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Do you ever feel like culture just kinda reached its high water mark with The Office? Nothing has really topped its popularity – it was the peak of formulaic yet well-written network comedy, with the entire genre falling into a slump that’s it’s never really recovered from. The show has been off the air for over seven years and people still can’t get enough of the show, commanding $100 million per year from NBC’s Peacock streaming service for the next five years.
We basically have an entire section dedicated to after-the-fact, behind-the-scenes factoids and trivia about The Office on this very website.
Look at all these nuggets from Dunder Mifflin-land:
- Jim And Pam’s Niagara Falls Wedding Episode Originally Featured Dwight Riding A Horse Into The River
- ‘The Office’ Almost Turned Michael Scott Into A Murderer
- ‘The Office’ Showrunner Says He’s Considered Turning An Unused Season 1 Script Into A Reunion Show
- James Gandolfini Almost Replaced Steve Carell On ‘The Office’
- The Original Script For The Iconic Chili Scene In ‘The Office’ Was A Lot Darker
- Jenna Fischer From ‘The Office’ Opens Up About The Famous Crying Scene With Dwight And How Rainn Wilson Brought The Best Out Of Her
- Some ‘Diversity Day’ Jokes From ‘The Office’ Were So Extreme That They Can’t Even Be Said Today
- John Mayer Once Made ‘The Office’ Give Him A Dundie Award Before Letting The Show Use One Of His Songs In An Episode
You get the point… The Office is TV pizza – fulfilling cultural comfort food that can be thrown on for a chuckle no matter the time of day or your personal mood. It’s legacy is going to endure for a very long time.
And I’m here to add to the heap, even though my esteemed colleague Connor briefly mentioned this in his post about John Mayer’s Dundie a couple weeks ago. I’m
On a recent episode of the Office Ladies podcast, co-stars Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey talked about filming Season 3’s “A Benihana Christmas”. The episode aired on December 14, 2006 and was directed by the late, great Harold Ramis.
On the podcast, Fischer and Kinsey talked to the episode writer, Jen Celotta. Celotta shared that she wrote a joke for Steve Carrell that ended up costing the show quite a bit of money.
Steve Carrell broke out into Eddie Money’s “Two Tickets To Paradise.” Getting the song licensed and cleared by the published for this brief quip ended up costing $60,000.
It blows my mind they kept it in instead of scraping it and doing a quick re-shoot. Have to imagine this was the cheaper option to make the entire episode work.
Here’s a detailed breakdown from Looper: