The Office (2005)

Dinner Party (season 4, 2008) The American series takes its Scranton staff out of the office and traps them in Michael and Jan's condo for what one writer called the world's worst dinner party. The writers modelled it on Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and it shows: Jim and Pam, tricked into coming, have no way to leave as a couple's private war plays out over drinks, a house tour and a very small television. The cramped set does real work, because the guests can never get far enough away to stop witnessing it. If the show's cringe comedy usually lets you look away at a talking head, this is the episode where it holds you in the room.