

Think of them as searchlights, illuminating the fact that your "Al Pacino Placing a Complicated Order at Starbucks" routine didn't even elicit a false-kindness smile from your spouse. It will always look worse under those fluorescent office bulbs. It doesn't matter how many of your friends tell you your Bill Cosby or Tony Danza is sublime don't do it. Season 1, Episode 2: Michael Scott recites Chris Rock's most famous bit. Here's a season-by-season breakdown of important lessons to be learned from The Office that will guide you through the perils of cubicle culture. The important thing is to learn from all of it.

Even "the Dwight." The sometimes-brilliant, sometimes-shaky nine seasons of The Office are like any lengthy tenure at a job some years are Season 3 (the year your bonus was enough to buy a café racer) and some are Season 8 (the year they made Skylar your boss). I saw myself as the Jim Halpert of every office I worked in, like everyone does. version of the show debuted in 2005, I was just taking my seat in the adjustable-heighted, ergonomically-designed chair of corporate life. After The Office airs its final episode tonight, it will ascend to heaven, which is just like Scranton but with better restaurants.
