Doug

Doug plays the piano.

**Doug** is one of the five original workers in ***The Office Life***, and eventually becomes co-**boss** of the Office.

## Physical Description

Doug has mousy brown hair with blue eyes. He is five feet and eleven inches tall, arguably the third to tallest member of the Office- Doug is pretty sure he is taller than **Tom**. He frequently described by both Martha and Molly as being incredibly hot, his hotness being the main topic of their first conversation at the water fountain. They also describe Doug as smelling very bad, so bad that Martha tries to fire him for it in Episode Two. This is because he was cursed a very long time ago during a wizard duel, and the effects of the spell had yet to wear off. They have mostly worn off now.

## Personality

Doug has a constant desire to prove himself, but often falls short because he is often confused most of the time. Immediately in Episode One, he fails to assert himself as boss when he attempts to out-jinx Martha. The other workers see this as childish and tell him to sit down. Doug immediately panics when the interns are first introduced in Episode Two, running away and hiding behind things. This confusion comes through again during Episode Three when the workers plan for National Oven Mitts Day. Doug suggests that they throw a party, which the workers immediately shut down. However, when **Tim** suggests that they throw a party immediately after Doug, Doug joins the workers in supporting the decision. In the same episode, when Martha kisses him on the hand, Doug reacts erratically and screaming, "WAAAAAAH!"

That said, Doug can also be properly assertive and angry when he does not get his way. In Episode Two, when Martha attempts to fire Doug, he casts a **spell** that causes Martha to pass out. He is always quick to snap at Tom, such as at the end of Episode Five when Tom says that he ate Doug's breakfast, to which Doug replies, "I don't care just get out." That said, Doug can also be very sentimental and loving. He frequently cries at the end of episodes, and holds value in his interaction with his fellow workers.

## Abilities

Doug's abilities mainly come in through his skills in leadership and magic. Though, as previously stated, Doug is not as good of a leader as Martha and often times get confused, Doug is still talented at focusing the group. He leads the discourse on how to kill Tim in Episode Four, and ultimately helped to calm down and focus Martha when the two discovered that the Office would be closed. However, Doug's charisma is low as he constantly fails to gain the favor of the workers. Doug's main skill is his magic. Of the characters in *The Office Life*, Doug's spellcasting abilities in the series are second only to **Bach**, who is a time god. Within the series his spells are shown to be able to cause someone to pass out and allow him switch places with another person.

## Biography

### Before *The Office Life*

Prior to working at the Office, Doug was born and raised on a small cottage deep in the moors of Scotland. There, he was taught by an old wizard in the ways of ancient magic. At some point his powers turned sinister, resulting in Doug briefly spending time in the Shadow Realm. While in the Shadow Realm, he had a duel with another dark wizard and was cursed to smell bad. When he returned to this plain of existence, he decided he wanted a normal life and went to work at the Office.

### During *The Office Life*

#### *Episode One*

Doug is the first character to enter the Office (Martha already being inside, save for Episode Two when Martha starts the episode outside of the Office and enters before Doug), which continues throughout ever episode of the series. He first knocks on the door, then Martha quickly opens and closes the door to taunt him. This happens a few times before Doug finally gets the door open and forces his way through. As the workers say the pledge of allegiance, Doug takes the longest to finish as he inserts a verse of "Auld Lang Syne" into the middle of the pledge. As the work day begins, he first applauds Martha for stacking the cups, and then attempts to start a meeting at the same time as Martha. This establishes Doug and Martha's feud to be the boss. The other workers sit down, which he eventually does. Throughout the meeting he talks to a crutch, asking it how many kids it would want to have. He briefly plays "Hot Crossed Buns" on boomwhackers with Martha and Molly. In the middle of the day, when Tom attempts to leave, Doug reminds him that it is one o'clock, to which Tom responds, "Pacific Time."

When Martha has her breakdown later in the day, Doug tells her, "There's no need for bad language!" and throws the bouquet of yellow flowers. He awkwardly watches as Martha re-enters and screams. At the end of the day, Doug cries during Molly's inspirational speech and is very emotional as everyone leaves. When Tom leaves, Doug says, "[Tom] wait! Goodbye." Before he leaves, he gives Martha several long hugs, and walks out.

#### *Episode Two*

Doug is second behind Martha as the workers march to work. When entering the Office for the day, Doug slaps the tape aside, hitting his hand on the top of the door frame which hurt really bad but the viewers can't see that. He poses with the other workers after all of them have entered. During the meeting, Doug does an incredible somersault in attempt to take over the meeting, but Martha again establishes herself as boss. When Tom (typically **Peter** in other episodes) announces that interns will be arriving soon, Doug screams. When the interns enter for the day, Doug jumps into a frenzy and begins running around the Office, threatening them with a spray bottle. He again attempts to run the meeting where they establish the new interns, but fails again, and helps Martha in asking the questions for the interns. Doug suggests that Kate be marked down when she disrupts the meeting, giving Kate her one strike. Throughout the day Doug plays the piano, which Martha eventually interrupts him from to tell him that he is being fired because he smells. Doug reacts by casting a spell that causes Martha to pass out and later not realize that she had actually failed to fire Doug.

Doug notices that Kate is "coming through with something," which turns out to be her tapeworm revelation. As the workers celebrate their revelation, Doug delivers the line, "Success is good!" At the emergency meeting that is called after the purple thumbtack is missing, Doug falsely accuses Martha of stealing it. At the end of the day, Doug pushes Peter (typically Tom in other episodes) out the door before spraying the spray bottle and running out the door himself.

#### *Episode Three*

Doug again enters first, asking Martha to open the door for him, which she does not. He casts a spell that causes them to switch places. As the workers work at their computers at the start of the day, Doug is first seen typing "I'M ON CLOUD NINE BABYYYYY" and is later seen looking at a picture of a crow wearing socks. Suddenly, Doug passes out and hits head on his computer before waking up and remembering that it is **National Oven Mitts Day**. When discussing how to celebrate, Doug suggests that they throw a party, which is immediately shot down. When Tim suggests the same, Doug supports the idea saying, "I wish I'd thought of that!" At the meeting where the workers discuss how to go about throwing the party, Doug suggests that they divvy out jobs. He and Tom are assigned to food. They leave and come back with the **Turkey** and begin carving it.

Later in the party, Martha goes to kiss Doug, asking for his hand. Doug thinks she want his hand and begins sawing it off, but she simply kisses it, to which Doug responds, "WAAAAAAH!" As the workers dance, Doug does a cakewalk down the stairs with the red hat. When Tim says they should call the police after Martha accuses Molly of killing her grandma, Doug says, "Okay, don't make it more dramatic than it needs to be." As he leaves for the day, Doug does a *flawless* cartwheel and walks out the door.

#### *Episode Four*

Again Martha denies Doug entry, prompting him to run around the Office and enters through the back door. He joins the other workers in welcoming Tim, and informs Tim that they had been waiting for three hours. At the start of the workday, he reviews his work on the **whiteboard**, which Molly tries to look at. Doug snaps at her, saying, "Eyes on your own paper!" He, like the other workers, is enthralled by the Lemon Fisch. When the workers get angry at Tim when he interrupts them from watching Peter tap his fingers on the Lemon Fisch jar, Doug focuses them all back onto the tapping. During Tim's meeting in which he announces that he is changing the **company's** name to JuiceCo., Doug frequently voices disagreement with what Tim is saying. When Tim erases Doug's work on the whiteboard, Doug says, "Strike one."

When the Lemon Fisch go missing, Doug (like the other workers) becomes furious with Tim, at one point saying, "We can't lose our heads, guys..." while mimicking strangling Tim. As the workers go back to work and begin to ignore Tim, Tim walks up to Doug while Doug is dancing the Charleston and calls him Daniel. Tim tries to ask him to do something, but Doug walks away mid sentence to Charleston behind the whiteboard. At the huddle where to workers discuss killing Tim, Doug leads the conversation in asking what they should do, and joins the other workers in the act. He cries at the end of the day meeting, and conga lines with the other workers out the door.

#### *Episode Five*

After Martha finds Kate in the cabinet, Doug is seen walking up to the door outside the Office. He sees the "For Lease" sign on the door and knocks feverishly on it. When Martha sees what Doug his holding, she finally lets him in willfully. While the other workers enter for the start of the day, Doug and Martha frantically write on the whiteboard, attempting to calculate how to save the Office. Doug says that in order to rally the workers together and lead the Office, they both have to become the boss. Martha agrees, and Doug finally becomes a boss. When he and Martha try to break the news to workers, Doug panics before forcing himself to break the news. The workers do not understand, and Martha has to clarify for them. After the meeting, when all the workers go to try to collect donations, Doug ends up accidentally calling Kate and talking about Jacob's recently deceased mother. When the workers regroup, Doug says that he managed to get Home Depot to commit to giving them a flower pedal.

Doug joins the other workers in chasing Bach after his sudden appearance, and is the one to apprehend Bach and take him to the piano. After pleading with the other workers for Bach to save their company, Doug is seen trying to take the whiteboard out of the Office for himself. As Jacob leaves for the final time, Doug encourages him to build his own **Kentuckyville**. He reminds Tom that it is Pacific Time as he leaves. He hugs Peter with everyone else, and informs Peter that he, Doug, does not want any pomegranates. As Molly leaves, he reminds her that she killed three people during her time at the Office. When he makes to leave himself, he gives Martha one last big hug and walks out. When Martha tries to go to sleep again, Doug walks back in, turns on the light, and tells Martha that it's time to go. She agrees, and Doug says, "Hey, we were both the bosses in the end," before the two leave with their arms around each other. Doug turns, takes one last look at the Office, and closes the door.

### After *The Office Life*

Soon after the conclusion of *The Office Life*, Doug attempted to cast a spell that risked ripping the spacetime continuum. As punishment, he is currently doing time in a pocket-dimension-prison that closely resembles a small bathroom in an American East Coast beach house.

## Trivia

* Doug is the youngest of the workers in *The Office Life.*
* Evan as Doug is the most guilty of calling characters by the names of their actors, including Peter, Tom, and Martha
* Doug is the only character who is fired in the series, though he immediately returns (Tim was not fired, he was assassinated)
* Doug wears the same red shirt in Episode One and Episode Three
* Doug has a very cute dog named Smilson.