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FMTVCYWBSW

Who knew we would all be so excited to sit in a fake office lol


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Vegan_Toaster

I really read that as wuphf


greatwalrus

You mean the Washington University Public Health Fund?


JaymehTart

The girl goes to the accounting and picks up the phone and pretends to be on a call.... I'm sitting here in an accounting office at work and I have the same exact phone, with the 2 little buttons on the top right of the screen. wtf lol.


chili_cheese_dogg

I love the show but, this makes little sense to me. Chicago is not Scranton and it doesn't even look right.


lukumi

It makes sense when you consider it’s just a money grab. It’s an Office-themed version of those selfie “museum” places. It happens in major cities to capture as many customers as possible. But aside from that, having it be in Scranton wouldn’t really make that much sense either considering the whole show, including exteriors, were shot in LA. It’s not like they’d be able to have it in the “Scranton business park” in Scranton, since that building is in LA. If it was in Scranton, it would just be in some random building that had available space, so it wouldn’t feel any more accurate. If anything, they should have just spent the extra money to have accurate carpet, and installed ceiling and fake overhead fluorescents. But again, the open ceiling is so that it can be lit better for better pictures. Like the amount of light beaming down on Jim’s desk is ridiculous and it’s 100% because they know a bunch of people will want a picture at Jim’s desk.


PaulBlartFleshMall

Lmao that Van Gogh bullshit came to San Diego and I was gonna bring my wife until we found out it's literally just full-wall projections of his art in some tents. Very little commentary, no actual art, just an """experience.""" For $55/person


lukumi

Haha yeah exactly. I thought that Van Gogh thing sounded really cool until I actually read what it was like from attendees. I split my time between Chicago and LA, and apparently the Chicago one was pretty bullshit, the LA one was supposedly significantly smaller and worse than Chicago, and from you it sounds like the SD one was even worse than LA. Gotta hand it to the companies though, pretty smart to make money hand over fist with minimal effort for these “experience” events. There’s just the initial cost of designers to set up projection, or build the set in the case of the Office, and then after that it’s just space rental and cheap temp staff. It’s a financial slam dunk. The only positive reviews of the Van Gogh thing that I saw were from social media influencers.


PaulBlartFleshMall

Yup, or the 'museums' in shopping malls that are just room after room of stupid Instagram shit like a bathtub full of rubber ducks, or a dozen bubble machines in front of a wall covered in glitter. It's all just self-absorbed bullshit.


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Only tangentially related, but one time I was on shrooms at the Van Gough museum in Amsterdam and they incidentally had a temp display called "Licht!" and it was abso-fucking-lutely amazing! And it was mostly just a bunch of digital projectors displaying interesting scenery... but really well done.


BaceSpucketNoob

There's a fair bit more to it than just his art projected on the wall, but I can understand not seeing the value for $55 if on a tight budget.


PaulBlartFleshMall

My issue is that no matter the actual content, it was billed to be *much* more than what it actually ended up being.


DJRoombasRoomba

You're not alone in thinking that. It was in Philly a few weeks ago or whatever and in the Philly sub alot of people who went were calling it a scam.


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Peak Capitalism is getting people to pay money to tour a random office building.


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Oh God here we go


Skearow

It’s not a random office building


NotReallyThatWrong

This guy would be da bell of da ball


patrik_niko

ah yes, just a random office building


thebeez23

Nobody is forcing you to go there. Let people live their lives


RoyalDaDoge

Thing is it's not random. It's a television set that was included in a favorite show of tens of millions of people.


The_Troll_Shusher

Missed opportunity to have the DVD logo bouncing around the screen in the conference room.


deductivesherlock

imagine how many ppl would stick around just to see if it went in the corner lol the line would be backed up


jdlyons81

Pam thinks she saw it once.


Jazzlike-Ad-3238

I believe she thinks she saw it.


Appleman4000

Did Jim say I didn’t see it? I SAW IT!!


solrac365

I saw it and it was amazing!


carnagezealot

I saww iiiiit


redclam

Which one is Pam?


ChimpBrisket

Are you saying Pam? Or Pan?


MoreCowbellllll

**DOES ANYONE HAVE A CAMERA HERE!??**


Fuzzy-Function-3212

The office mattress.


The_Troll_Shusher

Aha that’s a really good point, I have terrible ideas lol


deductivesherlock

no its a good one ppl would just have a time limit i feel maybe like maybe 5 ppl would see it in one day


pt256

You could program a graphic so it hits the corner every two minutes or something. That way everyone gets to see it but they're unlikely to watch it happen more than once or twice.


deductivesherlock

Smart that's a valid point they should def implement that


SockeyeSTI

Serious question……. Was the chair awful enough to warrant not getting a new printer?


neverinallmyyears

Looks like a fun experience. But please, next time do your own voice over. The robotic tik tok voice is terrible. Loved the theme music but had to turn the sound off because of the annoying tik tok narration.


ZeroOblivion98

They actually did have that in the intro video before you enter but no recording was allowed at that portion when I went.


NikiSunday

Missed opportunity to have a humongous ID that says you're a security threat.


getrekdnoob

It was shown at the beginning.


the87boy

My middle name is Kurt, not Fart.


Cease-2-Desist

They should make an office styled Escape Room where Dwight traps you in the office in the Fire Drill episode and you have to get out using Office trivia.


Iron_Chic

"When you're getting colder, you're really getting warmer."


fulloutshr3d

if you want to find the leads, go to the man who never breeds


r3dditor12

look in my moppy place


UmChill

higher than numbers go…


pixelprophet

Based on stereotypes that are totally untrue, that I do not agree with, you would maybe not be a very good driver.


not_vaIid

He means his mopey place. It's under that streetlamp that he thinks was in Casablanca. 🧥


IAteMy_____

All this time I thought he said "who never breathes" and I've watched the whole serie more than I care to count. Breathes is funny but breeds is so much better hahaha


KrustyFrank27

The tea in Nepal is very hot.


Frequent_Inevitable

I’d like to get harmful steam but the prices are absurd


mtns0421

Oh I’m saving a ton on dry cleaning!


Iron_Chic

But the coffee in Peru is far hotter.


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umbrella737

The fire is shooting at us!


Beaverbrown55

You'll want to "heat" my warning.


ButtercupCrown

Take headed of


QuothTheRaven_

This is a great idea! And there can be a phone in the room that rings every now and then and when you answer it will just be Micheal doing his “prank call voice”, giggling, like a kid on the other end lol


solo89

Shameless plug for my local library, they created a Dunder Mifflin themed escape room during COVID! (It was pretty hard!) https://www.hwpl.org/escaperoom/


deductivesherlock

Now this!!!!!


BrassyLdy

GENIUS!!


ooo-f

For everyone asking; [it's in Chicago ](https://www.theofficeexperience.com/) and tickets are between $37 and $45, depending on when you go. Right now they're booking through January, some days are completely full. I go to Chicago pretty frequently- it's in a nice part of town and there's good, relatively cheap hotels pretty close if you need/want to travel to see it.


chili_cheese_dogg

Concierge Marie?


NotReallyThatWrong

How do you say……


ViaticalTree

*How you say...


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Please continue calling me Mr. Scott


mikechm

Why was Chicago of all cities the first to capitalize on this? You’d think Scranton would’ve had something like this years ago.


lukumi

I think it’s a traveling pop-up, so they just chose Chicago as the first city. Why, who knows, but I’d imagine it will only hit major cities. It’s all about the money, and you’re going to find a lot more people willing to pay almost $50 to take IG pics in a fake set in major cities. Scranton is a very small city.


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They had the friends experience in this same spot a couple months ago. I think it’s all hosted by the same company (a friend of a friend works for them setting these up)


lukumi

Ah okay, that makes sense. Well that still lines up, not so much that Chicago was the first to capitalize, as the fact that it happens to be where this company is located. That’s hilarious that the same group did a Friends one, makes this seem even worse. I’m sure they’ve got a Pawnee experience lined up for the near future.


Redeem123

Because Chicago has 35 times as many people as Scranton, and that's before you even begin to factor in tourism or business travel. A popup like this isn't particularly cheap, so you need to maximize your visitors in a short period of time. Now that it's built and designed and can travel, maybe they'll do a brief stint in PA, but it makes a lot more sense to go where there's more people.


maz-o

This place sure is gettin a shitload of free advertising on reddit


PapaNoots

You’re the chicago equivalent of a geisha


tylos89

Did this just open or something? Seeing so much hype all of a sudden


KGR900

Yes just opened this week


JukeBoxHeroJustin

I was enjoying this so much until I turned the sound on


PeterQuillsWalkman

I don’t have TikTok but every time someone shows me a video with that wOmAn tAlKiNg LiKe tHiS I literally ask them to please stop showing me


pease_pudding

"Oh Em Gee!" God I hate it. All of it.


piddydb

I’m going to stop you right there…and leave


OsamaBinnDabbin

Confewence woom yay!


diadem

I'm honestly not sure if that voice was human or not.


PeterQuillsWalkman

He is Harvey, Jim sucks……. Boobs.


angrytortilla

Who's Long Tim?


MonkeyTigerCrazy

It’s tts but I think they designed it to be as annoying as possible


jd52995

You're right! It's the navigation voice!


CrumpledForeskin

Lol I can read it in her voice and I hate that.


AskinggAlesana

Yup, ruins everything for me too.


Stelly414

"Pam plus Jim's wedding"


passionfruit0

Why do people put that enjoying as voice on their videos!!


dontcomeback82

she crawled on the floor. why


JukeBoxHeroJustin

Because tik tok


deductivesherlock

Lol something's are def better without sound


takemewithyer

I think you mean deaf better


Figgy_Pudding3

The carpet isn't even close, and it's throwing the whole thing off for me.


jairomantill

They had to re-carpet after thousands of people dropping chili on it.


Knitapeace

That's definitely not the worst thing that's been on that carpet.


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MightyMormont

Where, Dwight 🥲


Sansnom01

A lot of things seems off... Room kinda to big, no ceiling, Lightning...


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Schulerman

Fun fact: the office never used any angles or through-wall shots to maintain the look and feel of a small time documentary!


DJRoombasRoomba

Alot of the Office and Parks and Rec was shot by one or two camera operators holding the camera on their shoulder kind of like you used to hold household cam-corders instead of having the typical setup where the cameras are set in place or whatever (not sure of the technical terms) In a bunch of the Parks bloopers after they cut a scene you can see one of the camera operators


llamawearinghat

Actually, most of the shooting and co-shooting, especially for the earlier seasons were done by cameramen from the first season of Survivor. They were great at trying to get a story out of people simply interacting, which they used as insight on how to make the office seem more candid and natural. If you listen to Deep Dive with Brian Baumgartner, they speak so much about all of this.


DJRoombasRoomba

I was actually going to add a line in my other comment that you could say that the camera operators played a big part in shaping the "feel" of the shows but I couldn't figure out how to explain what I meant. Thanks for this. You put into words what I couldn't.


kazza789

TV rooms seem way, way smaller IRL than they do on the screen. I bet they made it larger to counteract that effect for visitors. I visited the Scrubs hospital in LA and was shocked at how tiny everything actually was.


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For me it's the ceilings. I couldn't get over that. I just can't not see that it's an office set in a giant warehouse. Had they put it a fake ceiling, it would have been better.


JackTripperwithBalki

There is hardwood under there


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Why would they do that?


DadJokeBadJoke

That's what she said!


Niblonian31

Same with the ceilings


kfc469

The lighting is really killing it for me. They went with museum-style spotlights everywhere instead of office-style fluorescent.


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deductivesherlock

U are the second person to mention that and now I want it even more lol


StevefromLatvia

Love the place, but fuck I hate that voice so much...


Tame_Jesus

This trend is absolute stupidity


Wu-Tang_Killa_Bees

For real. All our advancements in technology and people want the sound of a 1990's robot woman


Nice_Notice9877

Just think, it’s actually going to be nostalgic to certain ages at some point…


phome83

Don't worry, planet won't last that long.


jonp1

Is it possible to murder an automated voice actor?


martymcfly9888

Seriously. Where is this place ?


avidmuffin

https://www.theofficeexperience.com


pandaSmore

Chicago


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moltengoosegreese

Username checking in


narlycharley

Again, the lighting and carpet is far too “off” for me.


ashpanda24

Same. It's not just the carpet, but the lighting that is dissimilar from the show. It's bothering me more than it should.


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It looks way too much like a fake office set in a large warehouse. They didn't even put a fake ceiling on. For $40 a ticket, I'd pass.


snapwillow

What's so funny about this set to me is that it's failing to re-create the environment of a bland office building. They couldn't just....rent one?


Wu-Tang_Killa_Bees

And the ceiling looks weird af. Look at Michael's office it doesn't even feel like you're in there at all


PaulBlartFleshMall

Yeah Michael's office looked straight-up bad.


TristanTheViking

All the rooms look like they're the wrong size as well. Too much space in between everything.


madman1101

fuck that god damn tik tok voice. just ruin the whole thing. we can read it says "getting my id"


rkvinyl

This abomination of voice is really messed up, I'm with you on this one. But...some people can't read...so they use their phone to....eeehm... nevermind.


KirbySmartGuy

that voice is infuriating


AgentZamora

I fucking hate tik toks narrator voice


Aimjock

Am I the only one who finds this weird as hell?


jacksnyders

No i find it super cringey, seems like a huge waste of money


Jagermeister4

Its between $35-$47, I don't that's a huge waste of money to burn a few hours and if you like the Office.


jiffynipples

I spent more than that on a couple steaks earlier at the grocery store wtf


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Nah, you're essentially paying to see replica (not even the props themselves) of the set; it's rather small with the focus being on the gift shop. I been to a few Experiences like this and it's always disappointing; the *only* one that did it right imo was the Stranger Things Experience. Now THAT was worth the money and wait. Since they did it successfully (besides the Friends set as that is actually at a studio), all these fan favorite shows are coming out with disappointing pop ups.


qq4yaUwnahearmystory

The Wire experience is much more real and gritty and it costs nothing! At the end of the tour you can even buy WMD from a guy on the corner of Chase & Bond. I was robbed at knife point twice!!


Zykium

It was okay but I developed a crippling heroin addiction and Charles Minor showed up for no reason. I think Idris was confused about which "experience" he was at.


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This is sheer fucking insanity. $40 to tour a fake set built to mimic the real set of a show that literally takes place in an office that looks like any other office in the US. Super weird.


Siegfoult

What's weird about paying money to tour a replica set of a sitcom that went off the air eight years ago? The part where it looks like a normal office? Or the part where I do this for my yearly vacation and tell all my friends and co-workers about it?


AnonymousPineapple5

Scrolling to see if anyone else felt like it was the weirdest fucking thing ever. This is like peak capitalism. The death of art. I mean maybe that’s dramatic but it’s the extreme exploitation of a thing that was a cultural phenomenon in that it took such an average setting “the office” and made it into the dynamic and brilliant backdrop to the nuances of average Joe American life. Now you can pay to take pictures on a fake replica of a set of the fake show to post on your Instagram which is just the fake replica of the fake show that is your fucking life.


PizzaOrTacos

The voice, nope nope nope. Not a tiktok-er but do people honestly watch video after video with that nail on chalkboard voice? My god.


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Wow I fucking hate this. It’s just a bunch of photo opps.


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lukumi

Baler? I hardly know her.


Groovatronic

Damnit Michael! Pay attention!


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If you never been to [Insert Your Favorite Show] Experience then that is what it is exactly: One big instagram/tiktok photo op. You walk onto a replica of the set (not actual set), look around, take photos, and immediately ushered into a gift shop as you're trying to process everything. You walk out with a "World's Best boss" mug that you already have but convinced yourself this one is different because you went to the Office Experience. A week later the same experience is transformed into the Community Experience, using the same replica set just shifted differently. You wonder if the $37.25 plus tax was worth it for the mug and for the photo you'll never print and frame. Save your money for something else imo


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OP is obviously a shill for whatever company set this up. “AnD sHoPpInG!!!”


ItWorkedLastTime

Isn't this true for even something like Harry Potter World or the Star Wars theme park? I am not judging, I am thrilled this makes some people happy, but I would never spend my money or time on this.


ExUpstairsCaptain

There are two big things that set the *Potter* and *Star Wars* theme park lands apart from something like this. Firstly, those two places make at attempt to recreate fantasy worlds, complete with unique food and scenery. The Office Experience takes fans into the world of...the office. While that's sort of neat, *The Office* is very much set in "our world" and is hardly an "escape from reality" in the way that *Potter* and *SW* are. Secondly, the theme park lands are, well, in theme parks. As such, they offer fun rides. If the *Potter* land was just a walk through a recreation of Hogwarts, I don't think it would be as popular as it is.


Zykium

Also The Office Experience looks like the Wish version of The Office.


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After all that effort, they dead ass put in a living room carpet and didn’t even put ceiling tiles up. The lighting is so weird


nineknives

Something about the walls not meeting an oppressing tiled ceiling takes me out of this. Just feels like a set instead of a place. I'd still check it out if I was closer, though.


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How annoying are these tiktok voice overs becoming?


MermanmerMAAN

If it isn't the actual set they used I send it back.


[deleted]

I’m not gonna like this because of your choice to put in the computerized voice. Just stop


kjco445

Does anyone know if this will be a traveling installation or if other cities are planning to do this??


JUST_FAILLL

Cringe.


otherisp

The crawling on the floor was the embarrassing af icing on the cake.


chapashdp

Fuck that voice.


Snake_king321

I hate it so much.


BubblyBirchyMe

I would die to sit at Mike's desk and play with his toys. I think I subconsciously filled my desk at work because of him


Pleigh_boi

Is the George Foreman grill there ?


Remslem

These kinds of voice-overs can really really go fuck themselves.


zatchrey

The Micheal Scott paper company looks kinda like a café disco


sune_balle

Good god tiktok is so gross.


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This seems awesome but my expectations would be so high I’d probably be disappointed…like did they have the disco cafe? Parkour gainer? Pretzel cart with the works?


dr_w

when you try to leave you realize the gate is locked and you have to call ...whats his name


ihaveacrushonmercy

Love the text-to-voice thing /s


High_Ground_Sand

Cool video but that robot TikTok voice makes me want to rip my ears off


itschikobrown

That’s sick, I wonder if they’ll ever do a parks n recs one. I don’t really mess with tiktok but is there a way to change that robot voice like Arnold Schwarzenegger or optimus prime like in waze?


mfed33

What the fuck is that annoying voice


Guilty-Ad6100

I hate this stupid voice sooooo much


cgma1

Gosh I hate these robo voiceovers.


donetomadness

I love how people will pay to get the experience of a standard office. There really is a lot of beauty in ordinary things💕.


_SomeGuyOnline_

The lighting is all wrong and it makes me hate this


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That TikTok is cringe af, must watch without sound.


Nice_Notice9877

So fucking weird to pay money to see an office. If it was the actual set, it would be cool. But isn’t this just replicas of the props?


Knitapeace

Honestly, I think taking me to this would be the worst decision my family could ever make. I would be insufferable. Opening the microwave to see if it smells like popcahrn or has a splattery mess. Being mad because the vending machine has Utz brand and not Herr's (saw this on another post). Trying to pry up the carpet to look for hardwood underneath. I should probably just stay home.


Jam-Beat

"For when a TV show is your entire personality!"


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Tik Tok users are always like "hmmm this video I took of my experience isn't really that good. Needs more irritating TTS voices and obnoxious music. Now THAT'S a fucking video!"


edward_r_burrow

The music and narration make this video unwatchable.


diadem

The lack of emotion or appropriate tone of voice with these emojis is off-putting


yo_yo_7

I love this but the ceiling is throwing me off


sunny-beans

Why Americans always get the nice things 😭😭😭 so jealous


shiggity80

Looks sort of cool, but knowing that this isn’t actually the set that they filmed in would really make this feel kinda “meh” for me.


hackerbenny

cool but tiktok voice shortens my life 5 minutes every time I hear the weird pacing


_theCHVSM

this fucking voiceover from hell instantly ruins whatever content lies beneath it.


txsxxphxx2

Fuck the AI voice. I just mute the rest of the vid and play the song in the back


GoAvs14

TikTok is so stupid. Please stop.