Talk:List of The Office (American TV series) episodes

message: I'm not sure what to do here. It looks like different people have edited the episodes as some hour-long episodes are only counting as one episode and some are counted as two. For example, Weight Loss and Lecture Circuit are considered two episodes on their respective pages, but Stress Relief is considered one episode. This later confuses the Cafe Disco episode as to be considered the 27th episode of season 5, but Casual Friday, the episode before that, is considered the 24th. This needs to be corrected by either considering hour-long episodes as one episode, or two.
I, personally, believe that hour-long episodes are two episodes and should be counted as such. On the list of The Office episodes they are considered as two episodes. Also, on the DVD/Blu-Ray information of Season 5, the DVD says it contains 28 episodes, and the Blu-Ray says it contains 26 episodes, which is probably because the Blu-Ray merges the hour-long episodes into one episode, but it is inconsistent with the list provided.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mackerni888 (talk • contribs) 00:51, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Listing Hour Long Episodes as One or Two Episodes?

message: Since webisodes are listed as well as episodes, why not make a list of deleted scenes? Especially since the main article indicates that they are canon. Also throughout various The Office articles there are numerous mentions of things which happen that are said to be in deleted scenes, but there are no mentions on which ones these are. It seems very inconsistent and any researcher would probably like to know. MagnoliaSouth (talk) 17:07, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Deleted Scenes

message: How come there is no Episode 29 in the list?  Is this just a misnumbering error, or is there a reason? Cmcnicoll (talk) 07:55, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, I see that all of the webisodes are listed as episode 29.  Does anyone else think this is weird? It seems like only things that aired on television should be numbered as episodes. Cmcnicoll (talk) 07:58, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

text: Nope, it's pretty standard.  They were all filmed/produced/released together, or rather in short succession, and thus all have the same episode number.  Mastrchf91 (t/c) 12:03, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, my comment was more on the fact that the webisodes weren't televised.  I understand that they were all filmed together, but since they are called webisodes, it seems strange to include them in the episode count. Cmcnicoll (talk) 05:38, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Episode 29?

message: Something is screwing up the formatting and pushing the season 4 episode descriptions down to the bottom of the page, even though clicking on the edit link for season 4 shows that the code is all there in the correct place. Can anyone fix this? I've gone through the whole section and compared it with the season 3 section, which works fine, and the structure appears to be identical, so I can't figure out why season 4 is getting screwed up. Grrr...-- Hux (talk) 21:15, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure.  Like you, I went through the whole section (I'm not the most experienced editor by any means) and everything looked ok. 64.183.172.174 (talk) 21:21, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

text: Are you putting it before the final |}?  That's usually a problem.  Mastrchf91 (t/c) 21:22, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like the |} was missing from the end of the table completely. An anonymous editor fixed it. Thanks! -- Hux (talk) 04:28, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, well, that's good.  A lot of times it gets deleted when a user either copies and pastes incorrectly, or does a bad revert.  Mastrchf91 (t/c) 15:06, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Screwed up formatting 

message: Removed the following unsourced material.  When I went to the "source", it discussed how this was a fake entry on WP.  But...I will put it here should it prove to be true:
 
#	Title	Director(s)	Writer(s)	Original U.S. air date	Production code
:Sounds good to me. Mastrchf (t/c) 19:34, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Season 5

message: Kevin's Loan section needs a table for the four episodes, and The Accountants section needs a color change.  Just leaving this as a note to either myself or anyone else who wants to fix the problems. Mastrchf (t/c) 12:12, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Tables

message: The writers and directors are mixed up, i.e. the "writer" and "director" headers for each season's episode table should be swapped. Can someone fix this? I don't know how to do it, because of those weird {::} type table things. - Spyke1077 (talk) 20:18, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I check some random episodes' writer/director with the article of episodes' themselves and there were no problem.  We can consider it fixed. Behnam (talk) 00:00, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error 

message: I'm going to add episode-number-in-season and put the episode-number-overall in parenthesis; like many other TV series episodes list. Behnam (talk) 00:00, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I decided to use the style used in list of Lost episodes: first column is series number, and the second one is episode number in the season.  Also we need to fix the hints about the table in the paragraphs before tables; i.e. change all to look like the one in season 1 page.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Behnam (talk • contribs) 00:58, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Completed. —BEHNAM〈☯|☮〉@20090123023351%UTC  —Preceding undated comment was added at 02:33, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Episode number, in season and overall

message: The webisode season do NOT need their own level 2 headings in between the regular seasons. I suggest that they are all grouped under a single leavel 2 heading below the regular seasons. Sideways snake (talk) 13:25, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Could you please give a reason why you believe as such?  Mastrchf (t/c) 21:45, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Because when you scroll through the article, most people are simply concerned with the 'proper' episodes, and could not care for the fact the in between seasons there are a chunk of 'webisodes'. The vast majority of the page's traffic never has and never will see a webisode, hence it would more appropriate for them to be grouped later in the article. Sideways snake (talk) 06:30, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  We cannot make such an assumption.  How could one know that the "vast majority of the page's traffic never has and never will see a webisode"?  Either way, other FLs use this same format, and I'd say that the current consensus (by way of the FL candidacy) is that the current format should stay.  Mastrchf (t/c) 14:50, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks Mastrchf - I know that if there isn't a clear course of action then nothing should change at all, it just seems illogical for the webisodes to be interspersed when they are not of dire relevance to the season - merely expanded universe "novelty" shots in a sense. For instance the fact that they don't have production codes further shows their unimportance when compared to the other episodes. The only comparison I can think of is the List of Lost episodes, which indeed has a set of "mobisodes" towards the end of the article rather than interspersed. Cheers, Sideways snake (talk) 13:49, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

text: I think it needs changing as now we don't know where they occurred chronologically, which was the main advantage as having them in between the seasons. IAmTheCoinMan (talk) 02:35, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'd tend to agree with this statement.  Although each series of webisodes is pretty much independent of the rest of the episodes/webisodes, it's helpful to know where the webisodes sit chronologically with respect to all episodes, not just all other webisodes.  Mastrchf (t/c) 13:00, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Webisodes 

message: uhh, i'm not sure if i'm doing this right, never done it before - but it says on the page that the first four seasons are availble in regions 1 and 2, but i've looked feckin' everywhere and season four is not on region 2 yet. amazon.co.uk and play.com both list it as a pre-order.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.16.126.254 (talk) 09:15, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I live in The Netherlands and bought season 4 about a month ago, which included dutch and french subtitles. I checked the dutch Universal Pictures site and found out it released April 9th: http://www.universalpictures-dvd.nl/theofficeseizoen4.html 
KRBM (talk) 15:09, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Region 2

message: Like Season 5, an anonymous user has posted unverified information about the season premiere of Season 6.  I don't believe that this information is correct, but I'm posting in here in case it turns out to be true. StyrofoamChicken (talk) 04:50, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You know that could actually be a good episode. It has a good premise.IAmTheCoinMan (talk) 13:17, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Season 6

message: Hi all. The current columns "Series #" and "Season #" are open to misinterpretation (especially by casual visitors). I've recently renamed the same columns at List of The Big Bang Theory episodes to be "Overall episode #" and "Season episode #" respectively. There is a place to discuss this at: Template_talk:Episode_list#Episode_number_column_headings. Depending on the outcome there, I'm happy to apply the same changes for this page.  HWV258.  03:42, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Renaming of episode number columns 

message: For the sources on ratings, it all seems to go to the same site, but just different pages, could we tidy this up by linking to one page showing all of these separate pages? It would be an 
:No, it wouldn't. Simply linking to the site  isn't sufficient reference because the information being sourced is not there. Ratings need to be sourced directly to the page where that information is, otherwise it's technically unsourced and would have to be removed. It all goes to TV by the Numbers because that's the most reliable and most easily accessible site that posts ratings information for TV shows. Sometimes they create special pages that list ratings for an entire season of a show, such as Breaking Bad or Grey's Anatomy, but they have not done so in the case of The Office. SchrutedIt08 (talk) 05:21, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source clean up?  

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message: I propose to merge The Office: The Accountants into List of The Office (American TV series) episodes. I think that the content in The Accountants article can easily be explained inside this article and that this article is of a reasonable size that the merging of The Accountants will not cause any problems as far as article size is concerned. All information found in The Accountants is already found at List of The Office (American TV series) episodes#The Accountants (2006) so it wouldn't be an issue. The only thing The Accountants-article offers is an image and one-sentence summaries but that's it. Some Dude From North Carolina (talk) 20:06, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Yet all of the same information can be found at List of The Office (American TV series) episodes#The Accountants (2006). It would make sense to have two articles if one had more, but The Office: The Accountants simply has one-sentence summaries (which can be added to the episode list), cast (already in the episode list), who wrote/directed it (already in the table), and an award (already in prose). Some Dude From North Carolina (talk) 14:15, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: There seems to be an error in which a few episodes take up two episode numbers. This is incorrect, and someone with better knowledge about formatting than me can fix it. Bachale (talk) 20:43, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: This is not an error. The Office is a half-hour show, but some episodes were an hour long, and the show's producers, NBC, allocated two episode numbers to these double-length episodes. So "Money" (42 minutes long) is the seventh and eighth episode of the fourth season. —Bruce1eetalk 22:07, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Season 4 episodes error