So deleted scenes DO count
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- February
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It’s been a debate in The Office fandom ever since NBC.com started posting snippets of unused episode footage: are deleted scenes part of the canon?
Producer Greg Daniels’s decision to post a director’s cut of Jan. 18’s “The Return� sparked a the debate anew.
It wasn’t exactly a deleted scene, but the bonus cut included a new ending in which Ed Helms’s character Andy checks into an anger management program after his wall-smashing office outburst. Karen (Rashida Jones) even mentioned Andy’s whereabouts in last week’s “Cocktails.â€? But if you only saw the broadcast version of the episode, you’d have assumed Andy had been fired.
Daniels addressed the issue in an interview in today’s Star-Ledger. (Thanks to OfficeTally.com for the tip.)
“Daniels is rare among producers in his belief that the deleted scenes have as much validity as the ones that made it to air, explaining, “For the writers, in our minds, those scenes have happened. We wrote them, we shot them, and at the last minute, I cut them in the editing room, but we’re relying on them anyway for the mythology of the show.”
That jibes with his admission to Variety.com last month that he relies on the online clips to tell aspects of the story that don’t fit into 22 minutes of airtime.
With that said, we now know Toby and Oscar did in fact have an awkward breakroom chat in “The Return�, Pam and Jim did rummage Dwight’s trash to find his alternate office signs in “Health Care� (Dwight Schrute Privates???) and the ladies did in fact harass Ben Franklin about his extra-marital dalliances in “Ben Franklin.�
I just can’t promise it’s worth watching that painfully lame “Reno 911� trailer umpteen times to learn all that
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