The Office: Like Life, Except Funnier.

As most of the internet already knows, today at 9:00 or something, THE OFFICE is coming back for the first time since the writers' strike. If you haven't ever seen THE OFFICE, then you are missing out. If you've never heard of THE OFFICE, then you probably don't know anyone younger than 30 years old, since this is the official show of college students and recent grads and everyone who watches the show likes to talk about it and how smart it is. Sometimes these people will just say things like, "Remember how awesome THE OFFICE is?" (I include myself in this group.)

THE OFFICE follows the adventures and mishaps of the employees of Dunder-Mifflin, a fictional paper distributer, as they deal with such hilarities as, diversity training, corporate mandated lay-offs, and consumer debt. Apparently, THE OFFICE is exactly like real life except funnier. Most of the people who tell me this have never actually worked in a setting like the one portrayed on the show, but this assertion is still generally accepted as true.

Incidentally, if you do a Google image search for real life (as in: real life except funnier) this is one of the first images that comes up...