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For some fans,Officeis endless recovery TV confort. But the comedy of the workplace has made its missions, and now, one of the stars of the show calls for a major. On two new tiktok videos,OfficeactorKat ahnexplained why she believes that the episode she appeared is racist. Read it for his thoughts on the controversy favorite episode, and for a plot hole that you may have missed, checkThe major error in the first episode of "the office" that you have never noticed.

At the beginning of the show season, two two-storey holidays, "a Christmas of Benihana", Michael (Steve Carell) Girlfriend Carol (NANCY WALLS) breaks with him. To nurse his broken heart, he is established by Andy (Ed Helms), Dwight (Stream), and Jim (John Krasinski) To come lunch with him at the Japanese chain Steakhouse Benihana. Michael and Andy end up bringing two waitresses to Dunder Mifflin with them as dates for the office Christmas party. A key joke that the episode hinge? Women leaving the restaurant are not the two women waiting for their table. It's two different actors, including Ahn.

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If you have seen the episode more than once, you probably remember that Michael actually builds on the hand of his date with a Sharpie, because he continues to confuse him with his colleague. At one point, he also says, "You know how all the waitresses are alike." And then, "Are you going to tell meStevie Wonder Do not like his wife because he is not sure what she looks like? "

Now, actor and comedian Kat Ahn, who played Amy, one of the waitresses that ends up by the feast of the office of the paper company, talks about the episode. It was his second credit after appearing as a student in an episode ofLaw & Order: Svu. This week she recorded two tiktoks explaining what she learned from appearing in the very Referenced episode of beloved sitcom.

InPart 1 of his video, Ahn acknowledges that "a Christmas of Benihana" is "one of the most popular holiday episodes" and that in 2006 when it was broadcast, television was not so aware of avoiding Discussionate representations of non-white characters.

"The story with myself and the other Asian American actress is that we were the" laidian "version of Benihana's actresses," says Ahn. "Also that all Asians are alike, we are a great monolith and we are just a great stereotype without personality or individuality. Who is problematic."

Inan episode of theOffice ladiesPodcast,Jenna Fischer(WFP) said that the intention to replace the waitresses with two younger Asian characters was to show that "two older and sophisticated women would never come back to a party", not that Andy and Michael literally thought they were the same people. But, as said Ann, it is not as if one of the characters of Asian women have an agency or a distinct identity anyway.

"I actually understood why the actors BIPOC [black, indigenous and color people] play racist roles," she says. "You sometimes know that you have to pay your rent. Sometimes you want to join the union. Sometimes you do not want your agent to deposit you."

InPart 2 of its "Christmas of Benihana" Takedown, the actor expressed the need for Asian creators to drive their own stories, using itOfficeExperience as an example.

"Look, I took the role because it was a role and I was at L. and I was like" wow, "she remembers. "But what I realized is that you can not expect people to create roles for you if they do not know your experience. And that's why it's important for you to create your own content and you have your own voice. " Ahn says that, while "Asian American creators have a long way to go, especially in Hollywood," recent advances have given his faith that the future will hold more "roles that show us as three-dimensional human beings. " And for another classic that has an eskoning, find out which The beloved Disney Ride is being revised due to racist shades .