2:00

and we'll tell you why. Should we get

2:02

into it? We better. We have a lot

2:04

to cover. It is Season

2:06

9, Episode 16, written by

2:08

Graham Wagner and directed by

2:10

John Favreau! Yeah! Here's

2:12

your summary. An already grieving

2:15

Andy flips out when he learns

2:17

about Aaron and Pete's new relationship.

2:20

Pam has a job interview in Philly, and

2:22

the boss's personality is eerily familiar.

2:26

Meanwhile, Dwight enlists Angela for

2:28

help bathing his elderly ailing

2:30

aunt. You know, I

2:33

know Dwight says that aunt Shirley

2:35

is ailing, but she looked pretty

2:37

sturdy. Very hearty. Very hearty to

2:39

me. Certainly her personality. Yes.

2:43

All right. Fast fact number one, John

2:46

Favreau, as our director. You guys

2:49

know John Favreau. He is a prolific actor,

2:51

writer, and director. He wrote and starred in

2:53

the movie Swingers, which is where I was

2:55

introduced to him. Same. Oh my gosh. Our

2:57

whole generation was that you just wanted to

3:00

be in that movie. You were like, oh,

3:02

I've been there and I've done that, but

3:04

it didn't look half as cool. I know.

3:06

They go to this swing club called The

3:08

Derby, which was a real place in Los

3:10

Angeles. Yep. And you know, I

3:13

started going to The Derby after I saw that

3:15

movie. I'd never been. So many people did. I

3:17

know. And I would swing dance and it was

3:19

so fun. Oh my gosh. I

3:21

think it closed down. The Derby.

3:24

Yeah. I know. Anyway,

3:27

John Favreau has also directed Iron

3:29

Man, Iron Man 2, The Jungle

3:31

Book, and he directed and

3:33

starred in one of my personal favorite

3:35

movies that I've watched multiple times, Chef.

3:38

Have you seen this movie, Chef? No. Oh

3:41

my God. He plays a chef and

3:44

he's at a fancy restaurant and he has

3:46

a big meltdown. And so his

3:48

only option is to then buy

3:50

a food truck and sell

3:52

food out of the food truck. This kind

3:54

of sounds like that show The Bear. Chef

3:56

at a fancy place. Oh

3:58

no. Like... It has to go

4:01

to a smaller place to

4:03

cook. I'm doing a horrible summary of it. Yeah.

4:06

I don't watch The Bear. So I don't know,

4:09

but I watch Chef multiple

4:11

times. Okay. I did

4:13

not know this fact. Did you know

4:15

that he directed the Will Ferrell Christmas

4:17

movie, Elf? Really? John

4:19

Favreau directed Elf. God, I

4:22

love Elf. Yeah. I've

4:24

seen that movie many times. Well, I

4:26

know another thing you've seen that he

4:28

is like the executive producer creator of,

4:30

which is The Mandalorian. You betcha. Oh

4:33

my gosh. The Mandalorian, you know, one of the

4:35

coolest things for y'all that watch it, don't you

4:37

just love, like, the drawings

4:39

of the scenes are

4:42

so beautiful, how they do that in the

4:44

credits? I wouldn't know. Jenna.

4:46

Okay. And we've got

4:49

a couple of really fun crossover connections. He

4:52

was in the movie The Replacements

4:54

with David Denman and Keanu Reeves.

4:57

Yeah. He's an office lady's favorite and he

4:59

has appeared on Monk. I

5:02

have a crossover with John Favreau. You do.

5:04

You have an acting crossover. You

5:06

know, we talked a lot about what it was

5:08

like to work with John during our interview with

5:10

Jake Lacy because this was very memorable for all

5:12

of us. It really was. You know, we were

5:15

all so excited to work with him because we

5:17

were all fans of his work and

5:19

he's a real, like, actor's actor. He's

5:21

a director that, like, he gets in

5:24

the scene with you and helps you

5:26

figure it out and we love that,

5:29

but he's also just really easy to talk

5:31

to. I have such fond memories

5:33

of hanging out with him when we were

5:35

filming at Aunt Shirley's house. We

5:38

had to wait for it to get dark. We had

5:40

a little bit of downtime between scenes because we did

5:42

all of those scenes on one day and it

5:45

has to end with that scene on the

5:47

front porch with Dwight and Angela, right? Yeah.

5:49

So we're sitting on the back porch of

5:51

this house and

5:54

he and I just ended up talking about

5:56

improv and our love of it

5:58

and of being in the mall. and then different

6:00

improv shows we did. We did that geeky thing

6:03

that improv actors do where they talk about bits

6:05

they did, but no one else can really get

6:07

them because it happened in the moment. You

6:10

know, Angela, I loved hearing you talk about him

6:12

because that was exactly my same experience of him.

6:15

And I find that a lot of times

6:17

you have a director that's either like really

6:19

good with actors or maybe that's really good

6:21

on the technical side. And John is one

6:23

of those people who shines in both spaces.

6:26

I asked Steve Burgess, how did we get

6:28

him? How did we get

6:30

John Favreau? Yeah. And Steve said,

6:32

you know, we went out to a lot of

6:35

what he called journeyman directors, who

6:37

we also knew to be fans of The

6:39

Office. And John Favreau was

6:41

a fan and the dates worked out. Steve

6:44

said he's pretty much the busiest guy in

6:46

showbiz and still is, but Steve Burgess had

6:49

worked with him before and just

6:51

knew that he is always great to work with

6:53

and that this was no exception. I

6:55

know that our crew love John because I

6:58

was trading emails with Dave Rogers who said

7:00

that while Claire edited this episode, everyone

7:03

in post-production loved John.

7:05

They were so thrilled that he came

7:07

to work on the show. Dave said

7:10

he got John Favreau to sign his

7:12

swingers script. Did any hat? I love

7:14

that. Dave is such a fan of

7:16

movie and film and that

7:18

is so cute, I love that. I

7:20

know, Dave said that all

7:22

of post-production had gone to

7:25

see the first Avengers together in the theater.

7:28

So this was very exciting to have

7:31

John in their area. I bet they

7:33

were also tickled. We were also tickled.

7:35

Also tickled. And you know, Angela, we've

7:38

shared this before, but this episode of

7:40

Moving On was originally supposed to be

7:42

just one episode. It was

7:44

not gonna be a two-parter, but Greg loved

7:47

everything that John turned in so much that

7:49

he went back to the network and asked

7:51

them to make it two episodes so he

7:53

could use all the footage. All

7:55

right, are you ready for Fast Fact number two? Yes,

7:58

I am. Well, we have two. He

10:00

will just file that away in his

10:02

brain and years later bring it back.

10:04

That's right. Well, you know,

10:06

we were pretty excited because Bob came

10:08

in the studio to talk with us

10:11

about his time on The Office. Yes,

10:13

he did. It was such a

10:15

fun interview. We're gonna wait to air it

10:17

until after we break down moving on part

10:19

one and part two, but everybody just know

10:21

that is coming up. Yes, Bob in the

10:23

studio. Okay, moving on to

10:25

Fast Fact 3, another

10:28

big guest star, Mary Gillis

10:30

as Aunt Shirley. This woman

10:32

is such a brilliant character actress. She

10:35

was just fantastic. Fantastic.

10:39

Talk about someone who could command a room. Oh

10:42

yeah, yeah. I mean, I remember

10:44

her from her role in Midnight

10:46

Run because even in like

10:48

just small roles, she's one of those

10:50

people who pop. You guys might

10:52

remember her. She had a recurring role on

10:55

Glee as Mrs. Hagberg. She's

10:57

done a ton of television. Another

10:59

one of my favorites is that she is on

11:02

the Everybody Loves Raymond episode called

11:04

Marie's Sculpture. Do you

11:06

know that one? No, but now I'm

11:08

curious. Marie takes a sculpture

11:10

class and at the

11:12

end of this big class, Oh, I do,

11:14

can't even remember it now. they like unveil

11:16

her sculpture and it is just, it very

11:19

much looks like a giant vagina and

11:21

nobody knows how to compliment it. This

11:25

is very funny. We got

11:27

a fan question from Alison Jay in West

11:29

Haven, Connecticut who asked, Mary Gillis

11:31

has always been one of my favorite guest stars

11:34

on the office. How did she get her role?

11:36

Well, I've got some hot trivia on this. Did

11:39

you know that Mary Gillis was not the

11:41

first Aunt Shirley? No, she

11:43

wasn't. Who was the

11:45

first Aunt Shirley? Okay. The

11:48

story has a lot of twists and turns. Oh.

11:51

So here we go. Okay. During

11:53

this season nine, NBC was exploring

11:55

the idea of an office spinoff

11:57

starring Rainn Wilson. The signup.

12:00

called The Farm. Yeah. Paul Lieberstein

12:03

was the showrunner and they shot

12:05

an episode and the

12:07

plot of that episode is that Dwight's

12:09

Aunt Shirley has passed away and has

12:12

left him, I guess,

12:14

The Farm? Yeah. Yeah. Well,

12:16

they shot it long

12:18

before we shot this episode. They shot

12:20

it earlier in the year and they

12:22

cast a woman as Aunt Shirley. After

12:25

it was finished and they

12:27

found out that the show wasn't going to

12:29

go forward, they decided to make The Farm

12:32

an office episode. So they

12:34

wrote, moving on, after they wrote The

12:36

Farm as a way to precede The

12:38

Farm. To explain who Aunt

12:40

Shirley is. Exactly. This character of Aunt

12:43

Shirley was now like a big character.

12:46

So they went out and they cast Mary

12:48

Ellis and then they had to go back

12:50

and reshoot the scenes in The Farm with

12:52

Mary Gillis as Aunt Shirley.

12:55

Did I explain that okay? You really did

12:57

and I think it also explained something if

12:59

you rewatch the show in

13:02

order like we're doing now and we

13:04

have watched The Farm. Yeah. I remember

13:06

watching it and thinking, why wasn't Angela

13:08

invited to the funeral? I know! She

13:10

bathed this woman and made her dinner

13:12

and spent a whole day with her.

13:15

Surely she would want to

13:17

attend the funeral. Of Aunt Shirley. Of

13:19

Aunt Shirley. But we had filmed The

13:22

Farm months before this. Yes. Aha. Yeah.

13:24

I think when they were doing their

13:26

reshoots of the new Aunt Shirley, they

13:28

should have added Angela there. To the

13:31

funeral. Yes! Well, Angela,

13:33

we have so many fan questions for you

13:35

about your scenes with Aunt Shirley. I will

13:37

save them until we get to them. That's

13:40

all I got for Fast Facts. Well,

13:42

I thought those were just fantastic.

13:45

I have just two call sheet tidbits for

13:47

you. Oh. And more that I'll sprinkle in

13:50

later. I love a sprinkle. You love a

13:52

sprinkle. Here's some Top of Show call sheet

13:54

tidbits for you. Day one of filming this

13:56

episode was on January 14th, 2013. I

14:00

know you guys love a weather report. It

14:03

was sunny with a high of 58 degrees and the

14:05

low was 37. Ooh, that's kind

14:07

of chilly, especially out at

14:09

Aunt Shirley's. Yeah.

14:11

And it was a busy week for us as

14:13

a cast. We had multiple visitors, including

14:16

on Wednesday of this week, the Television

14:18

Critics Association. Yes, and I have a

14:20

big story about that for later. Ooh.

14:23

We also had a table read, and

14:26

on the Friday of this week,

14:28

an NBC EPK crew was on

14:30

set doing B-roll and cast and

14:32

director interviews. And I looked

14:34

everywhere for their interviews with Jon Favreau, and

14:36

I couldn't find them. Anywhere.

14:39

I really wanted to be able to play some of those

14:41

audio clips today. Well, someone at

14:43

NBC listening to this that has archive

14:46

footage, hit us up. We have a

14:48

lot that we want. We do.

14:51

All right, why don't we take a break? And

14:53

when we come back, we will start breaking down

14:55

this episode with a cold open that I really

14:57

enjoyed. It tickled me. I

14:59

watched it several times. I just love Ed

15:01

in this episode. I really did, too. He

15:04

really goes for it. All

15:06

right, we'll be back in just a second. There

15:15

are a whole lot of beaches out there, but there

15:17

is only one, the beach. Myrtle

15:20

Beach, South Carolina. Jenna, did

15:22

you know Myrtle Beach is

15:24

60 miles long? It

15:27

is 60 miles of uninterrupted coastline

15:29

and endless things to do. For

15:32

example, do you love to eat? I

15:35

do. There's over 2000

15:37

restaurants serving up fresh seafood,

15:39

Southern classics and low country

15:41

cuisine. I have a question for you.

15:43

Do you like music? Yes, I do. Well,

15:46

live music is the soundtrack to the

15:48

beach. There's live music every night

15:50

of the week, all year round. Plan

15:53

your trip to the beach at

15:56

visitmyrtlebeach.com. Angela,

15:58

I saw pictures from your... I

56:00

got Leah Pear for Father's Day. Oh, so you

56:02

haven't given it to him yet? I haven't. Not

56:04

at the time when we recorded this. I'm not

56:06

sure when this episode comes out. You'll have to

56:08

let us know. Will I? I don't

56:10

know. Actually, I don't know if I

56:13

want to know that information. But I

56:15

got so, listen, I'll buy

56:17

anything. I'm so bad. I bought

56:19

that dumb thing that's supposed to

56:22

clean earwax out of your ear

56:24

that didn't work. I've got so

56:26

many dumb things. I'm so suggestible.

56:29

Now I've bought my husband a pair of underwear so

56:31

he can put his balls in a pocket. What

56:34

am I doing? But listen, this isn't even what

56:36

I wanted to talk about. I

56:38

wanted to talk about socks. I

56:40

wanted to talk about. OK. It's OK.

56:43

That there are all these videos now where

56:46

they can tell if you are

56:48

a millennial or a Gen Z or

56:50

a Gen X by the socks you

56:52

wear. Are you on TikTok? No. No.

56:55

It sounds like a TikTok video. I know. But

56:57

this is OK. So you see the socks I'm

56:59

wearing right now, right? I'm wearing the no shows.

57:01

No one wears those anymore. No. The kids don't

57:03

wear them. They don't wear them. You have to.

57:05

It's ankle again. I know. I have

57:08

teenagers. I know the socks that are hip.

57:10

I can't wrap my head around it. By the

57:12

way, it took me so long to accept these

57:14

dumb no show socks that always slip down my

57:17

heel. I refuse to wear them. Look at me.

57:20

Oh, you have no socks. Lady,

57:22

what does no socks mean? I

57:25

don't know any of it anymore. Times are changing.

57:27

We can't keep up. Well,

57:29

my last Instagram suggested ad was

57:32

special underwear for thigh chafing. You

57:35

know what? All of this is making

57:37

me realize. What? We clearly need

57:41

a fashion blogger podcast together. Oh,

57:43

yeah. Where we break

57:45

it down for you guys.

57:47

But just practical undergarments. And

57:51

jackets. All right,

57:53

Andy has a talking head. He

57:55

wants to know why isn't Erin sad? Has

57:58

she found someone new? why

58:00

she's not that upset about this breakup? Oh,

58:04

he says, you know, during a breakup, your

58:06

mind goes to some dark places. Boy

58:09

does it for Andy because he becomes a

58:11

snoop. He does. Erin

58:13

leaves front reception and leaves her phone. Andy

58:16

grabs it and starts scrolling on it. Phyllis

58:19

says, Andy, no good can come from snooping.

58:21

Andy says, I'm not snooping. Oscar's

58:24

like, you're clearly snooping. Everyone

58:26

is very upset by this, except for Meredith.

58:30

Creed's like, that's uncool. Meredith is like, tell

58:32

us what's on there. Like, Meredith

58:34

wants to know all the dish. Well, guess

58:36

what? He sees something. He sees that she

58:39

has been texting with someone named Pete. He

58:42

charges into the annex where Daryl,

58:44

Clark, Kevin, and Toby are for

58:46

some reason that we don't know,

58:48

all gathered around Pete's desk and

58:50

computer. Pete is the only one who's

58:52

seated. Andy announces, my fears

58:54

have been confirmed. Erin is texting someone

58:56

named Pete. Any of you know someone

58:58

by that name? Go to

59:01

10 minutes and 47 seconds, because

59:03

the way Clark looks to camera

59:05

when Andy says, Pete is perfection.

59:09

So good. And then Brian as

59:11

Kevin says, Pete, what? I

59:14

know. That was improvised. It was.

59:16

Yes. That was so good. Pete

59:19

has a talking head where he says, oh

59:21

my gosh. Andy's been calling me Plop for

59:23

so long. He forgot my real name is

59:25

Pete. This talking head was a

59:27

bit extended in the shooting draft. Pete

59:30

would have had another line where he said,

59:32

I have probably about six minutes before he

59:34

figures it out. Well, he's

59:36

right. Andy goes to the fridge

59:38

and has his aha moment. He

59:41

sees that lunch bag labeled Pete,

59:44

and he puts it all together. Pam

59:47

is now going to arrive at Jim's office

59:50

in Philly. She looks so cute. She's all

59:52

dressed for her interview. Jim

59:54

is wearing his Bluetooth device, and they sort

59:56

of have this little joke about it. He's

59:59

like, I know. I'm a douche, but look, I

1:00:01

can do this with my hands." He

1:00:03

tells her she's going to crush it. It's

1:00:05

a sweet little moment. It really is. He's very

1:00:07

excited for her. At 11 minutes

1:00:09

and 30 seconds, I have a water bottle

1:00:11

catch on Jim's desk. Someone left their water

1:00:14

bottle. For real? Oh,

1:00:16

that's so good. Yeah. It's like

1:00:18

the Starbucks coffee on Game of Thrones. Exactly.

1:00:21

We had a fan question from Jen H

1:00:23

in New York. Jen says,

1:00:26

I have a Justice

1:00:28

for Pam comment. Justice for

1:00:30

Pam? Jen says,

1:00:32

I've been waiting so long to

1:00:34

ask this. Jim offers Daryl

1:00:37

a job at his new company. Why

1:00:39

on earth did he not ask Pam to join?

1:00:42

Why couldn't she be the graphic designer

1:00:44

at Athlete? It's

1:00:46

wild because both Ryan and Michael believed

1:00:48

in her art talents more than her

1:00:50

own husband. Ryan asked her to

1:00:53

make a logo in Season 4, Episode 2, and

1:00:56

then in Season 4, Episode 5, Michael asked her

1:00:58

to make a logo for the local ad. I

1:01:01

bet Pam would have been much more receptive

1:01:03

to moving to Philly if her dream job

1:01:05

was also waiting for her. Well,

1:01:07

Jen, I hear you, but I do

1:01:10

have some thoughts. I have some thoughts

1:01:12

as well. First of all, Jim's

1:01:14

business is not really making any money

1:01:16

for this family. I

1:01:18

had read another fan comment that

1:01:20

said they were really ticked off

1:01:23

at Pam because she's not supporting

1:01:25

Jim's dream job. Why didn't she

1:01:28

just get a job in Philly?

1:01:30

Her husband's making so much money at this great

1:01:33

job, but Jim is not making any money. Remember,

1:01:36

it's like this company has not had

1:01:38

a profit. So if they're both working

1:01:40

there, then no one's really

1:01:42

bringing home a significant paycheck. Also,

1:01:44

I don't think graphic design is Pam's

1:01:46

dream job. I don't think she... She didn't love it.

1:01:48

She dropped out because she didn't love it. Yeah, she

1:01:51

dropped out because it wasn't what she thought it was

1:01:53

going to be. I would also

1:01:55

say this. If Jim and Pam

1:01:57

are really hoping this business takes off... they

1:02:01

can't move to a whole

1:02:03

new city with their children and

1:02:05

invest in property or a big enough

1:02:07

rental for all of them without

1:02:10

knowing it's going to be a success. Right

1:02:12

now, you would assume they don't really have a

1:02:14

house payment and their

1:02:16

kids are in school there, they

1:02:18

have Pam's family, Jim's family nearby

1:02:21

to help. So moving

1:02:23

the whole family there, you're not gonna do

1:02:25

that till you know that this is really

1:02:27

going to take off. Yeah, and

1:02:30

I think there needs to

1:02:32

be someone in this family who has like

1:02:34

a stable income. But

1:02:36

Jen, I appreciate you sticking up

1:02:38

for Pam. Yes, Jen, I appreciate

1:02:41

justice for Pam. I

1:02:43

do see like down the road, there

1:02:45

might be a job opportunity there for

1:02:47

sure. Aunt

1:02:49

Shirley has had plenty of schnapps and

1:02:52

has fallen asleep on the couch. Yeah, she

1:02:54

hit the homemade schnapps really hard. Dwight

1:02:57

says, okay, let's get her out in the

1:02:59

yard and spray her down in a very

1:03:02

tasteful, rustic, private shower. This

1:03:04

is setting us up for the beginning of moving

1:03:06

on part two for which we got a lot

1:03:08

of fan questions. We'll get

1:03:10

to it next week. Meanwhile,

1:03:12

Andy is called Pete into his office

1:03:15

and he tells Pete that he

1:03:17

has contracted schlamydia. Yeah.

1:03:19

From Aaron. He's

1:03:21

trying to get Pete's reaction and

1:03:24

we talked about this with Jake Lacy. We

1:03:27

did. He said that schlamydia was

1:03:29

an improv by Ed. It

1:03:31

was because in the script it said,

1:03:34

Aaron gave me incurable syphilis. Pretty lame,

1:03:36

huh? But then Ed

1:03:38

improvised schlamydia. He

1:03:41

did and it made Jake laugh.

1:03:44

I found the blooper. Let's hear it. I

1:03:47

just got off the phone with my doctor and

1:03:49

it turns out that

1:03:52

I contracted schlamydia Schlamydia.

1:03:55

Bro. Come

1:03:59

on. Oh, come on. Swamania.

1:04:05

Oh, man. Well, I guess they loved it

1:04:07

so much. They kept it in and then they had to

1:04:09

do it again and again so that Jake didn't laugh. Yes,

1:04:12

and Jake told us that his proudest

1:04:14

performance moment on the whole show was

1:04:16

in this scene because

1:04:19

there's that long pause and Pete says, you

1:04:22

were gone. Mm-hmm.

1:04:25

And Jake improvised that. Yeah. And

1:04:28

then in the moment, Ed is Andy reacted and

1:04:30

improvised, I knew it. And

1:04:33

Jake just said it was the coolest thing.

1:04:35

Yeah, and then what's really cool is after

1:04:37

that little moment of improv from both of

1:04:39

them, they get back on script. Yes.

1:04:43

And finish the scene, which is, oh, just delicious. The

1:04:45

line that got them back on script

1:04:47

was Pete saying, and just so you

1:04:49

know, there was no overlap. Mm-hmm. And

1:04:52

then they were back as scripted. And

1:04:54

this does end with another

1:04:56

improv when Andy starts to

1:04:58

sing the song Bad Day with

1:05:00

different lyrics. You had a bad day.

1:05:02

Different lyrics. What did it do? Yes.

1:05:05

From Steve Burgess, he said we had to get

1:05:07

permission to change the lyrics. They were okay with

1:05:10

using different lyrics and it cost $20,000. And

1:05:13

he said, by the way, this wasn't

1:05:15

scripted. So after Ed did it

1:05:17

in the scene, they had to make sure they could get

1:05:19

it cleared. Oh, my gosh. After the

1:05:22

scene, we see Andy and Toby, and Toby's

1:05:24

like, hey, you cannot fire Pete. You

1:05:26

can't fire someone just because you have a grudge.

1:05:29

The same thing happened with Nellie. And Andy's

1:05:31

like, no, no, no. That was a professional

1:05:33

grudge. This is a personal grudge. Yes. And

1:05:36

then Toby shows Andy that Aaron and Pete

1:05:38

have disclosed their relationship. You

1:05:40

know, they fill out that form in human resources.

1:05:44

Andy is furious and crumples it up. Toby's

1:05:47

like, that's not the original. So, you

1:05:49

know, it's not a big deal. I just

1:05:51

love that one detail. And then as Andy walks

1:05:53

away, Toby uncrumples it and is like, it is

1:05:55

the original. Well, I looked this

1:05:57

up in the script as scripted.

1:06:00

Andy was supposed to fold up the document

1:06:02

and put it in his pocket and then

1:06:04

kick Toby's chair and walk out. And

1:06:07

Toby's last line was, it's not

1:06:09

the original, but instead Ed

1:06:11

crumpled it up and threw it at him. And

1:06:14

he was like, it's not the original and kicked

1:06:16

the trash can. And

1:06:18

so Paul improvised. Uncrumpling

1:06:21

it? Uncrumpling it and saying, it

1:06:23

was the original. That is great.

1:06:25

I love that. So fun.

1:06:29

All right. Are you ready for Pam to get

1:06:31

to her interview? I am

1:06:33

per the call sheets. This was

1:06:35

the very first scene of this entire episode

1:06:37

that was filmed. Yep. Monday morning. Monday morning,

1:06:39

scene 24. First

1:06:41

up on Monday, it was described like this.

1:06:44

Interior real estate company. Pam

1:06:47

meets the Michael Scott of real

1:06:49

estate, Mark. And I saw on the

1:06:51

call sheet that you and Bob had 6 a.m. call times, but the

1:06:53

rest of us got to come in at 1. Yeah. This

1:06:57

was a location. We did not

1:06:59

build these offices. And I remembered

1:07:01

that very clearly. We got ready

1:07:03

on set. And

1:07:05

then we drove to this location in a

1:07:07

series of vans. So Bob and I got

1:07:09

to share a van ride over to the

1:07:11

set. Listen, any time I got to share

1:07:14

with Bob, I was just so tickled. Yeah.

1:07:17

So I remember that car ride. We

1:07:19

got a lot of fan questions about what it

1:07:21

was like for me to get to work with

1:07:23

Bob. One from Natalie L. in Baltimore, Maryland, who

1:07:25

just said, what was it like working with Bob

1:07:28

Odenkirk? I laughed all

1:07:30

morning. I only had him

1:07:32

from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. But

1:07:34

oh, my goodness. And one of

1:07:36

my favorite moments that I couldn't get over

1:07:38

and that I still can't get over when I watch it,

1:07:40

it made me break every time. I don't know how we

1:07:42

got a usable take was that dance

1:07:44

that he does when he

1:07:47

goes the funky bunch. And

1:07:49

he like this like awkwardly

1:07:51

is raising the roof. I

1:07:54

loved that moment so much. The

1:07:56

minute he's on camera, I just started laughing. It started to be

1:07:58

like, oh, I'm going to get a with

1:08:00

him in his office and he's

1:08:02

playing the guitar and he's saying,

1:08:05

talking Chester Avenue, talking Triplex, talking

1:08:07

Converting. Hey, is that her? Yes.

1:08:10

You just have to imagine this guy is

1:08:12

making up these ridiculous songs all day. He

1:08:15

must drive everyone crazy. Oh

1:08:17

yeah. Pam has a talking head where she

1:08:19

says, oh my God, he's Michael Scott. Then

1:08:22

he gives her a tour of the office.

1:08:24

He walks her through the bullpen, making

1:08:28

all of the inappropriate jokes that

1:08:30

Michael Scott would. And

1:08:32

he says ridiculous things like Michael

1:08:35

Scott would like this. This

1:08:37

is not an office so much as it's a

1:08:39

rec room with a bunch of computers in it.

1:08:41

Frankly, if I had my way, I tossed the

1:08:43

computers in the garbage. But unfortunately,

1:08:45

we use them for practically everything we

1:08:47

do. So that ain't going to happen.

1:08:50

You might have noticed that only one

1:08:52

person speaks back to him. Everybody

1:08:54

in this bullpen were

1:08:57

background performers, but

1:08:59

they were very specifically chosen to

1:09:01

try to paint the picture of

1:09:03

an alternate Dunder Mifflin universe. For

1:09:06

example, please note the snarling woman

1:09:08

dressed in a turtleneck and pearls

1:09:10

at 17 minutes and eight seconds.

1:09:13

That is your doppelganger, Angela. There

1:09:16

are people playing solitaire on their computers. I

1:09:19

like Meredith. I noticed that. At 17 minutes and

1:09:21

24 seconds, Aunt

1:09:24

Joan was their Phyllis. She's

1:09:27

wearing a purple shirt under her blazer.

1:09:29

And then as Mark comes around the corner, he's

1:09:31

going to speak to someone and he's going to

1:09:34

say he didn't hear me. And

1:09:36

that person says, I heard you. That

1:09:39

was guest star Michael Weston. He

1:09:42

was a very big shot actor at

1:09:44

this time when he did this very

1:09:46

short little cameo. He

1:09:48

had been on house for two years and people

1:09:50

noticed. We got a lot of fan mail asking,

1:09:53

how did you get Michael Weston to do like

1:09:55

this one little pop on your

1:09:58

show, this little cameo?