How long does it take to watch The Office (US)?

The Office is the show whose runtime is most often quoted wrongly, because three different numbers are all defensible. The episode count is 201 if you count broadcast episodes and 186 if you count the hour-long ones as single entries; the superfan edition adds deleted scenes that push several episodes past 45 minutes. Published binge figures range from 74 hours to nearly 100 depending on which of those you pick. The figure here is the conservative one: broadcast episodes at their broadcast lengths, which undercounts slightly because roughly a dozen supersized episodes run 28 to 52 minutes.

The numbers

Total

3 days 1 hour

In hours

73.7 hours

Non-stop

3.1 days without sleeping

Covers

201 episodes across 9 seasons

At a realistic pace

an episode a day

That works out as

about 201 days

What this assumes

201 broadcast episodes at a nominal 22 minutes. This is a floor, not an exact total — the supersized episodes push the true figure a few hours higher.

Sources disagree materially. Episode count is quoted as both 186 and 201 depending on how hour-long episodes are counted, and published totals range from 74 to 99.5 hours. The figure here counts 201 broadcast episodes at standard length.

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