The Office's Best Storyline Deserved To Be Longer

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In the fifth season of The Office, after feeling ignored and underappreciated by his corporate overlords, Michael Scott left Dunder Mifflin to start his own paper company. He recruited Pam and Ryan to round out his sales team, moved into a tiny office space downstairs from Dunder Mifflin, and started poaching their business. The Michael Scott Paper Company quickly became a fan-favorite storyline, but it was wrapped up in just four episodes. The Michael Scott Paper Company arc radically altered the character dynamics of The Office and shook up the show’s formula just as it was starting to become stale. Loyalties were tested as the two paper suppliers went to war with one another. This premise was juicy enough to be stretched out into a full season-long arc, but the show only touched on the conflicts that arose briefly and everything went back to normal a couple of episodes later.

The notion of the Michael Scott Paper Company first came about in the episode “Two Weeks.” After handing in his two weeks’ notice and running out the clock at Dunder Mifflin, Michael came to the alarming realization that finding a new job wouldn’t be so easy in the midst of a trying economic climate, so he decided to create his own job by starting his own company. At the end of the episode, Michael was joined by Pam – who was sick of being a receptionist and wanted to work in sales – and the Michael Scott Paper Company was born.

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In “Dream Team,” Michael and Pam set out to assemble a crack sales team, ended up with just Ryan, and leased a cozy office space underneath Dunder Mifflin’s men’s room. In “Michael Scott Paper Company,” they hosted a pancake luncheon in the parking lot and scored their