Get ready to fill your World’s Best Boss mug with tears on April 28, because that’s the date of Steve Carell’s last episode on The Office. Carell’s misfit manager Michael Scott is departing Dunder Mifflin three weeks before the NBC comedy’s hourlong season finale on May 19. Will Ferrell will guest star as Michael’s replacement for several episodes beginning in April. Carell—who has garnered five Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe trophy in the role—filmed his last scenes for the show on March 4.
Mar 10
2011
09:00 PM ET
'The Office' to bid farewell to Steve Carell on April 28
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Look out! Shark!
Who cares about the lame Office, I just watched the entire Firefly series and saw the beautiful movie Serenity – It HAS to be one of the greatest tragedies in tv/film that this series is not continuing on – EW has to give more coverage to this – NOW!!!!
what website are you on, happiest troll in the valley? EW is giving TONS of coverage to Firefly, especially recently…
Firefly/Serenity is this generation’s Star Wars. Malcolm Reynolds is a billion times cooler than Han Solo
I’m right there with you on how great Firefly is but why in the heck are you deciding to post about it here and bash another great show in the process?
Shut the heck up nobody cares about Firefly and Serenity. They both are sh!t.
And don’t even THINK you can compare them to The Office and especially STAR WARS.
Go back to your World of Warcraft you nerd.
Didn’t Firefly end some years ago? Sure it was a great show, but that doesn’t take away from Office, which will miss Michael but will certainly still be great. I think they should bring in Ricky Gervais, at least for a few eps.
Firefly is absolutely one of my favorite shows of all time…but how can you compare it to The Office? They’re completely different genres of television, apples and oranges my friend. Say what you will but The Office is pretty shiny too!
You’re an idiot. What does firefly have to do with this article? You firefly nerds need to bring up that damn show every chance you get. I watched firefly, it was OK but is irrelevant to this article. Also why would EW be reporting on a show that ended years ago, how is that news?
Sigh.
The phrase “jumped the shark” has jumped the shark, along with “fail”, and “winning.”
“Fail” is approaching the shark. “Winning” still has a little more tread on the tires. Your jumping the gun has jumped the shark.
Thank you, Michael. I thought I was the only one who is sick of “fail” and “winning”. I’d add “epic fail” and “epic win” to the list, along with “Team ____” and the most overused word of all: “awesome”.
How dare you mock me! I am irate.
No, I’m just kidding. Feel free to judge and mock.
The whole shark thing is, admittedly, tired, but I think justified in this case. Why? The phrase was, of course, originally coined to describe a show that has gone on too long, and should have gone out on a high note instead of forcing things with, let’s say, stunt casting. So I’m okay with my use of it here. But, like I say, I’m also fine with getting zinged for using it.
The phrase was originally coined for when something completely ridiculous and nonsensical happens, like jumping over a shark while water-skiing.
“There was an episode of Happy Days where a guy LITERALLY jumped over a shark . . . and it was the best one.”
(Troy Barnes)
It was Henry Winkler as Fonzie.
Michael thinks he’s people!
Really? He couldn’t even finish the season….
That’s how they wrote it…
I guess this way we’ll have a taste of what the show will be like without him before a long break. Sadly, my expectations are not too high.
Booo…
Who cares about this garbage show or any of NBC’s so called “comedies” on Thursday?
Then go enjoy the lowest-common-denominator generic sitcoms on CBS.
How will his character depart?
Gonna miss you, Michael!
The office is worse than me
LOL! I don’t agree but still, very funny!
Good riddance Michael, you will NOT be missed and the show needs to follow.
It’ll be a sad day in television history. There are times when Steve Carell as Michael made me horribly uncomfortable…but for every time I was uncomfortable, there were 10 more times I was laughing my butt off! I wish Steve and the cast all my best and gratitude for a fabulous TV show!
So sad to see Carell leave the show. Without Michael Scott’s awkward and sometimes inappropriate, yet big hearted, behavior, “The Office” will never be the same. I can only hope the producers of the show, don’t screw this up by bringing in someone unappealing like Ricky Gervais or someone of that sort. If you could lure someone like Will Ferrell to the show or Zack Galifinakis, you have to go for it. Steve Carell left some big shoes to fill and it’s gonna take a big actor to fill them.
The end of a comedy era…
Who was supposed to be the funny one?
Thanks for the spoiler re: Michael’s replacement. Was it really necessary to mention Will Ferrell in this piece? I did know that Ferrell was slated to do a guest spot on the Office, but not as Michael’s replacement. And frankly, I really didn’t want to know that until it happened on screen.
Will Ferrell is not the permanent replacement, he’s only been signed on for a few episodes. The real replacement has yet to be announced.
Do you guys remember who is the other actor that was considered for the role of Michael?
Paul Giamatti!
I hope they bring him to the show. I do feel like he could be a good replacement for the role
Steve Carell is the core of ‘The Office’ and for my two cents, he’ll be dearly missed. That said…the show has done a good job of making changes in the past, i.e., Jim moving to another branch, Michael leaving to form his paper company, etc., that people thought would be the end to the format, and the show used those as creative ways to try new things. So I’ll reserve judgment for the non-Michael Scott ‘Office’ until I see it.