Wendy McLendon-Covey

And every show sort of has an area.

And our areas often ended up being near each other and at least ended up being sort of shared real estate.

It was a very cool relationship between the groups.

Those Mad Men after parties sometimes.

I mean, every show has sort of.

The people that you're always like, I can't believe they watch our show.

And I know you guys had that, too.

It was very strange times.

Well, this is this is going to be this is this is the meaty part of the conversation, I suppose.

I the way it was pitched to me was, you know, this was the beginning of season five, obviously.

And the way it was pitched to me was that it would be.

Now, I should also clarify, especially if Mindy is listening, I'm not saying that Mindy pitched me anything.

It was conversational.

It was just sort of like, we think this is a character who's gonna be throughout this season.

We think it's a character that's gonna be kind of like Rashida's character was, where it might be a little bit of another road bump for Jim and Pam.

So when it started, that was definitely what was in my mind.

But we filmed scenes that didn't make it into the show.

And I started to kind of put together that the the response from the audience were so because your show, how long in advance did you guys shoot and then air?

Yeah.

It was enough time, or a short enough time, I should say, that the audience response to my first appearance had landed before I was filming Customer Survey.