5 Reasons Why The Office And M*A*S*H Are Secretly The Same Show
This is something you may not have thought of before. In fact, this stunning realization only came to me last night. But it's true. The soon-to-end NBC series The Office is in fact the same show as the classic CBS series M*A*S*H. Despite the fact they both are adapted from other sources (The Office being based off the BBC2 show of the same name, M*A*S*H being based off the film and book of the same name), we'll focus on the American television versions. And to begin, we'll focus on the more obvious comparisons. The Office... is a long-running sitcom focusing on a group of wildly different characters, set in the workplace they all share - Dunder Mifflin Paper Company in Scranton, Pennsylvania. M*A*S*H... was a long-running sitcom focusing on a group of wildly different characters, set in the workplace the all share - the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital located a short distance from the front lines in of the Korean War. Okay, so while they're similar, that's not enough evidence to justify the claim, I admit that. So let's look through what defines any show: its characters. For starters, there's the....