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Chapter 1: What is the main theme of Stress Relief Part 2?
Welcome to your second drink of Stress Relief Part 2. Stanley is back to work after his heart attack, and there was a storyline that would have kicked off this episode that was added back to the Superfan episode that's really fun. Okay, people are sort of making a fuss over Stanley. You know, they're hovering over him. Phyllis has brought him lunch, and it's driving Stanley crazy. Let's listen.
I brought you some lunch, Stanley.
You did? Thank you. What is that?
It's three bean salad, cashew, and Brussels sprouts. Oh. If you don't like it, you don't have to eat it. No, I appreciate it.
Wow. You must be really freaked out to eat that. Long you had to live, anyway. Andy, please. Hey, whoa. What's going on? Stanley, you OK? I'm fine. God. Phyllis, did you take off your shoe?
It's Stanley's lunch.
Oh, no wonder you're dying. If you'll excuse me. Yep. Ready to go to the bathroom?
I am not going to the bathroom with you. Please stop trying to help me. Stanley, we just want you to get better. How can I get better? Since this happened, I haven't had a single moment where I haven't been reminded that I'm sick and probably going to die in this office. Not one single moment.
They're just like all on top of him. They will not let him have a moment's peace. And they keep reminding him of everything. So it was after this exchange that Michael gets the idea that he needs to do a roast for his employees. Yes. He needs to lighten the mood. And what better way than to have a roast?
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Chapter 2: How does Michael plan to relieve stress in the office?
Yes. Oh, my gosh. That is too funny. I loved it. OK, well, we also got this letter from Liz M. from Philly, who says, just listen to stress relief, please. And the second drink translate Oscars roast. So in our original breakdown, we played the extended version of Oscar's roast. It starts in English and then goes into Spanish. But we did not translate his roast.
Why don't we hear it again just to refresh everyone's memory? And then I'll tell you what it says.
He thinks balancing a checkbook is putting a checkbook on his nose and shouting, look at me, look at me. Me das una bursa cada vez que me despierto y tengo que venir para trabajar. Para ti, para ti.
OK, what is he saying, lady? So here's the thing, Liz. He is talking way too fast for me. The only part I could understand was pot of tea, pot of tea. But I went online and according to the folks on the Internet who were able to translate it, here's what Oscar is saying. They give you kind of two versions. Quote, I get an ulcer every time I wake up and have to come to work for you, for you.
Or optionally, you give me an ulcer every time I wake up and I have to come work for you, for you. So he gets an ulcer from Michael. Yep.
Mm hmm.
Well, speaking of the roast, in our breakdown, we mentioned that the candy bag for the roast was 207 pages. That's bonkers. Lady, I think we need an episode of Office Lady 6.0 called Boom Roasted, where we dig into some of those alts. That would be really fun. All right. Well, we'll get started on that. And for now, please enjoy your second drink of Stress Relief Part 2. I'm Jenna Fisher.
And I'm Angela Kinsey. We were on The Office together. And we're best friends. And now we're doing the Ultimate Office Rewatch Podcast just for you. Each week, we will break down an episode of The Office and give exclusive behind-the-scenes stories that only two people who were there can tell you. We're The Office Ladies. Welcome, welcome. It's stress relief, part two. Part deux.
Oh, we're going to be very refined today. Part dos. Oh, there are many more. Third language, Indonesian. Part dua. We are a classy show. This is Season 5, Episode 15, written by Paul Lieberstein, directed by Jeffrey Blitz.
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Chapter 3: What insights do the ladies share about sitcom vs single camera comedy?
Let me give you a summary. Last week, if you remember, Dwight took matters into his own hands when his co-workers failed to pay attention to his fire safety seminar. He did a big fire drill. He, like, trapped us in a burning building. He did. Stanley had a heart attack. Dwight was in hot water with corporate. We have that. Right.
This week, Michael learned that he was the source of Stanley's stress. Not Dwight, not the fire drill. And so he thinks the best thing to do is to throw a roast. Like an old school roast, right? For himself. Right? Yes. Yeah. Where we all roast him.
And we're laughing. Until jokes at his expense.
Yeah, drinking. Like Dean Martin. Yeah. This is Friars Club. This is going to be his comic relief moment. Meanwhile, Jim is still embroiled in these marital issues that Pam's parents are having. Pam's dad has been staying with Jim and Pam. And Pam, at the end of the last episode, said, Jim, will you talk to my dad? Ugh. Pam. Find out what's going on. That's the worst.
Like, Pam, will you go talk to my parents? Yeah. I can't do it. You go do it. I cannot imagine asking Lee to go talk to my parents about their marriage. Oh, my Lord. Could you imagine? No. That would be so weird. I know. Incidentally, my dad's name is Jim. Does the world know that? Because is someone out there right now being like, what? And my brother-in-law's name is Dwight. Yes.
Do you guys know this? And my niece's name is Cece. And her best friend is named Angela. What's going on? I think we mentioned this fact in an earlier podcast, but it is interesting. All right. Also last week, I want to remind everyone that this episode played after the Super Bowl. It was a super big deal. Mm-hmm.
And the network wanted big-name stars, and our show was like, hey, no, we don't do that. Not at this moment. And so we had this whole little movie playing out. So that's going on, too. Yeah. Jim and Pam and Andy are watching this pirated movie that stars Jack Black, Jessica Alba, and Cloris Leachman. What happening? I think we caught you up. Yeah, you're caught up.
Fast fact number one, Jeff Blitz won an Emmy for directing this episode. Yeah. And he deserves it. He does. This was complicated. So Jeff Blitz has been on our show before. We love him. I mean, I literally love Jeff Blitz. I know. I love him as a human being. I love him as a person. I love him as a director.
I would also like you to know that our editors, Dean Holland and Dave Rogers, were also nominated for an Emmy for this episode. They deserve it. Dean edited the first half of the episode with the whole fire drill, and Dave edited the second with the roast, which is what we will be talking about today. Fast fact number two, we had a fan question about the roast. Okay.
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Chapter 4: What does Jenna reveal about the roast writing process?
Who's coming to this?
Yeah, who's coming to this? Then Michael's like, oh, also we need alcohol. Okay, you need lots of alcohol. And I'm going to need something to spit in for my spit takes. He's planning out that this is going to be so funny. He's going to need to spit out his drink. And Daryl's like, you're not spitting in the warehouse. Then Dwight rushes in and he's got this eight by 10 photo of Michael.
And Michael's like, no, no, no, no, no. I want this photo huge. It's got to cover like the whole back wall. Okay. Yeah. And then he says, I also want a drum and cymbal so I can do the ba-dum-bums. This is amazing because all of these things are going to appear in the warehouse. Yes. So I'm thinking Daryl and Dwight planned this. They were the PPC for this event.
I don't want to give too much of a spoiler, but next week we're going to find out what happened to the PPC and why there is no one in charge of party planning right now. Oh, yeah. So this was like foreshadowing. A little bit. Well, I guess they set everything up and Dwight has a great idea. It's Actually, a great idea. It's brilliant.
He tells everyone as they're entering that they have to sign in for the roast. But what they're really signing is his apology acknowledgement sheet. Yes. But who catches it? Phyllis. So good. She's so good. She is just busting his butt through this whole episode. She will not sign. She's not going to sign. She's the holdout. Yeah. Everyone takes their seats. Michael sits on his throne.
And now the roast is going to begin. Yeah. Should we take a break? I think we take a break and we come back with the roasting. Okay, folks, the roast is on. Michael welcomes all these jerks. Yeah. Who's first up? Who can't wait to get up there and roast Michael Scott? He can barely finish his sentence and she's grabbing the microphone. It's Angela Martin. That's right.
Jenna, I noticed something in rewatching this multiple times like we do each week. Is Angela Martin ripping off Jeff Foxworthy bits? Yes. You know Angela Martin is a Jeff Foxworthy fan. She's I mean, listen, listen to Jeff and then listen to Angela.
If you've ever cut your grass and found a car, you might be a redneck.
And now Angela. If you ever put sunblock on a window, you might be Michael Scott. If you ever called the fire department because your head was stuck in your chair, you might be Michael Scott. She clearly is doing Jeff's bit. Yes, 100%. When I rewatched that, I was like, oh my gosh, that had to be the writer's inspiration for Angela's comedic style.
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Chapter 5: How does Cloris Leachman's role impact the episode?
Yeah, like a throwaway. Exactly. And so that's what ended up making it into the episode. And then we have an old tech alert that helps you really just punch them one more time. Oh, yeah. Everyone's like, how small is it? And then Pam says, if it were an iPod, it'd be a shuffle. Do some people even know that joke? Do they even get that joke? Do people still have iPods? It was a big deal.
We were so excited to have our iPods with all of our music on it. Just music? Only music, guys. And they came in different sizes and Shuffle was the smallest. Yeah, and you could get a tiny one and clip it on your armband and go running. I never did that because I don't run. You could have. You could have. It looked cool. Yeah. With your headphones that had a cord that had to go to it.
So you couldn't pump your arms too hard. No. No. Oh, how many times did I just yank that cord out of my iPod? I know. Because I was gesturing. Not exercising. I'm so sorry. Please don't get the wrong idea. I was gesturing wildly. Well, now Daryl's going to come up, and this one was really cringy. Daryl says, Michael, you always say we're family, right? Yep.
So if you're family, you know everyone's names. What's that guy's name? And he points to a warehouse employee, and Michael clearly doesn't know his name. And it's so awkward. His name is Michael. And not only is his name Michael, but Michael gave him a car ride home, and they were in traffic for like an hour together. Awkward.
But really, what rounds it all out is everyone singing What I Hate About You. Yeah. Andy gets up. Yeah, he's written the song. We have it. We gotta hear it.
What I hate about you You really suck as a ball You're the loosiest, jerkiest, and you're dumber than applesauce We're stuck listening to you all day Stanley tried to die just to get away Well it's true That's what I hate about you That's what I hate about you
That was so amazing. It was so amazing on the day. We were all singing. I want you guys to know, people have asked, you know, Ed did not write those lyrics. That was written by our writers. Ed figured out how to play the song on the guitar, but that was scripted. It was so good. So good. But you know what? Our writers could throw Ed anything, and I felt like he just was like, done.
I mean, that's a good thing to have. It is. Secret weapon. Secret weapon. Well, guys, Michael isn't happy. It looks like he might cry. And then the next day, the phone rings, and Pam says, Michael's not in the office. Michael didn't come to work. No. He's so depressed. Dwight says it's very unusual for Michael not to show up. He is either depressed or maybe he's been impaled by an icicle.
He does have a terrible habit of standing underneath them, staring up at them, despite Dwight's many warnings. Many warnings. The gang is in the break room, you know, sort of saying, is he okay? What should we do? Yeah. And Creed has one of those lines, Jenna, that made John break. Yeah. It's a classic Creed line. Phyllis says, I hope he's okay. I feel bad. Creed says, give it up. He's dead.
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