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Please bring 'The Office' back and have Michael Scott do a TED Talk

Twitter desperately wants this to happen.

Christine Wang

on April 26, 2017

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It's been nearly four years since The Office ended, and we're still not over it. We'll never be over it.

How are we supposed to forget the legendary pranks Jim played on Dwight? How can we eat chili without pausing for a brief moment of silence for Kevin? How is it possible that we'll ever forget the character of Michael Scott?

Answer: It's not possible. It's not possible for us superfans, and it's also not possible for the genius writers who gave us The Office.

One of those very writers, Mindy Kaling, had Michael Scott on the brain on Tuesday, posting a simple, one-sentence tweet about her former boss.

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This off-hand tweet immediately inspired Twitter to have an epic brainstorming session about what Michael Scott would have said if he had been given the chance to give a TED talk. The results are so real, so true, and so Michael that we can almost see him in front of us, awkwardly filling the silences with impressions of a car starting.

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We understand the show is over and that it has been over for a while now, but it's pretty clear that this episode needs to happen. Just like how a potluck episode needs to happen, where everyone brings in their speciality (Kevin's chili!) and Michael gets extremely upset when no one eats what he brought in because it's something disgusting.

Basically our point is this: Bring. This. Show. Back. Please.

And have Michael Scott give a TED Talk.

Topics The Office

Christine Wang

Christine is a Web Culture Intern at Mashable. She has previously written for FanSided and Saturday Down South. She has a B.A. from the University of California, San Diego and an M.S. from Hunter College. Before she started writing, she worked in education as a teacher and school leader for four years. Her special talents include being able to quote The Office on command, playing non-stop Overwatch for hours, and composing only the wittiest of Tweets (her own opinion).