The Office TV Show

Background

The Office was a U.S. sitcom mockumentary spinoff of a U.K. television series of the same name that aired on NBC from 2005 to 2013. The show follows the everyday lives of the workers of a fictional paper company called Dunder Mifflin in Scranton Pennsylvania. To simulate a documentary, the show is filmed with a single camera without a studio audience or laugh track. Throughout the series, the characters engage in behaviors that would lead to termination in a real life office which creates the shows humor. The branches boss, Michael Scott played by Steve Carrell, Engages in most of the humor. He usually engages in behavior that is opposite of what would otherwise be deemed appropriate such as hosting a bachelor party in the office and forcing his employees to participate in different shenanigans. The episode Conflict Resolution originally aired in 2006 in the

In the scene above, Michael is mediating a conflict between two Accountants, Oscar and Angela. Oscar is very conservative. He tends to conduct himself in a very professional manner. He also comes across as well educated and cultured. Angela is also a conservative and a very religious catholic. If I had to describe her in two words, they would be professional women. She speaks very sophisticatedly and tends to dress in very elegant formalwear. She also has a big personality which tends to clash with others in the office. Oscar and Angela are two very different people. Their desks are adjacent to each other which mean that they practically share a workspace. The conflict being discussed is about a poster Angela is trying to hang by her desk of babies dressed up as adults. Oscar finds this poster offensive and demands Angela to take it down but she refuses. The conflict turns into a fight and Michael ends up taking control of the situation and comes up with the ridiculous compromise of having Oscar turn the poster into a shirt that he wears so that he can’t see it but Angela can when she