10 Ways The Office Went From Great To Terrible

Arguable one of the worst episodes of The Office, literally the one that comes up if you Google 'worst episode of the office', is 'The Banker'. This episode follows an investment banker who interviews Toby about Dunder Mifflin's history with intermittent flashbacks from the first five seasons of The Office.

The titular banker character was clearly an excuse to use a clipshow template to revisit classic moments from the glory days of the show. This may have been the sign that the show was running out of gas as it was now relying on the goodwill of the previous seasons rather than creating new moments.

If this had been a one off occurrence it would have been forgivable but this overreliance on nostalgia became more prevalent particularly after Steve Carell left and the show's glory days were truly behind them. The final few episodes of season nine even deals with the fictional documentary finally being broadcast and the characters looking back fondly at the early seasons. While it may have reminded many why they fell in love with The Office all those years ago it does so by forcing viewers down nostalgia lane.