10 TV Show Moments You're Misremembering

5. Yes, Stanley Has A Mustache - The Office

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Without Googling it, can you categorically say whether or not The Office's Stanley Hudson (Leslie David Baker) has a mustache?

If your answer is "no," you're wrong, but in the very least it's easy to see why you're wrong, given that the show itself even devoted an hilarious scene to exploring this false memory.

The season eight episode "Welcome Party" opens with the office debating whether or not Stanley, who is about to return to the office after a stint in hospital, has a mustache.

Despite most of Dunder Mifflin's employees having worked with him for years at this point, none of them can say for sure whether he has a 'tache or not, prompting Pam (Jenna Fischer) to draw two pictures of Stanley - one with a mustache, the other without - in an attempt to get to the bottom of it.

When Stanley finally shows up at the office, the truth is revealed - he does indeed have a mustache, in what's one of The Office's most brilliantly meta cold open gags.

After all, who among us could say with absolute certainty that Stanley did indeed have a mustache?

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