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Jenna Fisher. And

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I'm Angela Kinsey. We

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were on The Office together. And we're best

1:08

friends. And now we're doing the Ultimate Office

1:10

rewatch podcast just for you. Each week we

1:12

will break down an episode of The Office

1:14

and give exclusive behind the scene stories that

1:16

only two people who were there can tell

1:18

you. We're The Office Ladies. Hello,

1:24

everyone. Hi. Guess

1:27

what we're talking about today. I

1:29

would do an impression, but it would be horrible. Like I was

1:32

going to do like. That's

1:35

so bad. That

1:39

was me trying to be like one of the

1:42

background singers in a capella. Like the

1:44

people that don't say words. The people that

1:46

their sole job is like. How

1:51

do you get that job? I don't know.

1:54

I wouldn't get it because I can't carry

1:56

a tune. Well, today, everybody, we're talking about

1:58

here comes treble. This

2:00

season nine, episode five, written by

2:02

Owen Elexson, directed by Claire Scanlon.

2:05

Here's what I learned when I watched this episode.

2:09

I found the acapella singing delightful. I

2:11

just loved every time they sang. I

2:13

mean, I love acapella. My husband was

2:15

in an acapella group. We

2:17

had to dig out some old videos. Oh,

2:19

really? I watched a bunch of his group

2:22

in the buff from University

2:24

of Colorado. Naked? What?

2:26

No, that's their name. In the buff is

2:28

their name. The

2:30

buffaloes, it's like a play on words. You

2:33

know, it really sounds like I'm gonna watch

2:35

Naked Singer. I know. Did they

2:38

think this through? I think they think

2:40

they're groups. But I'm gonna save this.

2:42

I did look up a bunch of

2:44

college acapella group names and a

2:46

lot of them are a little racy. Really?

2:48

Yeah. Well, why don't we

2:50

start now with a summary? Here

2:52

it is. Andy brings his

2:54

college acapella group to the office

2:57

for a Halloween party performance. However,

3:00

this is gonna reignite his rivalry

3:02

with Broccoli Rob. I

3:04

mean, Broccoli Rob is kind

3:07

of sneaky. Yeah, and

3:09

I have some thoughts on his apartment, but we'll get

3:11

to it. Oh, yeah. Meanwhile, in

3:13

this episode, Pam and Jim struggle to

3:15

agree on their level of financial participation

3:18

in the sports marketing startup that Jim

3:20

is now a part of. And

3:23

Dwight starts an investigation to find the owner

3:25

of an anti-anxiety pill he found on the

3:27

floor. Fast fact number one,

3:30

the storyline with Andy and his

3:32

college acapella group was inspired by

3:34

our writer Halstead Sullivan's real life.

3:36

Once again, Halstead's real life made

3:38

it into an episode. This one

3:40

is fantastic. We reached out to

3:42

Halstead and we asked him, how

3:44

did this Andy storyline come about?

3:46

He shares about his true life

3:48

story. You gotta hear it. Hey,

3:51

Angela and Jenna. Thanks so much for asking me

3:53

to tell your listeners about yet another office story

3:55

that was loosely based on something that actually happened

3:57

to me. Though in this case,

4:00

In this case, it's not so loose. To

4:02

give you some brief history, when I was a

4:04

student at the University of Virginia, I started an

4:06

acapella group called the Virginia Hullabahoos, and the group

4:08

is still going strong today. Over

4:10

the years, the Hullabahoos have sung all across the country.

4:13

They've sung in Europe and the Philippines. They've

4:15

sung at the White House for a couple different presidents, and

4:17

they were even in the first Pitch Perfect movie, where you

4:19

can see them singing in the final countdown to the end

4:21

of the movie. Now, needless to

4:24

say, I'm extremely proud of all they've accomplished

4:26

since I founded the group, oh so very

4:28

many years ago. And

4:31

a couple years before I was on the office, the current

4:33

group of guys at the time came out to LA to

4:35

sing the national anthem of the Lakers game. They

4:37

asked if they could stay with me for a couple days, and

4:39

of course they said yes, even

4:41

though it meant 14 college students staying in our house, and

4:43

was it hell? Absolutely. But

4:46

since they were coming to LA, I decided to set

4:48

up a concert for them as well. I invited alumni

4:50

and a ton of my friends, and it was a

4:52

nice event. I even paid for the whole bar. To

4:56

give you a little more backstory, since I was

4:58

the founder of the group, historically pretty much any time I

5:00

showed up at a concert, the guys would invite me on

5:02

stage to sing the song that I sang when I was

5:04

in the group, which was a song called Runaround Sue. So

5:08

before this concert, I don't know what got into

5:10

me, but before the guys went on stage, I

5:13

was like, guys, I know you're going to pull me

5:15

up there to sing my signature song, but you really don't

5:17

have to. This night is yours. Just

5:19

go have fun. Fully knowing,

5:21

in my heart of hearts, and of

5:23

course they would invite me up to sing my song. It

5:26

had never not happened before. So

5:29

as I'm in the audience enjoying the concert and

5:31

silently warming up my vocal cords, the

5:34

guys are singing song after song after song. The audience

5:36

is loving it, and I'm getting more and more nervous

5:38

to be about to sing in front of all of

5:40

my friends. And then suddenly the concert's

5:43

over and they didn't invite

5:45

me up to sing my song. I

5:49

was livid. And was that

5:51

a rational feeling for an adult man to

5:53

have? No. But if you

5:55

think any man who sings four-part harmony

5:57

without instruments and thinks that it's actually

5:59

entertaining... to people as rational, you

6:02

are sorely mistaken, my friends. But

6:04

the story doesn't end there. A few years after

6:06

that, we were trying to think of a story

6:08

for Andy Bernard in Here Comes Trouble. I told

6:10

the story in the writer's room, and it became

6:12

an episode. And as we

6:14

were writing, of course, I suggested to Greg that

6:16

the actual hull of it who's played the group

6:19

Here Comes Trouble, and lo and behold, six of

6:21

them got cast. But the story

6:23

doesn't end there. When they came

6:25

out, I hosted all 14 guys in the group, and

6:27

the guys who didn't get cast came out to set to watch. And

6:30

on the last day of shooting, it was

6:33

actually my birthday. And

6:35

there on the set, the hull who's brought

6:37

out a huge cake for me and sang Happy

6:39

Birthday to me. And then in

6:41

front of the whole cast and crew of The

6:43

Office, they invited me up

6:46

to sing my signature song. So

6:48

I guess if there's a moral to this story, it's

6:50

that when life gives you lemons, and you don't get

6:52

asked to sing your signature song, you

6:55

make lemonade and turn it into an office episode

6:57

where you get to sing your song in front

6:59

of your whole office family. But

7:01

if you want to hear more, you can listen to the

7:03

hull who's on Spotify and Apple Music. Sorry, I couldn't

7:06

help it. I'm just so damn proud of them. I'm

7:09

really done now. Thanks. Oh,

7:12

and I love that story.

7:15

I remember them singing on the stages.

7:17

I do too. And as I remember

7:19

it, it was Claire's idea to have

7:21

the Happy Birthday song to Halstead on

7:23

set. Yes, it was. We reached out

7:26

to Claire for this episode. And one

7:28

of the things she said was that

7:30

this moment of them singing and

7:32

Halstead singing was one of her favorite memories

7:34

from this episode, and mine too. I

7:37

also love that she shared that she has a copy

7:39

of it, and she gave it to Halstead. And he's

7:41

the only one that has the copy. No one else

7:43

has it. So Halstead, well,

7:46

we asked Halstead if we

7:48

could share it. And he said no, because they

7:50

sang it in a key too high. Well,

7:53

Halstead, we would like to invite you,

7:55

the office ladies, to sing

7:57

Run Around Sue with the hull of Bahoo.

8:00

and we will play it on Office Ladies. Oh,

8:02

that would be a treat. We have a whole

8:05

season left, Halstead. All right,

8:07

moving on to Fast Fact number two. You

8:09

know the guy in the acapella group

8:11

who ends up serenading Pam. Oh yes.

8:14

While Jim and Pam fight. Yes, it's

8:17

such a fun scene. So

8:19

that singer is named Nick Caffaro. He

8:22

was not an actor at the time. When

8:24

they did this, he was just a member

8:26

of the hullabahoos. Halstead suggested that

8:29

we reach out to him to

8:31

hear a little bit more about what

8:33

it was like for all these guys to

8:35

suddenly be invited to be on the office.

8:38

And Nick sent in an audio clip. We got to hear

8:40

it. Office Ladies, oh

8:42

my goodness. I cannot believe

8:44

I am recording this right

8:46

now. This is such a

8:48

thrill, such an honor. I'm so excited that

8:50

you asked me to be part of this.

8:53

I am a huge fan of the two

8:56

of you of this podcast. And of course

8:58

of the office. And this

9:00

is like a dream come true. Thank you so much

9:02

for asking me to be part of this. So I

9:04

was a junior in college. I was at the University

9:06

of Virginia. So I

9:08

remember I was the president of the group at the time.

9:10

I got an email saying that they wanted

9:13

us to audition for the office. I thought it

9:15

was a prank. But once

9:17

I kind of got my heart rate down and

9:19

figured out it was real, I got the group

9:21

together. There were 18 members of us. And I

9:23

put all of us on tape. And

9:27

looking back on it, I had

9:29

zero idea what I was doing. So

9:31

these auditions are, they were all

9:33

done in my dorm room. They have

9:35

the worst lighting in

9:38

background you could possibly imagine. And probably

9:40

some of the worst acting you could

9:42

possibly imagine. But we all did the

9:44

scene one by one and sang a

9:46

song because the role required us to

9:48

sing. And we sang All Be

9:50

by Edwin McCain, which is actually what I ended

9:52

up singing on the show to you, Jenna. And

9:55

I Remember sending all the auditions into Halstead first

9:57

before I sent them into the Producers and Co.

10:00

Cassie in in also was like i'm you

10:02

need to redo these These are terrible So

10:04

we ended up redo in all of them

10:06

which was. For. The best obviously and

10:09

then I sent them in. An a

10:11

few days later I got a call

10:13

saying that we've been cast on an

10:15

episode of The Office and I was

10:17

cast in the role that would be

10:19

speaking and singing and I almost threw

10:21

up. Unfortunately only seven of the eighteen

10:23

members in the how the his Raspy

10:25

on the shelves but what we did

10:27

is we took all the money that

10:29

we were gonna get paid seven of

10:31

us and we use that by plane

10:33

tickets so that the rest of the

10:35

group to come out and experience this

10:37

to. And Have fun And Allen! Nick.

10:40

That story is bonkers. I

10:42

cannot imagine getting that email.

10:45

That here's what I have to say. What?

10:48

These. Guys. Out what's know. I mean

10:51

I guess maybe we flew out the guys

10:53

that got cast and then they spent their

10:55

money to the lie. I don't know. people

10:57

with us on file thank god Antelope because

11:00

when I first listened to that I thought.

11:03

No no no, I think they use their salaries.

11:06

To. Fly out the people running that the

11:08

great yes which was classy move very

11:10

classy what in addition to meeting the

11:12

entire office cast while they were there

11:14

another thing that next shared with us

11:16

was that Bryan Cranston much as so

11:19

walking around because he was they are

11:21

doing post production on work fast and

11:23

not really threw them. Wait

11:26

I thought we were going to work on off at

11:28

what is happening. Oils are white area. Will. Next

11:30

shared a few more stories and his time on

11:33

the said will sprinted as throughout this episode. And

11:35

now in movies and offense number Three and.

11:38

Stephen. Colbert as Broccoli run up.

11:40

I so believed Andy and Broccoli

11:42

rubs rivalry. I really believe that

11:45

our broccoli Rob is insidious. He's

11:47

no gas light. He is nice.

11:49

Yeah we had of the unquestioned

11:51

from Hannah Ellen Arizona who said

11:53

did you guys get some me

11:55

see them called there are was

11:57

the only on the video call.

12:00

Well first of all he and I'll say

12:02

that add with our connection to Stephen Colbert

12:04

found their time on The Daily Show. And.

12:07

Unfortunately we did not get to meet him.

12:09

He filmed all his stuff in New York.

12:11

They did it really early in the morning.

12:14

See Burgess said they sat Rob up on

12:16

a set in New York. they had a

12:18

camera filming him there. They also put him

12:20

on a video call. It was very elaborate,

12:23

right? The conference from Seen Yeah and in

12:25

the break room. For. Anyone who

12:27

doesn't know Stephen Colbert is a

12:29

great singer. He was in the

12:31

glee club and high school. Did.

12:33

You know that he's also won a Grammy. For.

12:36

Singing yes that I did not know

12:38

well in. Two thousand and eight. He

12:40

released a Cd and had a Tv

12:42

special called a cold their Christmas the

12:44

greatest gift of all. Which.

12:46

Won a Grammy Award for best

12:48

comedy album and it two thousand

12:50

and Eleven. He performed the role

12:52

of Harry and the Musical Company

12:55

in concert with the New York

12:57

Philharmonic at Lincoln Center. at Lincoln

12:59

Center. Oh wow! I couldn't

13:01

do it. Does that? Ten Guys, I mean I

13:03

couldn't do it because also I can't sing and

13:05

I would never have made that under it because

13:08

again can carry a tune. You. Really

13:10

can't carry a tune not really know that

13:12

about you. I can of and singing with

13:14

other people but then if you say take

13:17

it and I'll get like the first few

13:19

and then I'm like where am I going,

13:21

Where we don't Where's this going? What happens

13:23

if you have to search? Happy Birthday! Oh,

13:26

I can do. Really started okay, but

13:28

some people started terribly. How how do

13:30

you start at two boys? Happy.

13:33

Birthday you start to

13:35

high or you're like

13:38

happy Birthday to you

13:40

and your let people.

13:43

People. Do it. Might just start

13:45

a new draw more the whole group.

13:47

Yeah, Yeah. Happy Birthday to

13:49

you! Started their everyone can

13:52

sing it there. I can

13:54

sing and play as we're

13:56

Is this the right mindset?

13:58

Be. Warning: If you

14:00

sing happy Birthday around Jenna. I

14:04

can sing of i'm doing a character. Ah

14:06

and also there's some songs from church

14:08

that I feel like I can carry

14:11

the him just because I've sung them

14:13

so many times. My favorite part of

14:15

church with the singing death and I

14:17

would say out me too and he

14:19

will raise the phone he do playing

14:22

yeah yeah there was a song personal

14:24

my family's like southern. I. Would

14:26

both out so hard and it was the

14:28

hit at Easter and only like three know.

14:31

Oh my bad at home

14:34

as about threats? And

14:37

I I went for it. Where.

14:39

It hurts Recently when I went back home and I

14:41

started about out a song and my daughter looked at

14:44

me like what? Can you dial

14:46

down the volume? I. Mean most

14:48

of churches boring. Let's be honest. And

14:53

say. Stuff we all know you

14:55

can and you do. I'm gonna be

14:57

fifty. I'm on the way from fifty

14:59

and it's all coming out coming out.

15:02

Ah, Well.

15:06

Are we going to take a break and

15:08

then get into this episode Or what are

15:10

we doing? Let's take a break. Let's take

15:12

a sixth grade me off a piece of

15:15

that pie cast. So. This.

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french fries. They. Are so

15:29

delicious! I get very excited

15:31

about Mcdonalds french fries because they're the

15:34

best fries. They. really are

15:36

from my childhood to my adulthood

15:38

a loves the mcdonalds fry why

15:40

are they so good news it

15:42

isn't a blender cooked in is

15:44

it the way they're caught know

15:46

what is it i don't know

15:48

everyone knows this so the mcdonnell

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15:52

because i love to get a

15:54

happy meal assists the perfect size

15:56

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18:38

the call sheet. Oh yeah thanks

18:41

to Steve Burgess. We started

18:43

filming this episode on Monday September 10th 2012.

18:45

Are you curious what we filmed

18:49

on that very first day of Here Comes Trouble?

18:52

Yes good I hope you are because

18:54

I'm gonna tell you it was

18:57

all talking heads all morning

19:00

all the talking heads you see in the episode

19:02

we were filming on the first day and then

19:04

towards the end of the day we did have

19:06

two big group scenes mm-hmm in

19:08

the bullpen and it was a

19:11

very very busy production week for our

19:13

show they were prepping the

19:15

farm and the boat there

19:17

was a dirt test for the farm so

19:21

someone was getting dirt thrown in their face

19:23

yeah to see how it

19:25

would look they were scouting locations for

19:27

the boat we had an NBC EPK

19:29

crew doing interviews with all the cast

19:32

this week yes well that

19:34

is because this was our last

19:36

Halloween episode ever

19:39

ever and we

19:41

all did interviews about it and how we

19:43

were feeling about it yeah and basically we

19:45

were all feeling sad that it was our

19:48

last one but also grateful that we got

19:50

to do a full Halloween episode I remember

19:52

being excited that we got to be in

19:54

costume the whole week yeah well

19:57

lastly the high was eighty

19:59

It's in the 80s this week. That's

20:04

nice. It's an improvement. Well, like we said,

20:06

this is our Halloween episode and Dwight is

20:08

going to enter the office with a giant

20:10

pumpkin on his head. He scares

20:12

Aaron. Oh my gosh. Every Halloween

20:14

I see this picture of rain

20:16

with the pumpkin head everywhere. It's

20:19

like on t-shirts, on stickers. It's everywhere. Well,

20:21

there's a problem. He can't get the

20:23

pumpkin head off. He cannot. We had a

20:26

fan question from Olivia H. in Minneapolis, Minnesota

20:28

who said, the Dwight pumpkin head cold open

20:30

is my single favorite cold open in the

20:32

entire series. I watch it whenever I'm feeling

20:34

down and it never fails to brighten my

20:37

day. Please tell me everything.

20:39

Were there any scenes cut out? I

20:41

must know. And Mia O., a

20:43

middle schooler from Cedar Park, Texas, wanted

20:45

to know if the pumpkin was real.

20:47

We have the answers. Mia, I'll tell

20:49

you this. We used a

20:51

real pumpkin to fit rain. We

20:54

carved out a pumpkin just like that. But

20:57

about a week before the episode, the

20:59

costumers took that real pumpkin to a

21:01

molder who made a

21:04

fiberglass version because we didn't

21:06

want it to rot or break. And

21:09

Steve Burgess sent us a very funny

21:11

photo of rain with the fiberglass pumpkin

21:13

on his head trying to read his sides,

21:16

read the eye hole. So

21:19

rain really did walk around with that thing

21:21

for a while. I should say Steve sends

21:23

us great pictures. He also sent me a

21:25

photo I had never seen of myself and

21:28

the Senator as Nancy and Ronald

21:30

Reagan. I'll put all of these

21:32

in stories. Claire sent us a ton of great pictures

21:34

too. We're going to have a lot of pictures for

21:36

Instagram this week. Yes, a lot of behind the scenes

21:39

photos. And Olivia, to answer

21:41

your question, there were several more scenes

21:43

with Dwight with this pumpkin on his

21:45

head. Ultimately, what happens in

21:48

deleted scenes is Dwight is backing out

21:50

of the parking lot with the big

21:52

pumpkin head and his car hits the

21:54

row of hedges. His head kind

21:56

of slams into the side of the car's

21:58

interior and the pumpkin starts to

22:00

break in half and he's able to free

22:02

himself. Oh, so we got to see him

22:05

freed. Yes, and he throws the pumpkin pieces

22:07

out the window and is like, ha ha,

22:09

and he drives off. And Claire, our director

22:11

shared with us that the scene was actually

22:13

really difficult to shoot. She said that pumpkin

22:16

head was so big that they had to

22:18

pull the driver's seat out of

22:20

the car so Rain could physically get in the

22:22

car and they could film him with the pumpkin

22:24

head getting in the car. Yeah, and then after

22:27

all that trouble, they never used any of the

22:29

footage of him getting in the car. Claire

22:31

also shared that when they were shooting Rain's

22:33

talking head with the pumpkin head on, that

22:36

at first, they thought that they could just

22:38

put any words in his mouth because the

22:40

pumpkin kind of covered everything. But

22:42

then they realized when they got an editing

22:44

that you could still see his mouth kind

22:46

of moving. And she said, if you

22:49

look close enough, it's a little bit out of sync.

22:52

When he says the pumpkin should rot off

22:54

my head in a month or two, it

22:56

doesn't totally match. I

22:58

will tell you that I looked up people

23:01

wearing pumpkin heads at

23:03

Halloween. Are people doing this? I did

23:05

find some people did this. They carved

23:07

out a pumpkin like Dwight. Really? Yes,

23:09

and they took photos of themselves, the

23:11

Tik Tokers. The Tokers

23:13

did it? The Tokers did it. And

23:16

then I was curious if you could buy a

23:18

pumpkin head like the one Dwight wore and

23:21

make your own Halloween costume. I

23:23

did find a plushy version on

23:25

Amazon. I'm surprised

23:28

this isn't a costume. Yeah. Well,

23:30

we got an interesting fan question from

23:32

Ayla R. in Norway, Angela, that I

23:35

thought maybe we could discuss. Okay. Ayla

23:37

notes that in order to make his

23:39

costume, Dwight had to carve out the

23:41

bottom of the pumpkin. He had to

23:43

put the hole in the bottom of

23:46

the pumpkin. Pull all the stuff out?

23:48

Yes. And Ayla

23:50

said that this reminded her of the

23:52

big debate over the best way to

23:54

carve a pumpkin. Do you

23:56

cut a hole in the top and

23:59

scoop it out from the top? top or do you

24:01

put a hole in the bottom and scoop it

24:03

out from the bottom? Ayla wanted to know how

24:05

do we do our pumpkins? Ayla,

24:07

I did not know there was a great pumpkin

24:09

debate. I

24:12

always do the top and then make

24:14

a little hat. Well,

24:16

growing up, my family cut

24:19

off the top of the pumpkin. Yeah, that

24:21

was our way. I continued to do it

24:23

that way in my adult life. Where is

24:26

this going? I feel like someone changed you.

24:29

I'll tell you who changed me. Who? Brunch

24:31

with Babs. Brunch with Babs?

24:34

You don't follow Brunch with Babs on

24:37

Instagram? Well, now I feel like I'm getting shade

24:40

because I don't know who Brunch with Babs is.

24:42

Brunch with Babs is like

24:46

your mom who's giving you all

24:48

the hacks on everything in life.

24:52

All the best mom hacks. Brunch

24:54

with Babs? Great. I was a

24:56

kid about a video of hers two years ago where

24:59

she teaches you how to carve a pumpkin and

25:01

she cuts out a circle on the bottom

25:03

and then she uses a mixer. Oh,

25:06

and she gets it all scooped out. And she

25:08

gets all the guts out with the mixer. It

25:10

loosens it up. And

25:12

then what's great about it is when you do

25:14

the candle, you just set your pumpkin on top

25:16

of the candle. You don't have to like dip

25:18

your hand down through the top and try to

25:21

light it through the top and all that business.

25:23

Also, you're not setting the candle on top

25:26

of any pumpkin. You just set the candle

25:28

on the ground. Brunch with Babs.

25:30

Wow. So anyway, Ayla, in

25:32

the great pumpkin carving debate, I'm a

25:35

now a bottom. She's a bottom.

25:37

I might have to try it. This next Halloween. Yeah.

25:40

You might be a bottom. Oh

25:43

my God. Okay. Where

25:47

are we? Jim and

25:49

Pam are now going to arrive to work. Jim

25:51

once again doesn't have a costume. Yeah.

25:55

Well, he's men in black. I

25:57

did love under his breath when he was like, give me

25:59

your sunglasses. to Pam. Anytime there's

26:01

like a little under your breath line,

26:03

those always got me. Pam

26:05

is dressed as Dr. Cinderella and they

26:08

mistake Erin's costume for a dog. She's

26:10

a puppy. She's a puppy. Like we

26:12

said, this was our last Halloween episode,

26:14

our last time wearing costumes. Lady, I've

26:16

got a costume breakdown for us. You

26:18

know I hear it. You know I

26:20

do. I love a costume breakdown. All

26:22

right. Andy is George

26:25

Michael, mistaken for American

26:27

Idol alum, Adam Lambert. Pam,

26:30

I said Dr. Cinderella, Jim, maybe

26:32

a Men in Black

26:34

agent. Kevin is Charlie Brown.

26:37

Stanley is Usain Bolt. Dwight

26:40

is Cerebus the Ardvark. I

26:43

thought he just had a pig nose on. Oh. Darryl

26:45

is a cowboy. Meredith is Black

26:47

Widow. Angela is Nancy Reagan. The

26:50

senator is Ronald Reagan. Oscar

26:52

is a dinosaur, aka the

26:54

electoral college. Erin

26:57

is a puppy. Phyllis is a

26:59

cheerleader. Nellie is sexy Toby. Pete

27:01

Clarke and Toby didn't dress up. And

27:04

Creed murdered someone.

27:06

He just showed up. He didn't even know

27:09

it was Halloween. That worked out well. That

27:12

is one of my favorite bits. I

27:15

don't know why that is a funny joke. I don't

27:17

know which writer is responsible for that, but that's a

27:19

funny joke. Jim and Pam are now going to have

27:21

a joint talking head. We find out

27:23

there's a big investment meeting for the sports

27:25

marketing job. And this is why Jim didn't

27:28

dress up. Yes. And as if he was

27:30

going to dress up anyway. He wasn't going

27:32

to. There is a lot of sass

27:34

in this talking head from Pam. I mean, you

27:36

know, she kind of keeps going back to that

27:38

thing. Like, unless you told everyone but me, you

27:40

know, kind of like that thing. And

27:42

I thought, if Pam is saying this at

27:45

work, what kind of shiitake

27:47

is being said at home? She

27:50

is pissed. She is still pissed.

27:52

Pam is handling her feelings with

27:55

sarcasm and humor, but

27:57

I put that in quotes. Yeah.

28:00

I think it's more just like angry

28:03

sarcasm. Yes. All

28:05

right, everybody. George Michael is about

28:07

to arrive. Woo hoo.

28:09

Woo. Angela shares that the

28:11

senator will be joining them later. I loved it when Andy

28:14

was like, was that a question? She goes, no, it was

28:16

not. No, no. And then

28:18

Andy is going to introduce some

28:20

treble. Yeah. They

28:23

come into the bullpen singing, and I really

28:25

want you guys to hear it. Oh,

28:29

ladies and gentlemen, here comes treble.

28:32

I'm a man without

28:34

conviction. You come and

28:37

go. You

28:39

come and go. Come,

28:42

come, come, come, come, come in the

28:45

end. You come and go. You

28:49

come and go. Loving

28:52

will be easy if your colors relive my

28:54

dreams. Red, gold and

28:56

green. Red, gold

28:59

and green. Come

29:01

on. So my favorite

29:04

thing is when a cappella groups into

29:06

song with like a little button like

29:08

that. Come on, come on. Yeah. It's

29:11

like the best. Angela, we

29:13

got a fan question for you from

29:15

Daniel G in Quebec, Canada, who

29:18

said, my favorite Angela moment is

29:20

in this episode. You are also

29:22

his favorite character. Daniel, thank you.

29:25

Daniel said, please talk about the look

29:27

you give Oscar when he is singing

29:30

along to Karma Chameleon. It is so

29:32

funny. I saw it too. I

29:34

know. I was surprised it

29:37

made it in even when I saw

29:39

the episode. So here's the thing, Daniel,

29:41

that was not scripted. I just made

29:43

the choice to give Oscar a really

29:45

long, judgy look. And

29:48

at the time, I didn't even know the camera

29:50

operators caught it, and I didn't see it until

29:53

it aired and it cracked me up too. It

29:56

was perfect. I so loved it. I do

29:59

want to share. with you guys

30:01

about that Nancy Reagan wig. Oh

30:03

yeah. When they put it on, they

30:06

couldn't take it off for the whole day. So

30:08

I had that. Yeah. I had to tuck

30:10

so much hair up into a wig cap

30:12

and then there were all these bobby pins.

30:14

So basically they were like, Ang, you have

30:17

to be Nancy Reagan from the waist up

30:19

all day. I had the suit

30:21

on and under the jacket was this like

30:23

tank top that was part of the suit.

30:25

Mm-hmm. Which I couldn't get over my

30:27

head with the wig on. Mm-hmm. And

30:29

so it's 89 degrees out

30:32

and I have this wool vest sort of

30:34

tank top and my jeans and flip-flops and

30:36

that's how I walked around at lunch. But

30:39

this wig messed with everyone's brain. I would come around

30:41

the corner and be like, hey, and they'd be like,

30:43

oh my gosh, it's just freaked

30:46

everyone out. And one day for lunch my

30:48

daughter came to set and she was like,

30:50

no, no, no, no mama, no, no mama.

30:52

She was like, get rid of that wig.

30:54

But I couldn't take it off all day.

30:56

Yeah, I had to wear wigs

30:58

for walk hard and it was the same

31:00

thing. They do the little pin curls of

31:03

your hair to your head. They put on this

31:05

bald cap and then they stick it on you

31:07

and it takes a long time. Yeah, and then

31:09

you're in it. You're in it. You're in it.

31:11

And you're in whatever clothes you were in before

31:13

you got it on. Yeah. And you,

31:15

Jenna, in particular, this wig really tickled you.

31:17

You could barely look at me. I remember

31:20

I walked up to you just like on a

31:22

break eating a cheese stick and you're like, I

31:24

can't. I can't like look at you in that

31:26

wig. You're eating cheese. Well,

31:30

Andy's gonna go on to explain that these

31:32

guys are from the Cornell a cappella group.

31:34

Here comes trouble and they will be performing

31:37

for all of us at the Halloween party

31:39

today. Meredith would like to know a little

31:41

bit more about the sleeping arrangement. Oh, Meredith.

31:43

For all these guys while they're in town.

31:45

Stanley just says he's not interested. No, I'm

31:48

not interested in putting through there. Andy's

31:51

gonna have a talking head where he says, you

31:53

know what, he just realized he

31:56

just realized they might call him up to

31:58

sing his signature song Faith. Oh

32:00

my gosh, I'm dressed as George Michael

32:03

and they might call me up to sing Faye. Come

32:05

on, he's not prepared. Oh, he's not prepared at all.

32:07

He hasn't even really thought that through. Jim

32:09

is now going to leave for his big meeting and

32:12

he just double checks with Pam. He's still good that

32:14

I'm going to invest. And she's

32:17

like, yeah, right? Yeah. We got to do

32:19

this. We're going to do it. Let's

32:21

do it. So it's important for me to share with

32:23

everyone that this scene was scripted a little differently than

32:25

how it ended up in the episode.

32:28

And this is going to affect the storyline as

32:30

we go on. The scene

32:32

was originally scripted like this. Pam

32:35

says, it's almost noon. Don't

32:37

you need to go blow a hole in our

32:39

savings? There's a little of her

32:41

angry sarcasm. And

32:43

Jim says, that's right. I knew I was forgetting

32:45

to do something. And then he

32:48

pauses and he said, was that

32:50

an all in good fun thing or, and

32:53

Pam says, yes. And

32:55

then Jim says, you sure you're cool

32:57

with putting in 5,000. And

33:00

she says, yeah, I mean, if we're going to do this

33:02

thing, we should do it. And

33:05

Jim says, you're the best. And Pam

33:07

says, seriously, I am. It's crazy. So

33:10

I just want to say that in this

33:12

story, Pam said

33:14

that Jim could invest 5,000. Well,

33:17

it's what they agreed on. Yes,

33:20

they had a conversation. So

33:22

later in the episode, when

33:24

he puts in 10,000, that is, again, not what

33:27

they agreed on

33:29

when they talked at home. And that is why Pam

33:31

is going to get so mad. And

33:33

I think it's kind of a bummer that that little

33:36

tidbit got cut out. Right. Because

33:38

otherwise, it just seems like Pam is angry. Yeah,

33:41

that Jim did something that they agreed to.

33:43

Right. But the truth is, the way

33:45

it was originally written, he didn't. Right.

33:49

As Jim leaves, Dwight is going to hold

33:51

up a little box of Nerds candy. And

33:53

he's like, look, I'm eating a Jim.

33:56

Get it? Because it's a nerd.

33:58

Aaron finds this. Larry S.

34:01

Plus we. Had a fan

34:03

question from Nyc are in Peoria, Illinois

34:05

who said aaron loud last in this

34:07

scene seem to generate a genuine reactions

34:09

are both her and Dwight was it

34:12

scripted are left in as a happy

34:14

little accident. Either way it's so great.

34:17

Nick. It was scripted says Dwight says

34:19

Jim as a nerd this is a

34:21

box of gems and Aaron laughs and

34:23

then it says in all caps really

34:25

loud and covers her mouth and then

34:27

it says aaron keeps laughing, keeps laughing

34:30

until she has to run towards the

34:32

bathroom. While we also had a fair

34:34

question for Barbie in Wisconsin Qu said

34:36

when Dwight makes Aaron laughed so hard

34:38

she has to pee. Was this a

34:40

nod to the work? First episode when

34:43

Ellie as Aaron actually peed from last

34:45

six who Harper wondered that. Too.

34:47

I mean it is literally just happened.

34:50

This episode comes right after work. Yeah

34:52

as and we all had this collective

34:54

story. I feel like it must have.

34:56

I know. Well. Hell,

34:59

he was a good sport about all of

35:01

it, so no doubt she was like fine

35:03

with it. Will Dwight drops a bunch of

35:05

gyms on the ground he's picking them up

35:07

and while doing so, he signs a little

35:09

yellow kill. You. Know. He.

35:11

Has a talking head where he says. It's.

35:13

Duma Trill. It. Treats

35:16

anxiety symptoms. Such. As

35:18

panic attacks, excessive worrying and fear.

35:21

Translation. There's a madman in our

35:23

midst. This is not going to be

35:25

his story line for the rest the episode. He has got

35:27

to find out. Who's. Pill the

35:29

says he's gonna mom detective at yes

35:31

f way him a troll does not

35:33

exist. It's made out of the meta.

35:35

Yeah, We. Now see

35:38

Nellie! She is dressed as sexy Toby.

35:40

An. Damn, she shares on a talking

35:43

head of the anxiety pills hers. She's not

35:45

ashamed of it, but she doesn't love the

35:47

idea of Dwight having that information about her

35:49

since he wants yelled at Phyllis for sneezing

35:52

wrongs. Know. He agrees with Dwight

35:54

that you know that person who owns

35:56

the spell needs to be apprehended. So

35:58

Dwight as gonna go. Yeah.

36:02

And now he's got a partner

36:04

to help solve this mystery lady.

36:06

Do we need an apprehension kit

36:09

for mom? Detective. In. Case

36:11

we have to apprehend someone or if we

36:13

have to go on a stakeout like I

36:15

feel like it would all be in the

36:17

same Cassini's snacks and water. Flashlight Flashlights Good.

36:20

I think we should have the ones that

36:22

go on our head so that we can

36:24

be. Oh yes yes Headlamp. Headlamp. Snacks.

36:27

A blanket or be cold. Medicine.

36:32

Hurt less? Yes, yeah. Rather

36:34

than sneak up, let's go

36:37

when hot, Be like we

36:39

say, That.

36:42

We should get one of those things that

36:44

make things figure a magnifying glass. Of.

36:48

Yes And case we have to look

36:51

at tiny evidence. Yes! We'll

36:53

all be tiny for us for the

36:55

most part. Lady, I have another case

36:57

why it. In. Your neighborhood

36:59

In my neighborhood. K.

37:02

So I walk Maggie and

37:04

the neighborhood and someone keeps

37:06

taking. Their. Like.

37:09

Plastic water bottles or their

37:11

use of mean top. And.

37:14

They either like stick I'm in

37:16

some bushes, oh someone's bushes or

37:18

they put them on top of

37:21

the little library. Oh, so

37:23

it's just. That's. Not cool.

37:25

I now and I I want a

37:27

steak and out. Okay see if we

37:29

can figure out who's doing it with

37:31

multiple people. I don't get it. Now

37:34

and you don't I Just real I was.

37:36

I took a picture. Of it

37:38

in the bushes. I was gonna send it to

37:40

you. I took picture of it on top of

37:43

the library. One of them was a Starbucks cup.

37:45

that would be so easy. We can at least

37:47

get a first name. Oh good

37:49

point next time it happens Maybe at

37:51

me already solving the case and are

37:53

apprehension kit we could have like some

37:56

silly putty. What's. That for

37:58

raising kids you get out of single. Print

38:00

off with silly putty. Off of

38:02

the cop? Yeah, well. what do we do with it

38:04

after we get it? Who's running. That figure, scripts.

38:07

School. Senior suplicy

38:09

your friend to I mean good idea

38:11

but now where do we go and

38:13

battle both? Still early help of. Listen.

38:16

We'll figure it out. Will figure it out. And

38:19

when we see the person we're just going,

38:21

we have the medicine. We have the megaphone

38:23

to be like stop leaving your trash. In

38:26

the Bush says. Yeah. By.

38:28

The way I want to say this is coming

38:30

full circle. maybe will hide in the bushes and

38:32

pop out of i'm will be bush siders again.

38:34

For his sister's right. Oh

38:36

you know what would be so great

38:38

was when they put though water bottle

38:41

in the bus a hand just came

38:43

out. yes and what is a throw

38:45

it back out on her back Yes.

38:48

Or it. I think we have a plan. Well, We.

38:50

Have something. For

38:52

lady, if we ever have some extra time

38:54

and we want to take that case, I

38:57

already have some photographic evidence for us. So

38:59

okay step one. Done. To

39:02

say. Let's

39:04

take a break and when we come

39:06

back we're going to find out how

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41:30

are back. Andy is going to go

41:32

join. Here comes trouble hanging out in

41:34

the break room. Before Andy

41:36

is hanging out in the break room, I wanted

41:39

to share with you guys some of these college

41:41

acapella names I found. They

41:43

all have puns. There

41:45

are hundreds. I'm just going to share a few. Ready?

41:49

Yes. Pitch slapped. Okay, get

41:51

it. At Berkeley College of Music. Ransom

41:55

notes. University

41:57

of Chicago. Alfred

42:02

University. Certainly,

42:04

tempos. Brandeis

42:07

University. Note:

42:09

Worthy. Brigham. Young

42:11

University. So. Dot

42:14

Caves. Get. It

42:16

octaves but they're said Octavian

42:18

University of Florida. Inter.

42:21

Chorus: Oh I know

42:23

Ray St. Mary's College

42:25

of Maryland. Treble.

42:27

Threat. University.

42:29

Of San Diego. So upon

42:32

is like a prerequisite to

42:34

seeing an archipelago. His name

42:36

not necessarily, but it is

42:38

definitely very popular. Well I

42:40

got curious what is the

42:42

oldest or capella group. What?

42:45

Is it? According to wikipedia,

42:47

Peter. Let can the dean of

42:50

Northwestern University School of Music founded

42:52

the Northwestern Up A pill Acquire

42:54

in nineteen o six. And.

42:56

It is considered the first permanent

42:58

or capella group of it's kind

43:00

in America. However,

43:04

The continuously longest running group is

43:06

thought to be the With and

43:08

Poof of Yale which formed and

43:10

ninety know nine. I'm

43:12

telling you, the names are fascinating no

43:14

pun and with and poof now. And.

43:17

He's going have a talking head and

43:19

he's gonna say you know, I know

43:21

it's pathetic to relive your college years,

43:23

but I was a frickin' rock star

43:25

in college. Yeah, when I joined here

43:27

Comes trouble. When. He got the

43:29

name Boehner Champ. That's when he

43:31

became himself. Yeah, yeah. And

43:33

he's going to ask for your comes trouble guys

43:35

if they wanna you know due to and

43:37

a low question and answer. It's

43:39

a pure and very quickly. That.

43:42

They don't even realize he was in

43:44

the group. Broccoli Rob is rewriting history.

43:47

Didn't. Even know he was the Boehner

43:49

champ. Any is so ticked

43:51

off. During storms out of the room.

43:54

When. He realizes that they didn't

43:56

know he was the boehner

43:58

champ I loved as. So

44:00

much. That is so

44:02

good in this whole episode. So good. I

44:05

did want to point out, did anyone

44:08

else out there catch how squeaky Andy's

44:10

jacket is? Yeah. In

44:13

every scene it makes noise. Oh my

44:15

gosh, the sound department must have been

44:17

dying. So I'll have

44:19

you know a few of the guys

44:21

speak. But there was

44:24

one member of this Here Comes Treble

44:26

acapella group who was not a member

44:28

of the hullabahoos. That's right. And

44:30

this was actor Daniel Ammerman. They

44:33

did feel it was important that we cast an

44:35

actor from this group who would kind of

44:37

have maybe the bulk of the lines. We'll

44:39

see him again in the conference room. And

44:42

he's done a ton of stuff. He had

44:44

a big recurring role on Arrested Development. He

44:46

can also sing. He had a guest star

44:49

role on Glee. And he

44:51

just had to show up. He was the one

44:53

member of this group and he had to rehearse

44:55

with them and sing along with them and just

44:57

sort of became an honorary hullabahu for the week.

44:59

Well, I will let you know on the call

45:02

sheets they were having daily rehearsals over in the

45:04

warehouse. I remember that. I

45:06

went over to the warehouse to watch them

45:08

rehearse. Yeah. Well, Andy

45:11

is going to video call Broccoli Rob.

45:13

Yeah. He wants to get to the

45:15

bottom of this boner champ thing. Yeah. And

45:18

Broccoli Rob is gaslighting him appropriately. And

45:20

he's like, I just don't know how

45:22

that could have happened. Yeah. I don't

45:24

know. The coolers were flowing. Yeah. I

45:26

was just talking about the old days.

45:28

Well, Andy says, I would like you

45:30

to call the guys and set the

45:32

record straight. It's very important. Broccoli

45:35

Rob says, sure. I'd be happy to do that.

45:37

Meanwhile, Pete is standing with his

45:39

coworkers. He's the only person not in

45:42

costume. He tells Creed,

45:44

I didn't realize that everyone dressed up.

45:47

Creed splattered in blood says, I didn't

45:49

either. Yeah. I

45:52

looked in the shooting draft for what it said about

45:54

Creed's costume. It just says this, Creed

45:56

is dressed normally, but covered in blood. Yeah.

45:59

Creed. as a talking head he said it's Halloween wow

46:02

that's really good timing yeah I mean

46:04

was he gonna come to work like that I know

46:06

never explain I know next up is a scene

46:13

where Jim is gonna cause

46:16

some problems in this marriage yeah

46:18

he is he's just gonna go all

46:20

in he's gonna offer the full 10k

46:22

they welcome him aboard I would

46:24

like to shout out one of the

46:27

athlete investors Sam Richardson Sam yes

46:29

yes he ends up doing a

46:31

big arc on the show we're gonna see

46:33

him for six episodes that's right he plays

46:36

Colin Jim's buddy Sam is

46:38

so funny you guys I was

46:40

lucky enough to work with him and a

46:42

little indie movie about girls softball called all

46:45

stars but he's been in two

46:47

of my favorite shows VEEP

46:49

and the after party Ted Lasso

46:52

oh yes okay well we were really

46:54

lucky to have Sam and I'm so excited that

46:56

his character is gonna come back for a few

46:58

more episodes and I want to reach out to

47:00

him I want to hear about his time on

47:03

the show I would love that Sam get ready

47:05

one thing I think we should point out during

47:07

this meeting is that the investors tell Jim they

47:09

have all the money they need yeah

47:12

we don't need your investment and he's like

47:14

but maybe I want to invest I

47:16

feel like Jim is so worried that

47:19

he's gonna get left out of his

47:21

own idea that he's just like I

47:23

got to make sure that I'm fully

47:25

equal here yeah and

47:27

he starts by floating 5,000

47:31

maybe 10 because 5,000

47:33

is what he and Pam had talked about

47:35

yes so I just want you to

47:38

know that this little story beat was a pitch of mine I

47:40

found my old pitch notes

47:42

my emails to everybody and I had

47:44

written that when Jim shows up to

47:47

lunch that the guys should say you

47:49

don't have to put any money in

47:51

blah blah blah but then Jim showboats

47:54

and invest more than they agreed on

47:56

he invests 10,000 Well I

47:58

like it I thought it. So sort of

48:00

how desperate gym is to make this happen.

48:03

Now and White are still on the case of

48:06

the search for this anxiety pill. Owner: They.

48:08

Fine Darryl in the kitchen and I

48:10

guess Dwight is gonna smears his whole

48:13

face with peanut butter. And if this

48:15

seems like normal, Appropriate behavior to

48:17

Daryl than he's gonna be the person with

48:19

the pill. Player sent as

48:21

a very sunny photo. From.

48:23

On sat behind the scenes body as of rain

48:25

with all of the peanut butter on his face.

48:27

It was so much. He. Was a

48:29

lot A lot. So. Now and

48:32

he's gonna go back. He's gonna revisit the

48:34

ah capella guys. And guess what

48:36

Broccoli Rob did set the record

48:38

straight. Yeah, But. Andy as like.

48:41

You. Probably wanna know how I that's the

48:43

name Boehner champ play again Dying to

48:45

know you want me to tell you

48:48

Springsteen Ninety Five We got completely ripped

48:50

on but dries. I had sex

48:52

with a snowman. Size.

48:55

The. Room term success. The room

48:57

at turns Andy is so

48:59

proved as memory. I

49:02

did look it up according to the internet.

49:04

voted to look up. Well. I

49:06

was just curious about how. A

49:08

man's business might work is is that called.

49:11

What? You find out. It

49:14

says this, the body tries to preserve he

49:16

in energy by funneling blood flow to vital

49:18

organs in the middle of the body. Getting.

49:21

Erections is also more challenging

49:23

as the code desensitized the

49:25

subpoenas, which becomes less responsive

49:27

to simulation. Cold. Weather can

49:29

even cause men to take longer to get an

49:31

orgasm. So. This is really impressive. That

49:33

and he was able to do that. I

49:36

guess. I guess that's why he's so proud.

49:38

Yeah, Well. If you thought

49:40

that this story line was crazy. Writer

49:43

Oh and Alex and had a

49:45

different pitch for this episode that

49:47

is even more crazy than. Than

49:50

Boehner Champ and the Snowman yeah was

49:52

oh and was quoted And Andy Green

49:54

spoke about the office saying that early

49:57

in the pitches for this episode it

49:59

was. Going to be and he was

50:01

gonna host his here Comes Trouble alumni So

50:04

all the guys like Broccoli Rob was gonna

50:06

actually her i'm into the on the road

50:08

and that they were gonna saying and all

50:10

of that sort of thing and that they

50:13

would start talking about you know the good

50:15

old days back in school and the guys

50:17

we're gonna talk about one of the members

50:20

who had died. In. The Group

50:22

and it was gonna slowly become

50:24

clear to Andy that the guys

50:27

in the group including himself had

50:29

actually kill to this other member

50:31

and they had covered it up

50:34

all these years. Basically.

50:36

That and he was part of like a

50:38

murder silence past. Oh my god

50:40

see know it as a was also because

50:42

it was a Halloween theme episode right right

50:45

there was gonna be this murder thing and

50:47

it was can realize oh and said he

50:49

was really just trying to find a way

50:51

to differentiate Andy from Michael and he was

50:54

like well that's something Michael's never done you

50:56

know Michael never killed a guy and covered

50:58

up a murder and then oh and said

51:00

we obviously have this idea. What?

51:03

With holsters. And

51:06

years later it became Yellow Jacket.

51:08

Yes exactly. Angeles

51:11

Now Gonna bring the Senator and he

51:13

is wearing a Ronald Reagan mask. And.

51:16

She reintroduces him to Oscar and then

51:18

sees that the food table is all

51:20

messed up. The deserts are more they're

51:22

supposed to be. Elites are with the

51:24

safe right now and she is so

51:26

ticked off at fellas and she's like

51:28

i'm sorry I could have to say.

51:32

Well. The scene was longer. Angela

51:34

find solace. They. Have it

51:36

out. But all in the background to

51:38

sender and Oscar of flirting. I

51:40

want you to hear the scene. Brownies

51:43

and ginger snaps on the same

51:45

place? Where was the logic there?

51:47

What was going through your mind

51:49

to such as the party and

51:51

people will be too much about

51:53

ridiculous. he had to see what happens

51:55

when i give you a long list but you are not

51:57

getting within a mile of the snacks table for the system

51:59

for the cia I feel bad about

52:01

this. Good. Maybe the

52:03

cupcakes with the ginger snacks? No, nothing

52:06

should be with the ginger snacks. Ginger

52:08

snacks are off-putting to some people. What's

52:10

your favorite? Maybe you shouldn't

52:12

be in charge of arranging the snacks. Don't

52:16

go there, sweetie. Don't you go there. Do

52:18

your job. Phyllis

52:21

goes, don't you go there, sweetie. And

52:23

then under her breath, Angela says, do your

52:26

job. It

52:28

is so layered with tension. And

52:30

you know what? If you get

52:32

a sweetie out of Phyllis, get

52:34

ready. She's about to throw down. Erin

52:37

is trying to make Andy feel

52:39

better about the group, not

52:42

really maybe being super excited about his

52:44

Boner Champs story. Erin

52:46

is like, what is wrong with these turkeys?

52:49

Yeah, she marches into the break room and

52:51

says, hey, you have to sing

52:53

Faith. Learn it. Yeah, just do

52:55

it. And the guy

52:57

is like, but, but she goes, butts are for pooping.

53:00

Make it work and

53:02

make it a surprise. Meanwhile,

53:04

Dwight and Nellie are camped out in the

53:06

kitchen. The pill is on a plate on

53:08

the counter and they're doing a stakeout, lady.

53:11

I know. Toby is going to enter the

53:14

stakeout and he

53:16

sees Nellie in her costume and he

53:18

recognizes himself. He seems very

53:21

transfixed. I was curious what the shooting

53:23

draft had to say about this moment. So I looked it up.

53:25

What does it say? Per

53:28

the shooting draft, it says, Toby

53:31

enters. Nellie nods at

53:33

him. Toby looks at

53:36

her with embarrassment, then anger,

53:38

then lust. He briefly

53:40

moves towards her as if to kiss

53:43

her, then hurries out. Hmm.

53:46

It's a lot happening in that moment. Yeah. A

53:50

lot of, I guess, self-loathing and

53:52

then self-love from Toby. Yeah. I

53:55

thought it was weird. I know.

53:58

I did too. I didn't. I didn't

54:00

get it. I didn't get it. Guess who's

54:02

going to come in and try to claim that pill? Meredith.

54:05

She sees it as a free upper. Dwight

54:08

is going to net her. He gets

54:11

out a giant net. Is this something we need

54:13

for our stakeout bag? I

54:15

guess so. What could you imagine if we

54:17

netted the guy who's... Or a raccoon. You

54:20

think a raccoon is putting the bottles in the

54:22

bushes? No, but if we go digging in the

54:25

bushes, we're going to find a varmint. A

54:27

varmint. That's what my mom says. She'll

54:30

be like, there's varmints out there. It

54:33

is a thick bush. Oh, Lord. There

54:35

are so many in this episode, I can't even...

54:37

That's what she said, all of them. Kate

54:40

has one of her famous lines in this

54:42

episode where she says to Dwight, stop bagging

54:45

my head. Yes. This

54:47

is the second time he's bagged her. He had

54:49

to bag her when she had the bat on

54:51

her head and now he's bagging her again. Listen

54:54

to you, lady. Listen, I know what you're

54:56

doing. I'm not doing anything. That's a callback

54:58

to a previous episode. Yes. I

55:02

think it's time for a get to know your cast and

55:04

crew thanks to the call sheet. Who are we going to

55:06

learn about today? Nick Carbone. Hey,

55:08

Nick Carbone, my favorite boom

55:10

operator of all boom operators.

55:12

That's right. It

55:14

says Nick loves music. In

55:19

parentheses, like you didn't know that. His

55:21

love of music came from his father who took

55:23

him to a Janice Joplin concert when he was

55:26

eight years old. The house that

55:28

he grew up in is next door to

55:30

where Ben currently lives. Ben our sound designer.

55:33

This is how they met. One of his

55:35

first shows was the classic Golden Girls and

55:37

that's where he met Kintz Sabornak. Wow.

55:41

There you go. Well now

55:43

we're in the conference room and everyone is

55:45

seated. They are ready for this acapella concert.

55:48

We did get a fan catch from Allison

55:50

H. in Louisville, Kentucky who said, did

55:53

they really clear out all of the conference

55:55

room chairs for the party and then move

55:57

all the food out and put all the chairs back

55:59

to the party? in for the acapella concert. This

56:02

would really be a great opportunity for the B-roll

56:04

we never see of people moving the tables and

56:06

chairs in and out of the conference room. Allison,

56:08

you were reading from my personal journal because

56:11

I wrote, gonna play a bullsh** card here.

56:13

Where's all the table of desserts? Where did

56:15

it all go? Who moved it? This

56:19

is when Jim is gonna get back from his

56:21

lunch. He's gonna have a seat next to Pam.

56:23

Pam wants to know how to go, how to

56:25

go. He just very quickly is able to say

56:27

that he pledged the full 10,000. Yeah.

56:29

You know, he says they said they were

56:32

good on investing, but you know, he still

56:34

went all in. Pam is having an

56:36

out of body experience. She's like, wait, what?

56:40

What? $10,000? And they did like,

56:42

she's processing all of it. Yeah.

56:44

Right as the acapella group starts

56:46

to sink, and she's

56:48

being serenaded and pulled into the

56:50

circle. They roll her chair while

56:53

Jim and Pam are having this fight. I thought we

56:55

should hear it. Ah,

57:32

this is a really big fight. And

57:34

it's playing out underneath this acapella song,

57:37

but you hear PMC. Wait, that's

57:40

all of her savings. First of all, I

57:42

want to say I'm very impressed that as

57:45

a newly married couple with two

57:47

young children, that they

57:49

have saved $10,000. Well

57:52

done, guys. They clearly, you know,

57:54

been working at that. This is something,

57:57

you know, that doesn't happen by itself.

57:59

And so now It's all gone gone.

58:02

This scene was so much fun to shoot. I Absolutely

58:05

loved being serenaded. It was

58:07

very hard for me to stay angry This

58:09

is very similar to early in the

58:11

show when I'm being serenaded by Andy

58:13

on the banjo But I'm like, I'm

58:16

annoyed. Yeah when I love the banjo

58:18

So this was very funny. Well,

58:21

Nick Caffaro shared about this moment and singing

58:23

to you Here's what he had to say

58:26

One of the scenes that we did

58:28

my biggest scene was I had to

58:30

sing I'll be to Jenna and The

58:33

first thing was the conference room was so

58:35

small. It was so tiny I'm gonna use

58:37

to seen it on TV and I thought

58:39

it was huge But to be

58:41

in there with all of you staring at

58:43

me was terrifying You were like

58:45

literally and I'm not just again not just

58:47

saying this cuz I'm here you were all

58:49

my favorite act This was my favorite show

58:51

and you're all staring at me. I was

58:53

so scared I remember I was on

58:56

my knees singing to you I'll be your crying

58:58

and at the end of it They asked me

59:00

to kiss your hand and I was so nervous

59:02

that actually if you go back and watch the

59:04

episode you'll see I didn't actually kiss your hand.

59:06

I missed your hand and kissed my thumb Which

59:10

I get made fun of for a lot. There's

59:12

also a part in that scene and

59:15

this made the final cut Where we

59:17

did that scene about 20 times?

59:20

Because I remember them saying this is the

59:23

first time Jim and Pam had actually gotten

59:25

to a fight on camera So it was

59:27

like a big deal and the writers were

59:29

extremely particular about how the fight should sound

59:31

So they ended up like rewriting it on

59:33

the spot several different times He did several

59:35

different versions which meant I had

59:38

to keep singing that song which wasn't

59:40

great for my voice and probably became

59:42

Progressively worse and worse as we went

59:44

but for the very last take I remember we had

59:46

done it so many times And I was just like you

59:48

know what screw it and I was

59:50

singing to you And you were arguing with Jim

59:52

while I was singing so I took my finger

59:54

my index finger and put it towards your mouth

59:56

The shush you and you

59:58

broke you laughed But it was

1:00:00

so funny. We were all laughing. I'll never forget

1:00:03

that moment. It was the best of my life

1:00:05

and um, You said that was

1:00:07

so brilliant and luckily it made the cut

1:00:09

you see in the in the video me

1:00:11

raising my finger to Shush you but yeah,

1:00:14

that was so fun and that's something i'll

1:00:16

never forget So

1:00:18

lady, I remember when he did that I

1:00:20

remember when he put his finger up to

1:00:22

my face to shush me I can't believe

1:00:24

we had enough footage To keep it in

1:00:27

the episode because I felt like I immediately

1:00:29

broke because I thought that was so funny

1:00:32

But the whole thing was like

1:00:34

he was so earnestly sweetly singing

1:00:36

right Yeah, it was

1:00:38

hard to keep a straight face the whole time You

1:00:41

know after we filmed this conference room scene Nick

1:00:43

shared that he had a very interesting encounter

1:00:46

with rain wilson. Yeah, he sent in an

1:00:48

audio clip about it I want you to

1:00:50

hear it because um Rain

1:00:52

was not the kramachin. We know him to be

1:00:55

he was the other part of rain He

1:00:58

was and he changed nick's life. He did.

1:01:00

Here's the clip Another

1:01:02

moment i'll i'll never forget and actually had

1:01:04

a huge impact on my life and my

1:01:06

life trajectory. Um Was

1:01:09

after the conference room scene or during

1:01:11

the conference room scene in between takes

1:01:14

Rain wilson was sitting right next to where

1:01:16

the me and my acapella group were standing

1:01:19

and he Started a

1:01:21

conversation and he said hey, so are you guys actors?

1:01:24

And we were like no we're we're from

1:01:26

university of virginia. We're just here, you know

1:01:29

to play the acapella group We're acapella group

1:01:31

singers And he pointed to me

1:01:33

and he said you should be an actor You

1:01:35

should you should consider doing this And

1:01:38

this was after I had a scene with a few

1:01:41

lines and and saying and I was

1:01:43

like so star-strucked and taken aback by that

1:01:46

but it really meant a lot to me

1:01:48

and Truly

1:01:50

is one of the reasons I decided to

1:01:54

Move out to los angeles after

1:01:56

I graduated and to pursue this

1:01:58

career. So thank you

1:02:00

to Rainn Wilson for saying that

1:02:02

to me and for giving me a vote of

1:02:04

confidence and you've really had a big impact on

1:02:06

my life and I hope that I

1:02:08

get to meet him again one day so I can thank

1:02:10

him in person because it really meant a lot to

1:02:12

me. So there you

1:02:15

go, Nick had his Molly Shannon moment with

1:02:17

Rain. Oh yes, this is your Molly Shannon

1:02:19

moment where she told you to stick with

1:02:21

it. Yes, I met her right when I

1:02:23

first got to LA. And

1:02:26

so Nick took Rainn's advice. He

1:02:28

moved to LA, he's been

1:02:30

in a bunch of commercials, he's been on Blackish and

1:02:32

911 and he is currently

1:02:34

in the Sunday company at Groundlings. He's

1:02:37

also teamed up with Halsted again and

1:02:39

Claire again on different projects. He's now

1:02:41

a working actor, this is so crazy.

1:02:44

All from this random email

1:02:46

that he got one day he was

1:02:48

in college. You know,

1:02:50

Nixon and one last clip for us,

1:02:52

you guys, and it's about, well,

1:02:54

it's about things you learn on set. And

1:02:57

one of the guys in the acapella group

1:02:59

learned that, well,

1:03:01

he didn't understand how the toilet works

1:03:04

in the trailer that they were

1:03:06

using. And

1:03:08

I think for anyone coming to LA who wants to

1:03:10

be an actor, this is

1:03:12

an important lesson to learn, let's hear it. Okay,

1:03:15

so this story is one that you would

1:03:17

probably never share, but I have to tell

1:03:20

you because it's just too outrageous to not.

1:03:23

When we were there, there were eight of us,

1:03:25

and so we all got trailers on set and

1:03:27

we shared them with each other, at least little

1:03:29

honey wagons. There were two per

1:03:31

each trailer. And the trailers are small, they

1:03:34

have like a little couch and, you know,

1:03:36

a little closet to put your costumes in

1:03:38

and a tiny little bathroom. And

1:03:40

I remember I shared my

1:03:43

trailer with one of my fellow acapella

1:03:45

group members whose name I will not

1:03:47

mention for reasons that will soon become

1:03:49

obvious. And I remember he was

1:03:51

in the trailer, I was going to go get

1:03:54

fitted. When my fitting was done, I came back

1:03:56

to walk up the stairs to our trailer. And

1:03:58

as I did, he burst through the trailer. door

1:04:00

carrying a giant wad

1:04:03

of paper towels and kind of like rushing

1:04:05

down the stairs past me. And

1:04:07

I was like, okay, that's strange. And he went and

1:04:09

threw him in a trash can. I was like, okay,

1:04:12

cool. That was a lot of paper towels. I get back

1:04:14

in the trailer, I'm sitting there, he comes in, and I'm

1:04:17

like, Oh, it smells off in here. Did

1:04:20

you like, you know, pass gas or

1:04:22

use the bathroom? And he's like, No, no, no,

1:04:24

no. I was like, Dude, are you sure it

1:04:26

like it smells like somebody

1:04:28

went to the bathroom and took a poop?

1:04:30

And I was like, Are you sure? He's like, Okay,

1:04:33

yes, I did. I used went to

1:04:35

the bathroom in the toilet and I, it

1:04:37

doesn't work. It doesn't flush. So I

1:04:40

had to take all the paper towels and and

1:04:42

pick it up and throw it out in the

1:04:44

trash. And I was like,

1:04:46

Oh, my God. Are you

1:04:48

kidding me? It turned out the

1:04:50

toilet was one of the ones that had

1:04:52

a foot pedal. There's a pedal underneath the

1:04:54

toilet that you push down with your

1:04:56

foot and it flushes. And he didn't know that and couldn't

1:04:58

find that he just thought it was a broken

1:05:00

toilet. So he panicked, wrapped his

1:05:03

hands in paper towels, and picked

1:05:05

up his own mess ran it

1:05:07

through the door and threw it

1:05:09

away in a trash can. I

1:05:13

was mortified to hear this. I

1:05:16

have never heard of more unhinged

1:05:18

behavior. I was like,

1:05:20

dude, it's just a foot pedal. You

1:05:22

have ruined Dunder Mifflin. This

1:05:25

is so yeah, to

1:05:28

anybody who emptied the trash over

1:05:30

there. I apologize on his

1:05:33

behalf. Yeah, I know that's disgusting. But I

1:05:35

mean, it's just so outrageous. You can't make that stuff

1:05:37

up. I had to share it. Sorry. Here's

1:05:41

my question. After hearing that story. What

1:05:44

is that guy's nickname now? Oh,

1:05:46

my God. What is his nickname? Oh,

1:05:48

full. I don't know. I

1:05:52

do have to say this is something

1:05:54

that I struggled with the first time

1:05:56

I was in a trailer. It is

1:05:58

a very long time. to figure out how to

1:06:00

flush the toilet. Yes. I

1:06:02

should maybe put this in my book. Next

1:06:05

book. Yeah, my acting advice book. Sometimes

1:06:08

toilets have a foot pedal. Look for the foot. Don't

1:06:11

panic. Don't panic. Because you're already

1:06:13

a little panicked just because you're there. Yeah.

1:06:16

And I, you know, you should know how to flush

1:06:18

your toilet. Well, Nick, thank you

1:06:20

so much for sharing all of your

1:06:22

stories with us. Guys, you can follow

1:06:24

Nick over on Instagram at nkafero. Nice-us-guy.

1:06:26

Thank you so much. Yes, Nick. So

1:06:29

fun. Well, there's a time cut now

1:06:31

in the conference room. It's a little bit later.

1:06:34

The acapella group is still singing. They're

1:06:36

singing the song Car Wash. Clark

1:06:38

is really into it. The Senator nods

1:06:41

to Oscar. Looks like they're going to maybe go

1:06:43

find a place to meet up. Mm-hmm.

1:06:45

Now the acapella guys are going

1:06:47

to say, we've got a special

1:06:49

treat for you. They

1:06:51

start singing Andy's signature song, Faith.

1:06:55

He pops up. He's shaking his tush.

1:06:58

The guest who appears on the television behind them,

1:07:01

Broccoli Rob. And he's singing it

1:07:03

too. Yeah. And

1:07:06

Andy's like, what the hell? And they're like, well,

1:07:08

this is Broccoli Rob's signature song. We thought you

1:07:10

wanted to hear it. This is too much for

1:07:13

Andy. First of all, Broccoli

1:07:15

Rob took Bonerchamp from him and now

1:07:17

his signature song? Mm-hmm. We

1:07:19

got a fan question from Sophie H. in England who said,

1:07:21

please tell us how much you had to pay for all

1:07:23

of the songs. Sophie, Steve Burgess

1:07:26

said, our music people did a lot

1:07:28

of negotiating for these songs. I bet.

1:07:31

Faith was the most expensive. We paid $30,000 for

1:07:33

Faith. All

1:07:35

of the other songs were negotiated for $20,000 and Car

1:07:37

Wash was free. Oh.

1:07:41

You know, Claire said that when she was

1:07:44

prepping this episode, the most difficult part was

1:07:46

prepping all these songs. Like you said, Angela,

1:07:48

they did a ton of rehearsal. But

1:07:50

she said, in particular, any time people

1:07:53

were singing and there was dialogue,

1:07:55

it was really tricky because they

1:07:58

had to be able to... yet all

1:08:00

of it and it gets really hard to cut. To

1:08:03

edit around that. Yeah, Jim and I weren't

1:08:05

always fighting or saying our lines at the

1:08:08

exact same time as other takes. It's hard

1:08:10

to do. So she said as

1:08:12

a director, that was probably the most

1:08:14

challenging part about shooting this episode. Well,

1:08:16

we got a fan question from Cecia

1:08:19

Z in London, Ontario, Canada. Cecia

1:08:21

says, when here comes trouble starts

1:08:23

singing faith and broccoli Rob comes

1:08:25

in singing, he doesn't stop singing

1:08:28

even when Andy stops the group. It

1:08:31

made it seem like it was a recording of

1:08:33

broccoli Rob, but in the next scene, Andy

1:08:35

is having a whole conversation with him like

1:08:37

it's a video chat. I see

1:08:39

the camera, but I'm wondering if there was

1:08:42

a missing scene that explained this transition. Well,

1:08:45

there was some missing dialogue that would have explained

1:08:47

it. Per the

1:08:49

script, Rob finally stopped singing. And

1:08:52

then he says, oh, I had

1:08:54

the audio off on my end fellas, but it felt like

1:08:56

I hit that one out of the park. Right.

1:09:00

Yes. But great catch, Cecia.

1:09:02

Well, like you said, Andy is gonna

1:09:04

confront broccoli Rob now. Yeah.

1:09:07

And what is up with broccoli Rob's

1:09:09

apartment? I mean,

1:09:11

he says he still lives close to campus.

1:09:13

Does he live in a dorm room? I'm

1:09:15

very confused. What has happened to broccoli Rob?

1:09:18

Oh, you know what? I bet he's like

1:09:20

the RA. Maybe, I don't know.

1:09:22

It was like he just, he looks like he's

1:09:24

living in a frat house or something maybe. He

1:09:27

has just like a leather couch. It's

1:09:29

not filled out in any way. It looks like

1:09:32

a lamp is sitting on the floor. It's

1:09:35

very, very college looking is what

1:09:37

I'll say. Their fight

1:09:39

escalates to this crazy challenge

1:09:41

where they're gonna have a sing off

1:09:44

for the rights to the song, faith.

1:09:46

And Erin has had enough. She just

1:09:49

unplugs the TV because the guys are just yelling

1:09:51

at each other. Andy and Erin then have a

1:09:53

big talk in the conference room and Erin

1:09:56

is losing respect for Andy and all of

1:09:58

this. She's like, this is crazy. kind of

1:10:00

ridiculous, right? Well, yeah, she had a talking

1:10:02

head earlier where she's like, you

1:10:04

know, when you're with someone, you just have to

1:10:07

put up with the stuff that makes you lose

1:10:09

respect for them. That's love. Yeah.

1:10:11

Andy is now going to suggest that maybe,

1:10:13

you know, just maybe if he were closer

1:10:15

to Cornell, sharing

1:10:17

his stories, he'd be the one all the guys

1:10:20

remember. You know what? Oh my God, maybe they

1:10:22

should move there. And Aaron's like, whoa, whoa,

1:10:24

whoa, whoa, whoa. But then he has another

1:10:26

idea. I know. What

1:10:29

if I made a

1:10:31

big donation from the Bernard Family

1:10:33

Foundation? To the acapella group. Yes.

1:10:35

Yeah. That's it. He would get

1:10:37

the respect he deserves. Because, and

1:10:40

I quote, if I'm not Bonerchamp, I don't

1:10:42

know who I am. Yeah. Now

1:10:45

at front reception, a group has gathered.

1:10:47

They're eating some candy. They're chatting about

1:10:49

the concert. Kevin really likes it.

1:10:52

Angela said, you know what? They lost me

1:10:54

when they sang Monster Mash. It

1:10:56

just glorifies the occult. And Jim's like,

1:10:58

hey, you know what, Angela? Relax. It's

1:11:00

Halloween. It's a Halloween song. They

1:11:02

have to sing it. They have to. And

1:11:04

Pam is like, oh, they have to? They

1:11:07

have to, Jim. Oh, he should have

1:11:09

never said have to. That was

1:11:12

it. That's right. What would happen

1:11:14

if they didn't sing it, Jim? Would someone

1:11:16

go to jail? Would they be shot? I'm

1:11:19

generally interested in knowing. Your definition

1:11:21

of have to is basically what

1:11:23

she's saying. One of the funniest

1:11:25

things during the scene to me is

1:11:27

Brian is Kevin. His performance, he looks

1:11:30

at you. He's trying to sort out

1:11:32

Pam's rationale in this argument.

1:11:34

And then he looks at Jim, and he's

1:11:36

just going, huh? I'll

1:11:39

have you know that as producer, I

1:11:41

would get scripts very early. And

1:11:44

when I read this Monster Mash

1:11:46

scene, I was unsure

1:11:48

about it. I turned in

1:11:50

my notes. And I said, I

1:11:53

really felt like Jim

1:11:55

and Pam should have like a

1:11:57

spy shot real fight.

1:12:00

about this. I didn't think

1:12:02

it should be played comedically. This

1:12:04

was my note. I'm gonna say

1:12:06

I stand corrected. I really like this scene.

1:12:09

I love how it came out. But

1:12:11

I had sent back in my notes

1:12:13

a whole pitch for what I thought

1:12:15

the dialogue should have been between Jim

1:12:17

and Pam. In terms of

1:12:20

this argument, I clearly was writing

1:12:22

for a drama, but here's how I thought it

1:12:24

should have played out. I wanted

1:12:27

them to find us in the middle of a

1:12:29

fight in a spy shot, and here's how it

1:12:31

would have gone. Jim would say,

1:12:33

you have to let me make judgment calls.

1:12:35

This is a new business. You weren't in

1:12:37

the room. I really felt like in order

1:12:40

to be taken seriously, I had to invest.

1:12:42

You can't micromanage this, Pam. And

1:12:44

then Pam would have said, I'm not telling

1:12:46

you what office to get or what clients

1:12:48

to take, but I must get a say

1:12:51

in what happens with our money. If

1:12:53

it's about our family, I have a

1:12:55

say. And Jim said, exactly.

1:12:58

And you agreed we could invest.

1:13:02

And Pam would have said, that's when

1:13:04

I thought we had to invest. And

1:13:06

Jim said, you're acting like I'm doing this

1:13:08

for something other than our family. That's the

1:13:11

whole point. And Pam would have said, really?

1:13:13

Because part of me feels like you're just

1:13:15

doing it for you. Well,

1:13:18

that's a real fight. I know. That's

1:13:21

like taken out of almost every marriage

1:13:24

fight out there, versions of that. And

1:13:26

I put in parentheses in my notes, maybe

1:13:29

that last part is too far and better

1:13:31

saved for later in the season. But

1:13:33

I still want it to happen. But

1:13:36

you know, what I was going for

1:13:38

was I wanted to get into the

1:13:40

nitty gritty of this situation. I wanted

1:13:42

Jim to stand up for himself a

1:13:44

little bit. Because in the way that

1:13:46

this is happening, I can tell

1:13:48

you right now, I could never be

1:13:50

married to Jim. The hemming in

1:13:52

the highing, the wishy washy and

1:13:54

then the big swings into impulsive

1:13:56

behavior. This would drive me absolutely

1:13:59

not. Like, I couldn't

1:14:01

handle it. And so I think that,

1:14:04

you know, I wanted to handle

1:14:06

it, how Jenna would handle it. Right, not

1:14:08

how Pam... Luckily, there was a

1:14:10

room full of writers who made sure that

1:14:12

Pam handled it, how Pam would handle it.

1:14:17

Well, Claire shared with us

1:14:19

that this scene leads to

1:14:21

one of her favorite Kevin talking

1:14:23

heads. It's also one of my favorites.

1:14:26

Also one of my favorites. And I thought we should hear it.

1:14:29

It turns out Pam really,

1:14:32

really hates Monster Mash.

1:14:35

I mean, like, never bring

1:14:37

that song up in front of her. Even

1:14:40

though Jim was making great points,

1:14:42

like in favor of the song,

1:14:45

Pam was like, no,

1:14:48

hate it, stupid. You

1:14:54

know, this is the moment where a lot

1:14:56

of people turn on Pam too because they

1:14:58

think she's being irrationally angry at Jim because

1:15:01

he did something that she agreed to. But

1:15:03

you're missing... When we originally wrote

1:15:05

this episode, he did do something without asking

1:15:07

her, which was investing more than they agreed

1:15:09

on. Yeah, when he didn't have to at

1:15:11

all. When he didn't have to at all.

1:15:14

I want you to know in the original script,

1:15:17

there was a beat that I did

1:15:19

successfully argue should be cut, and I

1:15:21

stand by it. When

1:15:23

Jim and Pam are leaving for the day

1:15:25

and they get in their car, Jim turns

1:15:27

on Monster Mash and

1:15:30

looks at Pam as a way of trying

1:15:32

to smooth things over. Oh my gosh. And

1:15:34

I was like, that's kind of a dick

1:15:37

move. I was like, I don't think Pam's

1:15:39

gonna have a real sense of humor for

1:15:41

that. Yeah. You know what? Kevin could tell

1:15:43

you not to do that. It was pitched,

1:15:46

maybe it would make Pam laugh. And I

1:15:48

said, I think we need to leave the

1:15:50

tension. Yeah. No, she

1:15:52

wouldn't move on that quickly. I didn't think so.

1:15:55

Well, back to this Dwight Nellie

1:15:57

mom detective moment, Nellie eventually says...

1:16:00

Dwight, look, it's my pill. All right, I deal with

1:16:02

some anxiety. It's not a big deal. And

1:16:04

I think this kind of puts life and

1:16:06

perspective for Dwight. He says, you know

1:16:08

what? I might want some of those

1:16:10

pills for my cousin because he's

1:16:12

had a tough time being lifeless with a

1:16:14

high pressure job. And also he has a

1:16:16

crazy cousin named Mo's. And

1:16:18

Nellie says, you know what? He's a good man and she

1:16:21

hopes he feels better. Yes, he's

1:16:23

clearly talking about himself. And

1:16:26

we got a fan question from Jade

1:16:28

O in Los Angeles who said, Dwight

1:16:30

talks to Nellie about getting a prescription

1:16:32

for anxiety medicine. And

1:16:34

then later he reveals in the Christmas episode

1:16:37

that he has been taking them. Is

1:16:39

this the reason why he seems so much

1:16:41

calmer in the rest of the series? It

1:16:44

felt like there was a shift in his

1:16:46

personality and he went through a lot of

1:16:48

character growth. He seemed much happier and friendlier

1:16:50

to everyone for the rest of the series

1:16:52

after this episode. Jade,

1:16:54

I am gonna track that now.

1:16:56

Yeah, I'm gonna pay attention. This

1:16:58

is a great observation. I

1:17:00

mean, I know they were setting up Dwight for

1:17:02

a possible spinoff in the farm and

1:17:05

they needed him to be able to

1:17:08

leave Dunder Mifflin. So they were setting

1:17:10

up Dwight to sort of have some

1:17:12

big life realization

1:17:14

moments. His job there

1:17:16

is stressful. He is lifeless.

1:17:18

Like these things that might make him move

1:17:21

on to another place. This

1:17:23

episode wraps up with

1:17:25

a bit of a montage during

1:17:27

which several things happen. We

1:17:30

find out that Andy's parents are broke.

1:17:32

Yeah. Toby tries to bring

1:17:34

some flowers to Nellie, but when she takes

1:17:37

her Toby wig off, he's no longer interested.

1:17:39

I looked what it said in the shooting

1:17:41

draft for that. What did it say? Says

1:17:43

Nellie is packing up to leave for the

1:17:46

day. Toby appears from the annex, approaches her,

1:17:48

holding some flowers. He looks nervous. Nellie,

1:17:50

not noticing him, pulls off her

1:17:53

Toby wig, releasing her normal hair.

1:17:56

Something in Toby dies.

1:17:59

Nellie notices. him. Hi Toby, who are the

1:18:01

flowers for? Toby. Nobody.

1:18:03

He throws the flowers in the trash

1:18:06

can and crosses off. Mm.

1:18:09

It's over for him. Toby just

1:18:11

wanted Toby. And

1:18:14

finally, we have a spy

1:18:16

shot of the Senator and

1:18:18

Oscar outside, and they are

1:18:20

making out. They are making

1:18:22

out. And then as they

1:18:24

part ways, Oscar sees the

1:18:26

camera. Yeah. Busted. Well,

1:18:28

everyone, that was Here Comes Treble. A

1:18:31

big thank you to Halstead Sullivan,

1:18:33

Claire Scanlon, Nick Caffaro, Steve Burgess.

1:18:36

What an episode. And thanks you

1:18:38

guys for sending in your questions

1:18:40

and comments. We'd love hearing from

1:18:42

you. See you next week. Thank

1:18:50

you for listening to Office Ladies. Office

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1:18:56

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