Office Ladies - Costume Contest

Episode Date: September 28, 2022

This week we’re breaking down “Costume Contest”. The office competes in a costume contest to win a questionably impressive coupon book. Meanwhile Michael discovers Darryl went behind his back to give corporate an idea and Jim helps Pam figure out why Danny didn’t ask Pam for another date. The ladies share their appreciation to fans after spending 2 days going through physical Fan Mail, which includes sharing some specialty potato chips with Phil Rosenthal (Everybody Loves Raymond, Naked Lunch). Angela points out all the costume changes, including a certain recycled nurse costume, and inspired by Dwight, Jenna researches if women seek mates who smell like their fathers. We hope you enjoy this episode, and remember, Halloween should be a day in which we honor monsters and not be mad at each other. Check out “Naked Lunch with Phil Rosenthal and David Wild”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/naked-lunch/id1620018481

I'm Jenna Fisher and I'm Angela Kinsey. We were on The Office together and we're best friends. And now we're doing the Ultimate Office rewatch podcast just for you. Each week we will break down an episode of The Office and give exclusive behind-the-scenes stories that only two people who were there can tell you. We're The Office, ladies. Hello, Angela. Hello, everybody.

Hello and hello. Today we're going to talk about costume contest. Oh, there's lots to discuss. It's season seven, episode six, written by Justin Spitzer and directed by Dean Holland. I loved seeing us in our costumes the whole time. I have lots to share about that penguin. I loved the penguin so much, particularly in your talking head. Oh.

The penguin talking head. I have a story. But I'll wait. Okay. Here is your summary, everybody. It is Halloween at Dunder Mifflin and there is going to be a costume parade. The competition is stiff because the coworkers are vying for a valuable Halloween costume contest prize.

And everyone's real excited about it. I mean, there is a buzz about this coupon book. Meanwhile, Michael comes to resent Daryl for going over his head with a good idea. And Pam and Jim wonder why did Danny ghost Pam four years ago? They're going to get to the bottom of it. I have lots of thoughts on that storyline. I cannot wait. I'm going to hold on to them till we get there.

Well, listen, everyone, today we're going to mix things up a little bit with our fast facts. Angela, do you want to share with everyone where we got this week's fast fact inspiration? I do. Okay. This is very exciting, you guys. We record at Ear Wolf, they have a P.O. box for us that's for fan mail. Jen and I don't check it.

Ear Wolf checks it, but because of the pandemic, everyone hasn't been back in the office and mail has been piling up for a long time. And finally, the offices are back open, people are back in, and guess what? They checked our P.O. box. Yeah, there was so much mail, it like took up a whole little room. It was kind of crazy. And you guys know, I go through the physical mail, the snail mail, because I love tangible things, Jenna.

I like to touch things in my hands. This is true. You like email, you're much better at it than I am, and you do all the email mail because it's divided into grids and folders, and it all comes on my computer on a spreadsheet. And mine was just piled up in a room. They put all of our mail in a supply room, and you could barely see Angela behind this mail, but the stacks of mail were so high, and I looked at her and I just said, I'm going to stay.

Yeah. I'm going to stay, we're going to go through this together. This is like a seven-person job, but we'll do it, the two of us. That's right. I was going to stay after and go through it, then, Jenna, you were like, let's order food. We're going to make a day of this. It actually turned into two days. Yeah.

We're not even done. There's still one been left. But you guys, we were so moved by all the amazing letters and things that you sent us. These fast facts are going to be fan mail shout-outs. Woo-hoo! Boo-boo! Boo-boo! Boo-boo!

I did your bit. You did my bit. Hey, don't take my... Boo-boo! Boo-boo! That's a classic. So, where should we start? Well, I think we start with how many letters we received.

So many lovely letters, cards, graduation announcements, wedding invitations. I think I opened easily. I don't know, Jenna, maybe 200 wedding invitations? Maybe 300. There's so many. I haven't even gotten to all of them. I sat next to Angela while she was opening the wedding invitations and I want you to know she was genuinely delighted by each and every one.

She pointed out details. I know. She took every little card out of every little folder thing. I was very impressed because you guys are real fancy. Some of them, when you open them, had like a little built-in folder for all the important pieces of paper you're going to need. Oh, and then there's this new thing. So, put the little scan square thing.

You scan it with your phone and then it tells you all the wedding information. That made me feel old. It made me feel old, too. It's not a website. It's like a scannable thing. Like when you go to a restaurant and it's on the menu, but it's on your wedding invitation now. Also, people are really creative.

One had like charred edges. Like it looked like someone had lit a flame to it, but it was intentional. Very cool. The other thing that you kept showing me, Angela, were all the people who did the little wax stamp. Yes. You loved a wax stamp. I did.

Any invitation with a wax stamp, Angela showed it to me. I did. So, if you sent us a wedding invitation with a wax stamp, we both saw it. Yes. I don't know why, guys. I just want to live in yield in times. No. I get very excited about that.

I, myself, did not do a wax stamp for my wedding and I have regrets about it. But the other thing I want to share with you guys is a lot of you had office-themed weddings. And I wanted to share one of them. Oh, okay. Mary Meyer and her fiance, Justin, from St. Mary's, Pennsylvania, they met in second grade. They remained friends for years. When they were older, they started hanging out more.

And a lot of their dates included watching The Office. Jenna, you should know they named their dog Beasley. Aww. After everyone's favorite receptionist, they said, they got engaged at Niagara Falls and Mary had a, it is your bridal shower, themed bridal shower. The invitation was so cute. I think Jim and Dwight would have been very proud, Mary. If I blur all the personal information, can I put it in office lady stories?

Because it's so cute. Yeah. Yeah. If you take out all the stuff. Yeah. Right. Mary and Justin, we wish you all the best. Mary, thanks for sharing your bridal shower invitation with us.

And you know, Jenna, as much as I love the fancy invites, I also got a real chuckle from a very simple one that we got from Caitlyn and Jeremy in Azel, Texas. Caitlyn and Jeremy sent us an invitation that just said in big all caps, free drinks and in parentheses, and we're getting married, but the first thing you saw was free drinks. And one other thing I want to share is a lot of you wrote in and told us that The Office was how you met your significant other. These stories were so sweet and fun, I wanted to share one of them. Okay.

Maddie, I wrote us a letter and said to Angela, thank you. Back in 2019, you visited my school, Northern Michigan University. I had been talking to someone for a few months on a dating app, but we had yet to meet. We were both on the shy side. Your Q and A popped up and we both love the office. So we decided that this would be our first date. I know. Maddie goes on to say, let me tell you, it was perfect.

There was no pressure because you did all the talking and we got to laugh at your stories about The Office, but also how you accidentally forgot to pack your underwear for the trip. Wait, what? This is a true story, Jenna. I showed up at Northern Michigan University with no underwear. Except for what you had on. Well, yeah. Okay, well.

But just saying. I was going to be there three days. Oh, wow. Yeah. I hope you found some, by the way, after that day, we were inseparable and now her and I are engaged. Yay. I know.

Office made up. Congratulations. Office made cute. That's an Angela meat cute. Oh, yeah. I think you created that meat cute. I love it. Yay.

Well, I want to talk about all the homemade items that we received, like overwhelmed with just the generosity and the hand craftsmanship, just the most thoughtful, most beautiful things. You guys sent us homemade napkins, hand stitched, we had candles and bath soaps. Pot holders. Office themed pot holders that you all made, t-shirts. We got homemade jewelry, knit hats. I got a giant cat floaty for my swimming pool. My kids are very excited about that.

Lots of really beautiful wood crafts, cookies, buttons, pins, stickers. A lot of you really wanted Jenna to have a mug with her face on it, like the one from Kelly's party. Yes. You got a few of those. Then a lot of you also wanted me to have a coffee mug that said, it's basically bread that looks like a donut. Yeah.

We both have a lot of those coffee mugs. Yeah. Well, we both agreed that we needed to talk about one homemade item in particular. We each got a spectacular quilt from Nancy Schmidt in Minneapolis. She sent these to us back in September of 2021. We just received them, Nancy. They are amazing. Nancy, they are so beautiful.

For those of you guys that follow me on Instagram, you know that my mom, Birdie, is an amazing quilter. My grandmother, Lena, was a quilter as well. Nancy, I have watched both of them spend hours quilting a quilt for someone as a gift. I know how much time and heart goes into that. It was so moving to me. I love it so much. Well, Nancy sent us a letter where she explained in detail why she chose each fabric that she

chose. I mean, so much thought and care goes into these quilts. She said that one of the fabrics that she added reminded her of the palm trees that we said sometimes sneak into the background of the office. I loved that. And then Nancy also said this in her letter to us, I'll never forget the safety training episode where the two of you dove in and talked about suicide. You saw the necessity of saying something about it and what you did was both loving and brave.

Well, Nancy, thank you for that. And thank you so much for the quilts. Yes, Nancy. I will be using mine all the time. One of the other things I want to talk about, Jenna, is the amazing artists that listen to Office Ladies Pod. We got several paintings of Jenna and myself, either as our characters or of ourselves in real life.

And I wanted to shout out Ellen, who is 13 years old. She painted a big picture of Jenna and I plus little ones of our characters. She shared in a letter to us that she loves art and Jane Austen novels and mugs. And Ellen, I want you to know, I love all of those things. In fact, I have a coffee mug with all of the quotes from Pride and Prejudice. Don't even get me started on Mr. Darcy. Well, a lot of you also shared with us how the podcast got you through long commutes or hardships in your life, the pandemic, or how it just kind of kept you company in

one form or another. And one of the letters I wanted to highlight was from Dustin M. Dustin said, I am a second shift custodian for a school. And for about four hours a night, I am alone in the building cleaning. You two keep me company and laughing while at work. He went on to say, I wanted to share a little of my story and my family's story. And he sent us a photo of him and his wife and their two kids. They're gorgeous.

It was their Christmas card from last year. Here's what Dustin said. When you had Ellie Kemper on the show a few weeks ago, it reminded me of how much I loved her storyline with the foster care system and trying to find her parents. My wife and I were foster parents ourselves for a few years and have been lucky enough to adopt both of our beautiful children from the system. Vivi was one when we adopted her. After taking her straight from the hospital, she is now four and a bundle of joy and energy.

What to be outdone is my son Hank, who was also one when we adopted him after getting him from another foster family when he was four months old. He is currently three and will pick on his sister any chance he gets. He went on to say that he loved the episode where Andy talks about frothing. Dustin actually has a company that sells disc golf equipment. Dustin said, we call it disc golf, but we love frothing. And Dustin even named his company V&H Disc Golf after his kids. And then he ended his letter by saying, thank you for spending time with me each week and

sharing all the behind the scenes stories, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Thank you Dustin. Isn't that the sweetest letter? Yes, I love it. Thank you so much for sharing that with us and he sent us one of his disc golf frisbees. The other thing Jen and I couldn't get over was just how many different places letters and things come from. Now I know Jenna with email, you really get people from all over, but you know, mail,

that takes effort to put something in an envelope, pay for the postage to go out of the country. Yeah. And there were lots of letters that were moving to us. I want to say thank you to Andy Jay from the UK who wrote in and said, I've been an office fan for years and now enjoy listening to office ladies whilst driving around for work. He went on to share with us that he makes wooden name plaques and he sent one to Jenna and myself. Andy, we love them.

They're so cute. And guess what? Here's the other thing we want to share with you guys. We now have desks. We have desks at Ear Wolf. We each have a desk. We kind of pammed it. We did pamp it.

Who pammed it? You did. I pammed it. You said, who's sitting at these two empty desks? Can we take them? And they said, sure. And then, you guys, all of the beautiful things you sent in, we used to decorate our office space here at Office Ladies.

We'll put it in stories, but all of your pictures and paintings and things you sent, we have the cutest nook at Ear Wolf now. And it has already paid off because we can sit side by side undisturbed by the distractions of home life and chores and all that. We have like a real office space. It's so exciting. It's so exciting. You know what cracks me up, Jenna?

Because we spent nine years being in fake work booths, sort of side by side through a partition. And now we're so excited to be in a real work pause desk area. I didn't even think of that. But it's great because we want to tell you we are currently using our desks to sign copies of the office BFFs for the holidays. So look out for that. Yeah.

It's going to be on OfficeLadies.com. We're going to do a really fun holiday bundle with our book. Well, finally, before we go to break, Taylor E. and Alberta Canada sent us something I'm very excited about. I'm also not excited about it. I don't know my feelings about it. Taylor, I'm super excited because one of them I have had and the other I have not. Here's what Taylor sent us.

Some old Dutch chips. Remember these were featured in the episode Business Trip. Old Dutch chips were founded in Winnipeg in 1954 and Old Dutch has the crazy flavors. Yes. So here's what we've got here. We've got the Dill Pickle flavor. It's Dill Pickle and onion. Oh boy.

And then ketchup flavored chips. I've had the ketchup ones. I'm really excited. And you liked them. I did like it. Okay. And then the last thing, she sent us something from Ruffles. They're called the All Dressed Chip and Taylor thinks that that is a Canada specific flavor.

Okay. I have not had that. Let's open them up. All right. All right. Well, we're getting ready. I want to say Taylor. Oh, that's loud.

That was very loud. Sorry. Okay. Let me say before we taste the chips that Taylor also said, quote, living in a fairly rural area in Alberta, I don't ever get to see or meet celebrities or be part of Hollywood. Though, it once made it into our newspaper that Helena Bonham Carter visited a coffee shop in our city. No.

So it's special to listen to your podcast every week and get a bit of a glimpse into the magic of Hollywood. Taylor, thank you for your letter and thank you for the chips. And I'm going to try what I guess is still pickle and onion. Okay. Sam, Cassie, do you want to try any? Yeah, you want to try these? You want some?

There's a little bit of a reluctant look from Cassie. Okay. How's the Dill? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I like it. I don't like it.

Okay. Drink some water. I don't care for it. Okay. I'm trying Dill pickle and onion. I like it. What? I like it.

Who? What is your... What is... I don't get it. Oh, look at the... Look at this. Look at that. Would you...

Tell them what you're eating. This is ketchup. Uh-huh. Oh, my gosh. I wish you could see Jenna's face. Can I have to take a picture of your face? Pass them over to me. Uh-huh.

Who would eat this willingly? Oh, my God. Again. I like it. Oh, boy. Okay. I need Sam and Cassie to try these. Sam.

Oh, wait. Who's... Who's in the booth with Sam and Cassie? That's Phil. Hi, Phil. That's Phil. Oh, my gosh. Hello.

Phil. Phil. Would you... Would you like it? You're a food guy. Yes. You have a whole podcast about food. Yes, you do.

Okay. Come here. Have you ever had old Dutch chips? They are Canadian and they have these crazy flavors. Have a seat. Phil. Rosenthal. What am I eating?

This is dill, pickle, and onion. This is dill, pickle, and onion. Cornishaws and ranch. It sounds very fancy. Thoughts? Not terrible. Okay. She hated it.

I love it. I love that one. Yep. I loved it. I did. I would eat that whole bag. But I hated this more. Okay.

This is just called ketchup. Yeah. I feel like we're getting a real food connoisseur's opinion now. I know. Yeah. What do you think? What do you think? Why are you laughing?

That's not so good. Oh, thank you. I liked it. Thank you. How many others do you have? We have one more. Oh, I've had these. All dressed.

Yeah. Spell... Say that in French. You're fancy. Essosienne. Oh, nice. I don't know. Essosienne.

Essosienne. Essosienne. I'm just doing my French dick. Okay. Let's try it. Those are good. You would eat those. No, you don't like it?

You know what? I know. I took a picture of the face. I clearly should not be Canadian. Okay. Look at her face trying the ketchup one. I might make your new contact photo for my phone. Aw, that's adorable.

You really hate it. Here's the thing. I do not like vinegar. So, I don't like the... What is that chip we do here? Salt and vinegar. Yeah, I don't care for it. No.

Okay. And so... Do you like chips and dip? Do you put... I love... Like onion dip. Yep. I love a French onion dip.

I love a French onion chip. Just don't need to add a dill pickle to it. And then whatever's happening there with the ketchup is a no for me as well. I would eat all of these. But that ketchup... And they're now yours. It's not like a fake ketchup taste. It's not like a real ketchup.

I know, Phil. Don't judge. I can judge a little. Give me all... Give me all the fake... Don't judge a little. Give me all the fakie salty stuff. You know why I'm thrilled to see you both is because I want to invite you onto our podcast,

Thinking Lunch. Now, we get to eat on your podcast, right? You get a real lunch. Not just chips like you give me. This is... We get a full lunch. To be fair, we didn't know you were stopping by. No excuse.

You should always have lunch ready for anyone who might stop by. So true, Phil. Phil, thank you so much for stopping in to eat chips. We're going to go to break, but let's tell everyone about your podcast. Naked lunch. It's on the Stitcher Network. Naked lunch. It's on Stitcher.

It's on Stitcher. Look, we have the same mugs. We have the same mugs. Check out Phil's podcast, Naked Lunch. With David Wilde. Yes. Where people eat full meals. Will you come?

Delicious meals. Yes. We'll come. Don't serve me anything in this area. In the chip, in the fake flavor. No fake ketchup. Yeah. Area.

No, we get lunch from... It can be a surprise for you. Or you get to pick where you want lunch from. I get it for you. Oh my gosh. You know we love a free meal. This is a good gig. We will be there.

There is such a thing as a free lunch. Ladies, I love you. Love you. Thanks, Phil. Thanks, Phil. Bye. Those of you that are huge, everybody loves Raymond fans. I love him because he created that with Ray Romano.

That's right. He also had a show on Netflix called Somebody Feed Phil. And now he has the podcast, Naked Lunch. Which I guess, Jenna, we're going to go on and eat. I love free food, lady. I'm there. You never know who you're going to run into. Here at Ear Wolf.

I know. I ran into Matt Besser the other day. Comedian Matt Besser. I did the movie Walk Hard with him. It's fun having a desk here. It really is. And people are back in the office. Well, listen, thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all of the things you sent.

We're going to stay on top of our mail now, I think, a little better. Yes. And really, what a wonderful two days that was opening up all of the mail, Angela. It put me in such a good mood and I loved feeling so connected to all of you all. Oh, same, Jenna. Same. We love you guys. Thank you so much for taking the time out to reach out to us.

And we'll be back after this break with Costume Contest. This episode is going to start with a cold open where everyone is, well, they're kind of pranking Stanley because he's oblivious. Yeah, he goes to take a sip of his coffee, but he drinks some orange juice from Jim's coffee mug instead and he doesn't seem to notice the difference. This sets off a whole bunch of everyone in the office just acting strange around him to see if he will notice. I do have a question.

What is it? Why is Jim drinking orange juice out of a coffee mug? This was my question. I was like of all the ridiculous things in this cold open. To me, that is the most strange. I know. I mean, sure, Andy has no shirt on and Kevin is dressed like Phyllis, but orange juice in a coffee mug, Jim?

I do like the taste of orange juice in a coffee mug. There are certain things I like drinking from a mug. I like the taste of milk from a mug instead of a glass. Don't you find that the different container gives something to the liquid? I do, and I think orange juice in a coffee mug is disgusting. But I have such strong feeling. But I also like fake ketchup potato chips, so what do I know? I have a little tidbit from Randy Cordray at the very end of this cold open as Stanley's

walking out. Is it about the pony? It's about the pony. I know that was from Bob Dunn's Animals, our go-to animal folks, and the pony's name was Bonsai. Bonsai. I had a Shetland pony. Are they big?

No, they're tiny. Are they as tiny as the tiny pony in the cold open? Yes. Oh, some people let them in their house. I think Rainn Wilson has a Shetland pony that walks about his house. I think you're right. Yeah. This show opens with everyone in very festive Halloween attire.

They've really gone all out this time. Like truly, the costumes have gone all out, the decor, the prize for the contest will get there. Yeah. And Jenna, are you ready for a costume breakdown? Oh, oh, and with music, Sam, I'm liking this. Thank you, Sam. I looked at the shooting draft.

Here's how they describe everyone. Oscar is a disco guy. Angela is a penguin. Stanley is a samurai. Phyllis is Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. Creed is a mummy. Kevin is the filmmaker Michael Moore. Aaron is wearing a, quote, grotesque horror costume with a full latex mask.

Michael is dressed as the SNL character McGroober. Andy is Bill Compton from True Blood. Pam is olive oil. Dwight is the Scranton Strangler. Gabe is Lady Gaga. Daryl is a vampire. Toby is a hobo clown, and in parentheses it says a basic costume. Oh.

Ryan is Justin Bieber, and Kelly is Snooki from the reality TV show Jersey Shore. And Meredith is a waitress. I think maybe Snooki from True Blood, I'm not sure. Bob Vance is Dirty Harry. Hmm. Remember Clint Eastwood, Dirty Harry. Todd Packer is a pregnant nun, although that isn't in the script. Oh.

I don't know if they added that. And Jim does not have a costume. Danny Cordray does not have a costume. And in the course of this episode, five office workers will change costumes. Five? Yes. Oh. Kelly, Angela, Oscar, Michael, and, well, Jim.

Oh, yes, of course. Oh. Okay. So, Jenna, I have to ask you, have you ever gone all out for Halloween? Because I kind of know your usual look. I've seen it. Yeah. I usually just do Halloween themed clothing.

So I've got a skeleton shirt. I've got my earrings that I wear. They're a little mummy and a little Frankenstein. But I did go all out one year. I really went all out and I even got Lee to dress up with me. What? And he is like even less of a dresser upper. In fact, this storyline with Jim and Pam of Pam wanting Jim to dress up reminded me of this.

What was it? A few years ago, Lee and I were Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood from the Great British baking show. I remember that. It was so fun. We had the best time. I need pictures. We can definitely post a picture.

But that I would say, especially in recent memory, is the most all out I've ever gone. I feel like you're more of the costume person. You guys will do a whole thing. You've got several costumes from Target, you've got your donut that I've seen you wear a lot. I will say, I'm not someone that creates a whole cool costume and sew stuff and does elaborate stuff. I will just throw a donut over my own clothes. Yeah. And I'm usually a donut and Josh is a coffee.

That's how we, one year we were eggs and bacon. I don't know why we have all these breakfast themes. But I have to ask you, when you were Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood, did people know who you guys were? When we posted the picture on Instagram, people knew. But in real life, I'm not sure. Okay. Because one year when I was a kid, probably, I don't know if I was around eight or nine. I went all out on a Halloween costume and no one knew who I was.

I'm still tickled that my mom was so supportive of this because I'm sure my mom was like, what? Do you remember this SNL character, Gilda Radner would do, called Rosanna, Rosanna Dana? Yeah. She had a wig that went way out on either side of her head. It was like a big triangle. Yeah. A black triangle wig. She wore bright red lipstick and like a little suit and she'd be like, I'm Rosanna, Rosanna Dana.

And that's who I wanted to be for Halloween. So my mom got me a little suit and the triangle wig and bright red lipstick. And I think three people knew who I was. How old were you? I was like nine. You were a nine year old, Rosanna? Rosanna Dana. Rosanna Dana Dana.

Rosanna Rosanna Dana. I know. I know. I mean, it kind of says everything you need to know about me. It really does. Well, speaking of another SNL character, Michael is dressed as McGroober and he is disarming a bomb. Yeah.

A really cute talking head. He's doing a whole bit. I had to look up McGiver because you know, McGroober is based on McGiver. McGiver was a TV show. Oh, I watched McGiver. I mean, I did too. He can do amazing things with like a paper clip and subchewed gum and like a stick. I had to look up McGiver just to refresh my memory, Jenna, and this tickled me.

On McGiver's Wikipedia page, they list his most used items in each show. Are you ready? The things he uses to like disarm a bomb or like get into a car? Yes. Oh, please. His most used items are Swiss Army knife and he usually carries a roll of duct tape in his back pocket, but he's flattened it out to make it fit. Okay.

I mean, I need to see a picture of that. Other items he always has on hand, an ID card, a Timex camper watch, strike anywhere matches, a few paper clips, chewing gum, flashlight, and a toolbox in his Jeep. Okay. That was why I said paper clip and chewing gum. I know, that's what we all remember. But when you listed those things, it actually doesn't sound as amazing everything he could do.

I mean, he had a full Swiss Army knife and a toolbox and some duct tape. I mean, who can't do amazing things with those three things? Now, hold up. The toolbox is in his car. Oh, so he has to get all the way back there. Right. But you know what he always has? What?

Gum, Swiss Army knife, and a smushed duct tape in his pocket. Well, okay. I'll be impressed. Well, now Pam has her talking head. She's dressed as olive oil. She's telling us that there is an excitement in the office because she has a prize for the best costume and everyone's excited about it. The prize is the 2011 Scranton Wilkes-Berry coupon book worth over $15,000 in savings.

Pam is really animated in this episode. I want you to know that Pam had an alternate talking head and it was really fun to me. Was it the candy bag? Was it in the candy bag? Yes. And I remember doing it and that's why I wanted to bring it up. Here it is. Pam could have said everyone is bringing their A game to the costume contest in order to win

the super awesome prize, this coupon book. Okay. Wait. Is it coupon or coupon? I say coupon. Anyway, people will go nuts for these and I got my hands on one. It's worth $15,000 in savings, page after page of cute. Wait, do I say it like that?

Have I ever said that word out loud before? That was her talking head, was trying to figure out if she says coupon or coupon. So I was going to ask you, how do you say it? I say coupon. You say coupon. Yes, my husband loves a coupon. So, you know, there's always a coupon for something. Well, I can confirm in this episode, there are three people who say this word.

You are one of them and you do say coupon. Woohoo. Oscar says this word twice. He says coupon. And interestingly enough, Pam says this word three times and she also says coupon. However, in 2011, coupons.com did a poll to see how English-speaking people pronounce this word and 57% of people say coupon. Where do they live?

Okay, primarily in the south and on the coasts. Coupon. Yeah. But then Cambridge University did a study on how English people pronounce it and that data showed that 61% of people say coupon. So I think we need our own poll. Coupon or coupon? All right.

Where are we? Well, Dwight is the Scranton Strangler and he's going to sneak up behind Jim. Oh, I have a question about this. What is it? Dwight sees Pam and thinks she's mocking his mother. Right. Right? Mm-hmm.

He says that Pam is only a third as beautiful as his mom and half her height. Mm-hmm. How tall is Dwight's mom? Very tall. How tall are you, Jenna? I'm five-six. Oh my gosh. That is hilarious.

I loved this olive oil costume. I'd like to say I had the best time. Alicia Raycraft, our costume designer, did all the costumes with her team for this episode. I thought they did a great job. Fantastic job, Alicia. She built my olive oil costume from scratch and she even sent me my fitting photo of me with all the pins in it. So we'll have to post that.

That's awesome. And I loved the whole wig and all the everything. It was great. The wig would kind of bounce a little. Like the olive oil ponytail would kind of fliffly, fliffly. The only problem was that at lunch I couldn't lay down because they didn't want to take the wig on and off once it was on, it was on. Yeah.

And so I couldn't put my head back even on like the couch or anything. Yeah. That was my problem when I had to be the nurse. Oh, they bobby pinned that thing into my head, the little hat. Pam really wants Jim to wear a Popeye costume. Yeah. She wants the whole family to be dressed up. He's not doing it.

You know, he's not much of a costume guy. No. You know who is a costume guy? Apparently Gabe. Gabe goes all out as Lady Gaga. Yeah. We had a fan catch from Kayla M. in Washington, DC. Hi ladies, I was watching community season two episode 26 and Dean Pelton was dressed

up as Lady Gaga. This reminded me of the time the Gabe dressed as Lady Gaga in costume contest. So I decided to look up the air dates for both episodes and they premiered on the same night and they are dressed almost identically. That's hilarious. I looked up the pictures. Kayla's not the first person to notice this because all over Reddit there are these screenshots side by side of these two characters from the same night.

Will you send me that? I sure will. Well, Gabe is holding a meeting with all of the sales team and he announces that the warehouse workers are now going to be able to make sales during their deliveries and that they will split the commissions with the sales team. This is actually really good news. The sales team doesn't seem to like this, but I thought it sounded pretty good because you'd almost have this surrogate sales person out selling on your route maybe being able

to tap into a need that you wouldn't know about. Well, there's a really funny deleted scenes. It's on the DVD where Michael is annoyed by this, you know? He feels like somehow they're, it's like they feel like somehow something's going to be taken away from them. So Michael makes this big speech and he says, would you rather have 50% of something or 100% of nothing? Exactly.

And everyone's like, well, when you put it that way, like Stanley's like, oh yeah, this is like passive income for me. Yeah. And Dwight's like, that's not helping Michael. Well, next Michael is going to enter Darryl's office and he's going to say to Darryl, hey, this idea is a lot like when you came to me with a while ago that I kind of squashed. And he's like, I blew it. I'm sorry.

Yeah. But Darryl is like, it's all right. We're cool. It's fine. I'm glad they're doing it. But you know, that's not where this story is going to end. No, it's not. In the kitchen, everyone is really excited about this coupon book.

And Oscar is the only person all day long that is like, you guys, you realize this coupon book isn't actually worth $15,000. He's the only person who seems to understand how a coupon book works, which is that first you have to purchase something to get the savings. It's only worth what Pam paid for it. These coupon books cost money. Did you have these when you were growing up? We had these for fundraisers.

Oh yeah. And I loved looking through them because you'd be like, oh, I can get free fries at McDonald's or you can get like buy one, get one free ticket to Six Flags. Yeah. Well, Danny is going to invite everyone to his bar. Super cute Danny Cordray co-owns a bar. I'm not attracted to it. I'm not.

I'm not attracted to Danny Cordray bar owner with the super ironic name public school. You know, Oscar doesn't seem impressed either. Oscar loves it. He goes public school. That's hilarious. A plus. I felt like he was being snarky. No.

No. You think that's genuine? I went to the script. And? The stage direction is that Oscar is like clearly like trying to flirt. Oh, like he's enamored? Yes, he's enamored. And then as he says, it's hilarious.

Then he's like embarrassed and then he's like a plus and he kind of backs away. Well, let me say that makes sense to me. But I think he's faking his admiration of the bar to flirt. I think down deep Oscar and I feel the same way. Okay. Well, I wanted to know if there really is a public school bar. I went online and Jenna, there is a public school restaurant and bar in Sherman Oaks. Not too far from where we filmed.

Oh my gosh. I wonder if that's where they got the name because there's not one in Scranton, right? There's not. I looked. What kind of stuff do they serve? It looks like bar food. American fare. Yeah.

All right. There you go. There is a public school bar. Next up, there's some gossip in the break room. There really is. I mean, just people just chitty chatting about Jim and Pam and Danny Cordray. They clearly needed a little drama. They needed something.

Everyone is still stuck on the fact that Pam dated Danny. Yeah. They're like discussing, is Pam going to choose Jim or Danny? She's married and has a child with Jim. They went to the wedding. They're happy. Like, what is going on? Dwight interrupts everyone and says, listen, Pam will choose whichever guy sent most matches

that of her father. And then he's like, does anyone know what her dad smelled like? And Phyllis seems like she's going to start to remember what Pam's dad smelled like. Oh my gosh. Angela, did you look up something about pheromones and dating? Did you? Well, I recalled a study that I read about years ago about women and the scent of a man that they are most attracted to.

And so I looked up the details to make sure I remembered it correctly and I did. Do you want to hear it? I mean, I really do. Okay. Give me all the men sent info. Okay. So in general, women really do seem to pick their mate based on smell as do other animals. This is a thing.

Okay. You have these genes called the major histocompatibility complex or MHC. And those genes, I guess, play a role in your immune system and fighting disease. And this is what we're smelling for. We're smelling men for their MHC gene. Okay. So they did a study at the University of Liverpool. Okay.

They recruited 110 women between the ages of 18 and 35. And they gave these women t-shirts that men had worn overnight and it had different men's scents on them. The women never saw what the men looked like. They just smelled the shirts and then they had to rate them on their pleasantness, like which ones were you most attracted to? And they asked the women based on the smell, who would you most pick as a long-term partner? Right.

Okay. Which t-shirt are you picking? They found that the women tended to be attracted to people with an MHC that was dissimilar to their own. And they concluded that's because it would be beneficial to mate with someone who is most genetically different from you because you're less likely to share genetic defects that you would pass along to your children. Oh my God, the body is so cool.

Isn't that crazy? That's cool. But here's what they were really studying during this test. What? They were studying. There's a twist? There's a twist. What are you talking about?

These ladies just signed up to smell t-shirts. Well, they wanted to test the effect of birth control pills on our ability to smell out a good mate. So at first, none of the women were taking birth control and they could smell better. They could smell out a mate that was dissimilar from them. And then when they got on birth control, it changed adult their senses or something. It changed who they were attracted to. Suddenly, women were attracted to the smells of men who were more genetically similar.

In general, the effects of the study said if you meet someone while taking birth control and then you stop it, or if you meet someone not taking birth control and you start it, it might affect your attraction to them because you smell different. You're attracted to a different thing. That's fascinating. There was a study in psychological science of 365 couples that found that women who went on the pill during a relationship were now suddenly less sexually satisfied than women who had been consistently on the pill or never on the pill.

All right, but here is the other thing. Of course, I had to Google this thing that Dwight says about Pam picking the person who smells most like her father. That's where I thought you were going. Well, if you can believe it, there was another study, another t-shirt smelling study. New ladies came in and smelled some new t-shirts. This was published in the medical journal Nature Genetics. This study found out something new.

What? New t-shirt smelling info. Yes, women were attracted to men who were genetically different. However, it found that they were attracted to men who were genetically similar in one way, otherwise different. Do you know what the one way was? I have no idea. They smelled like their fathers.

That's right. The t-shirts they loved most were worn by men who also had the same MHC genetic code to smell disease fighting genetics as their dads. Well, Dwight, you got it right. He got it right. I guess Jim smells like Pam's dad. Yeah. And thank you to all the ladies who smelled shirts and to the men who wore them who were

not allowed to smoke, use cologne, deodorant, half sex or eat certain foods during the experiment. We thank you. Everyone go home and smell your mate. Well this is going to lead to a Jim and Pam talking head where we learn that four years ago, while Jim was in Stanford dating Karen, Pam went on two dates with Danny Cordray. And you know what? It wasn't a big deal. They had two dates.

No big deal. Right? Yeah. He didn't call her back. Whatever. Yeah. Well, this isn't sitting well with Andy and Kevin. No, for some reason, they think that they can't go to Danny's party at public school

because they need to show support for Jim and Pam. Yeah. And they're really bummed because they don't get invited to a lot of parties, you guys. They don't. This, Kevin and Andy talking head has a lot of tooth play. Did you see the tooth play? The fake teeth in and out? The in and out.

Andy, as this vampire character- Bill Compton. He's right. From True Blood. Yeah. He is going to use those plastic Dracula teeth like nobody's business. In every scene, they're in, they're out, they're in, they're out. I wanted to find out who invented the plastic Dracula teeth. I went down a rabbit hole and I never found out.

We'll never know. I don't know who invented them. You can get them everywhere, though. That I did find out. We already knew that. Well, I think we should go to break because when we come back, Madge from the warehouse is going to make a sale. Yeah.

And Michael really wants everyone to congratulate Daryl. He really does. And we're going to find out some information. Oh. Well, we are back and like Angela said before the break, Jim has announced that Madge from the warehouse just made her first sale. Well, Michael feels bad because he feels like Daryl has never gotten credit for this idea and clearly the idea is going well.

So he asked Erin to call Daryl on speakerphone. Oh boy. Why was that so hard for Erin? Well, it's like Pam said, like she was able to call him. She hit the button. She just can't hang up. Yeah. It's like same button you pressed before.

Erin ends up sitting on the phone to try to hang it up. Well Daryl reluctantly comes out and Michael really blames corporate that they stole this idea from Daryl and Gabe is like, no, no, corporate didn't steal anything. Daryl told me the idea. I took it to corporate giving Daryl full credit and they liked his idea. In fact, let's give Daryl that round of applause. Yeah. Now Michael is mad that Daryl went over his head.

He's peeved. That's right. Dwight tells Michael that this kind of behavior is going to make his job obsolete. Like if people can just go around Michael straight to corporate, then what is Michael's job really? This is going to make Michael spiral out. Meanwhile, Kevin is going to walk up to Danny Cordray at the water cooler and he's going to smack him on the butt. Did you catch that?

I did. That's how he gets his attention. Yeah. I did. And I also caught Timothy Oliphant as Danny looking back at him like, what's happening? What are you doing? They need his attention because Andy and Kevin are going to explain that as much as they would like to come to public school for this party, they're going to bow out.

Because Jim and Pam asked them not to go is what they say. Danny's going to talk to Jim and Pam, but Kevin's like, don't say me and Andy talk to you or we'll kill you or you'll be dead. Yeah. I mean, what is going on? Kelly is going to arrive back to work in a new costume. It's very elaborate. I looked in the shooting draft and here's what it said.

Kelly walks in with some shopping bags. She is an elaborate sexy clown. That's what it is. I wondered, I thought maybe she was being a pop star from a music video or something. She's an elaborate sexy clown. Okay. She also shares about how much she spent on this costume. It's in deleted scenes.

Let's hear it. My costume costs $600. If I had the coupon book, it would have cost 20% less than that, which is why I need that coupon book. By the way, we have another coupon. No one has said coupon. Well, now Angela is peeved. She says, Kelly, you cannot change costumes in the middle of the day, Pam.

She's out. This leads to a back and forth where Oscar jumps in. I want you guys to know I improvised the line. Yeah. Shut it, Oscar. Pam. Nice. I also wanted to share with you guys, we could not get through my talking head in this

penguin costume. I can see why. It's so funny. You're such an angry penguin. You're so mad. The penguin costume was so incredibly comfortable, but the way the beak went up and over my forehead kind of limited my side vision. Even when I turn to you, when I say, shut it, Oscar, Pam, if you look at how I turn,

it looks like I have a crick in my neck, but it's just the way the penguin head set on my forehead. Anyway, Dean and I were cracking up so much in this talking head. I kind of felt like we had to hear it. Yay. This is an amazing prize. I mean, I don't even want to give Pam a compliment because she's so rough, but she did a good job.

I really want that coupon book. I love when you're like the rough. She's so rough. That was so much fun to do. I loved that penguin costume. It was like wearing pajamas all day minus the way the head fit. Everything else was awesome. Well, next up Dwight is, what is he doing?

He's throwing magnets away in the trash. He doesn't like magnets that are too busy that have too much going on. Yeah. They're interesting enough. You don't have to tart them up with some design at 10 minutes, 33 seconds. I'd like to point out a personal Halloween decoration. What? I have the same spooky spider that's hanging over the table in the kitchen.

I decorate with it every Halloween. Spooky spider. Michael is watching a conversation between Kevin and Gabe. It's pretty animated and Michael is just freaking out. He thinks everyone is going over his head, around his head. What do y'all, what do y'all also say, what do you call when someone takes you from the back and Dwight's like, no, no, no. Yeah.

What is it? Let's take them from behind. Michael thinks everyone's going to Gabe behind his back. So he storms in to this conversation and really lays into Kevin. Kevin is so upset and apologetic. Shout out to Brian Baumgartner who crushed this moment. I agree. He's such a good performer.

So good. It turns out that he was just suggesting some Lady Gaga moves, but in the future he'll tell Michael first. There's a really great robot move. He was going to show him. Yeah. And Michael's like, just don't let it happen again. And Kevin is like, no way, Jose.

Yeah. I did look in the shooting draft. The fuck you gave was not in the script. I suspected it was not. And the reason why is because they cut out of that so fast, because I'm sure everyone cracked up after he did it. Next up, we're in the conference room with Danny, Jim, and Pam, and they're just having a big laugh over this crazy notion that Jim and Pam wouldn't want people to go to his

party. Jenna, you are so great in this scene. You are so good in it. I rewatched it a few times. I even recorded it when you say, no, actually, it was two dates. We had a plan for a third. We have to hear it. It's too good.

It was two. Was it two? I thought it was three. No, we had plans for a third, but then, I don't know, you'd have a call in the back. Oh. You can't. Well, that does not sound like me. Yeah.

It was so. That's what happened. So awkward. But you do that thing. You and I do this in real life. Sometimes when things are awkward, we go, well, somebody didn't bring their homework today. Yes, exactly.

It's like, uh-oh, I feel uncomfortable. I guess I shouldn't have backed into your car, but it, but it, burp. It was not in the shooting draft stage direction for you to be sing-songy or do any of that. That was all your choice, and I thought it was fantastic. Aw, thank you, lady. Yeah. Well, there's one other time I love. I'll bring it up later.

You're so good. You're so good in this episode. I really loved it. I have to say I found Pam absolutely adorable in this episode, and I'm very, very proud of my performance. If I could toot my own horn for a moment, and I'll use a voice to do it. Toot it. Well, Michael is going to confront Daryl.

He says the chain of command is crumbling. He just made Kevin cry. Yeah. And Daryl says, I'm sorry you're upset. And then Michael is like, well, thank you for your apology. I'd like this apology in front of everyone. And Daryl says, I'm not apologizing to you. Yeah, he's like, you made a bad call.

Yeah. I fixed it. There is a line in this scene that I thought could go on a Halloween mug. You tell me if you like it, Angela. Okay. It's a Michael Scott quote, Halloween should be a day in which we honor monsters and not be mad at each other. That's a good one.

Right? And then it has like little monster people on it. Mm-hmm. Little Frankenstein and a mummy and everything. It's cute, right? I like it. Thank you. One of my favorite lines from the whole entire episode is coming up.

What's that? It made me laugh so hard. Is it Ryan? No. Oh. Andy says, Suke, which is a character name on True Blood. And then he takes out his teeth and says, Bill Compton from True Blood. He says that to Stanley.

Stanley looks at him and says, how many frickin' vampires am I supposed to care about these days? I loved that line. That was so good. This is very similar to the person who doesn't want to give a standing ovation. Yeah. How many vampires? Seriously?

Mm-hmm. Well, we have our second costume change. Oscar has taken off his disco guy ensemble and he is now just a rational consumer. Mm-hmm. He's so proud of this. He does. And that's when Ryan has his snarky line. So much Ryan snark.

Yeah. He's like, yeah, I heard you say it to Phyllis. It's a great line. It's a great one. Yeah. Yeah. Pam is going to start passing out the ballots for the costume contest and she explains that you cannot vote for yourself.

Mm-hmm. That's how this is going to work. We're going to have our third costume change. Michael is going to show up dressed as a warehouse worker. He has Daryl's shirt on. He's Daryl. Yeah. And he's a jerk.

Yeah. Pam says this is a bad idea. When has this ever worked for you? That's a line I appreciated. Michael says never. He's so bummed out that Daryl went behind us back to Gabe and he's just acting like an asshole. He really is.

The costume parade contest begins. I want you guys to know if you go to the DVD on deleted scenes, there's an extended cut of this and you see pretty much every single person do the catwalk. I think that this was based on our real life costume contest that we did every Halloween with our crew. Yeah. I recently got a picture of me and Vartan judging the Halloween costume contest. One year I got to be the guest judge.

He would always judge and he would have a guest judge and I got to do it and I'll give that to you, Angela, so you can post it. It's really cool. I love it. Well, we're going to have our fourth costume change, which is Angela has gone from the penguin to the sexy nurse. She has a talking head where she says, I don't like your tone. Look.

You're going to be pulled out of all the other costumes. Okay. I think we all live in the real world here. Let's not pretend to be unaware of what sells in this office. Let me say as your best friend being on set with you while you wore that costume, it was very skimpy. I kind of can't believe it made it on the air. You were wearing like nothing.

I truly could not bend over. No. I had little mesh biker shorts on because didn't want to ruin the mystery. I had little high heels on and these stockings, a tiny little dress, and then Alicia brought me a box of the chicken cutlet boobs and we played with a few different sizes. I want you to know the first size that they had for me, I would have looked like Dolly Parton. I love you, Dolly.

I wasn't ready to be full Dolly Parton. I said, can we scale back on the cutlet size? Well, the very odd thing was that they recycled the nurse costume. Yeah. The same costume that Jackie DeBotton wore when she held up the big check for science. Yeah. It was the exact same one. I think they just had to trim the length a little for me.

Well they trimmed it too much. They might have. They really did. It was so short. I will tell you that Kim Ferry, who did my hair on the show, we had so much fun because I got to have fun sassy hair. Just so you know, I would take the penguin costume over that any day because the penguin costume was like wearing a sleeping bag.

There were so many different costumes at Dunder Mifflin. Jenna, it made me curious, what was the most popular Halloween costume last year? Oh, so I went and looked it up. I was a lady who Googled. We did a lot of Googling in the summer. We really did. Here was the top 10 according to Google Trends Fright Geist Halloween costumes of 2021. Number one, witch.

Number two, rabbit. Number three, dinosaur. Number four, Spider-Man. Number five, Krula Deville. Number six, Ferry. Number seven, Harley Quinn. Number eight, Cowboy. Number nine, Clown.

Number 10, Chucky. Wow. Yeah. What was number two? Rabbit. Uh-huh. That one came out of left field for me. I know.

More Halloween festivities are happening now. A few folks are playing with the Ouija board by front reception and Michael's determined to make a ghost called Daryl an ass. And then in the conference room, folks are bobbing for apples. We have a fan catch from Emily H in Tennessee that is so amazing. It's about this apple bobbing scene. Okay. Emily said, I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me, but I'm not making this up in

all caps. All throughout this episode, Meredith is wearing a blonde wig. But in the opening credits, starting with good by Michael, I believe, the scene in which Aaron is bobbing for apples is used and it shows Meredith in a red wig. Oh. I had to go back to this episode and sure enough, her wig is blonde. Why did they do that? I am sure many people have written in about this, but I just never noticed it until now.

So here's what I did. These extended credits of Aaron bobbing for apples, they've actually been playing since the beginning of this season. So the first thing I did was go back and look at the opening credits. And I even took a screenshot. The extended credits are in Andy's play and Meredith is wearing the blonde wig. Just like in this episode. And I thought, oh, well, maybe Emily is just mistaken.

So then I went forward to good by Michael. Same credit sequence. Her wig is red. What? Yeah. I took screenshots of both. Look, here's the shot from Andy's play. That's good by Michael.

Oh my gosh, that is bizarre. What is that about? Yeah, they clearly went in and recolored the wig for this credit sequence in good by Michael. But they'd been playing it with a blonde one the whole time, the rest of the season. There's got to be a reason. You know who we're going to ask. We're going to ask Randy. So when we get to it, we'll have an answer.

Emily, thank you so much for pointing that out. I know. That was bonkers. Fantastic catch, Emily. In the kitchen, Todd Packer is sitting with a bunch of, well, they're like little brown lunch bags and they list all these different organs. And the last one is in his lap and it says trouser mouse. Danny says, I don't think that's going to go the way you hope it will.

Well Jim's going to come into the kitchen and he is going to confront Danny. He's going to say, Hey man, I'm just curious, how come you never called my wife back for that date? And Danny's like, Really? Oh, Packer's like, you're looking for someone to bang your wife? I love that line so much. It made me laugh out loud. Danny says, you know what?

The truth is, I didn't call her back because all she talked about was you. She was clearly in love with you. Well that's not true. No, it's not. There is a deleted scene where you see Jim walk over to Pam, whisper something in her ear and she looks at him and shakes her head like, Nope. And then the next scene is them confronting him outside of the men's room. Yeah.

And they demand to know the real reason why he never called her. Because if he doesn't tell her, it's just going to keep gnawing at her like, No, no, no, no, no. I thought you were so fantastic in the scene again. I looked at the shooting draft to see if there was any stage direction. This was just all you. The only thing they spelled out for you was the excuse me. Yes.

It was all scripted. One part that I added was that, Yes, that was so great. All it says in the shooting draft is that you awkwardly exit. And how you chose to do that was all you. I showed the scene to Lee because I said to him, This might be one of the most me performances I've ever given. I am a little dorky and I feel like the writers were onto something about me, Jenna, because I do all of these things in my life.

And you also remember stuff. So you would be the one like, Nope, nope. It was two. We had a third. You didn't call. That's how it went down. Yeah. They also really made all of this even more awkward by the fact that I am in a full, elaborate

wigged costume. And I'm talking to these two handsome men just dressed in normal clothes. It really even further highlights Pam's dorkiness and your little, your little flat ponytail kept flopping around. I loved doing the scene and I really am so proud of it. We had a fan question from Ashley W in Suffolk, Virginia, who said, Why does Danny Cordray disappear after this episode? I loved the character and Timothy Oliphant isn't too shabby to look at either.

I'll tell you he is mentioned again in Michael's last dundies when Michael gives him the hottest in the office award. And there was a little bit where Michael tries to bring Danny up via satellite and it got cut out. It's in the deleted scenes. You know, the story is that Danny's on the road. It's how we see Todd Packer so infrequently. But this storyline did kind of get unresolved.

I agree, Ashley, because that scene was cut from Michael's last dundies. We assume that after Michael leaves, Danny is let go. He was a hire we didn't really need. We already had our traveling salesman. Right. But anyway, that you would have had at least a little nugget of information on him. Well, we're about to have a sit down with Gabe, Daryl and Michael to resolve all of this issue of who brings what information to what department, right?

Yeah. Gabe is going to tell Daryl that Daryl needs to get Michael's approval before coming to him with anything. And Daryl says, Well, you know what? You're going to miss out on some good ideas. And then Gabe goes, Well, then my door is always opened. And this leads to a back and forth where Michael's like after everything I've done for you. And Daryl looks at Michael and says, Listen, Ed Truck hired me, Joe promoted me, Gabe listened

to me. All you've ever done is say no to me. I have ambition. This is part of Daryl's storyline of where his ambition is going to take him. And he's really starting to feel it. Like he has good ideas and they're changing the way the company works. And he's going to have a scene with Andy where he initially says, sometimes I think things were better down in the warehouse, and then Andy goes on this very sort of elaborate metaphor

using acapella. Yes. And at the end of this scene, Daryl says he does have big plans and big ambitions. And we're going to see that storyline now play out through the rest of the series. Yeah. And Michael and Daryl make up. They both decide if they ever disagree with Gabe, they're going to go straight to Joe and they shake hands on it.

And Michael says, you know what, friends fight. Well, I like that Daryl got to call Michael out in this episode. He deserved it. Jim is going to have a very sweet talking head. He's going to say, to be honest, I can't believe he didn't call her back. Who doesn't call a dork like that back? And now Jim is going to arrive dressed in the Popeye costume with CC as Sweet Pea. Her hero.

How cute did they look all dressed up? I mean, I'm sorry. It was so freaking adorable. Did every woman's heart leap out of her chest when he walked in the door as Popeye carrying Sweet Pea or what? So cute. So cute. The day we filmed that, I took a picture of John in the Popeye costume and holding

the sweet little baby. I still have the picture. So cute. Well, John is very much like Steve. They both just love kids so much. And John and I would just dote on those little babies all the time. I know. I loved having those girls on set.

We are now going to reveal who won the coupon book. We get to see some people flash up their cards, kind of like Survivor Style, who they wrote down. Kelly voted for Oscar, Ryan voted for Oscar, Creed voted for Oscar. Oscar won. Yeah. There was a scene that would have come after this. It's in deleted scenes.

Creed Meredith, Ryan, Kelly, and Angela have gathered around Oscar as he reads from the coupon book. Oh, I love this. I feel like they gave Oscar a lot of alts for this. Here are a few that were in the script as well as deleted scenes. Oscar says, who wants $30 off any full fare ticket on a flight to Chicago? Blackout date supply. Who wants a free power boost at Body Shakes Boba Bar?

Who wants a 100 megabyte MP3 player special bonus does not play iTunes? Who wants a free estimate on carpet cleaning? Oh, look, 5% off your Dunder Mifflin order. Ask for Stand the Man. And then the camera reveals a smiling photo of Stanley from 20 years ago. I have a question. How are people reacting in the scene? Are they getting it?

Are they like finally getting that maybe the coupon book wasn't great or are they still wishing they had the coupon book? No, with each one, they're like, ah, pass, ah. And then Kelly's like, Oscar, get to the good stuff. And then that's when he gets to Stand the Man. That's great. Oh, well guys, that was costume contest. Yes, we hope you have a great week.

Thanks for listening. Thank you, Randy Cordray. And thanks to Phil Rosenthal for coming in and eating some, in my opinion, disgusting chips. And thank you to all of you. Yes. Thank you for sending in all your wonderful messages and gifts. We love you.

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