• Kaling said on Dec. 1’s Good Morning America, “That show is so out of date now.” “
• The writers I still talk to now and I always talk about how we probably couldn’t make a lot of that show now.”
• At least, Mindy Kaling said that her kids won’t be watching The Office.

At least, Mindy Kaling said that her kids won’t be watching The Office.

Even though her role as Dunder Mifflin customer service rep Kelly Kapoor was her big break, the actress, who also wrote for the show, isn’t ready to show it to her 4-year-old daughter Katherine or 2-year-old son Spencer any time soon.

Kaling said on Dec. 1’s Good Morning America, “That show is so out of date now.” “The writers I still talk to now and I always talk about how we probably couldn’t make a lot of that show now.”

When asked when she might let her kids watch the show, she said, “I kind of think maybe never.”

Sorry, kids, but you don’t get a Pretzel Day.

Kaling, whose TV career has only grown since she left Scranton (she was most recently a co-creator of Netflix’s Never Have I Ever and HBO Max’s The Sex Lives of College Girls), said that The Office’s continued popularity is due to a sense of comedic nostalgia.

Kaling said about the show, “People’s tastes have changed, and what offends people has changed so much.” “I think that’s one of the reasons why people like the show, because they feel like it’s not afraid to talk about things that aren’t supposed to be talked about.”

While Kaling’s kids won’t be seeing any spilled chilli anytime soon, her former co-star John Krasinski, who played Jim Halpert, and his wife Emily Blunt have taken a different approach to The Office because their kids have already seen it.

In November that their two daughters, Hazel, 8, and Violet, 6, have “seen some of The Office, which they liked a lot.”

Mindy, maybe you should just wait a few more years.

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