History Series / TheOfficeUs

* DarkerAndEdgier: Not even this show is safe from this trope! While it's still a lighthearted, comedic, optimistic, and upbeat series, and overall still lighter than its British counterpart (Season 1's darker tone can be owed to EarlyInstallmentWeirdness), the show starts becoming more darker and serious in its own way around season 4, and up to season 7, considering there is a legitmate boost in parental concerns, more genuinely emotional moments, more tensions between characters (often between Michael and the Dunder Mifflin employees, the Dunder Mifflin employees and each other, and/or Michael and an outside party: however the last of these is generally PlayedForLaughs considering Michael's stupidity, though it still does leave a lasting negative impact on either Michael and/or the Dunder Mifflin employees), heavier themes, lesser jokes (to an extent), and the show overall becomes more story focused. Oh, and need we mention, the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyyFast Scranton Strangler]] first starts coming into play around Season 6? However, on the other hand, the color palette becomes progressively more brighter and saturated as each season progresses, and Seasons 8 and 9 become lighter and much less drama-heavy again.

** Seasons 8 and 9 become this to Seasons 4 to 7. It returns to the more lighter and peppy vibe the first three seasons had after te more serious fourth to seventh seasons.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Not even this show is safe from this trope! While it's still a lighthearted, comedic, and upbeat series, and overall still lighter than its British counterpart (Season 1's darker tone can be owed to EarlyInstallmentWeirdness), the show starts becoming more darker and serious in its own way around season 4, and up to season 7, considering there is a legitmate boost in parental concerns, more emotional moments, more tensions between characters (often between Michael and the Dunder Mifflin employees, the Dunder Mifflin employees and each other, and/or Michael and an outside party), and the show overall becomes more story focused. However, the final two seasons ''do'' become lighter again.

* LighterAndSofter: It's generally lighter than the UK version--everyone is somewhat jaded, but to a reasonable degree, and there's comedy outside of [[CringeComedy the uncomfortable kind]], which is a big contrast to the UK version and its sense of gnawing despair and complete lack of warmth between the employees. This isn't to say the US version is all sunshine and rainbows, however. Season 4's "Dinner Party" and its depiction of Michael and Jan's broken and emotionally abusive relationship was notoriously dark for US network TV.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Not even this show is safe from this trope! While it's still a lighthearted, comedic, and upbeat series, and overall still lighter than its British counterpart (Season 1's darker tone can be owed to EarlyInstallmentWeirdness), the show starts becoming more darker and serious in its own way around season 4, and up to season 7, considering there is a legitmate boost in AdultFear, more emotional moments, more tensions between characters (often between Michael and the Dunder Mifflin employees, the Dunder Mifflin employees and each other, and/or Michael and an outside party), and the show overall becomes more story focused. However, the final two seasons ''do'' become lighter again.

[[caption-width-right:350:''"An office is a place to... live life to the fullest. To the max. To... an office is a place where dreams come true."''[[note]] Left to right: [[KnowNothingKnowItAll Ryan Howard]], [[GirlNextDoor Pam Beesly]], [[OnlySaneMan Jim Halpert]], [[TheFriendNobodyLikes Dwight Schrute]], [[ManChild Michael Scott]].[[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:''"An office is a place to... live life to the fullest. To the max. To... an office is a place where dreams come true." [[note]] Left to right: [[KnowNothingKnowItAll Ryan Howard]], [[GirlNextDoor Pam Beesly]], [[OnlySaneMan Jim Halpert]], [[TheFriendNobodyLikes Dwight Schrute]], [[ManChild Michael Scott]].[[/note]]]]

** Meredith is found to have contracted rabies twice. Rabies was believed to be 100% fatal at the time the show aired. This could now fall under AluminumChristmasTrees, as there are now at least 30 known survivors of rabies. It's still around 99% fatal, though, so Meredith surviving rabies wouldn't be impossible but would be a much bigger deal.

** Meredith is found to have contracted rabies twice. Rabies is 100% fatal.

* DugInDeeper: In "Benjamin Franklin", Michael notices that his acronym for "Guys' Afternoon In" spells "gay" (sort of). Each attempt to rephrase makes it sound even more gay.

* UnEntendre: From Michael and Dwight, of all people
--> '''Michael''' (carrying a plate of steaks): Who wants some man meat!\\
'''Dwight''': I do! I want some man meat!

Now has a [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/crowner.php/BestEpisode/TheOffice Best Episode crowner page]].

* AmbiguousDisorder: Michael doesn't seem to recognize appropriate social behavior and obsesses with single issues. Dwight is easily distracted on random topics and turns minor issues into SeriousBusiness. Both also have [[IdiotSavant exceptional skills despite these behavioral traits]]. Kevin also talks in very simple tones and has a somewhat childlike demeanor, Holly was lead to think he was actually mentally retarded by Dwight and believed so for months with little to contradict that. Pam, Jim, Toby and Stanley could all be suffering from varying levels of depression. Kelly is very hyperactive and immature, while Ryan seems to have had a complete breakdown following his sudden promotion, drug abusing lifestyle and subsequent fall.

** In one season 6 episode, Erin accidentally destroyed Pam's watercolor painting of the building when she was trying to be helpful and clean it. This subplot was written out of the episode (though left in the description thereof) and the painting was back by the end of the season, despite having been replaced with a poster for some time.

** Michael believes 47+9=53...after he goes through it on paper.

** Every time a RomanticFalseLead is introduced for Jim or Pam following season 4 on, nothing ever comes of it. This included the character of Cathy, who hit on Jim in one episode after a season of hanging out in the background and then was PutOnABus, and Brian the boom mic guy, who appeared to have been in love with Pam for years only for nothing to happen. The character of Jordan was originally meant to be another RomanticFalseLead, but not only did she disappear after three episodes, most of her scenes ended up being cut from the episodes in question.

* StarCrossedLovers

* PositiveDiscrimination: Plenty of examples. Michael especially, when his trying too hard doesn't simply fail, it usually ends up here. For example, when Oscar was accidentally outed by him, he tried to prove he was comfortable with gay people by pulling up gay porn at work and kissing Oscar.

** '''Michael''' sexually and verbally harasses his employees (and refuses to stop, usually targeting Ryan, Pam, Oscar, Karen, Phyllis, Angela, and Stanley via the photo of his daughter) and put them in physical danger, and almost never actually works. Hitting Meredith with his car should have resulted in a charge of criminal negligence, if nothing else. During a game of "Who'd You Do?", he stated that "I would have sex with Ryan" because he was so good at business. He had sex with Holly (and, earlier, with Jan) on company property after work hours and forgot to lock the doors, allowing thieves to steal most of everyone's work property. He has kidnapped a pizza delivery boy, knocked a ladder out from under another employee, causing him serious injury, forced a kiss on a gay employee when trying to convince the rest of the office [[PositiveDiscrimination to be accepting]], he emailed a sexually explicit photo of his superior to everyone in the local branch (albeit accidentally, he meant only to send it to his buddy, Todd), and attempted to get Toby ''sent to prison''. He seems to wreck Stanley's car numerous times for unknown reasons. And all that was BEFORE he lost new business leads that Sabre (which is a much more serious and successful company than Dunder Mifflin) spent $50,000 on in a failed attempt to get his sales staff to stop acting up, with no later reference to it from corporate. Is a complete douchebag to everyone in the office (except Erin), especially Toby.

* GratuitousFrench: When tagging along to the Winnipeg business trip, Andy brushes up on his French which he practices profusely before leaving. There is virtually no one in Winnipeg who actually speaks French, most of the French-speaking Canadian population being concentrated in the eastern portion of Canada.

* OfficeSports: A whole [[UpToEleven Olympics]] in fact.

* SmellyFeetGag: Kevin. At Jim and Pam's wedding, he leaves his shoes outside his room to be waxed but their smell overpowers the employee in charge of this service. [[UpToEleven So the hotel has them destroyed.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"An office is a place to... live life to the fullest. To the max. To... an office is a place where dreams come true." [[note]] Left to right: Ryan Howard, Pam Beesly, Jim Halpert, [[TheFriendNobodyLikes Dwight Schrute]], [[ManChild Michael Scott]].[[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:''"An office is a place to... live life to the fullest. To the max. To... an office is a place where dreams come true." [[note]] Left to right: Ryan Howard, Pam Beesly, Jim Halpert, Dwight Schrute, [[ManChild Michael Scott]].[[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:''"An office is a place to... live life to the fullest. To the max. To... an office is a place where dreams come true." [[note]] Left to right: Ryan Howard, Pam Beesly, Jim Halpert, Dwight Schrute, Michael Scott.[[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:''"An office is a place to... live life to the fullest. To the max. To... an office is a place where dreams come true." [[note]] Left to right, Ryan Howard, Pam Beesly, Jim Halpert, Dwight Schrute, Michael Scott.[[/note]]]]

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** Spoofed in [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/the-office-ends-as-documentary-crew-gets-all-the-f,6988/ this article]] in ''Website/TheOnion'': "Sheffield said that the footage will be drastically cut down and used primarily as B-roll for the planned 90-minute educational film about paper manufacture and production."