"Dunder Mifflin was a disaster as a business," writes Neil Irwin of the Washington Post. Why? For a small firm that sells relatively expensive product, they employee way too many useless workers. (Three accountants, for example.) Headquarters are in midtown Manhattan, one of the most expensive places on earth to rent office space. Dunder Mifflin prides itself on service, but intensive service for a low-tech industry like paper production is more likely to annoy than illuminate. This is of course a TV show. It's with this in mind that another Post writer, Hank Stuever, highlights the most truly unrealistic aspect of the work environment

That's Philadelphia comedian Tommy Pope on the left, clapping as Steve Martin walks by during a thoroughly entertaining 3-minute walk-on to the set of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night. Full video below. Watch. It's worth it. You may recognize Pope from that incredible "Deck the Hall & Oates" Christmas parody. Pope, a Drexel Hill native, tells me that he's been to the Fallon studio a few times and that his comedic cohort Luke Cunningham (they have a comedy collective called BirdText) is a writer for Fallon. Here's the "Deck the Hall & Oates" parody, with Pope in the pink sweater:

On his way to a weekend of Scranton-related festivities, for The Office's final sendoff, Rainn Wilson--AKA Dwight Schrute--began experiencing a sensation with which many of us are familiar: deep, bitter frustration at Philadelphia International Airport and its US Airways overlords. Here's Wilson, in his own tweets. So @usairways just screwed me & half the cast of The Office. Conctng flight left BEFORE departure time. Sorry Scranton won't see u til tom. — RainnWilson (@rainnwilson) May 3, 2013 I'm going to REALLY enjoy trying to convince 3.5 million twinions not to fly @usairways b/c of their shitty service. — RainnWilson (@rainnwilson) May 3, 2013 We're being