# Favorite The Office Character(s)? \[American Version\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 12, 2006, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-the-office-character-s-american-version/348004 "2006-03-12T02:50:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-the-office-character-s-american-version/348004/1 "2006-03-12T02:50:54Z")
Mine are Dwight and Angela (and of course Michael). Jim and Pam and everyone else are great, but whenever D or A are onscreen, can’t take my eyes off them. Whenever Dwight unleashes his knowing smirk to the camera, comedy gold I say! Also think Jan Levinson-Gould is hot! ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-the-office-character-s-american-version/348004/2 "2006-03-12T02:55:51Z")
Phyllis!! Kevin the perfect office creepy guy. Of the more prominent characters, Jim. Another guy I like is Darryl the warehouse foreman (you’d think Roy would be the foreman, but it’s him!) ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-the-office-character-s-american-version/348004/3 "2006-03-12T04:19:31Z")
> [@Mehitabel](#): > > Phyllis!! Everyone’s favorite alchie! ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-the-office-character-s-american-version/348004/4 "2006-03-12T04:35:10Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > Everyone’s favorite alchie! Meant Meredith perchance? ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-the-office-character-s-american-version/348004/5 "2006-03-12T05:35:27Z")
Jim. Because I am him. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-the-office-character-s-american-version/348004/6 "2006-03-12T13:54:07Z")
Dwight is just plain brilliant. I didn’t think the American version could make a character better than Gareth on the BBC’s, but they did. “I’m the bobble head.” “Question…” ---
**Author:** ![bradministrator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a698b9/32.png) [@bradministrator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bradministrator)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-the-office-character-s-american-version/348004/7 "2006-03-12T15:32:55Z")
Kevin, just for his gleeful innocence. Setting the thermostat to 69 just because, or keeping his own name for Secret Santa, jumping over lame fireworks in the parking lot… ---
**Author:** ![Ensign\_Edison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@Ensign\_Edison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ensign_Edison)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-the-office-character-s-american-version/348004/8 "2006-03-12T16:34:54Z")
First, I’m hooked on this show. Took me a bit, but I find Pam and Tim (okay, whatever, Jim) totally charming, and watching them is a delight. The show isn’t afraid to have some warm personalities in there, and I think that helps round it out. Dwight and Angela are, as has been said, total scene-stealers, and their whole dynamic is perhaps my favorite innovation of the American series (at least, I think it’s new here). But I have to say Ryan. My favorite moment so far – though I missed half the episodes, sadly – was his delivery on “I hooked up with her…on February thirteenth”. I was rolling. My second favorite: “I know what I said” when Pam took him to task for saying he didn’t see himself ever getting married. My personal feelings about B.J. Novak – what a name – have nothing to do with it. Really. I swear. ;j No, I think he’s an interesting character with more to him than meets the eye, and a sharp mind behind a fresh face who knows how to take advantage of the fact that people underestimate him. Now there’s a type with enough complexity that most sitcoms would carve him down to a mere imbecile by the second draft – and he’s just one of many interesting, multi-faceted characters on the show. Yeah, I’m hooked. ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-the-office-character-s-american-version/348004/9 "2006-03-12T16:40:30Z")
This show is so well written and acted that I went through almost every character as a possibilty. I agree Angela is probably the best of the featured characters, but Kevin probably gets me laughing more often. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-the-office-character-s-american-version/348004/10 "2006-03-12T18:30:11Z")
Creed… He cracks me up. ---
**Author:** ![Operation\_Ripper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/34f0e0/32.png) [@Operation\_Ripper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Operation_Ripper)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-the-office-character-s-american-version/348004/11 "2006-03-12T19:36:27Z")
> [@Push You Down](#): > > Creed… He cracks me up. “Someone making soup?”