With the exciting Bustle news that Lego’s latest 1,164-piece The Office set is all set to release on October 1, 2022, fans of the hit show can now channel their creativity to build their very own Scranton office. Developed by Greg Daniels, the critically acclaimed workplace mockumentary ran for nine seasons from 2005 to 2013, and it boasts an enduring appeal.
Besides The Office‘s impressively relatable core characters like Jim Halpert and Pam Beesly, its supporting cast members are equally adored by the fans. Characters such as Kelly Kapoor, Angela Martin, and Ryan Howard played crucial roles in the show, and here are some accurate memes in their honor.
Ryan Howard: The Trickster
Ryan Howard joined Scranton as a temp in the show’s pilot episode. Arrogance, impatience, and debauchery were his defining traits, and he found his personality twin in the deviant quality assurance manager – Creed Bratton.
Season 3’s finale, “The Job,” reveals that Creed had asked Ryan to set up a blog, and the latter had instead created a Word document because he wanted to protect the readers from exposure to Creed’s thoughts. This meme accurately summarizes Ryan’s reaction to reading Creed’s writing. He described it as “shocking, even for the internet,” and being the trickster that he was, he came up with the brilliant idea of setting up a Word document with a fake web address at the top.
Creed Bratton: Riddle Wrapped In A Mystery
The Office‘s Creed Bratton has numerous best quotes to his credit, but none explain his mysterious character more than the one that appears in the meme above. The humor is derived from the fact that the broody and highly eccentric Creed has the audacity to say Pam Beesly is the “office weirdo.”
Creed’s stint on The Office includes shocking instances of running a fake I.D business, admitting to being in several cults, and stealing a blood bag from a bloodmobile. His sketchy activities and bizarre claims scared the heck out of his co-workers, and he was true to his enigmatic self until the show’s very end.
Meredith Palmer: The Oddball
Creed and Meredith Palmer are neck and neck for the title of the worst employee in The Office. Whilst Creed popped up in a blood-covered shirt on Halloween and took a flat ball out of a toy box, Meredith was more of an inappropriate coworker. She’d often overstep her boundaries, and a few of her improper acts include getting drunk at office parties and getting drunk from Angela’s hand sanitizer.
This meme perfectly encapsulates the fact that Meredith was Dunder Mifflin’s oddball staffer. Even though the ladies of Scranton – Pam, Angela, and Phyllis didn’t get along well with each other, they still had the bare minimum civility that Meredith badly lacked.
Kelly Kapoor: The Tactless Chatterbox
Scranton’s customer service representative, Kelly Rajanigandha Kapoor, was a chatty woman. She had a strong tendency to unnecessarily drag conversations and spoke aimlessly about famous people or things that specifically interested her.
Kelly once went on and on about celebrity couples like Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes and Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie having babies. She was the show’s compulsive talker, and this meme accurately sums up that fact about her. Kelly says the words, “how dare you?” to her on-again-off-again boyfriend, Ryan in “Night Out,” after the latter is promoted to a corporate executive. She yells the words out loud in the conference room, knowing very well there is a time and place to solve personal problems.
Jan Levinson: The Self-Centered Egotist
Though Jan started off as the no-nonsense Vice President of Northeast Sales, soon, her arc revealed her to be an unruly and insufferable person.
Jan underwent dramatic changes throughout The Office, and eventually devolved into a chaotic, passive-aggressive woman. Her most shocking acts include explicitly asking Michael to act as per her whims and showing up with breast implants to convince him to stay with her. Using Jan’s concealed aggression expression still from “The Dinner Party,” this meme points out how utterly dysfunctional she was as a partner and a person.
Stanley Hudson: Pretzel Day Fan
Season 3’s “Initiation” reveals that Stanley excitedly looks forward to Pretzel Day held at the Scranton Business Park. The premise is that once a year, a pretzel vendor comes with an oven and gives away free pretzels to every person who works in the building and waits in line.
The grumpy Stanley says Pretzel day is his time to feel alive and happy. He rushes out of the office to patiently wait in the line for his turn and boos anyone who tries to cut in. This meme simply sums up the fact that Pretzels make Stanley happy and really does bring that rare smile to his face.
Angela Martin: Cat Fancier
Angela Martin was a cat fancier and had many pet cats of her own. Season 5’s “Stress Relief” revealed that she also hid a stray cat named Bandit in a desk drawer without the knowledge of her coworkers.
Angela tried to rescue Bandit when the office thought there was a fire by tossing it into the ceiling and yelling at Oscar to catch it. Bandit just came crashing down the ceiling, and amidst all the chaos, people forgot to address that Angela had committed a major breach. This meme has immortalized Angela’s cat obsession using a creative, artful fictionalized movie poster showcasing the boss Michael Scott, accountant Oscar Martinez, and sales rep Dwight Schrute.
Kevin Malone: The Messy Co-Worker
Part of Dunder Mifflin Scranton’s accounting department, Kevin Malone spoke without tact and had unsatisfactory standards of personal hygiene. Kevin’s grossest acts on The Office include his spilling his ginormous chili pot all over the reception area and wearing tissue boxes on his feet.
This meme succinctly points out the fact that Kevin was the most disorganized and grossest character in the show. He once made himself a salad using a shredder, and his office desk was a mess of files, supplies, and some such.
Karen Filippelli: The Rebound
Jim and the Stamford branch sales representative, Karen Filippelli transferred to Scranton in season 3 and dated for a short while. It was his longest relationship after the purse salesperson, Katy Moore, and one he wouldn’t categorize more than a “rebound.”
In “A Benihana Christmas,” Jim admitted his rebound with Karen was fun, but his heart was still yearning to be with the office receptionist, Pam. Jim and Karen’s relationship ended in season 3’s finale, “The Job” and at the episode’s end, he left his interview in New York to ask Pam out on a date. Using the “the distracted boyfriend” meme template, this meme accurately represents the fact that dating Karen was no more than a distraction in Jim’s life, and when that was over, he was left thinking about the woman he’d loved for a long while.