that scene is nothing, but you want to play it safe. People started getting out of other meetings and off the calls and walking into the room. We had different foods on the table, and we were ready to party!
Everyone was so busy eating and asking about new foods, what ingredients are in it, how did you cook it?, etc. We had a colleague working on a different team that joined us that day. She was busy eating and wasn’t paying attention until Phyllis opened the door, caught Dwight in action. In this scene, Dwight looks into the camera and the episode ends. As soon as he looked into the camera, my colleague pointed out to the person who came up with the idea of screening The Office and was sitting across the table from her, and jubilantly shouted “hehehe! You look like him!”
SILENT! And then the room exploded in laughter, except one guy: the new Dwight! In my opinion, he didn’t look like Dwight. Of course, this was before she called him Dwight! He was tall, white, the same hair color and he wore glasses! Then someone, asked her do you even know who Dwight is? And to everyone’s surprise, she said “no! I have never watched this show!!!” another round of laughter. It was hysterical. It was even funnier now that we knew she didn’t know about Dwight’s character. The new Dwight’s face was RED! And he couldn’t say anything. After all, every office has to have a Dwight and we just found ours!
Inherently Funny! 