That joke always cracks me up. But if I think about it too hard I get a little sad for Meredith’s kid. Poor thing has a full time single working mom who’s also getting her PhD and drinking all the time. Poor Jakey.
Little Shit: "You're ugly."
Dwight: "Well, at least I'm not a horrible little latchkey kid who got suspended from school. So..."
Little Shit who calls his Mom by her first name: *"Meredith!"*
accccctualllyyyyyy... damn you jabroni, you're right. He kind of mumbles it and I always thought it was a "black people hospital" because Charlie was (rightfully) making him participate in a paternity test
I’m S2 E15 Boys and Girls when they’re telling something they know they’re good at, Meredith starts to say “Hi I’m Meredith and I’m an al…..good at supplier relations.”
You can’t act like that was the best work environment. I think we’ve seen her drink 3-4 times in 8 seasons? Also if she’s an alcoholic so is Craig Robinson who collapsed on the table right before he thought it was a good idea to fight Jim.
There’s a Superfan scene where Meredith and Karen have the same thermos or something, and after that exchange Meredith offers to make Karen’s coffee Irish. So it’s implied she drinks frequently on the job lol
I always assumed that because Packer said that he had herpes, Meredith had herpes and Michael joked about "Packer banging every chick in the office" it was a safe assumption to make.
I mean he spurns her advances, but thinks Packer sleeping with every chick in the office is a hilarious prank….good thing she has those sweet Outback meet ups.
If you think about it Meredith’s story is probably very tragic….best not to dwell.
Anything that could explain why she acts the way she does can only be a tragic backstory, its better to remain unknown and dont feel bad for her, just laugh about how wacky she is.
This is the correct answer though I disagree about leaving it unknown. If there is a deeper understanding for what she’s been through, it makes her character easier to commiserate with and appreciate her wackiness even more.
Yep, a single mom in active addiction is not funny... whatever childhood trauma she suffered is best left unexamined. She is the saddest character. But it's comedy right... so bring on the CPTSD! 🤪
They say psychologists are some of the most screwed up people. Meredith is a doctor of psychology and she raised her child in that manner. It's why he calls her Meredith. She was only drinking that heavily during the show because it was her college days.
Meredith's a little bit\*\* slutty, but makes no pretensions about who she is.
Unlike Angela who is a little bit slutty but pretends to be little miss prissy.
\*\* subject to your individual impression and opinion.
I always imagine that she was a hot party girl in her teens in the 70s/80s. She was at her peak at 18/19 and is unable to admit that it is time to grow up.
She was just partying, drinking, doing drugs, and banging dudes. She doesn't seem to be the most responsible person, so she eventually gets knocked up by a guy who washes dishes or does crime or something. She seems like the type who would value sensation over protection from STDs and children.
I imagine she left the dude, or he went to jail, pretty early in their relationship. Since she was probably still in her early to mid 20s, and still attractive, she continued to party.
By the time we see her, she's been a party girl for 20+ years. She has also rationalized her lifestyle, so to her, what she is doing is perfectly normal. She's also probably been hanging around low-quality people most of her life. The ones that grew up, moved on, but she stayed the same.
There are, of course, many darker things that probably happened to her, but its just better to think that she's just an uninhibited party girl who never grew up.
Yeah, that’s the realest and most mundane answer. Everyone on the show’s an exaggerated version of a real person - eg, bad boss, weird antisocial coworker.
Meredith is a woman who was good-looking when she was younger and is still acting like she can get away with things because she’s hot, but now she just looks like a regular person and it’s not charming. But hey, it makes for very funny moments
I believe that explains Phyllis becoming more of a bully. She was probably a popular, but mean girl in HS, but she was overweight, so life slowly turned her into a shy grandma before her time. Plus, if she was there at the time, Packer slept with all the chicks, so….that would destroy anyone. Then at the office Olympics she starts to come alive, and works up the nerve to talk to Bob Vance. Bob goes out with her because of the cameras (free publicity), but as she grows more confident and snotty, Bob can’t get enough. So, she just keeps feeding the inner mean girl until she has a happy marriage, but is an awful person.
Being unlucky..
Single mom raising a shit kid who doesn't even call her mom.. ( he calls her Meredith)
Get lice and the only one that shaves their heads..
Get a bat caught in her face and also get run over by Micheal..
Set her own hair on fire, maybe because she wanted to drink away her sorrows away..
What came out of it was a badass rocker mom with dope ass mini van and a person who would steal for you even if it's steaks..
She just don't give a F anymore..
She's the classy kind of woman who takes a BM in the shredder. Been there, done that kind of woman. And her purse is full of Steak coupons. Who are we to judge?
I’ve always believed Meredith is someone who is easy going, doesn’t take anything too seriously, is a blast at parties, has been an occasional flesh Hoover, and believes there’s no problem a beer can’t fix.
She was faking it for attention, but she’s been doing it so long that she actually became like that…like Ally Sheedy in the Breakfast Club, but she snaps out of it once she gets positive attention
Hmm. Maybe her dad wasn't in the picture and her mom smoked cigarettes, bought lotto tickets and played bingo while she left Meredith at home to babysit herself
Early in the show she’s an alcoholic and somewhat of a whore. They get ridiculous with the plot later which takes away how grounded she used to be. She mistakens a dunder middlin group meeting for an AA meeting. She didn’t mind seeing a stripper in the office and was the only time she ever raised her voice at that point. Then, like every side character on the office, they turned into caricatures. Michael warned Kevin in his final episode. Turns out, it was everyone, except Angela. She was a cold bitch until the very end!
There's a cut scene:
Jim: Probably spent her summers here, lounging on the beach and scooping ice cream.
Pam: But she didn't want her summers to end, so she got herself a fake ID and a push-up bra and started hanging out at the local bars.
Jim : Right. Developed a nasty coke habit, 'cause she loved the way it made her feel.
Pam: Mm-hmm.
Jim : But then extreme highs gave way to extreme lows and she fell into a depression.
Pam: Had herself a kid. Thought it would give her a sense of purpose. And it did, for a while, till she started using again.
Jim : Mm-hmm. And then Social Services came knocking at the door, and now the kid loves upstate with his grandparents, 'cause she can't take care of this kid. And here she is festering away in a one-bedroom apartment waiting for the HIV to turn into AIDS...
Jokes aside, she's a "functional" alcoholic, and people addicted to alcohol have a higher prevalence of certain personality traits, like her histrionic behavior - she does and says stuff mostly for shock value.
Having a rebellious child and a failed marriage are definitely correlated to that. Although we can't tell which of those caused the other two.
I like her, though. Idk, it takes resilience to be run over by your boss, he breaks your crotch, then your hair gets caught on fire inside the office, then people accuse you of bringing lice and the peer pressure makes you shave your head, and you still keep going to that same job when you could've easily sued the heck out of them.
Ps:(I *think* Dwight did something to her on his fire simulation, but I don't remember what rn)
Alcohol and low confidence.
Despite her occasional looseness, she comes across as someone who takes ownership and is one of the kinder people on the show.
She probably has money problems, which make it hard at home. Her kids don’t see her as a mother and her ex husband was very abusive, which makes her tough. The money problems, divorce, and problems with her kids would all contribute to a drinking problem.
Maybe it’s a girl thing, but getting those steak coupons just made her feel good about herself.
disturbing 😂
As old as mankind itself
She’s in college
The correct answer
That joke always cracks me up. But if I think about it too hard I get a little sad for Meredith’s kid. Poor thing has a full time single working mom who’s also getting her PhD and drinking all the time. Poor Jakey.
He’s doing fine. Making good money as a dancer. Plus, she taught him some sweet moves to help him advance in his career.
Grad school does things to people.
Divorced, working full time and raising a little shit of a kid on her own … speaks for itself, honestly
Little Shit: "You're ugly." Dwight: "Well, at least I'm not a horrible little latchkey kid who got suspended from school. So..." Little Shit who calls his Mom by her first name: *"Meredith!"*
and he chastises Charlie for bringing him "to a black hospital"
I WANNA GO TO THE MALL!!!
What are you gonna do if that kid is yours, Charlie?
I could be wrong, but I think it's a "black people's house" I didn't realize it was the same kid though! Good call
accccctualllyyyyyy... damn you jabroni, you're right. He kind of mumbles it and I always thought it was a "black people hospital" because Charlie was (rightfully) making him participate in a paternity test
lol, I’d like to believe IAAIP and The Office share the same story universe.
You call your mother by her first name? That is very disrespectful
Plus she’s an alcoholic possibly because of the things you listed but I feel it’s an important addition
She's **NOT AN ALCOHOLIC**
She does have an addition tho. To porn
"Ughhhhh" (The whole conference room)
hi, i’m meredith palmer and i’m an alcoh… good at supplier relations
Who doesn't party in college????
I’m S2 E15 Boys and Girls when they’re telling something they know they’re good at, Meredith starts to say “Hi I’m Meredith and I’m an al…..good at supplier relations.”
Its not a crime to be an al, though. Whatever that is, because its not an alcoholic
*not an alkie.
Michael Scott is the reason she drinks
Michael Scotch?
Tastes like Splenda gets you drunk like scotch
Hey, it’s college!
She still has five years to get sober. Actually four and a half.
Her new years resolution was not to drink anymore... ..during the week
I can relate. Honestly me and Meredith are pretty similar.
Username checks out???
I think Alcohol is a Mereditholic!
She was in school the whole time. Why does no one show this?
Plus getting her PhD
And she was getting her PhD
She could be an alcoholic because of this, or this could be her reality because of alcohol. But alcohol plays a huge part in her arch
You can’t act like that was the best work environment. I think we’ve seen her drink 3-4 times in 8 seasons? Also if she’s an alcoholic so is Craig Robinson who collapsed on the table right before he thought it was a good idea to fight Jim.
There’s a Superfan scene where Meredith and Karen have the same thermos or something, and after that exchange Meredith offers to make Karen’s coffee Irish. So it’s implied she drinks frequently on the job lol
So that’s what Irish coffee means.
Pam is literally banned from chilis
Also bit by a rat and a raccoon. Two separate occasions.
Don't they also insinuate that she got/gave herpes to Packer?
imo they didn’t really insinuate that but they do both have hirpees
I always assumed that because Packer said that he had herpes, Meredith had herpes and Michael joked about "Packer banging every chick in the office" it was a safe assumption to make.
And she was in college. The party years.
She feels like someone who’s trying to escape the trailer she’s brought up in
And is a college student*
Meredith. Your BOOB is showing.
Where are your panties?
It's casual day !
Toby!?
damn it Meredith where are your panties
It’s the emphasis for me 🤣
Bunch of prudes
I like how calmly Oscar says it, while everyone else is in shock
DAMMIT Meredith, where are your panties?!!!
I can't read or think about this without hearing Kelly's voice lmao
It’s casual day!
Michael, he is the reason why she drinks. He is the reason she lives to forget.
I mean he spurns her advances, but thinks Packer sleeping with every chick in the office is a hilarious prank….good thing she has those sweet Outback meet ups. If you think about it Meredith’s story is probably very tragic….best not to dwell.
Season 5, Episode 15 14:32 (Extended Cut)
I was agreeing with you……
Meat ups.
Her kid shits on the top of the toilet. He calls it an upper-decker.
Anything that could explain why she acts the way she does can only be a tragic backstory, its better to remain unknown and dont feel bad for her, just laugh about how wacky she is.
This is the correct answer though I disagree about leaving it unknown. If there is a deeper understanding for what she’s been through, it makes her character easier to commiserate with and appreciate her wackiness even more.
We do know that her son suffers from dyslexia
We know that she sells her body for Steakhouse meals.
She was in college! Just partying and living it up like many college kids
Honestly, the moment I read the question, my heart sank and my mind raced with the possibilities of what she’d been through.
Yep, a single mom in active addiction is not funny... whatever childhood trauma she suffered is best left unexamined. She is the saddest character. But it's comedy right... so bring on the CPTSD! 🤪
They say psychologists are some of the most screwed up people. Meredith is a doctor of psychology and she raised her child in that manner. It's why he calls her Meredith. She was only drinking that heavily during the show because it was her college days.
It's casual day. 🤷♀️
Anyone else see that crazy theory video where the guy claimed Meredith was an alternate reality version of Pam who married Roy?
Don’t call her Merry…
I ascribe to this theory myself.
Rabies
Watch the last episode. It's in there
Just like creed, she stopped caring long time ago.
“Hey uhh why haven’t we ever…” “We have.”
Meredith's a little bit\*\* slutty, but makes no pretensions about who she is. Unlike Angela who is a little bit slutty but pretends to be little miss prissy. \*\* subject to your individual impression and opinion.
She’s not a prude
WTF are you talking about? She's been on her best behavior for nine years
If you’re not from Pennsylvania, you wouldn’t understand. Mer reminds me a lot of a true Pittsburgh woman and I love her
In my opinion, she’s the most authentic “scrantonian” on the show. I live in Scranton and see “Merediths” all over town.
She had a hysterectomy 🫣😂
She no longer has a vagina
“Ah, so that’s where her uterus went”
she just likes to party
We needed the discount in this economy.
I always imagine that she was a hot party girl in her teens in the 70s/80s. She was at her peak at 18/19 and is unable to admit that it is time to grow up. She was just partying, drinking, doing drugs, and banging dudes. She doesn't seem to be the most responsible person, so she eventually gets knocked up by a guy who washes dishes or does crime or something. She seems like the type who would value sensation over protection from STDs and children. I imagine she left the dude, or he went to jail, pretty early in their relationship. Since she was probably still in her early to mid 20s, and still attractive, she continued to party. By the time we see her, she's been a party girl for 20+ years. She has also rationalized her lifestyle, so to her, what she is doing is perfectly normal. She's also probably been hanging around low-quality people most of her life. The ones that grew up, moved on, but she stayed the same. There are, of course, many darker things that probably happened to her, but its just better to think that she's just an uninhibited party girl who never grew up.
Yeah, that’s the realest and most mundane answer. Everyone on the show’s an exaggerated version of a real person - eg, bad boss, weird antisocial coworker. Meredith is a woman who was good-looking when she was younger and is still acting like she can get away with things because she’s hot, but now she just looks like a regular person and it’s not charming. But hey, it makes for very funny moments
She was a college student I feel like we always forget that.
Michael Scott's Dunder Mifflin Scranton Meredith Palmer Memorial Celebrity Rabies Awareness Pro-Am Fun Run Race For the Cure
Maybe she's born that way.. Down to clown.
Divorced twice, left with raising at least one kid on her own. I think she’s looking for male validation in the only way she knows how.
Oscar’s bare toes
Her nickname was “Easy Rider” in high school
That was Phyllis
I believe that explains Phyllis becoming more of a bully. She was probably a popular, but mean girl in HS, but she was overweight, so life slowly turned her into a shy grandma before her time. Plus, if she was there at the time, Packer slept with all the chicks, so….that would destroy anyone. Then at the office Olympics she starts to come alive, and works up the nerve to talk to Bob Vance. Bob goes out with her because of the cameras (free publicity), but as she grows more confident and snotty, Bob can’t get enough. So, she just keeps feeding the inner mean girl until she has a happy marriage, but is an awful person.
Alcoholism
Alcohol.
She was in college
Generational trauma and alcoholism
Being unlucky.. Single mom raising a shit kid who doesn't even call her mom.. ( he calls her Meredith) Get lice and the only one that shaves their heads.. Get a bat caught in her face and also get run over by Micheal.. Set her own hair on fire, maybe because she wanted to drink away her sorrows away.. What came out of it was a badass rocker mom with dope ass mini van and a person who would steal for you even if it's steaks.. She just don't give a F anymore..
Being pregnant didn't stop her alcoholic mother
High sex drive, shit life, nuff said.
🥴She’s kinda *cute*! I just realized… Got kind of an Emma Stone-thang…🥴
Why is anyone the way that they are?
In my opinion, guys are way more attracted to the back of you than to the front
This isn't a good thing to delve into. Just let her be. ❤️
The reconning in the finale, where they said she was a grad student at the time, was the absolute worst.
She's the classy kind of woman who takes a BM in the shredder. Been there, done that kind of woman. And her purse is full of Steak coupons. Who are we to judge?
Mid life crisis, single mom to a stripper son, divorced.
I heard she was exposed to rabies.
Getting free Outback Steakhouse gift certificates.
She was working on her PHD!
She's in college. Just having fun.
I get she’s in college but she had sex with a terrorist I feel like that’s not normal college behavior
I’ve always believed Meredith is someone who is easy going, doesn’t take anything too seriously, is a blast at parties, has been an occasional flesh Hoover, and believes there’s no problem a beer can’t fix.
What are you talking about? She’s a funny character dude
Humor.
Just life.
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She was faking it for attention, but she’s been doing it so long that she actually became like that…like Ally Sheedy in the Breakfast Club, but she snaps out of it once she gets positive attention
Hit by a car. CTE.
Trauma. And lots of it.
Hmm. Maybe her dad wasn't in the picture and her mom smoked cigarettes, bought lotto tickets and played bingo while she left Meredith at home to babysit herself
She has an inverted penis
Probably just how the writers decided to make her character...weirdos.
Who wants the uncensored version
String of bad relationships, being run over by michael didn't help either
Genius alcoholic single party mom
Because she's amazing 👏🏽 straight up, no BS. Seems a little trashy but I'd take that over an Angela any day.
She was getting a PhD. That would do it
Seriously? Single parent in grad school.
Childhood trauma bro. Single mother with a super casual avoidant personality. Self medicates with alcohol and sex.
Yeah, at the risk of steering this into dark territory.. childhood trauma (especially abuse) can lead down some horrible paths later in life.
She’s a straight up G 💯a real mama 👏🏽
Early in the show she’s an alcoholic and somewhat of a whore. They get ridiculous with the plot later which takes away how grounded she used to be. She mistakens a dunder middlin group meeting for an AA meeting. She didn’t mind seeing a stripper in the office and was the only time she ever raised her voice at that point. Then, like every side character on the office, they turned into caricatures. Michael warned Kevin in his final episode. Turns out, it was everyone, except Angela. She was a cold bitch until the very end!
There's a cut scene: Jim: Probably spent her summers here, lounging on the beach and scooping ice cream. Pam: But she didn't want her summers to end, so she got herself a fake ID and a push-up bra and started hanging out at the local bars. Jim : Right. Developed a nasty coke habit, 'cause she loved the way it made her feel. Pam: Mm-hmm. Jim : But then extreme highs gave way to extreme lows and she fell into a depression. Pam: Had herself a kid. Thought it would give her a sense of purpose. And it did, for a while, till she started using again. Jim : Mm-hmm. And then Social Services came knocking at the door, and now the kid loves upstate with his grandparents, 'cause she can't take care of this kid. And here she is festering away in a one-bedroom apartment waiting for the HIV to turn into AIDS...
Fetal alcohol syndrome 💀
She is a dirty old man.
Someone in the writing room thought that was a fun personality to have in the show
I think she might have a drinking problem
Jokes aside, she's a "functional" alcoholic, and people addicted to alcohol have a higher prevalence of certain personality traits, like her histrionic behavior - she does and says stuff mostly for shock value. Having a rebellious child and a failed marriage are definitely correlated to that. Although we can't tell which of those caused the other two. I like her, though. Idk, it takes resilience to be run over by your boss, he breaks your crotch, then your hair gets caught on fire inside the office, then people accuse you of bringing lice and the peer pressure makes you shave your head, and you still keep going to that same job when you could've easily sued the heck out of them. Ps:(I *think* Dwight did something to her on his fire simulation, but I don't remember what rn)
having Michael Scott as boss
I can’t help but think that she must have had a shitty upbringing
Sex addiction. And she shows signs of many addictions, so it just makes sense.
Alcoholism and no self-esteem.
Substance abuse & Hypersexuality
Raised on a commune in upstate New York in the ‘60s. Hippie parents. Never learned Judeo-Christian sensibilities and whatnot
Meredith is the Sara Jay of the office.
Poor choices
It’s college
Don’t forget Michael ran over her… she has a lot on her plate. Il
All the stress from working on her PhD in secret.
Alcohol and low confidence. Despite her occasional looseness, she comes across as someone who takes ownership and is one of the kinder people on the show.
She's been divorced twice. The experience of that, and the cause of it, rolled onto one -_-
Alchohol
She’s Gen X and doesn’t give a shit.
DNA
Drinking
Hmhmm. No. Not today!
Alcohol, maybe she was sexually abused, bad parents
She probably has money problems, which make it hard at home. Her kids don’t see her as a mother and her ex husband was very abusive, which makes her tough. The money problems, divorce, and problems with her kids would all contribute to a drinking problem.
In a nutshell, her life.
Alcohol
STD's..
Alcohol.
She's an alcoholic
SUD
Suffering through hurricane Katrina.
Booze
Cuz of writers.
Alcoholic, single mother, shitty job.
Alcoholism
Ain't nothing but pain down that road hoss.
her son has a face tattoo
It's been 11 years. Still, there are a lot of secrets to be unbaried.
It was college...
She's from Florida? I grew up there, she reminds me a lot of my neighbors and regular people I would be around...
Rabies.
She a hoe yo
🍻
Screenwriters
She was written that way.
Best white trash character I know
Best white trash character I know