The Office: 10 Best Characters Who Appeared After Season One
8. Mose Schrute
In season nine, the Office producers attempted a backdoor pilot for a Dwight spinoff show. The A-plot of an episode took place on Schrute farms, where we were introduced to Dwight’s extended family of weirdos, in order to generate enthusiasm for the proposed agricultural comedy. It’s the most reviled episode in Office history, and the show never happened.
The producers should have taken the message from their effective use of Mose Schrute: with a character this crazy, less is certainly more. As portrayed by writer (and Parks And Rec/Brooklyn Nine-Nine/Good Place co-creator) Michael Schur, Mose is cartoon-like, a mostly silent, stunted man whose sporadic appearances allow him to fit into the margins of the docu-comedy stylings.
Utilised thusly, he’s good for a few whopping laughs per season - valeting Toby’s car at Andy’s garden party, providing a racoon delivery service, running in a delightfully bizarre fashion, or just standing perfectly still in a magnificently creepy fashion.
He also serves the important purposes of grounding Dwight, who can verge on parody himself. Compared to cousin Mose, he’s every part the urbane city slicker.