The NBC's Hit Sitom "Office" goes in many directions during its nine seasonal escape. Michael Scott ends in the pond that. Dwight shoot gun in the office. Meredite is very realistically attacked by a bat. Despite the line of comedy gold, some funny scenes of the show have never seen the light of day until they were involved in deleted Superfan episodes and episodes. At other times, writing ideas were revealed by the cast and crew. For example, we learned The names of the children of Michael Scott When an ax was discovered on the "Office Ladies" podcast.

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And then, here are the deep things - things that the writers' room dreamed of and never had hoses (or approval) to put them on the screen. Most of this was lost in the ethers of television production, ie. Until several writers offered some juicy "they could have Bens" in the book "Office: The untold story of the biggest sitcom of the 2000s". In that world of Screenton Tom, we get a tone that-if scenarios, some of which enhance the mind. In their environment is a wild story of the whole episode that was written and never shot as a backup of "Break Glass in the case of emergency".

Here's what the writer Justin Astin Spitzer had to say (through EV) For the standing installment that writers have prepared to go in the event of an emergency:

There was a whole episode in a season that Greg (Daniels) wrote that they had never shot. We would always talk about how our "Break the Glass Episode" would do if we had ever been totally in trouble.

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Spitzer recalled some details of the theme of the episode and why never saw the light of day, also:

It was called "Pet Day", where everyone took their pets to the office. I can't remember much about it, but it was funny. I think Michael had a parrot named Jimim Kerry. There was a moment at some point in the run where we realized: "Okay, the characters and their situations have changed so much now that we can never, never make it a" pet day ". The show has changed too much now.

Despite the eventual inability to use the "pet day" script, writers have long taken comfort in the fact that they had an emergency episode to sleeves if needed. Spitzer said how much, ending his resume saying:

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There were several seasons where we were like, "there is always a" pet day "!" Whenever we faced problems.

While the episode "Pet Day" is a great idea that never got off the ground, there was much smaller (and often more beautiful) ideas that didn't get even traction. Writer Halsted Sullivan spoke about the attempt to integrate the "rebel" high-catching company into the five families of Scranton Business Park. Aaron Shurre shared for a constant breakthrough on the stage where Michael rubbed the garage door and ends up to look crucified (full of basketball rings like a crown of thorns).

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The writer and brother of actor Toby Flandson, Paul Libstein, Warren Libstein, also shared an underdeveloped idea of ​​an episode called "Warning" where someone has a dream that someone in the office died on the way home - and then no one wants to leave the job that day. Other ideas cover the gammat, from Philis that passes through menopause (and freezing the office in the process) to Michael descends with a bad case of Enui, and even discovering that Andy, unwittingly part of the silence pact for murder in relation to the deceased member of his carcass.

While every idea has its merits and it would be fun to see, there is no doubt that the editorial team has done its job well. The final intersection of most episodes (Even the least popular records, like "Take the Girl" of Season 8, "Take the Girl",) clearly contain the strongest concepts, modified to size and presented in a vigilant, fast format, head format, which maintained this iconic repetition show for a generation of television and counting.

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