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Hello.

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Hi. Jenna, are you in the inner

0:56

circle? I'm probably

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not. I think I've spent my whole life

1:01

outside of the inner circle. Same,

1:03

which is why we became best friends.

1:07

This is season seven episode

1:10

twenty three written by Charlie Grande

1:12

and directed by Matt Stone. Angela,

1:15

when I read you this summary, I think it's gonna

1:17

become very clear to you that Ainsley wrote

1:19

it, starting with the very first

1:21

word. Okay. Enigmatic

1:24

new boss, DeAngelo. Did you see I

1:26

would not write an example.

1:28

Five star vocab or no? Innigmatic

1:32

new boss, Deangelo, seems to have an

1:34

inner circle of favorite male

1:36

employees, which has caused a divide in

1:38

the office. Later, Deangelo's

1:40

competitive side lands him in the hospital.

1:43

Pretty straightforward. Mhmm. Let's

1:46

jump into fast fact number one, this

1:48

episode aired on May fifth two

1:50

thousand and eleven. It was originally

1:52

titled sexism. Oh.

1:54

But Greg gave the note that he thought that

1:57

the sexism storyline was kind of a

1:59

nice plot twist. And if we

2:01

named it sexism, then the title would give that

2:03

Twist away so they changed it to inner

2:05

circle. Randy shared with

2:07

us that this episode originally came

2:09

in one minute too long. One

2:12

minute, and they had to trim it. Well,

2:14

first, Greg and Paul pushed the studio

2:16

to let them have an extra minute of airtime.

2:19

But that would mean that the studio would have to

2:21

sell one minute less ads. So

2:24

guess what they said. They said, nope.

2:26

That was the hard pass. They

2:28

suggested that we cut the credits down

2:31

because we've done that before. Yeah. The Greg and

2:33

Paul felt that it was really important to establish

2:35

the new credit sequence

2:37

with Steve leaving. So

2:39

eventually, they found a way to edit the episode

2:41

down to the standard twenty one minutes

2:43

and thirty five seconds of running time.

2:46

Well, if you guys have the DVDs, there's some

2:48

real nuggets and deleted

2:50

scenes, and now that makes sense to me,

2:52

and I'm gonna share some of them in this episode.

2:54

Very good. Fast Act number

2:56

two, this episode was a bottle show.

2:58

We've talked about those before. And

3:00

because it was so contained, we were actually

3:03

able to shoot this episode in only four days

3:05

rather than the usual five

3:06

days. I

3:07

bet was excited about that.

3:09

Well, we did not get a day off Oh.

3:13

We use the extra day to do that

3:15

extra shooting on goodbye Michael. Oh.

3:18

Now you know these bottle shows, the idea of

3:20

them is that they're supposed to be very easy,

3:22

very drama free episodes. Yeah.

3:25

No big, like, stunts, no big

3:27

to dos, no craziness, no

3:29

locations, nothing. Well,

3:32

this was not

3:34

a drama free episode. First,

3:37

we had the running time drama. Right?

3:39

That was a bunch of emails back and forth. Then

3:41

Randy said, There was a standards

3:43

and practices drama. For

3:45

what? You're gonna have to wait for it. Oh,

3:48

I'm racking my brain. What did they I

3:50

know. I disagree about. I know.

3:53

There was an ad sales drama, there

3:55

was a music drama,

3:57

and we'll get to it, there

3:58

was a stunt. I'm terribly

4:01

wrong. Yeah. That's the one I thought you were gonna

4:03

lead with because

4:04

you guys we almost, like, seriously

4:07

injured Will Farrell. Yeah.

4:09

We'll get to it. Yeah. Yeah.

4:12

It was crazy. Fast back

4:14

number three, This was our first

4:16

episode without Steve. It was our

4:18

last episode with Will Farrell.

4:20

We got a fan question from KD B in

4:23

Dallas, Texas. Who wanted to

4:25

know how was it the first day on

4:27

set without Steve? Katie,

4:29

it was bizarre. It

4:32

was super weird. Yeah. When

4:34

I watched the credit sequence in this

4:36

episode and he wasn't in it,

4:39

I was crush.

4:41

Like and it

4:44

kinda reminds me, like, that's what it was like

4:46

to show up and then he wasn't in hair

4:48

and makeup. Mm-mm. He

4:50

wasn't there to talk to us about his

4:52

favorite pizza.

4:54

It was super odd. And

4:56

we loved Will, like think goodness

4:58

for will and the positive energy he brought,

5:01

but it was just flat out

5:03

weird going to

5:04

work. Without the main person

5:06

we had all sort of been

5:09

working around as a cast, his character.

5:11

It was it was really it was really

5:13

crazy, Katie. Well, listen,

5:15

that's all I got. Fast Fax worked literally

5:17

fast today. I

5:19

have a new DVD alert

5:22

Oh, I'm like, why do I say alert?

5:25

Alert. Breaking news. Breaking

5:27

news, we are now on disc five

5:30

of season seven for those of you who are

5:32

re watching with the DVD box set.

5:34

Here are a few of the features on this DVD.

5:37

In addition to the usual deleted

5:39

scenes, there is a commentary and

5:42

there is also a great blooper

5:44

reel and the episode series

5:46

the third floor. Angela Winn,

5:48

Randy, sent us all his facts for

5:50

this episode this week. He said

5:53

he was very sad to put that last DVD

5:55

in his player because, you

5:58

know, he leaves us at the end of the season.

6:00

Yeah. So we had Steve exit

6:03

during the season and Randy exited

6:05

at the end of the season. It

6:07

was an emotional last few episodes.

6:10

Yeah. It was. Alright. Well,

6:12

should we take a break and then get right to

6:14

it? Let's do it. So

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like you heard earlier in the episode, we're doing

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something special this month. We're teaming

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you. We're so lucky that we had

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these women to inspire us and support

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us Angela, you're gonna

7:06

share. I

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am. I wanna share with you guys about my awesome

7:09

high school english teacher, Carol Campbell.

7:12

She taught my honors English class and directed

7:14

the one act play. And for me, she was

7:16

that teacher that made you not only a better student,

7:19

but a better person. She really

7:21

pushed us to work card but to also stand

7:23

by our work and I couldn't wait to turn

7:25

in my writing assignments and get her notes because

7:27

they were very detailed but also

7:29

really thoughtful. Missus Campbell

7:31

knew I loved writing and acting and she encouraged

7:34

me to pursue my dreams. She helped me

7:36

believe in myself that even though I was from

7:38

this very small town, that there was nothing

7:40

I couldn't do. And when I got

7:42

to college and my other classmates were struggling

7:44

with their English assignments, I felt

7:47

so prepared thanks to missus Campbell

7:49

So I sat down and I wrote her a letter and

7:51

I titled it, captain, oh my

7:53

captain, like in the movie dead poet

7:55

society, I know you guys. I'm a

7:57

corn ball. But I had to thank

7:59

her. I have gone back and visited

8:01

her classroom. We still exchange Christmas

8:04

cards. And Jenna, one last

8:06

thing which might explain a lot about me.

8:08

Missus Campbell's classroom had a whole wall

8:10

of plants. There is

8:12

nothing like a good teacher in

8:15

a kid's life Truly. Yeah.

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Yeah. I love that. She's in my heart

8:20

all these years. Well, thank you

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8:53

There are amazing Hilton

8:55

hotels all over the world. I have

8:57

been to many One of the ones I was recently

9:00

at was the Hilton Hotel in Midtown

9:02

New York. I had to go there for work.

9:04

I was right in the middle of Manhattan. I could

9:06

walk to anywhere I needed to be.

9:09

Also, the food was awesome. I

9:11

also got an adult beverage which was lovely.

9:14

But everyone was so nice and

9:16

I loved it. And you know what?

9:18

It made my whole time in New York City

9:21

easy and awesome. I

9:23

remember that trip that you took to New York,

9:25

Angela. Well, when you stay

9:27

at a Hilton, things are just easy

9:29

from start to finish. For instance,

9:31

they have contactless entry with

9:34

digital check-in and digital key.

9:37

You can book, check-in, and get

9:39

into your room all on your phone. Yes,

9:41

a room key is sent to

9:43

your phone. When you want

9:46

your vacation to start as soon as you

9:48

clock out, it matters where you

9:50

stay. This

9:53

episode opens with a conference

9:55

room meeting. Deangelo is

9:57

laying down the

9:58

law, and anyone who doesn't like how

10:00

he does things can just walk right out the door.

10:03

But there all seems people like like he wants

10:05

to end the work day at five. He wants

10:07

to have ice cream on

10:08

Thursdays. He tells Daryl, I'm

10:11

gonna give you a full ride.

10:12

We're gonna pay for you to go to business

10:14

school. Deal with it.

10:17

At twenty three seconds, I don't know if you notice,

10:20

but Darrel is back to wearing his shirt and tie.

10:22

I did notice I also

10:24

caught what I think might be an improv. When

10:27

Daryl says seriously, Deangelo

10:30

says stone cold seriously,

10:32

I looked in the script. That line

10:35

was not there. In the

10:37

script, Daniel just says, no,

10:39

I'm kidding. Yes. I'm serious. So

10:41

I wonder if this was a little bit of Will Farrell.

10:44

I absolutely loved Craig Robinson's performance

10:46

in this whole episode. If you watch this

10:49

episode, you have to watch all of his

10:51

reactions in the background.

10:53

Every line he delivers I don't know. This

10:55

was like and I love Craig Robinson episode

10:57

for

10:58

me. He is great and I love the

11:00

Darryl storyline of him going tonight school.

11:02

I do have a little bit of a bust on Craig.

11:05

What's that? At one minute, you can

11:07

totally see him starting to break. His shoulders

11:09

are shaking because I think

11:12

this part wasn't scripted as well. When

11:14

D'Angela saying, and Toby, you're getting

11:16

a new chair whether he likes it or not.

11:19

Toby says thanks. And D'Angela

11:21

says, don't thank me. Hey, Don't

11:23

thank me, Guy. That wasn't

11:25

in the script, and you can see Craig's,

11:28

like, shoulders, like shaking. I

11:31

mean, we should say that

11:32

Will, like, would improvise here and there, and we

11:34

would all lose it. Oh, Will can read the phone

11:36

book and be fine. mean, every line he

11:39

says, you know, is funny. Alright.

11:41

So now the episode begins.

11:44

Angela and Darryl are arriving to work,

11:47

and Pam is gonna interrupt their

11:49

chat. To tell him about her

11:51

friend Carla who might make a great

11:53

executive assistant, I

11:55

remember that the NBC photographer was

11:58

here this day when we were shooting this

12:00

and they took pictures of this scene

12:03

and I charged

12:04

them. I bet. Well,

12:06

you know Pam's runner with the resumes

12:08

was bigger. There's more of it in deleted

12:10

scenes. I'm gonna share some of it. But one

12:13

of the things that tickled me, Jenna, is

12:15

I'm such a nerd for this, for whatever

12:17

character gets to say the title of a

12:19

movie or an

12:20

episode. I

12:20

just think

12:21

it's so cool. And Pam gets to say

12:23

the title of this episode. Really?

12:25

Yeah. She says to Jim, oh,

12:27

is that what he says in your little inner circle

12:30

meetings?

12:30

Oh, yes. You're right. I was like, ah, she said

12:32

the title. I'm a dork for stuff like that. You

12:34

pointed out every time. He's very cute.

12:36

Okay. We got a fan

12:39

catch from Aiden W in Portland, Oregon

12:41

who said there are three Carla's

12:43

in the office. There is Carla,

12:45

the mission trip leader. Carla, Pam's

12:48

executive assistant friend, and coming

12:50

up Carla Fern, Andy's agent.

12:53

What are the writer's obsession with the name

12:55

Carla? I've personally never met Carla

12:57

in my life. Wow.

12:59

I didn't realize there were three. Yeah.

13:02

Three Carlos. That's such a great

13:03

catch. Mhmm. Andy and Pam

13:05

are convinced there's an inner circle. Jim's like,

13:08

no, there's no inner circle and Kevin's like,

13:10

he only says that because he's in

13:12

it, and then Kevin is so proud. He's like,

13:14

mom, I'm in the inner circle.

13:16

I loved that Kevin was in the inner circle. It was

13:18

such an ice twist, unexpected.

13:21

Someone who is not in the inner circle or who

13:23

doesn't want to be in the inner circle

13:25

is Dwight And Deangelo is doing everything

13:28

he can to get Dwight on his good

13:29

side. He tries bring him a coffee from downstairs.

13:32

Dwight throws it in the trash. Not interested.

13:34

Not interested. As soon

13:36

as Danjillo tries to entice

13:38

Dwight with, like, some beers, and he

13:40

said they can listen to automatic for the people

13:43

on his jukebox, Lady,

13:45

I could not stop laughing because

13:48

I have a little bit of backstory

13:51

about the album automatic for the people.

13:53

What? Okay. I don't

13:55

know this album. Who sings this album? Oh my god.

13:58

It's REM. You do know this album. You

14:00

do. I promise you. Okay. Okay. So

14:02

it came out while I was in college in

14:04

October nineteen ninety two. You

14:06

guys, I know, I'm a dinosaur. But

14:09

when it came out, I was going through

14:11

a

14:12

breakup. And I'm sorry

14:14

I left, but I just, like, I know these moments

14:16

were, like, Oh, this was your breakup

14:18

album. Yes. Did you listen to it? Just

14:21

so much. Oh, there was one song

14:23

that instantly takes me back to that time.

14:25

It starts with this piano. The song is called night

14:27

swimming. I need you to hear a little bit of it. And

14:29

then am gonna read you an

14:31

entry from my journal During

14:33

this breakup, you

14:35

have made my day. Guying

14:48

swimming.

14:58

Okay. Okay. You're getting the idea right now. I'm

15:00

in a mood. If you're in a mood. You're feeling

15:02

it. Now almost

15:03

curled up in a ball. Okay. Now

15:05

I'm I'm opening my journal. Okay. We

15:07

go. It's super old. First

15:10

of all, you guys should know. I hadn't

15:12

been dating this guy very long. So I wasn't like super

15:14

heartbroken. I was more just really ticked off.

15:17

Okay. Okay. Okay. So, picturing

15:19

me listening to night swimming, I'm

15:21

ticked off. Here we go.

15:23

October seventeenth nineteen ninety

15:25

two.

15:27

Okay. Go on.

15:30

Oh

15:30

my god. Okay. I

15:32

know I said that I wasn't going to talk

15:34

about him anymore. But

15:36

he has stooped too far. He

15:39

is a lying snake, a

15:42

shell of a man, and a liar. He

15:46

is hanging out with his ex girlfriend. He

15:48

has done nothing but lie. It

15:51

is going to take all that I have to be cordial

15:53

to him. Oh, boy. He

15:55

disgusts me. I

15:57

need to broaden my horizons. What

16:01

do I care? This is all so

16:03

trivial. I have a wonderfully attractive

16:05

life ahead of me. And I

16:08

am grateful that mister self

16:10

centered isn't a part of it.

16:12

Amen. Oh, wow.

16:15

Oh, wow. I'm

16:18

the darkest person ever. It's

16:20

gonna take all I have to be cordial to him.

16:22

Lady, I need you

16:24

to write, like, a young adult

16:27

novel series. This

16:29

one is called mister self centered.

16:32

Then you've got another one called mister maybe.

16:34

Yeah. So we do you know what

16:36

I'm saying? Yeah. It's a series of

16:38

just the dating foybles of

16:41

this LADY YOUNG WOMEN AND

16:43

WHO ISN'T TAKING HER POWER

16:44

BACK. I DIDN'T EVEN TELL HIM OFF.

16:47

LIKE, I

16:48

MELL -- I WAS CORGEL. Take

16:50

that. I'm

16:53

gonna be not friendly to you. Yeah.

16:55

All you get from me, mister, is cordial.

16:58

That's right. And maybe a snarky

17:00

look.

17:02

Well, you showed

17:03

him. Well, there was a moment from

17:05

my journal. I hope you guys enjoyed it.

17:07

What's the end of the story? Did you ever run

17:09

into

17:10

him? Were you cordial? Yeah. I

17:12

had to run into him all the time, and I was

17:14

cordial and a bit dismissive.

17:16

Mhmm. So don't mess with

17:18

me because

17:21

you're gonna get someone who's maybe

17:23

a little bored but polite. Yeah.

17:26

One other thing happening in the scene,

17:29

three minutes, fifty six seconds. Ant

17:31

Farm still on Dwight's desk. I

17:34

appreciate the commitment to a prop. I

17:36

know me too. Diangela is gonna

17:38

say try as he made, Dwight just wants

17:40

nothing to do with him. You know, after Daniel's

17:43

talking head, Dwight would have had one. There was

17:45

one in the shooting draft. There was also some candy

17:47

bag alts for it. I want to

17:49

read one of them because that really cracked me up.

17:52

Because I can hear rain saying it

17:54

as Dwight. You know what I mean? Here

17:56

it is. Deangelo is

17:58

a fine manager but I don't do my job

18:00

for the approval of my employer. I

18:02

do it because if I didn't do it, some

18:05

idiot would be doing it. In this

18:07

way, that idiot is out of a job.

18:09

Haha,

18:10

idiot. I appreciate that

18:12

talking head. I wish that had stayed in. I wonder

18:14

if that was one of the things in the minute that we

18:16

had to lose. Could be.

18:19

Daniel is gonna call his inner circle

18:21

into his office. They're

18:23

gonna play mini basketball and discuss

18:26

two big business strategies. One,

18:29

go after the biggest client in the state,

18:32

or fit two thousand tiny

18:34

-- Client. -- fifty thousand. Fifty

18:37

thousand. But how there's there are

18:39

about fifty thousand. Small

18:41

businesses in scranton that need a paper

18:43

supplier. No. No.

18:45

Insanity. Andy is

18:47

watching through the window. He's getting super jealous.

18:50

This was part of the bigger runner lady.

18:52

Oh, mhmm. There was a deleted

18:55

runner between Pam and Andy. I remember

18:57

shooting these. Yes. So Pam is gathering resumes

18:59

and Andy turns one in. He

19:02

hands it to her and Pam looks at it and says,

19:04

who is Bernard Andrews? Andy

19:07

says, same what? And Pam

19:09

says, you want to be Deangelo's executive assistant?

19:12

And Andy says, no, God no. I can maybe

19:14

type fifteen words a minute, but I need

19:16

Deangelo to think of me as more than just

19:18

the funny guy. And when he reads

19:20

my resume, he'll be like, wait, this

19:23

stud did outward bound and national

19:25

outdoor leadership school I have

19:27

to meet him. Then I'll poke my head

19:29

in and I'll be like surprise you already

19:32

have, and then I'll be his guy. And

19:34

Pam says, if you really

19:36

think that will work, I'll put your resume

19:39

in the pile. Do you really think that

19:41

will work? And Andy is so

19:43

frustrated. He goes, what other option

19:45

do I

19:45

have, Pam, and then he kind of moats away?

19:48

I remember doing these scenes with Ed

19:50

because I did not often get scenes

19:52

with Ed. I know. He's

19:54

desperate not to be the funny

19:56

guy. There's a whole other twist happening

19:58

in the office which is, Ryan

20:01

has told Deangelo that he's the department

20:03

head and that Kelly works for

20:04

him. He's like, alright, keep up the good

20:07

work, and Ryan says, my pleasure,

20:09

my treasure, which by the way, was scripted.

20:11

I went and looked. Well,

20:14

Kelly is not excited

20:17

about this. She does not like,

20:19

no, this lie. And

20:22

they have a very funny scene and in the middle

20:24

of it, Deangelo enters

20:26

and Ryan starts to reprimand her

20:28

and she does go along with

20:30

it. But apparently, she's got her

20:32

angle, which is he now has to be the perfect boyfriend.

20:34

Like, he has to go with her to have dinner with

20:36

her mom and, like, all these other things.

20:38

Yeah, she's getting something in return, she

20:40

hopes. Well, now we're gonna get

20:42

to a scene in the break room that is

20:44

gonna be your first drama alert.

20:48

Breaking news, drama, is this about

20:50

the Coca Cola? Yes. It

20:52

is about the Coca Cola. In

20:54

this scene, Dwight is drinking a Cola.

20:57

Deangelo comes in and he says, you know,

20:59

my cousin cracked the secret formula

21:01

for a certain popular cola I shall

21:03

not name. But

21:06

in the original script, Deangelo's

21:09

line was this. O

21:11

la cola, you know my cousin

21:13

cracked the secret formula for Coke.

21:15

True story. I've never had to buy

21:18

a Coke. I just drink my cousins

21:20

taste exactly like Coke but better,

21:22

no bubbles, lavender aftertaste.

21:25

Packed with zinc. Well,

21:27

when we turn that original script in,

21:29

standards and practices went

21:31

insane. They said

21:34

that ad sales had just

21:36

placed a huge deal for Pepsi

21:38

products. Oh. And we

21:40

could not mention Coke. Well,

21:43

our production coordinator, Meg Shave,

21:45

we've mentioned her before, she tried to

21:47

argue that the word Coke was

21:50

a universally accepted term

21:52

for soda, you know, kinda

21:54

like Kleenex or --

21:56

Yeah. -- make a Xerox. For make a copy.

21:58

Yeah. Like when the brand name becomes, like,

22:00

associated with what people call the

22:03

thing. Yes. Yeah. We did

22:05

not win this battle. Oh, Meg.

22:07

Meg tried, but Randy said that this went

22:09

all the way up the chain and that we got a

22:11

terrously worded letter from the studio

22:13

lawyers that said do not

22:16

use Coke. This is one

22:18

management feels pretty strongly towards.

22:22

You know what? It sounds like they were using

22:24

my strategy of like cordial mix

22:26

with some snark. Mhmm. They were.

22:28

They were giving it the Angela

22:31

Kinsey heartbreak

22:32

college journal writing treatment

22:34

-- Mhmm. -- rolls off your

22:36

time. It really does. It's so

22:38

easy to recall and say,

22:41

so in the end, Phil Shea had to give

22:43

rain like just a generic looking soda

22:46

can and they had to rewrite the

22:47

scene. Well, I was curious about

22:49

this scene because when

22:51

Diangel at the end says, yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

22:53

Yes. Yes. And, like, runs out. I

22:56

had to know if that was scripted.

22:58

It was not. At the end of the scene,

23:00

Dwight just says no, Angela says

23:02

yes, and it just simply says he runs out

23:04

before Dwight can respond. So

23:06

once again, Will, being the

23:09

funny guy he is. Made

23:11

it even funnier than what was on the page.

23:13

Well, the next thing that would have happened in the episode

23:15

you guys as Deangelo would have gone to

23:17

Pam and asked for all the resumes that

23:19

she's been gathering. There's a very

23:22

funny scene and deleted scenes. I'm not gonna play

23:24

it, Jenna, because it's one of those that you have to see

23:26

-- Yes. -- I'm learning. It's a visual. It's

23:28

a visual. But basically Pam

23:30

says, D'Angelo, I look through the mall and

23:32

I put the most qualified people at the

23:34

top to save you some time. And

23:37

he takes the stack that she's so carefully

23:39

put together and he messes it

23:41

all about like the way you would dump a deck

23:43

of cards on desk and just messes them

23:46

around and says, no, I have science to

23:48

this. Thank you. I'm doing this. And she looks

23:50

at him like, are you freaking kidding

23:52

me? And then this would have cut

23:55

to a gym and Pam joint talking

23:57

head. It's great. Pam

23:59

is so over Deangelo. She has

24:01

had it. And also, we learned a little

24:03

nugget about Michael in Colorado, and

24:06

I thought we should hear it. You know

24:08

what? I'm done trying. You can have him.

24:10

Okay. He felt the same way about Michael.

24:13

Right? And then time passed and what happened?

24:15

He just named his new puppy after you.

24:19

Pamela Beasley. It's

24:22

a beagle. It's really freaking cute.

24:26

Oh my gosh. I forgot about

24:28

that. Michael and Holly have a puppy.

24:31

Name Pamela

24:32

Beasley. So cute. It

24:34

makes me so happy to imagine that

24:36

Michael has gotten a puppy with Holly.

24:38

I know. It's like they're starting their

24:41

family. That's the first thing to do.

24:43

Yes. You had a puppy. Get pet together.

24:45

Oh my gosh.

24:47

Dang you one minute. That'll just

24:49

stay in. Well, now

24:51

the inner circle will start reviewing the resumes,

24:54

and Andy's resume was right at the

24:56

top. Remember his resume for

24:59

Bernard Andrews? Yes. In

25:01

the episode, Jim only says part of this

25:03

sentence, but if they had been able to leave everything

25:06

in, this is what he would have said. Uh-oh.

25:09

This former administrative assistant misspelled

25:11

both administrative

25:13

and assistant. Tough break,

25:15

Bernard Andrews. Oh, it

25:17

cast his aside. Oh, no.

25:20

You know, Angela, when I saw them reviewing

25:22

these resumes, It took me back to

25:24

how many resumes I have written for

25:26

myself, both as an administrative

25:29

assistant and also as an actor.

25:32

I went and looked at my first

25:34

acting resume. Oh, you did? The one

25:37

that I really had to pad. You know,

25:39

I had to, like, I did this thing

25:41

where every production I had done

25:43

in college, I would

25:45

put that down as a credit, but then rather

25:48

than saying I did it college, I said the

25:50

name of the theater in my college because

25:52

then it made it seem like I performed

25:54

in some ways. Yeah. All

25:57

these little tricks. I really

25:59

patted my special skills. Lady,

26:02

I was just gonna say, I'm

26:04

gonna read you my special skills. Because

26:09

I was slightly shocked, please,

26:11

here were the special skills that I

26:13

put on my resume. There's only three These

26:15

are the three things that I felt I could

26:17

do very well. Okay. Water

26:20

skiing. What? I

26:22

was a very good water skiing. True that

26:24

I could swallow ski. You would go to lake of the

26:26

Ozarks. Yeah. So I could do it

26:29

if there was a role -- Yeah. -- what is this role that

26:31

requires the special skill

26:33

water skiing? I don't know.

26:35

Animal handling. Well,

26:38

I liked animals. I thought I

26:40

could be good at what if they I don't

26:42

know. What if they handed you a pie thought?

26:44

Oh, you're right. I was kinda talking about cats.

26:47

Finally, bowling. Oh, you are

26:49

a good bowling. I am.

26:51

We still have yet to have an off ladies bowling

26:53

league, which I really wanna do someday.

26:55

Why aren't we doing that?

26:57

I want it so badly. I want Do

26:59

Sam and Cassie bowl? You guys do you

27:01

bowl? They're four of us. I wanna offer

27:03

a league. Bowling

27:04

jacket. Oh,

27:05

yeah. We bowl.

27:06

You do? For

27:07

sure.

27:07

You guys, why are we not in bowling league

27:09

together like Tuesday nights and then we compete

27:12

against other

27:12

people. Yeah. Like

27:14

a picture of beer and office ladies bowling.

27:16

I want it to happen. We

27:17

could definitely bowl against some of the other podcasts.

27:20

Do you think so? We could take on

27:22

Conan. I believe

27:24

that. He's too tall to be a good bowler.

27:26

Right?

27:28

Yeah. His center of gravity, but I don't

27:30

know. He probably bounces it halfway down the

27:32

thing. Okay. We gotta make

27:34

this happen. And, definitely, we

27:36

need matching jackets. We need bowling

27:38

bag balls. Wait.

27:41

Wait. Wait. We need bowling bag

27:43

balls. We need bags.

27:46

We need bowling ball bags.

27:49

Yeah. Yeah. I don't know what the other thing is,

27:51

but I went with it.

27:53

You know what I meant? I did.

27:55

I think I might have had water skiing too.

27:58

Well, someone in this Pile of resumes

28:00

listed

28:01

juggling. Yeah. And they start

28:03

mocking it, but then Deangelo says, I

28:06

am an avid juggler. Yeah.

28:08

He says I actually perform a

28:10

motivational juggling

28:11

routine. Mhmm.

28:14

And guess what, guys? He's gonna show it to

28:16

everybody, but he needs a big space. He

28:18

needs like a eighteen hundred square feet.

28:20

Well, why don't we take a break? And when we come

28:22

back, we're gonna discuss this

28:24

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We are back. Di Angelo has gone to his

30:35

car, and you guys, unfortunately, his

30:37

juggling stuff wasn't in

30:39

there. So he can't do his routine. Right?

30:41

Yeah. That's what you would think. Right? And

30:43

he's like, you know what? No worries. I've

30:45

got a, like, a drawer

30:47

of juggling balls. Like, I totally believe

30:50

it. I do too. So he tosses

30:52

Daniel a few, and Daniel does, like, his

30:54

version of the matrix. I'm getting it

30:56

out of the way, and he's, like, I'm sorry, but I

30:58

do not touch another juggler's

31:00

instruments.

31:01

Yes. But you know what? He's

31:04

got the music. Why doesn't

31:06

he just do the routine without

31:08

the

31:08

balls? Yeah. I mean, we're all here.

31:10

We should do it. We should do it.

31:12

And so he does, everyone,

31:15

an elaborate hand

31:17

to mind of juggling. If

31:20

he was incredible when he

31:23

says Phyllis don't

31:24

move, I just, like, throwing the balls back

31:26

and forth at her head. Okay.

31:28

I wanna point out, this is one of the scenes

31:31

you can watch this scene and watch all the fake

31:33

juggling, then watch it and just watch

31:35

Craig Robinsons face. Okay. It's

31:37

my favorite

31:38

reactions. Lady, we got a fan

31:40

question from Melissa d in Erie, Pennsylvania. I

31:43

am obsessed with the scene where De Angelo

31:45

does his juggling routine Was

31:47

it choreographed, or did Will Farrell

31:49

improvise this? Well,

31:51

Alyssa, this was not improvised.

31:54

It was totally scripted. And

31:57

here's what it said in the shooting draft. Diangela

32:00

hits play on Jim's computer, evidence,

32:02

bring me to life starts playing, and Diangela

32:05

starts pretending to juggle to the music.

32:07

People aren't sure what to do, Kevin

32:10

Mimes tossing him a ball. Now

32:12

in the episode, he actually hits play

32:14

on the boombox at

32:15

reception. Mhmm. But that's all it said in

32:17

the script. But I remember Jenna because

32:19

we all had to have reactions -- Mhmm. -- that

32:21

they choreographed this with him. Yes.

32:23

We rehearsed this, not

32:25

him juggling. I remember

32:28

the first time we did a take -- Mhmm.

32:30

-- he started doing that insane juggle

32:32

maiming. Yeah. But we did

32:35

have him walk around to all the different

32:37

spots where he was gonna land so that the camera

32:39

would know where he would be. Right. Mhmm. So

32:41

we got more fan questions about this episode,

32:43

Angela Jennifer m in San Antonio, Texas

32:46

said, How was Evan Essence's

32:48

song bring me to life chosen to be the song

32:50

for this routine. This

32:52

was my favorite band when I was a teen and

32:54

my inner goth began squealing when

32:56

I heard it in this episode. Never in

32:59

a million years would I have imagined that their music would

33:01

be featured in comedy show. Aurora

33:03

F from California said how much did it cost to

33:05

feature the song in this episode? Well,

33:07

guess what? Music drama.

33:09

Oh, yeah. I wouldn't say drama.

33:12

Not so much drama, but it was just like

33:14

another way that this little bottle show

33:16

was more complex than

33:18

it normally would need to be. So

33:20

the original pitch from Charlie Grande in

33:22

his very first writer's draft was

33:25

that the song that would be played would be

33:27

Meat Loaf's Paradise by the Dashboard

33:29

Lights. K? Randy said,

33:32

they didn't even try to get clearance for that.

33:34

There's no way we're affording that

33:36

song. So super

33:38

pricey, super pricey,

33:40

love, super pricey. Mhmm. The

33:42

next thing that they wrote was Stings

33:44

Desert Rose. Well,

33:47

I guess, the NBC Universal Music

33:49

Supervisor, her name is Kerry, She

33:51

reached out to Sting's management. Sting

33:53

was like, for sure, you can have it

33:56

for sixty thousand dollars.

33:58

But I guess, we had used

34:00

quite a bit of licensed music in

34:03

season seven, and the studio was

34:05

like you guys You are never

34:07

allowed to spend more than fifty thousand

34:09

dollars per song anymore. We're

34:11

putting a cap on it. Spending cap.

34:13

Yeah. We have allowance now. That's

34:16

right. They put cap on it -- Mhmm. -- the

34:18

end. So for

34:20

the shooting draft, Charlie

34:22

put in the evanescent song bringing me to life.

34:25

And guess how much it was. Fifty

34:27

thousand dollars. Yay, we did

34:29

it. But they weren't sure they could

34:31

get the clearance. They got the price, but they didn't

34:33

know if they could clear it. So they

34:36

did make the writers pitch some alts

34:38

just in case this deal fell

34:40

through. Here are the alts.

34:42

Come

34:43

sail away. By sticks. Come

34:45

sail away. Mhmm. Okay. countdown.

34:48

Oh, by Europe. Yeah. Save

34:51

a horse ride a cowboy by

34:53

big and rich. Peace

34:55

train, the dance mix by Dolly Parton.

34:58

And now we are free,

35:00

the Gladiator theme song by Han Zimmer.

35:03

That is a real mix of

35:04

music. Isn't it? So I thought something

35:06

would be very interesting would be to, like,

35:08

take all these songs and put them to his juggling

35:11

ring and see how they all work out.

35:13

Like, there's this meme. Do you call it a meme

35:15

going around where they've taken the Muppet song

35:17

and they put it to the dirty dancing final

35:19

dance?

35:20

Yes. Yes. I have seen that. So,

35:22

yeah, I would love to hear one of these songs

35:24

under his juggling. Well, you know what someone

35:26

did. A fan took his juggling

35:29

routine and they like CGI

35:31

juggling balls into it. Oh, so

35:33

funny. So you can actually watch

35:36

this routine with balls. And it's

35:38

amazing when he does the thing by Phyllis's face

35:40

because obviously --

35:42

Right. -- that could never actually happen.

35:46

Well, Pam is gonna have some fun with this

35:48

because in the break room, what don't we call

35:50

this, mocking in the break room?

35:52

I know. Snark in the

35:54

break room, Pam is

35:56

sort of making fun of Angela's air juggling

35:59

routine and guess who actually is amused

36:01

by

36:01

it. Angela Martin, Lady,

36:04

I loved doing this so much. I don't know if you

36:06

remember shooting that day. I do. We

36:09

got a fan question from Nathan s in Belton,

36:11

Texas that made my day. Nathan

36:13

said, Jenna, did you tap into

36:15

your past experience as a comedic mime

36:18

to deliver your epic? Performance,

36:20

where you imitate Daniela's invisible juggling.

36:23

Nathan said, I've been waiting to ask this since

36:25

January twenty twenty one when Jenna shared

36:27

her comedic mimics experience in the Money Part

36:29

one episode. Oh my gosh, Nathan.

36:32

So it's funny you should ask Nathan

36:34

because when I did my comedic

36:37

juggling. When I was

36:39

in there, I shared the story of my comedic

36:42

mime experience with everyone in the break

36:44

room and I started doing my comedic magic show

36:46

for

36:46

everyone. Yeah. It was a really fun day for me.

36:50

I also remember that we could not stop

36:52

laughing in the scene. I think I caught

36:54

John Breaking Heat has to turn.

36:56

He can't even look at Ed, and

36:58

he's really focusing on trying not to laugh

37:00

in eating his carrot because when

37:03

Andy says I wrote my own companion

37:05

piece to the vagina monologues called the penis

37:07

apologies. Mhmm. John kept

37:09

losing it. It's also in this

37:11

scene where the women really speak up and

37:13

say listen, Daniel is a huge sexist.

37:16

War department heads, has he ever met with us?

37:19

And Pam's like, Jim, you should talk to him about

37:21

it. Yeah. And Andy

37:23

is all on board. He says,

37:26

you know what? If he doesn't listen,

37:28

he can kiss his penis, goodbye. Snipp,

37:30

am I right, girls?

37:33

Angela, just a side note, can

37:35

you juggle? No. You

37:38

can't. No. I can't

37:40

either. My brain doesn't

37:42

do that. I can't the hand eye

37:44

coordination?

37:45

I have hand eye coordination. I play tennis.

37:48

I have a really good outside shot in basketball

37:50

just so you guys

37:51

know. If you ever came over to my house and we played

37:53

horse out in the driveway. I've got

37:55

a real good shot. You

37:57

think you haven't shared that on the podcast

37:59

before, but you have. I'm very proud to share it

38:01

as many times as I need to. My

38:03

best shot is a side shot. Most people

38:05

don't see that coming. Anyway, but

38:07

no juggling. Can't do the juggling.

38:10

I have a very sad juggling story.

38:13

Sad? Yeah. Did you

38:15

hurt yourself? No. A ballfall on your

38:17

face? No. I I so she's

38:21

No. I broke a man's heart with

38:24

my juggling. Get out. I

38:26

did. How? When I was getting

38:28

ready to move to Los Angeles -- Okay. -- I had

38:30

a boyfriend. Okay. He gave

38:32

me a set of juggling balls. As

38:34

a parting gift -- Yes. He

38:37

said, what is the metaphor there? He

38:39

was a good juggler. K? And

38:41

I had always remarked on

38:44

what a cool thing it was to be able to

38:46

juggle. And you met him at, like, Renaissance

38:48

Fair.

38:48

I did not. Were you, like, the beer

38:50

wench at the Renaissance Fair? Oh

38:53

my gosh. I think I met him at a bowling

38:55

alley actually. Oh, not even kidding. We ended

38:58

up being on a bowling league together Okay.

39:00

-- as boyfriend and girlfriend. Okay. Okay. He's

39:02

like, remember me. Don't forget

39:04

me. Here are some juggling balls. What

39:06

he said was, you know, I'm not gonna

39:08

see you for a while. K? And

39:11

every time you miss me, do juggle

39:13

my ball. You can practice juggling.

39:16

No. And then the next time I see

39:18

you, I'll know how much you miss me. Because

39:20

I'll see what a good juggler you are. Jenna,

39:22

he wanted you to be a good ball handler.

39:25

Well, here's what

39:27

happened. He he

39:29

came into town, like months after

39:32

we'd said goodbye, and I had

39:34

not learned to juggle at all because

39:36

you hadn't thought of him. And then we

39:38

broke

39:38

up. Because you

39:39

sure juggle his ball. No. Because

39:41

because it keeps It was no.

39:44

It was like, you know, long

39:47

time. We didn't we didn't break up right

39:49

at that trip. Sure. But it

39:50

was, you know, it was the beginning of the end.

39:53

Right. You know, it gonna become clear

39:55

that we were going in two different directions

39:57

and it wasn't the direction where we both

39:59

juggle. Yeah. He was gonna

40:01

be a juggler, and I was gonna

40:04

be an actor and not

40:06

juggle.

40:08

I feel like there's a world where YouTube could have

40:10

made it. I should be like a traveling

40:12

show.

40:14

Well, now you would do your clown

40:16

work. He's a doctor now. Oh.

40:19

Mhmm.

40:20

So Well,

40:20

that went a different way. Mhmm. Listen,

40:24

I find juggling cool.

40:26

I think it's neat. I do.

40:28

So, you know, I was being real with

40:30

him when I said, I thought it was cool that

40:33

he could juggle, and I kinda still do wish

40:35

I could juggle. But it clearly

40:37

was not meant to be. Was sentiment

40:39

to be a lady.

40:40

No. Okay. Well,

40:43

where are we?

40:44

We are at Jim asking for a moment

40:46

of D'Angelo's time. And he

40:48

has plenty of it because, you know

40:49

what, this job's a joke. I loved

40:51

that. I loved it too. I

40:53

wanna give shout out to John Krasinski because

40:57

the way he goes about bringing up the

40:59

women are unhappy and then just trying

41:01

to backpedal and then

41:03

all of it he is so

41:05

good in this scene. But

41:07

then, Jim kinda throws Pam

41:09

under the bus. Like, what Pam

41:11

and these women needed from Jim

41:14

is for Jim to be an up standard.

41:16

They needed him to go in the office and say,

41:18

I've noticed. That

41:20

you do this

41:21

thing. Let me point out what he doesn't do

41:23

that. What he says is so

41:25

Angela, that's how he starts. I know. That's

41:27

what I mean. Heaven brings up Pam

41:29

and then says she can be kind of a bitch.

41:32

I know. And Jim completely

41:34

is like, well, what and then back

41:36

out. He did it wrong. You're supposed

41:38

to use your status and privilege and

41:41

own what you're saying. You're not supposed

41:43

to lay it off on the people

41:45

who are experiencing the

41:47

sexism. Right? You're like,

41:49

I've noticed, Angelo, that there are

41:51

no women in this room. I've

41:54

noticed that Angela is a department

41:56

head and you don't meet with her and I think

41:58

that that is somewhat of an

41:59

issue. So Jim tries,

42:02

he tries, but you know,

42:04

just

42:04

have to say that. I guess guess

42:07

I had to say that. A lot of things to say today,

42:09

and by the way, I'm not done. I've got something to

42:11

say about Phyllis in a minute.

42:12

Oh, okay. Well, Diagella

42:14

is now going to confront the bullpin.

42:17

He's gonna say, hey, I'm not a sexist

42:19

despite the rumor going around. Mhmm.

42:22

I do have a solitaire catch twelve minutes

42:24

fourteen seconds. I saw it. Kate

42:26

Flannery is moving some cards around there in the

42:28

background. Mhmm. Deangelo's

42:30

gonna ask everyone to raise their hand if they

42:32

have a vagina or if they love

42:34

someone who has a vagina. Both

42:37

of his hands go up. Mhmm. The

42:39

scene was actually a much bigger scene, and

42:42

Jenna, I thought we should hear it. Angela

42:44

Anne Phyllis speak up, and then they also

42:46

asked Toby to weigh in.

42:49

Apparently, there's a rumor running around here

42:51

that I'm a sexist. Angelo,

42:53

it's simply a question of respecting the

42:55

work. Kevin is invited to

42:57

meetings that I'm not invited

42:59

to, and I am a more productive accountant. You

43:01

can literally look at the numbers. Whoa,

43:03

Angela. No. No. No. It depends

43:05

what makes the math dead, D'Angelo.

43:08

I'm not a feminist, but

43:10

I think that the men in this office are being

43:12

given chances that the women

43:14

aren't. Right, Toby?

43:16

I mean, isn't there some policy on this?

43:21

Hazy.

43:23

I had a difficult relationship

43:26

with my last boss.

43:28

Not eager to

43:31

create another hostile situation.

43:35

Whoa. Yeah. Also,

43:38

the way Paul delivers that talking head

43:40

is Toby. He put so many spaces

43:43

between the words that I kind of felt

43:45

like Michael

43:46

Scott. I was like, say it.

43:49

Well, we got a fan I

43:52

don't know what you would call it. I'm calling it a fan

43:54

soapbox from Anna W in England.

43:57

Oh, let's hear it. Anna said, I've

43:59

held my tongue about Phyllis long enough.

44:01

Phyllis in this episode pisses me

44:03

off. Oh, Phyllis

44:05

says, quote, I'm not a feminist, but

44:07

I think the men in this office are being given chances

44:10

that women aren't. Anna says,

44:12

Phyllis, that is

44:15

feminism, equality

44:18

and opportunity, equality and

44:20

pay and writes is being

44:22

a feminist. You are a feminist

44:25

if that's what you think, Phyllis. Thank

44:27

you, Anna. Because

44:31

I'm gonna say, first,

44:33

some reason, I feel like

44:35

feminist has become like this dirty

44:38

word

44:38

somehow. Right? Like, somehow, like, being

44:40

a feminist. It's

44:41

to come charged. CHARGED is such

44:43

a good way to put it, Angela, and It

44:46

shouldn't be charged if you just want

44:48

equal opportunity pay and

44:49

rights. Yeah. That's it.

44:52

The end. Fair. Not much

44:54

more complicated than that. Can we just

44:56

get fair? There

44:59

you go. Thank you, Anna. I

45:01

liked that. Anna, you made her day.

45:03

You did. At the end of the

45:05

scene, Danilo's new executive

45:08

assistant is gonna arrive I wanted

45:10

to describe this character for

45:12

the shooting draft. Okay. Aaron

45:14

enters with a tall, gorgeous young

45:16

woman, Jordan Garfield.

45:19

Deangelo shakes her hand. Jordan

45:22

seems weirded out by the attention.

45:25

Well, new character alert Jordan

45:27

was played by Cody Horn.

45:29

She has a three episode arc on the show

45:31

and you might recognize her from the TV

45:33

series Rescue Me or the movie magic

45:36

mic. When she enters,

45:38

Pam is suspicious and immediately

45:40

begins asking her about her previous work

45:43

experience. We find out she worked

45:45

at Anthropologie and we learned

45:47

that that's Kelly's dream job. I love it

45:49

when she's like, you quit that job

45:51

to come here. And my thought

45:53

was Kelly, go apply. They'll

45:55

hire you. But she's like, how'd you get

45:58

that job? I know. We

46:00

do learn that this is Jordan's first

46:02

office job

46:03

ever. Yes. And

46:05

then the inner circle is gonna gather

46:08

and Jim is no longer invited. He

46:10

did not get a text Dwight got a

46:12

text, but he's not

46:14

interested. Guess who did

46:16

get a text? Andy, And

46:18

boy, has he flipped? I know.

46:21

So excited to run-in there. Jim

46:23

tries to go in, sort of

46:26

enters and he gets fully

46:29

kicked out. Yeah. Awkward.

46:32

Up next for Jim and he's gonna be running

46:34

a meeting. And it's

46:36

gonna cut to Jim. And he says,

46:38

so I guess this is my life. Until

46:41

I win the lottery, our Pam finally writes her young

46:43

adult book series. Is my

46:45

favorite moment in the whole episode. The

46:47

horseflyer? Oh, my gosh.

46:50

Lady, I really want you

46:52

to read it. Because the the

46:54

excitement Pam

46:55

has, it's so perfect. It

46:58

was so cute. I printed out the words

47:00

you have to read it. I will read it.

47:02

Ready? Mhmm. So one

47:04

afternoon while walking home from school, quirky

47:07

tenth grader, Becky Walters, finds a wounded

47:09

pegasus in the woods and she

47:11

becomes, the horse

47:13

flyer. It's so cute.

47:17

I loved it. Well, Randy said they had

47:19

to clear that title, the horse flyer.

47:21

And they even had to hire a research

47:23

company to look into the legal

47:25

ramifications of using this

47:28

name in the show. I guess, on the off chance

47:30

that somewhere out in the world, there was

47:32

a book called The HorseFlyer. Correct.

47:35

Here's what they responded with. From

47:37

their research, The HorseFlyer. We

47:40

find no listings for publication with

47:42

this exact title with the US library

47:44

of Congress or the US copyright

47:46

office and a general web search

47:48

found no listings for a prominent publication

47:51

with this exact

47:52

title. We were given clearance

47:54

to proceed.

47:55

Okay. But, like, it fascinates

47:58

me that as a writer, I wouldn't

48:00

even think about it. I would turn it in. That's a funny title.

48:02

The horse flyer. Yeah. But then

48:04

someone in legal, someone has to

48:07

clear that. Right. And maybe it

48:09

wouldn't have cleared and they would have had to rate different ones,

48:11

but I find that fascinating. Yeah.

48:13

They would have had probably a list of alts

48:15

like the pony flyer.

48:18

Yeah. That one. don't I

48:21

mean, maybe they would. Well, after

48:23

these talking heads, there would have been a scene

48:25

between Jim and De Angelo because

48:28

Jim decides to try and go back

48:30

in and talk to him and

48:32

we learn What team D'Angelo

48:34

plays

48:35

for? I think you should hear it.

48:37

Jim,

48:37

are you gonna understand me if I use the sports metaphor?

48:40

I think I probably You're a team. I

48:43

need team players, and I just don't know if you're

48:45

on my team. I am definitely on your team.

48:47

Team under my phone. Here we go. Team is called the

48:49

Crazy Snakes. Oh, okay. Or the

48:51

matadors. Or

48:53

the lancers? Lancers sounds a little high

48:56

school. Right? Yeah. But it's also my favorite. Great.

48:58

Let's see if we can work you back in the lineup.

49:01

That would be awesome. Jordan, please show Jim

49:04

out. That's alright. I got it right here. Jordan,

49:06

please. Show Jim out.

49:10

Oh my gosh. It was so

49:12

funny. Also, they did that classic revealed

49:15

that they would do when they were in Michael's office

49:17

where it's DeAngelo and Jim

49:18

talking. And then at the very end, you see

49:20

that Jordan has been there the whole time.

49:23

What is the character of thinking on

49:25

her first

49:26

date? She has no responsibilities. You

49:28

know, Jenna, she actually has a deleted

49:30

talking head where she says something to the effect

49:33

of, yeah, you

49:34

know, so far I don't like working here.

49:36

That's amazing. Now

49:38

Ryan is reprimanding Kelly in front of D'Angelo,

49:41

She's playing along with it at first, but she can't

49:44

take it anymore. And she tells D'Angelo

49:46

the truth. And D'Angelo

49:48

doesn't really care. He's finding this

49:50

whole explanation a little murky.

49:53

He calls her hysterical. And she starts

49:55

to laugh. Do you see it? Yeah. Mindy, like,

49:57

yeah. Found that very funny.

49:59

And

49:59

then he just says, you know what? Ryan's your supervisor.

50:02

Done. That's it now. I

50:04

know. Now Ryan got this job. I

50:06

want everyone to know. I haven't brought it up yet,

50:08

but Myles McKnight -- Yeah. -- gave

50:10

this episode a c minus. Oh,

50:13

Myles did not like it. This is

50:15

one of his, like, lowest ratings so

50:18

far. But he did say,

50:20

on a positive note, he said quote,

50:23

I liked that we saw more of Ryan and

50:25

Kelly than we usually get to see and that

50:27

Kelly got to take a more authoritative role

50:29

for a change. Kelly's a character

50:31

whose level of intelligence is always somewhat

50:34

variable, especially when it comes to Ryan.

50:36

But to see her shift away from her swooning

50:38

over Ryan as he fakes being her supervisor

50:41

was quite

50:42

satisfying. So he did like

50:44

this part. Okay?

50:45

Well, I always love to hear what Myles Bank nut

50:47

was thinking. The

50:49

inner circle is starting to get really loud

50:51

and people are trying to work, so Pam

50:53

was gonna ask them to quiet it

50:55

down. You know what? She's fuming,

50:57

but I would say she's also being

50:59

cordial. Mhmm. Right? Yeah. If she's

51:01

holding it together, We had a fan

51:03

question from Sarah W in Kingwood,

51:05

Texas and Ryan r in Woodland,

51:07

California who both asked When

51:10

Pam knocks on the door to the office to ask

51:12

the guys to quiet down, there is a clear shot

51:14

of the window next to the manager's office

51:17

door. And the window is slanted.

51:20

Is this to avoid seeing the

51:22

holes in the ceiling or to avoid seeing

51:24

glare from the lights? What a

51:26

great catch? Yes, it is. This

51:29

is a total glare thing. So

51:31

here was the thing we talked before about

51:33

how our set had immovable walls.

51:36

Usually, when you're working on a set, you

51:38

can, like, fly out a wall. Like, normally,

51:40

you'd be able to remove the whole wall to the conference

51:42

room to get a better shot. But

51:44

they wanted our camera operators

51:46

to have to deal with the confines of

51:48

the real space. But what they did

51:51

do is they made all the windows,

51:53

so they could slant up or slant down.

51:56

Yeah. They had a little tilty thing on the

51:58

side. And that was a trick so

52:00

that you couldn't see the reflection of the camera

52:02

operators in the

52:04

glass. Otherwise, you would have seen them all the

52:06

time. Mhmm. That's right. It's like when

52:08

you take a selfie with sunglasses on.

52:11

Yeah. Yeah. It is just like that edge.

52:15

Let me relate it back to selfies. Well,

52:18

the guys are gonna get back to their little mini

52:20

basketball game. They don't listen

52:22

to Pam. And D'Angelo is gonna invite

52:24

Jim to join. But you know, D'Angelo has

52:26

been a real big talker all along. He's

52:28

big talker about all of his basketball

52:31

stuff. And he's really

52:33

show boating about how he can dunk.

52:35

Mhmm. And Jim's like, well,

52:38

why don't we see you dunk on a real

52:39

hoop? We have one in the warehouse. Yeah.

52:42

Jim's tired of his BS, and he's

52:45

gonna call him out. Yeah. Angelo

52:47

says, yeah, we'll set that up sometime. And Jim's

52:49

like, how about

52:50

today? How about right now? Yeah.

52:52

And Deirdle's like, I don't know. And

52:54

we think he's gonna try to get out

52:56

of it. And then he says, well, No

52:58

one has called NASA to request a

53:00

liftoff. That's right. Game

53:03

on. Game on. They're

53:05

gonna go down to the warehouse. Jim has

53:07

measured out the distance from

53:09

the baseline to the free

53:12

throw line, but he makes a

53:14

mistake. Did

53:16

you catch it? No. So

53:18

Jim says, the free throw line

53:20

is fifteen feet from the baseline. It's

53:23

not. It's fifteen feet from the bass

53:25

in the goal. Yes. It's nineteen feet

53:28

from the baseline. Oh, you're just

53:30

saying. Yeah. I thought you'd be impressed.

53:32

I am very impressed to ask skip ball.

53:34

I didn't know that. Okay. Let me confess. I

53:36

read that on Dundra Pedia. Oh, thank you,

53:38

Dundra Pedia. You're

53:39

welcome. Thank you, Dundra Pedia.

53:41

I would not have caught that on my own.

53:43

We should also say Dwight attends because

53:45

Danzulo yells at him. Yes,

53:48

so loudly, and Dwight responds

53:51

to strong leadership. When

53:53

Will Farrell as Danilo yelled like that?

53:55

Mhmm. It was so hard not to

53:58

laugh. He's funny at yelling.

54:00

He's funny at everything. I got a little

54:02

nugget for you guys something that wasn't

54:04

scripted when Deangelo says,

54:07

does someone want to sit in Kevin's lap?

54:09

That was scripted. Okay? But

54:11

when he says, Angela, and I

54:13

say no, and he says Oscar, and Oscar

54:15

says no, thank you. Yeah. That was not in

54:17

sky. I love that moment so much.

54:20

That is so great. Well,

54:23

guys, what's gonna happen is

54:26

that D'Angelo is going

54:28

to dunk the ball and then

54:30

the whole

54:31

what do you call that thing? Basketball

54:33

hoop thing falls on him and he's gonna

54:36

sent to the hospital.

54:37

Tears over on top of him -- Yes.

54:39

-- which would be very, very bad because those

54:41

things are really heavy. Fan

54:43

question from Mag C in Yorkville,

54:45

Illinois, how did you guys do the scene

54:48

when Deangelo does the basketball dunk?

54:51

Well, everyone, this was our stunt gone

54:53

horribly wrong. Yeah. When Greg

54:55

was in the studio with us, we asked him

54:57

if he remembered this moment. He

55:00

did. Here's what he had to

55:02

say.

55:03

I still think about that constantly. It

55:06

was horrible. And, you know, I wasn't running

55:08

the show than Paul was, and I was coming

55:10

into to watch. And there is

55:12

Will Farrell, and the joke was

55:14

that he was going to dunk

55:16

this basketball in warehouse and

55:19

our special effects guys had rigged

55:22

a harness for him

55:24

and a rope and a

55:25

pulley.

55:25

Mhmm. And their idea was

55:28

he's gonna run, he's going to jump

55:30

as high as he can jump. And then

55:32

at the very apex of his jump,

55:34

they were gonna yank on this closed line

55:37

and he was gonna seamlessly continue

55:39

his his arc until

55:41

he was tall enough to dunk and

55:44

that it would look like he could dunk the ball.

55:46

And I had enormous reservations about

55:49

this. You know, I just from

55:51

the physics of it, I was like,

55:53

I can't understand cool. Yeah. You

55:55

know, the idea that his mass is

55:57

going to just as it just before

55:59

it starts to go down, they're

56:02

going to, like, seamlessly keep

56:04

it going, and you're not gonna be

56:06

able to tell. I saw I was

56:08

very skeptical. You know? And,

56:10

like, the first take he jumps

56:12

and then he, you know, starts

56:14

to fall and they start pulling on this thing,

56:17

you know, and it just looks like this weird up

56:19

and down thing that is not and and

56:21

then they're like, no. No. You gotta pull harder. You didn't

56:23

pull hard enough. And so the sec

56:26

you know, the next take, he runs they

56:28

yank on this thing and he's just pile

56:30

driven into the rim of basketball. It's

56:32

a horrible crash. And

56:34

we're like, oh my god. You know, he was so nice

56:37

to come help

56:38

do a few episodes and it was just

56:40

it was such a disaster.

56:43

I remember it. I will never

56:45

forget it. It was so shocking. It

56:47

was crazy, Angela. Like,

56:50

my brain couldn't wrap itself around it.

56:52

Like, I didn't understand how he got from

56:54

the ground up there so fast. And

56:57

I remember just being stunned. Well,

56:59

Randy said that the stunt assistance pulled

57:02

so hard that he flew up

57:04

much higher than they planned. His

57:07

knee got rammed into the

57:09

basketball hoop and he got a really bad cut

57:11

on his leg like just below his knee.

57:13

We had to bring our set medic out and

57:15

all that stuff. Randy said he was gonna

57:18

call a rap on it and just be like forget

57:20

it. We're not doing this

57:21

again. And he said, Will

57:23

pulled him aside. And he

57:25

said, hey, listen. I don't want you to blame

57:27

anyone. I don't want you to punish anyone. I

57:29

am fine. I am not in pain. I'd

57:32

like to try it again. I mean,

57:34

what? Yeah. Will

57:36

Farrell, I know. I would be like,

57:39

I am going home. But

57:41

I think that, like, all the time, I

57:43

watch people, like, tough it out in situations,

57:45

and I'm like, I'm out. Goodbye.

57:49

Randy said he allowed one more take at Will's

57:51

request. And at that time,

57:53

they auto corrected. Yeah. They

57:55

kinda lifted him and it never really

57:58

ended up being what they needed. But

58:00

at that point, they were like, we're calling

58:02

it. We're just gonna have to go with the footage that

58:04

we have. Randy said that at

58:06

wrap, he walked Will Ferrell to his car,

58:08

and he was just, like, apologizing profusely

58:11

and saying, like, do you wanna go to the? Like,

58:13

what can we do for this? Cut on your leg.

58:15

And he said that Will looked at him

58:17

and quoted a famous line from Mani Python

58:20

and just said, to spud a scratch merely

58:22

a flesh wound. And

58:24

he assured him he said I'll be fine. I'll

58:26

be on time for work tomorrow morning. Don't you

58:29

worry. Wow. I know.

58:31

Well, I was curious about what was in the shooting

58:33

draft for this moment, and this is

58:35

what it says. An ambulance

58:38

pulls out of the parking lot, lights flashing,

58:40

sirens blaring, everyone is

58:43

stunned. Daryl is worried

58:45

and says, will he be okay?

58:48

And Andy says, the EMT

58:50

said probably not. Oh my

58:52

gosh. This would have taken

58:54

us to a tag scene at the end.

58:56

Deangelo was gonna show up in hospital

58:58

gown With his head bandage, he's

59:00

speaking gibberish. Mhmm. Jim is

59:02

gonna ask Aaron to call nine eleven. One

59:05

of my favorite moments is when Aaron who should

59:07

I say is calling? I know. And Jim goes,

59:10

Aaron. And there

59:12

were two things I have question

59:13

about. One, where is Pam in this

59:15

tag? I don't know. You

59:18

know, originally, Danilo sits

59:20

down at Pam's computer and starts typing.

59:23

Mhmm. So I couldn't be there. That's why

59:25

one reason why I'm not there is because he was gonna

59:27

come type. And you know, I don't know if you

59:30

saw this in the shooting draft, but at the very

59:32

end of this episode, the camera was gonna

59:34

swing

59:35

over, and

59:35

we were gonna hit her screen. And we were gonna see

59:37

what D'Angelo had typed. Yes. And

59:40

even though he was speaking gibberish, he would have typed

59:42

Jenna, you have it. Right? I have it. This is what

59:44

would have been the last shot. Please

59:47

help. I am a sound mind and I am

59:49

a prisoner in my body. My family

59:51

is arranging to have power of attorney over me

59:53

and intends to issue a DNR order.

59:56

This is not in my interest. Please

59:58

contact my lawyer, Fred Nestor, his number

1:00:00

is in my

1:00:01

blackberry, which is on my dresser to the left

1:00:03

of my watch. Yeah. Yeah.

1:00:05

That's how it would have ended. Mhmm. Instead,

1:00:08

it ends with them sort of escorting him out.

1:00:11

You guys I couldn't keep it together

1:00:13

in this scene. You fully see me laugh.

1:00:15

You see me smile and

1:00:17

laugh. Because, you

1:00:20

know, they wrote out a few gibberish words

1:00:22

for Will, but then he mostly just started

1:00:25

to make stuff up. Yes. And it was a little

1:00:27

different each time. Mhmm. And

1:00:29

I couldn't keep it together. I'm fully

1:00:31

unprofessional at the end of this

1:00:33

episode. I'll put it in stories,

1:00:35

but I I totally break. Well, I've got

1:00:37

a time code for you. Thanks to Nick and in

1:00:39

Minnesota. And someone else said, yeah. It's

1:00:41

twenty one minutes and twenty five seconds.

1:00:43

Yeah. And then almost right after that,

1:00:45

Nick pointed out at twenty one thirty five,

1:00:48

Right after Will makes a sneezing noise, you

1:00:50

can see John tilts his head down to

1:00:52

the floor to try and hide his

1:00:54

smile, but his body language says that

1:00:56

he broke into hysterical after the very moment,

1:00:58

the scene cuts. Well,

1:01:02

before we take a bite of episode, Jenna, I

1:01:04

wanted to read you an article I found

1:01:06

in The New York Times by Dave Itzkov.

1:01:09

It came out April sixth of two thousand

1:01:11

and eleven, He had come

1:01:13

to set to interview Will Farrell about

1:01:15

being on the office and about what this meant

1:01:17

for the show with Michael Scott leaving You

1:01:20

and I have shared during this time there was a lot

1:01:22

of uncertainty. Mhmm. Well,

1:01:24

here's what he said. What the

1:01:26

office producers may lack in clarity

1:01:29

or candor about their vision for the show's

1:01:31

future, they amply make up for

1:01:33

and nervousness. Asked

1:01:36

a few questions about a possible replacement

1:01:39

for mister Carell, mister

1:01:41

Lieberman became agitated. He

1:01:44

started stopped and retracted

1:01:46

his responses multiple times

1:01:49

before settling on the following

1:01:51

answer. We have decided to

1:01:53

go past Steve with the cast we have

1:01:56

because of the cast we have. Even

1:02:00

so, the office is front loading its

1:02:03

May nineteenth finale with guest stars like

1:02:05

Ricky Gervais and Wil Arnett, while

1:02:07

ratcheting up anticipation for an announcement

1:02:10

of Michael Scott's full time

1:02:11

replacement. Well, I'll tell you this

1:02:13

lady in anticipation of finishing out this

1:02:16

season and moving into next season, I

1:02:18

have been digging as much as I can to

1:02:20

try to find information on the behind

1:02:22

the scenes scuttlebutt. Uh-huh. And

1:02:24

I found out some kind of fun things and I'm

1:02:26

excited to share, but I'm gonna wait until we kick

1:02:29

off season eight. Oh my gosh, Jenna.

1:02:31

I love it when you get a beer in

1:02:33

your bonnet. I'm like, I remember

1:02:36

a lot of things, but then I think there's things

1:02:38

I don't know and I I wanna

1:02:40

know.

1:02:40

Oh, well, I can't wait. I will be looking

1:02:43

forward to that. I will say this,

1:02:45

I did get pulled into Paul's office

1:02:47

for a one on one where he asked

1:02:50

my opinion of who I thought should be

1:02:52

the next minute. Really? Mhmm. Oh,

1:02:54

you've gotta give all that up. I'll

1:02:56

share. Okay. I'll share for season eight. Well,

1:02:58

that was inner circle, and guess what,

1:03:00

next week we're gonna be back with. William

1:03:03

Farrell. He's gonna join us and he's

1:03:05

gonna talk about his arc on the show. You

1:03:07

guys have a great week. We love you. See you,

1:03:09

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1:03:15

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