More Casual Friday

This week on Office Ladies 6.0, Jenna and Angela revisit "Casual Friday" with a fresh dive into one of Season five's funniest episodes. They uncover new candy bag alts, extended Superfan scenes, and behind-the-scenes discoveries, including the surprising cost of one cut prop, the original ending that almost changed Pam's future at Dunder Mifflin, and some memorable wardrobe details. Plus, Angela shares hilarious digital clutter from 2009, the ladies discuss whether they're too old to wear blazers with bras, and answer a fan question about becoming LEGO minifigures. So, skip the tie, throw on your most casual outfit... and enjoy! Office Ladies Website - Submit a fan question for Around the Town, Chit Chat, and Second Drink favorite moment:https://officeladies.com/submitaquestion Follow Us on Instagram:OfficeLadiesPod https://www.instagram.com/officeladiespod/ Follow Us on YouTube https://youtube.com/@officeladiespod?si=D0oKJwFJuK9txzFM Follow Us on TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@officeladiespod?_t=ZT-8y1gqTrJyOs&_r=1

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  I feel like the guys on my holiday gift list are always the hardest to shop for. Because I don't know, I don't know, like, what's the trend? What do they want? I have teenage boys. It can be tricky.

• 1:09Speaker 00

  No, my husband, my dad, and my son are my three hardest to shop for. And I don't want to go the gift card route. This year, I am determined, I'm going to get each of these fellows something great. And I've got a good place to go to give me some ideas. You know it. It's the Macy's Online Gift Guide. You know what they have right now? They've got the Levi's 578 Baggy Jeans. Like, those are in. Those are in.

• 1:36Speaker 01

  I know.

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  And I've been buying my dad something fashion from Macy's every year now for Father's Day and Christmas.

• 1:43Speaker 01

  It's so cute.

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  And he loves it.

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• 2:06Speaker 01

  I'm Jenna Fischer. And I'm Angela Kinsey. We were on The Office together. And we're best friends. And now... We're doing the ultimate office lovers podcast just for you. Each week we will dive deeper into the world of the office with exclusive interviews, behind the scenes, details, and lots of VFF stories. We're the Office Lady 6.0.

• 2:27Speaker 00

  Hello.

• 2:28Speaker 01

  Hello, hello, everybody. Lady, we're sort of dressed the same.

• 2:34Speaker 00

  We're dressed the same and we're both recording from our home offices today. In black t-shirts.

• 2:40Speaker 01

  And black glasses.

• 2:41Speaker 00

  Did you put any makeup on today?

• 2:44Speaker 01

  Do I look like it?

• 2:48Speaker 00

  Did you do your hair?

• 2:50Speaker 01

  This is day two hair because I had like kind of a fun job yesterday.

• 2:53Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 2:54Speaker 01

  So this looks like. Thank you. Thank you. So yeah, I didn't make any other effort and then I have day two hair.

• 3:00Speaker 00

  I mean, for me, I've always felt like if my hair looks good, that's more important than putting on makeup.

• 3:08Speaker 01

  Oh, for sure. For sure.

• 3:11Speaker 00

  Which is why I'm so very excited to have hair again. I have a full bob now.

• 3:15Speaker 01

  You do, and it's so cute and sassy. I love it.

• 3:18Speaker 00

  I think I'm going to grow it two or three more inches. Just where it just brushes the shoulder.

• 3:25Speaker 01

  You know, I cut three inches off my hair. Sorry, guys. This is a lot of talk about haircuts and whatnot, but I mean, I like a summer trim.

• 3:33Speaker 00

  Same.

• 3:34Speaker 01

  I know we're talking a lot about hair right now, but it is 98 degrees out today. It is so hot.

• 3:40Speaker 00

  And yet we are casual. We are casual today.

• 3:46Speaker 01

  Look at you go. You're working in our episode.

• 3:49Speaker 00

  Did you like that? Did you like that?

• 3:51Speaker 01

  I did like it. So why don't we share with everyone what we're doing today?

• 3:55Speaker 00

  Well, this episode was inspired by some mail we got in our second drink folder, specifically about the episode Casual Friday from season five. And it kind of got us investigating this episode again. And there was so much we wanted to discuss. It was too much for a second drink. So today we're bringing it to 6.0 and we're going to dive in.

• 4:17Speaker 01

  We are. You guys, we went into the scripts, the candy bag alts. And we're also going to discuss the new scenes that were added to the superfan. Here's the beautiful thing about the office, you guys. Each time I re-watch it, and I know you guys listening out there do this too. I feel like I discover something new. And let me tell you. I loved our original breakdown of this episode. It's a really good one. If you want to listen to something on a road trip or a slow day at work. I mean, Brian Baumgartner comes on. He talks about that famous chilly cold open. We also talked with Randy Cordray, our producer, our costume designer, Alicia Raycraft, Kate Flannery. I mean, we really dug in.

• 4:56Speaker 00

  But also, we got info from Creed Bratton, from John Krasinski, and from director Brett Forrester. I mean, it is a stacked episode. And yes, if you can believe it, we have even more to discuss today. But first, I think we should do our chit chat question. It was sent in by Freya N. in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.

• 5:17Speaker 02

  Hey, Office Ladies. My name is Freya. And I was wondering, because you guys talk a lot about food and snacking on the podcast. So I'm interested to know, what is your perfect food day? Like breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert? You can eat anything. You can fly anywhere in the world. Unlimited amount of money. Calories don't count. No allergies. Yeah, so anything goes. But yeah, I'm just curious to know what would be your perfect food day?

• 5:57Speaker 02

  Like, what would you be eating for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert? Again, I love your podcast, and I hope you continue to do this for many, many years to come. Thank you. Bye.

• 6:11Speaker 00

  Oh, Freya, I would need to start by saying I feel so seen by you. Particularly because you mentioned our love of snacks, as well as all food. And lady, I have a new snack.

• 6:24Speaker 01

  What? You're coming in hot.

• 6:26Speaker 00

  I'm sorry. Okay, you know I love, like, cheddar cracker sort of things. You know.

• 6:31Speaker 01

  Oh, I know this.

• 6:34Speaker 00

  You know I ate those Trader Joe's cheddar crackers by, like, the box load.

• 6:39Speaker 01

  I've seen you eat, like, half a box.

• 6:41Speaker 00

  Yeah. And then after that, I got super obsessed with

• 6:44Speaker 01

  Annie's.

• 6:45Speaker 00

  Cheddar bunnies.

• 6:46Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 6:47Speaker 00

  I have a new one.

• 6:49Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 6:50Speaker 00

  Okay. I discovered them when I was in Chicago, and I can't stop. They are simple mills, almond flour, farmhouse cheddar crackers. And it's the texture. It's the way, like when you eat it, it's so good.

• 7:05Speaker 01

  Okay, I'm sold. I'll try it.

• 7:08Speaker 00

  Well, Freya, my first answer to your question is my snack would be cheddar crackers.

• 7:14Speaker 01

  My snack is still and has been for decades, a cheese stick and some pretzels. And we all know I chomp. I don't pull the string. Okay, let's get over it.

• 7:23Speaker 00

  Okay. Well, what is our perfect food day? Where are we having breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert? No limitations. Lee and I play this game sometimes. It's really fun.

• 7:33Speaker 01

  Let's go back and forth. Let's go back and forth. You say breakfast, I say breakfast. Go back and forth.

• 7:38Speaker 00

  Okay, I want to go to France for breakfast.

• 7:40Speaker 01

  Ooh la la. Oh, because that's right. Freya said we could go wherever.

• 7:43Speaker 00

  Yes. So I want to go to France and I want to have like a single awesome, like French press coffee. I want to have some muesli with some like fresh, fresh yogurt. And I want to have some delicious pastries.

• 7:58Speaker 01

  Okay. You know, I'm not a huge breakfast eater. You know this. But I love Josh's homemade granola. I do. And my favorite thing is to eat his granola and I take some bananas and I chop them up and I have peanut butter and honey and Josh's granola. And I kind of mix it all together. That's one of my favorite breakfasts.

• 8:17Speaker 00

  Okay, I like that answer.

• 8:19Speaker 01

  Okay, lunch.

• 8:20Speaker 00

  Lunch. I've shared about this before on the podcast. I want to go back to Tokyo and go to the Shibuya Food Show. And maybe just have some chicken ramen or a bento box. But I'm going to Japan for lunch.

• 8:38Speaker 01

  Okay, okay. I love lunch. It's like one of my favorite things. If you get to splurge and go out for lunch, you know? Because I feel like I'm always just having a sandwich at home. So if I get to go out, oh, you know what I love?

• 8:54Speaker 00

  What?

• 8:56Speaker 01

  I love just like a little mom and pop like Mexican food place. Like there's one in the valley here in Los Angeles called Tony's Mexican Grill. And I love their lunch combos, like a cheese enchilada, a crispy shell taco, a tamale. That is like one of the best lunches.

• 9:18Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 9:19Speaker 01

  Okay. Dinner.

• 9:21Speaker 00

  Dinner.

• 9:22Speaker 01

  I'm going far for dinner, lady.

• 9:24Speaker 00

  Where are you going?

• 9:25Speaker 01

  I already know where I'm going. I want to take you guys to Singapore. You guys know, I grew up in Indonesia. We'd go to Singapore a lot. Listen. You need to go to a Hocker Center. I've been to La Pasat. There's a bunch, but it is a culinary experience, Jenna. It is amazing. Like there's just about every type of food that you would want to try. I mean, there's a street called Sate Street and you can get different types of satay.

• 9:50Speaker 00

  Wow.

• 9:51Speaker 01

  Lady, lady, it is truly such a cool experience and the food is so good. And by the way, it's open all day. So if you wanted to do breakfast and lunch there, you could, but I would take you there for dinner. We'd get some nasi goreng, some really good fried rice, some chicken satay. There's, oh my goodness, it like you could be there for hours.

• 10:10Speaker 00

  That sounds amazing.

• 10:11Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 10:12Speaker 00

  I like that. Okay.

• 10:13Speaker 01

  What about you? What about you?

• 10:15Speaker 00

  For dinner? I don't know. I love Indian food.

• 10:18Speaker 01

  Oh, you really do.

• 10:19Speaker 00

  I love Italian food. I love a smash burger.

• 10:23Speaker 01

  I love a smash burger.

• 10:25Speaker 00

  Can I leave dinner open for like, what am I feeling? Those would be my three things. I'm having one of those three things for dinner.

• 10:32Speaker 01

  Freya, we are clearly very passionate about this question. It's like our brains are breaking over it.

• 10:38Speaker 00

  A little bit, but I know my dessert hardcore. I want a delicious strawberry and rhubarb pie. With a nice scoop of vanilla ice cream.

• 10:49Speaker 01

  Well, one of my favorite all time desserts is a chocolate meringue pie. My mom made them for me growing up. Now Josh makes it for me. I get one every year on my birthday and I will fight you for, if you come for my chocolate meringue pie, I'll be like, hey. Like I think I've told you this lady, Josh's friend Devon was over and Josh was like, hey, Devon wants a piece of pie. And I'm like, not a big piece. Like pull them aside. I was like, just give them a little slice.

• 11:15Speaker 00

  That's very funny. Yeah. And you know, for me, strawberry rhubarb pie is the one thing I will not bake myself because rhubarb is such a high maintenance thing. It's time consuming. And I've never cooked it. I've never made it. But if I'm anywhere and I see like rhubarb on a menu, I'm ordering it.

• 11:37Speaker 01

  You're all about it.

• 11:38Speaker 00

  I love it. I get so excited.

• 11:40Speaker 01

  Well, there you go, Freya. Thank you so much for sending in that question.

• 11:44Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 11:44Speaker 01

  I'm hungry now. I'm hungry.

• 11:47Speaker 00

  I'm realizing I don't have any of those crackers and I'm gonna have to put them on the shopping list for later today.

• 11:52Speaker 01

  Send me a link. I want to get some.

• 11:54Speaker 00

  All right. Oh, I'll bring them into the studio next time we're in studio.

• 11:57Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 11:58Speaker 00

  All right. Well, why don't we take a break and then when we come back, we're gonna dive into Casual Friday.

• 12:02Speaker 01

  I have some fun digital clutter shares and I also found something hilarious online I want to talk about.

• 12:08Speaker 00

  Oh, yay. I can't wait.

• 12:16Speaker 00

  I have a new section on Quince that I've been shopping from. I'm now into the handbags. I got the Eloise hand woven clutch in a cream off white. I love it.

• 12:28Speaker 01

  So chic.

• 12:29Speaker 00

  It was less than $50 and I needed something that was nicer for summery outfits.

• 12:37Speaker 01

  Well, guess what? I have decided this is my season of the cardigan.

• 12:41Speaker 00

  Oh, okay.

• 12:42Speaker 01

  So I got the 100% organic cotton cropped cardigan. I got it in the camel color. It is so stinking cute and it was $49.90. Look at that.

• 12:54Speaker 00

  Oh, it's so cute.

• 12:55Speaker 01

  I know.

• 12:56Speaker 00

  I like the buttons.

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• 13:52Speaker 01

  Well, welcome back. Let's dive into some Casual Friday. And why don't we start with, wait for it, it's been a while, guys, but I'm gonna go into my digital clutter.

• 14:03Speaker 00

  I'm very excited for this. I don't know what this is.

• 14:05Speaker 01

  I know you don't. I was looking through my old emails to see if you and I had exchanged any while we were filming this episode, and I found something that really cracked me up.

• 14:14Speaker 00

  What?

• 14:15Speaker 01

  So here's what we were doing during this time in our lives.

• 14:18Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 14:19Speaker 01

  This email happened right after we filmed Casual Friday. I guess we were just starting Company Picnic, right? And there were lots of festivities going on for that 100th episode of The Office, right?

• 14:30Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 14:31Speaker 01

  Including a party, and we talked a little bit about this before, you know, when the 100th episode of The Office came around and Company Picnic. But I did not share this email that I found, and I'm gonna read it to you.

• 14:44Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 14:46Speaker 01

  This is April 19, 2009, 2:31 a.m.

• 14:52Speaker 00

  What?

• 14:53Speaker 01

  "From Jenna Fischer to Angela Kinsey."

• 14:56Speaker 00

  Who I've never, I can't believe I was awake at that time, anytime in my life.

• 15:01Speaker 01

  Subject title, semicolon, "Toilet."

• 15:06Speaker 00

  What? What is this?

• 15:10Speaker 01

  And then, this is what the body of the email says. Yep, I'm on the toilet.

• 15:17Speaker 01

  I figured this was easier than texting and it is keeping me occupied as I deal with whatever is wrong with me.

• 15:25Speaker 00

  Oh my god.

• 15:27Speaker 01

  Ugh. I'm just praying it isn't the flu, but if it is, I am profoundly grateful that it didn't hit three days ago or something, because I think that's while we were filming.

• 15:39Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 15:40Speaker 01

  You go on to say, "I wish I had good gossip from the party. My favorite conversation was with Jeff Blitz and Jen Salata. I told them the story of how you wrote, quote, 'water' on your water bottle instead of your name when you were sleep deprived after having the baby. Jen said one time, when they passed the Starbucks order sheet, she wrote that she wanted an Andy talking head because she was so wiped.

• 16:06Speaker 01

  They also made a 100 moments montage. I really wish you could have been there. Okay, I'm heading to bed now. I'm not feeling so hot. Now I want to throw up. Talk tomorrow. Hope this passes, Jenna."

• 16:18Speaker 00

  Oh my gosh.

• 16:20Speaker 01

  Okay, lady, my response. 7:44 a.m. Same day. Ugh, lady, so sorry. Definitely just take care of yourself. I am bummed that I wasn't there to celebrate our 100 eps, but honestly, my night here was great. I'm glad my sitter bailed. I was so happy to be with my little gal. Right now, Isabel and I are eating Cheerios and watching dolphins jump. I get why people live by the beach. I hope you feel better. Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T."

• 16:50Speaker 01

  And that is because I had rented a little place near where we were filming Company Picnic because I didn't want Isabel to be in a car seat for an hour and I wanted her to be with me because I didn't work every day. I'm not in that episode a ton, you know? So I made it like a little mini vacay. And yeah, I guess I had a babysitter that bailed, so I didn't get to go. You did have a follow-up email, lady, that said, "Thank God, I'm feeling better." Oh, and one other thing from the party. I watched a certain someone hit on a bunch of women and one other person dirty dance up on their boyfriend.

• 17:28Speaker 01

  I'm not going to mention names.

• 17:32Speaker 01

  I've got good digital clutter, lady.

• 17:35Speaker 00

  Lady, you know, it's like, I want you to have less emails in your inbox, but I love your digital clutter share so much. Please never clean out your inbox, please.

• 17:47Speaker 01

  When I found this, for everyone listening, I left Jenna a message and I was like, you will not believe what I'm reading in my email right now. It's bringing me such joy.

• 17:58Speaker 00

  All right. Well, that was a great kickoff. I have some trivia that I found in my digital clutter. It's not nearly as good as that, but I did find out that the original title for Casual Friday was Office Reunited.

• 18:13Speaker 01

  Huh. I mean, I think Casual Friday is such a more zippy title, don't you?

• 18:16Speaker 00

  It is. But I mean, you know, this episode is where Michael, Pam and Ryan come back from working at Michael Scott Paper Company. So it is like, you know.

• 18:26Speaker 01

  That would describe what was happening. Yeah.

• 18:28Speaker 00

  Yeah. But Casual Friday, far superior title, yes.

• 18:31Speaker 01

  Okay. Well, this episode opens with that famous Kevin Chili scene, right? We talked about it a lot on the podcast. Like we said in our original breakdown, Brian actually talks all about it. And we also discuss it with Erin Schur, who wrote it. But I have some new trivia for you.

• 18:47Speaker 00

  Oh.

• 18:47Speaker 01

  Yeah. It's about that scene and it's thanks to a letter from Michael B. in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Michael says, I just acquired some of Pam's items that NBC auctioned off from her desk. Some of the papers were quote, Dunder Mifflin accounting actuals, which I believe are actually just lists of some of Phil Shea's prop purchases, but printed on Dunder Mifflin letterhead. For this episode, it lists that three quote, aged chili pots were purchased from a company named Studio Art and Technology for $163.88.

• 19:23Speaker 00

  Oh my gosh.

• 19:25Speaker 01

  Isn't that wild?

• 19:26Speaker 00

  Wow. That is a really cool keepsake.

• 19:30Speaker 01

  I know. And you know, Phil would do that, right? He would take just like, I mean, office papers, even from our own production office and use them as props on the set.

• 19:39Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 19:41Speaker 00

  Ah, that's neat.

• 19:42Speaker 01

  Yeah, I thought so too. Thanks for writing in, Michael.

• 19:45Speaker 00

  Well, I've got a little background catch, a new one.

• 19:49Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 19:49Speaker 00

  It's at 2 minutes and 16 seconds. It's in that conference room scene that opens the episode. I did not notice this before, but Creed has his eyes closed. And I wondered, was this a forgotten storyline? Like, why are his eyes closed?

• 20:05Speaker 01

  Yeah, I saw that too. And some folks had commented on that. And I couldn't find anything in the scripts about that. But I took a screen grab of that moment. And I texted it to Creed and I said, Creed, are you pretending to meditate in this moment? I mean, it is Casual Friday. He looks like he's dressed in some type of yoga spa retreat outfit. Creed wrote back, well, I don't know, but that sounds as good a reason as any. I think meditation sounds right. And then I wrote back, ha, well, I'm convinced that was your acting choice. And he wrote back and said, meth it all the way, pumpkin.

• 20:40Speaker 00

  Yeah. It wasn't in the script. I checked the script to see if there was something that says like Creed is gonna spend the day meditating or something. I think that was his added little layer.

• 20:52Speaker 01

  Yeah, Creed thinks so too. Well, we also got this letter from a listener in Santa Clarita, California. Evelyn R. said, hey, ladies, I'm a longtime listener and now I have my husband hooked on your podcast. I loved this episode and was curious what the script said about everyone's Casual Friday outfits. How were they described? And you know what, Jenna, I realized I didn't do a costume breakdown for Casual Friday.

• 21:17Speaker 00

  What?

• 21:17Speaker 01

  I know.

• 21:18Speaker 00

  You're right.

• 21:19Speaker 01

  I always do those.

• 21:20Speaker 00

  You always do them.

• 21:22Speaker 01

  I know. Well, Evelyn, I went to our shooting draft and I found some amazing tidbits. In answer to your question, here's what it said in the script about what people were wearing in that first conference room scene. It said, interior conference room, everyone is there. People are dressed in casual attire. Stanley in a t-shirt, Oscar in a windbreaker and jeans, Kelly in a jumpsuit, Dwight wears the same outfit as usual, but with no tie. Andy is wearing a shirt that says Ben Dover U. And on the back, apply within, with an arrow pointing to his butt.

• 21:59Speaker 00

  Okay. So it's very interesting that the script said that about Andy's shirt because I noticed Andy's shirt on this re-watch and I got curious about it because what he's actually wearing is a blue t-shirt that says, "Ask me about my butt," written in white letters. But the word "ask" is spelled A-S-S-K. The "ass" part is in red. It's in like, big letters. So it's like, capital A-S-S and then little K. And it's such an odd shirt. And I have to imagine it was made for this episode.

• 22:35Speaker 01

  What do you think Ed thought when he like showed up to his like costume fitting? And they're like, "You're wearing a shirt that just says like, 'ass' on it." Like, I'd be like, "What the hell?" And I just can't believe we didn't talk about it in our original breakdown. I did take a screen grab of it and you can plainly see at 18 minutes and 6 seconds, his shirt. I also want to point out that in that same scene, you can see that Toby is wearing a sweatshirt that says Costa Rica.

• 23:01Speaker 00

  I loved that detail.

• 23:02Speaker 01

  I did too. And Oscar does have on a windbreaker, all day long, even though he's inside.

• 23:09Speaker 01

  And then I also found this gem about Kelly's outfit in the candy bag alts. And Jenna, I think we should both read it, okay? I want you to read Kelly's lines and I'm going to read Erin's, okay?

• 23:19Speaker 00

  Okay, okay.

• 23:20Speaker 01

  Okay. And I'll do the stage direction. Ready?

• 23:23Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 23:24Speaker 01

  Kelly costume interior annex. Kelly wearing hip overalls and a fancy bra. Erin is walking through. Kelly says, "Do I look okay? Toby said I'm dressed inappropriately."

• 23:36Speaker 00

  Oh, no. I think you look great. Very cool. Are those condom earrings?

• 23:42Speaker 01

  Yeah, I designed them myself.

• 23:44Speaker 00

  People really went all out. I feel a little underdressed.

• 23:47Speaker 01

  You could use a little work. What kind of bra do you have going on under there? Hmm. Condom earrings she made herself?

• 23:55Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 23:56Speaker 01

  Oh, man.

• 23:58Speaker 00

  Lady, I have a question.

• 24:02Speaker 01

  Oh, okay.

• 24:02Speaker 00

  Are we too old to do the trend where you wear a suit, but you're not wearing a shirt, you just have a bra underneath?

• 24:11Speaker 01

  So you're wearing a blazer with just a bra?

• 24:14Speaker 00

  Right.

• 24:15Speaker 01

  Do you see any of the bra? Or is it just like the hint that it, does it like, what's the, what's going on here? Do I see the bra?

• 24:21Speaker 00

  No, it's obvious I don't have a shirt on. It's very obvious.

• 24:24Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 24:25Speaker 00

  Now, I do a thing all the time. It's my favorite look where I wear a bustier underneath my suit. It looks like a strapless bustier.

• 24:36Speaker 01

  Right.

• 24:36Speaker 00

  Under my suit, but it's like it goes into my pants and everything. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about like a lace bra. So what I've seen is skin to the pant.

• 24:47Speaker 01

  But you're not seeing the bra. It just looks like you have on no clothes and a jacket. Am I understanding?

• 24:52Speaker 00

  You see the bra.

• 24:53Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 24:53Speaker 00

  You see the lace bra peeking out underneath the jacket.

• 24:57Speaker 01

  I mean, I, you know what? Why not? Why not? Just let me live, you know?

• 25:05Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 25:05Speaker 01

  If you want to do it, do it. If that's your look, go for it. I don't know. I just think just own your style. If that's your style. I think I would be just, I don't know. I think I'd be futzing with all of it all night because I'd be like, I'm not sure where the fabric's supposed to be. But you know, recently a friend of mine who's 60, did the black bra under a white kind of crocheted top. And she was like, this is like a trend now and I like it. And I was like, do it. And yeah, and I thought she looked great. So.

• 25:44Speaker 00

  Yeah, I think now in my 50s, since I've moved into the zero Fs portion of my life.

• 25:51Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 25:53Speaker 00

  I sort of feel like it.

• 25:56Speaker 01

  I think you should do it.

• 25:58Speaker 00

  Like not even about sexiness or whatever. It's just like, I didn't feel like finding a shirt. It was too much effort.

• 26:09Speaker 01

  That's funny. That's funny to me. Wait, let's just peel back the onion. Is that this isn't about fashion? This is just, you don't feel like finding a shirt. So you have a jacket you ever brought, call it a day.

• 26:22Speaker 00

  Well, I found this great suit and I love the pants and I love the jacket. And I tried on probably, I don't know, eight shirts. None of them looked good. And at a certain point, I just put the jacket on and I was like, you know what? Maybe this is what it is. I'm done.

• 26:40Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 26:40Speaker 00

  No shirt. Just fuck it.

• 26:44Speaker 01

  I mean, all your bits and bobs are covered. Who cares?

• 26:47Speaker 00

  I mean, they're more than covered.

• 26:49Speaker 01

  Yeah. Lady, I have a pair of shorts that are just old and they're my favorite. And they're getting a little ratty. They're like cutoffs, you know? And I put them on the other day and they're short. And I thought, oh gosh, I'm 55. I probably shouldn't be wearing short jean cutoffs. Right? And I came downstairs in them and Josh like immediately was like, hey.

• 27:17Speaker 01

  And so I was like, well, you know what? I guess I still can rock them.

• 27:21Speaker 00

  I say, wear them.

• 27:22Speaker 01

  Yeah. You know who would wear them? How's this transition?

• 27:25Speaker 00

  What?

• 27:26Speaker 01

  Meredith. Meredith is the queen of zero Fs.

• 27:29Speaker 00

  Well, wait a second. Wait a second. Now I don't know. I don't know if I want to be like using Meredith as my style inspiration. Incidentally, I was curious how the shooting draft described Meredith's casual Friday look. And here's what it said, you know, after Toby reprimands her, it says, Meredith becomes defensive and stands up. She's wearing a tube dress that's riding a little too high. But you know what happened?

• 28:00Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 28:00Speaker 00

  She was a woman in her 50s. She was standing in her closet and she was like, I'm tired. I'm not going to put anything else with this. This is it.

• 28:10Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's all Meredith had for that day. She was done.

• 28:13Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 28:14Speaker 01

  Yeah. Okay, well, I was curious if, quote, casual Friday was still a thing in offices, right? So I went online, I did my Googling and lady, first of all, can you guess which department? Matt, feel free to weigh in on this as well. Guess which department in corporate offices has been labeled as the most casually dressed by folks online?

• 28:38Speaker 00

  IT?

• 28:39Speaker 01

  Yes, yes, IT. You got it right away. Matt, you didn't even get a chance to chime in.

• 28:45Speaker 04

  I didn't get a chance, it was too high. I like, I had to familiarize myself with the various different departments.

• 28:49Speaker 01

  You were going through your head like human resources, accounting. Yeah. IT is notoriously the most casual of any corporate office. And then I found a Reddit thread that had some fun shares about this whole casual Friday office tradition. So basically, you guys, it really has become a thing of the past, not to be a womp womp. But a lot of people in the 2000s said they would have to dress up Monday through Thursday, you know, suit and tie, but on Friday, they were allowed to wear khakis with no tie. That was sort of like the standard, like corporate office thing.

• 29:24Speaker 00

  Yeah, what's interesting about that is that casual Friday was not even like fully casual. It didn't even mean jeans. It just meant like less corporate, but you were still sort of business casual, I think.

• 29:38Speaker 01

  Yeah, casual Friday was basically Dwight in this episode.

• 29:41Speaker 00

  Yes, exactly.

• 29:42Speaker 01

  Right?

• 29:42Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 29:43Speaker 01

  And then another person wrote in and said, my offices actually got every other Friday off and we used to call our working Friday Aloha Friday and many people wore Hawaiian shirts. That was early 2000s and over time, many of the Hawaiian shirt wearers retired. I recently brought back a few Aloha shirts and started wearing them on Fridays. And one of the old timers said, damn, I forgot all about Aloha Friday. A much younger coworker asked what that was, so we explained that in the old days, many people would wear Hawaiian slash Aloha shirts on Fridays. She asked if we could do that again and we both said, of course, just wear an Aloha shirt. And lady, this made me think of our crew. Remember our crew on Fridays would often

• 30:28Speaker 01

  wear a Hawaiian shirt?

• 30:29Speaker 00

  They would.

• 30:30Speaker 01

  Yeah. But now we're the old timers.

• 30:33Speaker 00

  We are. That's like an old fashioned tradition.

• 30:36Speaker 01

  I know. And then this fellow from Germany wrote in with this curve ball. He said in the thread, does your office have a non casual Fridays? This really got people chatting. Okay. He said he works in IT and since his department usually just wears jeans and T shirts, a group of them thought it'd be fun to introduce a non casual Friday as a bit of a joke, where people actually dress up and often kind of formally. And folks love this lady. People shared that they do fancy Fridays or quote, formal Fridays, or they'll have like tie Thursdays. Isn't that so funny?

• 31:12Speaker 00

  Yeah. It's so crazy because the pandemic really changed office fashion. When everybody was working from home and then it was time to go back into a shared workspace. I think people were like, I'll come back to the office, but I'm not wearing that anymore. Like I want my comfy clothes all the time. I've noticed.

• 31:33Speaker 01

  Yeah. So now it's like flipped. It's like you're casual all week. And then if you want for fun, some people dress up on Fridays.

• 31:40Speaker 00

  Yeah. I wonder how long that's going to last. I feel like as newer generations who didn't experience the pandemic, start going into the workplace, I wonder if it will become the way it was, if it will become like, you'll have like this like fancy or business attire again.

• 31:58Speaker 01

  Yeah, I don't know. Okay. And then two, two more things that I thought were interesting is one person said they worked at an engineering firm in Texas and they did a completely optional, but it was really fun, Western Wednesday. And you could wear cowboy shirts, boots, cowboy hats. And I thought that was kind of fun. Like, I wonder if there are regional dress up days at different offices, you know? And lastly, a bunch of folks shared that Friday is a work from home day. And most of their colleagues aren't even in the office. And I thought, oh, man, Michael would have hated that.

• 32:34Speaker 00

  That's the most casual version of a Friday.

• 32:37Speaker 01

  It is. So there you go. Those are some casual Friday trends happening now.

• 32:41Speaker 00

  Thank you, Angela. Well, I want to share a new scene that was added back to the superfan version. It happens at the Jim Pam Dwight Desk Clump. And Jim has a gift for Pam. He's welcoming her back. And she opens it and it looks homemade. It's this little island and there are little dolls. There's a doll representing her, one representing Jim, one representing Dwight. Why don't we listen?

• 33:11Speaker 05

  All right, you ready to wait? Ready for what?

• 33:16Speaker 06

  What's this?

• 33:17Speaker 05

  It's a gift.

• 33:21Speaker 06

  On behalf of desk area clump number one, we welcome you to our little island. Love, Jim and Dwight.

• 33:27Speaker 07

  Okay, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I had nothing to do with that. Okay? I miss the storage containers that used to occupy that spot.

• 33:34Speaker 06

  Thank you, Dwight.

• 33:35Speaker 07

  And you obscure my view of the shredder.

• 33:37Speaker 05

  Okay, let's get back to the ceremony. Here we go.

• 33:39Speaker 06

  Oh, I love it. That is so cute. It's us and Dwight.

• 33:45Speaker 07

  I'm supposed to be fishing? Barbaric.

• 33:48Speaker 06

  You're a train conductor?

• 33:49Speaker 05

  Yeah, it's my job on the island.

• 33:51Speaker 06

  And I'm a giant Amazon woman.

• 33:52Speaker 05

  We need an attraction to raise money to get the train to the island. It's a razzle.

• 33:55Speaker 07

  That island is completely implausible.

• 34:00Speaker 06

  I love it.

• 34:01Speaker 00

  So there you have it. I guess Jim made her... When did he make it? How did he make it without her seeing it?

• 34:08Speaker 01

  Where does Jim do any of it? Like, where do his pranks happen? All of it. I do love, though, that Dwight finds the size of the island disproportionate. Like, this is a guy that loves bobbleheads. You know what I mean?

• 34:21Speaker 00

  Yep.

• 34:22Speaker 01

  Well, don't you wish you still had that prop?

• 34:24Speaker 00

  Oh, I would love to have that on my desk right now.

• 34:27Speaker 01

  I know. Well, thanks to Michael B., again, from Lebanon, Pennsylvania. We have this little piece of information about that gift from Jim. Michael says, according to the Dunder Mifflin accounting actuals that he has from the Filshay prop papers, that island and figurines cost $2,840.50 and was made by Movie Art.

• 34:49Speaker 00

  What? Did you see it?

• 34:52Speaker 01

  Wait, are you saying you don't think the little island looks like it costs $2,800?

• 34:58Speaker 00

  I mean, in no way does it look like it costs $2,800. I feel like I could make that in an afternoon with stuff I found in my house. I mean, that's the point of it. It's supposed to look like that.

• 35:13Speaker 01

  Right, it is, it is. But yeah, that was an expensive prop.

• 35:17Speaker 00

  And then it got cut out.

• 35:19Speaker 01

  I know. Dang it, I wonder who has it?

• 35:22Speaker 00

  I don't know. Well, next up is the scene in the kitchen where Pam and Phyllis are going to discover that they are wearing the same outfit.

• 35:30Speaker 01

  Before we dive into that scene, I needed to address something, okay? So, in our original breakdown of this episode, I did a mini deep dive on the local department store that Pam says she went to in the Steamtown Mall to get her outfit. I pronounced it Boskov's. And guess what, lady? That is not how you say it.

• 35:50Speaker 00

  Oh.

• 35:50Speaker 01

  We got a little fan mail flurry about it. And by the way, everyone that wrote in, you guys were really kind with me, so thank you. But I did feel the need to say it properly for you all. So I'm just gonna let the CEO of the company do it, so I don't mess it up. Here's a little snippet of him talking about his store.

• 36:12Speaker 04

  So what the heck is a Boskov's anyway? Well, we're the largest family-owned department store with 50 stores in this part of the country. In Monroe County, you're gonna be number 51. I can't wait to meet you. Come on in, let me show you what a Boskov's is all about.

• 36:27Speaker 00

  Oh.

• 36:28Speaker 01

  Boskov's, that was Jim Boskov. Jim, I'm really sorry I got your store name wrong. And the store looks awesome. I mean, that video, I was like, wow, this store has everything.

• 36:38Speaker 00

  Well, lady, you know what I found out? It almost wasn't Boskov's. In the table draft of this episode, Pam says they got their outfits at, quote, "express for women" at the Steamtown Mall.

• 36:50Speaker 01

  Oh, well, I'm glad they went with the local store, aren't you?

• 36:52Speaker 00

  Yeah, that was a good rewrite.

• 36:54Speaker 01

  All right, so now Phyllis has her famous line, "Close your mouth, sweetie, you look like a trout." I remember Phyllis told us that that is one of the lines people quote to her most often from the show.

• 37:05Speaker 00

  Yes, and I've said that it was very hard not to laugh in this moment because just anytime that sweet, sweet Phyllis has to say something like really biting, it is so funny. I also wanted to point out that in the superfan episode, there is a new top and bottom to the scene that has an extra little joke. At the top of the scene, Pam is alone in the kitchen, she's making her tea, and Creed walks in the door just as the microwave is beeping. And he opens it, he takes out a burrito, and then he walks into the annex. And then there's the scene with Pam and Phyllis noticing that they have the same outfit on. After the scene is over, and Phyllis has said her famous line, Erin walks into

• 37:47Speaker 00

  the kitchen, checks the microwave, and she's really confused, and she turns to Pam, and she says, "Did you see me put a burrito in there?" Because her burrito is missing. And I just think it's such a great example of the kind of things that we had to lose in order to make the broadcast version of these episodes fit for time. These superfan episodes, like, you're able to fill out the world with, like, mundane office life like this, like getting your burrito stolen out of the microwave. And for the most part, the extra stuff in the superfan of Casual Friday are just those little scene extensions, and they're really fun.

• 38:24Speaker 01

  I just love it. I love that burrito moment, made it back in, and Dave Rogers, thank you.

• 38:31Speaker 00

  Well, listen, next up, Dwight is gonna gather everyone down in the warehouse to make his case. Remember, he's written a memo to the sales staff in invisible ink that is actually urine. And they are mad because Michael has come back, and he has made Pam and Brian salespeople. And they're not giving back the clients that they stole when they left to make Michael Scott Paper Company. So everyone's really mad. So Dwight calls this meeting, and he is down there with Phyllis Stanley and Andy, and this is extended in the superfan version. Dwight is explaining that failure is not an option. Have a listen.

• 39:14Speaker 07

  If we do nothing, we fail, and failure is not an option. Clear, it is an option. Not in my book. My book, the cover is failure is not an option. It is an option. Not in my book. So what book?

• 39:27Speaker 06

  Did you write it?

• 39:29Speaker 00

  Yeah. Failure is not an option.

• 39:31Speaker 01

  Very serious.

• 39:33Speaker 00

  I got curious about the phrase, failure is not an option. I was like, where did that come from?

• 39:39Speaker 01

  What did you find?

• 39:41Speaker 00

  I was completely surprised by the answer. Where do you guys think it came from? Matt, Angela, if you had to guess, the phrase, failure is not an option, unless you know, maybe you know.

• 39:52Speaker 01

  It sounds like a military term.

• 39:54Speaker 04

  Yeah, that's what I was gonna say.

• 39:55Speaker 00

  I was like, oh, this is Winston Churchill. No, it came from the movie Apollo 13.

• 40:01Speaker 01

  Not the actual mission by the astronauts. Okay.

• 40:06Speaker 00

  Correct. So sort of, I mean, influenced by. So according to Wikipedia, in preparation for the movie, the script writers, Al Reinert and Bill Broyles, they interviewed flight controller Jerry Bostick. They wanted to get some intel on like, what is mission control really like? And one of the questions they asked him was, weren't there times when everybody, or even just a few people, were completely panicked? And Jerry said, no. When bad things happened, we just calmly laid out all the options, and failure was not one of them. That was what he said to them.

• 40:47Speaker 00

  And then this guy, Jerry, said months later, he learned that when the writers got in their car to leave, the writers said, that's it. That's the tagline for this whole movie. Failure is not an option. And then they gave that line to Ed Harris, who played mission control officer Gene Krantz. And then later, Gene Krantz wrote a memoir titled Failure is Not an Option.

• 41:13Speaker 01

  This is life imitating art, art imitating life.

• 41:17Speaker 04

  Before 1995, where people not really saying failure is not an option?

• 41:21Speaker 00

  I mean, I really deep dived it.

• 41:23Speaker 04

  I don't recall saying it before then, but.

• 41:25Speaker 00

  Isn't that crazy? That's what surprised me, because I felt like that's as old as it is. That's as far back in history as that phrase goes. But what was also crazy is that Gene Krantz never said it. He never actually said that phrase, but his character in the movie said it. But that was like the overall vibe of mission control.

• 41:48Speaker 01

  I mean, it's good. It's concise. You get it? Value's not an option. Period.

• 41:53Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 41:54Speaker 04

  It's very direct. What a star-studded cast, by the way.

• 41:57Speaker 00

  Oh, if you haven't watched Apollo 13 in a while, I'd like to say that the movie holds up. I watched it recently.

• 42:02Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's been a while.

• 42:04Speaker 00

  It's great.

• 42:05Speaker 01

  All right. Well, listen, back to this scene, I do want to bring up one other thing. Jim is going to tell Pam, Michael and Ryan that, quote, "There may or may not be, but definitely is, a mutiny forming in the warehouse right now." And I have some candy bag alts for you, lady.

• 42:22Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 42:22Speaker 01

  Michael is ticked off and he has this talking head. I want to play what made it in the episode and then I'm going to read some alts.

• 42:29Speaker 00

  Okay, great.

• 42:30Speaker 07

  The old Michael Scott might have taken this, but not the new Michael Scott. They are in for a bitter surprise. I am not to be truffled with.

• 42:40Speaker 01

  He's not to be truffled with.

• 42:42Speaker 00

  He's not. No, don't truffle with him.

• 42:44Speaker 01

  Don't truffle with him. Don't even go near his trials and tribianis, okay?

• 42:49Speaker 00

  That's right.

• 42:50Speaker 01

  But here were some candy bag alts for that particular talking head. Michael would have said, "In my house? In my house? In my house? In my house?"

• 43:02Speaker 01

  He just would have said that over and over. Here's another one. "When you owe me an apology and instead give me a mutiny, you are asking for a smackdown."

• 43:14Speaker 01

  What's that? Smackdown truck backing up. We've got a shipment of smackdown. Where would you like it? Right here. You need to sign for it. Gladly.

• 43:24Speaker 00

  Oh, those are some of my favorite Michael talking heads, and they're my favorite ones that Steve does because he nails that timing so great. Also, this is bringing up an aspect of this episode that I really, really liked, which is the whole thing for Michael in this episode is he's waiting all day for people to apologize to him. Like, his come from is that he is owed an apology and I, I love it so much. It's one of my favorite, like, mini storylines within this episode.

• 43:55Speaker 01

  I really wish we could have heard Steve say, "We've got a shipment of smackdown."

• 44:00Speaker 00

  I know.

• 44:02Speaker 01

  All right, here's another one. Michael would have said, "Mutiny? Not on my ship. Not while I'm captain." The only way they could get away with mutiny is if they took over or something, and that's not going to happen.

• 44:13Speaker 00

  So good.

• 44:14Speaker 01

  I love it.

• 44:15Speaker 00

  Well, Michael eventually brings Dwight, Andy, Phyllis, and Stanley down to the warehouse, and he's gonna apologize. He is gonna say that he has realized that he was the problem. He has this talking head where he says that he has looked at the situation 100 different ways, and in every one of them, he is in the wrong. It's so funny. There was a different talking head in the table draft. He is still gonna realize that he needs to apologize, but instead, it would have gone like this. He was gonna say, "When I was four, a girl in my nursery school was crying and crying, and I was irritated because she had the best block, the block with wheels. So that's all I could focus on. And then later, when we

• 45:00Speaker 00

  were eating cookies, I realized she was crying because I bit her. Today, I realized that I bit Stanley, and I bit Phyllis, and I bit Andy, and I spit on Dwight."

• 45:12Speaker 01

  That's so ridiculous.

• 45:14Speaker 00

  So ridiculous. But listen, finally, in our revisiting of Casual Friday, there is another storyline in this episode, and it is that Michael has to decide between Ryan and Pam for a single sales job. He's gonna have to make one of them a salesperson, and then one of them, I don't know what they're gonna be, right? And the episode ends with one of Michael's famous fake firing scenes. I love these scenes. And he ultimately gives the sales job to Pam. Well, there was an alternate ending to this episode that was in the table draft, and it hints at something. This got cut out, but they clearly liked this idea, and they

• 45:55Speaker 00

  saved it because in the table draft, he gives the sales job to Ryan.

• 46:01Speaker 01

  Ooh.

• 46:02Speaker 00

  So in the actual episode, he gives it to Pam, right?

• 46:05Speaker 01

  Yep.

• 46:05Speaker 00

  But in the alternate ending, he gave the sales job to Ryan, and he makes Pam the office manager.

• 46:12Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 46:13Speaker 00

  Which, by the way...

• 46:16Speaker 00

  When you get into like what this job is, it's basically office administrator, which is the job that Pam is later going to make up for herself when she leaves sales. But he makes her quote unquote, "office manager" and tells her that her first responsibility is to enforce the dress code. So basically, her job is going to be every job Michael doesn't want to do.

• 46:39Speaker 01

  Oh my gosh, that's perfect.

• 46:42Speaker 00

  And she has to start with Meredith. And there's this whole scene that was a tag at the end of the episode of Pam trying to explain to Meredith why her outfit is inappropriate.

• 46:52Speaker 01

  And is Meredith just like, "Go F yourself"?

• 46:54Speaker 00

  Pretty much. Yeah.

• 46:56Speaker 01

  That's kind of evil genius of Michael, though, is to make Pam always the fall guy, like always taking the heat.

• 47:03Speaker 00

  Mm-hmm.

• 47:04Speaker 01

  I just loved this lady. I loved revisiting this episode. I loved rewatching it. I've been rewatching episodes now more and more, and they make me happy.

• 47:14Speaker 00

  Mm-hmm. Me too.

• 47:16Speaker 01

  So, thank you so much for writing in with your suggestions and questions about specific episodes and superfan versions. They're making us dig back in, and it's really fun.

• 47:26Speaker 00

  Well, listen, why don't we take a break, and then we'll be back with our Around the Town and our Office Question of the Week.

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  I am in the process of going through my closet and really looking at items that look great, but that I haven't worn in a long time because maybe they're not my season anymore.

• 48:48Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 48:49Speaker 01

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• 49:25Speaker 01

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• 49:26Speaker 00

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  Well, we are back and it's time for... Around the Town! I'm going to start us off with some snail mail from Dani G. We got a lovely card from Dani and she shared that the front of it was painted by her grandma. Look at that Jenna, isn't that gorgeous?

• 51:04Speaker 00

  Oh, it's a turkey.

• 51:05Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 51:05Speaker 00

  It's really detailed.

• 51:07Speaker 01

  It's a very detailed, beautiful painting of a turkey. I'm going to put that in our stories Dani. And Dani went on to say many wonderful things about her love of the podcast, but I had to share this fun The Office crossover. Dani said, "My aunt is a prolific stunt woman, a regular double uncharmed, tons of hit movies, etc. So you can imagine my utter shock when I was nonchalantly listening to episode 189, Free Family Portrait, and heard you throw out her name, Nancy Thurston. She is very humble about her work, so I didn't know and I called her immediately."

• 51:43Speaker 00

  Wow!

• 51:44Speaker 01

  Isn't that so great?

• 51:46Speaker 00

  Yes!

• 51:47Speaker 01

  So Dani's aunt was on our show as a stunt woman and I just thought that was so fun that she learned that tidbit from listening to Office Ladies. Dani went on to say that if we want to go to a train museum, we shouldn't miss the one in San Diego that does the Polar Express in the winter. She also added, "P.S. I've started saying chunk it and P.P.S. Toby is totally the Scranton Strangler."

• 52:13Speaker 01

  Thank you Dani!

• 52:14Speaker 00

  Amazing! Well, we also got a letter from Samantha S. in St. Charles, Missouri. Hello, St. Charles, Missouri. I've been there many times. Samantha said, "Evelyn Clark, known as the I-70 Fence Lady, has delighted highway drivers for years with the messages she would put on her fence using colorful cups. From happy birthdays to congrats grads and happy holidays, Evelyn has shouted out to so many people over the years." And although Evelyn has now moved from that home, every St. Charles resident knows exactly which patch of fence would be wishing them well on their travels.

• 52:54Speaker 01

  Aww.

• 52:55Speaker 00

  I freaking love people who bring joy to their communities like this.

• 53:00Speaker 01

  Me too.

• 53:01Speaker 00

  It is a treasure. You are a treasure.

• 53:04Speaker 01

  And you just don't even realize how many people's lives you impact. All those people, it becomes part of like their travel lore. You know, they drive by, they want to see what the sign is. It's just special. It is.

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  There was this house that was like in the section of Manchester, Missouri, where I lived, which is a suburb of St. Louis. And these folks painted their house bright purple. And I swear, I think I've even talked about this on the podcast before, but it was the purple house. And we loved their purple house. Everyone knew the purple house. You could give directions. You could be like, oh, you know, the Dairy Queen by the purple house. Yes, of course. I know exactly where I am right now.

• 53:46Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 53:47Speaker 00

  And I like it when people get a little quirky in their communities.

• 53:51Speaker 01

  I do too. There was this house that went all out for Easter. They decorated their yard with all of these giant bunnies. I don't even know where they got them because they were like made out of wood and hand painted. It looked like they made them. And then they had some kind of oversized Easter eggs. And we as kids would get so excited to drive by the bunny house at Easter and see the big bunnies.

• 54:14Speaker 00

  We've got a guy in our neighborhood now who does blowups at the holidays.

• 54:18Speaker 01

  Oh, I know it. I know the house.

• 54:20Speaker 00

  You know it.

• 54:21Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 54:21Speaker 00

  Every year they add a new one. Every year you're like, what have we added this year? They have some that are taller than their house, but I don't even know where they're going to put more. They are out of room.

• 54:32Speaker 01

  It is stacked, but it's so fun to drive by.

• 54:35Speaker 00

  It's so fun to drive by. And you know, my kids will always remember that.

• 54:39Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 54:40Speaker 00

  That's going to be a core memory for them.

• 54:42Speaker 01

  Absolutely.

• 54:43Speaker 00

  And when they have kids, they're going to be excited to bring them over here for Christmas because they're going to get to drive by the house with all the blowups.

• 54:52Speaker 01

  Well, listen, folks, we've got one last Around the Town for you. It's from Paige R. and Bethany Z. They both wrote in with this important update from Richmond, Virginia.

• 55:01Speaker 00

  Ooh.

• 55:02Speaker 01

  Quote, "There's an update on the Big Dill Dog." Remember, we talked about that Big Dill Dog lady?

• 55:08Speaker 00

  I remember.

• 55:09Speaker 01

  Well, the Richmond Flying Squirrels were so psyched about the shout out on the podcast that they put out a poll to the community, asking if they should bring back the Big Dill Dog. Richmond voted, and the squirrels just announced the return of the Big Dill Dog to their menu. Thank you both for helping us bring back one of Richmond's iconic ballpark snacks.

• 55:29Speaker 00

  Hey!

• 55:30Speaker 01

  How about that?

• 55:31Speaker 00

  Well, now I feel like we have to go.

• 55:34Speaker 01

  We have to go.

• 55:36Speaker 00

  And we have to eat this Big Dill Dog.

• 55:38Speaker 01

  I know. And we might tell Freya it's one of our new favorite lunches.

• 55:42Speaker 00

  We might. All right. Well, finally, our office question of the week is from Miha W. in Poland, who said, "There is an official Lego set depicting the office. Do you own one? And what is it like to be a minifigure?" I have one.

• 55:59Speaker 01

  I have one as well. Jenna, you got it first, so you should share.

• 56:03Speaker 00

  I asked for it for Christmas.

• 56:06Speaker 01

  Mm-hmm.

• 56:07Speaker 00

  Like, I got it for Christmas from Lee, because I was so excited. What is it like to be a minifigure? I mean, my gosh. We've gone to Legoland multiple times. We love Lego. So this was thrilling. I mean, how many Lego have I put together? How many organizational systems have I created in my home for stray Lego? How many Legos have I stepped on? So many.

• 56:31Speaker 01

  So many.

• 56:32Speaker 00

  I mean, right?

• 56:33Speaker 01

  You have kids, you have Legos, period. I mean, how many ships have we put together? Oh, my goodness, so many, like, boats and planes. And you know what? Cade and Josh did the Lego that's the whole entire globe, you know?

• 56:48Speaker 00

  Oh, yeah.

• 56:49Speaker 01

  That is like, tons of pieces. And we have little, tiny, organized drawers of different parts. And anyway, Legos are a huge part of our lives. We were all thrilled as castmates from the office. We all talked about it. I think it was on our little text thread. I mean, this was a super cool moment.

• 57:08Speaker 00

  I loved putting it together. The detail is really great and it just took me back. I mean, there's a Michael's office and then there's the whole bullpen. And it was so fun because you don't like put all the mini figures together. They're in different bags. So you'll open a new bag and there's two new little people in there.

• 57:29Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 57:29Speaker 00

  Which is very fun. I loved it. It was great.

• 57:33Speaker 01

  Well, I didn't have one lady, but I was at the Office Fan Convention and I got to meet JJ Lewis. And you guys at the convention and our Office fans, you will know that he was a fan creator who originally pitched and designed this Office Lego set.

• 57:49Speaker 00

  Yes, this is a thing. They have a thing called like Lego Ideas and you can submit. This is how the Friends Lego set came about as well.

• 57:58Speaker 01

  Yeah, there's an interview on the actual Lego website. I will put a link to it and it talks about where he's from. And there's a picture of him and he sort of talks about his journey designing this. And I got to meet him and he gave me a box and he signed it. So I didn't open it because I was so thrilled to have this from him. And it says that the official set was brought to life by Lego designers Chris Perrin and Laura Perrin and Senior Graphic Designer Diego Sancho. So I want to give them a shout out as well. But what a wonderful collaboration that started with JJ Lewis's vision.

• 58:36Speaker 00

  Oh, that's super cool.

• 58:38Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 58:39Speaker 00

  Well, listen, everyone, we hope you enjoyed this episode. Thank you for joining us. We love this community. It means so much that you show up each week to listen to us chit chat and share our Office memories.

• 58:50Speaker 01

  Yeah, thank you guys so much. We love chatting with you. Please write us. I'll put links in our stories to everything and we hope you have a great day.

• 58:58Speaker 00

  Bye.

• 59:02Speaker 00

  Thank you for listening to Office Ladies.

• 59:04Speaker 01

  Office Ladies is a presentation of Odyssey and is produced by Jenna Fisher and Angela Kinsey.

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  Our senior producer is Matt Beagle and our audio engineer is Sam Kiefer.

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  Odyssey's executive producer is Leah Reese Dennis.

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  Office Ladies was mixed and mastered by Bill Schultz.

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  Our theme song is Rubber Tree by Creed Bratton.