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Wanna feel old? The Office came out 20 years ago this year, and its series finale on NBC is somehow 12 years in the past. Still, thanks to streaming and syndication, The Office is as popular today as it was then. It truly feels like a timeless series, and no matter how good the reboot, The Paper, is, we’ll keep returning to the Scranton branch of Dunder Mifflin. We might know how the episodes end, but we want to see Jim (John Krasinski) and Pam (Jenna Fischer) fall in love over and over again. We can’t get enough of the self-involved but lonely and well-meaning Michael Scott (Steve Carell) misreading every situation in his life to the cringiest of levels. And Dwight K. Schrute (Rainn Wilson) will never fail to make us laugh, even if we’ve seen him ruin lives because of his own stupidity. The Office is arguably the best sitcom ever made, and no example highlights this more than the first five minutes of the episode “Stress Relief”.