Second Drink: Stress Relief Pt 2

This week we finish breaking down “Stress Relief”. In a continued effort to relieve the office’s stress, Michael demands a comedic roast of himself; meanwhile Andy, Jim and Pam finish watching the very saucy film, “Mrs. Albert Hannaday”, starring Jack Black, Cloris Leachman and Jessica Alba. Jenna does a deep dive on Cloris Leachman, the ladies share stories of acting on a sitcom vs a single camera comedy, and Angela reveals that Angela Martin’s comedic inspiration is Jeff Foxworthy. “The Office” writer’s assistant, Nate Federman, sends in a clip sharing his cameo experience as the young man Jack Black catches passionately kissing Cloris Leachman. So sit back, relax and get ready to scream, “Boom Roasted”! Check out Rick Overton’s comedy special, “Set List”: https://www.comedydynamics.com/catalog/rick-overtons-set-list/ Office Ladies Website - Submit a fan question: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

• 0:01Speaker 00

  Welcome to your second drink of stress relief, part two. Stanley is back to work after his heart attack and there was a storyline that would have kicked off this episode that was added back to the superfan episode that's really fun. Okay, people are sort of making a fuss over Stanley, you know, they're hovering over him, Phyllis has brought him lunch and it's driving Stanley crazy. Let's listen.

• 0:24Speaker 01

  I brought you some lunch, Stanley.

• 0:26Speaker 02

  You did? Thank you. What is that?

• 0:29Speaker 01

  It's, uh, three bean salad, cashew and Brussels sprouts.

• 0:32Speaker 02

  Oh.

• 0:33Speaker 01

  If you don't like it, you don't have to eat it.

• 0:36Speaker 02

  No, I appreciate it. Wow, you must be really freaked out to eat that. How long do you have to live, anyway?

• 0:43Speaker 01

  Andy, please.

• 0:44Speaker 03

  Hey, whoa, what's going on? Stanley, you okay?

• 0:47Speaker 02

  I'm fine.

• 0:48Speaker 03

  God, Phyllis, did you take off your shoe?

• 0:52Speaker 01

  It's Stanley's lunch.

• 0:54Speaker 03

  Ooh, no wonder you're dying.

• 0:56Speaker 02

  Yes. You'll excuse me? Yep, ready to go to the bathroom? I am not going to the bathroom with you. Please stop trying to help me.

• 1:04Speaker 01

  Stanley, we just want you to get better.

• 1:06Speaker 02

  How can I get better? Since this happened, I haven't had a single moment where I haven't been reminded that I'm sick and probably gonna die in this office. Not one single moment.

• 1:18Speaker 00

  They're just like all on top of him. They will not let him have a moment's peace. And they keep reminding him of everything. So it was after this exchange that Michael gets the idea that he needs to do a roast for his employees.

• 1:33Speaker 04

  Yes, he needs to lighten the mood and what better way than to have a roast? So you know the way this episode would have started, lady, is like Michael and Dwight, they're commiserating in Michael's office?

• 1:47Speaker 00

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:49Speaker 04

  Well, the superfan episode has a tiny extension to that scene. Dwight is gonna hand Michael a pen and ask him to sign something. It's the thing where like Dwight's getting everybody's acknowledgement of his apology for setting the fire drill.

• 2:03Speaker 00

  Hmm.

• 2:04Speaker 04

  And in the original episode, it just sort of cuts off right there. Like Dwight hands him a pen and Michael signs it. But there's a little bit more and it cracked me up and I think we need to hear it.

• 2:16Speaker 03

  I don't get it.

• 2:18Speaker 03

  Do I stress you out?

• 2:20Speaker 05

  Nothing stresses me out. Except having to seek the approval of my inferiors. Speaking of which.

• 2:33Speaker 03

  Ah, Dwight. I am a good person.

• 2:36Speaker 05

  I'm a good person.

• 2:37Speaker 03

  Mm-hmm. You are. You're a good person. I am a good person. Why can't they just see that?

• 2:43Speaker 05

  You just put my pen in your pocket.

• 2:45Speaker 03

  No, I didn't. I own all the pens in this place.

• 2:47Speaker 05

  No, I brought that in from home. It says Washington Mutual on it. It has a little piece of chain.

• 2:51Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 2:53Speaker 05

  Empty your pockets.

• 2:55Speaker 03

  Meeting is over, Dwight.

• 2:57Speaker 05

  Jerk.

• 2:58Speaker 03

  You're a jerk.

• 3:00Speaker 04

  So, lady.

• 3:01Speaker 00

  That is the stuff I love the most. I'm so sad that wasn't in the original. I'm so glad it's back in.

• 3:09Speaker 04

  Lady, it's amazing. As soon as he signs the clipboard, he puts the pen in his pocket and Dwight calls him out. And it's hilarious because when he says, "It says Washington Mutual, it has a little piece of chain", now you know Dwight stole it from the bank.

• 3:24Speaker 00

  Exactly.

• 3:24Speaker 04

  Michael's stealing it from Dwight.

• 3:26Speaker 00

  Dwight probably popped it off the chain at the bank counter.

• 3:30Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 3:30Speaker 00

  Oh, my gosh. That is too funny. I loved it. Okay, well, we also got this letter from Liz M. from Philly, who says, "Just listen to Stress Relief, please, and a second drink, translate Oscar's roast." So, in our original breakdown, we played the extended version of Oscar's roast. It starts in English and then goes into Spanish. But we did not translate his roast. Why don't we hear it again just to refresh everyone's memory? And then I'll tell you what it says.

• 4:01Speaker 06

  He thinks balancing a checkbook is putting a checkbook on his nose and shouting, "Look at me, look at me!" Me das una urso la cada vez que me despierto y tengo que venir para trabajar. Para ti, para ti.

• 4:12Speaker 04

  Okay, what is he saying, lady?

• 4:14Speaker 00

  So here's the thing, Liz, he is talking way too fast for me. The only part I could understand was pot of tea, pot of tea. But I went online and according to the folks on the internet who were able to translate it, here's what Oscar is saying. They give you kind of two versions. Quote, "I get an ulcer every time I wake up and have to come to work for you, for you." Or optionally, "You give me an ulcer every time I wake up and I have to come work for you, for you."

• 4:45Speaker 04

  So he gets an ulcer from Michael?

• 4:47Speaker 00

  Yep. Mm-hmm.

• 4:49Speaker 04

  Well, speaking of the roast, in our breakdown, we mentioned that the candy bag for the roast was 207 pages.

• 4:58Speaker 00

  That's bonkers.

• 4:59Speaker 04

  Lady, I think we need an episode of Office Lady 6.0 called Boom Roasted, where we dig into some of those alts.

• 5:08Speaker 00

  That would be really fun.

• 5:10Speaker 04

  All right, well, we'll get started on that. And for now, please enjoy your second drink of stress relief, part two.

• 5:20Speaker 04

  I'm Jenna Fisher.

• 5:21Speaker 00

  And I'm Angela Kinsey.

• 5:23Speaker 04

  We were on The Office together.

• 5:24Speaker 00

  And we're best friends.

• 5:25Speaker 04

  And now we're doing the ultimate Office rewatch podcast just for you.

• 5:29Speaker 00

  Each week, we will break down an episode of The Office and give exclusive behind the scenes stories that only two people who were there can tell you.

• 5:36Speaker 04

  We're the Office ladies.

• 5:40Speaker 04

  Welcome, welcome. It's stress relief, part two.

• 5:44Speaker 00

  Part deux.

• 5:46Speaker 04

  Oh.

• 5:46Speaker 00

  Is that?

• 5:47Speaker 04

  We're going to be very refined today.

• 5:49Speaker 00

  Part deux.

• 5:51Speaker 04

  Oh.

• 5:51Speaker 00

  Third language? Indonesian. Part dua.

• 5:55Speaker 04

  We are a classy show. This is season five, episode 15, written by Paul Lieberstein, directed by Jeffrey Blitz. Let me give you a summary. Last week, if you remember, Dwight took matters into his own hands when his coworkers failed to pay attention to his fire safety seminar. He did a big fire drill.

• 6:18Speaker 00

  He like trapped us in a burning building.

• 6:20Speaker 04

  He did. Stanley had a heart attack. Dwight was in hot water with corporate. We have that.

• 6:27Speaker 00

  Right.

• 6:27Speaker 04

  This week, Michael learned that he was the source of Stanley's stress, not Dwight, not the fire drill. And so he thinks the best thing to do is to throw a roast.

• 6:39Speaker 00

  Like an old School roast, right?

• 6:41Speaker 04

  For himself.

• 6:42Speaker 00

  Right?

• 6:43Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 6:43Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 6:43Speaker 04

  Where we all roast him.

• 6:45Speaker 00

  And we're laughing.

• 6:46Speaker 04

  At his expense.

• 6:47Speaker 00

  Drinking, like Dean Martin.

• 6:49Speaker 04

  Yeah, this is Friars Club. This is gonna be his comic relief moment. Meanwhile, Jim is still embroiled in these marital issues that Pam's parents are having. Pam's dad has been staying with Jim and Pam. And Pam, at the end of the last episode, said, Jim, will you talk to my dad?

• 7:08Speaker 00

  Oh, Pam.

• 7:09Speaker 04

  Find out what's going on.

• 7:10Speaker 00

  That's the worst. Like Pam, will you go talk to my parents?

• 7:15Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 7:16Speaker 00

  I can't do it. You go to it.

• 7:19Speaker 04

  I cannot imagine asking Lee to go talk to my parents about their marriage.

• 7:24Speaker 00

  Oh, my Lord.

• 7:25Speaker 04

  Can you imagine?

• 7:27Speaker 00

  No.

• 7:27Speaker 04

  That would be so weird.

• 7:28Speaker 00

  I know.

• 7:29Speaker 04

  Incidentally, my dad's name is Jim.

• 7:31Speaker 00

  Does the world know that? Because is someone out there right now being like, what?

• 7:36Speaker 04

  And my brother-in-law's name is Dwight.

• 7:38Speaker 00

  Yes, do you guys know this?

• 7:40Speaker 04

  And my niece's name is Cece.

• 7:41Speaker 00

  And her best friend is named Angela.

• 7:44Speaker 04

  What's going on?

• 7:47Speaker 04

  I think we mentioned this fact in an earlier podcast, but it is interesting.

• 7:52Speaker 00

  All right.

• 7:53Speaker 04

  Also, last week, I want to remind everyone that this episode played after the Super Bowl. It was a super big deal.

• 7:59Speaker 00

  Mm-hmm. And the network wanted big-name stars. And our show was like, hey, no, we don't do that, not at this moment. And so we had this whole little movie playing out. So that's going on, too.

• 8:12Speaker 04

  Yeah, Jim and Pam and Andy are watching this pirated movie that stars Jack Black, Jessica Alba, and Chloris Leachman.

• 8:20Speaker 00

  What happening?

• 8:21Speaker 04

  I think we caught you up.

• 8:22Speaker 00

  Yeah, you're caught up.

• 8:23Speaker 04

  Fast fact number one, Jeff Blitz won an Emmy for directing this episode.

• 8:29Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 8:29Speaker 04

  And he deserves it.

• 8:30Speaker 00

  He does.

• 8:31Speaker 04

  This was complicated.

• 8:33Speaker 00

  So Jeff Blitz has been on our show before. We love him.

• 8:35Speaker 04

  I mean, I literally love Jeff Blitz.

• 8:37Speaker 00

  I know.

• 8:38Speaker 04

  I love him as a human being.

• 8:39Speaker 00

  I love him as a person.

• 8:40Speaker 04

  I love him as a director.

• 8:41Speaker 00

  Mm-hmm.

• 8:42Speaker 04

  I would also like you to know that our editors, Dean Holland and Dave Rogers, were also nominated for an Emmy for this episode.

• 8:51Speaker 00

  They deserve it.

• 8:52Speaker 04

  Dean edited the first half of the episode with the whole fire drill, and Dave edited the second with the roast, which is what we will be talking about today. Fast fact number two, we had a fan question about the roast.

• 9:06Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 9:07Speaker 04

  Jessica Kay and Claire R. asked, "Who wrote the jokes for Michael's roast? Did the cast help? Was it the writers? Was any of it improvised?" Short answer is, the roast was totally scripted.

• 9:21Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 9:22Speaker 04

  We, as actors, did not participate in writing these jokes

• 9:25Speaker 00

  No, no, no.

• 9:26Speaker 04

  about one another.

• 9:26Speaker 00

  These were all written.

• 9:27Speaker 04

  All written. And I found out who pitched this part of the story, the idea of the roast.

• 9:34Speaker 00

  Who?

• 9:35Speaker 04

  It is none other than the man behind Princess Unicorn, Halsted Sullivan.

• 9:40Speaker 00

  Oh, really?

• 9:43Speaker 04

  Halsted told me that they had the CPR storyline for the first half of the episode, and they needed something for the second half. So he told the writers' room that when he was growing up in Atlanta, his father was president of a medical school. And every year, the medical students would put on a show. And it was like, kind of like a Follies show.

• 10:05Speaker 00

  Mm-hmm.

• 10:06Speaker 04

  And they would do skits where they imitated their professors. He said the audience loved it. The professors, not so much.

• 10:16Speaker 00

  Well, you know, I think Michael thinks, "Everyone doesn't like me because I'm this jerk. They think I'm a jerk boss," right?

• 10:22Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 10:22Speaker 00

  So here's your chance, guys. Have at it. You know, roast me, say whatever you want. I love that he's like, "Make fun of, you know, how great I look in shoulder pads," or...

• 10:32Speaker 04

  Also, traditionally, roasting kind of started with the Friars Club, I believe. And it was a great honor to be the person being roasted.

• 10:41Speaker 00

  Oh, yeah.

• 10:41Speaker 04

  It meant something. It was a position of status. And so I think that's another thing that is playing off Michael right now, which is that he's going to be an honoree.

• 10:52Speaker 00

  Yeah. This is a big deal. You guys are so lucky you get to roast me.

• 10:57Speaker 04

  Speaking of roasts, you know, Comedy Central has kind of taken over where the Friars Club left off, and they do these roasts of people every year. The Bruce Willis roast...

• 11:08Speaker 04

  Is real good.

• 11:09Speaker 00

  Mm hmm.

• 11:09Speaker 04

  But in particular, Ed Norton roasts Bruce Willis. I was like rolling, tears streaming down my face. It is such a good roast. When we were prepping this episode, it came to my mind. I went back and I watched it twice. I wish I could play it. It's way too long.

• 11:29Speaker 00

  Oh, I want to see it. I want to see it.

• 11:31Speaker 04

  Check it out.

• 11:32Speaker 00

  The first time I saw Amy Schumer was on a Comedy Central roast and she was so funny. And there were few dudes that were like, kind of throwing her shade and she just decimated them.

• 11:41Speaker 04

  Wow. All right, moving along, fast fact number three, Chloris Leachman.

• 11:46Speaker 00

  Chloris frickin' Leachman.

• 11:48Speaker 04

  We told you there's this mini movie and Chloris Leachman is one of the stars. She kills it in this mini movie.

• 11:55Speaker 00

  Legend, legend.

• 11:57Speaker 04

  I mean, incredible. I needed to do a little breakdown of Chloris Leachman. Here it is. Chloris Leachman was born in Des Moines, Iowa, Midwesterner.

• 12:07Speaker 00

  Did not know that.

• 12:08Speaker 04

  As a child, she performed at the Des Moines Little Theater. Then she won a special scholarship to study broadcast drama at Northwestern. She stayed there for a while, but then she returned to Des Moines to finish high school. Then she returned to Northwestern with a theater scholarship this time. But she dropped out again to enter a beauty contest. This beauty contest?

• 12:36Speaker 00

  Mm hmm.

• 12:37Speaker 04

  She eventually made her way to the 1946 Miss America Pageant.

• 12:41Speaker 00

  What?

• 12:42Speaker 04

  She was in the Miss America Pageant.

• 12:43Speaker 00

  For Iowa?

• 12:45Speaker 04

  I guess for Iowa.

• 12:46Speaker 00

  Wow.

• 12:47Speaker 04

  I'm not sure. Eventually she moved to New York. She studied at the Actors Studio. That's a big deal, acting school, guys. Then she made her Broadway debut in 1948 in a production called Sundown Beach. She became a household name when she was cast as Phyllis Lindstrom on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. And then she had her own spinoff show, Phyllis. She won a best supporting Oscar for Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show, Angela.

• 13:16Speaker 00

  Which was written by Larry McMurtry, who is from my hometown of Archer City, Texas, and they filmed it in Archer City. And it was written by, you know, Larry never officially claimed it, but folks in Archer City. So they'd be like, were you so and so? Did you sleep with that person? What's happening?

• 13:34Speaker 04

  Oh, so people were like trying to figure out who everybody was.

• 13:37Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 13:38Speaker 04

  Which person is Sybil Shepherd? Which person is

• 13:40Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 13:41Speaker 04

  Chloris Leachman?

• 13:41Speaker 00

  Yeah, exactly. And Larry said it was inspired by, you know.

• 13:45Speaker 04

  Mm-hmm.

• 13:46Speaker 00

  Mm-hmm.

• 13:47Speaker 04

  I don't know. I feel like there's some woman named Doris, who knows? She's like, it was me.

• 13:53Speaker 00

  Jenna, I actually read The Last Picture Show a few years after I had left Archer City and I was in college. I was like, you know what? This is a book about my hometown. I want to read it. It's so great. It's a great read.

• 14:04Speaker 04

  It's a great book and a great movie, is what you're saying.

• 14:07Speaker 00

  Yeah. So I'm saying, don't skip the book on this one, guys.

• 14:10Speaker 04

  Over the course of her career, she won a total of eight Emmys, for both drama and comedy, by the way. She won a Daytime Emmy. She won a Golden Globe Award. And in 2008, at the age of 82, she was a contestant on season seven of Dancing with the Stars. She was the oldest contestant to ever dance on Dancing with the Stars. And she was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 2011. I mean, the legacy of this woman. Sadly, she passed away in 2021 at the age of 94. And she was on our show.

• 14:54Speaker 00

  I know.

• 14:55Speaker 04

  This legend.

• 14:56Speaker 00

  Legend, amazing woman. Jenna, did you know I got to spend a little bit of time with Chloris?

• 15:01Speaker 04

  Yes. Now, not during this episode.

• 15:03Speaker 00

  Not during this episode.

• 15:04Speaker 04

  Because none of us met these guys during this episode.

• 15:07Speaker 00

  No, we didn't film when they were there, which was a bummer. But I ended up co-presenting an award at the 2012 Genesis Awards with Chloris. We were co-presenters.

• 15:18Speaker 04

  Oh, my gosh.

• 15:19Speaker 00

  We had to hang out backstage. I met her daughter, Dinah, who is lovely. They were the cutest mother-daughter duo. And then Chloris and I went out on stage together. We presented this award. And she truly was such a hoot. She-

• 15:34Speaker 00

  I think was at the age in her life and in her career where she gave, as the kids say, zero Fs.

• 15:39Speaker 04

  Uh huh.

• 15:40Speaker 00

  And then I would run into her and her daughter at different events and we would say hi because we had formed this little

• 15:46Speaker 04

  Connection.

• 15:47Speaker 00

  Yeah. But anyway, she was just so fun and so full of life and I'm so glad I just got to just interact with her those few times.

• 15:55Speaker 04

  Yeah. I love that story, Ange. Why don't we take a break and we'll come back and break down this episode?

• 16:00Speaker 00

  Okay, great.

• 16:11Speaker 00

  We start this episode with Pam being kind of upset. She's just gotten off the phone with her mom and she's gonna go find Jim and say, hey, what did you say to my dad?

• 16:21Speaker 04

  Yeah, her idea of having Jim talk to her dad did not go well. Apparently, her dad is now looking for an apartment and the divorce is on.

• 16:30Speaker 00

  It's happening.

• 16:31Speaker 04

  Pam gets really worried. She has this talking head where she says, what could Jim have said to make my dad want to leave my mom? And at what point in their marriage is Jim gonna say this to her? She's spiraling.

• 16:45Speaker 00

  I think she's spiraling.

• 16:46Speaker 04

  Yeah, I mean, that's a big leap.

• 16:47Speaker 00

  That's a big jump.

• 16:48Speaker 04

  But she's upset.

• 16:49Speaker 00

  And she's scared, right?

• 16:52Speaker 04

  We had a fan question from Sally K. Was the divorce of Jim's parents a setup for the Michael Helene relationship in season six? Helene is Pam's mom, everyone. No. This was crafted as a small representation of how our show had dramatic moments in addition to comedic ones. But because this aired after the Super Bowl, we wanted to stay away from existing storylines. So the writers had to create kind of like a brand new drama, but one that wouldn't go on to affect our regular characters too directly.

• 17:29Speaker 00

  Right. We didn't want anything in this episode to actually affect the character arcs and relationships that were set in place.

• 17:34Speaker 04

  Yes. So that was kind of why this storyline was crafted. And I remember John and I really fighting for the drama of this, like really saying, no, we want to play this real. Pam is really upset. This isn't funny upset. Like, I remember when I was shooting a three-camera show, I was supposed to get mad at one of the other characters and I was supposed to call him a jerk. I was supposed to say, "You're a jerk!" And the director came over to me and he said, "I'm so sorry. This is three-camera. Um, you need to do funny mad, not actual mad. You're doing single-camera mad."

• 18:14Speaker 00

  Yeah. Funny mad, funny sad.

• 18:17Speaker 04

  He said, "Maybe go up at the end. You're a jerk!"

• 18:20Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 18:21Speaker 04

  And I was like, "Oh, okay."

• 18:22Speaker 00

  Or stomp your foot.

• 18:23Speaker 04

  Yeah, something-

• 18:24Speaker 00

  Drop something on your toe and then go, "Ow, you're a jerk! Ow!"

• 18:29Speaker 04

  Oh, see, this is why you were good at the three-camera, Angela. I couldn't get it. I couldn't get it. So, anyway, John and I were like, "We're gonna do real upset and it's gonna be okay, 'cause all the rest of the episode is gonna have the comedy."

• 18:45Speaker 00

  Mm-hmm. You know, the first three-camera I did after The Office, I played it really real and really quiet. It was a show called Hot in Cleveland. I was really excited to do it. Amazing actresses on that show. Craig Ferguson was a guest star. He was in there. And the director came over to me and was like, "Could you talk faster, maybe louder? And could you lower your voice or something? I don't know. Can we get her, like, uh, some glasses?"

• 19:14Speaker 04

  Anything to make you like-

• 19:15Speaker 00

  A character or something.

• 19:16Speaker 04

  Comedic!

• 19:17Speaker 00

  Yeah. And Craig Ferguson started cracking up when the director walked away and he was like, "Maybe get her a top hat, a patch, maybe a parrot for her shoulder."

• 19:27Speaker 00

  And Wendy Malik was also in the scene and she came over and said to me, and she called me kid, which I loved. She goes, "Kid, you gotta sell it to the back row. This is multicam." I said, "Gotcha. Got it. Got it. Okay."

• 19:40Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 19:42Speaker 00

  They did get me glasses, though.

• 19:44Speaker 04

  They did? Were they funny?

• 19:46Speaker 00

  Funny! Betty White did tell me I was funny, though. That was my takeaway.

• 19:51Speaker 04

  Do you have any more stories about legends? You've got Chlores Leachman, you've got Betty White. We met Carol Burnett once.

• 19:58Speaker 00

  Well, I didn't speak, though. Remember, I was too nervous.

• 20:00Speaker 04

  I didn't speak either, but we stood next to her.

• 20:02Speaker 00

  I know, but Kate Flannery talked to her and we just stood there and smiled.

• 20:05Speaker 04

  And then her and Kate got like a whole friendship going, I think. We were so, uh, we just need to go up to Carol Burnett laughing next time.

• 20:14Speaker 00

  Oh, no.

• 20:15Speaker 04

  I'm gonna try that one again. I'm gonna get that one out in the future.

• 20:19Speaker 00

  You're gonna bust it out?

• 20:20Speaker 04

  I am.

• 20:21Speaker 00

  All right, where are we? Okay, Jim and Pam are playing Real Moments. Michael and Dwight are sharing a bottle of mini booze.

• 20:27Speaker 04

  Very tiny bottle.

• 20:29Speaker 00

  Jenna, this is not the first time the tiny bottle of booze has been in an episode.

• 20:33Speaker 04

  When was the first time?

• 20:34Speaker 00

  All right, in the deleted scenes of the duel, Michael is building up the courage to tell Andy, and they're walking out to the car together, and Michael hands him a mini bottle of booze out of his pocket in the elevator and goes, "Drink this." And Andy's like, "I don't know. I really like the... Okay, fine." And he like drinks it and he's like, "Ugh," and he's like, "Angela's sleeping with Dwight."

• 20:55Speaker 00

  So I think they had these little mini bottle of booze. You don't start seeing them in deleted scenes till after they go to Canada, and I wonder, I wonder if Michael took the minibar stash.

• 21:06Speaker 04

  He 100% did, of course.

• 21:08Speaker 00

  That's what I wrote in my head, anyway.

• 21:10Speaker 04

  Or from the airplane.

• 21:12Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 21:12Speaker 04

  First class.

• 21:13Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 21:14Speaker 04

  In this scene, as they're sharing this mini bottle of booze, we are reminded that Dwight needs to get the signature of everyone in the office as an acknowledgement that they have accepted his apology for dismembering the CPR dummy last week.

• 21:30Speaker 00

  I mean, how many apology notes is he gonna have to have people sign?

• 21:34Speaker 04

  I don't know, but he has to get everyone's signature. He's having a hard time.

• 21:38Speaker 00

  That's the only thing that's stressing him out.

• 21:41Speaker 04

  Well, this is when Michael gets his big idea. They should roast him. This is great. He's gonna bust into the bullpen. He's gonna announce, "We're doing a roast. I want you to really go at me. Don't hold back."

• 21:56Speaker 00

  Yeah, you can comment on how fit I am or the fact that I'm a womanizer.

• 22:00Speaker 04

  He doesn't want to write the material for them, but he wants it to be good.

• 22:03Speaker 00

  Everyone is pretty excited. I mean, Kevin is like a giggly, "Hee hee hee." He's so excited.

• 22:12Speaker 04

  I liked Oscar's talking head.

• 22:14Speaker 00

  Say it.

• 22:15Speaker 04

  He was like, listen, I'm a good person, but I am going to try to make Michael cry.

• 22:21Speaker 04

  We had a fan catch from Samantha S. and Michelle S. Two people noticed this catch.

• 22:26Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 22:27Speaker 04

  If you're following along, starting with part two at 1 minute 15 seconds, Kelly is standing in front of the shelves and her notebook is closed. But in the very next shot, it is open and upside down.

• 22:40Speaker 00

  Oh, well, we missed that one.

• 22:43Speaker 04

  Clearly, she's not really taking an inventory of anything.

• 22:47Speaker 00

  Well, I have a question for you.

• 22:48Speaker 04

  What is it?

• 22:49Speaker 00

  Who is planning this roast? There's no party planning committee meeting, but I want you to know, in deleted scenes, I found this gem. Michael is having a meeting with Daryl in the warehouse.

• 23:01Speaker 04

  Oh.

• 23:01Speaker 00

  Yeah. So I'm like, wait, is Daryl in charge of this party? Because it's in the warehouse? So Michael is telling Daryl everything he needs. He says, I would like a stage. And Daryl points to a few wood pallets.

• 23:12Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 23:13Speaker 00

  And he's like, well, okay. And he goes, also, I need a big comfy chair, or maybe a throne.

• 23:18Speaker 04

  That made me spit out my coffee.

• 23:20Speaker 00

  Then he tells Daryl that he would like all the other roasters to be up on the stage too. Like, you know, the Comedy Central roast, where they have the dais of other roasters up there.

• 23:29Speaker 04

  Yep.

• 23:30Speaker 00

  And Daryl's like, looking at these tiny wood pallets, like, mm, okay. Then, Daryl's like, who's going to be in the audience? And Michael's like, we're going to charge $10 a head.

• 23:39Speaker 04

  Oh, my gosh.

• 23:40Speaker 00

  For the audience.

• 23:40Speaker 04

  Who's coming to this?

• 23:41Speaker 00

  Yeah, who's coming to this? Then Michael's like, oh, also, we need alcohol. Okay, you need lots of alcohol. And I'm going to need something to spit in for my spit takes.

• 23:51Speaker 04

  Oh, he's planning out.

• 23:53Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 23:53Speaker 04

  That this is going to be so funny. He's going to need to spit out his drink.

• 23:56Speaker 00

  And Daryl's like, uh, you're not spitting in the warehouse. Then Dwight rushes in, and he's got this eight by 10 photo of Michael. And Michael's like, no, no, no, no, no. I want this photo huge. It's got to cover like the whole back wall. Okay?

• 24:08Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 24:09Speaker 00

  And then he says, I also want a drum and cymbal, so I can do the ba-dum bumps.

• 24:13Speaker 04

  This is amazing, because all of these things are going to appear in the warehouse.

• 24:17Speaker 00

  Yes. So I'm thinking, Daryl and Dwight planned this. They were the PPC for this event.

• 24:23Speaker 04

  I don't want to give too much of a spoiler, but next week, we're going to find out what happened to the PPC and why there is no one in charge of party planning right now.

• 24:33Speaker 00

  Oh, yeah. So this was like foreshadowing.

• 24:36Speaker 04

  A little bit. Well, I guess they set everything up and Dwight has a great idea. It's actually a great idea.

• 24:41Speaker 00

  It's brilliant.

• 24:42Speaker 04

  He tells everyone as they're entering that they have to sign in for the roast.

• 24:47Speaker 00

  Mm hmm.

• 24:48Speaker 04

  But what they're really signing is his apology acknowledgement sheet.

• 24:53Speaker 00

  Yes, but who catches it?

• 24:55Speaker 04

  Phyllis.

• 24:56Speaker 00

  So good. She's so good. She is just busting his butt through this whole episode.

• 25:01Speaker 04

  She will not sign.

• 25:02Speaker 00

  Uh uh.

• 25:03Speaker 04

  She's not going to sign. She's the holdout.

• 25:05Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 25:05Speaker 04

  Everyone takes their seats. Michael sits on his throne and now the roast is going to begin.

• 25:12Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 25:13Speaker 04

  Should we take a break?

• 25:14Speaker 00

  I think we take a break and we come back with the roasting.

• 25:28Speaker 04

  Okay, folks, the roast is on. Michael welcomes all these jerks.

• 25:33Speaker 00

  Yeah. Who's first up? Who can't wait to get up there and roast Michael Scott? He can barely finish his sentence and she's grabbing the microphone.

• 25:42Speaker 04

  It's Angela Martin.

• 25:44Speaker 00

  That's right. Jenna, I noticed something in rewatching this multiple times like we do each week. Is Angela Martin ripping off Jeff Foxworthy bits?

• 25:54Speaker 04

  Yes, you know Angela Martin is a Jeff Foxworthy fan.

• 25:57Speaker 00

  She's, I mean, listen, listen to Jeff and then listen to Angela. If you've ever cut your grass and found a car,

• 26:07Speaker 00

  you might be a redneck.

• 26:10Speaker 00

  And now Angela. If you ever put sunblock on a window, you might be Michael Scott. If you ever called the fire department because your head was stuck in your chair, you might be?

• 26:23Speaker 00

  She clearly is doing Jeff's bit.

• 26:27Speaker 04

  Yes, 100%.

• 26:29Speaker 00

  When I rewatched that, I was like, oh, my gosh, that had to be the writer's inspiration for Angela's comedic style.

• 26:34Speaker 04

  I was very impressed with how prepared Angela was.

• 26:38Speaker 00

  Prepared, and her mic work, like she took the mic off, waved it to the crowd for everyone to say, "Michael Scott." She was into it.

• 26:46Speaker 04

  Next up is Kelly, and she does a list of who and what she would rather kiss than Michael Scott.

• 26:53Speaker 00

  All right, I gotta jump in and just tell you guys, there are so much extra stuff in the deleted scenes for the roast. We also find out Kelly has a second bit where she says she knows that Michael dyes his hair.

• 27:04Speaker 04

  Oh.

• 27:05Speaker 00

  Yeah, that one day it was raining and his hair dye dripped onto her arm, and she color matched it, and Michael uses Clairol Natural Instinct's Midnight Black.

• 27:17Speaker 00

  She does this whole other bit.

• 27:20Speaker 00

  And then, I think Meredith is the most depressing. She says, "Michael, you're the reason I drink, you're the reason I live to forget."

• 27:27Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 27:28Speaker 00

  Oof.

• 27:29Speaker 04

  Oscar roasts Michael in Spanish, and he speaks very quickly. He has a lot to say.

• 27:34Speaker 00

  A lot to say, very passionate. There's so much more Oscar in the deleted scenes. First of all, he does multiple jokes in English before he gets to his Spanish roast, and I think we need to hear him.

• 27:47Speaker 06

  The only man in the state of Pennsylvania who is less likely to get legally married than me is Michael Scott.

• 27:54Speaker 06

  Michael Scott is so dumb. He thinks balancing a checkbook is putting a checkbook on his nose and shouting, "Look at me, look at me." Michael is so bad with money, he invested in Enron last week.

• 28:10Speaker 06

  That was, that was privileged. Michael is the biggest idiot I know.

• 28:16Speaker 06

  And finally, sometimes I lay awake at night, I'm sure all of you do too, and wonder, what the hell did I do to deserve a boss like this?

• 28:26Speaker 00

  I mean.

• 28:27Speaker 04

  Oh my gosh.

• 28:29Speaker 00

  He just calls him an idiot.

• 28:31Speaker 04

  Oh my gosh. Michael is kind of realizing that maybe this wasn't as fun as he thought it would be, but things are in motion now.

• 28:40Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 28:40Speaker 04

  And everyone can't wait to get up on stage. Toby tries to have a turn, but Michael shoots him down.

• 28:46Speaker 00

  Yeah, he says, only friends, friends only. And then there is a deleted scene, Jenna, where Oscar brings a cellphone up on stage because Jan, who isn't there, has decided to call in so she can roast Michael.

• 29:00Speaker 04

  Amazing.

• 29:01Speaker 00

  All right, we gotta hear it. Well, Michael, you ruined my life, okay? Everything you touch turns to crap.

• 29:08Speaker 06

  Okay.

• 29:08Speaker 00

  You have no sense of how to please any woman. I can't believe that once you wrote a phone message on my diploma and you used my daughter's christening gown as a bib when you ate ribs. I mean, you're just, you're just completely an ass, Michael. You're an ass.

• 29:25Speaker 04

  Okay, I have to say, clearly the writers had a lot of fun

• 29:29Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 29:30Speaker 04

  writing this roast, because in addition to all these deleted scenes, remember last week when I said our candy bag for this episode was 207 pages?

• 29:37Speaker 00

  Are all jokes? Were they all roasting jokes?

• 29:40Speaker 04

  They are almost all alternate roast jokes.

• 29:44Speaker 00

  Well, I do-

• 29:44Speaker 04

  Pages and pages and pages.

• 29:47Speaker 00

  Oh my gosh, I do remember, Jenna, that people got up multiple times.

• 29:51Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah. They just kept handing us stuff to go say. In the candy bag, they had all these alts for Jan when she called in. So in addition to this deleted one,

• 30:02Speaker 00

  Oh.

• 30:02Speaker 04

  this one really-

• 30:03Speaker 00

  Please share.

• 30:04Speaker 04

  -stuck out to me. She says, "It only took one night of misguided drunken passion with Michael to ruin my entire life. I would have been better off if he'd just given me syphilis."

• 30:16Speaker 00

  Oh my gosh.

• 30:21Speaker 04

  Well, now- Jim is gonna get up and he's gonna, I guess, list all of the sayings that Michael has butchered.

• 30:29Speaker 00

  Spider face. Oh my gosh. Dwight is feeling bad for Michael, so he hops up on stage to defend him, right?

• 30:38Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 30:38Speaker 00

  And Michael's like, idiot, you're doing it wrong. You're doing it wrong. And then Dwight snaps and is like, what? You're calling me an idiot? Like, he's up there trying to defend him. He's like, you're just a small, pathetic little man. You have no friends, no family, and no land. And he walks offstage and everyone cheers.

• 31:00Speaker 04

  Well, now it's Pam's turn. I remember so clearly shooting this. I remember because after roasting him about falling for internet scams and being lazy at work, I had to say that Michael's penis is small.

• 31:16Speaker 00

  I mean, this is the ultimate nail in the coffin of the roast. For Michael in particular. I mean, Michael, who's like,

• 31:24Speaker 04

  I know.

• 31:25Speaker 00

  thinks he's like the womanizer.

• 31:26Speaker 04

  Because remember in an earlier episode, Pam knocked on the door and Michael said, come in, and he did not have his clothes on. And Pam was like, why did you say come in?

• 31:35Speaker 00

  He was changing for Fun Run.

• 31:36Speaker 04

  Exactly. So Pam is gonna call that back and she's gonna make a joke at his expense. We did this a few ways, that we started by having me just say it on the stage, but then they thought, this is kind of a low blow, right?

• 31:52Speaker 00

  Yeah, and it's bold for Pam.

• 31:54Speaker 04

  It is. So they were like, let's try this one on the move.

• 31:58Speaker 00

  Yeah, like a throwaway.

• 31:59Speaker 04

  Exactly. And so that's what ended up making it into the episode.

• 32:03Speaker 00

  And then we have an old tech alert that helps you really just punch them one more time.

• 32:08Speaker 04

  Oh yeah, everyone's like, how small is it? And then Pam says, if it were an iPod, it'd be a shuffle.

• 32:16Speaker 04

  Do some people even know that joke? Do they even get that joke?

• 32:19Speaker 00

  Do people still have iPods? It was a big deal. We were so excited to have our iPods with all of our music on it.

• 32:25Speaker 04

  Just music?

• 32:25Speaker 00

  Only music, guys.

• 32:27Speaker 04

  And they came in different sizes and shuffle was the smallest.

• 32:29Speaker 00

  And you could get a tiny one and like clip it on your like armband and go running. I never did that because I don't run, but

• 32:35Speaker 04

  You could have.

• 32:36Speaker 00

  You could have. It looked cool.

• 32:37Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 32:38Speaker 00

  With your headphones that had a cord that had to go to it. So you couldn't pump your arms too hard.

• 32:43Speaker 04

  No.

• 32:43Speaker 00

  No.

• 32:44Speaker 04

  Oh, how many times did I just yank that cord out of my iPod?

• 32:48Speaker 00

  I know.

• 32:49Speaker 04

  Because I was gesturing, not exercising, I'm so sorry. Please don't get the wrong idea. I was gesturing wildly.

• 32:55Speaker 00

  Well, now Daryl's gonna come up, and this one was really cringey. Daryl says, "Michael, you always say we're family, right?"

• 33:02Speaker 04

  Yep.

• 33:02Speaker 00

  So if you're family, you know everyone's names. What's that guy's name? And he points to a warehouse employee. And Michael clearly doesn't know his name. And it's so awkward. His name is Michael. And not only is his name Michael, but Michael gave him a car ride home, and they were in traffic for like, an hour together. Awkward. But really, what rounds it all out is everyone singing "What I Hate About You."

• 33:25Speaker 04

  Yeah. And he gets up.

• 33:28Speaker 00

  Yeah, he's written the song. We have it. We gotta hear it.

• 33:36Speaker 04

  What I hate about you. You really suck as a ball.

• 33:42Speaker 04

  You're the loosey-hist, jerkiest, and you're dumber than applesauce.

• 33:49Speaker 04

  We're stuck listening to you all day. Stanley tried to die just to get away. Well, it's true. That's what I hate about you. That's what I hate about you. That was so amazing. It was so amazing on the day.

• 34:06Speaker 00

  We were all singing.

• 34:08Speaker 04

  I want you guys to know, people have asked, you know, Ed did not write those lyrics. That was written by our writers. Ed figured out how to play the song on the guitar. But that was scripted. It was so good.

• 34:20Speaker 00

  So good. But you know what? Our writers could throw Ed anything. And I felt like he just was like, done.

• 34:27Speaker 04

  I mean, that's a good thing to have.

• 34:29Speaker 00

  It is.

• 34:29Speaker 04

  Secret weapon.

• 34:30Speaker 00

  Secret weapon.

• 34:32Speaker 04

  Well, guys, Michael isn't happy.

• 34:36Speaker 00

  It looks like he might cry.

• 34:38Speaker 04

  And then the next day, the phone rings, and Pam says, "Michael's not in the office." Michael didn't come to work.

• 34:45Speaker 00

  No.

• 34:46Speaker 04

  He's so depressed.

• 34:49Speaker 04

  Dwight says it's very unusual for Michael not to show up. He is either depressed, or maybe he's been impaled by an icicle. He does have a terrible habit of standing underneath them, staring up at them, despite Dwight's many warnings.

• 35:03Speaker 00

  Many warnings. The gang is in the break room, you know, sort of saying, is he okay? What should we do?

• 35:09Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 35:10Speaker 00

  And Creed has one of those lines, Jenna, that made John break.

• 35:13Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 35:13Speaker 00

  It's a classic Creed line. Phyllis says, I hope he's okay. I feel bad. Creed says, give it up. He's dead. Jim says, he just sent a text. Creed goes, what's a text? What's a text? Like sent everyone into laughing fits.

• 35:29Speaker 04

  That aspect of Creed's character was John's kryptonite.

• 35:32Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 35:33Speaker 04

  Yeah. The you're not.

• 35:35Speaker 00

  You're not real. What's a text?

• 35:37Speaker 04

  Yeah. He loved that stuff. Well, we do eventually find Michael. He is sitting alone at a playground.

• 35:45Speaker 00

  In a black turtleneck with a black coat. He looks the sleekest he's ever looked.

• 35:50Speaker 04

  Like, what is this casual outfit?

• 35:52Speaker 00

  I know. And he has like nice jeans on with like appropriate sort of black dress shoes, kinda.

• 35:58Speaker 04

  He's feeding full slices of bread to invisible birds.

• 36:02Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 36:02Speaker 04

  I'll have you know, this location alert, this was North Hollywood Community Center Park, where we shot this little bit of Steve and his turtleneck.

• 36:12Speaker 00

  There's lots more in the deleted scenes.

• 36:14Speaker 04

  Oh dear.

• 36:14Speaker 00

  Him talking to little kids, him trying to shoot baskets, like, yeah.

• 36:19Speaker 04

  Michael explains in a talking head that, you know, sometimes he has to get away. He needs to get perspective. And we learn like he is not okay.

• 36:26Speaker 00

  Right. But him imagining a spaceman on a star very far away.

• 36:30Speaker 04

  That might help him.

• 36:31Speaker 00

  That might help him.

• 36:32Speaker 04

  Get that perspective.

• 36:33Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 36:34Speaker 04

  Back in the office, Dwight is still trying to get Phyllis's signature.

• 36:38Speaker 00

  She's the only one. She's the only one that hasn't signed.

• 36:41Speaker 04

  So guess what? Delivery. There's a delivery man.

• 36:44Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 36:45Speaker 04

  Who has come in in a very, I would say noticeably generic uniform.

• 36:51Speaker 00

  Mm-hmm. There's a package for Phyllis.

• 36:53Speaker 04

  For Phyllis, but she has to sign for it.

• 36:55Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 36:56Speaker 04

  I loved this gag. She signs. The clipboard and as soon as she signs the clipboard like disappears from the man's hands.

• 37:04Speaker 00

  It's got like one of those chains and it's being drug away. The pin has a chain to the clipboard.

• 37:09Speaker 04

  And it's Dwight over in the hallway. He got his signature.

• 37:13Speaker 00

  He did. Well, this was a fun cameo played by our very own producer, James Carey.

• 37:19Speaker 04

  Yes, James Carey, who's been helping us out on the podcast.

• 37:22Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 37:23Speaker 04

  This is him. If you wondered what he looked like, there he is.

• 37:26Speaker 00

  There he is. James was on the show the whole time.

• 37:29Speaker 04

  Yeah, he was with us from the very beginning.

• 37:31Speaker 00

  Very beginning. So it was really fun to have him on stage with us filming and we reached out to him and asked him about this moment.

• 37:39Speaker 04

  James said that he never asked to be an actor on the show. And one day he just got this random phone call from Ben, who worked in Allison Jones's office. Ben was Allison's casting associate. And he told him, we have a role in stress relief. There's one line, we'd like you to play it. And James was like, yes, of course I said yes. And this was just, you know, this was just a cool thing that Greg and Allison would do from time to time. They would feature longtime crew members in the show.

• 38:13Speaker 00

  Well, we would always get really excited. And James told us that for him, the day on set was really fun, exciting. I mean, he'd worked for a long time in the entertainment industry. But he said, when you're in front of the camera and other people are depending on you to hit your mark and deliver your dialogue, all of a sudden, he got really nervous. And he said he was expecting a little more directing because he's not an actor at all. But they didn't really give him much. They're just like, go there, say your line. But he did say after one or two takes, Jeff Blitz suggested to him, maybe look like you're up to something, you know, give it a little something. And he's like, I think that's the take they used. But his whole family saw it because it was on after the Super Bowl.

• 38:57Speaker 04

  Yes, but James said when they first said, we've got a role for you. It's one line as a delivery man. He didn't realize it was for the stress relief episode.

• 39:06Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 39:07Speaker 04

  So when he said yes, he just wasn't putting it together that he was saying yes to the Super Bowl episode. He said his dad was particularly excited. And when he told his brother and sister at first, he said he thinks they didn't believe him. They thought he was kidding.

• 39:21Speaker 00

  Yeah, yeah. He said they were like, yeah, sure. You're going to be on. Yeah, whatever.

• 39:25Speaker 04

  And then there he was. He was on it.

• 39:28Speaker 00

  Well, the episode is wrapping up and so is the movie Mrs. Albert Hannity.

• 39:31Speaker 04

  Mm hmm.

• 39:32Speaker 00

  And he's moved to tears. He's watching Jack Black and Cloris Leachman break up.

• 39:37Speaker 04

  Yeah, she's very slowly moving up the staircase in her special motorized chair.

• 39:43Speaker 00

  And he's crying, saying, hit reverse.

• 39:46Speaker 04

  So I shared last week that we shot this on location at a house in West Los Angeles. Randy told me the house already had this chairlift. We did not install it.

• 39:59Speaker 00

  I would think that they scouted a house with a chairlift.

• 40:02Speaker 04

  He also said that because they wanted this mini film to really look like a real movie, we shot the Mrs. Hannity sequence on film.

• 40:13Speaker 00

  Dang.

• 40:14Speaker 04

  It was our first time shooting something for our show on film. We normally used the digital cameras. We even had a Steadicam film camera. And since they only had one day to shoot all these scenes, Jeff Blitz and Randall Einhorn did a full blocking rehearsal with stand ins where they planned out every single shot. They created official storyboards, just like you do on a film. And Randy even sent us pictures.

• 40:43Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 40:43Speaker 04

  And they exactly matched the mini movie. There's a woman who's standing in for Cloris Leachman, kind of slowly moving up the staircase. And that is how they were able to get this elaborate shoot done on film, which normally takes a lot longer than shooting on digital. They could do it in one day.

• 41:00Speaker 00

  Yes. So Randy sent us pictures of how they staged it. And it was so fun to see them because Anna, who was in charge of locations, played Jack Black.

• 41:08Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 41:08Speaker 00

  And then Jasmine, who was our second AD, plays Cloris Leachman. So we'll have to. Put one of those pictures in our stories. It was fun to see their faces.

• 41:17Speaker 04

  In addition to wrapping up the movie storyline, we're going to find out what exactly Jim said to Pam's dad.

• 41:27Speaker 00

  Yeah, Pam's dad comes to the office and they have this whole conversation in the parking lot. Now, we can't hear it. We see it, but we don't know what they're saying.

• 41:35Speaker 04

  We had a fan question from Stephanie P. What did Pam say to her dad in the parking lot? There was never any dialogue for this in the script. This was always a silent spy shot. In fact, here's what it said. It said, Jim's POV, Pam is talking with her father. The conversation goes back and forth. Pam looks angry. The dad says something. She looks up at Jim with tears in her eyes. The dad leaves and Pam walks back inside.

• 42:05Speaker 00

  So you guys just had to fill in the blanks there?

• 42:08Speaker 04

  We did. Now Pam's dad was played by Rick Overton and he will be back again in Niagara. And Rick is actually a really funny guy. He's like an improvisation comedy veteran. He's also a writer. He won an Emmy for writing an episode of Dennis Miller Live. So it's funny to me how we would cast people with great pedigree to stand and do a silent POV shot in the parking lot.

• 42:34Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 42:35Speaker 04

  But that was because this is a big role, Pam's dad. If we bring him back, we need to make sure this person has the chops to go the distance.

• 42:43Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 42:44Speaker 04

  And Rick was great. And we just improvised dialogue. We just improvised what he might be saying to her that would cause her to be hurt. It was mostly a spin on like, I'm sorry, but I need to leave your mother. You know, he knew that scripted line that Pam says later. And he would say that to me and I would look up at the window and all that kind of stuff. So, yeah. But he was great. And by the way, he reached out to us because he knew we were coming up on this episode. And he said, if you would not mind, would you tell people that I have a new improvised stand-up special called Rick Overton's Set List? And you can find it through Comedy Dynamics.

• 43:24Speaker 00

  Oh, nice.

• 43:25Speaker 04

  And we can put a link in the show notes for anyone who wants to check it out.

• 43:28Speaker 00

  That's great.

• 43:29Speaker 04

  Well, this all leads us into this Pam talking head that gets quoted back to me all the time.

• 43:34Speaker 00

  It's a very sweet talking head.

• 43:37Speaker 04

  It is. Pam says, when you're young, you assume your parents are soulmates. Her kids are going to be right about that.

• 43:44Speaker 00

  Yeah. Andy overhears it, throws papers in the air because he's like, his whole running bit is that Pam and Jim are sort of relationship geniuses and that they can see all of this stuff happening in a movie that he can't see.

• 43:57Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 43:58Speaker 00

  This deep relationship like storyline that he just can't see because it's not there, Andy.

• 44:04Speaker 04

  No. He says he would never be insightful enough to be a movie critic, but he could maybe be a food or art critic.

• 44:11Speaker 00

  Mm hmm. Hmm. Here comes Michael in his black turtleneck and his black coat. I'm still like obsessed with this outfit. He said he spent the afternoon in the park trying to feed pigeons, but I guess they'd all flown west for the winter.

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  Yeah.

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  And he just had some thoughts he wanted to share with everyone. Pam says, what?

• 44:31Speaker 04

  Mm hmm.

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  And he said, I wrote them down so I wouldn't forget.

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  Oh, boy. Here it comes. This is the Boom Roasted's.

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  It is.

• 44:41Speaker 04

  Boom Roasted. So you know, I told you that Halsted Sullivan came up with the idea for the roast storyline?

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  Yeah.

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  I had to know who came up with Boom Roasted.

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  Who did?

• 44:53Speaker 04

  All right. I got a hot tip that it might be Justin Spitzer or Gene Stupnitsky.

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  Okay.

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  I reached out to them.

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  And?

• 45:01Speaker 04

  Nope.

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  Nope.

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  They thought maybe it was Charlie Grandy.

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  Oh, was it?

• 45:07Speaker 04

  I don't have Charlie's info.

• 45:08Speaker 00

  Oh.

• 45:09Speaker 04

  So I reached out to Jen Salata.

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  Plot thickens.

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  I said, Jen? Do you know if Charlie Grandy wrote Boom Roasted?

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  Yeah.

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  These are the emails I exchange with people now.

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  I know. Oh, I know.

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  Jen said, I think so, but let me text him. And then, I just love Jen Salata so much.

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  I know.

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  She writes me back, Boom Roasted was Charlie! Three exclamation points. We did it! So I wrote Justin and I said, Justin, it was Charlie Grandy. And he said, great, I would like some credit on the podcast for sending you down the right road. I said, you will get it.

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  Thank you, Justin.

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  Thank you, all of you guys.

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  I know, I know.

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  I had to know. Boom Roasted, it's so famous.

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  Who did Boom Roasted?

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  Charlie Grandy.

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  Charlie Grandy. Well, I think we need to hear these. I'm gonna read them to you. Michael says, Jim, you're 6'11" and you weigh 90 pounds. Gumby has a better body than you. Boom, roasted! Dwight, you're a kiss ass. Boom, roasted! Pam, you failed art school. Boom, roasted! Meredith, you've slept with so many guys, you've started to look like one. Boom, roasted! Kevin, I can't decide between a fat joke and a dumb joke. Boom, roasted! Creed, your teeth called, your breath stinks. Boom, roasted! Angela, where's Angela? Oh, there you are. I didn't see you there behind that grain of rice. Boom, roasted!

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  Stanley, you crush your wife during sex and your heart sucks. Boom, roasted! Oscar, you are gay. Boom, roasted! Andy Cornell called, they think you suck and you're gayer than Oscar. Boom, roasted! Well, now Stanley is cackling.

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  Hysterically laughing.

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  He can't stop laughing. I mean, it's egging Michael on. He's laughing. Everyone seems to have turned a corner.

• 47:00Speaker 04

  Michael is very good at roasting, I guess.

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  And Michael has a talking head that wraps up the whole moment. He says, they say that laughter is the best medicine, so Stanley, you can throw away those pills. You are cured. Actually, you know what? You should, you better hold on to those pills just in case.

• 47:17Speaker 04

  Well, lady, I had a lot of fun looking at the candy bag alternates for this as well.

• 47:22Speaker 00

  Oh, what do you got?

• 47:23Speaker 04

  Oh, okay. So first of all, with a lot of characters, they had a lot of roastable things. Your character of Angela Martin, every roast is a spin on hiding behind a grain of rice. Every one. It was so funny to me. They clearly came up with that idea. I couldn't see you behind that grain of rice. And they were like, that's it. We're not going to do better than that. Because there were some slight alternates, but it always ended with, oh, I'm sorry, I couldn't see you behind that grain of rice. Which was very funny to me. Here are a few of the alternates that stood out to me. Oh, Pam, did you not hear me through that dirty mop you call hair? Boom, roasted.

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  Oh, my God.

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  And this one. They say people tend to be attracted to people who look like themselves. So I don't know what happened with Jim and Pam. Their kid's gonna look like a pair of stilts with boobs. Have fun giving birth to that, Pam. Boom, roasted. And this is my favorite. There's a whole page of Toby. Boom, roasted.

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  Oh, my gosh.

• 48:27Speaker 04

  But they are all just Michael telling him to F off and that he hates him. Here's an example, in all caps, Toby, fuck you. I hope you die. Boom, roasted. That's it.

• 48:44Speaker 00

  Well, the episode's gonna end with our movie, Mrs. Albert Hannity.

• 48:48Speaker 04

  And it's a real surprise ending.

• 48:50Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 48:50Speaker 04

  Big twist at the end.

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  Twist. Jack Black is Sam. He's returning to Lily's house, played by Chlorus. He's got flowers and a walking cane in his hand.

• 49:01Speaker 04

  Yeah.

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  He's running up to the front door.

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  Mm-hmm. As he gets there, he looks through the window. She's with another man, another young man.

• 49:09Speaker 00

  Yeah, and they are in the throes of passion.

• 49:12Speaker 04

  It's very, very, very much of a love scene.

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  It's a make out.

• 49:18Speaker 04

  It's a big make out.

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  It's a real big make out.

• 49:20Speaker 04

  The man she is making out with is our writer's assistant, Nate Federman.

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  Nate, we had to know.

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  How did you get this job? He sent in this audio clip and I promise you, you will hang on his every word.

• 49:38Speaker 06

  Hi, my name's Nate Federman. I was one of the writer's assistants on Stress Relief and I got to make out with Clarice Leachman and this is my story. Originally, my part was supposed to be for Zac Efron and there were actual lines, but he turned it down and so did Corbin Blue and Christopher Mintz-Platts. And the day before it was supposed to shoot, they hadn't cast it and all the lines had been cut and they really just needed somebody who was young, uh, looking to make out with Clarice Leachman. They didn't have to be handsome or famous. So enter me. Paul Lieberstein and Jeff Glitz, who was directing the episode, pulled me aside at work

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  and asked me if I was interested in doing the part. And I'm not an actor. The last time I performed was in fifth grade. I was muddled the tailor and fiddler on the roof and I froze in the middle of Wonder of Wonder, Miracle of Miracles, and the audience laughed at me and it was scarring. But I was really excited to earn 500 bucks and residuals. So I said, sure, I'll do it. At the time, I was so terrified of letting the show down. I was working with all these incredible actors and actresses who actually knew what they were doing and I just didn't wanna screw things up for everybody. So I went home that night and I, I told my girlfriend, now my wife, about what I

• 50:59Speaker 06

  was gonna have to do and I was really scared. So I practiced with her and I didn't get much sleep that night. And then I woke up early the next day and I arrived on location and I was just terrified because I was so out of my element. And I'm in hair and makeup and they're doing my hair and all of a sudden I feel these hands running through my hair and I hear this voice go, "I hear that you and I are gonna be doing some kissing later." And I turn around and it's Clarice Leachman and she's smiling at me and I'm like, "Yeah, we're gonna be doing this scene together." So then we go to the actual set and I'm riding in a van with Clarice Leachman and Jack Black and Jessica

• 51:40Speaker 06

  Alba, and these are, you know, big name stars and I'm the writer's assistant on The Office and so out of my element. And I'm just desperate not to seem like a total hack and screw things up for everyone. So eventually it's it's time for the kissing scene with Clarice. And we're positioned on a couch and she's sitting on my lap. And I have my arms around her and we're talking and it's very pleasant and she's very nice and she's telling me about her children. But then, right before we do the actual take, she gets real serious, you know, she's getting into character. And she looks me in the eye.

• 52:20Speaker 06

  And I'll never forget this. She goes, when they call action, I want you to grab my ass and really get up in the crack. So when they called action, I grabbed her ass and I really got up in that crack. And we did the scene. We shot it many times. They had to get it from a lot of different angles. So we ended up making out quite a bit. She did say a variety of other, uh, pretty ratty things. She's an expert at dirty talk. But it was an amazing experience and I'm incredibly grateful that my five seconds of fame were spent with

• 53:03Speaker 06

  an absolute legend like Clarice Leachman. And it's something that I always get a kick out of when I get to tell people.

• 53:10Speaker 04

  Nate, thank you. Thank you for sharing your story. I mean, what an amazing story. Amazing. Hey Nate, Zac Efron isn't available. What are you doing tomorrow? Yeah. Can you do something for me real quick? Sure. What is it? It's just that scene where you make out with Clarice Leachman. Mm hmm. Oh, okay. Sure. I guess so. And you get

• 53:34Speaker 00

  Five hundred bucks.

• 53:35Speaker 04

  Yeah, and a great story.

• 53:37Speaker 00

  And a story for your lifetime.

• 53:39Speaker 04

  Yes. You know what? In these kind of over the top moments, you have to go for it. And Chloris was saying, sweetie, I give you permission to go for it. You grab my butt.

• 53:51Speaker 00

  Sell it.

• 53:51Speaker 04

  That's what the scene needs and we can't be shy with each other.

• 53:55Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 53:55Speaker 04

  We have to go for it. And I've been in situations with actors where we've given one another permission.

• 54:01Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 54:02Speaker 04

  It's so helpful because it gets you out of your head and you're like, okay, good.

• 54:06Speaker 00

  Now we can just play the scene. Have fun with it. I mean, you guys, watch every single Dwight and Angela make out.

• 54:12Speaker 04

  Exactly.

• 54:13Speaker 00

  Sometimes you just gotta go for it. And on our set, I think we were so good about being like, okay, I'm cool with this. You do this. We're fine. You know, we communicated.

• 54:22Speaker 04

  And I have to imagine you're with this legend performer, Chloris Leachman.

• 54:27Speaker 00

  I'd be timid.

• 54:28Speaker 04

  Yes, you've never met this person?

• 54:31Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 54:31Speaker 04

  So for her to just be so fun and up for it like that and to just say, do it, baby. Do it. I love it.

• 54:40Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 54:40Speaker 04

  Well, there you have it.

• 54:42Speaker 00

  Stress relief.

• 54:43Speaker 04

  Part two, do you feel less stressed? Have you had some relief of your stress after listening to this podcast, everyone?

• 54:49Speaker 00

  I hope so. I hope our podcast doesn't stress people out. If we can leave anything with you from stress relief, other than boom roasted.

• 54:58Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 54:59Speaker 00

  It's.

• 54:59Speaker 04

  Ah, ah, ah. I was just gonna say that. Stayin' alive, stayin' alive, ah, ah, ah, ah, stayin' alive. Oh, my God, that was, now people are stressed. We relieved their stress and then we gave it right back. I'm so sorry. Start over. Start the podcast again.

• 55:19Speaker 00

  Bye, you guys. Have a great week. We'll see you next week.

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  For lecture circuit.

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  Part one.

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  I can't wait. I have so many stories.

• 55:32Speaker 04

  Thank you for listening to Office Ladies Second Drink.

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  This episode was initially created in collaboration with Earwolf.

• 55:38Speaker 04

  Office Ladies is a presentation of Odyssey and is produced by Jenna Fisher and Angela Kinsey. Our senior producer is Matt Beagle.

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  Our Second Drinks episodes are produced by Molly Nugent.

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  Our audio engineer is Sam Pfeifer.

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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.