The Office Finale Party Guide

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1. Lol ! Thanks for posting this Tanster ! I have thought of more since then . . . .

   French toast (Dream Team)
   Square pancakes (Michael Scott Paper Company)
   Kool-Aid (Local Ad)
   Meatball parm sub (Heavy Competition)
   Whatchamacallit (Business School)
   Pay Day (Business School)
   100 Grand (Business School)

2. For drinks, you are missing ‘Scotch and Splenda!’ “Tastes like Splenda gets you drunk like Scotch.”

3. I’ll definitely have to get a mint chocolate chip cake

4. Breyer’s Ice cream, brought to you by Malone’s Cones
   Gabba-Gool with a side salad, but the salad better not be on top. (you’re on your own for this one)

5. Very important note: If you will be serving JELL-O, something MUST be encased in it… JELL-O is not a tribute to the Office unless there is something suspended in it.

6. chicken pot pie
   mung bean sprouts
   blue flavored power drink
   filet o fish
   hot plate of garbage pizza by Alfredo
   soy milk
   Mayonnaise and olives
   roasted goose
   peanut butter sandwiches
   rhubarb pie
   brownies with and without nuts
   sausage egg and cheese biscuit

7. Jellybeans (on receptionist’s desk all the time)

8. Who could forget the “Skillets Of Cheese” from “The Dundies”??

9. How about ice cream sandwiches (from Health Care)?

10. Chocolate pudding cup, from The Injury! I even thought about sprinkling a little sugar on top, to represent the aspirin that Ryan put in because Michael was a little fussy. You’ll feel the blood coursing through your foot veins!

    [from tanster: lol, very clever with the sugar on top!]

11. Tuna (Andy’s name for Jim)

12. This is the best party guide I’ve ever seen!! Wow!! So cool! How about a coffee/latte machine like in Cafe Disco?

13. Another drink: milk and sugar! Other snacks: French Onion chips. Also you could play The Office Trivia game or Office Clue!

14. Even though you get extra points for putting office supplies in jello (I have actually done it a couple of times), you can also have Jello cups because that is what Jim is eating when he denies having anything to do with Dwight’s stapler.

    Also, from Drug Testing, a can of coke :-)

15. Definitely need French Onion Sun Chips and Herr’s chips to snack on!

16. Starbursts (receptionists desk “take your daughter to work day”)
    Vodka (Christmas party)

17. Eight one-foot subs!

18. Herrs potato chips (grief counseling)

19. Coca-cola (drug testing)

20. Alfredo’s Pizza Cafe (launch party)

21. Feed me all the Osso Bucco you can,
    Give me all the baby carrots in the world,
    Bring me an endless supply of Kool Aid on tap,
    Let’s play Office board games all night,

    The only true way to enjoy an Office finale party right, is just to be with the people that matter the most; the characters.

22. C-shaped bagels (new boss)

23. Espresso (hot girl)

24. Donuts (michaels birthday)
    Fruit and veggies (“weight loss” vending machine) lol

25. You guys are awesome. Thanks for all the additions!

    xo

26. You’re welcome for all the contributions haha. Love the show just as much as you.

    P.s. make sure you list Herrs Chips from grief counseling.

27. 7 and 7 with eight Maraschino cherries, sugar on the rim, blended if you can. (Casino night)

28. Shae beat me to adding mayonnaise and black olives for dessert. ;o)

29. Mushroom caps, cupcakes, and don’t forget Herrs salt n vinegar chips

30. Make sure on the Awesome Blossom that you order it Extra Awesome! I did this type of thing for the Seinfeld finale and it was a blast! But my husband wants this week to be just us watching in tribute to our favorite show. I can handle that since I want to hear every line!!!

31. Have Mr. Bean playing in the other room, and Pink Panther movie playing in your office. And make sure others don’t empathize. You’ll wallow, so keep conversations light. (The Chump)

32. What about decorations? We’re decorating the room in black (and all wearing black) since we’re in mourning, but previously have decorated the way Jim and Dwight did for Kelly. Something made of ice. Something in Jello. Bobbleheads.

33. Also, you could go to a thrift store and buy used trophies and have your own Dundies ceremony.

34. Personally I will be getting a thing of Mr. Noodles for the finale. I remember falling in love with this show while eating a bowl of it one night in first year of college.

35. What about an old favorite from “Kevin Cooks Stuff in The Office” (special feature from season 3):

    -Creme Brulee (tapioca pudding and sugar packets)
    -Quesadillas a la Kevin (chips and squeeze cheese…you can even get creative with circle and flower designs if you wish!)
    -Home/work brewed beer (aka, bacteria filled yeast water)

36. I WILL be putting a stapler in jello for my party!

37. Milk & sugar!!

    I wanna say that’s from Michael Scott Paper Company…?

38. Cheese puffs (Heavy Competition)

39. Great list and ideas! Too bad I will be in a car and missing out on the finale until I return home (my sis better know I love her! Going to her Masters Degree graduation)

40. @30 Carla-my work friend and I also put on a Seinfeld party like this and had props like a puffy shirt, fishing rod with a marble rye, etc. Great fun !

    How bout another activity: guess how many jelly beans are in the jar

    This list is amazing and can’t believe how many food and drink references there have been !

41. Is there a decorations category? Brown, black and grey balloons, only partially filled and a sign saying “It is the finale.” (Lecture Circuit) Oh, for the dessert list and from the same episode, a cake with Kelly spelled Kelley and a Chiclet (to represent a pillow or a TV).

    I say this because after the finale I plan to curl up under a table and sleep – it is my only defense against the sadness…

    Oh, plus a suckling pig!

42. Bagel Bites

43. Chunky. (Business School)

44. For the Office party I threw a couple years back I used the grilled cheese idea but I also added a little twist. I purchased a relatively cheap George Foreman grill and a foot shaped cookie cutter on amazon. Guests then made their own foot-shaped grilled cheeses in homage to Michael’s incident with the George Fireman grill. We also had the soft pretzels and I set a station with sweet and savory toppings for them.

    [from tanster: that’s fantastic!]

45. Drinks-
    A shot of Midori, perhaps? (The Convention)

    Activities-
    Charades (Dinner Party)
    Sumo suit wrestling (Beach Games)
    Call of Duty
    Dunder Ball
    Who can put the most M&Ms in their mouth
    SlumDunder Mifflinaire (Company Picnic)

46. @44 Reagan – love the grilled cheese idea ! That’s hilarious !

    So Tanster, what time should we all start showing up at your place on Thursday ? 7:00 ? 7:30 ? . . . . .

47. Mexican lemonade!!

48. We will be putting up a banner that says “IT IS THE OFFICE FINALE.”

49. “Dos Long Island iced teas, s’il vous plait – bad decision in a glass.”

    I live in Hong Kong so the Office will air Friday morning for me. There may well be some ill-advised daytime imbibing!

50. Thanks so much, Tanster, for this website! Been following for many years.

51. I love this idea! I went out to buy hotdogs, pigs in a blanket, jelly beans, M&Ms, vodka and orange juice! I tried to find samosa, but I think in this country it’s called something ridiculous like “chicken pastry” for the not-internationally inclined people lol. Maybe I can find potato salad.

52. We are picking up a fudgie the whale cake tomorrow, and cheese balls…not sure what else yet…I plan to hang a banner “it is the office finale…..” outside…and will get brown black and grey ballons, only half full…and tissues..lots of tissues….

53. I spent the last few months rewatching every episode and have created Office Jeopardy! Two complete boards and we’re playing by real rules. Should be a blast!

54. We are going to have a red velvet cake using beets instead of food coloring.

55. Hot Tamales
    Coco Leche (The Lover)
    “Fish sticks are not an aphrodisiac. You’re thinking of deer penis.”

56. “STEAK! Where’s my steak ?!” (Money)

57. Don’t forget the gabba gool (Mafia season 6) oh and no seafood. lol Love the idea of the banner reading, It is the finale. Hilarious.

58. For sweet food there’s Baby Ruth(email surveillance) and another game to play is Zombie Soccer(China)

59. How could you forget mayonnaise and black olives?

60. How are beets – just in general – not on your food list?!!

61. At your party, be sure to play the Police, in honor of the Police tribute band Scrantonicity.

62. While doing the activities (not during the actual show of course) listen via an ipod to a selection of songs that have been on the show over the years like Sing by Travis (listened to by Jim and Pam while leaving the office in The Client) I will Remember You by Sarah McLachlan (Sung by Andy at the end of Living the Dream) Open Your Eyes by Snow Patrol (used in the DVD Jim gave Pam in A.A.R.M. to reassure her that she’ll always be enough for him) Rainbow Connection (sung by Andy to Pam in a season 3 prank set up by Jim) Love Fool by The Cardigans (Jim and then Andy sang this in a high falsetto to bug Karen in one of the Stamford episodes) and I’m sure there are MANY more. Those are just off the top of my head.

63. Thank you everyone for the amazing ideas! We had such a fun Office finale party!

    Food:

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10101455209395718&l=9d15199d01

    All my office stuff that I’ve collected over the years with me and my official party sign:

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10101455204360808&l=3ca1daee63

64. Blue Blast!

65. Todd Packer’s laced cupcakes, how in the world is this not on here!

66. Stanley’s 3×5!!!! And I am making a cake with the quote from Stanley, “If I don’t have cake soon, I’ll die.”

67. COCO LECHE MY FAVOURITE

68. What about that coin game many of them played at the bar table?