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You can pick up a bag at Walmart or at catalystpet. com. Hello and welcome to your second drink of stress relief partart one. This episode has the famous Fire dririll Cld open so many wonderful tidbits from our crew on how that all went down. And you know what I'm proud how we broke down this episod Lady, it's one of my favorite podcast moments that we did because we really dug into it. We got so much good stuff We got a message from Arena S in Russia who wrote us about the fire dririll scene, Arina said, This is one of my favorite episodes ever, naturally because of the funniest ever cold open When I watched it the first time, I couldn't stop laughing. I think I even teared up. That's how funny I found it Now here is the amazing thing Arinna went on to say, I work as an English tutor and whenever I feel like my students need cheering up or we need to lighten the mood, I ask them Have you seen the office? And most of them say they haven't. And so I say, I'm going to show you a little clip, just watch. and I turn on this cold open and they just lose it. It's my favorite thing ever I see how they light up watching something with authentic language and it's just hilarious I keep count of how many people began watching the show after my lessons and so far it's about five So my point is, besides being one of the most iconic series ever, your show opens the window into the American culture and fantastic English language for many students who are learning it. Thank you so much Oh, that is so fun It's very funny to me thinking that this cold open is like an introduction to American culture. Oh no. Actually any like clip of the office, exactly Well, this episode also has the super cringe CPR training session Which we've also heard is used as a teaching tool. Mike R from Portland, Oregon said, it was my birthday and a small group of friends got together to celebrate at a local restaurant Everyone had recently experienced some setback or bad luck, myself included One guest had just lost her job, another guest found out her first round of IVF treatment didn't take A couple of people shared that one of their kids was having some serious issues And I was having my own medical issue at the time. As we sat sulking at my sad birthday, a man at another table, unrelated to our group was showing signs of choking Luckily for him, one of my friends is a doctor My friends sprang into action and performed the Heimlich maneuver After what seemed like an eternity, a piece of steak was dislodged from the man's throat My friend was exhausted mentally and physically after his heroic deed The incident was scary and I felt helpless. Realizing that no one else was trained to help that man, I organized a CPR day at my office where many office references were made Our trainer commented that the office is referenced in nearly every workshop she facilitates Score one for the guy who lived and score one for the office for making the world a safer place Well, in our breakdown, lady, we talked a lot about how people who have seen this episode gone on to like save lives because of the stay in alive tip The instructor gives the song Staying alive Staying alive. Eactly. And, speaking of the CPR instructor, we got a letter from Robin Lynch, who plays Rose. In our breakdown, we said Hey, Robin, we're trying to get a hold of you Hit us up, and she did. Here's what her letter said, Hi. I just listened to your podcast about stress relief. Thank you so much for your kind words. I'd love to answer any questions and talk about our day on set. It was such an amazing experience And lady, I was digging around And there are like four minutes of extra footage from those CPR scenes in the super fan episodes So it got us thinking. actuallyually, and it got you thinking. Yeah, I said we should do an Office Lady six point zero where we talk with Robyin and we can unpack some of the extra scenes and just hear all about her time on set I said I love it So that's what we're going to do. We've reached out to Robyin and we can't wait to share more in an upcoming Office Lady six point zero And now here's your second drink of stress relief partart one I name'm Jenn Fish and I'm Anla Kinzie. We werere on the office together, and we're best friends. And now we're doing the ultimate Office rewatch podcast justust for you. Each week, we will break down an episode of the Office and give exclusive behind the scene stories that only two people who were there can tell you. We're the office ladies Hi everyone. Good morning you guys It's early here today for us. It's early here and we have a lot to cover so much. We came in early We have so much to say today, but I have to point out an observation before we get started. Is it all my snacks and beverages on my side? You actually do have a ton of snacks and beverages. You have a hot tea, a cold tea, a water, a granola bar, a banana, and some naughty oat cereal. I do It's a lot. You knew this was gonna be a big episode. I cant read Larly. I can't read an entire picnic. I will always show up with iced tea and snacks. justust know that. That's me rolling in to any any event My observation was actually going to be about your document. Oh, it's so Charming. It is printed words, It's not no cards. it is a pile of paper, but what you have done is you have taken like regular lined, what's that paper called? It's called nototebook paper out of a spiral binder because clearly I ran out of printer paper would That's what happened. That's why your pages are onlineed notebook. It's printed though. Yes. Did you think that I just wanted to print on notebook paper? Lady, I didn't knowt you were doing. And I have a posted note. I just found it interesting when we sat down. No, this is me, you know, last night as I print my document out You might have heard a few expletatives because we werere out of printer paper. So then I was like, damnit, it's nine o'clock at night. G. There you go. Heck, go into your kids room, get their notebook, rip out the pages. yourour printer will print on it. I feel like we might have helped some people today. We might have All right, well let's talk about why we're here today. It is stress relief part one. Season five, Episode fourteen, written by Paul Lieberstein and directed by Jeff Blitz Exactly. You might be thinking, ladies, it's stress relief. Isn't that big, except. It had the cold open to end all cold opens. Oh yeah. Oh yeah, we'll be breaking that down. Oh yeah, we will. It's gonna take a while This episode originally aired as an hour long episode. We're going to have to break it down in two parts. So today we're covering the first half of stress relief Would you like a summary? I really would. All right, it starts with that cold open. you were talking about, Angela Whwite takes matters into his own hands when his coworkers fail to pay attention to his fire safety seminar. He used PowerPoint. Big mistake. Big mistake. He's gonna give us a practical fire drill. Hands on. How will we react on our feet? That's right Well, Stanley has a heart attack It doesn't end well. doesn't And that lanced dite in hot water with corporate Re is He almost burn the buildooling. Salia Jack M you have a job My goal hires a CPR expert to teach the office what we should do if Stanley has another heart attack Dwite has his own ideas of how to use the CPR dummy. Hello, Clarice. Oh dear. We learn that Pam's mom and dad are having a rough patch in their marriage and that Pam's dad has actually been bunking with Jim and Pam. Sam's robe Yeah Was he walking around in his tidy whities? I don't know, but she needs to get him a robe. A number one, this episode aired after the Super Bowl on Sunday, february first, two thousand nine. I mean if I had an air horn thing, I'd fire it off. because this was huge for us Sophia C wrote in to say Jenna, I have a fast fact for you. Sophia This was the most watched episode of the entire office series. What Yeah. And she's right. I looked it up. Angela, do you wna know how many people? Oh my gosh I'm horrible at guessing. Like, you know, guess the jelly bean in the jar. I'm so off. I know. Yeahah, I can't do that either. Okay, I'm gonna guess. go up T million people. That seems like a big number That is a big number. but it was twenty two point nine No million people! Holy smokes! Yeah. So it is definitely the most watched episode of the offffice and it's also the only episode of the offffice to ever reach over twenty million viewers. Wow, But now I have another question for you. I don't know. Is it more guessing numbers touff. More guessing It's not numbers though. Oh good. Well, I have a shot Can you guess what our second most watched episode was Hm Oh no Of the whole series O the whole series. This was number one. what do you think number two was? The finale Pilot What? The pilot! Really? It had eleven point two million viewers pilott that I wore my own clothes in. Yeah From Target Wow. eleven point two million people saw your outfit. Well, you're welcome, America Interestingly enough Airing after the Super Bowl did not seem to get us a bump in viewership going forward Oh, it was like a one and doneone. kindind of. So The episode that aired before the Super Bowl was Prince Family Paper And we had eight point seven million viewers. Okay. That was kind of our Averagey range, right A this Super Bowl is lecture circuit. And we actually had a drop in the ratings to eight point four. Ow. So some regular viewers I don't know. They were like, N after that Super Bowl stunt number two Randy told me that there were rumors that we were going to get that two thousand nine Super Bowl slot from as early as the end of season four Geez. Yeah. you plan that that far out? I guess so. There had been some talk that maybe it would go to the apprentice The apprentice was going to get this lot. Okay Our executive producers really fought for the office to get it, and we did. Randy said it was part of our internal shooting records as of may two thousand eight which was well before we had ever started shooting season five. So we'd known for a while this was coming I also reached out to Greg Daniels Oh, yeah, what do he have to say He said this. Oh yeah. This was a big deal. Yeah We threw our biggest guns at it, which is why Paul Lieberstein wrote it That makes sense. It's a fantastic script. I texted Paul yesterday, just a few couplets of dialogue It was like, this is perfection. I'll tell you when I texted him later Well, Paul had been with us since the very beginning. He is one of our best. It made total sense that he should wr this episode. Right I got curious. Okay. and I started doing a little digging Angela, the script for this episode was ninety five pages long. I know. I looked through it and I was like, what is this phone book? I'm reading? Oh my go, it's stress relief The candy bag Okay, the candy bag, are alts, All of our alt dialogue. Yeah, all the extra jokes that they didn't put in the script that they want us to maybe shoot. Oh my God How long was it Lady, it was two hundred and seven pages long. They had two hundred and seven pages of extra jokes. Yeah O they're ready to go. Yep. Oh my God So I thought we should tell everyone that this episode took us nine days to shoot It was a very, very big deal. Greg also said that because we were running after the Super Bowl, it created a scrutiny from the network that was not normally present on our show. Oh yeah Lots of notes Lots of opinions. Sure. This is a big piece of real estate This will come up again later. Should I move us to Fast Fact number three? Yes All right. Fastack number three ick told us that because there would be so many new eyes on this episode New Viewers that they had to figure out a storyline that would appeal to both current office viewers and new ones And they also had to find a way to kind of reintroduce everyone's characters so that new viewers could follow along. They really tried to stay away from existing storylines. So for example, there's no movement or mention of the Angela Andy Dwight love Triangle. There's nothing about the company is struggling and there might be layoffs. No, there's nothing very complicated. This is a very simple idea that can hook everybody Yes But they especially had to figure out how do we start this episode? How do we hook these new viewers and make them stay for the whole hour? rightight So Greg had this idea What if an office weirdo who wanted people to listen to his safety ideas actually caused a fire emergency He was like, you don't have to know who's who It has a lot of energy and a lot of physical comedy. There you go. I mean, that is brilliant. Greg is brilliant because instantly you're hooked an office like idiot that is going to like take matters in their own hands or something I thought it was amazing. Well, we will break down this epic cold open after the break, but I have one more thing to say Okay. This is a bonus fast fact. Okay Did you notice the name type This is the first time that our main titles featured the entire cast. It was so cool We were so excited. We all cheered when we watched it. Oh my gosh, I remember my family too 'cause Everyone in my family who had never seen the show saw it because it was after the Super Bowl And we were in the main titles. It was really exciting. cial It was special. The whole thing was special. I mean, there are all these little milestones along the way as we're doing this rewatch and as we're looking back at our journey. I'm realizing all of these Thirsts and I would have never imagined I'd be on a TV show that would run after the Super Bowl. The Super Bowl is such a big deal. I remember commercial auditioning And everyone wanted like a Super Bowl commercial spot. If we could just I still, I still I'm like, o, come on. Yeah. Let me throw a Dorito at your head and you catch it in your mouth and it ricochets off the ceiling. Superowl You heard it here, Doritos. Office ladies throw Doritos and catch them We'll do it. Jenna will do a cartw. Wait. She's very athletic. What that start working on my carp. 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We had our director Jeff Blitz, cinematographer Randall Einhorn. They had to walk through this whole dance that we did camera stunts, animal trainers, or script supervisor Veda, like tracking the continuity. and then Our rock star First AD, Kelly Cantley She then broke it down into smaller moments Dean Holland, our editor, who edited this sequence, he told me he was also brought in on those planning sessions He said he got So much footage but that it was actually really, really well organized and pretty easy to edit because they planned so well Way to go guys. Randy told us that we spent an entire day shooting this one whole day to be exact it was Thursday, december eleventh. Oh yeah. And we had tons of safety meetings, all this safety stuff. I remember we did not shoot this in order We shot it out of order and some of that was for safety reasons Let's describe it and then we'll go back and we will break it down piece by piece. All's your overview, everybody. Here's your overview of the cold open The first shot is Dwight opening his desk And he sort of motions to the camera all sneaky and he's got lighter fluid in what looks like to be a blow toorch. Yeah, So you know something's up. somethinghing dwitish He goes in the hallway and he's kind of hiding out and he's whispering the camera And he starts like Jamming the doors, he puts a key in, he hammers it shut, he puts his little wood wedges under and yeah, blow torches the door handle and starts his speech He says that nobody paid attention to his fire safety seminar. He blames himself for using PowerPoint right and that experience is the best teacher So he will teach his coworkers proper fire emergency procedure the hard way. And you guys today, cigarettes are gonna save lives As he smokes a cigarette and then tosses it into a trash can and immediately a fire starts. But no one notices it first. No one. notices smoke piling in under the door Everybody is just quietly working. and it's really frustrating towight. So he's like, do you guys smell something? And Angela's sonarky, he's like, didid you bring your jerky in today This is it the way I react in moments like this. You noticeed she didn't say fire, She freezes. Yeah Michael starts yelling for everyone to stay effing calm Dwyight is kind of shouting proper safety procedures, but people are panicking. It's suddenly total chaos This is what it sounded like. Oh my God. Okaykay, it's happening. Everybody stay C. What's the procedure, E everyone, What's the procedure? St C Cm down! No! No, Michael. Exactly Well, amid all the chaos Angela gets a cat out of a file cabinet Oh yeah. Oscar escapes up into the ceiling I know you're going to have a lot to tell us about that. Yeah And then Michael smashes a window in the conference room. Kevin is gonna make sure he's getting snacks during the fire. He's like busting up the vending machines Wh do I lights a bunch of firecrackers? to which Ed Helmms andy says my favorite line in this cold open, which is the f shooting Jim is like ramming the coffee machine into a door. ally Dwight Hold's the fire alarm. Why? Because Stanley's having a heart attack. Exactly Yes It's insane The whole thing is insane How did we do it Well, we had amazing people. That's how we did it We spoke to our cinematographer, Randall Einhorn about how exactly they'd captured all these moments We reached out to him. Here's what he had to say Yeah, I worked really closely with Jeff Blitz and R AD Kelly Cantley to you know coordinate how exactly we're going to shoot that. because there was a lot of moving parts, a lot of moving pieces that didn't want to feel like it needed fifty cameras filming it always wants to feel like there's just two cameras filing it and they're struggling to film it So it was a lot to work out because there was so much going on But because we're able to cut on some of the camera swishes, we're able to piece it together so it looked like it was one piece because as a camera panning from one thing to another. if you're doing it right, you can make it look like you can create an edit point where you're you're panning from one the end of one piece and you' and you're panning into another the beginning of another piece is really kind of how it's done. That's how we all pulled it all together, made it look like it was a one frantic take I have learned doing this rewatch how often we used that whip cut. It was our friend Really, it's why this cold open happened Lady, we got a ton of fan questions about this cold openen. so why don't I go through them? Okay We said at the top of the episode, Rain's doing all his mischief with the locking of the doors and setting the fire We had a fan question from Jayen C, Was Dwight using a real blow toorch on those handles? It certainly looked like it Why don't we let Rayain Wilson tell us, Ray What you got to say Yes, it was a real live, blow toorch. It was not a CGI flame. They had a lot of safety officers there. you know, a fire marshal is there and a special effects coordinator and the handles actually did get very hot. Nowadays they'd probably do CGI and maybe even make the door handle a little red with the CGI. but That was all completely real I can't believe they gave them a real blow torch. I mean, if you look back over the things they gave Rin that we're real in episodes. They should have known going back to the Dundies when they gave him that operating keyboard Like just what he did with a fart key. D give that guy real things. D't give that guy real thingsings. Well, yeah, so real blow toorch, what else? Well, we had another fan question. People wanted to know if rain was really smoking And Ro Hit R wanted to know if it was real smoke in the trash can Here's what Rain had to say It was an actual cigarette that I smoked and lit And I threw it in the garbage can with the paper, but I think they like ran in the second that camera panned away and tossed in some water and put it out. And the fire that you see in the trash can is expertly created due to the magic of special effects. There are so many amazing details throughout the episode that Paul Lieberstein, I remember guiding me through. I think he wrote it. But Paul was very instrumental in a lot of the details about how I smoked and how I casually tossed the cigarette, and he had it kind of visualized in his mind how the wedges get hammered under the door All the details, the hammer in my pocket and stuff like that. So the great Paul Lieberstein, AK Toby really played a great creative part throughout the entirety of the office and especially in this episode in this Cold Oen Wow, I didn't know that. I didn't know Paul was behind all those beats, all the like staging of the fire moments. Yeah, me either Also, Jenna, just on a side note, I've never had to smoke a cigarette in a movie or TV show and it would be a disaster because I don't know how to smoke a cigarette. And it would be so clear. I wouldn't know how to be like fakey smokey Well, for all of our like kind of techy nerds out there, Randy broke down for me exactly how they did make that fire in the trash can, that smoke. So rain was right, right? They extinguished the fire that you saw, But then to create that smoke billowing in That was created by a special effects team led by Ron Nery And for the smoke, he used a water vapor generator. with a minute concentration of glycol And I guess the glycol is what keeps the water vapor hanging in the air a bit longer Randy said it had no odor And it was approved safe by both SAG and NBC Universal Safety Department. What is glycol I don't know You can Google it and gooogle it What is it? Is it There's two glycols There's Propylene glycol Okay, and then there's lene glycol. Was one a good guy and one's not great? I guess kind of. I think the ethylene glycol is the stuff that's in like antifreeze. And it has like a sweet taste. That's what it's poisonous, right? You don't want your dog to lick it. Right. They're always saying don't lick your anifreeze They're always saying that to dogs. The dogs are like We don't understand you. No cats love it too. You gotta be careful Now propylene glycol is a substance that's commonly used as a food additive. It's in a lot of cosmetic and hygiene products, including, I think, some toothpastes. So that's the one we used. I mean, I guess so. Well, I think. one of the glycols can also be used as some sort of a fiber I don't think we have time to in the moment deep dive glycol, but we were curious So I'm assuming that since SG and NBC Universal said it was safe, then we used the safe one. We use the safe one Look at us, we're fine We're here. Next fan question is from Mikey S Did Steve improvise when he said, stay effing calm No A little bit though Well, that's Steve, right? I mean, he got everything scripted, but sometimes he would zz in the moment. Here's what it said in the script Oh God, it's happening. Let me through, let me through. stay calm, stay calm, stay effing calm. And then Michael violently pushes his way through to the front I think we did it. I mean, very accurately We have more fan questions, Angela, Jaden C wants to know how many times did Michael throw the projector into the window Well, he starts with the chair, right? That's right. It does not break And Randy said that for that, we used a plane of plexiglass. becausecause they didn't want it to break. They wanted his first attempt not to go well. Yes Then they replaceed the Plexig gllass with breakaway glass And it shatters very realistically, but it never shatters in a sharp or dangerous way I have a little fun fact for you In the olden days of Hollywood this was known as candy glass. I know that, Jenna because I got a tour of an old Western set with my dad And they were like, All those windows that guys get thrown out the bars in and the saloon, that was candy. Candy. You could eat it. I guess nowadays they don't make it out of candy But Randy said old schoolers still call it candy glass, even though now it's called breakaway glass. Okay. And Randy also told us, Jaden, in answer to your question They got it in one take One throw of the projector broke the breakaway glass. There you go Jaden would also like to know how many times did Kevin break the vending machine I reached out to Brian Bumgartner. He said he thought it took about two to three takes. They used that same breakaway glass. He said it broke every time But they had to do it a few extra times just to get a certain camera movement right. You know, they were doing the whip cuts. Right to make it look frantic. R Now, next up lady I thought we should discuss this moment that no one wrote in about, but that was so epic. I dont believe no one wrote in about it. I know exactly the moment you're talking about because it was such a big deal to all of us on set. And maybe people don't realize that because of what a badass Chris Wman is. What we're talking about is the moment when Led by Kevin, the Dunder Mthlin employees are running through the kitchen and take down our camera operator Randel Einhorn Guys, this was a total mistake Yeah. we were like, o but only for a few seconds We reached out to Randall because we had to hear this story from his perspective. But When Brian mowed him down I remember when I was running backwards through the brake room And Brian Baum Gardner, who plays Kevin, was running at me because he's frantically trying to get out of there And he just kept running on me, running ands gaining on me and gaining on me. and I'm running backwards with a camera. and he just got so close that I think he hit me and I hit the ground. I went down. My camera says Chris Workman, who's really strong guy. me with one arm, caught me and the camera with one arm, and put me back on my feet. And I'm like a two hundred pound guy. The camera is nearly forty pounds. and Chris just lifted me up, I didn't even know if I hit the ground It was but that shot of me going down and getting back up actually made the show. So thank you, Chris Werkman for picking me up and thank you, Brian Baumgarner for running into me and making such a cool shot. Well, Angela, I felt like we also needed to hear from Brian Baumgartner about this moment. The mower and the mode. Exactly. We needed a point counterpoint Well, thank you Randall. you know, I wanted to make fun of you for getting the story wrong, but But you complimented me and got the story one hundred percent right. I mean, look, I had people running behind me Okay, so I had to run over whatever was in front of me or I would have gotten run over myself U But actually come to think of it. It's the first time that anyone has ever told me that I've outrun anyone. I mean you were running backwards carrying a camera. Yeah, I had to put you down and The thing I remember is yes, you went all the way to your back, as I recall. and for me out of the corner of my eye, it looked like Chris Worm One hand picked you up, put you back on the feet and like the pro that you are Well, you just kept filming. I'm so happy that it made into the cut and it's it's one of my favorite episodes. It aired after the Super Bowl, obviously. And that was a big deal for me. And and yeah, one of our funniest cold opens for sure. Well, lady, I just remember that moment so vividly because I do remember Randal is down. What do we do? And then Randal is up. R I guess we continue amazing to me, and that's the only time it happened and that's the take we used Chris Workman manan He is a machine All right now I think we need to discuss the thing that we got the most mail about Oh yeah. Save Band it The last thing on our call sheet for the day of us had gone home. I know they did this because it was so complicated. They wanted you to have the set to yourself I was not there Angela Please tell us how did you pull this off? Okay Here's the thing guys. we had to have a lot of rehearsals. You should know on the day when there was a lot of the chaos and we were all running around, I was there The cat didn't work those moments, okay The cat did have to work one moment, Jenna, with all of us where I open the drawer and you reveal. Yeah. guys are all in the background for that moment And I had to actually pick the cat up and walk over to where I would have tossed it. And that was it. That's all I had to do with the cat with the group there. of this cat was massive It looks big. I'm like, didid you cast the biggest cat they had? Did you see the big one in the corner and say, we want that dude Just taking it out of the drawer with the chaos, not even doing anything with it, just picking it up and taking it to my spot The cat was like, Oh, I'm out of here. So I was really glad when we actually filmed the stunt part. that you guys were all gone Oh my gosh. less activity for the cat to deal with. The cat was already like, where am I? What's going on All right, so a lot of things went into to make this happen and I'm gonna to share with you some stuff that Randy Cordre and Jeff Blitz shared with me, but then I'm gonna to tell you my personal memories So I guess in the script, there were a few alts about how the cat got in the ceiling Blitz fought really hard to have the moment where the cat goes up in the ceiling and then out a different part of the ceiling. Yes, that was the thing he fought for He said to do this though, it would involve a pair of matching cats and two trainers in the ceiling. One to catch bandit one and one to drop bandit two through a different ceiling panel. So the idea originally was that you would go on a search for twin cats Tinat entical looking cats. Yes Randy said that we worked with an excellent animal training company out of Silmar, California. Their name is Bob Duns' Animal Services. and our specific cat trainer for this stunt and many more episodes was Denise Sanders. She was fantastic. I love Denise And Randy would want you guys to know that we took the safety of not only the humans on set, but also the animals. took it very seriously. Well, that was Randy. Randy is a real animal lover and he advocated for all of us the fur babies and real people. Okay. So Jenna, my memory is we had two rehearsal days for this stunt. Wow. Yeah One was just like a preliminary blocking, but then the second one was like, okay, we have to practice this as if we're doing it And our biggest rehearsal, it was me, Jeff Blitz, Randy Cordre, Greg Daniels I think some of the writers were there. Dean might have been there our editor, everyveryone that was going to be involved in this moment, Oscar, the trainer up in the ceiling. there was a lot of people actually, for this rehearsal. And if I missed some of you guys, there was more people than you would imagine I a stunt woman named Katina Waters because they actually didn't want me tossing the cat up in the ceiling. Right? they wanted a professional animal Wrangler stunt person. Yeah. becausecause that makes sense. Right? What if I got it wrong? Right. I'm not a professional animal wrrangler stu. You're not a professional animal thrower. As we started blocking the moments of the scene, the cat wrangler Denise was like You guys, we can't toss a cat up in the ceiling You know, we can't toss it up, we can't toss it out. There is no tossing of cats guys. becausecause not that it will harm the cat. This isn't a very high distance or anything like that. It won't physically harm the. It won't physically harm the cat. And then she used this phrase, Jenna that was like a scratch on the record player She said because it will blow out the cat And this is clearly a cat wrangler term. It will blow out the cat. We all, all of us want, huh Blow out the cat And then Greg goes, Because Greg's such an inquisitive minded person, he's like, I'm sorry, what does that mean to blow out the cat. Yeah. And she said, it will ruin its career Now is that because just the stress of performing that stunt would make it so that the cat wouldn't be able to maybe go to work again. Like the cat would be okay physically, but it would be stressful and they couldn't be sure that it would be a trainable cat in the future Right? That's what I'm hearing. Yeah, that's exactly what we all heard, which is the cat will physically be fine, but you might make it so it's afraid and we won't be able to train it. Got it, right? Okay, right? So it could live out its life as someone's pet, but it's not going to be a working cat anymore. Not a stunt cat anymore. Okay This is her job, right? Like this cat working, this is her livelihood. Right. And so Greg, like as a problem solver, he was like, well, what would it cost to retire the cat? Could we pay you and retire the cat? And that way you don't lose your income in this cat. Uhu She didn't want to retire the cat. This is a very Hiron and cat. This is a very good cat. It's the largest cat they have. The largest stunt cat. Clearly the largest physically and the largest Yes monetary stunt cut. So they came up with this idea. They made it work This is what the animal trainer said that they could do We would Toss up into the ceiling, a fake cat Okay, Okay, Yes a fake cat and then Rfters of the ceiling would be a trainer that would then gently be holding a real cat and release it onto my desk, which was just a few feet below Okay, I think I got it. Tssing cat up blows out cat. Tssing cat up, blows out cat. Can't throw a cat Dropping cat Oto its feet, Totally fine, totally fine. You know what? I have to say Sunny Cat actually enjoys a good toss Sometimes I'm doing laundry on the bed and he'll come up and he likes it when I give him a big hoist onto the pile of laundry. And then he'll jump down and I'll do it again Sonny, you could have been banded He's like, I'll do it T Yes, Sonny should have been banned. Well, here's the deal. Randy even went to extra measures to make sure the cat would be fine when they were going to drop it on my desk. He and the animal trainers and our stunt guy Eric Sulki, they came up with this huge inflatable safety airbag that would decelerate and gently catch The falling cat. It was described as like falling into feathers And we did some practice runs and the trainers signed off on it. It was fine The cat wasn't traumatized at all. They hid this airbag in the corner of my accounting desk with like papers and stuff, but there was a cat airbag on my desk, okay and the ceiling panel Breakway foam rubber. All right. So it was all very cushy cushy Now. I just want to say they did all of this. and then gave Rain a real blow toorch. I know An inflatable airbag cushion. for this enormous cat But now Jenna, enter in the people that make Fake animals I amm scared I found them fascinating So like, you know, if you have a show like CSI and there's a dead body Yeah. These are your people. They make fake humans, they make fake animals Jenner They had to meticulously match the exact cat that we were tossing in the ceiling And it was a rush job. Randy said this fake cat costs twelve thousand dollars. Oh my God I want you to know that thing was one of the scariest things I've ever seen, held or touched. First of all, it had these yellow eyes that would just look at you. And then the fur felt real. but when you picked it up, it was gelatinous. So it like flop like as you held it. Oh my go. imagine like flopping a towel over your arm, a big thick towel. It was like smushy. It was frightening We started kind of pranking with it. Like I said it on Oscar's desk and he walked up and he was like, o Ohh Godd covering its face with a piece of paper because the thing was so creepy to look at. Where is it now? I don't know.. NBC owns it somewhere, right? They paid for it way this is just the cat stuff. We haven't even gotten to the fact that Oscar has a whole bit he has to do. Oh yeah, right? So when we actually got to the day to shoot the stunt, I go over to the drawer pull out the cat. Now they said my dialogue and everything, I still had to be yelling Okay. So I open the drawer and you'll hear in the take I say to the cat Like I'm trying to like be like I'm not a bad person. I lift up this enormous cat And then I have to go to my spot Oscars going in the roof They wanted so they could do that swishy cut. Yeah. They wanted me to take the cat, I'm holding it to my chest. They wanted me to swing the cat back me and then swing it and stop This is the real cat. The real cat. Okay. The real cat gets the swinging motion. Swinging okay. swinging o. Sing approved. swwing approved yelling. Right? I'm sure the cat loved that You know what cats love Screaming and swinging. Yeah This cat probably weighed twenty pounds, I'm not exaggerating. att all, it was enormous. Just the swinging and getting it to my stopping point. It was like I was like, oh God. stop and I hold it in the air Frez. Then the yell cut In comes my stunt woman in the same outfit. She takes Ralcats, she holds it in the air I step away because what she's gonna to do with the cat Jenna is kind of do the second motion where It appears like she's tossing, but she doesn't toss the cat. Okay, but she kind of gives it a little air not a lot of air. And this was like they don't want you to get all scratched up. She knows how to give like a little Yeah. they had to give the idea of the motion. Yeah, right? Right? M than my swing. Got it. okay? And then of course we had to get a take where I had to take Fakey Cat and do the same motion as the stunt womoman. I had to watch her and toss Fakey Cat in the ceiling Right? Yeah. They pieced all of that together So Jenna, I had talked to Jeff Blitz about this moment a while back because I distinctly remember when we filmed it. two cats coming out of the ceiling instead of one. How how how how did two cats tell out? That's my memory. And I was like, wait, am I crazy? And I talked to Dean Holland, who edited and I was like, Dean, did you have to CGI out one cat? 'cause I know two cats came down. I remember seeing two cats He was like, No and And so I talked to Jeff Blitz and he goes, Yes, Angela. To cats came down I was like, what? He said on the takeake we used The trainer that was supposed to catch the Fakey cat missed Oh And so then on action Fakey cat came out the other side and real cat Two cats hit the desk And Jeff said, luckily, the way the camera was positioned, it only caught one cat And I think it's the real cat when you watch because it looks like a real cat comes Yeah because it hits and it kind of runs off. Y Fakey cat just would have gone plop. Yes, rightight? Yes. So there you go. One cat went up, two cats came down, but we got the shot, it took all those people and all that manoeuvering but it made it in the episode Angela, that is amazing I did not know all the details of that story I was on the edge of my seat. I absolutely loved that. You guys, the crazy thing is it took me that long to tell that story, but it happened in five seconds. Oh my God. When we actually filmed it, it was so quick So it was like me, draw a cat, R swing, step out something Take a cat Let's react to one. Well, you mentioned that there was something else going on during all this, which was Oscar going in and out of the ceiling? Yes, that was a whole other ordeal. Randy told us that that part of the stunt of getting Oscar up into the ceiling was the other most challenging part of the stunt becausecause there was nothing to climb into. in the way that our set was built. Like the actual lightweight ceiling It was suspended from cables. Yeah, very thin rigging wires. It was fakey ceiling guys because our set was inside a humongous Sound stage. Yeah. So actually above the Dundnder Mifflin offices was just air. If you walked outside, you could look up and just see these wires holding fakey ceiling. Yeah. So he said in the weeks prior to filming this, our production designer Michael Gallenberg and construction coordinator Tim James had to completely reengineer. the ceiling build rafters basically that we didn't have, right? Yeah. And it had to be enough to support not just Oscar. the stunt personnel. He said on the day there were two stunt coordinators, the animal people, Oscar, Oscar stunt double BC Universal Safety Coordinator all up in the ceiling Can you imagine that guy stay at work I can't. Like he's not normally with us He's just up in our ceiling now I can tell you that I had to look up into the ceiling And it looked crowded I get why someone might have missed a cat as it flew up there Well, we got a fan question from Alex M. Did Oscar really fall through the ceiling? Yes. Well, yes and no, right? We pulled it off using both Oscar and a stunt double, right, Ange? Yeah. So I reached out to Oscar and I was like, Oscar, you gott to tell us everything about this ceiling. I guess he gets asked this a lot. And hes sent in this audio clip I had a stuntman. I had a Moroccan. He was He was I think he was from Morocco. He was say he was He was from Sir SoA. He was a little shorter than me and he was a stunt man and I think he was jumping out from the hole and doing wonderful tumbles when he hit the ground I did half of it. he did the really hard power It was a very funny scene, very complicated I remember in one of the shots, I made Steve laugh because one of the ways that I was coming down from the roof on one of them, they had a big bar up there and it lowered me slowly through the hole And that was a funny way to come down. And when I made eye contact with Steve just hanging there with a straight face, of course he laughed And then they figured out another way to bring me down, which was the leap down. But first I would just like one of the things we'd tried were just like being lowered down from the thing whichich didn't make sense, but was very funny. Do you remember that remember. I do too. It was very weirdly matrixy. It was and Oscar was slowly very slowly. What was that Tom Cruise movie where he slowly lowered himself down was possible. like Oscar was like slowly coming out of the ceiling. It looked crazy. And Oscar, of course, did not break because he never broke, but we and all the rest of us were like, we can't possibly continue this if that's physically possible. And if Steve broke, you know it looked ridiculous Well, let me break it down for you for anyone who wants to follow along A two minutes, thirty eight seconds, the real Oscar is standing on his desk and he pushes up the ceiling tile. At two minutes, forty three seconds for that beat of Oscar actually jumping up and pulling himself into the ceiling, that's his stunt double. You'll notice, you don't see his face. His double's name was Aladine Namu. and to pull this off, I guess Aladine had to wear a safety harness underneath his Oscar wardrobe. And it had this cable that went up through his harness to a pulley that was manned by two guys in the ceiling And after he would jump, these guys would like hoist him up using this pulley. You gotta trust the guys in the ceiling, don't ya? Then at two minutes, forty eight seconds, we see the real Oscar again. He's up there in the scaffold looking down He was also secured by a harness and a cable just to make sure Finally, at three minutes, thirty three seconds Oscar appears to break through another ceiling panel over by the kitchen near Creed's desk. That's his stunt doubles legs, kicking. Fid's reaction was so L to me sorry, go on T minutes, six seconds, that is when the stunt team dropped real Oscar onto the floor So many beats of the scene, so many We haven't even talked about Stanley's heart attack Oh my gosh At the end of all of this, he's on the ground. And Michael is like telling him he can't die, he can't die. He's shoving a wallet in his mouth. Yeah, Michael's yelling Barack Obama is president. You can't die, Stanley We got a fan question from Megan G Leslie David Baker spoke at my college and said that the scene where Michael puts the wallet in his mouth was improvised Is this true Lady, I looked it up in the script. It is not there. It ended with him saying, you can't die, Barack Obama is president That wallet bit was on the day. Oh my gosh Well, I have a fan question that made me chuckle, Jenna Emma An wrote An and said Meredith has these kind of dirty question mark brown boots she's carrying at around one minute forty nine seconds. And throughout some of the cold open, was there any deleted scene or explanation about this? Oh. Well, Emma, you got me curious. I went to your time code. You are not wrong. I took a photo. Look, Jenna, I'll put it in stories recognize these boots bet money that those are Kate' ug boots That wardrobe gave us to keep under our desk when we were so cold Meredidith boots. So I texted Kate. ate in stress relief when Dwight almost burns down the building Did you grab your actual ug boots from under your desk? Fans are asking. And I sent her the picture and she wrote back, H. I did So the direction we were given was clearly everyone's panicking and they're grabbing their things. They want to get out of the building. And she said, I grab my ug boots. They are actually not dirty. They're a dusty pink So there you go, Emma, nice catch. Lady we should take a break. That's the cold open. That's just the cold open. We still have this whole episode to break down and there is so much more to talk about. All right, we'll be back. Hey, before we jump back into the show, let's take a quick break But not just any break, this is a refreshing break with Snnapple. We all know about Snnapple's iconic real facts, so let's take a minute to go over some of our faves Snapple Re Fact seven o five Every ton of recycled paper saves about seventeen trees. 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He was so good You know that bit where they do the little runner where like take heed, heated. Did you look it up to see if it was scripted? I did because Sona Y wanted to know Sona, so did I? It was scripted. It was scripted until the very last Michael heated again Yes. Stve had added to the bit. Steve added to the bit at the very end, but everything else is scripted. I actually texted that couplet of dialogue to Paul Lieberstin and I said, this is perfection. you were so funny And then Steve at the very end added one more. and I can see Rain trying not to break. He actually has to look down at the table. Yeah There's two things I have to point out also in this scene First of all In this dialogue, Dwit's like imagine my frustration, a safety officer that they're not listening Excuse me. Angela Martin was the safety officer in basketball She couldn't find the first aid kit because Dwight had moved it and she said, how many times do I have to tell you the safety officer. It was like their first little like spat. Yeah. So I don't know what's happened. Dwight clearly has not let this go and he thinks he's the safety officer. Well, he's not the safety officer anymore. No, he's not because Michael's gonna be the safety man That's what he calls it. He calls it the safety man. I have one other thing I have to point out Because it made me laugh so hard, Jenna. I rewound this and watched this beat three times When Michael gets up and walks out and looks out at the city, you know, and then he comes and sits down next to Kendall, he like scooches Kendall over and he says Can you sho it down, please? Shove it down, please. Did't catch that. It's so funny. That is not in the script Shove it down, please. It's not in the script And the way that John and Andy Buckley just rolled with all of those little moments, oh, they're so good Well, when they get back to Dunder Mythlin familyam is coming back into the office. Michael's like sh quiet, quite quiet. No loud noises No surprises. Yeah Stanley has a talking head where he explains that in the past he has been very abrupt with people But the doctor said he needs to find a more positive way to relate to people or he will die. Well, you notice in that talking head there was a montage a montage of moments of Stanley being abrupt with people. Yeah, of him losing his cool A montage like this was very unusual for our show It was added to help give more context to the character of Stanley for all of those post Super Bowl viewers. I was gonna to say because a documentary doesn't do a montage. Not normally. Not normally. But when you're after the Super Bowl, you do, you do. Another beat of the scene that didn't make it in. It's in the deleted scenes that really made me laugh, Jenna, is that Michael, you know, wants everyone to help Stanley. He's urging them So here is how that manifests Andy makes Stanley a mixyD of Ina songs. Oh. It's like thanks Michael assigns Kevin to be his bathroom buddy Okay, As Kevin says, in case you have a heart attack on the crapper. Okay. And Stanley's like, I can go to the bathroom by myself. Thankk you Phyllas just looks at him and can't stop smiling And she has a really sweet talking head where she says She's known Stanley Hudson a long time and the way he breathes his sort of loud breathing is soothing to her. It's really cute. So you have that Pyllis moment And then Michael says, Don't worry, Stanley, I got you a portable defibrillator. and then tries to go put it him and everyone's like, No no Oh my gosh, I remember shooting that. Yes. And then Michael like thinks that's funny and wants to like hook everyone up to it. to like defeibrillate. Yes. you say that. defefibrillate everybody gets the defibrillator and as a joke puts it on Meredith's seat. Meredith sits on it An doesn't even notice it, but all of her hair goes up in the air. And that's another stunt we had to do. They had to make Kate Flannery's hair rise up with static Wow didnn't make it in, but it was pretty funny Michael is determined to make sure that we all know what to do should Stanley ever have another heart attack He's asked us all to come into the conference room for a CPR class. Yes. A class he wishes he was running Apparently, You have to have an actual CPR trainer or else you don't get the dummy The Red Cross won't give you the dummy doll unless you have an actually trained CPR instructor We got a fan question. Okay, from Stephanie H I loved this question played Rose, the CPR instructor and why is she so perfect? She is Absolutely amazing Her name is Robin Lynch. She is an actress. She believed she was a CPR trainer I reached out to Allison Jones And she said she found Robin through just a general casting call. and that Robin was by far the best person that they saw for the role She just plays it so perfectly straight. She's there to teach CPR. This office goes off the rails and she just tries to stay the course. I did slide into her DMs on Insta. Yeah, Robin, we tried to get a hold you. We wanted to chat with you, Robin. If you ever see our message, let us know. We'll chat you up and a revisited. Should we talk about all the things that go wrong in this CPR class? There are many. There are many. First of all, it starts with Kevin Kevin gives out at twenty seconds. He's like, I'm calling it. And then Rose is like, does anyone else want to turn? And Dwight says absolutely he would not The camera is pulling back away from Dwight to reveal the room. Jenna at nine minutes, fifty seconds I am whispering to someone off camera, No What are you talking about? What are you? I'm not looking at Rose. I'm looking at someone off camera Lking too, wait, let me ask you this question Could you be saying no to the other camera. I think so, maybe, but it looks really weird and I filmed it and I'm going to show it to you. And I'll put this in stories, but first I'm going to show my BFF guys. Okay, ready play What is saying no Look at my face No. I think that's an improv you're doing if you're doing it to camera I think it's an improv that I'm doing to Matt's ownone B camera. Yeah. Angela in deleted scenes had a talking head where she's like, I am not putting my mouth on that thing. Who knows whose mouth has been on it? So I think I was sort of improvising off that talking head. But it looks really random if you catch it. It's a very, very good catch, lady Well, Stanley's going to give it a go because for some reason, Michael thinks Stanley should learn how to resuscitate himself. We might not always be there. rightight? And then of course, in true Michael fashion, he takes over the meeting He's going to tell them how to do CPR now, right And they're doing it all wrong Rose says, Listen, guys, you need a hundred beats per minute. And she suggests They pumped to the tune of staying alive by the beeGes At first, Michael confuses this with I will survive But then Rose starts singing, staying alive, you know, ah, a uh staying alive. staying alive Then Andy starts singings staying alive, Kelly starts dancing. It turns into a dance party. I actually have the clip if you want to hear it. Let's hear it Ah ah a staying alive, staying alive U Stay alive, Stay alive. M, you can't tell by the way how I use my walk. I'm a woman's man don't time to talk. Was it gl women more have been kicked around since I was born? Well it's alright. It's okay. You can look the other way. L know how of f and and and and I'm sayay a lot, sayaying a lot. I mean, poor roose We had a fan question from Mean Dee in Scotland Was any of the scene with the Red Cross lady improvised such as Kelly's dancing or Andy's singing? No, guys, this whole thing, all the singing and the dancing, it was all scripted and we followed this scene pretty much as written. Brilliantly written out who pitched this idea tell them, it is Jen Solata. Yes. This whole staying alive CPR idea came from her She said that she had heard it was true She looked it up and cross checked it. She said she cross checked it again because she didn't want to put it on TV unless it was true And then she shared with me that before the office, she had been a writer's assistant on home improvement and that the writers had done an episode where The Jonathan Taylor Thomas character found a lump on his throat And it turned out that it was a thyroid issue in the episode, right? And Jen said that she was later in charge of opening the mail and they got letters from all of these families that said after watching that episode, it helped save their children's lives becausecause their children had had a thyroid lump And because of the episode, they got it checked out And guys, since this stress relief episode aired People have used this CPR technique to save lives Jen shared with us that she heard about a guy pulling a woman out of a car and doing CPR to the tune of staying alive because of this episode I looked it up. It's true. There's many articles. I'm gonna start with this one Okay, in January of twenty nineteen Rolling Stones ran the story A scene from the office that dealt with first aid technique is credited to helping save a life after an Arizona man despite having no CPR training, managed to resuscitate a woman in medical distress His name, interestingly enough, is Cross Scott. Whoa. Yeah, his last name is Scott. So, he found an unconscious woman behind the wheel of her car that was rolling down a dirt road Wow He smashed the window. got her out And then he's quoted as saying, I've never prepared myself for CPR in my life. I had no idea what I was doing Thankfully Scott had seen an episode of the office that dealt with CPR training and knew to do chest compressions to the cadence of staying alive They reached out to Courtney Slanaker, executive director of the Red Cross Southern Arizona Chapter, and she told The Daily Star that if you don't do CPR, the victim will die, Don't be afraid to act. Whatever you do will help that victim and hopefully prevent a death. And Courtney confirmed that staying alive is in fact the correct rhythm for chest compressions Wow, Ginilada You got it right Wow. There's so many guys, but just recently in January of this year The Today Sh shared a story about a four year old girl who collapsed while playing tag and her dad, Matt Uber, found her and started chest compressions again to the tune of staying alive And he's quoted as saying, when I was trying to think about what to do about CPR My mind literally went to that episode of the office where they are doing CPR training and doing the compressions to the beat of staying alive I mean, that just got me choked up to imagine that father in that moment. I know And then he had something, anything he could do. I know. And there's more, I know there's more stories, but those two were two that stood out to me Amazing And one of the things that after reading some of these stories, Jenna, that people share is that How important knowing CPR is and that we should all learn CPR. Yes, we have this staying alive, so you know the beats, but that we should all learn our CPR safety because it really can save a life. I know that when we had our son, our first child, Lee and I both did an infant CPR training same But we should do a refresher. Yeah. Well, it's not over for Rose. She's not out of the woods yet. Things are about to get even crazier. Yeah, she announces that we failed to save the life of our CPR dummy White suggests that the next course of action would be to harvest the organs. for organ donation And then he of course grabs the giant knife that is strapped to his Cattle. Yeah And he hacks into the dummy's chest. Yeah. And we all freak out. Yeah, we freak out because then he cuts off the dummy's face and puts on his face. Like Silence of the Lambs. Yeah We had some fan mail about it. People would like to know how many CPR dummies were used in this episode I asked Randy. I know for sure Rain really did cut into it because we watched him do it Landy said we used three CPR mannequins in total Now In a minute, David Wallace is going to say that they cost three thousand five hundred dollars each but Randy said that was a little exaggerated. He said there are some top end dummies that come with very sophisticated features like articulating heads and heartbeat simulators Those cost at the time around one thousand dollars each, but we used one that cost about seven hundred and fifty dollars each Okay But listen, Dwi is in trouble again He has to go back to corporate and he has to discuss his mutilation of the CPR dummy. I really can't believe the guy is still Employed Now he has this huge task where he has to go make this very public apology to his coworkers and they have to sign that they received his apology. Yes, that's going be now Dwight's task Meanwhile, we've got this very interesting someomewhat odd other storyline that's going to come up It really seems like it comes out of nowhere It's in the break room. Andy, I guess is really good at pirating movies so you can see them before they come out. And Jim and Pam are gonna watch this movie with Andy on his laptop. Yes We got a lot of fan mail about this pirated movie scene Hannah E, Abby S, and Bet S said, I am absolutely obsessed with the strange mini moovie Andy Watches with Jack Black and several other big names. How did this subplot come about Does it rhyme with Snooper ball? It does It does. Remember when I said there was that extra scrutiny Well, one of the things that the network was very insistent about was that this episode have big name guest stars. So they could flash it about. Yeah, Jack bllack Jessica Alba Yes. There was a lot of comparison to when other shows had run after the Super Bowl like friends who had featured big guest stars But Greg And the rest of our writers were very against this Especially against it was Allison Jones, our casting director. They all felt that to have like a big name guest star walk into the office pretending to play a character at a small paper company would just totally shatter the reality of the documentary premise of our show. We would get all these new eyes on the episode maybe, but the conceit of our show is that it's a documentary. That's right. And you can't have Jack Black come in and pretend to be a salesman Exactly, but you can years later have James Spader play Robert, California. and have Idra Elva C and all these other Ol ofon Kathy Bates Okay, but for now, for now O integrity is intact, okay? And Greg came up with this idea, this fix that would not infect the reality of the show And that was where the idea for Pam, Jim, and Andy to watch this pirated movie And I guess, Terry Weinberg, who was one of our original executive producers was now working as the executive vice president of NBC Entertertainment, and Greg said that she was really instrumental in fighting like the kind of top brass at NBC to agree to this They did Black was the first person to commit. He was all in. he loved our show. Florence Leachman Amazing, by the way. Aazing. She heard a pitch on what the story would be. And she was like, yes, I am in. And then finally, we got Jessica Alba So the movie is called Mrs Albert Hannity. And Jack Black is playing Sam, Cloris Leichman is playing Lily, AKA Nana, and Jessica Alba plays Sophie Sort of a romantic love triangle story? Jack Black is dating or engaged to Jessica Alba's character and she's introducing him to her grandmother And there's an instant connection. I mean go to shake hands and music starts playing. Yeah. there's some electricity there. Well, I want you to know there were some alt ideas for this parody movie, Jenna. Oh And I went back to the table read draft, not the shooting draft, just to see what it said in the table Read. In the table Read draft, the movie was going be called Hang Glider Cop And Jack Black would be a cop named Tanner. That's kind of a rogue cop. and he gets as punishment sent over to the hang gliding division Okay And now he's gonna be a hang gliding cop. A wacky comedy. L like a cop comedy. okay They didn't go with that one. Probably getting a hang glider was too much of a project. Gosh, I'd love to see that movie. Hang Glider cop Black. Are you listening? HD division. We got more fan questions about this. Livian G Norit F and Maddie L said, D we get to meet Jack Black, Cloris Leachman or Jessica Alba No We did not work the same days they worked They filmed all of their stuff in one day at a private residence in West LA The rest of us all had the day off They didn't even come to our base camp. No, they were at of house. I looked it up on the call sheet. They started really early that day On the call sheet, it said breakfast would be ready for the crew at four forty two AM in a nearby park. O. They had to get everything in one day. Yeah The actors all arrived really early. They did their hair, makeup, and wardrobe fittings All in the morning And then they were finally allowed to go into the neighborhood where the house was located at seven AM. So they had vans that took everyone from this park base camp over to the location and That's where they filmed it So we never met. So while they're watching Mrs. Albert Hannity, we start seeing Pam getting all these text messages. And we learn this storyline Pam's parents are in a rough patch Yes, and that Pam's dad is bunking with Jim and Pam It is really funny though, that Jim and Pam are having these little sidebar relationship conversations and Andy thinks it's about the movie. Yeah. Andy thinks you guys are just like geniuses at relationships that you can just figure all this stuff out. Well, something else I should mention, Angela is that We were actually watching That's one of my questions for you Ased Jenna, were they actually watching the movie on the laptop? So we were Wh did you not react to chlorus coming out of the tub? You have to be distracted on your phone. I was like, holy crap. So they had shot this a long time ago. If you look at the call sheets for this episode, this bit of us in the conference room was not even on the schedule for these nine days. We shot this another week later so that they could put together this mini movie so that we could have some reactions The first time they played them for us, we couldn't speak We were riveted. We were like, what are we watching? That was what I thought. I was like, how can Jim and Pam like not just be falling out of their chairs right now? And Andy's like, guysys, they're making out. L So what they did was they showed it to us and then we watched a blank screen, but we knew what we were supposed to be reacting to. You knew the beats of it. Yes. Yeah. And then they inserted it into the screen. You know, if you notice, it's all over the shoulder. Yeah, yeah, ye the thing. I was very curious about that Yeah, it was bunonkers. Well, after all the texting with Pam's mom and dad, Pam, says Jim, can talk to my dad You're so good. Yeah Maybe he'll open up to you. Yeah This is not going to go the way Pam planned. Yeah That's for next week Well, before we close out this episode, Michael has decided to do yoga in the conference room for relaxation.