The Office Fan Tours, Scranton
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 | 98 commentsJune 27, 2009: Mindy’s report
This past Saturday, June 27th, my sister and I took a trip up to Scranton to experience The Office Fan Tour. When I saw the announcement of the tours, I knew I had to go since it’s so close, how could anyone pass it up.
I live just outside of Philadelphia so it was only about a 2 hour drive. My sister lives in Pittsburgh, PA, so she flew home for the trip. Once in Scranton, we headed to The Mall at Steamtown which is where to tours begin. (Also, we were amongst other Tallyheads, but I’m sorry that I didn’t get their names.)
When we arrived at the mall, we headed straight for the “Welcome to Scranton” sign that is featured in the opening credits of the show.
The tour begins with some history as to how Scranton became the town where The Office would take place, we saw some clips of behind the scenes with the cast that a local news station did. They wanted to know how much the cast actually knew about Scranton (some did better than others). The room where this happens is full of huge painted cut outs of the cast (this was one of my favorite things!).
It was time to get on the bus to go see some sites made well known by The Office. Our first stop was the Penn Paper building (which is the building we first see on the opening credits).
Next stop, Farley’s (Home of the Michael Scott burger).
Then we were on our way to Coopers for an amazing lunch. We had everything from sandwiches and fries to Schrute Family Beet salad (which my sister and I were good sports about and did try the beets for the full experience, they weren’t as bad as I thought they were going to be but I don’t think they will become part of my everyday diet).
Once lunch was over, we were back on the bus and headed to Lake Scranton. On the way to the lake, we did some office trivia for Schrutebucks. In the end, the person with the most Schrutebucks won a prize. We arrived at the lake and it was beautiful and the tour guides were quick to point out that there is no sand at Lake Scranton.
While we were at Lake Scranton the tour guides also told us that there would be “beach games” so most of us took part in a spoon and “plastic” egg race (it was so much fun). I did not win the race but I was happy enough that my egg stayed on the spoon while I ran!
We were back on the bus headed to our final stop of the tour and probably the most anticipated stop. On to Poor Richards Pub! We were all a little shocked to see what Poor Richards was really like but we all had a good time while we were there and I’m pretty sure the majority of people on our tour left with Poor Richards Pub T-shirts (my sister and I included). Here’s my sister on her way inside Poor Richards.
After we left our final stop on the tour, we were headed back to the mall to say our “good-byes” and “thank you’s”. I told our guides more than once that day that the idea of an office fan tour had to be one of the greatest ideas I’ve ever heard of.
The tour was one of the coolest things I have ever done and would highly recommend it to any fan of The Office. I couldn’t believe that we had made it the entire day without a “TWSS” but I just couldn’t help myself and when the opportunity presented itself while we were saying good-bye I blurted out “that’s what she said” to one of the guides and we all had a huge laugh.
So thank you again to the awesome tour guides and people of Scranton, and to Tanster for allowing me to share my awesome experience with you all.
I just couldn’t help myself with this one, I saw the van and just had to take a picture of it. Dwight: Hello rock 107 am I the 107th caller? Hello rock 107 am I the 107th caller?
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If I win “The Office Fan Tour Giveaway”, I would be most excited about seeing Lake Scranton because I love mother nature and its now a tourist location made possible by…my favorite actor B.J. Novak!
ohmigod. i am so pumped about this! i know im just a teen, but if i won the ‘Office Fan Tour Giveaway’, it would be the highlight of my life! you have no idea :) id love to visit everywhere the tour goes and more!
If my fiance and I were to win “The Office Fan Tour Giveaway” it would be a great early honeymoon for us (we get married in July). The sight we’re most excited to see is COOPERS Restaurant which is ironic because my fiance is allergic to shellfish. Please pick us, we’re the LATINO version of Jim & Pam :)
For The Office Fan Tour Giveaway, I’d want to visit Lake Scranton to see if I could find Andy floating in it.
If I won The Office Fan Tour Giveaway, I would find the Chili’s restaurant closest to Scranton, then proceed to ask them all about the Dundie awards ceremonies, including a certain crazy receptionist. I would also bring my Dundie with me so my sister and I could act out part of the awards episode – and sing the baby back ribs song. (Is it bad that it would be a dream come true if we were banned for life?) And for those wondering about more “official” Scranton landmarks, I’d make my own drive-by opening credit video sequence for good measure.
I would like to have a beer at Poor Richard’s if I won the Office Fan Tour Giveaway!
If I won The Office Fan Tour Giveaway I would like to see Lake Wallenpaupack because my favorite episode was the Booze Cruise!
I would love to visit Poor Richard’s, and then have my best friend’s bachelorette party there, the attendants are all office fans!
If I win The Office Fan Tour Giveaway, the landmark I most want to see is the “Electric City” sign, WHAT? The “Electric City” sign! WHAT? The “Electric City” sign!!
The landmark I’d most like to see is Poor Richards…because the duck in the vending machine is so cute. I wonder if they have another.
If I won the tickets from The Office Fan Tour Giveaway I’d like to go to Steamtown Mall.
…because I do have some things to return in the trunk of my car.
The landmark I’d most be excited for is Poor Richard’s, because it seems to be the most referenced. Who wouldn’t want to hang out where “The Office” gang do? I probably won’t win The Office Fan Tour Giveaway but a girl’s gotta dream.
I’d consider myself lucky to win “The Office Fan Tour Giveaway” because it would mean…a day or two out of my OWN office! :) I’d most like to see the Steamtown Mall, because what girl wouldn’t love to shop in the fashion capital of the USA – Scranton, PA!
If I won the “Office Fan Tour Giveaway” I would be most excited to visit Poor Richards. It seems like it would actually be a fun place I would frequent if I lived in Scranton. I mean, I’m no Meredith, but I’m just saying.
Winning “The Office Fan Tour Giveaway” would be a dream come true! I’m most excited about visiting Cooper’s. The beet salad sounds a little scary, but I would love to try it just to say I have.
If I won the Office Fan Tour Giveaway, I would want to visit Poor Richards because of all the great episodes tied to that place, and most especially, because that’s where we got to see Possessive Jim come out when the bartender tried to put the moves on Pam in Season 4 Local Ad.
If I won “The Office Fan Tour Giveaway” and I got to visit Scranton, I would love to go to Lake Wallenpaupack. I don’t know if there are booze cruises on it, but if there are it would be pretty awesome to go on one.
This is a really hard question because I would be really excited if I saw got to go see the landmarks of Scranton. I would probably have to pick Poor Richard’s because it is referenced the most. Hopefully I will be able to have as good a time as the characters from the show.
If I won, I’d be most interested to see Lake Scranton because it’s the primary setting for one of my favorite episodes (“Beach Games”) and I’d probably bring my GPS to see how on Earth Michael ended up turning his Sebring into it, when there is CLEARLY not a road there.
If I won the “Office Fan Tour Giveaway” I would want to visit Poor Richards Pub the most. Maybe i’ll be luck and win a yellow duck for pam ;) I have been dying to take the office tour!