2018 · ‘The Office’: Oral History of The ‘Dinner Party’ Episode – Rolling Stone TV & Movies That One Night: The Oral History of the Greatest ‘Office’ Episode Ever 'The Dinner Party' was. The episode was the first original episode of The Office to be broadcast since the episode "The Deposition" on November 15, 2007, due to the effects of the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. As such, the atmosphere on the set was one of a more laid-back nature, and the cast broke into laughter due to the jokes many times.