{"id":133636,"date":"2025-09-05T01:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T01:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/133636\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T01:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T01:55:09","slug":"did-dunder-mifflin-shut-down-the-paper-explains-the-office-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/133636\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Dunder Mifflin Shut Down? ‘The Paper’ Explains ‘The Office’ Fate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAs the new Peacock series \u201cThe Paper<\/a>\u201d opens, we learn a few things about the fate of Dunder Mifflin \u2014 the paper business at the heart of \u201cThe Office<\/a>.\u201d A sequel of sorts to \u201cThe Office,\u201d \u201cThe Paper\u201d opens <\/a>with a few on screen notes: \u201cIn 2005, a documentary crew started filming at a paper company in Scranton, Pennsylvania. They followed the workers in an average office, dealing with new rules of workplace behavior and the ups and downs of their personal lives. Twenty years later, they returned.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat those documentarians found as they revisited the Scranton Business Park was Vance Refrigeration (the business next door to Dunder Mifflin, as fans of \u201cThe Office\u201d remember well), as well as the businesses \u201cOne and Done Laser,\u201d \u201cRuben\u2019s\u201d and \u201cKavala.\u201d But apparently not in that building anymore: Dunder Mifflin.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat\u2019s when the cameras meet up with Vance Refrigeration owner Bob Vance, played by Robert R. Shafer. \u201cDunder Mifflin,\u201d recalls Bob, who marries Dunder Mifflin worker Phyllis (played by Phyllis Smith) in Season 3 of \u201cThe Office.\u201d \u201cYeah, they\u2019ve been gone for a while. Phyl and Stanley [Leslie David Baker] keep in touch. We both have schnoodles. Awesome dogs. Other than that, the One and Done guys are fine. Less drama, that\u2019s for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThat\u2019s when we learn One and Done Laser has taken over the old Dunder Mifflin office. Vance helpfully points to the Scranton Chamber of Commerce website, which keeps a list of every business that\u2019s closed in the last ten years. According to the site, Dunder Mifflin was purchased by a business called Enervate in Toledo, Ohio, in 2019.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThat\u2019s right, I remember them asking if Phyllis wanted to move to Toledo,\u201d Vance says. \u201cHa! Leave Scranton for Toledo? Make me laugh.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEnervate sells products made out of paper, including office supplies, janitorial paper like toilet tissue and toilet seat protectors, and local newspapers. The documentarians head to Toledo to chronicle Enervate\u2019s attempts to revive the once bustling Toledo Truth Teller newspaper, and happen to be there on the first day of the paper\u2019s new editor-in-chief, Ned Sampson (played by Domnhall Gleeson).<\/p>\n

\n\tBut the cameras also catch a familiar face: Oscar Martinez<\/a> (played by Oscar Nu\u00f1ez), who did indeed take Enervate up on the offer to relocate to Toledo. He didn\u2019t expect the cameras, however, and soon learns that the waiver he signed in 2005 at Dunder Mifflin to be filmed in perpetuity still stands, even as an otherwise new cast of characters<\/a> is filmed at the Truth Teller.<\/p>\n

\n\tSo what about Dunder Mifflin? Does the paper company still exist, even if its Scranton office is closed? \u201cThe Office\u201d and \u201cThe Paper\u201d creator Greg Daniels<\/a> admits he was a bit taken aback by how much reporters and critics grilled him on the fate of Dunder Mifflin \u2014 so he\u2019s keeping it a bit murky for now.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s not that it\u2019s no more, it\u2019s just that they\u2019re no longer in the Scranton branch location,\u201d Daniels notes. \u201cOscar still works for Dunder Mifflin and on the set of \u2018The Paper,\u2019 there are boxes of Dunder Mifflin paper. As a company, it\u2019s just part of this larger company called Enervate now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSo Dunder Mifflin still exists \u2014 it\u2019s just that the Scranton branch has been shut down.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOr moved,\u201d Daniels says. \u201cIt\u2019s unclear. It\u2019s not in the same building, I don\u2019t know. I think there\u2019s some value to saying, \u2018hey, this isn\u2019t about that, don\u2019t keep thinking you\u2019re gonna get that.\u2019 This show has to live or die on its own merits.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn other words, \u201cThe Paper\u201d lives in \u201cThe Office\u201d universe, but it\u2019s not a reboot. Daniels isn\u2019t completely shutting down the idea of returning to the original cast one day, however. \u201cIf somebody else is one day going to say, \u2018you know what, Rainn Wilson and I have a wonderful idea for something,\u2019 I don\u2019t want to shut the door on anybody else\u2019s projects in any sort of definitive way,\u201d Daniels says. \u201cBut, I think our finale of \u2018The Office\u2019 was pretty much shutting the door on the Dunder Mifflin everybody remembers. And people seem to like the finale. It\u2019s not like they were like, \u2018Oh no, they\u2019re going to Texas. Everything\u2019s ruined!’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe Paper\u201d is now streaming all 10 episodes from Season 1 on Peacock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the new Peacock series \u201cThe Paper\u201d opens, we learn a few things about the fate of Dunder…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,43945,221,222,92],"class_list":["post-133636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-greg-daniels","tag-the-office","tag-the-paper","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}