The Office: A Very Special COVID Episode

Find out what all your favorite Office characters were up to during the pandemic!

Stanley

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Stanley purposely contracted COVID three times so he could stay home from work (and flirt with the hospital nurses). Who cares if diabetes makes him immunocompromised? That's six weeks off, baby! He's living the dream!

Ryan and Kelly

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Ryan (much to his dismay) and Kelly (much to her excitement) end up quarantining together and starting a couple's Youtube channel! This is a terrible decision for their relationship, but the chaos is great for their channel. Every video they post is either titled "We Broke Up!" or "We Got Back Together!" and the viewers love to see it. Everyone knows these two are endgame!

Phyllis

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Phyllis, that kind soul, she's been busy knitting everyone their own personalized mask. I'm pretty sure they're completely ineffective, but it's not like anyone was going to wear them anyways.

Creed

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Creed was actually patient zero in the U.S. He brought it back with him after his annual, totally legitimate, perfectly legal business trip to Wuhan. He doesn't know he ever had it though- not because he was asymptomatic, but because he lost his sense of taste and smell years ago. Creed is fully convinced that COVID is a government conspiracy targeted at the elderly in efforts to slow the drain on social security (which actually isn't even that crazy if you think about it). Either way, there's no way he's falling for that "vaccine" nonsense and letting them implant a microchip in his arm.

Kevin

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Kevin isn't too worried about COVID, he's pretty sure only gay people can get it!

Oscar

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Oscar spends most of his time trying (and failing) to convince Kevin that homosexuality and COVID have no affiliation with one another.

Meredith

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Meredith's hair isn't the only thing about her that's red. She's a proud anti-vaxxer and a proud anti-masker. It's not about politics though, she just wants to be able to party, and the only place she's going to quarantine is at a bar. Besides, she's never going to get COVID, she's immune to most things at this point. Her system has been boosted by all the disgusting bacteria and diseases she's contracted throughout the decades! Remember that one time she got rabies from a bat? And that's where COVID came from, right?

Angela

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Angela is the most COVID-cautionary one in the office, but not out of concern for anyone else- just her cats. She spends most of her waking hours researching whether or not animals can contract the virus. She doesn't care how unlikely it is, it's not worth the risk! She's already lost one of her precious babies, she's not losing another one! RIP Sprinkles.

Dwight

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Dwight spent his entire life preparing for this pandemic. Everyone made fun of him when he was buying canned food and gas masks and making zombie-proof armor, but now look who's laughing. He's actually happy about COVID- he's been saying for years that we should let natural selection take its course and weed out the weakest among us. We can finally cleanse our population. Dwight always knew (and hoped) this day would come, and he's not letting anybody in his bunker!

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Jim

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While Dwight was busy bragging about his bunker, Jim was busy pranking. He sneaks away from the office to search Schrute Farms for Dwight's bunker, and when he finds it he gets rid of all of Dwight's supplies. Once Dwight enters and realizes everything's gone, Jim locks him in from the outside! He made sure to steal Dwight's phone and watch while he was at it, so Dwight had no real sense of time in there. Jim managed to convince him he had been trapped in the bunker for days, when he really only kept him in there for, like, 24 hours. Classic!

Andy

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The Nard Dog has actually spent the past year participating in a lot of the BLM protests as a way to ease some of that guilt about his white privilege and generational wealth from his ancestors. Don't worry, the Bernards never owned slaves, they only transported them!

Erin

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Erin's been doing just fine! Remember, she was in the hospital from ages 3 to 6, so health scares, boredom, and isolation are nothing she can't handle!

Jan

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This iconic queen actually accomplishes a lot during COVID! Not only does her candle business Serenity by Jan take off, but she also records an album with her ex-assistant Hunter! It's not currently available on any streaming platforms, but they've got hundreds of CDs burned and ready to go. And of course, the album features everyone's favorite song, "That One Night." You know, the one that made everything all right

Pam

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Pam takes this opportunity to work on her art. I'm really happy about this because from what I've seen, she could definitely use some more practice (and some more customers). Michael can't afford to keep secretly buying all of her paintings online under the pseudonym "Toby Flenderson." He's already saved a Nigerian princess and been roped into two pyramid schemes this year, not to mention all the money he's invested in Jan's candle business (he currently owns 120% of the company).

Darryl

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No one knows what he's been up to. He does his work, but he hasn't returned anyone's calls or texts and hasn't shown up to a single zoom social (though Michael and Dwight are usually the only ones there anyway). It's nothing personal, he's just not really interested in having any more interaction with these people than absolutely necessary. Okay, maybe it is a little personal.

Toby

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I don't think anyone's checked in on him. I might've heard that he went into a depression after his true-crime podcast The Flenderson Files bombed? Actually, I think maybe he's in jail for disclosing confidential information about the Scranton Strangler case. Or wait, maybe he went back to Costa Rica? Honestly....who the f*ck even cares.

Michael

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Oh boy, I'm pretty sure you're always supposed to wash your hands everywhere, bud! I know we all love him, but I have to be honest- Michael lacks all common sense and has been SO annoying during the pandemic! He100% believes (and forwards) every clickbait article and piece of fake news he comes across (that one time he heard bleach could fight the virus was a REALLY close call). He doesn't buy into blaming the COVID on China though- he's pretty sure it's all Toby's fault. However, he does pose a HUGE safety risk because he does the most clueless things- like wearing his mask over his mouth but not his nose, or pulling it down every time he speaks to you. But I'm giving him a break because I know social distancing and isolation have been really hard on him since it brings up all those bad memories of never having friends and being alone as a kid. Poor Michael! When corporate told him to send everyone home, he instead tried to force the whole office to quarantine together!

Actually, that wasn't a bad idea, and I'm sure a lot of die-hard Office fans (myself included) really did spend countless lockdown hours escaping into the Dunder Mifflin Cinematic Universe- as you should!

*This post is purely imaginative and is not official NBC content