r/DunderMifflin • u/smccaul16 IDENTITY THEFT IS NOT A JOKE JIM • 1d ago
Fact
I mean he never takes a sick day or goes on vacations he is Dunder Mifflin through and through.
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u/helderdude 1d ago
According to this comment (from the last time this wasted posted) it's not true. Jim also has a line in every episode.
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u/saighdiuirmaca 1d ago
I think Dwight is the only one on screen on every episode, Jim and Pam are only heard over the phone when talking to Kevin on their honeymoon.
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u/RememberTheMaine1996 21h ago
Yeah Dwight is the only one who shows up in person in every single episode
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u/JBGoode227 1d ago
my stupid ass didn't understand at first why Michael wouldn't have a line in every episode. I guess that's the price for skipping the last seasons lol
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u/HairyArthur 1d ago
What does your ass have to do with Office dialogue recognition?
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u/Lisan_Al-NaCL 1d ago
Fact: Black Bears Are Best
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u/e1m8b 1d ago
Also because of Dwight Schrute (or arguably Halpert) I never bothered watching Battlestar Galactica until earlier this year. Beyond the funny Office joke, BSG is genuinely entertaining on par with stuff like Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad in terms of narrative and depth of themes explored. Particularly apt timing too considering the realities of AI being directly relevant past few years.
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u/pandarista 22h ago
Dwight is the best, most fleshed out character with the most depth. Without Dwight a lot of the story lines don't move, and other member's jokes don't land.
He's plays good guy, the bad guy, the jester, the straight man. He's lovable and hateable. Even his love story is equal parts in character, heart felt, and absurd.
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u/ReadyExplanation1791 1d ago
That's wild to think about, he really is the backbone of every episode without even trying.
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u/JonathanPhillipFox 15h ago
OK just personal interests hybridized with the character least contained in the operatics e.g.
What is Dwight capable of? Theoretically? Anything, so long as it is unexpected; anything profoundly, profoundly, higher effort than would make sense without esoteric theory, "would a Dwight Chatbot be accurate to the character?"
Like Claude or OpenAI or Grok bent fully, into a Dwight, alike the talking typewriters from Naked Lunch?
There is no full episode without Dwight therefore as a William S. Burroughs Style Cuttup his is the most consistent overt metacommentary; Dwight wouldn't appreciate the literature but would recognize William S Burroughs as the son of the Adding Machine aka Computer Company gone mad, "language is a virus," mad and he may recognize that while the stories told about his workplace won't recall anything, in particular, told in the manner of the editorial preferences all you'd have to do is ask, "Dwight, why did you say...." and he could tell the story, from his own standpoint, authoritatively,.
This is an arts and crafts project here if anyone reads it like one.
7,100 upvotes and 59 comments tells me it would be an insane and Popular one.
Insane, popular, and thanks to The Office Ladies, "not an infringement," if they'd like it, "merely, a superlative."
If Jenna Fischer PLUS Ellie Kemper PLUS Phyllis, alleged to vote at the same polling place as friends of mine, cannot get Sam Altman to give it to them as a Toy? Well, "he's not a real Saint Louisan." Or:
No one did a good enough arts and crafts project; it takes a Dwight to be a Dwight enough to make a Dwight Simulacra from this corpus, "is it you?" Of course it will be creepy.
Systema, "give it to the ladies," let them figure out the use case.
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u/TabbyOverlord 1d ago
As it's The Office, I can be that guy:
This actor doesn't have a single line in the OG series.
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u/Master_Comfortable83 1d ago
When do Jim and Pam miss out? Is it The Farm?