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Last week, we joined in on a conference call with two of the lovely, hilarious actresses that make The Office cast
one of the funniest and most cohesive on television.
Ellie Kemper (Erin) and Angela Kinsey (Angela) spoke to reporters about their characters’ singing careers, baby-making plans and more. We’ve included a few excerpts from the chat below:
Kemper, on joining the show: It is strange to have watched a show on your futon for five years and then to be on it is completely surreal. And I think that it’s so weird because I go to work and I see these people every day so now I’m like, you know, they’re real people… but everyone couldn’t couldn’t be warmer.
Kemper, on more hits from Subtle Sexuality: I am a big fan. I’ve been wondering the same thing. I’ve heard rumors that they are going to write another song and maybe make another video, but I’m not sure that those rumors are accurate.
Kinsey, on Angela as a mother: I can’t imagine Angela Martin as a mother I would love to see her try to nurture a human. I think that would be a lot of fun to watch her go through those motions…. it definitely would be a great idea.
Kinsey, on Erin dating Andy: I love the Andy and Erin. Like there’s such a sweet innocence about them. I mean, they’re kind of both buffoons… [on a future episode], you see a whole another side of Ellie’s character…. And it’s hysterical.
Kemper and Kinsey star in the latest Office Webisode, “The Mentor.”
The Office
will welcome baby Pam / baby Jim a week sooner.
Instead of airing a two-part story over two weeks for Pam’s (Jenna Fischer) delivery, the two episodes will now air as an hour-long show on March 4, the show’s first after its two-week Winter Olympics hiatus.
According to NBC, the first half of the hour (”The Delivery Part 1″) will feature Jim (John Krasinski) and Pam waiting as long as possible to go to the hospital after contractions start – some complication with insurance, maybe – so they can have more time there after the baby is born.
Dutifully, the Dunder Mifflin people try to help by distracting her from the pain.
On the second part (”The Delivery Part 2″) will find Michael (Steve Carell) nervous as hell as he awaits news of the birth. Judging from how invested he was on the Office couple’s Niagara wedding, he’ll probably barge into the delivery room itself.
Elsewhere on the second part, Andy (Ed Helms) gets jealous when Erin (Ellie Kemper) goes out to lunch with Kevin (Brian Baumgartner). The Office showrunner Paul Lieberstein previously revealed that the big Andy-Erin date will
take place on the show’s March 11 episode. Does this mean the second part of this two-hour affair?
When The Office returns this week before its two-week break with “Manager and Salesman” Scranton is eager to welcome Sabre CEO Jo Bennett (Kathy Bates), which so far we’ve only seen via webcam. When she finds out there are two branch managers, however, she thinks either Michael or Jim should return to being a salesman.
NBC will broadcast the highly anticipated baby episode of “The Office” as a special one-hour show on Thursday, March 4 (9-10 p.m. ET) rather than as two separate half-hour episodes over two weeks as previously announced.
In the special hour-long episode of “The Office” titled “The Delivery Part 1 and 2,” Pam’s (Jenna Fischer) contractions begin but she and Jim (John Krasinski) are determined to wait it out as long as possible so they can have more time at the hospital. Meanwhile the rest of the office tries to distract Pam from the pain with food and entertainment.
In the second half hour, Michael (Golden Globe winner Steve Carell) anxiously waits for Pam and Jim’s baby to be born. Back at the office, Erin (Ellie Kemper) makes Andy (Ed Helms) jealous when she has lunch with Kevin (Brian Baumgartner).
So far, this season of The Office had been marked with extreme happiness (Jim and Pam’s wedding) and extreme uncertainty (DM bankruptcy). In between there were funny stuff (the murder game episode) and not-so-funny things (Scott’s tots).
With some weeks to go before the NBC comedy returns next year, let’s list down the five things The Office fans can expect next year.
1. Jim and Pam’s Baby
Of course after the success of Jim (John Krasinski) and Pam’s (Jenna Fischer) wedding, the next step is the baby, set to be born sometime in February. The Office people have said that the baby won’t be a big part of the show (it’s The Office, after all), but it’s still exciting how a little Jim or a little Pam will figure into their whole relationship.
Though there are those fans who are of the opinion that the Jim and Pam relationship (which was several seasons in the making) reached a plateau when they got married. Maybe the baby and the new pressures that come with it will revitalize this Office couple?
2. Erin and Andy
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Can Andy (Ed Helms) and Erin (Ellie Kemper) compare with Jim and Pam? Probably not, but just the same, with the resident Office goofball couple already happily coupled, we need our constant flirting fix! This was weird/awkward in the making, but something tells us it’s going to be a nice enough thing after a while.
Erin as a character shows a lot of promise – something deathly obvious with her Subtle Sexuality webisodes with Kelly (Mindy Kaling) – and with her unraveling, she’s definitely a perfect match for Andy. They can sing/invent songs while picking stuff in the vending machine or something.
3. The Buyout
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OK, this storyline has been a real downer, but we know it’s not going to happen. Now that a buyout is going to resolve it, it’s still fun to see how this whole thing’s going to play out. For one thing, we know that them Dunder Mifflin executives are getting the axe, including David Wallace, who’d been there since the beginning.
4. Dwight’s Diabolical Plan
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As Dwight (Rainn Wilson) wrote himself on his Diabolical Blog, the
plan is on hold for the holidays – which explains why he was up to no shenanigans on the Christmas episode. As we have seen, however, Dwight is very scary/downright menacing when he sets his sight on something. So far we have seen, among others, a bugged mallard as a decoy and a flawed employee of the month program. What will he come up with next? With Ryan (BJ Novak) in his team, sky’s the limit.
5. Oscar’s Crush
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We only got a teeny winy peek at Matt, that cute gay warehouse guy Oscar (Oscar Nunez) has been eyeing, and it has definitely left us craving for more.
The Office returns January 21 with possibly a clip show.
Ever feel like Erin (Ellie Kemper) and Andy (Ed Helms) are following the sort of cutesy path of the now married Jim (John Krasinski) and Pam (Jenna Fischer) on The Office? The show’s main couple, after all, finally tied the knot this season after several seasons of flirting and is actually expecting their first baby this February – or babies.
Office big boss Greg Daniels begs off this comparison between the two couples, adding that Andy or Erin aren’t very smart fellows, and are therefore prone to more fun stuff.
“They’re very different characters than Jim and Pam,” he tells TV Guide. “Jim and Pam were reasonable and were smarter than the room. I don’t think anyone thinks that Andy or Erin is smarter than the room. They do like each other though… For now, Andy and Erin will be more about the funny things that happen as they fumble toward a relationship.”
Kemper, 29, was the latest introduction to The Office cast this season, as replacement to Pam when she left her receptionist job to join breakaway Michael’s (Steve Carell) Michael Scott Paper Company. Her character used to have little to no speaking lines (and personality), until recently when her character started being integrated to the storylines.
On “Murder” Andy asked her out, and she said yes, but it was all in the guise of the game they were playing. It was obvious, however, that both wanted the invitation to mean the real thing.
Are you missing some Kelly (Mindy Kaling) and Ryan (B.J. Novak) on The Office? Or excited over the budding romance between Andy (Ed Helms) and Erin (Ellie Kemper)? Then better tune in on the upcoming episodes of the NBC comedy – except this week, the next one airs next week – to see what’s new on the love lives of members of the brand new girl group Subtle Sexuality.
Kaling for her part says they’ll be more of the make out session seen on the second of the Subtle Sexuality series.
“We just have this back and forth,” she says, “but it’s kind of like an abusive relationship in a way. It’s so much fun.” On a little side note: Subtle Sexuality as seen on the little webisodes will not be integrated in the main story Office arc. Office boss Greg Daniels, however likes the series so much that it’s very possible that they’ll do more.
Now the other, much newer Office coupling also looks promising. Kemper herself tells E! Online that there is “definitely” a romance blossoming between her Erin and Andy. Kaling tells fans to wait until the second week of December, for the show’s Christmas episode, when things finally come to fruition and where we’ll see “some great development between Andy and Erin.”
