Second Drink: The Surplus

This week we’re breaking down The Surplus! When Michael announces to the Scranton Branch that they have a surplus, the office fights over whether to use the leftover money to buy new chairs or a new copier. Meanwhile Dwight “helps” Angela and Andy plan their wedding. Angela tells us about shooting on Disney Ranch which was once known as Golden Oak Ranch, Jenna does a deep dive on Iowa State Farm's butter sculptures, and the ladies gush over one of the best Hank scenes in the entire run of The Office. But most importantly, it’s Angela’s work birthday! Will she actually get a cake at work this year? 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

  Hello and welcome to your second drink of the surplus. This is the episode where Oscar explains to Michael that he has to spend the office surplus. And it kicks off this big debate over what the bullpen wants to spend it on. Chairs or a new copier? This is also when Dwight takes Angela and Andy to Shrewd Farms.

• 0:21Speaker 01

  It was a very fun episode of The Office, one of my favorite to shoot, and also one of my favorite episodes of Office Ladies. So listen, lady, I was revisiting this one and I did this deep dive on butter sculptures at the Iowa State Fair because when Angela is talking about planning her wedding, she says she wants a cat butter sculpture.

• 0:41Speaker 00

  Mm-hmm. I remember when we did our stories, you sent me all of these pictures you found of butter sculptures.

• 0:47Speaker 01

  Yes. Well, guess what? I have an update.

• 0:51Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 0:51Speaker 01

  A butter sculpture update. I want everyone to know that the Iowa State Fair will be going on this year from August 13th to 23rd. And yes, there will be a butter cow, per usual. And it will be sculpted by Sarah Pratt, who has been making the butter cow since 2006. Her two daughters, Hannah and Grace, are now her apprentices. And listen, I'm telling you, I got so interested in these sculptures, again, that I ended up watching some videos of Sarah and her daughters from last year's fair. And they use their hands a lot to do the sculpting. I don't know what I was expecting. Tools? I don't know.

• 1:32Speaker 00

  I totally envisioned it as like them using their hands, like almost like a clay, like making pottery.

• 1:38Speaker 01

  That is what it was like. I envisioned it like, I don't know, like an old timey like chisel and hammer. But no, they do. They use their hands to mold it. And then it cools into the shape that they're going for. It's really fascinating.

• 1:53Speaker 00

  I want to watch it.

• 1:53Speaker 01

  And one day, I need to see these butter sculptures in real life. Can we please do this, lady? I mean it, I mean it.

• 2:01Speaker 00

  My bags are packed.

• 2:02Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 2:03Speaker 00

  I mean, I am in. I love butter.

• 2:06Speaker 01

  I know you do. And I love things sculpted out of other things, I guess. This is a good match for us.

• 2:14Speaker 00

  Mm-hmm.

• 2:14Speaker 01

  Well, lady, this is also the episode where we finally gave you your first work birthday. Yeah, but your cake was late. It was a whole thing. You can listen to it in the episode, but when we put a call out to our listeners to tell us their favorite moment from The Surplus, we got this letter from Jordan G. in Orlando, and Angela, I had to share. Jordan said, "Hi, ladies. This is more of a response to your episode of the podcast and less about the show itself. I'm currently listening to The Surplus episode for the first time where Angela gets her first work birthday party. I just want to say how touching that moment was when Angela was surprised with her cake. It literally made me tear up. One of my

• 2:59Speaker 01

  favorite things about the podcast is being able to have a look into the friendship between you two. It is so honest and special, and your obvious connection and love for one another is truly something so amazing to get to witness. You make me laugh, cry, and everything in between. I feel like I'm right there with you. I'm sure you've heard it a million times, so what's one time more? Thank you for creating something so special for everyone. Many blessings to both you and your family. Love always, Jordan."

• 3:30Speaker 00

  Well, Jordan, gosh, that just, you know what, just completely made my day. Thank you so much.

• 3:36Speaker 01

  I know. I thought that was so sweet. And she also had a PS. I guess I met Jordan in Arizona, at the University of Arizona in 2018. I had done a book signing for The Actor's Life. She said, "I was literally one of the last people in line, and you still took time to talk with me and sign my book. And as an actor who now gets paid full-time to perform..."

• 3:57Speaker 00

  Way to go, Jordan.

• 3:58Speaker 01

  Yes. It was huge encouraging me through those tough times we all face. Ah, Jordan, yay, congratulations. And thank you for writing in.

• 4:08Speaker 00

  Thank you so much, Jordan. Well, I have a letter here from Hannah B. in Canada, who says, "First off, love you ladies so much. I rewatched The Surplus recently and loved the scene where Michael calls in Hank to make the final decision, especially the moment when Hank realizes the power he's been given. Was it scripted that he would take the jelly beans, and Michael responds very seriously?" That he can take as many as he wants. Steve and Hugh's energy in this scene is hilarious. I mean, it is so fantastic. Hannah, we mentioned in our breakdown that this is our favorite as well.

• 4:43Speaker 01

  Oh, yes, so much. It's so good. And Hannah, I went to the script and it was scripted that Hank takes some jelly beans, but that's all it said. Steve improvised the line, "Take as many as you want." And Hugh improvised the "thank you, thank you." Before his next scripted line that was, "You know, it's nice and warm up here." And I actually think this little bit that Hannah points out is such a great example of improv on the show, Ange, because we weren't improvising whole scenes. We would have a scripted bit and then we'd do some little thing and then we'd go back to scripted and we did it so seamlessly.

• 5:25Speaker 00

  Yeah, because we had really great writing. When there were these little moments where we could sort of add a little color, we knew right where to do them. Do you know what I mean? It was just so organic.

• 5:38Speaker 01

  Yes. Oh, and lady, while I was poking around in the script, looking for the answer to this question, oh my gosh, I found not one, but two cold opens for this episode. We did not talk about this in our breakdown.

• 5:53Speaker 00

  Ooh.

• 5:54Speaker 01

  And this episode does not have a standalone cold open. We just get right into the plot. Oscar just enters Michael's office and tells him about the surplus. But there were actually two standalone cold opens written for this episode. I think we only ended up filming one of them. It got added back to the top of the Peacock Superfan episode. It is a prank that Jim pulls on Dwight. Let's hear it.

• 6:19Speaker 02

  What is this thing you just sent me?

• 6:21Speaker 03

  Oh, it's really cool. It's a picture of the most relaxing meadow you've ever seen.

• 6:24Speaker 02

  Idiot. I know what this is. It's supposed to lull me into a sense of calm and then a ghoul pops up and scares me.

• 6:31Speaker 03

  Why would I do that? Dwight, of all people, I know that you're unscareable.

• 6:34Speaker 02

  Damn right I am.

• 6:38Speaker 02

  Oh, hello, relaxing meadow. I'm so relaxed and calm looking at you right now. Oh, no, a scary ghoul just popped up. I'm so scared, I'm so scared. Really? Is this the best you could? Jim?

• 6:51Speaker 03

  How are you?

• 6:54Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 6:58Speaker 03

  That is the best I can do.

• 7:02Speaker 00

  He got him. He got him, lady.

• 7:04Speaker 01

  Yeah, so what he does, because you can't see it, he is right over Dwight's shoulder in a scary mask. And that is what ends up scaring Dwight. So that is now at the top of this episode in The Superfan, but they wrote another cold open for this episode where Michael and Dwight discover that it's snowing outside. And we all run outside and have a snowball fight, but there's not a lot of snow. So the snow is kind of like filled with pebbles. You know, when you're like trying to make a snowman, but there's not enough, yeah, or a snowball or whatever.

• 7:35Speaker 00

  So you get dirt and sticks and stuff. Yeah.

• 7:38Speaker 01

  Well, anyway, I bet they're glad they chose this one in the bullpen because then they didn't have to spend a bunch of money on fake snow just to have it get cut from the episode.

• 7:47Speaker 00

  That's all I could think of when you shared that. I thought they were gonna have to call Snow Business and get a bunch of fake snow.

• 7:54Speaker 01

  Yeah, but they didn't. I don't think we shot it.

• 7:56Speaker 00

  Well, I love a cold open surprise. Well, I also want to talk about this letter we got from Cassie L. in Milton, Florida. Cassie said, "I'm currently watching The Superfan episodes and there's a scene between Angela and Dwight that has been added back in where we find out Angela is very passionate about the Mayflower. And it seems that Dwight knows this by his reaction." So Cassie wants to know, "How many times have they had deep conversations about the Mayflower? This scene made me laugh out loud. I went back and watched it three more times." Yeah, it was really fun. And it just, it's one of those scenes, lady, I loved that wasn't in the original, that just shows the history of a couple, you know? There's all this assumed

• 8:39Speaker 00

  history that you carry around with you when you are in a relationship with someone and just a window into it is so delicious. It's like when we got to see Michael and Jan's condo, you know? I'm like, what? They've been living this all this time, but I thought it'd be fun to hear. It's after the scene in the kitchen where they are getting the directions to Shroot Farms, Angela and Dwight sneak out into the alleyway next to the warehouse. Let's listen.

• 9:06Speaker 02

  I thought you were gonna put the muzzle on that singing idiot.

• 9:09Speaker 00

  He's not a bad singer.

• 9:12Speaker 02

  Yeah, he's pretty talented, I guess.

• 9:14Speaker 00

  And he went to Cornell.

• 9:15Speaker 02

  Yeah, well, I provide America with two of its most beloved staples: beads and paper.

• 9:20Speaker 00

  His family is well-connected in pockets of Connecticut.

• 9:23Speaker 02

  Well...

• 9:24Speaker 00

  And his ancestors came over on the Mayflower.

• 9:26Speaker 02

  Oh, big whoop. Half my family came over on a U-boat. It would've destroyed the Mayflower.

• 9:32Speaker 00

  Listen to you. Destroyed the Mayflower?

• 9:35Speaker 02

  Sorry. I can't believe I said that. Angela?

• 9:40Speaker 01

  That's so fun.

• 9:41Speaker 00

  I so remember doing that scene. You know how some you hear and you're like, "I don't really remember that." I remember saying, "Deep pockets of Connecticut."

• 9:49Speaker 01

  It's so good.

• 9:50Speaker 00

  She's so impressed.

• 9:51Speaker 01

  I also love that Dwight has to admit he is a good singer.

• 9:54Speaker 00

  Mm-hmm.

• 9:55Speaker 01

  Yeah. Well, you know what's crazy is that in the background of this scene, lady, there's a little bit of snow on the dumpster, and you guys are acting like you're really cold. So I kinda wonder, when did we shoot this? Was this before or after they decided to bail on that snow cold open? They were like, "We don't know what the cold open's gonna be for this episode yet, so just throw some snow out there so it matches, just in case."

• 10:19Speaker 00

  Just in case. Okay, everyone, well, thanks so much for sending in your letters about your favorite moments. We love them. You can submit your favorites at our website, office ladies dot com. And now it's time for your second drink of the surplus.

• 10:36Speaker 01

  I'm Jenna Fischer.

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  And I'm Angela Kinsey.

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  We were on The Office together.

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  And we're best friends.

• 10:40Speaker 01

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

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  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.

• 10:51Speaker 01

  We're the Office Ladies.

• 10:55Speaker 01

  Hello, everyone.

• 10:57Speaker 00

  Hello, you guys.

• 10:58Speaker 01

  Today is a very special day.

• 11:01Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 11:02Speaker 01

  It is the last day that Angela will be in her 40s.

• 11:07Speaker 00

  It is, you guys. I am 49, staring at 50. By the time you guys hear this, I'll be 50.

• 11:14Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 11:14Speaker 00

  That's crazy.

• 11:15Speaker 01

  You'll be a hot 50 lady.

• 11:17Speaker 00

  Ooh, hot 50.

• 11:19Speaker 01

  I was asking you the other day, what does it feel like? Like... What does 50 feel like as you're approaching this milestone birthday?

• 11:27Speaker 00

  I think I've been in denial because I've just been busy with life and kids and whatnot. But I am realizing now it feels big. You know what I mean? Like, I realize I'm in a different survey group. Like, they're like, Americans 18 to 35 surveyed, Americans 35 to 45 surveyed. I'm like, oh, my God, I'm not in the survey anymore? I'm in the, like, senior citizens surveyed, 50 to 75.

• 11:53Speaker 01

  You're gonna get surveyed about all, like, aches and pains and things now, right?

• 11:58Speaker 00

  You know what? My grandmother lived to 100, and I'll never forget when she was 96. Her and I were hanging out. She was the best. Her name was Lena May. And I said, "Grandmother, you're about to turn 97. How does it feel?" And she said, "Well, you know, when I'm sitting down, I feel like I'm 23. It's when I stand up that I feel 97."

• 12:19Speaker 01

  Oh, that's amazing. Isn't that amazing?

• 12:22Speaker 00

  And then she said, "Nothing's broken, but none of it really works."

• 12:29Speaker 00

  So, you guys, I'm very excited today because here I am at work the week of my birthday, and that means I'm getting a birthday cake, right? For the first time ever at work. Sam, do you have it? Is it hiding? I saw your Arby's bag. Is it behind it? Nope. What?

• 12:48Speaker 01

  Angela?

• 12:49Speaker 00

  Jenna, you said you had something in your car. Is this a ruse?

• 12:52Speaker 01

  No. What was in my car is my son's electric guitar that I accidentally brought today.

• 12:58Speaker 00

  I thought it was code for cake. I thought you were going to get cake this whole time.

• 13:03Speaker 01

  No, I mean, I can bring you down to the car and you're gonna see a red electric guitar in my trunk. When I got here, Lee texted me, and I realized I picked him up from Guitar Last Time and I never took it out of the trunk.

• 13:13Speaker 00

  Oh, my God, you guys-

• 13:14Speaker 01

  Do you want a red electric guitar? A week of strum happy birthday on it.

• 13:19Speaker 00

  No, I think this is perfect. I think I need to finish my 40s never getting cake on my birthday, but next year I want a cake. Okay, I'm gonna be 50. It's about time someone gives me a cake when I'm at work for my birthday. So 51, do you hear me? Do you hear me? Why are you looking directly at me? And now I'm looking at you.

• 13:43Speaker 01

  Oh, boy.

• 13:43Speaker 00

  And Cassie, I know you're in there somewhere in the Zoom. I'm 50. This is what happens when you're 50. You're like, I'm 50. Give me what I want.

• 13:55Speaker 01

  Okay, I think we all feel really bad. Um.

• 14:01Speaker 00

  I would never want you to feel bad, ever. Are you messing with me?

• 14:05Speaker 01

  Lady, I swear it's an electric guitar. I feel like now.

• 14:08Speaker 00

  I mean, you guys, it was really funny. She was like, I have to run to my car.

• 14:11Speaker 01

  I know.

• 14:12Speaker 00

  Sam, it's about the guitar. And I'm like, this is code for cake. They're messing with me.

• 14:17Speaker 01

  Angela, we officially apologize that there is no cake here. I am gonna see you tomorrow on your actual birthday to celebrate your actual birthday where you will be getting a cake.

• 14:27Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 14:27Speaker 01

  Because I'll be dropping.

• 14:29Speaker 00

  Are you bringing a cake?

• 14:30Speaker 01

  Gelson's tomorrow, tonight, to get it. Because by God, you're getting a cake. Okay?

• 14:37Speaker 00

  All right, done.

• 14:39Speaker 01

  This week, we are talking about The Surplus. It is season five, episode 10, written by Jean Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg and directed by Paul Feig.

• 14:50Speaker 00

  Do you want to hear a fun little tidbit about the title?

• 14:52Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 14:53Speaker 00

  As you guys know, I am a digital hoarder and every once in a while, it brings me a real nugget. I found an email from Randy Cordray saying that we were tentatively going to be shooting this episode in October of 2008, end of October. And the title, the working title was Spend the Surplus.

• 15:12Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 15:13Speaker 00

  Spend the surplus.

• 15:14Speaker 01

  And then we just dropped the spend.

• 15:16Speaker 00

  Mm hmm.

• 15:17Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 15:17Speaker 00

  So as you watch this, know that we're filming end of October 2008. I went on a website that tells you weather years past. You guys, the high was 88 degrees.

• 15:27Speaker 01

  In October.

• 15:28Speaker 00

  Mm hmm. And if you watch us shivering outside, know that that's a fakey shiver.

• 15:33Speaker 01

  Oh, I have some things to say about that. When we get there.

• 15:36Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 15:37Speaker 01

  I'm gonna hit you with a summary.

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  Do it.

• 15:39Speaker 01

  Oscar informs Michael, there is a $4,300 budget surplus that must be spent today, or it gets returned and taken out of next year's budget. The office is then divided on what to spend it on, new chairs or a new copier. This creates tension between Jim and Pam, who are on opposing sides. Pam is team chairs. Jim is team copier.

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  Mm hmm.

• 16:04Speaker 01

  Andy and Angela visit Shrood Farms to discuss their wedding with Dwight. Michael then learns of a third option for the surplus. He can return it in exchange for a 15% bonus for himself. What will he choose?

• 16:18Speaker 00

  Well, he doesn't like to make anyone mad, but he also wants the money.

• 16:22Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 16:23Speaker 00

  Hmm.

• 16:24Speaker 01

  Fast fact, number one, the character of Ryan does not appear in this episode.

• 16:30Speaker 00

  Good catch.

• 16:31Speaker 01

  Yeah. Remember last week, he told Kelly he was gonna go to Thailand? Well, this marks his first episode on his vacation, and he will be gone for 11 weeks. Because he was filming Inglourious Basterds, the Quentin Tarantino film.

• 16:47Speaker 00

  This was such a big deal for BJ. We were so excited.

• 16:50Speaker 01

  He was working with Brad Pitt.

• 16:52Speaker 00

  I know. We really hit him up for Brad Pitt stories, and he had nothing. He just said he was a nice guy. We're like, come on, give us something.

• 16:59Speaker 01

  I know. And then he would drop and do like a one arm push up.

• 17:02Speaker 00

  BJ, we get it. You have to get in good shape. We get it.

• 17:05Speaker 01

  Mm hmm. Fast fact, number two, our cinematographer for this episode was Matt Soen.

• 17:11Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 17:13Speaker 01

  So this actually happened back on Business Trip because remember Randall Einhorn, our usual cinematographer, directed Business Trip. So while he was directing, Matt Sohn, who was normally our B-camera operator, stepped in as cinematographer. But this started a stretch where Matt served as our A-camera operator and cinematographer for three weeks while Randall was doing post-production on his episode of Business Trip. And so these last three episodes, that's Matt Sohn, y'all.

• 17:45Speaker 00

  I love that. Matt Sohn was the best. He is such a hiker. Do you know that?

• 17:50Speaker 01

  Yeah, didn't he and David Dunman used to hike a bunch?

• 17:52Speaker 00

  They hike a bunch. I saw him on a hike one time and I was like sucking air so hard and he like strode past me with his kid in one of those backpack things.

• 18:03Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah.

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  And I was like, shoot, he was really in good shape.

• 18:06Speaker 01

  He and Randall both were in good shape.

• 18:08Speaker 00

  I know.

• 18:09Speaker 01

  But I mean, they need to be because they're lugging those cameras on their shoulders. Although now Matt directs.

• 18:14Speaker 00

  Yes. Now he just hikes for pleasure.

• 18:16Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 18:19Speaker 01

  Fast fact number three, a very big portion of this episode takes place at Shroop Farms. And Angela, I know you will have a lot to share about that, but to kick things off, you have a location breakdown from Randy Cordray.

• 18:34Speaker 00

  I sure do. You guys, Randy Cordray is the best. Jenna has shared with you emails that he has sent to us. I reached out to him because I had questions about Shroop Farms. We have shared over the years that there were a few different locations for Shroop Farms. And I just wanted to ask Randy which location it was and I had a question about the barn. He responded to my email, Jenna, with so many details. It was so wonderful and photos. I'm going to share. Here we go. Are you ready for Randy Cordray's location breakdown of Shroop Farms?

• 19:04Speaker 01

  Yes.

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  These scenes were shot in New Hall at the Disney Ranch. It was originally known as the Golden Oak Ranch. And Jenna, Randy gives us a deep dive on the origin of the Golden Oak Ranch.

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  Lay it on me.

• 19:20Speaker 00

  He did a deep dive. This is what he said. It was land owned by the famous singing cowboy movie star Gene Autry. Gene Autry also owned the California Angels baseball team and the Los Angeles news station KTLA, Channel 5, which was the first TV station on the West Coast. Randy also shared that the Walt Disney Company purchased the property in 1959 and established a movie location on a still working horse and cattle ranch. There's more. He shared that just beyond the boundary of the property, to the south in Placerita Canyon State Park,

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  is the site of the very first gold discovery in California. In 1842, a cowhand named Francisco Lopez was sitting under an oak tree and pulled up some wild onions. He found gold nuggets clinging to the roots. His discovery led to a mini gold rush, six years before the more famous discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill.

• 20:23Speaker 01

  Wait, he pulled onions out of the ground and there was gold clinging to like the onion? Or the root of the onion?

• 20:30Speaker 00

  Yeah, gold nuggets clinging to the root of this onion. And it happened right there. And that is why it's called the Golden Oak Ranch.

• 20:41Speaker 01

  It should be called the Golden Onion Ranch.

• 20:43Speaker 00

  He was sitting under an oak tree. It should be called a Golden

• 20:46Speaker 01

  Oak Onion Ranch.

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  Ranch. Golden Oak Onion Ranch.

• 20:50Speaker 01

  Rolls off the tongue.

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  So there's the background on the origin of the Golden Oak Ranch, which then became the Disney Ranch. So we spent a lot of time at this Disney Ranch filming this episode. There's tons more scenes that didn't make it in. We were there the whole week. This was weird for me, Jenna, because I was the one not in the office and you were there.

• 21:11Speaker 01

  Yes, yes.

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  When we shot there, the facilities were just limited to a few buildings, a farmhouse, some barns and stables, right? Randy shared with us that in the corner of the ranch, there was a very rundown western street that was really in disrepair, and it was. It looked like a set that had been forgotten about because no one was making those spaghetti westerns anymore. It probably had its heyday, but it was really falling apart. But Randy shared that since then, Disney has invested a ton of money and has completely modernized the grounds. He said, "I wouldn't even recognize it." There are six state-of-the-art sound stages. There's also a fake residential street and a business district, and there's a full feature backlot movie location now. None of that was there when we were there.

• 21:55Speaker 00

  It was like a rundown, old, like, western set when we were there.

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  I've been there because I was there for the bed and breakfast.

• 22:03Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 22:04Speaker 01

  When Jim and Pam.

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  That's right, that's right.

• 22:06Speaker 01

  Go to, you know, stay at Shrewd Farms. And there was nothing. There was really just these rickety farmhouses and barns that were basically falling apart.

• 22:14Speaker 00

  Right, and there was only a handful of them, and then just sort of fields.

• 22:17Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 22:18Speaker 00

  Well, now it's a full studio.

• 22:19Speaker 01

  Wow.

• 22:20Speaker 00

  I know. I asked him a little bit about the barn we filmed in, and he said the very first scene you see of us walking into the barn. That stable was called the Ragwing Barn, and Randy negotiated a rate to include the horses and mules and the horse that you see in the stalls.

• 22:36Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 22:37Speaker 00

  And then the other barn, which was like the fancy barn where Dwight, you know, made it to look like a wedding ceremony.

• 22:43Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 22:44Speaker 00

  That barn was known as Pee-wee's because it was the former location used in Paul Rubin's Pee-wee's Playhouse.

• 22:50Speaker 01

  Oh, wow.

• 22:51Speaker 00

  Mm-hmm. So they all had names, and the actual Shrewd Farmhouse was an old farmhouse on the property known as Olivia's.

• 22:58Speaker 01

  That's really cool.

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  I know, and he sent me pictures of the mules that he took that day. And he sent me like the map of the location, which it doesn't look anything like that anymore. It's so wild. It's completely different.

• 23:11Speaker 01

  That's so cool. Thank you, Randy Cordray.

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  I know. He's the best.

• 23:15Speaker 01

  He really came through.

• 23:16Speaker 00

  I know.

• 23:17Speaker 01

  Well, listen, should we take a break while I run to the store and buy you a cake, and you go to the bathroom, and we'll be back to break down this episode?

• 23:25Speaker 00

  Are you gonna go get me a guitar?

• 23:27Speaker 01

  Yeah, I'm gonna go get the guitar out of my car now.

• 23:29Speaker 00

  All right, awesome.

• 23:30Speaker 01

  I'm gonna need about 20 minutes.

• 23:32Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 23:33Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 23:44Speaker 01

  All right, we are back and Oscar is presenting Michael with the overall budget for the fiscal year. And he is trying to explain that they have a surplus of $4,300. Michael's not quite getting it. He says, "Explain it to me like I'm eight years old."

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  Then he says, "Explain it to me like I'm five."

• 24:04Speaker 01

  I know. So Oscar does this great lemonade stand analogy. Michael seems like he's getting it. Ultimately, in the end, we're not sure he totally got it.

• 24:16Speaker 00

  No.

• 24:17Speaker 01

  But Oscar says, "You need to spend this money today and you should really spend it on a new copier because we need it. We desperately need it." We had a fan question from Lauren Kay. When Oscar is explaining the surplus to Michael and Michael says, "Explain it to me like I'm five," there's this great line when Oscar says, "The next summer," and Michael says, "I'll be six."

• 24:43Speaker 00

  That made me laugh so hard.

• 24:45Speaker 01

  So hard. Lauren wanted to know, was that scripted or was it improvised? It was scripted.

• 24:53Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 24:54Speaker 01

  That beat, Steve threw it away so perfectly.

• 24:57Speaker 00

  It was so cute. It was so innocent.

• 24:59Speaker 01

  I know.

• 25:00Speaker 00

  Oh, Michael. Well, he's very excited. He knows it's something good, right? He grasps at least that. And he's going to announce to the whole bullpen.

• 25:10Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 25:11Speaker 00

  They've got a surplus. And he thinks, maybe we'll get a new copier. And Pam's like, "No, no, no. Wait, wait, hold up. We need new chairs."

• 25:18Speaker 01

  Mm-hmm. Toby feels like they really need a good air quality inspection for some of the silent killers. Here's Toby again. He's worried about the radon gas. He's worried about the asbestos.

• 25:31Speaker 00

  This is the runner. The writers loved for Toby.

• 25:36Speaker 01

  And this is the scene where we realize that Jim is not team chairs. He wants a copier.

• 25:44Speaker 00

  It really made me laugh hard when Creed goes, "The ball's on you, man." Creed's delivery was so good. And Jenna, there was a Pam talking head that would have gone here. And it's about her chair and you delivered it from reception. It's a talking head from reception.

• 26:00Speaker 01

  In my chair.

• 26:01Speaker 00

  Standing next to your chair.

• 26:04Speaker 01

  Oh, what is it?

• 26:05Speaker 00

  Sam, play it.

• 26:07Speaker 04

  This is the chair that was here when I was hired. It was crappy then and it's even worse now. To give myself a break, sometimes I go outside and sit on the ground.

• 26:17Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah, I remember that now.

• 26:18Speaker 00

  That's how bad that chair is. I thought Pam made a really strong argument. She made me want to be team chair because she was like, "I make the copies. I'm the one that has to deal with the copier." That should tell you how bad these chairs are.

• 26:33Speaker 01

  Well, and also everyone would get a new chair, right? So it really is something for everyone. But the other thing I thought was just, what about the copier in the annex? There's another copier.

• 26:49Speaker 00

  No one wants to walk to the annex. It's icky back there.

• 26:52Speaker 01

  Well, then they should swap them.

• 26:54Speaker 00

  I know.

• 26:55Speaker 01

  Maybe Kelly needs to make a lot of copies.

• 26:57Speaker 00

  It feels like there's a simple solution.

• 27:00Speaker 01

  To the copier problem that no one's realizing. Well, Michael's going to digest all of their ideas and see what comes out the other end.

• 27:08Speaker 00

  Coming up at 3 minutes 56 seconds is a scene, Jenna, that I didn't think I was going to get through. I didn't think we would have any usable takes. Last week, you talked about that clown painting on the wall in Jim's parents' house that you guys could not get through it. You were laughing.

• 27:24Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 27:24Speaker 00

  This scene with Dwight giving directions to Andy and Angela, that was it for me. Ed and I, we could not get through it. Like truly, we could not stop laughing. It's in the bloopers and I think we got to hear it.

• 27:39Speaker 01

  You know, lady, last week I looked at the bloopers to see if I could find any clown painting outtakes.

• 27:46Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 27:46Speaker 01

  I couldn't find them, but I did see this. It is so good.

• 27:51Speaker 05

  Just, I feel like some of these directions to Shrewd Farms are a little weird. Um, I mean, like 156 paces from the light red mailbox, make a left. Walk until you hear the beehive. And

• 28:09Speaker 05

  make a right if you are attacked by territorial crows. I had, this is a really, these. If you smell bear pee, turn the other way. I.

• 28:26Speaker 05

  If you smell bear pee at any point, abort, wait in your car for further instructions.

• 28:31Speaker 02

  What's the problem exactly?

• 28:37Speaker 01

  The other thing that's so great about this blooper is that you're hearing all those candy bag alt directions.

• 28:42Speaker 00

  Yes, because in the script, the only directions were 156 paces from the light red mailbox and then the one about the bear. All the rest are candy bag alts.

• 28:52Speaker 01

  So were they just, because in the clip, you can see that Ed is reading. Were they just handing him pieces of paper with like funny directions?

• 29:00Speaker 00

  They literally did. They handed him a whole paper that were extra directions. And that's why he was like, I almost had it.

• 29:08Speaker 00

  And if you guys watch the bloopers, you'll see that I'm sniffling. I am sniffling because it was so cold on set that day that my nose was running. And I had a tissue in my hand that I was hiding under the table. It was that cold.

• 29:23Speaker 01

  That used to happen to me all the time. My nose would run on set.

• 29:26Speaker 00

  I know.

• 29:26Speaker 01

  I had my sneezing from the allergies and the runny nose from the cold.

• 29:31Speaker 00

  Well, I rewatched the scene and all I can see is me sniffling and trying not to laugh.

• 29:36Speaker 01

  Well, you laughed a lot.

• 29:38Speaker 00

  I did. Well, Jenna, we had a fan question about this scene. Ally Jo H. wrote in and said, when Angela and Andy are talking to Dwight, Andy says something about a three-way and it looks like Dwight mouthed something to Angela. Do you remember what he said? I can tell you in the script, Rain had this stage direction. It says Dwight rolls his eyes to Angela like, ugh, check out the dummy. And Angela doesn't give him anything. So I think Rain was sort of mocking Andy in that moment, like looking at me like, oh, this guy.

• 30:11Speaker 01

  Coming up, we have a scene that was really, really fun for me. It's the scene in the kitchen between Pam and Jim, where Pam is kind of low key threatening Jim.

• 30:20Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 30:20Speaker 01

  To be on her side.

• 30:21Speaker 00

  Not low key, full key. Is that an expression?

• 30:26Speaker 01

  We had a fan question from Jessica Kay. She would very much like us to discuss Pam's, "You're on dangerous ground" moment, saying, quote, "I was like, damn, Jenna."

• 30:38Speaker 01

  Well, Jessica, we came up with this little moment while we rehearsed the scene. So this idea of Pam going over to Jim and going in for a kiss, but then pulling back, that was something that we did in rehearsal. It was not in the script and we just were so tickled. You know those moments when you're rehearsing a scene or you're doing a scene and you come up with this idea that just opens it up in this new way?

• 31:04Speaker 00

  It's so fun. And it's so fun to see everyone else realize it too, because I have to imagine that when Paul Feig saw it, he was like, oh, yes, you have to do that.

• 31:13Speaker 01

  Yeah, it was really, really cool. And then we knew, we shot this scene first, we were going to mirror it in the tag at the end with Jim.

• 31:22Speaker 00

  Oh, it's so good. And I loved Jim's talking head afterward. He was like, oh, spooky. You guys were about to head out to Shroop Farms. There was a deleted driving scene. It was so good. There's actually two. I'll get to the other one.

• 31:36Speaker 01

  Wait, there is a scene of you and Andy and Dwight driving in a car together?

• 31:41Speaker 00

  Two.

• 31:42Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 31:43Speaker 00

  They are bookends. One going there and then one when we leave.

• 31:47Speaker 01

  Stop it.

• 31:47Speaker 00

  Yes. The one on the way there, Dwight and Angela get into a fight. Also, Angela's driving.

• 31:53Speaker 01

  That tracks for me.

• 31:54Speaker 00

  Angela's driving and her car is filthy. It's like covered in mud. It's so funny. Oh, I know.

• 32:00Speaker 01

  Is that because maybe?

• 32:01Speaker 00

  She's been going out to

• 32:02Speaker 01

  She's been out to Shrewd Farms recently?

• 32:04Speaker 00

  Yeah. So she's driving, Dwight's in the front and Andy's in the back poking his head through.

• 32:10Speaker 01

  Amazing.

• 32:10Speaker 00

  For both scenes. These scenes were so much fun to film. On the way there, Angela and Dwight are arguing about centerpieces at the reception. Angela wants a fishbowl with a fish in it. Dwight's like, let's put a piranha in it and that will kill the fish and there'll be blood. And she's like, I don't want blood on my wedding day. And then he's like, well, I guess I have to reorder the cake.

• 32:29Speaker 01

  Oh, no, that's horrible.

• 32:32Speaker 00

  I know. What is this cake? And Andy's like, you two. That is on the DVD. The other one isn't on the DVD, but I'm going to share it later because it's when they're leaving Shrewd Farms.

• 32:42Speaker 01

  When Dwight is giving Andy and Angela a tour of Shrewd Farms, they get into another discussion about, I guess, on theme with blood. They're talking about the slaughter. Do they really have to slaughter the entrees on the day of the wedding?

• 32:56Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 32:57Speaker 01

  I mean, yeah.

• 32:59Speaker 00

  I know. And Andy gets Dwight to not do it the day of the wedding. And then Andy's like, what's that smell? Oh, my gosh, I'm so southern. Did you hear that?

• 33:07Speaker 01

  Smell.

• 33:08Speaker 00

  What's that smell? It's a vowel before an L. I can't do it. And Angela goes, manure. Get rid of it.

• 33:16Speaker 01

  We had a lot of fan questions about the manure.

• 33:18Speaker 00

  Oh, yeah.

• 33:19Speaker 01

  Like a lot. Everybody wanted to know, was it real manure? No, it was not. It was made by Phil Shea. That was Phil Shea's job that day. Make fakey manure and he-

• 33:30Speaker 00

  How did he do it?

• 33:31Speaker 01

  He mixed mostly oatmeal, little bit of sand and some food coloring.

• 33:36Speaker 00

  Well, it looks like manure.

• 33:38Speaker 01

  It does.

• 33:39Speaker 00

  Good job, Phil Shea.

• 33:40Speaker 01

  Lee Eisenberg shared with me that his most vivid memory of shooting this episode was how hot it was at Shrewd Farms and that you guys had to walk around in coats pretending it was cold.

• 33:54Speaker 00

  I noticed my forehead was glistening.

• 33:56Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 33:57Speaker 00

  I'm not one to sweat, guys. I'm not a big sweater because I'm always cold. So if it tells you anything about how hot it was, I was sweating. Also, real random side note, sorry if this is an overshare. When we were filming this, I had a five month old and I would have to go and pump.

• 34:15Speaker 01

  You were pumping at Shrewd Farms?

• 34:17Speaker 00

  I pumped at Shrewd Farms.

• 34:18Speaker 01

  Where?

• 34:19Speaker 00

  They had like, first of all, our trailers were a little bit of a car ride away.

• 34:23Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 34:24Speaker 00

  And they just helped me get there because I would have to go pump.

• 34:27Speaker 01

  You pumped at Shroot Farms.

• 34:29Speaker 00

  I pumped at Shroot Farms in the heat.

• 34:32Speaker 01

  Wow.

• 34:32Speaker 00

  Things you do for your baby.

• 34:34Speaker 01

  Back at Dunder Mifflin, Pam is trying to get Michael on her side with the chairs, but she gets interrupted by Oscar, who suddenly wants to go to lunch with Michael.

• 34:43Speaker 00

  Oh, Oscar knows exactly what he's doing. All Michael ever wants is lunch with the guys. And Jim's in on it.

• 34:50Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 34:51Speaker 00

  Oh, this is a bold move.

• 34:53Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah.

• 34:54Speaker 00

  This is Michael's happiest day.

• 34:55Speaker 01

  Pam says, "It is on. It is so on." And then she puts on lipstick and she tossels her hair. What?

• 35:06Speaker 00

  What is the outcome of this? Just to like flirt with Michael and make him feel good?

• 35:11Speaker 01

  I don't know what she is planning, except maybe just to look at Michael with some happy eyes to pay attention to him, laugh at his jokes. But Jim, Michael, and Oscar get back from lunch and they are hysterically laughing.

• 35:29Speaker 00

  I mean, they've had the best time.

• 35:31Speaker 01

  Yeah. I mean, how is Pam going to compete with this? She tries. She goes into his office. She compliments his pants. She compliments his tie.

• 35:42Speaker 00

  Hot tie guy.

• 35:43Speaker 01

  Hot tie guy.

• 35:44Speaker 00

  Hot tie guy. And I love how excited Michael is to share that he got his tie for $4 and his pants for $9 at TJ Maxx.

• 35:54Speaker 01

  Oh, my gosh. That reminds me of my mom.

• 35:57Speaker 00

  Does it?

• 35:58Speaker 01

  Yes. So my mom and my sister, they love to go to the outlets at Lake Ozark, Missouri. All growing up, we would go to this cabin in Lake of the Ozarks in the summer and they would head out to the outlets. I'm not a shopper person. I'm like, I'm going to stay back. I'm going to sit on the dock and read a book.

• 36:14Speaker 00

  Oh, I would be hitting those outlets with them.

• 36:16Speaker 01

  I know you would.

• 36:18Speaker 00

  Especially if there was like one of those pretzel shops and I could get a pretzel while we shopped.

• 36:23Speaker 01

  Of course, there's a pretzel shop. Of course.

• 36:25Speaker 00

  Give me that cinnamon pretzel.

• 36:27Speaker 01

  Yes. So you know how nowadays they have those haul videos where on YouTube where people go shopping and they just take things out of their bag and they show you their haul?

• 36:38Speaker 00

  H-A-U-L.

• 36:39Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 36:40Speaker 00

  I thought you said you know those haul videos. I'm like, why do they film themselves walking down a hall? That's what I thought. I thought, who does that? Are they walking through the hall of the store?

• 36:50Speaker 01

  No. Like hall, like here's my hall.

• 36:53Speaker 00

  Here's what I got.

• 36:54Speaker 01

  Yes, they would come home and they would get their stuff out of their bags.

• 36:58Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 36:59Speaker 01

  And it was sort of like the hall videos because they would show every item. But part of the showing of the item would have to include.

• 37:06Speaker 00

  The price.

• 37:07Speaker 01

  How much money they saved.

• 37:09Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 37:09Speaker 01

  So the retail, I got this purse that retails for $45. I got it for 12.

• 37:16Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 37:16Speaker 01

  This shirt, this was 70% off at Ralph Lauren. I got it for 12 bucks.

• 37:22Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 37:22Speaker 01

  So the whole like description was always saying the price with the savings. I think it was a big show for my dad. You know, so that he would feel better about any.

• 37:36Speaker 00

  Well, your dad loves a deal.

• 37:37Speaker 01

  He loves a deal.

• 37:38Speaker 00

  This is what I know about him.

• 37:39Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah. He wouldn't want my mom to buy a $12 shirt unless she could get it for seven.

• 37:44Speaker 00

  That's right.

• 37:45Speaker 01

  You know, so we would always have to make a big show of all the money that was saved.

• 37:50Speaker 00

  Michael's right there with your family.

• 37:52Speaker 01

  He sure is. He could get in on it with my mom and my sister.

• 37:56Speaker 00

  Pam really did lay it on thick. There is a Michael talking head in the script. Right after all of this, right? He's been taking a lunch. Pam has just complimented him and it didn't make it in. And Jenna, I loved it. Here it is, Michael's talking head in the script. When people kiss up to you, it's very easy to get an inflated ego. You can start to believe the hype that people are saying about you. I'm not at that point yet, but I'm going to get there.

• 38:24Speaker 01

  But I'm going to get there. That's pretty amazing.

• 38:28Speaker 00

  I know.

• 38:29Speaker 01

  Back at Shroot Farms, they are inside the farmhouse and Angela and Dwight are arguing over what kind of butter sculpture she should have at the wedding.

• 38:39Speaker 00

  Lady, this scene was so much longer. It actually started with Andy signing a ton of paperwork. Cause he was actually signing as a witness to the wedding, but he didn't know.

• 38:48Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 38:49Speaker 00

  Dwight said it was all these insurance forms so that they could get married at Shroop Farms. And during this scene, Mo's enters, and there's a really awkward moment with Mo's where Angela hisses at him. And then Dwight goes, why do you have to do that? It's not necessary. He loves you. And then Andy's like, well, how does he love her? How does he know her? And then Dwight's like, oh, Mo's loves everybody. He's a people person. And it's so much longer. And then it ends with us arguing about the butter sculptures. And once again, we could not get through it. We were laughing so hard. It's in the deleted scenes on the DVD. I'm going to put it in stories, Jenna, because I had to cover my face. I pull a Mindy.

• 39:32Speaker 00

  You can see me laughing with my hands over my face. But yes, then they get into this ridiculous argument about the sculpture, and that's what made it in the actual episode.

• 39:42Speaker 01

  We got a fan question from Gabriella T., who said Angela tells Dwight she wants a cat sculpture made out of cow butter for her wedding. I am from Iowa, and every year at the Iowa State Fair, there is a cow butter sculpture on display. The very first cow butter was sculpted in 1911, and it has grown to be a famous tradition at the Iowa State Fair.

• 40:06Speaker 00

  Love it.

• 40:07Speaker 01

  I did a deep dive on cow butter sculptures.

• 40:10Speaker 00

  I want to hear it.

• 40:11Speaker 01

  All right. So at the Iowa State Fair, every year, they make a life-size cow out of butter.

• 40:17Speaker 00

  A whole cow?

• 40:18Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 40:19Speaker 00

  That's huge.

• 40:20Speaker 01

  Yeah. It starts with a frame of wood, metal, wire, and steel mesh.

• 40:26Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 40:26Speaker 01

  And then they add 600 pounds of low moisture, pure cream Iowa butter. It sits in a 40-degree cooler. And then layers of butter are applied until it is full-sized. It measures five and a half feet high and eight feet long.

• 40:46Speaker 00

  What?

• 40:47Speaker 01

  Yeah. I saw pictures. It's a cow, but it's butter.

• 40:52Speaker 00

  I need to see the picture.

• 40:53Speaker 01

  I'll send it to you. So a real dairy cow weighs like 1,000 pounds. The butter version weighs about 600 pounds.

• 41:04Speaker 01

  This butter cow could butter about 19,200 pieces of toast. And this part I'm unsure about, but every year, most of the butter from the butter cow is recycled and it can be used for up to 10 years.

• 41:21Speaker 00

  I hope so. That's a lot of butter.

• 41:24Speaker 01

  It is.

• 41:25Speaker 00

  Would you not use the recycled cow sculpture butter?

• 41:29Speaker 01

  Well, I mean, I don't know.

• 41:32Speaker 00

  Five second rule. Kind of, not really.

• 41:35Speaker 01

  They also do a companion butter sculpture every year.

• 41:39Speaker 00

  To the cow? The cow has a buddy?

• 41:41Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 41:42Speaker 00

  That stands next to it?

• 41:43Speaker 01

  Correct.

• 41:43Speaker 00

  What is it?

• 41:44Speaker 01

  Well, one year it was Elvis Presley.

• 41:46Speaker 00

  What?

• 41:47Speaker 01

  A butter Elvis.

• 41:48Speaker 00

  Elvis.

• 41:50Speaker 01

  Made out of butter.

• 41:51Speaker 00

  Oh, my gosh.

• 41:52Speaker 01

  Another year it was Harry Potter.

• 41:54Speaker 00

  Oh, get out.

• 41:55Speaker 01

  Another year, they did Star Trek. And in 2018, they did a celebration of the 100th anniversary of John Deere.

• 42:06Speaker 00

  Was there a tractor?

• 42:07Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 42:08Speaker 00

  Oh, my dad would have loved that.

• 42:09Speaker 01

  They did a replica of the Waterloo Boy tractor. I took a picture and it's a tractor out of butter next to the cow.

• 42:17Speaker 00

  Wow. I wonder if you could climb up in it? Probably not.

• 42:22Speaker 01

  Well, I'm not eating that recycled butter.

• 42:24Speaker 06

  Sorry to interrupt you guys. I gotta catch, I caught one thing from the start of the podcast. Hold on real quick.

• 42:29Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 42:29Speaker 06

  I just gotta fix it.

• 42:30Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 42:30Speaker 06

  No, it's, it's fine. Just give me one second. I can, I can repair it.

• 42:33Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 42:40Speaker 01

  I knew you guys were gonna do something.

• 42:42Speaker 06

  Please.

• 42:44Speaker 01

  Happy birthday, Angela!

• 42:59Speaker 01

  All right, Angela, how do you feel? This is your first work birthday.

• 43:04Speaker 00

  You guys so got me. You so got me. I was so surprised. I really thought when I got here that the guitar was code for cake. And then when it wasn't, I was like, oh, well, maybe they've just all been busy and, oh, okay. I feel bad I went off on that rant.

• 43:20Speaker 01

  Well, what happened, Angela, was that we were going to surprise you at the top of the podcast with a Cookie Puss Cake.

• 43:27Speaker 00

  A Carvel Cookie Puss Cake?

• 43:29Speaker 01

  Yes. But there was a problem that happened. The cake got lost in transit. Poor Cassie has been hiding out here since like 9:30 this morning, waiting for this cake delivery.

• 43:43Speaker 00

  Poor Cassie. By the way, this is the first time we've all been in person and it's amazing to see you. Cassie, say hi to everyone.

• 43:49Speaker 01

  Hey, everybody.

• 43:53Speaker 00

  Well, I saw a few times you had to check your phone and text, but I thought it was all about the guitar.

• 43:58Speaker 01

  No, it was a panic thread about your cake.

• 44:01Speaker 00

  Oh, no.

• 44:01Speaker 01

  And then you called us out and we were like, no, but we had a cake and it's jumby jumby. And also Cassie put together this amazing board for you. It is all of these cards that people sent in because they heard that you did not get your birthday celebrated properly. And so people from the Office Ladies Facebook page sent you cards.

• 44:24Speaker 00

  That is so sweet. That is so sweet. They know because I was real chatty that I never had a cake at work or at school. You guys, that is so lovely.

• 44:32Speaker 01

  Well, we could not let you start your 50s without a proper work birthday.

• 44:37Speaker 00

  Thank you guys so much. I love every single second. I was truly surprised and I cannot wait to read all of these cards that you guys sent in. It's so lovely. I'm going to sit down and read every single one. And thank you for my cake, a cake at work. It finally happened.

• 44:54Speaker 01

  It happened.

• 44:55Speaker 00

  It happened. Oh, my gosh.

• 44:58Speaker 01

  Well, before we did- Your birthday, we were talking about butter sculptures.

• 45:03Speaker 00

  I know, it's really hard, you guys. Now I'm like, okay, we gotta work. We still have work to do.

• 45:06Speaker 01

  I know.

• 45:06Speaker 00

  We were talking about cat butter sculptures. And y'all, I Googled cat butter sculptures, and let me tell you, it does not disappoint. Google image, cat butter sculptures. Can I tell you the very first one that came up?

• 45:22Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 45:22Speaker 00

  I'm gonna show it to you. I'm gonna put it in stories. How do I describe this to you guys? This is the first one that came up for me. There's more than one. It is a cat made out of butter, pooping butter poop next to a block of butter.

• 45:40Speaker 01

  Oh, my gosh!

• 45:41Speaker 00

  Yeah, I guess it's a thing. There was more than one by different people.

• 45:44Speaker 01

  What's that about?

• 45:45Speaker 00

  I don't know. I have to think this is not the cat butter sculpture Angela Martin would want. There's also some majestic cats out there made of butter. It was amazing. People do really weird things with butter.

• 45:57Speaker 01

  They do weird things with cats. There's the whole, like, litter box birthday cake. Have you seen those?

• 46:02Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 46:03Speaker 01

  Where it's a cake and it looks like litter and then you make, like, tootsie rolls into poop.

• 46:08Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 46:09Speaker 01

  For the cat lover in your life.

• 46:10Speaker 00

  Put that next to the butter cat pooping butter. Happy birthday!

• 46:17Speaker 01

  Next year.

• 46:18Speaker 00

  Next year, that's it. That's my cake next year. I want the cat litter box cake. All right, there was also a deleted Andy talking head after the scene, because this would have been, if you're keeping manure count, the second pile of manure he steps in.

• 46:32Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 46:33Speaker 00

  It's really funny. You guys, he's outside by the barn, hosing off his shoes, and he's sobbing, and he says, "This just isn't how I imagined it. There's just so much [BLEEP]!"

• 46:47Speaker 00

  It was really funny. That is on the DVD.

• 46:50Speaker 01

  Oh, back at the office, Jim is watching Pam struggle with the copier. Everyone's really laying it on thick with Michael. They're making him hot chocolate. They're opening doors for him.

• 47:04Speaker 00

  It's the best day of his life.

• 47:06Speaker 01

  It really is. We had a fan question from Stephanie M. At 10 minutes, 25 seconds, Michael walks into his office and off camera, we hear him say, "I almost choked." Was that a line? That was scripted or did Steve Carell actually almost choke on his drink? It was neither. It was an improvisation. He's doing that as Michael. He was not choking. He's gonna choke later on some tiramisu powder.

• 47:33Speaker 00

  It's the funniest choking scene I've ever seen.

• 47:35Speaker 01

  Ever seen. I wanna study.

• 47:37Speaker 00

  I wanna study it. I so believed it. At first I thought, was that scripted? I had to go look.

• 47:42Speaker 01

  I had to look too.

• 47:43Speaker 00

  It was so brilliant. And then he did that thing and we're jumping ahead, you guys. But after two bites that were failed attempts because he's choking, he goes for a third and then with his hands, he's like, no, no.

• 47:54Speaker 01

  Yeah, he has to stop himself.

• 47:55Speaker 00

  So good.

• 47:58Speaker 01

  Dwight is gonna take Angela to a new barn.

• 48:00Speaker 00

  Mm hmm. It's beautiful.

• 48:02Speaker 01

  It's gorgeous. He's decorated it like how it will be on her wedding day with chairs and sparkly lights.

• 48:09Speaker 00

  Yeah. And Andy's like, hell, because he's happy too. Yeah, there's a priest. And no manure.

• 48:18Speaker 01

  It's perfect.

• 48:19Speaker 00

  Dwight is gonna suggest that they sort of role play the ceremony. He wants Andy to get a bird's eye view. So he says, you know, you walk her down as if you're her father and she'll marry me, but you know, so you can see what it looks like.

• 48:31Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 48:31Speaker 00

  And, you know, the priest doesn't speak any English. He only speaks German. So they don't know what he's saying. In the script, it says Angela Martin is moved to tears by this moment.

• 48:42Speaker 01

  I think because it is really playing out what's in her true heart, which would be what it would be like to marry Dwight.

• 48:50Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 48:50Speaker 01

  We had a fan question from LEB. In the scene where Dwight and Angela are getting married at Shroop Farms, is the minister actually speaking German? Yes. All of the German in this scene is accurate. The actor who played the priest was postboy and he was cast because he was fluent in German. And also because he was comfortable riding horses.

• 49:13Speaker 00

  Yes, cuz he rides a horse at the end.

• 49:17Speaker 01

  Randy said that the actor arrived early to set that day so that he could select one of the horses and practice on it. Randy also said that they had to submit a translated version of the pre script to the NBC Legal Department of Standards and Practices because we had to prove that we weren't trying to sneak in any dialogue that would be considered unacceptable to the censors.

• 49:39Speaker 00

  Hmm.

• 49:40Speaker 01

  It feels like they didn't trust us.

• 49:42Speaker 00

  I wonder why.

• 49:44Speaker 01

  Well, here is the translation. The priest is saying, "Groom and bride, you come here voluntarily with hearts prepared to receive each other in marriage? Will you love each other, respect, and be loyal to one another until death separates you? Are you ready to fulfill your obligation to raise your children as Christian parents should?" So that is what Dwight and Angela are agreeing to in their marriage vows.

• 50:12Speaker 00

  I guess Dwight is going to forego standing in his own grave to marry her, just so he can make it happen.

• 50:18Speaker 01

  Yes, because that is truly the shrewd tradition.

• 50:22Speaker 00

  And would tip off Andy.

• 50:24Speaker 01

  This whole thing is going to lead into Angela getting pretty sentimental.

• 50:28Speaker 00

  Yeah, and she realizes, "I made a mistake with Andy."

• 50:33Speaker 01

  She says she made a mistake.

• 50:34Speaker 00

  I know. She tells Dwight, "I picked the wrong guy. Dwight, man, he just messed it up."

• 50:41Speaker 01

  He does, because he gets real arrogant.

• 50:44Speaker 00

  He's like, "I know, and I took care of it. I fixed it." And he sneakily had them married without her consent, and she does not like that and does not appreciate it.

• 50:54Speaker 01

  No. He almost had her back.

• 50:58Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 50:58Speaker 01

  In that moment.

• 50:59Speaker 00

  Yep.

• 51:00Speaker 01

  But no.

• 51:01Speaker 00

  No. She's furious with him that he would do such a huge life moment in this sneaky way.

• 51:06Speaker 01

  We got a fan question from Rebecca M. "Does Dwight's secret marriage actually count in the state of Pennsylvania, or did the writers make this up?"

• 51:15Speaker 00

  Good question.

• 51:16Speaker 01

  Well, Pennsylvania is actually one of the only states where you can do something called self-unite. So Colorado also allows this. According to the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, the tradition of self-uniting in marriage dates back to 1681. It has its roots in the state's Quaker population. And because the religious sect does not have any ministers, members of the Quaker faith traditionally self-unite in marriage. So these are often referred to as Quaker licenses, but self-uniting licenses do not require the applicants to

• 51:57Speaker 01

  practice any specific religion or any religion at all. So, under Pennsylvania marriage law, couples wishing to marry without an officiant Can obtain a self-uniting license. They can perform their own ceremony. The only rule is there have to be at least two witnesses who are required to sign the document.

• 52:19Speaker 00

  Which Angela and Andy signed this insurance document, and I guess the priest would have signed something.

• 52:26Speaker 01

  Yes. In this scenario, the priest and Andy were the witnesses. So, this marriage was legal.

• 52:34Speaker 00

  How about that? This would have led to a delicious deleted car ride home scene. Lady, it's a rough one. It's right up there with a Jan Michael car ride home.

• 52:46Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 52:46Speaker 00

  All right. This was in the shooting script. It's not on the DVD. It's out there somewhere in the world, you guys. It was so amazing. Angela is driving home furious. Dwight's in the front passenger seat. Andy is in the back leaning between the two of them. And they start out the car ride and Andy's like, "We did it!" He's so happy. And he starts singing at the top of his lungs, this song. (singing)

• 53:25Speaker 01

  That's what he's singing in the backseat?

• 53:28Speaker 00

  That exact part of the song is in the script, what you just heard. It's four non-blondes. And Angela is so annoyed that Andy is singing, so she turns off the radio. And Andy keeps singing and comes in with this part. (singing)

• 53:53Speaker 01

  That sounds like Andy to me.

• 53:55Speaker 00

  Right?

• 53:55Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 53:56Speaker 00

  In the script, it says Angela looks like she might drive the car into a tree. Dwight is stealing glances at Angela. Andy oblivious is singing for non-blondes.

• 54:07Speaker 01

  Wow. How did you get through that with Ed singing in the backseat, though? How did you keep a straight face?

• 54:12Speaker 00

  I'm telling you, we laughed through this whole episode.

• 54:14Speaker 01

  Ah.

• 54:15Speaker 00

  Every single thing was funny to me.

• 54:16Speaker 01

  This next scene is the one that I could not get through.

• 54:19Speaker 00

  I don't know how you did. It's one of my favorite scenes of the whole episode.

• 54:23Speaker 01

  It's one of my favorite scenes of the whole series.

• 54:25Speaker 00

  Yes, it's my favorite Hank scene.

• 54:28Speaker 01

  Oh, yeah. So, Michael, who can't make a decision, has decided to call Hank from security.

• 54:33Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 54:34Speaker 01

  Who, as he explains, hustled up the stairs. Because he thought it was an actual emergency.

• 54:40Speaker 00

  Well, you know, Michael texts people 911 to get their attention.

• 54:45Speaker 01

  So Hank arrives and I just want to say, this was one of those scenes that was set at the reception desk. And I'm in the shot and I wanted to edge myself out of the shot because I was ruining it because I was laughing.

• 54:58Speaker 00

  From the minute Hugh walks in, the minute he takes a few of the candies and starts eating them, I was like, I wouldn't make it.

• 55:07Speaker 01

  That was an improvisation and the first time he did it, I laughed.

• 55:10Speaker 00

  Oh.

• 55:11Speaker 01

  Because it was so brilliant.

• 55:12Speaker 00

  It's so brilliant.

• 55:15Speaker 01

  So Michael is going to ask Hank, what do we do? He makes a big announcement. He's like, listen, Hank is going to decide.

• 55:23Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 55:23Speaker 01

  Copier or chairs?

• 55:24Speaker 00

  And Hank's like, can I see the copier?

• 55:27Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 55:27Speaker 00

  Opens up doors and stuff, looks at it and he's like, now let me see the chair and the room is riveted. They're hanging on his every word.

• 55:36Speaker 01

  But the scene ends amazing. My favorite is the ending of the scene.

• 55:40Speaker 00

  My favorite. Well, first of all, he sort of like explains his theory, why the office would need both. There's new copiers. They're amazing.

• 55:48Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 55:48Speaker 00

  Although those chairs, he could not sit in.

• 55:50Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 55:50Speaker 00

  And Michael's like, so? And everyone's waiting and he goes, let me look at the copier again.

• 55:55Speaker 01

  Michael's like, get out, get out, get out.

• 55:58Speaker 00

  It's so funny.

• 56:00Speaker 01

  Angela, this was the first time for Office Ladies that I have watched the show with my kids.

• 56:07Speaker 00

  Oh, really?

• 56:08Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 56:08Speaker 00

  Oh, I watch them all the time with my kids.

• 56:10Speaker 01

  I know.

• 56:11Speaker 00

  I know, but my kids are older. I know, I know.

• 56:13Speaker 01

  It was a pinch and I said, guys, I have to watch this. I have to watch it. You can watch it with me or you can go outside and scooter or something. So I turned it on. First of all, my son was just giggling through the whole thing. He's a little older, so I think he got more of the humor.

• 56:28Speaker 00

  Humor, yeah.

• 56:29Speaker 01

  But this moment, when he says, let me see the copier again, and Michael said, get out, they were dying. And then they started doing it as a bit.

• 56:40Speaker 00

  That is so good.

• 56:41Speaker 01

  It was so fun. Gosh, I'm so excited as my kids get older for them.

• 56:45Speaker 00

  To discover it.

• 56:46Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 56:47Speaker 00

  I know. Well, my kids love The Office and you know, every once in a while, we'll watch an episode and Isabelle will go, mom. Because Angela Martin is so mean. And you know, Jack, my stepson loves Office Ladies.

• 57:02Speaker 01

  I know. Whenever I see him, he'll tell me something. Some fun thing he heard on Office Ladies, which I love.

• 57:07Speaker 00

  I know. He was like, I'm so excited that you guys are going to talk to Stephen Merchant.

• 57:13Speaker 00

  I love that they watched it with you.

• 57:15Speaker 01

  So we kind of already talked about this scene where Michael is eating tiramisu while talking to David Wallace. But what we did not mention is that David gives him some new information.

• 57:24Speaker 00

  Yeah, he's like, any boss that comes in under budget gets 15% of that surplus.

• 57:31Speaker 01

  Michael whips out his calculator and he discovers that means he could get $645.

• 57:38Speaker 00

  Do you know how far that can go at Burlington Coat Factory?

• 57:41Speaker 01

  You're literally a king.

• 57:43Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 57:43Speaker 01

  You walk in there with $645.

• 57:45Speaker 00

  Well, Michael's got dollar signs now on the brain.

• 57:48Speaker 01

  Michael walks out of his office and he announces that he doesn't think they need a new copier or new chairs. He demonstrates that the copier works perfectly and then he's going to demonstrate how great Pam's chair really is.

• 58:02Speaker 00

  Two things. First of all, in the bloopers, Jenna,

• 58:07Speaker 00

  when Steve tries to use the copier, that copier actually was really crappy.

• 58:11Speaker 01

  It was awful.

• 58:12Speaker 00

  It was really old and crappy and half the time would not work in real life.

• 58:16Speaker 01

  When we needed it to.

• 58:17Speaker 00

  When we needed it to. And it would eat paper. It would like make noises and he says, this copier works fine. And he hits the button and in real life it went

• 58:29Speaker 00

  and you guys all started laughing.

• 58:31Speaker 01

  It was so funny. Paul Feig sent us an audio clip because this was one of his favorite memories from shooting this episode. Here's what he had to say.

• 58:42Speaker 03

  There were so many fun things in season five, but weirdly, one of my favorite episodes that we did was the surplus. And it's an episode that people don't talk about as much. And I just think it's got some of the funniest stuff in it. I think I laughed harder during that. My favorite One of my favorite gags that I ever got to do on The Office was when Michael's trying to convince everybody that they don't need a new copier and all the chairs are good. And we had that gag, Jenna, where he comes behind the desk and just tries to prove that your chair's not broken. And I had them rig up this thing, because the whole joke is supposed to be he sits on your chair and it just sinks down below, below the desk. And so worked really hard to have them rig this chair up that sunk so slowly that Steve just got in it and is just talking like, see,

• 59:26Speaker 03

  there's nothing wrong with this. And you just, it takes you a few seconds to realize that he's just very slowly sinking down behind the desk. And then just Steve just destroyed me when not only is he down low, but he won't admit it. And then the way he has to stand up is like, hey, like, it takes such effort for him to get out of the very low chair. So that was a real favorite gag of mine.

• 59:49Speaker 01

  Well, every time he would get out of the chair, he would make some other different grunting noise and it would do me in. If you watch my face in the scene, I have this really like over exaggerated furrowed brow. I was having to make a very strong acting choice because I couldn't do blank. I couldn't do it. I had to do something with my face.

• 1:00:12Speaker 00

  Right. I had completely forgotten about this scene. And when I rewatched it, because it's been a long time since I've seen this episode. And when I rewatched it this week, I was like, watching it and I was like, wait, is this chair sinking? Oh, my God, it's chair sinking. And it was so funny. It was so funny. And it's so subtle. It's such a small moment.

• 1:00:33Speaker 01

  And in order to make it work, I could not be sitting on the chair at the beginning of the scene. So it looks like I'm sitting and then he comes over and takes my seat.

• 1:00:42Speaker 00

  Did you have to squat?

• 1:00:43Speaker 01

  I had to squat.

• 1:00:45Speaker 00

  Thigh workout.

• 1:00:46Speaker 01

  And hold my butt and hover.

• 1:00:50Speaker 01

  And you can tell a little bit because in order to do it, I kind of had to like, you know, really like spread my legs to get like a good solid squat on the chair, above the chair.

• 1:00:59Speaker 00

  Yeah, it's like going to the bathroom in a porta potty.

• 1:01:02Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 1:01:03Speaker 00

  Halfway through your pee, like your legs start shaking. You're like, oh crap, I need to work out more.

• 1:01:08Speaker 01

  This was a workout day for me.

• 1:01:09Speaker 00

  Oh, my gosh.

• 1:01:10Speaker 01

  That's how we pulled off that gag. Also, in this moment, everyone starts to realize that Michael knows about the bonus.

• 1:01:18Speaker 00

  Oscar calls him out. He's like, I think you know. And he's like, what's 15% of 4,300? That's the surplus. And Michael immediately goes $645.

• 1:01:29Speaker 01

  And he's like, why'd you say dollars? And he's like, that's just how my brain works.

• 1:01:33Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:01:34Speaker 01

  And Kevin goes, he's a genius.

• 1:01:39Speaker 01

  But then Oscar says, okay, Michael, what's 15% of 200? And then Michael doesn't know.

• 1:01:45Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:01:45Speaker 01

  That little bit of Kevin thinking that Michael is a math genius in that moment. Paul Feek said him and his wife Lori love that little bit and that they do that bit that like if someone says something, they'll be like, he's a genius.

• 1:01:59Speaker 00

  Oh, they do Kevin.

• 1:02:01Speaker 01

  That's their little bit. All of this leads to a very big smooch.

• 1:02:07Speaker 00

  Andy and Dwight and Angela have returned to the office.

• 1:02:11Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:02:12Speaker 00

  And once you piss Angela off, she's going to dig in her heels.

• 1:02:15Speaker 01

  Mm hmm.

• 1:02:15Speaker 00

  And she's going to make a very public show to Dwight that she has chosen once again, Andy over him.

• 1:02:22Speaker 01

  Yeah. So Andy is eating a tuna sandwich that he's real proud of. He wants Jim to know, tuna, I'm eating tuna. And Angela marches across the bullpen and kisses him. He's leaning back in his chair.

• 1:02:38Speaker 00

  She lays on his lap and grabs his face.

• 1:02:42Speaker 01

  Do you know what the stage direction was for this kiss?

• 1:02:44Speaker 00

  Read it.

• 1:02:45Speaker 01

  Angela kisses Andy with a passion we haven't seen since Jim and Pam in Casino Night.

• 1:02:51Speaker 00

  I know, I read that.

• 1:02:55Speaker 01

  We had a lot of questions about this scene, though, Angela.

• 1:02:58Speaker 00

  Oh, well, I bet I have some stories for you.

• 1:03:00Speaker 01

  Dory C. and Amanda C. both want to know, did Ed actually? Actually have tuna in his mouth when you kissed him?

• 1:03:06Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 1:03:07Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 1:03:08Speaker 00

  That was part of the joke. Lee and Jean, who wrote this episode, they thought it would be very funny if Andy was eating something gross when I had to go kiss him. And that's why he has that line, "Look tuna, tuna fish sandwich, just like you." Because they really wanted to make sure the audience knew he was eating this smelly tuna fish sandwich. And I was supposed to go over and we're supposed to have this huge kiss while he has tuna fish in his mouth. And then you see me get up and I wipe my mouth.

• 1:03:36Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:03:37Speaker 00

  Ed was so sweet. He said, Angela, I am going to hold my lips together. I'm going to take a deep breath. I'm going to take a bite of the tuna fish sandwich and then I am going to purse my lips together and not open them at all, because I don't want you to get any of this tuna fish. I was like, oh, Ed, that is so sweet. And so we literally did, you know, what we call like grandparent kissing, where you're just like, mm. He did not open his lips for a second. And they really wanted me to sort of have this long kiss, right?

• 1:04:10Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:04:10Speaker 00

  And I was in control. I was the one that grabbed him and then I was the one that released him. And I remember one time they were like, can you sell it a little bit more? Can you make it a little bit bigger of a moment? And poor Ed, the minute we broke apart, he went, eh.

• 1:04:24Speaker 01

  Cause he hadn't been breathing?

• 1:04:25Speaker 00

  He was holding his breath with a big bite of tuna fish sandwich in his mouth.

• 1:04:29Speaker 01

  Here's my question. Couldn't Phil have made fakie tuna fish?

• 1:04:34Speaker 00

  I don't know. Would that have been better?

• 1:04:36Speaker 01

  I don't know. I mean, what could it have been?

• 1:04:39Speaker 00

  I don't know.

• 1:04:40Speaker 01

  You could have maybe, I mean, whatever it is, it's gonna be mayo based, but it could have been chopped up chicken.

• 1:04:46Speaker 00

  That's still gross.

• 1:04:47Speaker 01

  But it's not as stinky.

• 1:04:49Speaker 00

  It's true. But Ed was a true gentleman. He kept his mouth closed. I didn't get any tuna fish on my person. And you guys, when my character stands up and says, and now I have a legal issue to attend to, I actually had a big speech that got deleted.

• 1:05:06Speaker 01

  Really?

• 1:05:06Speaker 00

  Yes. And I was so nervous to do it because it was one of those moments where I had a speech in the bullpen with everyone looking at me. This is how the script described everyone reacting to the kiss and my speech after.

• 1:05:18Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 1:05:19Speaker 00

  Everyone watches with disgust.

• 1:05:22Speaker 00

  Dwight's eyes go wide. Angela pulls away. Andy continues to chew and then swallows the bite. Angela wipes her mouth and hears the speech. "I would marry you during an earthquake in the middle of a tornado. I would marry you in the front row of an Elton John concert. I don't care how terrible a place it is. I just want to be with you. Now, I have a legal matter to clear up."

• 1:05:47Speaker 01

  Hmm. Not an Elton John fan. Clearly.

• 1:05:52Speaker 00

  Clearly not. But yeah, so I had that speech I had to do and they gave me a few alts, you know, and I was really nervous, but all that made it in was now I have a legal matter to clear up. And I actually think that was a good edit because the kiss was enough.

• 1:06:07Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:06:07Speaker 00

  Right? That was enough of like shoving it in Dwight's face. I didn't need to make this speech. But yes, no tuna. Thank you, Ed.

• 1:06:15Speaker 01

  Very different from a kiss with Rain, who-

• 1:06:19Speaker 00

  Actually was eating tuna in real life.

• 1:06:21Speaker 01

  Backstage for no reason at all.

• 1:06:24Speaker 00

  Knowing he-

• 1:06:25Speaker 01

  Before a kissing scene.

• 1:06:26Speaker 00

  Yes, that or drinking coffee while eating like an everything bagel that had onions on it.

• 1:06:32Speaker 01

  Yeah. Different.

• 1:06:33Speaker 00

  Very different.

• 1:06:34Speaker 01

  Approaches.

• 1:06:38Speaker 01

  This whole copier chair thing is gonna wrap up. The employees are gonna confront Michael in his office and he basically tells them, "You know what? You decide. You all have to agree or else I'm taking the bonus." Cause he kinda thinks like there's no way that's gonna happen, right?

• 1:06:56Speaker 00

  Of course he thinks there's no way. He thinks he got him.

• 1:06:59Speaker 01

  They very quickly decide to get the chairs.

• 1:07:01Speaker 00

  Yeah. He was like, "Son of a-"

• 1:07:04Speaker 01

  He actually says, "Mother."

• 1:07:06Speaker 00

  Yeah, he does.

• 1:07:06Speaker 01

  F.

• 1:07:08Speaker 00

  Was he putting sugar in his diet coke?

• 1:07:10Speaker 01

  He was. Yeah, he wanted to sweeten it.

• 1:07:12Speaker 00

  Oh, my Lord.

• 1:07:15Speaker 01

  The whole thing kinda ends with Michael. He has a talking head. He wants you to know what he learned.

• 1:07:21Speaker 00

  What did he learn?

• 1:07:22Speaker 01

  He learned that his team is faster at making a decision than he thought.

• 1:07:25Speaker 00

  Mm hmm.

• 1:07:26Speaker 01

  He also learned you should never buy a fur coat with a credit card until you actually have the money to pay for it.

• 1:07:31Speaker 00

  Michael, why in the world are you buying a fur coat? You're never gonna wear it.

• 1:07:35Speaker 01

  It's ridiculous looking.

• 1:07:37Speaker 00

  Yes. He's just like a kid that gets money and doesn't know what to do with it.

• 1:07:41Speaker 01

  In his mind, that's, I don't know, fancy luxury or something.

• 1:07:45Speaker 00

  Yeah, fancy people have those or something.

• 1:07:47Speaker 01

  I guess so. The third thing he learned is that people think it's cool to throw fake blood on you as you leave Burlington Coat Factory. So he has a ruined fur coat that he bought on credit.

• 1:08:00Speaker 00

  That he can't afford.

• 1:08:01Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's how his day ended.

• 1:08:03Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 1:08:05Speaker 01

  Jim and Pam's day is gonna end with a truce, but oh, can you make me three copies of this? I'm just kidding. I need four.

• 1:08:12Speaker 00

  Is this Jim's sass?

• 1:08:14Speaker 01

  Oh, that's some Jim sass.

• 1:08:16Speaker 00

  I have one final question for you.

• 1:08:18Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 1:08:19Speaker 00

  Would you be team copier or team chair?

• 1:08:22Speaker 01

  Team chair. What would you be?

• 1:08:25Speaker 00

  Team chair.

• 1:08:26Speaker 01

  Yeah, team copier doesn't even make any sense to me, frankly.

• 1:08:29Speaker 00

  I mean, I would just suffer through a crappy machine. How many times have you worked in an office where either the fax machine, I know I'm a dinosaur, or the copier didn't work great, but a chair, that's like your tailbone. That's your spine. That's your butt.

• 1:08:43Speaker 01

  Is anyone team copier? Can we put a poll in Office Ladies Pod today?

• 1:08:47Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 1:08:48Speaker 01

  I'm so curious.

• 1:08:49Speaker 00

  I'll put a poll and we'll see.

• 1:08:51Speaker 01

  We wanna see.

• 1:08:52Speaker 00

  Well, you guys, that was Spend the Surplus.

• 1:08:55Speaker 01

  And also Angela's birthday.

• 1:08:58Speaker 00

  Hey!

• 1:09:01Speaker 01

  Yay, Angela.

• 1:09:03Speaker 00

  Yay. Next time I talk to you guys, I'll be American survey, 50 to 75. That'll be me.

• 1:09:11Speaker 01

  See you next week.

• 1:09:16Speaker 01

  Thank you for listening to Office Ladies Second Drink. This episode was initially created in collaboration with Earwolf. Office Ladies is a presentation of Odyssey and is produced by Jenna Fisher and Angela Kinsey. Our senior producer is Matt Beagle. Our Second Drinks episodes are produced by Molly Nugent. Our audio engineer is Sam Kiefer. Odyssey's executive producer is Leah Reese Dennis. Office Ladies was mixed and mastered by Bill Schultz. Our theme song is Rubber Tree by Creed Bratton.