‘The Office’ Experience Is a Bizarre Theme Park for Millennial Die-Hards

A vat of spilled chili looms in the bowels of The Office Experience. It levitates in mid-air, the cascading beans and sauce frozen in stasis as they tumble and splat against the carpet. Even if you’re the most disengaged fan of the titular NBC sitcom, you will immediately recognize this as a scene from Season 5, Episode 26, when Kevin—the lovable putz played by Brian Baumgartner—trips, falls, and accidentally desecrates Dunder Mifflin with a brown stew of questionable consistency.

It's one of the most famous gags in the history of The Office, and this exhibit serves as its shrine. Visitors take their spot behind the vessel and twist their face into a Kevin-ish expression, as their partners capture future Instagram grid shots. With tickets starting at $35, they're hell-bent on getting their money's worth.

The chili vat is just the tip of the iceberg. The Office Experience winds its patrons through a zoo of Office locales and memorabilia, all rendered with exacting, Disneyland-like detail. There is, for instance, a perfect replica of Pam's reception desk, complete with a collage of in-universe sticky notes pinned to her computer monitor. That tiny, Protestant, western New York chapel where Jim and Pam get hitched has also been fully constructed; Walk inside, and you'll hear an instrumental loop of Chris Brown's "Forever" echoing down the nave.

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