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Jenna speaks about episode 13

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

SPOILER WARNING! Post and subsequent comments will contain spoilers.

Jenna Fischer speaks about episode 13, the episode they were about to shoot when the WGA strike started:

With the current AMPTP/WGA talks being called “substantive,” doesn’t this make you a little hopeful? January. Cross your fingers for January.

Source: Bill McCleary

More details after the jump.

NBC’s The Office got closed for business after airing 12 of its scheduled 28 episodes. Jenna Fischer, known to millions as “Pam,” tells us, “The 13th episode, which is the episode we were shooting when we got shut down, is maybe the funniest episode I’ve ever read. It’s a plot line that the writers have been talking about for two years. It’s a great, great episode where ‘Michael’ (Steve Carell) throws a dinner party. It’s been the dinner-party episode that we’ve all been talking about off camera for years. We love the idea of going to his condo for a dinner party.”

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  1. #36 crookedlawyer:

    Do you think the George Forman grill will make a reappearance?

    42 | Vampire-Bat Jim  Sat. Dec. 8, 2007 at 12:00pm

  2. do i smell a glimmer of hope?!

    41 | JumboChalk  Sat. Dec. 8, 2007 at 7:03am

  3. WooHoo! Now I am really hopeful. That makes me so happy.

    (crosses fingers) Come one WGA! Get those corporate hounds to give up the goods! (uncrosses fingers).

    40 | Cayce80  Fri. Dec. 7, 2007 at 2:20pm

  4. Now I am sure Jenna knows, but I thought there were 30 episodes this season?

    39 | BrokenBrain  Fri. Dec. 7, 2007 at 9:42am

  5. I cannot wait for Michael’s dinner party. And 32, you are so right. Toby will be dissed. Meaning he will not receive an e-vitation.

    38 | Mintdwight?  Thu. Dec. 6, 2007 at 7:11pm

  6. Yeah. My heart skipped a beat when I saw the spoiler warning. It reminds me of older, simpler times when I wasn’t dead inside and The Office was still on.

    37 | leslie  Thu. Dec. 6, 2007 at 7:11pm

  7. Please, please — tell me Michael tries to cook. Out of a Rachel Ray cookbook. And then pulls a Mrs. Doubtfire and dumps takeout on nice plates.

    36 | crookedlawyer  Thu. Dec. 6, 2007 at 6:30pm

  8. Aww man I saw spoiler warning and thought I was going to getting something juicy! We all know that this was supposed to be the funniest yet.

    35 | Angie  Thu. Dec. 6, 2007 at 5:52pm

  9. Hey Corporate Booty (#25)- nice catch on comment #7!

    34 | YankeeSwap  Thu. Dec. 6, 2007 at 5:31pm

  10. Yes, but Jenna Fischer always says that the episodes are “the funniest ones ever,” and I never agree lol.

    33 | Lilly  Thu. Dec. 6, 2007 at 5:16pm

  11. I bet Michael doesn’t invite Toby to the party. In some horribly rude way.

    32 | reneedo  Thu. Dec. 6, 2007 at 5:12pm

  12. This isn’t making the wait any easier :/ oh well, at least we will get to see it eventually, even if it means 2008.

    31 | joy  Thu. Dec. 6, 2007 at 4:36pm

  13. 22 - yes the hour longs are each counted as two half hours.

    I think the hour longs worked so well though that it wouldn’t surprise me if next year the show moves permanently to that format.

    30 | DrunkBiking  Thu. Dec. 6, 2007 at 4:10pm

  14. All I know is that I want the strike to be over. I miss my office thursdays. I dont want to see reruns, for that I’ll just watch my dvds.

    29 | esther  Thu. Dec. 6, 2007 at 3:07pm

  15. As far as how they have gotten to 12 aired episodes, NBC has stated that the hour long episodes would count for 2 episodes each.

    28 | Derrick W  Thu. Dec. 6, 2007 at 2:32pm

  16. #22 - perhaps she was referring to the 4 hour long episodes as 2 eps each. That would be the 12 count so far.

    27 | rspad  Thu. Dec. 6, 2007 at 2:12pm

  17. Wow Tanster. The news seems ordinary, but is that a new OfficeTally theme music? I was blown away.

    26 | Barry  Thu. Dec. 6, 2007 at 2:00pm

  18. #7 - that’s what she said

    25 | Corporate Booty  Thu. Dec. 6, 2007 at 1:38pm

  19. They are tantalizing us!!!!! It is not fair!!!!!

    24 | McKenna  Thu. Dec. 6, 2007 at 12:32pm

  20. I’m a little unsure what to believe about episode 13. They are making a big fuss about it being great. Part of me thinks its just a way to get fans to support the writers more. I don’t know, when we see the episode I hope to be proven wrong. I have been waiting too long for a great episode.

    23 | COLEreport  Thu. Dec. 6, 2007 at 12:24pm

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