The Office Fan Ratings, Season 8

After each episode of The Office airs, fans rate it on a scale of 1 to 10.
Here are the ratings for Season 8.

Last poll: Tallahassee, February 16-20, 2012

1. 8.15 Tallahassee (Avg Rating: 8.47/10)
2. 8.10 Christmas Wishes (Avg Rating: 8.30/10)
3. 8.13 Jury Duty (Avg Rating: 8.12/10)
4. 8.04 Garden Party (Avg Rating: 7.83/10)
5. 8.14 Special Project (Avg Rating: 7.82/10)
6. 8.07 Pam’s Replacement (Avg Rating: 7.72/10)
7. 8.02 The Incentive (Avg Rating: 7.69/10)
8. 8.09 Mrs. California (Avg Rating: 7.60/10)
9. 8.01 The List (Avg Rating: 7.48/10)
10. 8.11 Trivia (Avg Rating: 7.28/10)
11. 8.12 Pool Party (Avg Rating: 7.23/10)
12. 8.06 Doomsday (Avg Rating: 7.16/10)
13. 8.05 Spooked (Avg Rating: 7.05/10)
14. 8.03 Lotto (Avg Rating: 6.43/10)
15. 8.08 Gettysburg (Avg Rating: 5.55/10)

See past ratings in the Fan Ratings Archive.

44 comments

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   44. Rae  Tue. Feb. 21, 2012 | 1:34pm

   Really happy to see Tallahassee on top of the ratings so far, and I totally agree. It was hilarious. The cold open alone was enough to make the whole episode, but I think it really stayed strong all the way through. Consistent and funny.

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   43. Alex  Thu. Feb. 16, 2012 | 10:39am

   I think Jury Duty was probably rated so high because Jenna Fischer returned. Just sayin.

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   42. Jen Z  Tue. Feb. 7, 2012 | 9:27am

   Yay! I’m so excited to see Jury Duty rate so high! I think this proves the fans love story lines written around the core characters….and that we really missed Jim and Pam :-)

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   41. P.louise  Wed. Jan. 25, 2012 | 7:56am

   Judging by the ratings on a few of the really good episodes this season I’m starting to wonder if those who are super Steve supporters are not giving episodes very low ratings just because it isn’t Steve. The comments for “Pool Party” have been, for the whole, very favorable. So why a 7.23? It just seems incongruous considering the bulk of the comments.

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   40. Heffernan  Tue. Jan. 24, 2012 | 4:33pm

   I don’t agree with the ratings of these episodes.
   I think the list was the worst office episode ever. And this season Christmas wishes, pool party, trivia, doomsday, and garden party were prob the best so far

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   39. remember to call  Tue. Jan. 24, 2012 | 4:15pm

   I don’t understand why the ratings have been consistently lower than even last season. I would definitely put S8 (so far) above S1 and most of S6. Yes, Seasons 2-5 will always be the “classic years”, and The Office jumped the shark in S6 IMO (Jim/Pam wedding, followed 2 months later by the sale of D-M, then a clip show, Jim and Pam’s baby, and soon after a string of unfunny episodes (the Michael/Donna arc was just not funny, again IMO)). But the humor definitely recovered in S7, and S8 has nearly, and sometimes has, lived up to S7 despite the loss of Michael.

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   38. Trent  Tue. Jan. 24, 2012 | 10:40am

   Well as far as fan ratings go, this hasn’t been a pleasing season to fans. Although, I don’t understand the general hate of Season 7. Sure it does have its share of bad episodes, but why it be considered the “worst season of the Office”? All seasons of the Office hold dear to me and I look at all of them the same in terms of greatness. Maybe it’s because Steve deserved a better season?

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   37. Josh  Thu. Jan. 19, 2012 | 11:33pm

   The worst episodes of The Office are still better than the best episodes of most shows, and that’s saying something.

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   36. Tim  Mon. Jan. 2, 2012 | 3:25pm

   i really liked all the episodes this season. Season 7 had some pretty bad episodes, but this year has been much better. If i had to pick a least favorite, it would probably be Pam’s replacement.

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    35. remember to call  Fri. Dec. 16, 2011 | 7:51pm

    Christmas Wishes definitely deserved to be where it is. I know this has been said time and time again, but Mindy Kaling needs to write more, as do the other writers who have been around at least 4 years (BJ Novak, Paul Lieberstein, and Justin Spitzer); remember when every episode was written by either one of these now-veterans or another great writer who has since left? That was the Office’s golden age!

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    34. Trent  Wed. Dec. 14, 2011 | 12:48am

    THANK YOU! finally an 8- rated episode!

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    33. P.Louise  Tue. Dec. 13, 2011 | 7:24pm

    I thought “Mrs. California” was going to be an 8 rated show, but it wasn’t; glad to see “Christmas Wishes” made the cut!

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    32. Trent  Fri. Dec. 9, 2011 | 3:26am

    I want an 8 rated episode! Ah! I thought Mrs. California was going to cut it for people but I guess not. 7.60 is not that bad though.

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    31. Laura S.  Mon. Nov. 28, 2011 | 5:02pm

    Doomsday is the only Season 8 episode I watched twice, which is saying a lot since I’ve seen most Office episodes at least ten times. Looks like not many agree with me on Doomsday! I was in the tiny minority that wasn’t concerned when Steve left, because I was always so much more impressed with the ensemble than his performance alone. But Season 8 is turning into a struggle. Andy has become Michael-lite, and though James Spader has been playing “the creep” since his Brat Pack days, I’m not comfortable with that character in The Office. I can’t shake the feeling that John and Jenna are phoning it in (though she’s understandably pregnant!). And they need to stop with the song-and-dance numbers, which seemed to start Season 7. This isn’t Glee. For the record, I found Gettysburg to be so bad I couldn’t finish watching, so I agree there. Waiting for things to get better. There’s so much talent in the ensemble that I believe it can.

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    30. NC  Sat. Nov. 26, 2011 | 3:00pm

    It’s a very accurate list. Garden Party at the top, and Gettysburg down the bottom where it belongs. But a 5.55 for Gettysburg? More like a 2.1. One of the worst episodes of all time.

    I’m a little surprised to see ‘Pam’s Replacement’ at number 2, but I did find all the crotch grabbing funny.

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    29. Roy's Mugshot  Thu. Nov. 24, 2011 | 1:47am

    To avoid low scores they should stop repeating the same “Andy needs a pep talk” plot every other episode.

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    28. Emily  Wed. Nov. 23, 2011 | 3:36pm

    Gettysburg was definitely not the worst episode this season. I can’t believe it has a lower rating than Lotto.

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    27. Janet  Wed. Nov. 23, 2011 | 7:00am

    Ridiculous!! There is no way any episode this year will be worse than Lotto. Gettysburg was very good – especially Robert thinking Kevin was the smart guy! That was clever.

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    26. Patrick  Wed. Nov. 23, 2011 | 1:56am

    Wow. I would count “Garden Party” as the second worst episode of “The Office” ever, after “Christening”. I guess I don’t understand my fellow “Office” fans.

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    25. Realist  Wed. Nov. 23, 2011 | 12:47am

    With all due respect, one doesn’t need to nitpick to find faults with the current episodes. The fact is, the writers have strayed from the original premise: a documentary about people working in a paper company, which is hilarious because it’s possibly the most boring subject for a documentary imaginable. The humor came from how mundane the characters’ lives were, the relationships and office politics, and of course the inappropriate boss who doesn’t realize that selling paper is mundane.

    More or less, the camera crew is now just used as a gimmick to record situations and behavior that is way over the top and not at all like a believable paper company (the believability being part of the original humor). Really, the producers should end the show after this season and then put together a reunion season in a few years to show what happened to the characters/how the documentary’s release affected their mundane lives. Either that or they need to repackage the show as a sitcom and stop pretending that this is the same series that aired in 2005.

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