“The Office” shows daily chaos at Dunder Mifflin, a paper company in Scranton. Created by Greg Daniels, it captures awkward office dynamics. Steve Carell stars as Michael Scott, a lovable disaster of a boss. The show mixes comedy, drama and real-life workplace moments. You get to know quirky characters like Dwight Schrute and the romance of Jim and Pam. With unforgettable pranks and relatable situations, “The Office” delivers laughs for everyone.

Discover pranks from The Office

Dress and mimic as one of your co-workers

Oh man, this one is full-on performance art — like, put-on-the-voice-and-pretend-you-are-Pat-from-accounting energy. It’s flattering and creepy at once; you get all these tiny details down (the way they sip coffee, their weird left-hand mouse twitch) and then somehow mess up the one crucial thing, like calling them by the wrong nickname — whoops. It makes the whole office feel like a sitcom for a few glorious minutes and then awkward again for the rest of the day. Also, it inexplicably involves a silly hair accessory that only shows up in hindsight.

Reposition someone’s desk by moving it one inch throughout the day

This is the slow-burn, patient-aggressor of pranks and I LOVE it — tiny, almost imperceptible shifts that turn the office into a slightly surreal landscape. You need measuring tape, stealth, and the kind of dedication usually reserved for bonsai trimming, and yes, someone will notice eventually and freak out about “the room feeling off.” It’s oddly calming to carry out, like you’re conducting a science experiment, except the variable is someone’s sanity. Also, the prankster often forgets where the corner went and swears there was never a coffee ring there.

Order 15 large pizzas under someone else’s name

This is the loud, generous chaos move — a cascade of carbs that arrives like a confused, cheesy cavalry. It’s part prank, part party, totally public and slightly humiliating for the named person, but usually ends with everyone trading slices and awkward apologies (and pineapple debates, naturally). It reads like a love letter and a public accusation rolled into one — and sometimes the wrong name actually gets blamed for leftovers for weeks. Fun fact: there’s always that one pizza that mysteriously disappears before the photo gets taken.

Get other co-workers to call one co-worker by a different name all day

Pure absurdist social experiment. You recruit allies, decide on a new moniker (bonus points for picking something hilariously off-brand), and then watch the confusion bloom — it’s playful, slightly mean, and oddly bonding, like everyone agreed to walk through a shared hallucination. Half the time the new name sticks in the strangest ways, which is both the triumph and the tiny office trauma. Also, there is a stupid spreadsheet somewhere tracking who forgot the alias, and yes, I have seen it.

Send someone letters from their future self

Creepy and comforting in one dingy envelope — it reads like a fortune cookie written by a melancholy time traveler. The letters give oddly specific advice (bring an umbrella on Wednesday; avoid the third donut) and sometimes threaten with very polite, ominous tone about missed deadlines. It’s the kind of prank that makes people laugh and then check their shoes for secret notes, plus the handwriting always looks slightly sloppier each time. Also, sometimes the “future self” accidentally signs off with current gossip and then everything unravels (in the cutest way).

Slowly increase the weight of someone’s telephone throughout the day

Methodical, a little petty, and strangely scientific — you add a paperclip here, a tiny bolt there, watch their bicep do micro-workouts. It’s satisfying because the change is almost invisible until someone’s arms are suddenly like “when did telephones get so heavy?” The prankster feels like a benevolent villain, cataloguing each gram added like a chef seasoning a stew, and occasionally leaves a cheeky note that says “gains.” Oh and yes, sometimes the phone ends up tipping into a suspiciously shaped mug and then reality becomes slapstick.

Send someone letters from the CIA

This one is full-on melodrama and fake secrecy; typed memos, bold red stamps, and an over-eager sense of espionage. It’s deliciously over the top — “we are monitoring your stapler usage” — and makes the recipient look over their shoulder for three hours, perfect for drama. It toes the line between hilarious and alarming (read the room!) and usually includes a bogus case number that everyone pretends is real. Side note: someone once included a grocery receipt by accident and the whole spy vibe went downhill in the best possible way.

Convince someone it’s a different day than it is

This is the temporal prank, like a small, malicious reality shift — change calendars, slip “Friday” into conversations, set the clocks 24 hours ahead and watch the dominoes fall. High risk, high reward: done right it’s a surreal comedic masterpiece, done wrong and it ruins payroll (don’t be that person). The sweet chaos of watching people micro-justify why they did the thing “yesterday” is just chef’s kiss. Also, it tends to create a devoted believer who insists it was always Thursday, no matter what.

Put office items in Jell-O

Iconic, ridiculous, and Instagram-ready — the classic gelatin jail of staplers and pens that somehow never gets old. It’s silly, tactile, and a tiny bit cruel to mice and keyboards, but everyone laughs (then sighs about the cleanup like it’s a family ritual). There’s an art to choosing the object — small, symbolic, slightly vengeful — and the color choice says a lot about the prankster’s mood that day. Fun contradiction: it’s the most nostalgic prank and also somehow wildly modern, like a retro meme IRL.