The Office Season 1 Box Set DVD

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The Office Season 1 DVD Box Set

The Office Season 1

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Season 1

Airing between March 24 and April 26, 2005 season one originally debuted as a midseason replacement for Committed. The Office carried over plot conceptions from the former British comedy series created by Ricky Gervais. However, only the pilot episode was a direct version of one of the UK episodes.

The debut season introduced the main characters, and established the general plot as a would be documentary crew records the escapades of the employees of Dunder Mifflin Paper Company, a fabricated underachieving paper company located in Scranton, PA.

Beginning with Michael Scott (Steve Carell), regional manager of the Scranton branch office, he tries to persuade the camera that he leads over a fun, happy, and well-run office. In the meantime, sales representative Jim Halpert (John Krasinski) finds ways to demoralize his disliked cube-mate, the intolerable Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson); receptionist Pam Beasly (Jenna Fischer) attempts to deal with Michael's thoughtlessness and blunders; and the temp Ryan Howard (B.J. Novak) takes on a disbelieved spectator role as all of this happens around him.

Episodes for season one includes:

1 "Pilot”

The premiere episode is an introduction of characters and the plot of a possible company downsizing. Michael tries to unconvincingly explain to the staff that there is no worry and Jim starts off the pranks on Dwight by putting his stapler in a jell-o mold.

2 "Diversity Day"

Complaints of Michael’s impression of a Chris Rock routine cause the office to undergo diversity training. Oblivious to the fact that he was the reason for the corporate presentation, he resists the professional and decides to put on his own interpretation seminar of what diversity means to him.

3 "Health Care”

Jan Levinson-Gould, Corporate Manager, assigns the task of choosing the staff’s health care plan to Michael. He, wanting to avoid work and possible confrontation about his choice, re-assigns the task to stickler Dwight Schrute. Dwight analyzes the plans and reduces the benefit package to almost nothing. Jim locks Dwight in the conference room until he can come up with a reasonable solution. Dwight calls Jan for permission to fire Jim for his actions. Then she finds out that Michael shrugged off the assignment to Dwight.

4 "The Alliance”

Downsizing is still on the table and Michael tries to take the staff’s mind off of it by creating a morale boost birthday party for Merideth even though her birthday is a month away. Dwight inquires Jim about forming an alliance to thwart off possible job elimination. Jim accepts the invitation and sees an opportunity to maximize messing with Dwight in the process.

5 "Basketball"

Losers work on Saturday is the premise of the office vs. warehouse basketball game. Tension builds between Jim and Roy because Roy senses Jim’s interest in his fiancée, Pam. Michael causes the warehouse win and then tells the office they don’t have to come in on Saturday.

6 "HotGirl"

An attractive purse salesperson comes into the office to sell her purses. Michael, smitten by her, spends a $1000 sales bonus on an espresso machine to impress her. Jim gives her a ride home and goes out for drinks with her after work apparently sparking the jealously of Pam.