Episode
The Office: Gossip
Overview
A few interns who stayed at Dunder-Mifflin over the summer end their internship. Michael announces some potentially damaging gossip about an employee to the rest of the office, then starts to spread false rumours about others to cover up what he has unwittingly revealed.
Details
- Series
- The Office
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 1
- Air date
- 2009-09-17
- Runtime
- 23 min
Episode context
Gossip is Episode 1 in Season 6 of The Office. It aired on 2009-09-17. The runtime is 23 min.
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