Office Ladies - Heavy Competition

Episode Date: November 17, 2021

This week we’re breaking down “Heavy Competition” and it’s the “Office Ladies” 100th episode!!! As Michael tries to steal Dwight’s customers, the ladies celebrate this very special podcast milestone. Angela pops some Champagne, the ladies listen to a very special fan song and Jenna demonstrates the skill needed for that super fun cheeseball opening. So as you’re deciding whether “Pachelbel” is a better wedding song than “You Can Call Me Al”, enjoy this episode and thank you for listening!  Listen to Creed Bratton’s song, “Breathe Easy”: https://music.apple.com/us/album/breathe-easy-single/1590302298  

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. Hey, kiddos. It's Uncle Creed here.

Buckle up because The Office, ladies, just hit 100 episodes. Amazing. Yay! 100 episodes, baby. I am already starting to cry. This is amazing. I brought champagne. I'm going to open it up.

Look at this. We're drinking again before 10 a.m. We are because it's 100 episodes and we could not have done this without you guys. We wish you were all here with us. Oh, my gosh. Okay, Jenna, don't be afraid. I've opened champagne before. I'm slightly scared.

Oh, you know what? I shouldn't point it towards the glass. Sam, I won't point it towards the glass. I appreciate that. Okay, here we go. Woohoo! Congratulations, Jenna. Congratulations, Sam.

Cassie. Cody. Colin. Marissa. Eliana. Hanna. Ainsley. Everybody that helps us make this show. Oh, my gosh. We're going to be celebrating with our team later after we record.

Yes, and we got some fun gifts. Oh, we do. Speaking of fun gifts, I promise you the bags are unrelated to the gifts, but under the table there. What? Those are for you. Happy 100. Sam?

Oh, my God. Oh, Sam. It's a... Domino's pizza bag? I promise you the bag. It's the only bag. Did you get us pizza? The bags are unrelated.

How do you have Domino's pizza bag? Sam, get out. Sam, you are the cutest person on the planet. You guys. Okay, how do we describe this? It's one of those tornado bowls. Oh, my gosh. It's like Pam's Art School.

It's Pam's Art School Bowl. Congratulations, guys. Oh, my God. Sam, and he has little bottles of alcohol and straws. Sam, this is the cutest, most thoughtful thing. You are so sweet. Now, remember, the key to a punch is it's literally whatever you want. Oh.

Oh, my gosh. We can't have a volcano bowl. Okay, we're going to have champagne today. We'll save the volcano bowl for our company get together. Sam, I love it. That is so sweet. Surprise gift under the table. Under the table.

This is like Oprah when she's like, look under your chair. You get a car. You get a volcano bowl. Sam, thank you. And we have something for you guys. I can't wait for you to see. But we're going to give it to you all at the same time. That's right.

Because Cassie's on Zoom today. Hi, Cassie on Zoom. Hi, guys. You're missing champagne, Cassie. I know. Cheers, Jenna. Cheers, lady. I've got a glass of champagne and a cup of coffee.

Nice way to start the day. Listen, today we will eventually be discussing heavy competition. But we would like to dedicate our fast facts to office ladies today to our 100th episode. That's right. So should we get into it? I can't wait. Fast fact number one, office ladies podcast debuted on October 16, 2019.

So here we are just a little over two years later, having released 100 episodes. 100. And in December of this year, we will hit 200 million downloads. What? I'm getting on the table. Oh, no. 200 million downloads. I'm on the table.

This isn't from champagne. This is excitement. It's an audio program. They cannot see it. I'm on the table. No, I don't know how to get down. She's tangled. Oh, geez.

Oh my gosh. You're my mom. It's Lucy. Your glasses. You're Lucy in our studio. You just full on Tom Cruise that lady. Oh, Tom Cruise did. Oh, no.

The couch. Oprah's couch. I know. You did it. Listen, when we started this podcast, we never could have imagined that it would grow this big. I did not imagine it. No.

Or that it would be as popular or that it would resonate with people or that we would have this community that we have. And it means so much to my life. It means so much to me. It has changed my life in all the ways that the office changed my life. This has changed my life as well because it has brought me a job that brings me closer to my family and closer to my best friend. Oh, lady.

Don't make me cry. Well, it's true. I feel the same way. I am just deeply grateful, truly grateful. You guys were so thankful for you, for all of the comments and messages you leave us every week, the things that you share with us. It just means so much to us. And we love doing this.

We love it. I love it. I have a really fun fast fact number two. A fun fast fact. I'm going to take a sip of champagne while you say that. I love our mail. I go through a lot of our mail with Ainsley. Yes.

You go through a lot of our physical mail, Angela. Yes. If you write a letter to the ear wolf offices and send things, I go through that. Jenna and Ainsley go through our digital mail. Yes. That's how we divide it up. In our digital mail, we got a letter from Dr. Peter Tibidow. Dr. Tibidow, I know a lot of Tibidows in Louisiana.

Here's what he said, Angela. My wife, daughters, and I notice how much you both love saying two things on your podcast. Oh, no. Oh, no. What? Lady. Oh. And amazing.

Oh. So, I tracked down just how many times that comes up in the podcast. Oh, Dr. Tibidow. Lady, he tracked it. Was it amazing? It was amazing. He was only able to track up to our 92nd episode. Okay.

But over the last 92 podcasts, we have said lady 636 times. Oh. And we have said amazing 786 times. Wow. But he broke it down with charts. The charts are incredible. On average, we say the word amazing 9 times per episode and we say lady 7 times per episode. He said there was a stretch from episodes 31 through 47 where our use of both words

really went up. We said amazing and lady a total of 34 times in the Cocktails episode. What was up with us that day? Well, I looked it up and episodes 31 through 47 ran from June of 2020 to September 2020. Summer. Summer vibes. It was also right in the heart of the pandemic. We were recording from home in our closets.

I think we were coping. I think we were throwing out the ladies to cope. I think amazing because we were in closets and we're like, this is amazing. I think so. Or, you know what I think? What? I think doing our podcast felt amazing and it was such a great healing thing for us through the pandemic.

Really, and truly. It was an escape for me. It was an escape. Like every time I walked into that closet, I was like, I get to hang out with Jenna today. Yeah. And we get to talk about really fun things. And that's really when like Cody and Cassie and Sam and you like became my best friends because you were the only people I ever saw.

Yeah. On that Zoom. 100%. Yeah. We would start our podcast just sort of sharing. Yeah. Like in school, where you have circle time and you share. Yeah.

That was the first part of every podcast Zoom. I think that's why we thought they were so amazing. I agree. Well, our biggest lady episode was the coup. We said it 19 times. Made me snort laugh. Our biggest amazing episode was traveling salesmen. We said it 20 times.

But then this was my favorite thing. Oh my gosh. That Dr. Tibido wrote. Dr. Tibido. He said, sadly, there were a few times when the office ladies weren't feeling amazing. And we only used it one time. What? Episode.

Diversity day, boys and girls, and take your daughter to work day. Wow. And then he says, and lady, there were four podcasts where there was no use. Use of the word lady at all. And those were sexual harassment, booze, cruise, Dwight speech and customer survey. I find it hard to believe that we didn't say lady one time. Yeah. But Dr. Tibido has the stats.

Well we had to ask Dr. Tibido, why? Why track it? I mean, we love to track stuff, but what compelled him to track all of this? And he said, I am a PhD scientist and I love tracking data of any kind. Oh, Jenna, this is like your soulmate. Am I a PhD scientist on the inside and I don't know it? You love to track things, lady. Maybe I'm a PhD scientist.

Maybe you are. He said, for whatever reason, this is something that my family and I caught on about early and I took this on just to see how it went. And I will do this all the way to the end and I will never miss an episode. Dr. Tibido, we have got to send you a lady sweatshirt. Wait, we're going to send your whole family lady sweatshirt. Yeah, everybody gets a lady sweatshirt. Thank you.

Thank you so much, Dr. Tibido. That piece of mail, it made my day. I want to see the bar graph chart. I want to see it. We got to put it. We'll post it. Oh, we'll put it in stories. Let's do it.

And his daughter made some graphics to go along with the facts and we can put those up as well. I love this family. Same. Now, Angela, you said save me a fast fact. So you are fast fact number three and I don't know what it is. Yes, Jenna. Fast fact number three and I want to give a huge shout out to our Office Ladies podcast

fan page over on Facebook and they submitted a song to celebrate our 100th episode. We have to hear it. Okay. Now, have you heard this yet? Because I have not heard this. I have not heard it. I wanted us to hear it together in real time for the first time. All right.

So here we go. Five hundred and eighty four thousand eight hundred seconds. That's how many seconds are in the podcast. We've all been listening every Wednesday in fast facts and deep dives with guest doors and cantapedia new plans and reception and heartbreak in the break room 584,800 seconds that's like watching the office only two times you have a bunch of cats and one native bird you helped us with our backpacks and showed us just what we're worth you've inspired us oh we thank you so much oh we're all who worked on the pot all one hundredth episode celebration

celebrate celebrate from your office ladies facebook fan page you've inspired us so beautiful you've inspired us oh ladies oh you've inspired us i can't really just checking in we're all crying right we're all crying that was so so kind um my goodness that was so great thank you so much i really want to give a big thank you that was a group effort and i'm going to read off who all was part of that amazing song um these are happy tears guys these are happy tears so hannah byers had the idea for it mackayla and zach dodge who are a husband and wife team performed it and natisse syphony and mackayla dodge wrote the lyrics

isn't that wonderful and i also know a lot of you guys on the facebook page are sending in messages thank you so much michelle nicky and brad are helping me and we're going to put all of your messages over the next few days into our insta stories thank you so much office ladies facebook fan page i'm still kind of speechless i know pretty much wept through that whole thing you really got me with the cat eating the bird and and the backpack that's a reference to a bonus episode that we did where i shared a little about my social anxiety and my coping mechanisms and um that was a really vulnerable thing when i shared that and i i questioned doing it and just to um anyway that just meant a lot i know i know lady i know and just when you had us crying you told us

that basically if you've listened to office ladies you've only watched the office twice i love that okay well gosh i think we need a minute i think we need a minute let's take a break and when we come back we will dedicate the rest of this episode to breaking down heavy competition all right we are back we've had a laugh we've had a cry we've had a little champagne that's really good thank you champagne it is brute classique well by france war i'm always classic baby you know what my eyesight's so bad i can't read it it's all right but it's very good it's france war that's what we need to know by the way during break both sam and jenna we're just

making fun of me getting on the table well because it's um you know it's a podcast i know it's a podcast we appreciated it 200 million downloads that's a big deal i knew i had to do something i was like i gotta do something what do i do what i appreciated the energy i did i appreciated it well you always show up with that thank you sam videoed it cassie took photos it'll go in the pod stories should we break down heavy competition do it this is season five episode 24 written by ryan co and directed by ken wittingham i'm gonna give you a summary do it michael forces dwight to choose between either his loyalty to charles minor and dunder mifflin or michael and this results in the two of them going to war yeah and michael trying to steal dwight's top clients

it's gonna get ugly it's a heavy competition yeah and still hurting from his breakup with angela andy suspects that maybe pam is being controlling of jim maybe mistreating him so he starts offering jim a bunch of unsolicited advice which backfires when jim pranks him into confiding that things are terrible between him and pam it starts this whole runner yeah but this episode begins with a very famous cold open the cheese puff cold it is i titled it the cheese puff i loved doing this cold open i have so many questions for you i have so many questions should we describe it describe it all right it's pam michael and ryan tossing cheese puffs into one another's mouths in various ways right it's like the things you see on like youtube

of where the guy bounces the basketball off like the back of a wall and it hits the other side of the wall and it goes in the hoop that's what you guys are doing what you're doing it with cheese puffs and i love the callback because remember this is what michael took when he ran out of dunder mifflin on that last day you have questions we got a fan mail flurry about this so first we reached out to writer ryan co to find out like what was the inspiration for this cold open his response was so funny it's so good i actually spit out my coffee while listening to it yeah we gotta play it hi jenna hi angela thanks for letting me talk about my episode jenna you had mentioned that you love shooting that cold open with the cheese balls and you

were wondering where it came from i remember that it was most of all a product of exhaustion i'll back up a bit yeah you know for the first draft of my episode i had written a cold open about how ryan thought pam had a crush on him and no one liked it so it was tossed out and we needed a new cold open and at this point in the season all the writers were really exhausted in season five as you recall we did 28 episodes and they were shot in a 10 consecutive weeks of production then a break so steve could do a movie and then 18 straight weeks of production and other shows i've been on i've told them that there was a stretch of 18 straight weeks of production and they do not believe we did that and sort of sitcoms it's more common to do two or three

weeks on of production and then one week off so that the actors can recover and so the writers can catch up and don't get totally burned out and so 18 straight weeks is a total death march and i remember at that time a writer was going to go down and check out what was going down on set Paul or someone was like do not go down there the actors are tired and are acting like huge ass so yeah i remember this was sort of rough time and so for the last half of season five we were always behind and i feel like we were working 11 or more hours pretty much every single day i remember Mindy was really mad that it meant she had no social life and said something like i'm gonna die alone because of this damn show so anyway we were all very spent and we were trying to come up with

a new cold open and it was either Aaron Scherr or Paul there were both the guys that were really good at making something out of nothing one of them said i don't know they're throwing cheeseballs at each other and everyone's like great we don't have to write anything that's awesome okay that's the cold open cheeseballs all right next as far as anything else about writing the episode it was a long time ago and i don't really remember because i was tired Ryan that made our day i mean i look at this amazing piece of comedy that came out of just everyone being so tired fatigue yes you guys might remember Ryan is our writer who wiped out while running past the speed reader sign yes so Ryan thank you so much for sharing your memory with us

of the cheeseball cold open and now and sorry if we were assholes that week i guess we were all tired and grouchy i guess so lady you said you had some questions i do i'm here to answer questions all right so i know from other episodes where anytime we had to throw something you don't get it on the first take but that shot of steve throwing the cheese puff ball at you you caught it you chomped it you looked right to camera and i was like my girl look at her i was so proud i was like okay sydney bristo on alias can you do that jenna this is like your moment all right i'm gonna tell you something okay when i was in high school i did not have a vibrant social life so you threw cheeseballs at your face no what i watched a lot of movies

okay and when i watched the movies i would eat popcorn and i started throwing the popcorn up in the air and catching it by yourself yeah okay listen it paid off later in my life it sure did it so don't feel sorry for me i'm not feeling sorry i also saw tons of great movies and i have a great mind for the cinema yes so i am really good at catching food in my mouth i know also my sister and i would throw popcorn at each other sure sure so when i read this cold open i was like i'm gonna nail this and then i got really scared that they were gonna want to CGI it because you were like guys i got this it's not CGI no i want everyone to know those are real cheeseballs we had the best time shooting this it looks like it i was just delighted by every moment of it

jenna i'm great at catching food in my mouth as well but oh just because i have good hand eye coordination because i'm a little bit of a sport oh why have we never thrown food at one i know why what do we have in here can we throw something at each other we have a little bit of granola bar we have granola bar and alcohol that's not gonna work well next time we're bringing popcorn we can film that sam's going to the kitchen so maybe we'll get some food in a second it did take us a whole afternoon to shoot this and the one that took the longest was the three way okay where she's phrased that differently i'm gonna phrase it how i want okay okay okay the one that took the longest was the three way as you were saying continue you know the one

where yes i know like we're each throwing a cheese ball into a different person's mouth you had to time it out and oh oh oh my god rice crispy treats sam brought us rice crispy treats well these hurt our teeth are they free this is gonna hurt all right that's all we have i mean don't throw them hard here you got polo piece okay okay ready yeah one two three oh it was a terrible what was that toss that was a terrible okay wait wait okay okay ready yeah oh the problem is it sticks to your thumb as you're trying to throw it you're doing that so low okay okay here we go she hit me in the eye oh my god okay you try to throw to me wait these are so sticky there's that's when you when you try to throw it you can't it won't leave your finger okay we might need

something other than rice crispy treat bars ah can i just say that was a really good toss it wasn't a good toss why are we doing visual gags on our podcast okay stop okay we're gonna stop okay we got one you guys we got one okay riveting content well throwing rice crispy treats is a little difficult you were talking about the three way oh yeah that was the hardest one you know that reaction that you see at the end when we finally make it yes because you were probably genuinely excited that was real i think you can see the look on my face i knew i caught mine and then i had to look and see if they really caught theirs and then we were genuinely excited that was the only time we ever got that toss correct and they got it on camera they got it

on camera but we spent a whole afternoon on the cheese puff sequence we got a fan question from erin b at the end when the cheese ball lands in Pam's hair so perfectly was that in the script or just pure luck that was pure luck it was just supposed to be that each of those guys throw a cheese ball at me when i yawn right i didn't even know it was stuck in my hair it's so perfect because you look directly at camera thinking you brushed the other one off and your cheese ball free yes and then one little dude's hanging in your hair ah without a doubt this was one of my favorite sequences to shoot ever on the office and i feel like it bonded me and steve and bj i would think so in a real way yeah it was a very very fun day at work well now the episode is

going to start jim pam and andy are in the break room i don't even know what to title this break room scene shopping over misery i don't know so andy is showing them photos of wedding cakes he's playing them wedding music basically he's trying to sell off things he paid for for his wedding to angela yeah he's trying to get pam and jim to buy these elements from his not fabon wedding held wedding yeah and one of the things that he plays for them is a song that pam could walk down the aisle to buy his acapella group yes it's sort of a combination of pacabelle that morphs into call me al yes should we hear it i think we need to randy cordray sent us in the whole song let's hear it

do that's right andy tells pam she can walk down the aisle to this song for the low price of nine thousand dollars which pam says seems like a lot for an acapella group from a college that neither her or jim attended yeah wait before we move on i just want you guys to know i played that this morning in my kitchen and literally was dancing and ed's guitar acapella solo will never ever disappoint if you were having a day where you're down in the dumps listen to ed helms as andy go do you think anyone's ever actually walked down the aisle to this oh i hope so me too oh i hope so if you walk down the aisle to this will you tag office ladies pod please we got a fan question

from harm jen v did ed helms do all the voices in this acapella song no no he did not he got together a group of his friends to perform this piece he called john michael higgins who did the arrangement and the solo voice in the first section you guys know him he's from all of the christopher guest movies he was also in that movie the break up with vince fawn and jennifer aniston where he's in an acapella group called the tone rangers but he has also appeared or his voice has appeared on a previous episode of the office that's right you guys he was in launch party he and ed sang take a chance on me to angela in that episode over speakerphone yes so he did the lead vocals on this ed did that baseline they recorded it in a studio at universal

studios randy told us that they did this in three takes amazing amazing dr tibido amazing well after this episode aired they updated the angela and andy wedding website they posted the whole song along with an advertisement for the acapella group for the wedding services for nine thousand dollars just like andy says in the scene that's incredible well next up we see dwight in a white long sleeve shirt this scene was so funny to me i thought rain was so funny the way he kept struggling in the long sleeve and saying how it was like affecting his attack readiness he said it was like a straight jacket yeah he's in the kitchen he's talking with phyllis i guess this is charles's new dress code yeah i had something happen to me when i was watching this scene

what and i want to apologize for it in advance because it became a little bit of an obsession as i watched this episode what it didn't happen to me until my third time watching the episode what happened i became obsessed with what i believe was my observation that dwight's sleeves are too short oh lord they're too short i think they're not long enough and i found an article that breaks down exactly how long a man's dress shirt should fit it has illustrations okay so i created a photo oh side by side you really did get obsessed i mean i spent way too long on this here is their illustration angela of just right too short and then rain's arm oh now i know that photo is not super convincing i know that but i tracked it through the whole episode and i have more evidence

oh my gosh you and dr tibido well i actually that's so funny that you bring this up because i became obsessed with charles minors shirt oh if you look at his shoulders there's an extra stitching across his shoulder and i think it's because his shoulders were so broad i don't even understand why they would do that except that maybe idris had such broad shoulders they had to have an extra stitch i'm gonna have to go look at that i'm gonna show it to you i will find it because once i saw it i couldn't unsee it okay i have a picture of it jenna please look at this extra stitch and pleat on his shoulder what is that what is that see okay okay we did get a fan question for this scene from evan t and pearl c at two minutes 49 seconds when dwight says

his shirt is a straight jacket and then he bumps into some wooden sticks and coffee mugs was that scripted or did that happen by accident because phyllis's reaction is so genuine i looked at the script it was scripted that he would knock over the mugs while struggling mm-hmm when that happens that means there is a person off camera to reset all of those mugs they will take a picture of what that little credenza looked like before the scene starts and then after he knocks it all to the ground they will meticulously reset each item so that when they're in the editing room they can use any part of the top of the scene that there's not like a mug right on the far side that used to be on no bogies that's right no random straw where it shouldn't be mm-hmm i love dwight's talking head

though when he said when michael was in charge this place was like the roman empire and the wild west and war torn poland and poland there was just a lot going on so what you were to work was the least of anybody's worries and in that chaos i soared in this talking head you can totally see his watch because his sleeves are too short okay okay i just want you to know all right well now michael is going to meet dwight outside by the dumpster mm-hmm dwight tells mike that ed's mike i don't know all right dwight tells michael that ed's tires is looking to make a change so dwight is he's helping him out he is he's giving him some intel inside info and michael gives him six dollars for his trouble well dwight says he doesn't need compensation but he does

remind michael that he owes him ten dollars from four years ago i know i loved that i had to know if that was scripted because i thought steve was so funny when he was like it's four years ago why won't you let that go was it scripted it was i also want you to know at three minutes and 30 seconds you can clearly see michael's shirt sleeves coming out of his suit jacket but you cannot see dwight's jenna you're on to something you're on to something listen idris had broad shoulders and rain's shirt was it was too short too short you believe me i believe you okay back inside andy is gonna tell jim that he's worried you know pam bosses him around he's really worried that their relationship maybe isn't so healthy and he says listen i know a few things about love

horrible terrible awful things yeah there's a lot to unpack here andy is projecting his own hurt on to jim because pam shot down this idea of using any of andy's wedding stuff and he thinks jim was bulldozed right so he's turned this into a whole story yeah and jim sees his opportunity now for a day long of pranking yeah because i think jim's a little offended well it is ridiculous yeah he's making a lot of assumptions so now michael is going to take this info that he got from dwight he's headed back to michael scott paper company and he tells pam to give ed's tires a call yeah here's what she needs to say she needs to say that michael scott paper company has fewer clients so they can spend more time with each of them and also somehow

mentioned she distrusts women and he recommends she do it over indian food pam's like i'm not going to say that ryan's like i can get there that made me laugh out loud this is a little foreshadowing for something that's going to come up later which is that michael takes kind of meticulous detailed notes about each client and he knows meticulous well he knows little details about each one i feel like when i saw michael's rolodex jenna it reminded me of my note cards oh because i usually put a few words that mean something to me right now i put it all in a document but if you look at my notes i give myself words that only mean something to me look next to jim's talking head what does it say boo why does it say boo because i don't know what that means i don't

like jim in this moment i think he's being mean to andy so i wrote boo and then right here what does that say trophy that means something to me we'll get to it but i was like oh my gosh i'm michael scott i have like a few key words well you know in my early actor days when i would go to casting offices i would come home and i had a little card file like a rolodex where i'd write down little notes about anything like that like loves chocolate chip cookies so that the next time i went into that casting office i could have something that might spark yeah i'm a lot of connection you're like hi tammy hadn't you good chocolate chip cookies lately pretty much yes so casual yeah okay so back to the scene i have a little thing i spotted at five minutes nine seconds there is a poster

hanging in the background of the scene it's over to the left of michael's desk it says diversity so that poster was made by phil shay using the hands of our hair and makeup crew yes that is their hands and like i guess their arms right yes yeah so now pam has a talking head they've done their little chant their cheer their morning you ugly cheer yeah yeah and she just said listen she's here she's part of this now that's right and i had a little catch at five minutes and 16 seconds what's a background catch queen this is a on my face catch oh did you notice in this episode that i have a darker pigmented lip and eyeshadow it's a much richer color no i did not oh my gosh okay i noticed because this was a huge thing listen when you had dark nail polish out of

nowhere i noticed i know your lipstick i didn't quite notice we usually alternated between two neutral lip shades but my makeup artist laverne she said i really think we could go a little bolder for pam she made her first sale last week yeah she's got her blazer yeah yeah so how can we continue to tell the story of her growing confidence so we went with a bolder lip i like it thank you our next scene is charles and dwight they're in charles's office note his shoulders please also please note that rain's entire watch is exposed because his sleeves are too short five minutes 39 seconds all right so basically charles wants to know if dwight is happy at the company you know and he invites him out to drinks so in the background of the scene you can see jim

jenna john has angled his computer because he's clearly like surfing the internet or checking email or something so while i was watching the scene the first time i just watched it just to watch it then i was like wait a second john's doing email in the background and the way back this scene also has a line i love when charles says to dwight you're so focused and dwight says like a wolf thank you well rain was asked in an interview what he thought drinks between dwight and charles might entail yeah and this was his answer he said probably charles getting really bored after about eight minutes and making up an excuse to leave he was also asked about his decision to choose dunder mifflin over michael scott paper company what'd he say he said dwight is

loyal to whoever values loyalty the most and in this case dunder mifflin honors loyalty with an actual paycheck and that is why he chose dunder mifflin i also want to point out in this scene that charles is still drinking out of his satacoist steel insulated coffee mug and i have to say i think it's a betrayal you're out of the steel business charles let it go get a dunder mifflin insulated mug already yeah what is your attachment to your satacoist steel yeah you know corporate gave him a mug but he's not using it that's a choice that's what i'm saying yeah i think michael knows this guy he's a steel man at heart right this next scene is amazing michael calls dwight to ask about dunder mifflin's pricing for ed's tires he wants to undercut them right and this is when

dwight's internal conflict begins yeah he starts to waffle well because charles has invited him to drinks michael never invited him to drinks i know so he tells michael something's come up and michael's like oh my gosh is it mose did you cover up the well what is that backstory i don't know has mose fallen in the well of course he has he's probably fallen and been gone for like two days and then they find him in the well i love comedy like that it just throw away i just throw it away michael's not getting it he's not dwight starts kind of talking in code he's kind of like things are changing fast and you know there's a cool new guy and i don't think he'd like it if i helped even my personal hero and michael's like what are you talking about what are you talking about

so pam and ryan are like have to write on a notepad to help michael understand what dwight is saying and then steve is michael reads the notepad all the expressions that come over steve's face as michael figures this out i was blown away i said give steve all of the awards and that's why i drew a trophy seriously though this is an amazing performance it's so subtle and nuanced and steve i loved every single thing you did as michael being clueless and then not believing the note they're holding up but then figuring it out and then being like oh my god and then being betrayed like all of it it is really hard to play realization as an actor yeah because you know the information you had to memorize it you had to read the script you know where the scene is going yes and so to

play all of that it is like one of the hardest things to do as an actor and then to do it comedically amazing amazing we got a fan question about this scene from kelton o who said how is it that pam and ryan can hear both sides of this phone call yeah they seem to hear dwight so clearly through the phone well this is very funny kelton because rain was actually right off camera yeah doing his side of the phone call we could totally hear him rain actually had to come into work that day he did not have anything else to shoot all he did was stand off camera and read his side of the phone call it's actually a thing it's called doing off-camera work and that is often how different sides of a phone call are done we did not have the capability to like call in to that office right

like we did upstairs because it was a closet and a fakie phone yes i thought i could see how they were cheating it a little because michael is kind of holding the phone out so you would assume if you had the volume pretty high up it's a tiny room that you guys could probably hear we also had a fan catch from my are who said this angela what this went right to my heart she said i noticed a paper pro stapler on pam and ryan's table and my mom actually works for the company that sells these staplers it originated in pennsylvania before merging with bostich could this be why the stapler was used in this episode i don't know mya but i brought my paper pro stapler today you did i gotta try it out all right i brought champagne jenna brought a stapler here it is

now watch do i get to do it yes i am gonna do it with a single finger right wait here i now i wish i brought a regular stapler i had meant to bring a regular stapler i'm sure there is one okay ready watch this can you hear the clicking mech listen to the air pressure i heard that it is amazing try it okay i'm gonna try it staple something i'm gonna staple something it's not a regular stapler where you get a good junk it's like okay that's very hard you don't you can do it with one finger okay ready oh yes i see what you're talking about there's like a spring or something i say shut up i bought you a paper pro stapler sam i have one for you oh my god kassie i have one for you oh my gosh thank you you need to have it here's the last thing i'll say about the stapler

i think um i don't think you're done talking about it don't make that promise sometimes when we do these acting jobs you acquire a new skill maybe that you didn't have before when i did blades of glory i had to train with a ice skating coach i learned how to be quite a good ice skater sure when i did walk hard i took a little bit of horse riding lessons it's like a fun perk you get these skills right sometimes you get introduced to an item i remember when i did splitting up together there was just this amazing set of pajamas that i'd never heard of before and after wearing them on the show i bought three pairs i am now a lifelong fan of sass shoes exactly that is what this paper pro stapler was for me and it was all thanks to michael scott paper company well

there you go before we go to break i have one more thing to point out about this scene it's at six minutes 11 seconds it is a very good shot of our second goldfish oh yeah our first goldfish was orange that goldfish is gone this week it is a red orange white and black spotted fish and we got a letter from jess l who said i spent 10 years working in pet stores as an aquatic specialist and pet industry employees have been wondering for years whether or not the changing of the goldfish were a planned bit now we said last week it was yeah but she goes on to say anyone who works in fish departments knows goldfish deaths are common and a lot of us in the industry assume that the props people chose to make a bit out of the situation and just so you know

goldfish should have about 10 gallons of water per fish and it requires filtration to truly thrive in captivity she i think wanted us to know that because any of you out there with goldfish trying to keep them alive that could really help i think that's solid advice all right that's all i got well i have something delicious coming up with jim and andy that i can't wait to share who it just brought me so much joy and why don't we take a break and i'll come back with that i can't wait all right we are back i love this jim and andy scene jim is going to approach andy and he's he's gonna say hey andy you know what i've been thinking about what you said andy's like noish and jim's like i just don't know if i can do it andy's like that's interesting because

i hear what you're saying is that you want to do it which means you can do it believe me i broke up with angela and i'm like the happiest guy ever i mean i am so happy i am so happy like total freedom you know and jim says it's just that pam gets me through the day like i really rely on her i'm pretty emotionally needy and andy says and you know what i'm here for you let me be your traveling pants mm-hmm that was all scripted and in the script it says that jim and andy do a little knuckles bump yeah and they just simply say knuckles and that's the end of the scene okay well in our version jim goes to give the knuckles and andy leans in and puts his cheek in front of the knuckles and jim just starts to laugh and he's like dude you know i meant knuckles and he's like yeah knuckles

all right so ed just improvised that that whole moment go to eight minutes 26 seconds john is laughing at ed because he didn't know ed was gonna lean his face into the knuckle bump and it made it in and it just brought me joy because i just see these two guys and i see their friendship at eight minutes 26 seconds well when andy said i'll be your traveling pants that made me think of our director ken quapis who directed the sisterhood of the traveling pants yes and you and i went together to go see it i remember watching that movie because there was this really yes handsome it made us want to go to greece remember after that movie we're like we should go to greece we really should we should still go to greece we should well now we have

another scene out by the dumpster michael is gonna meet dwight again but guess what it's a setup oh yeah charles is there mm-hmm and charles is gonna tell michael to leave dunder mifflin alone and to stop pestering dwight for info i have two things to point out about this scene what are they the first one is from the shooting draft script and it's something that did not make it in the episode and i really wish it had michael immediately notices dwight's shirt yeah yeah and he says why are you dressed like that and he turns to charles and goes are you making him wear that what about his attack readiness you fool oh what a great callback i know i thought it was so sweet that michael was like oh yeah dwight has to wear short sleeves so he can attack someone yes i had

asked james carry if he would send me the call sheets for this episode there were a few things i wanted to investigate and i noticed that there was a note for this scene that said we need to shoot this scene at 3 30 p.m with three exclamation points i asked randy about this why yeah did idris have to go somewhere why 3 30 yeah he said it was the light oh that this section of the alleyway was on the far side of stage two and it was kind of a deep canyon he said between the stage and the hedges it was on the far side of the warehouse where we filmed the warehouse scenes yes and he said it's really really difficult to hide lights there so you have to use natural light and if you shoot it too early or too late the sun is blocked by the hedges or by the warehouse but i guess at

3 30 the angle is just right so i guess at 3 30 is when we had our bird funeral it must have been 3 30 in the alley i am thinking of how many scenes i had in that alley that's where angeline dwight would meet and she gave him sprinkles list of ointments and things like that and years later that's where i say jazz is stupid so it's all 3 30 in the alley you can set your watch by it well michael's gonna return to michael scott paper company and he's gonna try to tell them what happened and basically he got a pee-filled water balloon thrown in his face that's what he tells pam and ryan yes i mean they're like clearly at some point in his life that actually happened right must have oh that's terrible well they have to really decipher what that means

so they can figure out what the heck is happening well michael's gonna call dwight and he says i'm gonna steal all your clients and i'm gonna kill them in front of you yeah little i'm gonna come at you and i'm gonna come at you hard and then both dwight and michael try to call dwight's biggest client the whale mr showfeld from harper collins harper collins who is publishing our book office bff i know jenna when i rewatched this i was like oh my gosh this is synchronicity does this mean our book is gonna be printed on dunder mifflin paper what that would be amazing i mean that's they're a client right our book is being published like on the east coast it was really cool though because of all the book publishers out there

we're with harper collins and then dwight says harper collins and i was like oh my god i know should we give a book update by the way i want everyone to know we made it through that crazy document i figured it out angela figured it out that's saying something listen she didn't think she was gonna figure it out and i said you can do it i really had a moment you guys like for real where i was like um this isn't gonna happen and i'm sorry this is i can't do it but then i did it you did it mm-hmm i made myself a little cheat sheet mm-hmm that i kept by my computer oh yeah i mean listen i hope i did it i know we haven't got any feedback on it yet maybe we're gonna get like a note back that was like well way to go ladies you completely f'd it up i know and okay

so we have two more rounds of that and then the book is like locked and it goes to the printer oh lordy so yeah can't make any changes i know oh it's coming up i showed it to my kids yeah i showed them the photo layout and they were like oh my gosh because it's finally a book do you know what i mean it's not just like you and i turning in all these pages yes and it looks like a book visually in a pdf i showed it to leigh uh-huh and i said oh do you want to see how the photos kind of lay out and i thought he would look at it honestly i thought he would just glance at it yeah then he'd be like oh my god it looks cool he went through every single page like but like he was compelled to he was like this is amazing aw he was like dr tibido lee said amazing lee said

amazing he said it's so personal it's wow he's like these pictures he already knew the stories right and he just was like people are gonna love this that's what he said and it meant so much to me because we you know yeah sometimes you make something in a bubble and you don't know right we like it we love it so to me that oh that was such a confidence boost oh yeah that's what i needed to try to figure out the formatting document i needed that boost oh i needed a glass of wine well let's get back to the episode michael does finally get mr scofield on the phone by promising him a set of tickets to the penguins game the wilkesbury penguins game look what i'm wearing and angela is wearing her very own personal wilkesbury penguins

hockey jersey with her name on the back yeah i'm number one kenzie so in 2007 i went to the office convention with craig robinson kate flannery and brian bombgartner and we all went to a wilkesbury penguins game we got to go out on the ice we got to meet tux their mascot and we all got a jersey i've kept it all these years and i wore it today for our 100th episode that is so cool here's our picture jenna i'll show you look at us on the ice oh my gosh is that cool it was such a fun day were you nervous when you were walking on the ice i was just wear your regular shoes i was and i had these little boots on and i was like dear lord please don't let me bust my butt in front of all these people did they have little carpets down or no at the beginning but

then we walked all the way to the center and there was no more carpet yes i got to go to the all-stars game in st louis oh so cool and i got to be like a coach on the sideline it was really fun yes and then at the end i had to walk out on the ice yeah and i was so nervous right that i was gonna fall and david pastornack from the boston bruins he came over and he like gave me his arm and it was like a big fangirl moment for me well i held kate flannery's arm who did the penguins play that day oh they played the albany river rats oh yeah i just love hockey i can't say it more i have to say it was a really fun time well michael's thing with the tickets is gonna work because dwight is gonna get a call from mr scofield and he's

gonna say he's leaning toward michael scott paper company so dwight calls michael he's like i will agree to meet you 100 feet from our original meeting place they're not gonna meet at their same secret location mix it up guys 100 feet away at high noon yes and michael tells dwight to walk 100 feet toward the sun but it's right above you it's not possible twice clearly confused i have a whole thing about dwight's undies oh yes we're gonna see some green undies on dwight of course of course we will not just undies but whole torso the whole shebang there is nothing rain wilson loves more than exposing his torso it's exposing dwight's belly it's true i had to know i took a screen grab i texted it to rain and i said rain are these your green undies were they

actually yours and this is what he wrote back and i quote those were provided by wardrobe my love aw so i said oh my god rain you had to have a wardrobe meeting about underwear and these were the pair that were picked it's interesting because if you look there are a few other times on the show where dwight is in his underwear like when he's sleeping on the couch yes we had a fan question from joanna k margaret f and natalia l during the scene where dwight is buckling his pants after showing michael that he isn't wearing a wire do i hear a rooster crowing in the background yes guys yes you do it's at 13 minutes 34 seconds there was a house yeah in our vicinity and they had some chickens and a rooster and it was a challenge yeah because you can't make a rooster

not crow when it wants to crow also jenna do you remember the year that there was like a flock of parrots yes that like we're living in that tree and they parrots are so loud you guys are like so i was like and when they're in a group they get a bolster of confidence they really do they're super chatty i remember this because i was like kenneth paul who did my makeup i was like there is a flock of parrots and he said angela faith because he always called you by your first and middle name he said angela faith don't you mean a pandemonium of parrots is that what a group of parrots is called i guess so oh we also had a fan question from charlotte m she's wondering where the heck is rain wilson's mic pack right yeah i'll tell you what there was no mic pack they had to

capture all of his sound on a boom microphone only yeah they couldn't fit it under his paws so what has happened to you that's champagne that's the champagne talking that crept up on us it did slowly champagne sneaks up on you that's the problem with champagne champagne makes me fun it does yeah what can i expect from this afternoon i don't know i had to stop drinking it because i have to drive home lady we skipped something a while back and i want to bring it up it's when andy's in the kitchen and jim enters and he's doing like this whole melodrama of messing up a sales call he's beating himself up and he it's like he's in a soap opera yes and then he like dropped kicks his lunch across the room steps on it yes we got some fan mail people

wanted to know if that lunch bit was an improv it was not in fact in the script it said jim drop kicks his lunch bag so i just want to say what that means when there's that simple line in a script that says jim drop kicks his lunch bag when phil shay is going through a script and he sees that sentence he's gonna highlight that right he's gonna go to production and he's gonna say how many takes of this scene do you think we'll do how many lunch bags do i need to make how many sandwiches do i need to make all of it he'll probably also go to john and say what are the odds you improvised taking a bite of it after you kick it what kind of sandwich do you want in there everything he would be so meticulous and then he would have to make a bunch of identical

lunch bags and then like before we would have a crew member off camera ready to fly in that's the lingo fly in a new lunch bag and they would also probably have john try to kick it into the same corner every time yes that is how that little bitty sentence affected a bunch of people now lady it's time to go to alfredo's yeah michael pam and ryan are gonna go to alfredo's they're supposed to be meeting dwight there because they're supposed to be like reconciling at alfredo's pizza cafe dwight is such a good liar because i feel like the line is in the details and he knew he was never gonna meet michael for lunch no he's actually putting a fish in their ceiling yes he's sabotaging them he loves to sabotage he's stealing michael's rolodex right he knew he wasn't gonna go and michael

said how about coopers and dwight's like no i had fish last week alfredo's like this is really sneaky very much so yeah well randy told us that the vent or dwight throws the fish fish was not real and it was actually kind of difficult to construct that michael gallenberg had to consult with our builder tim james and they had to like drop the ceiling and create this vent and they also had to build in sort of like a plastic receptacle to catch that fish because the fish was real what it was a real fish it was not a prop fish no it was a real dead fish i mean it was like a fish they bought at the store right so it was a dead fish it was a dead fish yeah stinky dead fish wait a second let me understand this correctly they had to

build a fake ceiling yeah with a fake drop down with a fake vent that could also hold dead fish yeah it would have fallen through otherwise yeah i can't believe we didn't use a fakie fish i was shocked yeah randy said it was a real fish i wasn't there you know later when we come in and discover it we're totally faking that we smell it it was gone by then so wait a second at the end in that montage you guys take the fish out of the ceiling did you have to touch a real dead fish oh my gosh lady i first of all i did not remember that we did that scene even though i watched this episode three times i was clearly so distracted by white sleeves that you didn't notice you touched a fish and i have no memory of it but i mean i guess we did

according to randy i guess i did touch a dead fish have you ever done a prank like that no no i don't like pranks okay you know me i know you i in college i had a group of friends who got really into pranking they were like next level pranksters here's an example they took a dead fish and they put it in the back of this guy nick's toilet they lifted the back of the toilet and they put that fish in the toilet water you know that's in the back no one ever lifts that thing unless your toilet's not flushing and you've got to jiggle that little thing no one lifts the back of the toilet right no no yeah that fish was there a long time it gets so stinky it got so stinky we would go over to nick he lived in a house with a group of guys and we'd be like god nick your

house stinks he's like i know it's the plumbing or something i've had three different guys out here couldn't figure out what it was for like a month oh this is so disgusting it's so disgusting and then there's a certain point where the smell really zeroes in on one area and he finally lift the back thing and it was so foul it was like maggots and disgustingness he wasn't noticing that like the water in his toilet was affected i know what to tell you lady i don't know what to tell you did nick find this amusing oh it was on after that it really the pranking got really out of control they got really into pranking here's my thing about pranking what for me personally to like get through a day yeah just with my own thoughts in my head and everything life is throwing

at me yes you know what i don't need a prank your prank yeah i don't need it yeah although i did do one christmas prank once what someone what it was like you know a group thing and you were specifically supposed to do a joke gift right and i had to come up with like a joke christmas present so what i did was the roommate of the person's name who i picked yeah i said over the course of one month will you slowly just sort of steal things from your roommate like a single shoe like i gave him a list of oh you're the slow play yeah i was just like have little things go missing like maybe favorite coffee mug and then at the very end toothbrush and then at the christmas party i had wrapped up all of the missing items into a box and then that was the gift oh that's kind of

fun all your stuff that's gone missing for a month yeah that was my joke gift i like that i am not much of a prankster i'm a lame pranker well i'm glad you're a lame pranker lady because i don't want pranks in my life and you're my bff and so i'm happy that i don't have a bff that is like devoted to pranking yeah that would really suck wouldn't it it really would i have a location breakdown for alfredo's pizza cafe let's hear it this was a restaurant in woodland hills california called nicolas and it is owned by a husband and wife that were friends with our set designer michael gallenberg oh and randy said that we did not have to do much redressing of this restaurant at all we were able to pretty much just use it as it was that's great randy would also like you to

know that nicolas has the best chop salad in the valley i looked it up it looks really good and it cost sixteen dollars i would love a chop salad right now i know that's what we should do after let's swing by nicolas or something and have a chop salad have a chop salad well in order to shoot this scene we had to get there at 6 30 in the morning and we had to shoot at 7 30 because we had to do it before the restaurant was open but after this bj and i just got to go home that's all i had to do that day i remember i was back home by like 10 a.m my work day was done steve and the rest the crew did a whole day of locations but while i was looking at the call sheet i saw this fascinating detail which was the van schedule oh do you remember these van schedules when we would

shoot on location lady no you don't oh see this is the thing i used to love to do where i read every detail of a call sheet yes you would i would show up and be like why is xs hollywood here and you'd be like angela it's on the call sheet and they put a memo in your trailer probably last week i stepped right over that she really would there'd be a pile of memos on her floor the papers to the side all right so when you shoot on location you park your car and they have the hair and makeup trailers in a big parking lot and they call it base camp this is where the caterers will set up their food tent it's where you eat lunch but a lot of times base camp is really far away from the actual shooting location and that was the case here it was about a 15 minute van ride to get from

base camp to nicholas restaurant so they had to have a van schedule to shuttle all of these people to set and here's what it said it said breakfast would be available as a 515 and then you could take one of six vans to set they left at 5 42 a.m 6 a.m 6 12 a.m and they designated this van for our grip and electric crew 6 30 a.m and then there was one last van at 6 42 a.m and in all caps it said this is the late van you did not want to be on the don't do it no no no no there were also additional shuttles for the cast and the background actors that were set to leave at 7 a.m so the idea was the crew would get there set up all the lights and then the actors would land the hair and makeup folks would ride with the actors that's the van schedule that was randy's job to make that van

schedule he did a fantastic job so dwight never makes it to the restaurant he calls and says he hit a bear and michael just believes it not just michael i will have you know that pam and ryan don't even raise an eyebrow they don't even look up from their menu when michael says dwight hit a bear but he's on the way how many bears has dwight hit why is this so believable they get back to michael scott paper company they discover they've been robbed dwight calls michael is like we i don't have time to talk we've been robbed and once again pam and ryan are like it was dwight yeah this is when dwight is gonna start poaching the clients off the rolodex and to get back at him michael is gonna eat his meatball parm that he brought back for him which is so funny because dwight says i knew

you were gonna do that and that's why i made you order it because it's the worst thing on their menu and then the way steve is so disgusted by it why is it so funny to watch steve anything that he's disgusted with anything with food it's hilarious well in casual friday he's gonna eat everybody's lunch and it's very very funny i can't wait to get to that there's some good bloopers from that too listen there was a deleted scene as dwight is poaching everyone's clients he really crosses the line with ryan because ryan's uncle chooses dwight over the michael scott paper company what yeah and there's some really good pam sass we got to hear it dwight just got howard family dry cleaners uncle dave well jerk is undercutting us big time he is actually taking a loss and paying the difference

out of pocket that's my family when you mess with my family i can't be responsible for my actions when are you ever responsible for your actions get off my ass you hag hey hey hey something about that seems inappropriate something about that seems inappropriate you can't put his finger on it i love the ryan pam like rivalry i just live for it i love it too i mean i just loved working with these guys for this period of time i bet it was so much fun well now we're gonna get into a pretty fun bit where michael is gonna walk in to harper collins with dwight on the phone he's like i'm gonna let you listen to me still your biggest client and dwight's like no and takes off and he gets in the car all the while listening that was so funny right in the car when he was like

paper is the manure and on time delivery is the soil i wrote down that quote too do i need that on a mug we might need it on a mug paper is the manure we had a fan question from sydney s who said how did you guys film that scene of dwight driving to mr scofield's office was steve really on the other end of the phone no steve was not on the other end of the phone and i talked with randy about this rain is really driving he's free driving he is not hooked up to anything it looked like it to me just the way he pulled into the parking lot yeah the whole time so they had la pd officers on motorcycles so no one would sort of interfere with the shot or rain driving yes correct and there's also a crew van following behind but here's how they got that shot matt

sone our camera operator was in the front seat oh filming rain our sound engineer ben patrick was in the backseat recording sound and our director paul feig was also in the backseat randy that was not a big backseat i have been in that car that is tiny i know and randy said we did not have a two-way phone setup it was just too unreliable and so randy's guess is that paul feig was reading steve's dialogue so that rain could react to it yeah amazing i wish we had a picture of those four guys in the car can we talk about what happens when dwight arrives at mr scott field's office finally i lived for this i had to know if this was scripted or improvised so dwight is going to run in first of all he's changing into his

mustard shirt i loved that detail love that detail and then when he gets to the receptionist he does this crazy spin move and then dwight says spin move and i was like did rain improvise that i've got to know jenna it was 100 in the script everything even the spin move all of it i found an old interview with rain where he said that one time he did a somersault and he said he thought that it would look extra stealthy when they watched it back it looked quote like a manatee doing ballet at sea world he also said they did about five takes i also have a little guest star breakdown for mr scofield's receptionist she was played by angela campola sanders who was our casting associate on the office since season four this is her only acting credit but she played mr scofield's

receptionist pretty much everyone in our casting office made it into the episode at some point i love that i do too dwight is about to dig himself into a big old hole because he doesn't understand michael's rolodex or michael's color coding info michael has a talking head where he says i color code all my info i wrote gay sun and green green means go so i know to go ahead and shut up about it yes and orange means orange are glad you didn't bring it up most colors mean don't say it yeah but dwight doesn't know that yes so dwight is basically saying all the things that are color coded to not be said right well before we wrap up this heavy competition between mike wait this mike this episode you know that's the champagne i know in the champagne you have

a nickname for everyone in your champagne brain mike mike dwighty um okay i think we should go back and wrap up this andy jim storyline okay we both had to stop drinking champagne by the way we did it just it's so interesting scotch and splenda was like waboo waboo but champagne we're like i can't talk right now yeah i still really do love the scotch and splenda me too i have to say it's a really good drink and we got some letters from people who said it's basically an old fashioned if we'd added a few orange bitters and that's what it tasted like that's right because i guess you would add like a sugar yeah a muddled kind of sugary syrup to the scotch and so that's what the splenda is doing yeah but champagne just makes us go what what are we

talking about what's happening i know okay all right see i know i'm like what am i talking about okay so andy and jim andy is going to tell the whole bullpen that jim is upset and phyllis is gonna be like um andy i think jim is just messing with you and then there's that smug shot of jim in the kitchen looking out through the blinds with that grin on his face we had a fan question from reya h and punet b can we talk about how douchey jim is being in this episode andy was being really supportive and genuinely cared for jim and while andy's concern might have been misguided or nosy i think it came from a good place we'd really like to get your take on this prank that jim pulls on andy because we think the prank might have been a little mean spirited i didn't care for it

i didn't either i i do think this is a mean spirited joke i mean we already know i don't like pranks and i don't love especially pranks that at someone's expense that play with their emotions right i think it was too big of a reaction to andy's kind of nosy meddling and he does have this nice speech jim at the end to andy he's like listen i know angela broke your heart but you're going to find someone else you really will so i feel like that was the moment where the writers were like you know jim's not a bad guy maybe he was trying to show andy something but i just didn't like the prank me either yeah well i'm glad we discussed that yeah we're with you so this episode ends with more cheese ball fun michael ryan and pam they're trying to see

how many cheese puffs can they fit in their mouth 32 that's the record yeah and then the phone rings and michael answers it and he's got a mouth full of cheese puffs and we're all laughing and while this is happening you can hear a michael talking head where he's saying he wanted to start a company and not a war well this talking head was added later this was not in the original script steve shot this a couple weeks after we shot the original episode and all of this footage of us doing this cheese puffs bit yeah this was originally gonna be at the end of the cold open so it was all of that was going to live at the top of the episode yes but they thought it would be funnier to end the cold open on pam getting the cheese puffs while she's yawning and then they gave this episode

this new tag with the cheese ball bit this was not the original tag for the episode so instead of this bookend of cheese puffs at the beginning and end there was a tag and we did film it and I want to share it with you guys so andy is in the conference room and he is selling off his wedding stuff he's determined still still well you know he didn't get buyers from gym and pam so in the tag he's selling it to the rest of the gang and they're all bidding on things stanley buys the rice bags and creed decides to get in on the action too i thought we had to hear a little bit of it why are you here stanley i'm here for the rice boom sold 100 bags of rice stanley Hudson creed how would you like a crispy new tuxedo for your funeral i'll take the bottom half

i want to go out the same way i came in shirtless and everyone else starts making bids too that asking questions on things angela is not in the scene but she walks by and had this talking head it was in the shooting draft i don't know why i'm down i guess i always thought that andy would save the stuff from our wedding just in case now it's stupid just in case i married someone else and he decided to throw us a wedding i told you it was stupid i guess there were some things in there that angela liked yeah and maybe she hoped would make a comeback uh so there you have it guys 100 episodes oh my gosh we got it in just before the holidays yeah i'm glad because that's always like a very crazy time it is the halloween to new year it's a sprint to the end i always say well

listen we're gonna have a few breaks coming up we do take a break at thanksgiving we take a break at christmas and new year's we will have some great reruns of episodes with fun little new stuff at the top yes so be sure to listen to that stuff but listen ang we got this letter because you know i said i was going through the mail yeah from susanna g and i wanted to share it i really appreciated it okay let's hear it susanna says not sure you'll see this but i wanted to say something to you both first you are my people you are silly loud honest organized jenna me too and just she did put angela in there for organize it's okay susanna but more importantly i noticed your value of mental health mainly depicted to me by the breaks that you take sometimes between podcast

episodes not all podcasts do that and as a fan i always look forward to listening to next week's episode so when i hear rerun content at times it's initially a bummer however it's always followed by thoughts of well perhaps they needed more prep time so that they didn't have to sacrifice family time or self-care and as a hustling mom with a career of my own two small children and a law enforcement hubby with crazy schedules demands and stresses my life is chaotic to say the least but i'm learning more and more my stability and that of my family comes from not sacrificing those two things so i commend you for staying committed to your values and still getting to do what you love and with your bestie what a blessing maybe i got all this wrong and that's not what's going

on at all but if i'm on the nose i simply want to offer encouragement to keep it up your way i'll be waiting for next week's episode whenever you get to it sending virtual hugs to you both that is so sweet susanna you got it a hundred percent right yeah i feel seen susanna yes it really meant a lot to me because i feel like angela and i are two gals with a very strong work ethic we love making this show but it is also important to us that we reserve holiday time a little spring break time a little summer time just for our families yeah for our mental health breaks and so we do take time off for that you know it also means that our team here gets a break that's right everyone gets a break so thank you susanna i really appreciate it and just know that we will put

some fun stuff at the top of those rerun episodes so that we don't leave you hanging on those breaks that's right and you guys i really want to say thank you so much to creed bratton as well for doing that sweet little intro for us and you guys he has a new single that just dropped it's called breathe easy it's available on apple music and i thought we could listen to a little bit of it as we say goodbye happy 100th episode happy 100 oh thank you for listening to office ladies office ladies is produced by earwolf jenna fischer and angela kenzie our show is executive produced by kody fischer our producer

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