{"id":652,"date":"2013-05-16T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2013\/05\/16\/the-office-clocks-out\/"},"modified":"2013-05-16T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T17:45:00","slug":"the-office-clocks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2013\/05\/16\/the-office-clocks-out\/","title":{"rendered":"The Office clocks out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After an impressive nine-season run (a rarity for modern scripted sitcoms), NBC&#8217;s surprise hit <i>The Office<\/i> will close shop tonight at 9pm. For a sitcom with an inauspicious start as a sure-to-fail remake of a British TV classic, <i>The Office<\/i> became a staple of Thursday night television for the last decade. The audience&#8217;s interest in Dunder Mifflin&#8217;s unhinged work ethic and Jim Halpert and Pam Beesley&#8217;s ultimate will-they-won&#8217;t-they relationship kept the show a mainstay of American popular culture and dorm room posters. The success of <i>The Office<\/i> can be seen as one of the biggest factors behind the rise of the single-camera sitcom and the &#8220;mockumentary&#8221; format aped by <i>Parks and Recreation<\/i> and <i>Modern Family<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Though the past few years have unarguably been weaker, in part because of the departures of Steve Carell and early showrunner Greg Daniels, the show looks to close out on a high note that pays reverence to its long history and ensemble cast. Pop culture website HitFix put together <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hitfix.com\/whats-alan-watching\/the-office-a-look-back-at-a-brilliant-volatile-comedy-mix\">a great article about how <i>The Office<\/i> beat the odds<\/a> and weathered a few sparse years; it&#8217;s worth a read before Scranton Business Park hits the lights one final time.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to catch up on <i>The Office<\/i>, we have the first seven seasons on our shelves, as well as the British series.<\/p>\n<p>The Office: Season 1 \u2013 HU DVD 4011<br \/>The Office: Season 2 \u2013 HU DVD 4012 &#8211; 4015<br \/>The Office: Season 3 \u2013 HU DVD 4016 &#8211; 4019<br \/>The Office: Season 4 \u2013 HU DVD 4020 &#8211; 4023<br \/>The Office: Season 5 \u2013 HU DVD 4024 &#8211; 4028<br \/>The Office: Season 6 \u2013 HU DVD 4029 &#8211; 4033<br \/>The Office: Season 7 \u2013 HU DVD 4034 &#8211; 4038<br \/>The Office: Series 1 (UK) \u2013 HU DVD 8581 &#8211; 8582<br \/>The Office: Series 2 (UK) \u2013 HU DVD 8583<br \/>The Office: The Special (UK) \u2013 HU DVD 8584\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After an impressive nine-season run (a rarity for modern scripted sitcoms), NBC&#8217;s surprise hit The Office will close shop tonight at 9pm. For a sitcom with an inauspicious start as a sure-to-fail remake of a British TV classic, The Office became a staple of Thursday night television for the last decade. The audience&#8217;s interest in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[290,355],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-related-movies","tag-timely-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}