Remember when "The Office" Was Good?

Remember when The Office was good?

And I don't meant, just passably good. Or merely watchable. But compulsively watchable. As if watching The Office was a ritual. Something that you treasured because that show was attempting something that few other shows at the time were. And yea it owes a great deal to other shows, but when that show was funny; it wasn't mild chuckle funny. It was gasping for air because you couldn't stop laughing. It was SO FUCKING FUNNY. They could have Michael or even Dwight do incredibly awkward, weird, occasionally borderline awful things and push it just before it went over the line of incredulity.

And yet even with all that going on, they could pop in this tiny little emotional, honest character moment into the chaos of it all and it never rang false. Damn, I miss those days.