There’s just so many candy bags to draw from that he carries around that I was worried that if we gave him the boss position it would just be disastrous. He’s like this weird amalgam of Mennonite and Star Trek nerd. Mark Proksch (Nate Nickerson, Seasons 7-9): I think if Dwight had become the boss it would have opened up a lot of interesting doors and story lines.Īaron Shure (Writer, Seasons 5-8): I did not think Dwight should be the boss because I think Dwight is not as benign as Michael Scott. Trae Patton/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal/Getty Images It just seemed like it suggested more stories to me.Įd Helms as Andy Bernard and Rainn Wilson as Dwight Schrute in ‘The Office.’ Photo credit: Trae Patton/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal/Getty Images I think people would have been more excited to see Dwight as the boss because he’d been wanting it for so long. He’s such a people pleaser, but Michael is a people pleaser. I don’t think I could see yet what Andy would bring to the table that felt distinct with him being the boss. Justin Spitzer (Writer, Seasons 3-9): I remember a lot of discussion about what we should do. “Should it be someone from the outside or someone from the inside? Who should it be? Who’s the best person on the inside?”Īmelie Gillette (Writer, Seasons 7-8): There was ultimately a big Dwight camp and there was a big Andy camp. On a meta level it was like, “Do we want to bring in a brand-new actor, a big star, or do we want to sort of cultivate the people that people already know and love?” There was also a real aspect where we asked, “What would be happening at the office itself?” Ultimately what we decided to do was have the process play out in the office because that is what would happen. I wasn’t alone in that, but there were definitely different sides.ĭanny Chun (Writer, Seasons 6-8): One of the big debates that took place was, “Should it be someone inside the office or should it be someone new?” That was a really big one. I thought he occupied a very particular position in the office dynamic and it would be better to pull somebody in from the outside and just own that, rather than simply saying we’ll just fill it from inside. Peter Ocko (Writer, Season 7): I felt very strongly that you couldn’t replace Michael with another member of the ensemble. But, you know, that didn’t get that much traction. It becomes a black office, and you’d just go from there. And you just bring in all these black comedians. Halsted Sullivan (Writer, Seasons 5-9): I pitched the idea of, “What if Queen Latifah becomes the manager?” Slowly, one by one, she starts firing all the employees. It remains family-run.This excerpt is from from The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s by Andy Greene, to be published March 24th by Dutton, an imprint of the Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. Amelie Gilletteīrooklyn’s landmark diner opened in 1950, and was restored after nearly being destroyed by a fire in 1981. That “We were here then, we’re here now, and we’re not going anywhere soon” swagger is what keeps the tourists and locals coming back for more. Where Junior’s has the competition beat is attitude. The food–classic New York deli, stick-to-your-ribs fare like matzo ball soup and giant 10-ounce burgers and fries–is perfectly passable, but certainly nothing special. But for the most part, a trip to Junior’s is simply nostalgia for nostalgia’s sake. The loud red and orange façade–as well as the restaurant behind it–have remained largely unchanged since Junior’s opening day in 1950–and that’s just the way the patrons (a mix of BAM movie-goers, office drones from the Verizon building across the street, and Brooklyn nostalgia-hounds) like it. Plopped on a far corner of busy Flatbush Ave., Junior’s is as renowned for its world-famous cheesecake as it is for its mere survival.
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