The same goes for the ninth season episode, “Couple’s Discount.” It’s literally set during Valentine’s Day, which, last time we checked, is in February, but everyone is acting like it’s, at most, a moderately brisk spring afternoon. The only possible explanation for these consistently abnormally mild winters is that, in the world of The Office, the worsening effects of climate change are even more advanced than in our reality.
Obviously, the show was filmed in L.A., but come on, they didn’t even bother to try and make it look cold. So really, the only logical takeaway here is that the world of Dunder Mifflin is quietly hurtling toward a severe ecological disaster at a rate that outpaces even our own — perhaps because of their universe’s overreliance on paper products?
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