The Office: 10 Best Characters Who Appeared After Season One
7. Hunter Raymond
The NBC Office didn’t traffic in the comedy of awkwardness to the same extent as its BBC forefather, but much of its most cringeworthy material came from the relationship between Jan Levinson and her young, doe eyed assistant Hunter, who learned the ropes (and a whole lot more) from his increasingly unstable boss over at Dunder Mifflin corporate HQ.
Actor Nicholas D'Agosto - here in his late 20s but looking 17 - isn’t given a great deal of dialogue, but plays off Steve Carell spectacularly in their brief scenes together, making Michael immensely uncomfortable simply by being a young man in proximity to Jan. His deer in the headlights look is perfection - he looks like the least convincing romantic rival ever, but still sends Michael around the twist.
Hunter’s finest episode, though, is one in which he doesn’t even feature, the all-time classic “Dinner Party”. Jan plays his band (The Hunted) on loop, and the genuinely catchy number makes it plenty clear that her relationship with her former assistant was more than professional. Hard to watch, impossible to look away, and endlessly funny.