The Office. I entered the professional world in 1990 - that show very much resembled the first couple of places I worked - from my coworkers, to the overall attitude in the office, to the actual aesthetic of the office space itself.

Lucky Hank is over the top, but it gets some parts of academia right: how a burnt out professor can feel about teaching, the internal politics and odd ducks, how professors have to walk on eggshells around many issues.