Tuesday, August 28th, 2007 | 96 comments
Notes
- Commentary for ‘The Coup.’ Rainn, John, and Angela provide some hilarious insights into Dwight eating pancakes, Steve’s “demonic” performance in the Crentist scene, and the flight path of Dwight’s drool.
- Commentary for ‘Initiation.’ This commentary takes on an entirely different mood — somewhat somber. B.J. talks about some of the challenges of writing this episode. There is a funny story about Paley at the end.
- Commentary for ‘Traveling Salesmen’/'The Return.’ The guys discuss how the photo of young Dwight/Jim was created, the “realness” of Jim slapping Dwight, the technical aspects of how the car scenes were shot, the genius behind Jim and Dwight’s sales pitch, the origin of Andy’s Rockin’ Robin ringtone, the consequences of Ed punching the wall, and Dwight’s pinata rampage.
- Commentary for ‘Business School.’ Writer Brent Forrester and gang chat about collaborating with director Joss Whedon, the venue and students at Michael’s business school lecture, the excitement behind filming Dwight, Meredith, and the bat, and the touching moments of the ‘heart scene.’ Brent was awesomely insightful. (When’s your turn, Michael Schur?)
- Commentary for ‘Safety Training.’ B.J. and Mindy talk about the long history behind the episode, the debate over the long-sleeved T, the risk behind all the betting scenes, needling Harold Ramis about his sordid past, Kelly’s beautiful Netflix explanation, testing the bouncy castles, the truth about John’s hair, and Jim and Pam parenting Michael off the roof.
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where is the kevin cooks special feature? I can’t seem to find it!
I dont know if its just me, but during bloopers it often appears that BJ looks quite unnerved when they mess up.
What do you think?
Melora does talk a lot, but nobody said anything during the job commentary. Everybody spent a ton of time just watching the episode. John especially was much less charming than he’s been in the past. As a whole, I was pretty underwhelmed by the commentaries this time around. I don’t know, maybe it was the fact that some of them had people in different rooms/on the phone, so it was harder for people to interact.
i have to agree with some of the comments about the commentaries. I too waas a little disappointed. I was expecting them to be as enthusiastic as they were in the previous collections. oh well. also, there was a lot of really sweet moments in the deleted scenes between karen and jim that made me like their relationship more. scary thought. All in all, pretty great dvd.
This hurts me to say it but I was pretty let down with the commentaries. I can’t really put my finger on it but I felt they were of a different vibe than the past two seasons’ commentaries, but I guess that coincides with the different vibe season 3 had overall.
Although I will say that the Safety Training commentary where BJ was embarrassed by Mindy prodding into Harold’s past was priceless.
Rachel, I couldn’t agree more. Just finished watching The Job with the commentaries, hoping to hear what John and Jenna had to say about that incredible final scene with the two of them and Melora just kept talking. She tends to do that on any episode she does commentary on. But I loved all the deleted scenes and bloopers. Can’t wait for Season 4!
I just finished watching/listening to all of the commentaries. What I am wondering is, was anyone else disappointed with the Job commentary? Although I love Melora Hardin to death, it seems like on every commentary I’ve heard her on she does not know when to shut up. I feel like she ruined the end and didn’t allow for Jenna or John to add more of their comments on what it was like for them to shoot that last scene together. Oh well, they were still great commentaries though. I just love the Job so much that I was saddened that she talked through most of it.
You’re welcome, _bales! I’m just glad that at least one person found this info helpful. Less than 48 hours to go…can’t wait! =)
silsont, thank you so much for compiling all the information regarding the various DVD sets!
If anybody is still reading this post, we finally know what the details and pricing of the upcoming Season 3 Exclusives:
Both Best Buy and Target will have the standard edition DVD’s priced at $32.99. Best Buy also has a “Welcome Aboard Kit” which includes a Dundie Award, Dwight Schrute mini-bobblehead and welcome aboard letter all packaged in a mini-cardboard box. This edition is on sale this week for $42.99. Expect it to go up to $49.99 next Sunday.
As for Target, they have a Deluxe Edition for $37.99 which comes w/, “Q&A with the cast and crew at the Museum of Television and Radio.” And judging by the ad, it will come packaged in a either a pictured or actual paperbag labeled “Nifty Gifty.” Very cool!
Bottomline: For $10 more at Best Buy you get 3 exclusive items in an exlusive box and for $5 more at Target you get (most likely) a bonus DVD w/ footage from Paley in a neatly decorated DVD case.
Myself, I’m getting both exclusives. YAY!!
NOTE: Target exclusive is only in stores as any DVD you buy via target.com is processed and shipped by amazon.com.
So far my favorite deleted scene is one where Stanly and Michael eat a pretzel together, and also one where Jan moves into Michael’s condo at the end of The Job. There is also some fun deleted bits with the woman who had the baby earlier on in the season. She does a breast pump at the office, and Karen walks by and asks her to put her “Udder” away. Funny stuff…also, there is a fun exchange with said woman and Jim where she shows him a baby-in-bathtub picture, then warns him “May contain nudity” Jim says that’s ok, then sees that it’s her husband that is nude, because he is in the bathtub with the baby. Another funny scene involves Ryan doing an inner monologue during Initiation, and then in an office first, there is some Office unblurred nudity in the Schrute graveyard of this episode. We finally DO see the teenager’s using Dwight’s beet farm for sex. And no, you don’t really see anything. I think this specific one was on the internet, but it was really blurry. :-)
Got any more questions for me?
that1guypictures, what did you think of the deleted scenes and commentaries? Did you have any favorites?
Jay, here’s the breakdown as I know it, but nothing will be confirmed (for me) until I see the Sunday ads:
Best Buy: Standard Edition and Collector’s Edition (Dundie Award, mini Dwight Bobblehead, etc.) in a box set similar to Season 2’s Collector’s Edition.
Target: Not positive, but if the Heroes Deluxe Target Exclusive is any indication, it should come w/ a Bonus Disc w/ footage from the Paley Festival (Q&A w/ cast, producer’s, etc.). The Heroes Bonus Disc from Paley was 45 minutes long. And of course the Standard Edition.
Amazon.com: Standard Edition. I’ve never seen Amazon have any kind of exclusive DVD.
NOTE: Target.com’s DVD section is esentially Amazon.com. So, if you order any DVD online from Target it will be processed and shipped by Amazon. Target.com = Amazon.com = Standard Edition
Hope this helps!
To answer everyone’s questions,
“Dunder Mifflin this is Pam” and the “Magic Beans” are no where to be found on MY discs. Maybe they are on yours. Also…for some reason, “Traveling Salesmen” & “The Return” have been edited into one episode. No cutting was made, but they are put together.
There is 160 minutes of Deleted Scenes.
The gag reel is 13 minutes.
My only complaint about this set is that if there was a multiple cut version of each episode (Producer’s cut, or a “NewPeat”) each episode is only included in one form. (Usually the Producer’s cut if one exists.)
What are the differences between the Target, Best Buy, and Amazon.com editions?
reply to 74: the one from the target site looks like the normal edition only, and i don’t think they ship to canada anyway
for everyone who already pre-ordered season 4 on Amazon.com, you can cancel it if you want the Target or Best-Buy version…I just did! Sorry Amazon! It’s funny though because there’s kind of a price war going on with it, when I first pre-ordered it was aroung $37 and when I went to cancel it, it was at $31. I’m still shelling out more for the Target one though!
No one pronounces Susquehanna like “Susquehawna” in this area — I’m from Wilkes-Barre.
77 - I echo that question. The magic beans talking head is one of my favorites.
To those who have achieved this Holy Grail-
Are Jim’s “magic beans” and Pam’s “maybe that’ll stop now” talking heads included in the deleted scenes of Branch Closing since they were replaced in the producer’s cut?