Fun fact about me, I love, love, love The Office.  My always craze and obsession includes binge watching The Office 24/7, and I am not embarrassed one bit to reveal my love for this show. I have already watched all seasons like 5 times. Every episode makes me uncontrollably giggle and one episode a night turns into half a season every day.  I never get tired of it. I am The Office expert. I know all the quotes, I hum the theme song to myself on multiple occasions, I have The Office sweatshirt, basically I am The Office Queen! I will take my crown and medal made out of a yogurt lid now (if you get that Office reference, then you’re going to really enjoy the rest of this article). I just love this show so very much. I’ve simply come up with my ten reasons why I absolutely love The Office. It’s safe to say The Office is without a doubt, by favorite show in the history of forever. Let’s start this list!

1. The Characters

Oh my stars and garters, these are some colorful characters. They’re absurd, goofy, hilarious, sweet, disagreeable, selfish, and marvelous. Each character is so irrationally distinct from the others, with powerful, yet entertaining back stories. Some characters have fabulous evolution throughout the show, some don’t (which makes sense for those characters). More than anything, these characters are relatable and I believe we all know at least one Kelly or Dwight or even a Michael. These characters are some of the most hilarious and naturalist I’ve seen on a show. I just love them all to bits, except you Creed, you creep me out.

2. The Running Jokes

There are so many long-lasting jokes in the show, like the one above, where Micheal ridicules Toby over and over again. Poor, Toby, he just needed a win and he never really got it. Or that Ryan was the “fire guy” since he nearly burnt down the whole office cooking up a cheesy pita. Of Andy calling Jim “Tuna” just because he ate a tuna sandwich on his first day. There’s so many and they’re all so funny and they show up in several seasons and connect back together and it makes you think of how much or how little that particular character has grown. Or it makes you realize how one of a kind this show is and soon their inside jokes become yours and you feel like you’re a part of The Office too.

3. The Romances

Oh, the romances of The Office. They make me grin, they make me cry, and sometimes even make me ask that what is love? There’s for sure, Jim and Pam, which make me faint every time I re-watch The Office and fall in love with their relationship all over again. They are the #goals. Then there is Michael and Holly, which is just weird, but also charming and ugh, his engagement to her had me in full on messy crying style. There’s even Dwight in Angela in all their weird beauty, eventually, have their happy ending and start a family. All these romances are just so genuine and graceful and persuade us that everyone has a soulmate, even Dwight.

4. The Normalcy

These characters are so normal! They watch TV for 14 hours, me too Kevin! They keep snacks at their desk, me too Kevin! When you eat a taco and you get really excited and you crush the taco in your hands, me too Kevin! Or when you want to do something nice for your co-workers so you make your world famous chili, but you spill it all over the floor. If I knew how to make chili, I’d be right there in the same boat as you, Kevin. Okay, maybe I relate a lot to Kevin because he’s a pretty normal guy who just loves to eat and always has snacks. We should all be more like Kevin.

5. The Crazy

Y’all these folks are insane. Andy has rage control problems (which is a serious problem.) Creed is probably a murderer, ex-cult leader, and he sometimes sells fake IDs and drugs? Dwight does crazy karate moves around the office and continually feels the necessity to support his dominance over others. Angela is crazy critical and judgmental. Michael has the mind of 10-year-old boy most days. Kelly is erratic on a good day. Meredith has a drinking problem (which is a serious problem, if you suffer from this, please seek professional help)and a weird need to flash the camera almost every season. They are all a little off their rocker in some shape or form, but that’s what makes them more realistic and relatable.

6. The Holiday Episodes

I think holiday episodes of any show are my favorites because I love holidays. Halloween episode? Yes, please. Christmas episode? Don’t mind if I do. The Office holiday episodes are some of the best! Every year there’s usually a Halloween party where everyone dresses up in relevant to that year costumes. Or if you’re like Jim, you put in the smallest effort and you put 3 circles on your shirt and call yourself “3 hole punch Jim”. Oh, and the Christmas episodes are wild. Phyllis and Angela are always fighting about planning the holiday party, Meredith gets white girl wasted, people use the holiday party as an excuse to confess feelings for others, it’s all a wild ride. And I love it!

7. Michael Gary Scott

The man, the myth, the legend. This man has absolutely no sense and is hilarious. I would totally read his book Somehow I Manage. I would love to see his movie Threat Level Midnight in theaters. Michael has the very best intentions with everything he does and everyone he meets. He just wants friends and inside jokes and to one day have a wife and kids and his own family cell phone plan. He just happens to sometimes hit people with his car and promise elementary children to pay for their college tuition and then try to back out of it years later. He’s a regular, every day person, like me and you, but like 1000% funnier.

8. The Pranks

The pranks are so good! Stapler in jello? Yes, solid gold prank. Convince Dwight is getting faxes from future Dwight? Love it. Dress up like Dwight and pretend to be him? 10/10 would watch this prank again. The pranks are a part of the humor of the show but also the main driving force between Dwight and Jim’s relationship. Jim can’t stand Dwight’s “holier than thou” attitude, so he pranks him. But over the years, not matter how funny those pranks were or how mad they made Dwight, a true friendship developed between Jim and Dwight and I love it. The pranks are Jim’s way of keeping Dwight level headed and sometimes Dwight even pranks Jim and it’s amazing.

9. Diversity

When you think of The Office, the first word that comes to mind probably isn’t diversity. But this show is actually pretty diverse. There’s Daryl a black man, whose a single father, and agrees to star in Michael’s Threat Level Midnight movie to show his daughter a black man in the role of the President of the United States (this was pre-Obama). There’s Oscar who is Latino and gay, who runs the finance department and has the best vogue moves this side of Scranton, PA. There’s Kelly who is an Indian woman. She runs her own department and voices her opinions on everything from Twilight to Brangelina loud and proud. There’s Stanley, a black man who is a top seller at Dunder Mifflin and doesn’t put up with Michael or anyone else’s crap. And there’s Jan, a strong woman who is Michael’s boss. It may not seem like a lot in a cast who is predominantly white, but every diverse character counts.

10. The Story Lines

Oh, the story lines, such good story lines, some of which I was not sure how they would end. Like, Dwight and Angela had been so on again and off again for so long that once she married the Senator, I thought she was done with Dwight. Of course, she wasn’t, because you can’t stop true, weird love. But their whole relationship developing, de-evolving, developing again over the years was a great story line. Or like Andy. Andy started out some what angry and spiteful, but cheerful none the less. I didn’t foresee him running away on his parents boat to the Bahamas, abandoning Erin, and quitting his job to become a full time actor and signer, but overall good story line even if the ending kind of perplexed me a bit. A lot of the characters on the show were also writers for the show so the story lines always stayed good and light hearted and overall made sense for the character.

Those are my top 10 reasons to love The Office! Do you love The Office? If so, what do you love about the show? Let me know in the comments below!