Jim And Pam Almost SPLIT UP In The Final Season Of ‘The Office’

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When it comes to couples in the modern history of television, there are few that are as iconic as Jim and Pam from The Office.

What made Jim and Pam so relatable to audiences is how real they felt and that’s a credit to the show’s writing. However, according to Andy Greene’s new book The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s, creator Greg Daniels — who returned to showrunning duties in Season 9 for the first time since Season 5 — almost wanted to make them a little too real as he reportedly mulled the idea of having Jim and Pam’s relationship go through a rough patch in the series’ final season.

“My whole pitch to Greg was that we’ve done so much with Jim and Pam, and now, after marriage and kids, there was a bit of a lull there, I think, for them about what they wanted to do… For me it was, ‘Can you have this perfect relationship go through a split and keep it the same?’ which of course you can’t. And I said to Greg, ‘It would be really interesting to see how that split will affect two people that you know so well.’”

Writer Brent Forrester reveals that they set out to actually have Jim and Pam break up in the middle of the season, with the idea being that in the series finale’s reunion episode, they would rekindle their relationship:

“Greg really wanted to do something extremely risky and high-stakes, which was the documentary airs and we see what effect it has had on these characters. And there was going to be a reunion episode where you see that Jim and Pam have split up by this time, and they will have their reunion in the reunion episode.” [via Collider]

The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s sounds like a much-cop for any die-hard fans of the series as the books seem to be chock-full of interesting anecdotes like this one.

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