A Look Back on The Carpet

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Well, I blew it on this one, guys, I'm sorry.

So we wanted to warn you before you listen, in case you're listening with your kids. Around the 20 minute mark, Angela goes off the rails.

Well, hey, wait a second, I just tell a story about an episode of Fear Factor.

There's no other way to tell it.

There's some adult subject matter.

You told it how you needed to.

And you might want to, you know, put earmuffs on the kids at the 20 minute mark.

Turn it down, skip five minutes ahead, whatever you need to do, and for the rest of you, enjoy.

And sorry.

I'm Jenna Fisher.

And I'm Angela Kinsey.

We were on the office together.

And we're best friends.

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

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.

We're the office ladies.

Why are you looking at me like that?

Because I have some sciatica pain in my hip.

Oh, Lord, is this how we're starting today?

Yeah.

All right, what else you got?

Well, I was trying to stretch it and you told me I had to sit down.

You guys, she was kicking her leg in the air.

It was comfortable, it felt good.

You think you can do that for 45 minutes? I think I can.

Yeah, okay.

Go you go, girl.

I thought I could kick my leg and do this podcast at the same time, but Angela told me to sit down. I did, because she said, sit down.

I didn't say it like that. I was like, a you're going to hurt yourself. B. I don't think I can concentrate watching you kick your foot up like that, all right.

Well, I might need to do it midway, but let's get started.

Okay, Jenna.

Wait.

When you do it midway, I'm going to film you and I'm going to put it on Officeladies.

Today we are talking about the carpet. Ooh, it is season two, episode 14, written by Paul Lieberstein, aka Toby, and directed by Victor Nelly Jr. Yeah, I'm going to give you a summary.

You could call it that.

In his office, it is soft. EW, it is smelly.

You're going to describe it.

It is brown.

Gross.

But the question is who? dunit? Michael is determined to find out everyone's a suspect. He suspects everyone in the office to keep a close eye on the office. He takes over Jim's desk, which forces Jim to go work at an empty desk right next to Kelly, and Jim quickly learns why Kelly works in the back by herself.

They're giggly, they've been in the Poconos.

Yeah.

Which I googled. It's only about 51 minutes from Scranton.

And is it snowy?

It's snowy because this was January and here are the best activities. Because I went down the rabbit hole of the Poconos, Now I want to go to the Poconos, it's beautiful in the winter. Here are the best activities to do in the Poconos ready.

Oh, I bet Roy went to the brewery.

Yeah.

I mean.

I mean, yeah.

That's for sure.

They pretty much did that in the casino.

Jim asked Pam if she did a lot of skiing, and she says, Not really.

Yeah, she says, a little, or a little, a little.

Are you a fast fax?

I am. And then at some point, Jenna, you'll have to let me know with your sciatica and all of that business. Yeah, I do have a gift for you.

You do.

Yes, and I want to share it with you right here with all of our office ladies listeners, because y'all been listening, Oh my gosh, who am I? I should tell you guys?

Yeah, when you two get together, you get all southern.

I get very southern, so anyway, you guys will get it.

Do you want to give it to me right now? Before we start with fast facts.

I guess we should, after I've said all that.

That's a big buildup.

Let's do it. You're probably really curious.

Oh, it's wrapped in bubble wrap, just like Michael's foot from the injury.

Look at you with your little office callback, that's right. You guys that have been listening know that Jenna hasn't really seen Star Wars, and it's okay. I've come to terms with this. You guys, I don't like scary movies.

Yeah, right.

All right, so remember my little baby Yoda? No, my crocheted baby Yoda, stop it.

Oh my gosh.

In his little crib, and it's crocheted by hand.

And look, it's a Christmas ornament. It's a Christmas ornament. Well, you know, two of my favorite things are Christmas decor.

And handmade Christmas stuff, you love that?

And also baby things I know, like things made into babies, I know, right?

Well, now you have a tiny baby, Yoda crocheted, and that's from Shay Jenna, Oh shay.

Thank you so much, Angela, Thank you so much. well, Angela, I-.

You had to have one.

I have a surprise for you, but I'm going to save it.

Is it a scary movie you're going to make me see?

I got you a severed head from a famous scary movie, I got you Freddy's Glove. No, no, I didn't.

I can't wait, okay?

Let's start with fast fact number one I declare with full authority bankruptcy.

No.

We have reached full mindy.

The carpet is when we reach full mindy.

This is full mindy, you guys, you're going to hear it, you know it, it's happening.

I asked Sam to make a compilation of all of the things that the character of Kelly says to Jim. Back in the annex to prove that we have hit full mindy. So, first of all, the hair is transformed.

The hair is pretty much down, just a tiny clip, but it's fashionable.

The outfit super pink fluffy.

Skirt.

All of it pink lipstick.

She sits on her desk, she puts her feet up, She's like, I mean, come on.

She also talks about Beyonce. This is a big thing, She talks about the color pink. She crushes on Ryan and at the end she breaks here.

Do it.

I'm serious, my closet doors will not shut. Beyonce pink, the color, pink, the person, hot dogs, basically anything that is awesome. Oh my god, he is so cute. Would you talk to him for me and see if he likes me?

There you go, Oh man, and poor Jim, this episode. I love that.

Now we're going to track and see if she stays full mindy. Don't worry, we're not done tracking this in case you were worried.

I mean, if next episode she has a bun, we're going to let you know.

I'm pretty sure. In casino night she gets extensions like suddenly, that we never speak of, or her character never speaks of, but she's got this gorgeous long hair in casino night. So we'll track that as well. All right, so as fact number two, we have a big guest star. Ken Howard shows up as Ed Truck.

He's so tall.

You notice in the scene that he does with Steve, that he's kind of towering over Steve, he's a very large person. So Ken played basketball in school and he was offered a number of scholarships, but he turned them all down. In favor of pursuing an acting career, he started his career in the theater Angela, a theater actor.

I studied theater classes, too. Jenna, you're like, Angela, it's this thing called theater, theater actor. I mean, I'm kind of a fancy theater person.

I didn't meet Ken or share a scene with him, but our theater bond was felt.

Did you study dialects in your acting theater school?

I see what you're doing there.

Oh, do you?

That was a dig.

You know what? I see, what you're doing, you're digging.

All right, well. He won a Tony Award. He appeared in over 100 movies and television series during his 47-year career. Unfortunately, Ken passed away in 2016, but he left behind this huge legacy. He was even the president of the Screen Actors Guild Union for four years.

Oh, it was huge. We were thrilled, thrilled.

So Angela, fast fact number three is my surprise to you.

Oh, okay.

Are you ready for it?

I don't know.

I watched Game of Thrones, What?

What?

That's right.

What episode?

The first two and a half episodes did you really?

Yeah.

I couldn't turn it off.

Do you like it?

I have a lot of thoughts. Oh, no.

Do you want my thoughts?

Yes.

Okay, so, first of all, episode one of Game of Thrones, very horror movie. Angela, The White Walkers and the Dismembered Bodies. And Love that I know. Why didn't she tell me about this part that I'm in?

I thought you knew about the white walkers, Jenna, we called my cat Otter the White Walker. I didn't know what that meant.

I don't know what that means.

It's because he was so old.

He was like, 22 years old and he barely had any fur left, and he'd be like, and we called him the White Walker.

Well, I liked the opening. Then we cut to the credit sequence, which is going over this map of lands and names of lands. And I was just like, Oh, this is the part I don't want to learn.

Okay, that part is long and just get past it. And also, as seasons change and the topography changes, those images change. But anyway, just skip over it.

Then I want to say there's a lot of brother-sister love.

Listen in the beginning.

Just a lot.

In the beginning, and then I think that kind of tapers off a little bit. Okay, I know, Jenna. Listen, there's some messed up stuff.

Okay.

Yes.

Lord Stark Yes, and his family. I'm digging on them.

Oh, okay.

I'm hating the Queen and her brother.

Oh, yeah, I know, ooh, the Lannisters.

Ooh, the Lannisters. mm-hmm. Is that their name? Okay? But here's my big observation.

Okay, you're only two episodes in, Go on.

Two and a half. Okay, here's my beef. That's why I want you to speak to this for me.

Okay.

Why can't the women do more than sew and marry?

Oh, they do okay, they're gonna do a lot more.

I'm just saying that you take the Wonder Woman thing, right? And it's fantasy, and so it's about a badass island of women warriors. Mm-hmm. Because we can make up anything we want.

Basically, especially for Game of Thrones. I mean, you guys out there that have watched it know this is kind of a little bit of a subtle hint, but she's not gonna get it. So, you know, just ignore, ignore. The women pretty much end up burning it all to the ground. They are literally like, I am woman, they serve it up, lady, don't you worry.

I hope that that girl, the girl who loves the sword play. MM, That's a thing. Arya Oh yeah.

Trust me, okay, hold on, Arya's gonna be okay, Arya has a list, I'm not even gonna get into it.

She has a list.

You don't wanna be on her list.

You know, I love a list.

Oh, honey, you don't wanna be on this list? Ooh, okay.

I can't wait for Arya's list.

Oh, it's good, okay?

I wanna say one last thing and we can cut this out if this goes on too long. Um, I wanna just say one last thing, winter is coming, winter we get it.

It's an avalanche of dead walking people. Okay, I mean, they're coming, that's what's coming.

So the white walkers come with winter, but the white walkers aren't affected by winter.

JENNa I'm not gonna get into it, I'm not gonna get into it. I mean, this is what I'm saying. It's like so many things. All I'm saying is winter is coming is a layered metaphor, okay?

Okay, well, good. And the Dothraki's, am I saying it right?

The Dothraki's, Yeah.

And Karl Drago?

Yeah.

Is his name Karl?

No, it's kal.

Oh kal.

I thought that the guy that speaks no English and is shirtless on a horse was named Karl.

I did.

Khaleesi and Karl, they're gonna make a happy pair, look at them riding off in the sunset.

Karl, I was like Karl. They only refer to him by his first and last name all the time. I have noticed that in two and a half episodes, he has only said the word no three times.

It's because he can't, Karl can't speak English. JENNA Okay, well, that was it. Thank you for watching.

I gave in, I did it, I watched it, I'm a little bit hooked.

Okay, good, you'll love all the White Walker stuff. Okay, I now, I guess, have to watch What's it?

The edge.

The edge Have you never seen the edge? You already know this.

But you've never seen it.

How many different ways do you want me to tell you? I haven't seen it?

You know about the bear? How do you know about the bear? I've seen trailers.

I've seen.

But all I needed to see was a man getting attacked by a bear, and I'm like, I'm out also, Leo....

So The Revenant was not for you either? Oh hell, no. Academy Award winning film The Revenant. Oh hell, no. Another great survivalist film for all you survivalists out there.

I saw a trailer and what's his name? Leo DiCaprio is getting mauled by a bear, and he's like, pass, hard, pass.

All right, well, you know, I like quotes from things, and I really appreciated this quote from Game of Thrones.

I love that we're still talking about it.

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. Oh yeah, I liked that.

And he made his son cut off that guy's head.

No, he made him watch as he cut off the head.

Well, eventually, he makes him cut off someone's head.

Wow, spoiler alert.

Oh, a bunch of people are going to lose their heads, just all right. It's part of life back then, okay?

There you go, guys, that was my fast fact number three. I promise after this break, we will begin talking about the office again, specifically the carpet. We will break down that episode for you.

I think Dwight would have loved Game of Thrones.

Oh yeah.

Oh, yeah, I think him and Angela would have watched it.

You guys would have spoken to one another in Dothraki.

Oh, for sure, it would be like our code language.

You have a somewhat Dothraki-an relationship, a bit of a Cal-Khaleesi thing.

You mean, Carl?

All right.

Let's go to break.

Okay.

We're back from break.

We start this episode with a cold open. Pam is on vacation. Yes, Ryan is at the reception desk, and Jim keeps glancing up at Ryan, and he's like, What are you looking at?

But it's not as creepy as the way Michael's looking at him, yes.

Exactly, okay.

So the episode starts, and Pam is back from vacation. She's at the coffee, she's at front reception, Michael walks in and calls her spamster, Yeah.

Yeah, that's a dated reference.

That is a dated reference. Michael goes in his office.

There's something very smelly on the carpet in his office. What I love about this is we don't ever show you too much of it.

You see a little bit on the carpet though, and what you see is foul. Yeah, it is so gross.

It's pretty awful and he makes a bunch of people come into the office to see what it is. We had a fan question from David Griffiths and Haley Crook and many others. They wanted to know was there anything in the office that made it actually smell so that we were having authentic reactions? No.

That is just some good acting right there, real good acting.

As I watched this, I was so impressed.

I was so impressed. I actually texted Brian and I was like, I want you to go back and rewatch the carpet when you get a whiff of whatever it is. It made me laugh so hard. I was like, he did such a great job. And Michael has a line, you guys, I feel like, is sort of my vernacular, like the way I would talk.

That is how you would describe it, I know.

There's a stink y'all.

And I love Creed's line. A lot of fans pointed this out. Someone making soup.

Somebody making soup, So my sister Janet was visiting and watched this episode with me. She made me screen grab. Phyllis's face reaction to when Creed says, Somebody making soup.

Next, we have Michael's talking head where he's talking about fear factor and he has to leave. And then for the rest of the episode, we're clearing out his office.

I did a deep dive on fear factor. Why Jenna? Why did I do a deep dive on fear factor? I don't know.

This has started to happen to us where something's mentioned in an episode, and then we spend hours watching clips or researching things on websites.

Oh my gosh, it was like you watching all the videos of the hooters birthdays, I watched these fear factor clips, you guys. It was like, Okay, eat this dried horse rectum, I'm not kidding.

I'm not kidding.

Or intestine or something. And then I looked up why it got canceled. It's so gross what happened, I don't even think we can say it here.

What happened? It got canceled because of an incident.

Yes, I don't remember it, but it's why it got canceled and Joe Rogan has talked about it. It's so gross, what?

That is horrible. Did they do it? They did it, they did it.

And one guy said As he started drinking, he vomited back in his own cup, Oh God.

It's horrible, oh my god.

It's horrible.

And how did this get?

I'm sorry, it's my first thought.

Whose job was that?

Wow.

No, no, no, no.

I don't think so, no.

Not happening.

Next up in the episode.

Sorry.

Did everyone do it? What happens? If you don't do it, you're out.

I don't know, I know there's the contest, and if you do it, ultimately, whatever all the challenges are. I don't know how people get picked, but whoever does the challenge, if they don't do it, they're out. It was a crazy show, crazy, all right.

Everyone, they seem sad, they seem...

I've ruined their day, you guys. This was such a big deal for Michael to be like, this is my fear factor. Audition tape, I was like, Oh yeah, what was that show again?

So next up, Jim enters, he asks about Pam's vacation. He is so excited that she's back at the reception desk. But then we reveal that Roy and Daryl are also upstairs and that Roy is they're cleaning out Michael's office.

They're giggly and Roy is engaging with her. You know what I mean? He looks over and mouths the word help because he's got to go do this gross job, and she laughs. So they're being kind of flirty and sweet, and Jim clocks it right away.

We had a fan question from Jamie Boggs Why on earth are the warehouse guys changing the carpet? How is that? In their job description? I kind of agree, but it makes sense to me. I feel like Michael makes people do things outside of their job description all the time.

I think there was like a top carpet they pulled up, but then they, Yeah, exactly, but they did.

I mean, they really did dismantle the office in the middle of this shooting.

Yes, and all of Michael's talking heads take place in the conference room, all of his stuff is piled behind him. Yes, so that's sort of a new spot where we see Michael.

That was a fan question, too, from Alexandra. What is the room Michael has his talking heads in while his carpet is being cleaned?

It's the conference room. I was curious, too. And so I zoomed in on the scene where Michael is talking and I realized that the painting is hanging on the wall behind him. Yeah, it was the painting that was always in the conference room. I felt like that was a nice little touch to let the audience know where he was.

That was a blooper, that was a blooper that was not intended.

But it was a great, just like, kind of reminder of, like, where he was.

So next up, Michael takes over Jim's desk, forcing Jim into the annex. He's going to sit next to Kelly. She explains that Toby used to sit there, but he had to move due to an allergy.

To the desk.

To the desk.

His allergy was to the desk. I'm pretty sure all those desks are the same desk, but Toby just had a specific allergy to that one.

So then we have Michael in the bullpen and he's chatting with Dwight. They're kind of talking about the old days, they start talking about Ed Truck and you see that great flashback photo.

And the mullet haircut?

Yeah.

Also, at five minutes, 12 seconds, Dwight is so happy that Michael is going to be sitting next to him, he is just so thrilled. And I watched the deleted scenes for this episode and there's a really cute talking head where Dwight is like. This is just a gift. The woman I'm dating might say it's a gift from God, but I don't know about that. And it flashed.

Oh, that's a little depressing.

I know, and Ed Truck is like, What are you looking at? There's also a deleted scene where he's eating alone in his car. Oh yeah.

Because he can't find anywhere to eat.

Exactly, exactly, but there is some really sweet Dwight-Angela little nods to that relationship in the deleted scenes. And also during this whole Dwight-Michael moment. We learn that Dwight is sitting where Todd Packer used to sit, and Michael is sitting in his old desk. Because Ed Truck would have been in his office.

Ooh, Stanley, Sass.

Yes, at seven minutes, one second, Michael bugs Stanley and Stanley is on the phone, and this is what Stanley says to him. I just loved it. Leslie David Baker did such an amazing job.

Yeah.

He's like acting out in some way, he thinks maybe they were all in on it, but yet also I think he's trying to live his glory.

Days.

He just punches the heck out of creed.

Oh, I loved Creed's reaction to that, though.

It was so earnest, it's like one of the few times he's truly earnest. He's like, Ow, why'd you hit me, Michael? like, it actually really hurt him.

He's like a kid on a playground, basically.

He's like a bad kid on a playground. But that's not a Charlie horse. punching someone isn't a Charlie horse. you know what a Charlie horse is.

That's just when your muscle seizes up.

Well, yeah, but I think what he's trying to say is like, how does a horse bite an apple?

Wait, what, stop, stop, the podcast. what?

How's a horse bite an apple? Is that like Charlie Horse, just hitting someone? or is he hitting someone to give him a Charlie horse?

What is how's a horse bite an apple?

Come over here, I'll show you.

No, no, no, no, no, explain.

What is this?

This is a thing you do to a person on a playground. It's called how's a horse bite an apple?

Yeah, how's a horse bite an apple? I'm going to show you.

I'm scared. What are you reaching for right now? You're reaching for? what? My arm, my hand?

I'm not that strong, it's not going to hurt that bad if Josh did it to you. He has strong hands.

Okay, what am I doing? what am I handing you? You got to slide over here, slide over to what?

My chair.

Why?

What are you touching?

Okay, back up, what? don't do it? what are you doing?

It's not going to hurt that bad. How's a horse bite an apple?

What?

The top of their knee and that two little spots that really hurt. I don't think that hurts.

I think that's tickly. That's how a horse bites an apple. Am I right? Sam? I've never heard. How's a horse bite an apple?

What is going on St. Louis?

St. Louis Back me up.

Do we have horses that bite the apple?

I don't know how to react to it.

Sam seems to have heard this.

Yeah, that made its way to Wisconsin, Wisconsin has. How's a horse bite an apple?

Cody, where are you from? Have you heard it? I'm from here, but my grandma was from Kansas and my grandpa was from Tennessee, and I've never heard that. Thank you. Okay, so Missouri, Kansas and Tennessee, we don't know.

Oh, let's not go there. Okay, well-.

Charlie Horse is just when your muscle seizes up.

I know that, but I kind of felt like it was one of those things where Michael gets it a little wrong. He's like Charlie Horse, but I was like, Oh, did he mean how's a horse bite an apple? But probably not because that's too many words. And he had to cross the whole room really quickly.

Well, Michael also gets Dwight to go over to accounting and dump their stuff all over the ground. Ugh. We had a fan question from Alan3 How many times did Steve and Rain mess up the accounting area? Did they do it randomly or was it choreographed?

We did it a few times, so every time Michael would say, Okay, let's send up accounting, old-fashioned raid sales on accounting, they would come over. They'd dump all of our stuff on the floor. I did love that. Angela glares at Dwight, like, don't even. And so he sort of giggles and picks up one pencil and throws it on the floor of mine.

And then so after you shoot a scene like that and they mess up the area, they say, cut. Did the set decorators come over and reset everything?

They do because they want the continuity to match.

Yeah.

And obviously we would pick up stuff as well, but sometimes we would get in the way, like we would start to pick it up. And they'd be like, here, let me set that, because that is their job to make sure it looks exactly like it did before, and I might not get it right.

So I remember sometimes before scenes like this, our script supervisor Veda, she is the person who was in charge of continuity on the show. She would come over and take a picture of the desk area as a reference point.

So they could match it each time.

Yes.

Yes, Veda was amazing, and she was so sweet and kind and soft-spoken, and sometimes she would just walk up to you and be like Angela. On the second line. In the scene, you switched your coffee mug from your left hand to your right hand.

Yes, I remember that.

At eight minutes, 55 seconds, I'm calling this the fan catch of the day.

What is it?

It is by Biro. If you freeze and zoom in on Angela's computer, you can see a post-it note that says Quote Angela, can I have $5 petty cash to buy some more jelly beans? I'll give you back any change. Thanks Pam, catch of the day.

You probably did. You probably passed it to me in the background because we were bored and I stuck it there.

So then Michael has a talking head about former manager Ed Truck, and this has one of my favorite Michael quotes. I told myself if I was ever manager, people would laugh when they saw me coming and applaud when I walked away. Mission accomplished.

Yeah, way to go. I just want to call out one scene, you guys, I'm moving around a little, but it's one I absolutely love. At 9 minutes, 55 seconds.

Yes to win a DVD box set.

Of Jethro Tull Yes from Rock 107. And he just keeps calling and Michael's pained expression.

One of the fun dynamics about the Michael and Dwight relationship is that it gives Steve an opportunity to play. The straight man. A very funny straight man, and so a lot of times he's the funny guy and the rest of us are the straight man to Steve. But I love this dynamic shift that happens with Michael and Dwight scenes.

I do, too.

I want you to know I did a little bit of a deep dive for rock 107.

I almost did, but you know what I did instead?

What?

I listened to Jethro Tull, Oh, there you go, I downloaded the Greatest Hits and listened to it. And my daughter Isabel was like, What is that?

Well, they currently run contests via their Freeloaders club, and you can sign up with your email at rock107..com. And they give away quote dozens of prizes each month. Here's a list of things you can win, okay?

Those are great gifts, though I know way to go. Rock 107..

It seems like instead of doing these live contests on the air where you have to call in like Dwight did. You can just sign up with your email and you're automatically entered. So just giving a plug for that giveaway. Rock 107..

Way to go.

I have 10 minutes, 44 seconds.

Okay.

Pam and Roy are flirting at reception, and Jim is watching her in the kitchen. He tries to go to the annex, but he sees Kelly, then he goes to the bathroom.

With his coffee mug, yeah, this is how trapped he is. So it's one way it's Pam and Roy, the other way it's Kelly, chatty, chatty, chatty.

And later, he can't eat in the lunchroom because Pam's sitting in there with Roy. This leads to the deleted scene you were talking about.

With him eating alone in his car.

Yeah.

Poor jim guys, poor jim.

Poor jim.

So then at 11 minutes, 7 seconds, Michael goes back to accounting. And he's like, Hey guys, and I'm really snarky. This is like, very Angela Martin snarky. Moment. You finished getting things in order from your last visit, and he's like, I'm just walking around.

Well, this is when Michael gets this big idea to host a sales contest.

Well, listen, because he says, we're all there working for the weekend, but you know what, he's working for the week, what?

Working for the week.

He's working for the week and he wants the sales contest now.

And the prize is a $100 bill. Not really. He opens his wallet and he only has $83. Wait.

Jenna Before we get into the sales competition, I do have some journal entries from this. When do you want them? Do you want them now now?

Do you want them later? I say now.

Now, not later. Okay, here's my journal entry for the carpet. I was really excited.

We got great news, we're coming back for season three.

Is this the episode where we found out? Yes, oh my gosh.

I can't tell in watching the episode, but we just found out we got a job for another year.

That's a fast fact. Angela right there, oh.

Well, I liked your Game of Thrones fast fact, but there that, I guess, is a fast fact. Also, I said that we're just so excited, we're really proud of the show.

I remember those photos.

These are sort of some iconic photos that are out there on the internet of Steve holding up a heart and Cate, Flannery and you and me and Phyllis all surrounding him. Yeah, so there's some great Valentine's shot, there's one of Dwight and I side by side.

I did some photos with David Denman as Roy, so some Pam and Roy Valentine's shots as well.

And I also wrote, This was the first time the supporting cast were included in one of these big photo shoots and we were all so excited. I remember that, yeah, because we weren't series regular the last time we did them, that's right.

Yeah, that always happens. They probably photoshopped it out.

I said, I hope they'll photoshop it out. See, look at that.

Like I said, I know.

Anyway, those are.

Hey, even you knew.

Even.

Something special is happening with the character of Kelly in the carpet.

2006 Me knew that Kelly was maybe, Kelly was maybe mindy.

All right, let's take a break, we'll be back in a sec.

All right.

So back to the episode, I have a continuity catch.

Okay.

At 12 minutes, 43 seconds, Roy and Daryl are removing Michael's carpet. Okay, they've got this rolled up carpet on their shoulders and they make fun of his dancing. But then at 13 minutes, 12 seconds, there's a shot of them through the blinds in Michael's office, and they're having beers and they're kind of sleeping.

They're using it as a headrest.

Yeah, well, there's a continuity catch.

Well, I.

Is that the new carpet they haven't put down yet?

I don't know, but there is a whole deleted scene of just Daryl and Roy just being idiots in that room. There's a whole scene where they are drinking beers and they have two like rubber balls and they're bouncing them against the wall. Like they've got a game going. Yeah, yeah.

Well, I suppose it could be the carpet they haven't installed yet.

Maybe, maybe Jenna.

At 13 minutes, 56 seconds, I declare Michael Sass.

Michael Sass Let's hear it.

Well, Pam says stopping the sales contest isn't fair. I guess we should say Michael gets upset and he stops his sales contest. No one can win $83 anymore.

He's just being a brat.

But Michael gives it right back to Pam.

Oh yeah.

I didn't write down what he said, but you can look it up at 13 minutes 56 seconds if you want.

That sort of takes the wind out of your—.

It does. I realized, as I was looking at my sheet, I was like, Wow, that was an incomplete—.I did not complete that question of my homework.

Well, I will say this, my sister and I laughed. Actually, she's a schoolteacher, she teaches pre-K. And at 14 minutes, 26 seconds, Michael puts the whole office in timeout.

Oh yes, oh yes.

Anyway, okay.

So then we have the scene in the kitchen with Jim and Ryan, and Jim asks Ryan what he thinks of Kelly. He's trying to help Kelly out because she's begged him.

Well, this also just shows where he's at in his day because at first he doesn't want to help her. He's like, I'm not getting in the middle of those two, and then by the end of the day he's like, Fine, I'll be your go-between. Because he doesn't have his buddy, he doesn't have Pam to like, help the day pass.

Well, we had a fan question. Maddie W. and Adrienne both asked, Whose idea was it for Kelly to have a crush on Ryan? What do you think, Ange? I think it was Mindy's.

I don't know I was going to text her, but she had the Oscars and she was presenting, I didn't want to bug her.

Yeah, we were prepping this episode the weekend of Oscars weekend, yes, and Mindy was a presenter. And can we talk for one second about how amazing she looked in her dress?

She looked amazing. I actually did text her and BJ the next day and I was like, You guys look so beautiful together. Yeah, and she wrote back, Ange, I love this, thank you.

Well, there you go. Kelly and Ryan went to the Oscars together as well.

Well, they're very, very dear friends, they're best friends, they're best friends.

There were a lot of friendships that came out of our show, there was our best friendship, there was their best friendship.

Well, all of the guys still play fantasy football together, that's true, all the guys, yeah, every year.

So next, Michael talks to Creed about his fear of becoming Ed Truck.

Oh, this scene is so funny. Creed made me laugh so hard in this scene. Yeah, he's like, Michael, you have a lot more to be worried about than that. He's like, Oh, great.

And then we go outside and we meet Ed Truck and this scene, it broke my heart because in the scene, Ed says, Michael, why can't your workers be your workers, your family be your family, and your friends be your friends? And you can see they hold on Michael's face, and you can see that. The reason why is because he doesn't have friends and family, he needs his workers to be all three things.

No, he doesn't.

It breaks your heart, it breaks your heart for him.

Oh well, speaking of heartbreak, 17 minutes, 8 seconds, so this is like cut in between. Michael's talking head. Jim is in the kitchen, which kind of looks like Jim hung out in the kitchen all day.

I think he spent a lot of time in there.

Not only that, guys, but if you look at this episode, John didn't have very many lines. This was not a tough like line count for him. As far as like memory work, all of his stuff was reacting for the most part in this episode. So, but anyway, during Michael's talking head, we see Jim is in the kitchen and he tries to wave goodbye to Pam.

She kind of leaves early, she's got her big, puffy coat on and everyone else is still working, but she sneaks out. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And what does he do after that?

Oh God, it's so desperate.