{"id":183008,"date":"2026-05-03T19:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T19:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/183008\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T19:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T19:09:14","slug":"bringing-tv-fandom-to-life-with-the-office-5k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/183008\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing TV fandom to life with \u2018The Office\u2019 5K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 Lace up your sneakers, and maybe your best Dwight costume: Hundreds of fans flooded downtown Scranton on Saturday for The Office 5K, running past iconic show locations with a special appearance from Actor Bobby Ray Shafer, who played Bob Vance of Vance Refrigeration in The Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">28\/22 Photo Journalist Brian Orbin shows how this race is bringing TV fandom to life in the Electric City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIf you\u2019d ask me 21 years ago when I started the show that 13 years after it went off the air, I\u2019d be out watching a spectacle like this I wouldn\u2019t have believed you, but it\u2019s amazing,\u201d Shafer explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI think that every member of the cast would be blown away if they were here today. I feel fortunate to see all the creativity, spontaneity, the love for the show the love for the characters, the Zanes is going on. It\u2019s really something else,\u201d Shafer continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/derby-day-serves-speed-style-230824251.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Derby Day serves up speed, style at local casino;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Derby Day serves up speed, style at local casino <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cAnd it\u2019s huge. I didn\u2019t know it was gonna be so many people in costume and ready to rock,\u201d Ed Simoncek from Howard, Pennsylvania, told 28\/22 News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cDwight has been one of my favorite characters since I started watching The Office back in college, so I felt it was only fitting to dress as Dwight,\u201d Danville resident Hailee Weader stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWell, last year I was Prison Mike, and you know, I\u2019m just trying to be all the Mikes, all the variations of Michael Scott. He\u2019s just kind of a clown, and I\u2019m also kind of a clown, so it\u2019s just a lot of fun,\u201d Megan Shaffer from Danville explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe Office, it wasn\u2019t recorded here, but they mentioned Farley\u2019s, and places that are Scranton places you can connect to. That\u2019s the thing I liked about The Office, because everybody loves it, and you want to be a part of it still. They should bring it back!\u201d Simoncek added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The overall winner of this year\u2019s race was Colby Walsh, who completed the 5K in 17 minutes and 19 seconds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The event benefits the local nonprofit, Valley in Motion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.2822news.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 Lace up your sneakers, and maybe your best Dwight costume: Hundreds of fans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[81644,178,180,179,27908],"class_list":["post-183008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-bobby-ray-shafer","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-the-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}