Even though the show wouldn’t air for months, everyone kind of felt like, there’s no way this ever works,” he recalled.
“There was a moment when we were shooting the last episode, where the cast was sort of huddled outside, and everyone was a little bit glum because it was our last week of shooting. Michael Schur, a writer on that first season who would go on to create some very successful TV shows of his own, summed up the mood of impending doom well when I interviewed him for a 2018 podcast. Despite a surprisingly large audience for its premiere - 11.2 million people - 57 percent had lost interest by the finale. Of the 156 shows on broadcast networks that TV season, The Office landed at 102 in total viewership. When The Office reached the end of its six-episode first season on NBC in 2005, nobody thought there would be more. It’s comedy gold.Part of the July Issue of The Highlight, our home for ambitious stories that explain our world. At times, it’s excruciating to watch, but you can’t look away. Jim sums things up perfectly when he says, “Michael and Jan seem to be playing their own separate game and it’s called ‘Let’s see how uncomfortable we can make our guests’ and they’re both winning.” The performances of Steve Carell and Melora Hardin (as Jan Levinson) are award-worthy in an episode whose twists and turns are fantastic. “Dinner Party” also pushes the boundaries of how “The Office” could make you feel uncomfortable, even when you can’t stop laughing. As you can imagine, it wasn’t an easy sell – removing the main characters from the office and excluding most of the supporting cast from the episode (save for the cold open) entirely.
“Dinner Party” is unlike any other episode of “The Office,” so much in fact that it requires its own (amazing) oral history. The greatest episode of “The Office,” quite possibly the best episode of comedic television that’s ever existed and the peak of cringe comedy TV shows.
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