>> Michael Scott: Here we go.
Take a seat, cop a squat,
and um,
thank you for coming in.
Um I'd like you to smile, I'd like to see a big smile.
But don't take my word for it, let's take a look at the tape.
>> Crazy Nate: The last video I talked about was exhausting to research.
I just had to take a break and detox by watching one of my favorite shows
The Office, because that's like way cheaper than therapy.
Then I was thinking why haven't we talked about The Office here before,
it's only like one of the best TV shows in existence.
Fact, no matter how many times you've seen The Office,
today I'm gonna be showing you there's something you missed.
(intro music plays)
You used to be able to watch The Office on Netflix but the good old days are gone,
and if you don't have all the seasons on DVD well that's just weird.
Don't worry though you can still watch The Office over at peacocktv.com
and if you use the link below you can try to watch all nine seasons with a free seven-day trial.
Okay we have easter eggs, bloopers,
and fun facts but to clarify there are two TV shows of The Office.
The first one came out in 2001 over on the BBC,
and that's not the version we're talking about here today.
I did watch both versions but the British one I only watched all the
seasons start to finish once, and only once.
>> Michael Scott: Oh, yuck.
>> Crazy Nate: In this show we'll be referencing to the better version the
American version of The Office that came out a few years later in 2005.
Now it could be a culture thing maybe British people don't find our American version funny.
Michael Scott: Do I need to be liked?
Absolutely not. I like to be liked, I enjoy being liked, I have to be liked.
But it's not like this compulsive need to be liked.
Like my need to be praised.
>> Crazy Nate: Highly doubtful but that is a possibility, and that's fine.
Anyways to avoid confusion anytime I talk about The Office I'm referring
to America's version unless otherwise mentioned.
Like the very next easter egg.
The first thing you should notice is that The
Office pays respect to the original show a few times.
One way is if you look in Michael Scott's office he has a British flag on his desk.
The Simpsons used to be on the same channel along with The Office,
and if you look you will see Homer Simpson makes an appearance on the show on a regular basis.
Even celebrating birthdays with them.
This could be a subtle brainwash to make us watch both shows back,
then but the main reason is because Greg Daniels who's one of the brains behind The Office,
also used to be one of the writers for the Simpsons.
You've been X'd punk!
So the cruelest prank that Michael Scott did on Pam in season one at least,
was when he fake fired her.
>> Michael Scott: In that I am going to have to let you go first.
>> Pam Beesly: What? Why?
>> Crazy Nate: and Ryan was very much disapproval of this prank.
But that's ironic because Ryan Howard is played by BJ Novak,
and if you don't get the connection here BJ Novak played as multiple characters
in an old TV show called Punk'd, where they literally pranked people to tears.
>> Ashton Kutcher: Hillary Duff, when you're 16 you get a driver's license,
and how do you get to your driver's license?
You go to the driving school.
Your instructor today will be B.J.
B.J. will be teaching Hillary how to drive,
and fend for her life.
Good luck with your driving test!
And try not to get your car jacked!
>> Crazy Nate: So Ryan actually did do his fair share of scaring innocent people.
>> Road Rage: What's with you man? he's got a bat dude.
He's got bats all right!
>> Road Rage 2: Don't make me throw you out of this car!
Get out of the car!
>> Hillary Duff: Are you telling me that it's my fault that I got out the car?
>> B.J.: It's your fault that our car got stolen.
>> Hillary Duff: Oh my god I just want to like cry I hate you
>> Crazy Nate: B.J. Novak is also one of the writers for this show
so he probably played a role in having this scene created.
There's also similarities to The Office and Punk'd
like in one episode they pranked Tommy Lee convincing him that he hit someone with his car.
and Michael Scott also hit Meredith with his car.
>> Miachel Scott: Um Andy and Dwight are rocking the sales team I feel very blessed.
>> Crazy Nate:
B.J. also pranked Mia, making her think he was crazy for her and obsessed with her
similar to how Kelly Kapoor is crazy for him.
So Punk'd is probably one of the original sources
of inspiration for some of what we got to see in The Office.
In Michael Scott's meeting if you look outside you also see there's a shadow on the desk
now that always bugged you and you were thinking who in the heck is in Michael's office.
Well it's not an easter egg or a secret it was just the director Ken Kwapis's shadow.
When the company is on the verge of a mass layoff what better way to spend your company time than
playing a game of basketball instead of getting oh I don't know, more clients.
But there are some fun things that we need to point out here
like when Kevin's hitting nothing but net that's not fake
he swooshed it like 13 times in a row back to back before he finally messed one up.
Also when Jim got smashed in the face by Roy that was actually real.
But it was an accident, but it was real blood.
During the pilot reading Jim was playing around with a label maker and
made a label that said "shut up" and stuck it on his tie.
But he forgot was there during shooting so you can actually see it in the final shot.
In the pilot Michael Scott says this is my kingdom as far as the eye can see.
>> Michael Scott: ah see we have the entire floor so this is my kingdom far as the eye can see.
>> Crazy Nate: And this is clearly a reference to Disney's the Lion King.
>> Mufasa: Look Simba, everything the light touches is our kingdom.
>> Crazy Nate: Later on in the show at Chili's we find out that Jan Levingston
Gould allegedly was divorced because her husband didn't want to have kids but she did.
>> Michael Scott: Tell us about your divorce.
>> Jan Levingston Gould: Oh no Michael Michael Michael please no no
>> Michael Scott: Oh really hey you're not going to play she's not playing
she's not playing the game.
>> Jan Levingston Gould: We've been fighting for a while he
didn't want kids I knew that going into it but he also knew that I did
so I guess I thought that he would change his mind he thought that I would change mine.
>> Crazy Nate: But then when Michael Scott was
with her she seemed to be uncertain if she really wanted kids or not.
>> Michael Scott: When I said that I wanted to have kids and you said that you wanted
me to have a vasectomy what did I do and then when you said that you might want to
have kids and I wasn't so sure who had this vasectomy reversed and then when you said
you definitely didn't want to have kids who had to reverse back snip snap snip snap sniff snap
I did okay you have no idea the physical toll the three vasectomies have a person.
>> Crazy Nate: And we learned how much he's actually falling apart mentally.
< Jan smashes TV)
>> Michael Scott:
That is a 200 dollar plasma screen TV you just killed,
good luck paying me back on your zero dollars a year salary plus benefits babe.
>> Crazy Nate: But the very first time that we ever saw her she wasn't wearing her wedding ring
so it's likely that she was already having struggles with
her husband since the beginning of the show,
or because she was cheating on him.
That one seems more likely with her personality.
You know that the show takes place in Scranton Pennsylvania and they pay attention to the
details, like in Michael Scott's office you can see the Scranton map or a Scranton newspaper.
The reality though is that they filmed it in California.
Also in Michael Scott's window we see a bunch of oak trees.
These are actually palm trees though and they had to get lifts and tie branches to them to make them
look like they're oak trees because spoiler alert there are no palm trees in Scranton Pennsylvania.
Mr. Brown was also a cameo he is Larry Wilmore who is one of the writers for the show,
and in case you missed the irony and diversity training when Kelly slaps Michael.
>> Michael Scott: Try my cookie cookie try my cookie cookie try my cookie cookie, try my
(SLAP!)
>> Crazy Nate: Here's the deal, everyone had a race card on their head
and you were supposed to say something super offensive relating to the race on their head.
Well she wasn't wearing a card on her head so that's the punch line.
>> Michael Scott: All right all right yes that was great.
>> Crazy Nate: There's so much in the show that
would never fly with our PC world we live in today.
But there's a more serious question lingering here,
what was in the bag that Roy was carrying out?
>> Jim Halpert: um what's in the uh what's in the bag?
>> Roy: Just tell her I'll talk to her later.
>> Jim Halpert: No definitely, all right dude awesome, will do.
>> Crazy Nate: Well it's not trash, the dumpster is right next to the warehouse
so he wouldn't go upstairs to dump out the trash,
and it's not like he's changing clothes so
it wasn't that because Roy wanted to go straight home.
>> Roy: No come on let's get out of here go home.
>> Crazy Nate: So here's what I think, I think Roy was stealing supplies from the company and
maybe that's why when Michael told Pam that she was fired for stealing that she seemed worried.
>> Michael Scott: I am going to have to let you go first.
>> Pam Beesly: What? Why?
>> Crazy Nate: Until she realized that Michael was accusing her of stealing and not Roy.
>> Pam Beesly: Are you serious?
>> Michael Scott: Yeah.
>> Crazy Nate: Because obviously Pam would never steal.
Roy on the other hand, he probably would.
and get this, she wanted to get married and not just be engaged forever obviously
we know that, but the money that they were saving for the wedding
we find out in a deleted scene that Roy used that money to buy the wave runners.
>> Pam Beesly: Well I thought we were saving money for the wedding but
apparently Roy thought it was more important to buy two wave runners.
I don't really ever even get to use the other wave runner
that's supposed to be mine because his brother uses it, and they race.
>> Crazy Nate: So maybe Roy was trying to make money on the side to recoup the money
that was being saved for the wedding.
These two women in the meeting are random extras but they were also
actual accountants for the show.
John Krasinski and his friends went to Scranton Pennsylvania and
filmed the scenes that we see in the intro.
And when they went and visited the real paper factory the manager had one of those
weird dancing hamsters in her office and that's why Michael Scott has a hamster in his office.
Now there are nine seasons of The Office and there's a lot of facts and secrets.
Most of the secrets we talked about today are just in season 1.
if you want to see everything you missed in all the seasons let me know if you're a weirdo though
and you don't want to hear any more about The Office let me know what you want to hear instead.
And if you haven't seen The Office or want to watch it
again because who doesn't want to watch it again,
then click the link below and get your seven day free trial of peacock TV
and until our next adventure,
fact if you share a smile it can be contagious.
>> singer: thanks for stopping by and hanging out with Crazy Nate,
make sure to leave a thumbs up if he left you feeling great.
Have fun and we'll see you next time,
and don't forget to subscribe.