- We have a special guest star in this episode.
- Scott Adsit! - Both you and Scott
have appeared in two episodes of the TV show "Monk."
- Tony Shalhoub was the nicest.
He was throwing something to try to get it in the trashcan
and when it hit the trash can, it made a ping.
And I started laughing and then the two of us sat there
and did our impressions of the noises
of things going in the trashcan, like pow-wow-wow.
- Ping-ling-ling-ling. - Pow-ooo-blec.
(women laugh) We were such dorks!
And we cracked up! I don't know.
He's just so fun. I just adored him.
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- This episode was filmed during May 2006.
And so, Angela, my question for both of us is
what were you doing?
Flashback now to May 2006 and what were you up to?
- Well, I had a journal entry from May 3rd, 2006.
This is what I wrote.
I wrote that I was doing a photo shoot
with my cat, Lucy, for "Cat Fancy Magazine."
- Angela Kinsey! - What?
- Shut the front door right now.
- What? - Do you know
what I wrote in my journal? - No.
- For this week of May?
- What? - Of 2006?
"I did a photo shoot with my cat,
Andy, for "People Magazine." - Shut up.
I'm not joking, lady. - What?
(cat meows) Lady,
how did we not know we did photo shoot
with our cats at the same time?
- Oh, my gosh! - First of all,
this is why we're BFFs, all right?
This is why.
Our life has very strange ways that it is parallel.
So, was Lucy on the cover of "Cat Fancy?"
- No, Lucy was not on the cover
because she was a rescue.
She was not a purebred cat.
But, also, Jenna, "Cat Fancy"
doesn't let humans on the cover.
So, it's only cats on the cover.
- Oh, okay. - But, the cool thing was is
that Lucy and I got, I think, I mean, I saved the magazine.
I think we got four pages.
So, Lucy and I are in the center,
I guess for the centerfold.
- Oh! You are the centerfold of "Cat Fancy Magazine!"
- So, Lucy and I look amazing.
They're some of the best pictures I feel like I have.
- How was she during the photo shoot?
- Well, yeah, I should probably give you
some backstory about Lucy.
Lucy loved to sleep. - Oh.
- So, Lucy did nothing. - Okay.
- Lucy just laid there and I mean, Lucy is, I love her.
R.I.P., Lucy. She had a great long life.
But, she really just loved to lounge. She was a lounger.
- Oh! - So, in many shots,
I'm just laying next to her
'cause that's her favorite thing to do.
But, what about you?
What was your "People Magazine" shoot like with Andy?
- Okay, well, Andy was also a rescue.
But, he was a semi feral cat. I had found him.
He was eating out of a dumpster back
in Kirksville, Missouri, where I went to college.
I think he was about five or six months old when I got him
and he was just always a little,
we say he was always a little wild
and he loved me and he snuggled me
and he was so gentle and sweet.
But, he didn't love strangers in the house
and so when the "People Magazine" guys came over,
not only were they all there kind of causing a ruckus
and Andy was a little bit like, "I'm outta here."
They wanted to do the photo shoot outside
and they wanted me to hold him.
- Forget it. Mine was inside.
- Oh. - Oh my gosh, forget it.
- Angela, I'm in full hair and makeup with this dress on.
They were like, "Okay, we're ready for you.
Will you come out with Andy?"
So, I'm holding Andy and I think if you look in the photo,
you can see that he and I are both a little tense.
But, I'm smiling super big as if I'm not tense.
And I wrote in my journal- - I want to see it!
- Angela, I wrote in my journal that he clawed my stomach
and I had bloody claw marks in my stomach
from the photo shoot because he wanted to get away.
- Oh, lady!
I do remember calling my mom and I was so excited
'cause I hadn't really been in any magazines ever,
obviously, in my whole life and I was like,
"Mom, I'm going to be in 'Cat Fancy!'"
And my mom was like, "What?"
I'm like, "Me and Lucy, mom!" Anyway, that is so cute.
I love that! Now, I really want to see.
I remember you doing that.
But, now I need to see the picture.
- Okay, well I have a ton of makeup on,
just a ton of makeup, and I'm smiling
in a really weird, maniacal way
and I called my mom after that photo shoot,
Angela, and my mom was so sweet.
She was like, "Oh, I am just so proud of you both.
Just so proud of you both." (Angela laughs)
She's like, "Just think about that little kitten
that you found in that dumpster in Kirksville, Missouri.
He drove all the way to Los Angeles
with you onto the pages of 'People Magazine.'
What a life you've given him!
- That is so adorable! That is such a mom moment!
Oh my Lord! - I know, I know.
(upbeat music)
- Why does Jim do his talking heads
in front of the outside facing window,
while everyone else's talking heads are inside
of the window that faces the bullpen of the office?
- Now, that is a great catch. It really is.
- So, I emailed Greg Daniels and I asked him,
"Was this deliberate? Was this an accident?
What does he have to say?"
And he said that it was something that Randall Einhorn,
our cinematographer, suggested to Greg
starting with the "Pilot" and Greg absolutely loved it.
He said Randall's intention here was
that it didn't necessarily have to be only Jim.
But, the idea was that any character
that had a future outside of Dunder Mifflin
or held some sort of internal optimism would sit
in front of a window, leading out into the world.
But, characters who didn't want
to leave Dunder Mifflin or who maybe were in more
of a position of being trapped,
would do their talking heads facing into the office.
- Wow. - That's so deep!
- That's really deep. - Yeah.
- I'm sitting here racking my brain
to think if my character ever sat
on that other wall with the window facing out behind her
and the one that comes to my mind
and I think it might be the only one.
I'm trying to think if there's any other one.
It was when you and I did big pregs, little pregs.
- Yeah, we did! - That's,
I think it's the only time I ever sat there.
- Well, for a very long time,
I only sat there if I was with Jim.
- Wow. - which was really
the only possible future for Pam outside of the office.
- Wow! - I think.
- That's so deep! - Isn't that crazy?
But, otherwise, she was rather trapped
in her bad decision of being with Roy.
- Trapped or content? - Yeah.
- I mean, some of us were just happy with our lot in life.
- Yes. - Well, that is fascinating.
And I like it! - Yeah.
I thought that was a good one.
(upbeat music)
Michael calls Dwight and Jim into the conference room
and he goes through a list of Dwight's complaints
and this is my favorite part of the episode.
- It's so good! - So good!
- And one of them made me laugh so hard.
All right, here are the list of pranks
that Jim has pulled on Dwight that Dwight has reported.
Ready? - Okay, yes.
- Ready, Jenna? Go, number one.
- [Jenna] Number one, he replaced all of Dwight's pens
and pencils with crayons.
- Number two, he had everyone call him Dwayne
all day, which by the way, Jenna.
(Jenna chuckles) By the way,
guess who would sometimes call him Dwayne?
- Who? - In a scene?
- Who? - Oscar.
- He did? - For real, for real!
There were scenes where he'd be like, "Listen, Dwayne."
And I'd be like, "Dwight. It's Dwight."
And he'd be like, "Ah, crap."
- That is so funny. - Somehow it went
into Oscar's brain in real life.
Okay! - Well, Jim also placed
a bloody glove in Dwight's desk drawer
and tried to convince him that he had committed murder.
- [Angela] Yes, number four, Jim told Dwight there was
an abandoned infant in the women's room.
He went in to save the child and saw Meredith on the can.
- Go! - Next one is
that every time Dwight typed his name,
it would just say diaper. (Jenna laughs)
Diapers, yeah. - Yes.
- [Angela] By the end of the day,
Dwight complains that his desk was moved
two feet closer to the copier and Jim admits that,
yes, every time Jim got up from his desk,
he moved it a little closer to the copier.
- This one is my favorite of all time
of any prank ever written about on "The Office."
It's just a sentence. We never see this play out.
But, my imagination of it is so rich.
Dwight says he hit himself in the head
with his phone and Michael was like, "What?
How could that have been Jim's fault?"
And then Jim and his talking head-
- It cuts to Jim, yeah.
- And John's reaction, he laughs.
He says that he put nickels in Dwight's headset
over the course of a long time
so that it got heavier and heavier
and then one day he took them all out
so that when Dwight answered the phone,
it would be super light. - Yeah, j-
- And I just, that is brilliant.
- That's brilliant. - That is brilliant.
Greg Daniels. (Jenna claps)
- Yeah, clap. (both clap)
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