First date: chili.

Second date: another alcohol.

Plenty of characters got together throughoutThe Office’snine seasons, but fans were deprived of the perfect coupleKevin and Erin.

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“Do you know that I pitched Kevin and Erin getting together?”

Baumgartner asked Kemper, who served as a guest on Tuesday’s podcast episode.

“I think that would be a pretty reasonable relationship,” she responded.

Baumgartner said he felt the two oddballs' personalities made them compatible “in a weird way.”

“Their energies matched in a weird way.”

“That actually makes perfect sense to me.

I love that pitch,” Kemper said.

“I felt like Andy was a bit too childish,” the actress said.

“He wasn’t ready to take care of Erin.

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