Stephen Colbert as Andy’s murder accomplice?
Michael Scott getting crucified?!
We exclusively reveal the weirdest stuff The Office’s writers nearly pulled off.
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basically every Christmas episode!
It was called “Pet Day,” where everyone took their pets to the office.
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I can’t remember much about it, but it was funny.
I think Michael had a parrot namedJim Carrey.
The show has changed too much now.
It wouldn’t play."
There were a few seasons where we were like, “There’s always ‘Pet Day’!”
whenever we’d get into trouble.
HALSTED SULLIVAN:We talked about maybe there’s another company that moves into the building.
We had tried to break what it could be.
Is it like a high-end stationery company or something like that?
But it just didn’t really gain that much traction.
WARREN LIEBERSTEIN:We thought of one called “Premonition.”
So everyone kind of stayed late, but we never figured it out.
It would almost be a real-time episode.
AARON SHURE:I had a crazy pitch that never got in but I kept pitching.
It was that Michael Scott gets accidentally crucified.
But obviously no one ever took that one on.
I really wanted to tell that story.
And maybe Angela actually freezes at her desk for a tiny bit.
Maybe that was a little bit broad.
Oh, and I was always fascinated with the idea of Michael coming down with ennui.
He’s just very lackadaisical and just kind of blah.
Then maybe it would get into a philosophical area of, what’s the point of all this?
Basically, Andy unwittingly had been part of sort of a murder silence pact.
[“Here Comes Treble” aired in season 9, minus the murder-pact subplot.]
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