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Welcome to Second Drink of the Injury.
This is one of Jenna's favorite episodes.
It really is. And lady, I have some new fun tidbits to share.
I'm going to start with a cold open that was in the shooting draft that we didn't discuss.
Oh. So in our original breakdown, we talked about how there were no Jim and Pam flirty moments in this entire episode.
But guess what? There was a flirty cold open, and it's why Jim and Pam are in such a good mood when Michael calls about his foot.
Yes. Right? They're both at front reception.
This is how it read in the shooting draft.
Interior office reception area.
Pam sits at her desk.
Jim's there, too. They are playing happy face, sad face.
Pam laughs at Jim's sad face, and she loses.
Jim says, there it is, three to one.
You are terrible at this.
And Pam goes, okay, okay, okay, let's try again.
And then Pam psychs herself up, pinches her cheek so she won't smile.
She does a killer happy face, and then an equally ridiculous sad face.
Jim tries to remain straight -faced, then laughs.
Pam triumphantly says, three, two.
And then the phone rings.
Oh, my goodness. I don't even remember shooting that.
That's what's so wild about that.
Well, you know what?
It's so interesting because we were talking about how after Booze Cruise and that big 27 seconds of silence, like where do they go from here?
And then it just wasn't addressed at all.
They don't hardly interact, but they did flirt.
I wonder if that's why they took this out.
To make it more dramatic.
To create that tension.
Yeah. They didn't want to relieve the tension just yet.
Yeah. Well, when I was looking at our old comments for this episode, I saw such a fun catch from Ed gets a grammar.
And here's what it says.
Can we start a George Foreman grill tracker?
It appears at least four times.
Ben Franklin, dinner party, dream team, and garage sale.
And obviously, the injury.
That's a lot. That's a lot of George Foreman grills.
And you know what? In deleted scenes, we find out that Jim has a George Foreman grill, too.
Listen to this. I've had a Foreman grill for about six years.
I've done about 85 % of my cooking on it.
But I've never burnt myself, probably because I don't use it as a pillow.
Well, lady, I mean, I feel like everybody had a George Foreman grill.
I had a George Foreman grill.
I did, too. I cooked a lot of things on it, particularly...
Burgers. I did burgers.
Yes, turkey. I would do, like, a turkey patty.
A turkey patty, yeah.
When you're a single person, it's great.
And it's very easy to cook for one on a George Foreman grill.
Yeah. Sam, you're nodding.
Oh, yeah. Big George Foreman guy.
Do you still have it?
No, no, no. I don't have mine.
Why don't I? I think it's something you grow out of in your 30s.
Is that what it is?
Yeah. Do people today, do the youngins today get the George Foreman grill?
That's a good question.
Like for their dorm room and stuff?
I don't know. Is it a college buy for your first apartment?
I don't know. I mean, imagine what you could cook with a mini fridge, a George Foreman grill, and a microwave.
Or a hot plate as well.
Well, Jim cooked 85 percent of his meals on the George Foreman grill.
Well, lady, when we recorded this episode, we got into a whole conversation about how people eat string cheese.
We sure did. We learned from a scene with Ryan and Toby in the kitchen that Ryan just goes for it.
And you know what? I do, too.
I just bite into it.
but lady you like to you like to like really eat it in the little stringy strips as the name suggests i didn't know i was such a like a rule breaker well after this episode aired people weighed in we put a poll in our instagram and 72 of you guys string it and 28 dive in And so clearly the stringets have it.
I mean, there you go.
72 % of us are normal and 28 % of people are chaos.
You know what? Bring it.
You know what I think?
Bring that chaos. Here's what I want to know.
How many people who just chomp their string cheese also have 3 ,000 emails in their inbox?
Is there a correlation?
Can we do that study?
Sam, do you, I can't remember if we talked about this in the breakdown, do you chomp it or string it?
Oh, I string. You string and how many emails at a time do you have in your mailbox?
Unread? Yeah. Zero.
Cassie? I also string it currently three unread emails.
Oh, I have, I have hit on something here.
What have you hit on?
Tell me. If you chomp your string cheese, you also don't look at your emails.
You leave them in your inbox.
You have thousands of emails unread in your inbox guess what else you are what not superior to others or are you guess what said with superiority guess what you don't judge and you let people live live your life are you really living yes i am with 10 000 emails aren't you buried no i'm not and isn't
that wonderful i want you to take a real good look at my face right now this is someone who gives zero f**k.
Well, I thought we could wrap up this second drink with a deleted talking head from Michael Scott.
He shares how he likes to wind down after a long day.
I always keep a stash of bubble wrap in my house.
Some days, hectic, tiring days, I just like to go home and zone out, click on the tube.
Pop a few. Very soothing.
Want to try? I mean, it cracked me up and I love that he looks right at the camera operator and goes, want to try?
Like really earnestly, like this could help you too.
Oh my goodness. Oh Michael.
Everyone, that is our second drink and now here is The Injury.
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.
Hi everybody, welcome today.
We are talking about the injury.
Good morning. And you know what, Angela has an injury.
I do. I do. Speaking of injuries, guys, I was driving yesterday and I was chewing a piece of gum.
I was popping my gum.
And I bit the shiitake out of my tongue.
It's so bad. Look at it.
No, it's really bad.
It's a rave bump. And I keep bonking it when I talk.
So it's super intense.
It's really painful.
So if during this podcast, all of a sudden, And I go, it's because I bonked it.
Yeah. What's wrong with me?
I can't chew gum and drive.
I was like, I was on the phone with Josh.
And I was like, and another thing.
Ah! Oh, my God. It's really bad.
I know. It really hurts.
Okay. This episode was written by Mindy Kaling and directed by Brian Gordon.
It is season two, episode 12.
Wow. Yeah. So we're on the second half of season two now.
There were 22 episodes in season two.
We've done 18 podcasts.
Yeah. When we hit 20, let's have a party.
Okay. Like, I don't know, like I'll bring cupcakes or something.
Why 20? I don't know.
I think we should have a party for casino night.
End of season two. Let's have a party for number 23.
Let's have a party every time.
Random numbers. We don't need a reason to have a party.
That's right. Let me do a summary.
i can't even i just start to look at my summary that i've written and it makes me laugh this is one of your very favorite episodes people should know that you bought a shirt jenna because of this episode and you wore it all the time i bought it off etsy it was a foot and a grill and a grilled foot it
was like a comic book strip of a person grilling their foot i mean okay here it is.
Here's the summary.
I can't even say it.
It's so funny to me.
Michael accidentally steps on his George Foreman grill, injuring his foot.
Dwight attempts to rescue Michael and crashes his car into a pool, causing what we will find out to be a concussion.
During the workday, the staff does not dote on Michael as he had expected, and Dwight's concussion sparks an unexpected friendship with Pam.
Aww. You guys must have had so much fun doing that.
Oh, I loved it. I had so many scenes, just me and Rain, and we bonded so much.
Whenever you get put in a scene with someone, that means you're gonna work with them for about three or four hours that day exclusively, and whenever they're you know, having their conversations about how the scene is going or in the breaks, you get to just chitty -chat.
You get to just hang out.
So I got to chitty -chat a lot with Rain, but I just love also, I just love working with Rain.
I mean, you were so fortunate.
You got to work with him all the time.
All the time. All right.
Should we get into the fast facts?
All right. Fast fact number one, this script was originally going to be called My Grilled Foot.
My Grilled Foot, but then they changed it.
So this is a standalone comedic episode that does not forward the Jim Pam storyline in any way, which was a little bit controversial because our last episode was booze cruise, which was a huge bombshell confession by Jim to Michael that he is in love or that he has feelings for Pam.
And so everyone tuned in to see what was going to happen.
And guess what? We did not answer that question in any way.
In any way. So I'm sure like the fans were like, what the heck?
Yeah. It does move forward Dwight and Angela a little bit.
It does. I have that down.
It contains references to the Dwight -Angela love story, which was nice.
it was like this was i i mean we'll get to it but there are some moments in here that i just love yeah with dwight angela i don't know me too this was also our highest rated episode so far what yeah i think a lot of people tuned in after booze cruise i think so and what a great episode though i mean i
know we didn't maybe give people what they were hoping to see with the cliffhanger but But we, I mean, comedy gold.
We gave him comedy gold.
Steve is so funny in this.
Oh, my gosh. He is the worst patient, the worst.
And he made me laugh so hard.
Fast fact number two, guest star Marcus York played our building manager, Billy Merchant.
Now, I have to imagine this was a nod to creator of the British office, Stephen Merchant.
I think that's where we grabbed that last name.
Oh, yeah. I didn't mean anything about that.
When we named Billy Merchant.
Yeah. I feel like that's true.
I got to talk to Marcus yesterday.
Marcus, thanks so much for taking time out of your day.
And here are a few things he shared with me.
Okay. So he auditioned for Allison, Mindy, and Greg, and he said it went really, really well.
He was really excited.
You know that moment where you have a great meeting or a great audition?
Yeah. He said that's how it felt.
He had been in LA as a working actor for a while.
And he said, this is one that I was like, ooh, ooh, I think I got it.
And he said that Greg jumped up and shook his hand.
and he was like okay and then he was running errands he was at home depot and he got the call that he got it and his agent was like you got it and he's like wait a second i'm in home depot i have to call you back so he said he'll always remember that and then he said the night before he had to come
in he was nervous and he got like no sleep he said i got zero sleep he said so then the next day i was freaking out because i hadn't gotten any sleep and you know it's like hard to remember your lines or anything so he was like I was really trying to wing it and I said well we couldn't tell at all like
you were just such a cool customer you had your lines you were like totally ready to go he said Ange I was like going on no sleep oh my god that happens to me always before a shoot yeah or a big day right like whenever I have a big day it's hard to sleep and then he said the thing he wasn't prepared for and this really
made me laugh he said the conference room is so small.
He said, it's so small.
And he goes, and there were so many of you in such a small room.
And him and Steve were at the front of the room.
So we're all looking at them.
And he said, the room was so tiny.
And he said, and you guys had crammed so many people in there.
And that actually really made me laugh.
And then the one other thing he said he remembered from the set, A, he said we were all really nice.
Oh, that's good. That's good.
But he also said the food was awesome yeah he said you guys know you had really good food right we did i was like yeah that that is true my dad said the same thing after visiting he was like man the food we really did we had really good food oh that is so nice yes it was a delight talking to him and i'm
i have a few other things as the episode goes okay i love that i love that all right Should we do fast fact number three?
Do it. I feel like I need to tell you I ran out of fast facts for this episode.
What? I ran out. This is one of your favorite episodes.
I know. How can you?
There's only three.
There's only three.
How do you run out?
Well, I did. And you're going to see.
Here is all I could come up with.
Drum roll. Oh, I can't.
My tongue. Ow. Oh. Injury.
Injury. Go. We filmed this episode November 2005.
I know this because I saved the script and it's typed on the front.
Okay. Well, listen.
As far as your delivery of that fast fact.
Yeah. You could have been like, guys, I saved the script.
Oh, let me do it again then.
Are you ready? Here.
Here's me. Fast fact number three.
I saved the script.
Oh my God. That's amazing.
Oh yeah, that's good.
See, you turned it around.
That's better. Okay.
Yeah. All right. Well, that's it.
Let's get into it. Should we start breaking down the episode?
We usually take a break first.
Okay. We haven't been talking that long.
Do you want to take a break?
I don't know. It's just what we usually do.
I could put some numbing stuff on my tongue.
I don't know how that's going to work out for the rest of the episode, though.
It would be very interesting.
All right, we'll be back to break down the episode.
We'll be right back.
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All right, we're back talking about the injury.
Angela has an injury.
Let's get started. This episode opens with what I believe is one of the greatest scenes ever in a television comedy.
and i feel similarly about the opening scene of fleabag season two as i feel about this i haven't seen season two of fleabag sorry is this going to be a problem what friendship is this wait wait wait is this a game of thrones moment for you yeah i told
