The Office

Season 9

New Guys

1. First time we hear the camera men's voices.
2. Pete tells Jim he's a Red Sox fan and afterwards Jim tells the camera that they have nothing in common. However in real life, John Krasinski is a huge Red Sox fan.

Roy's Wedding

1. Among the choices on Pam's spinning wheel are: Manager for an Hour, Punch in the Gut, Ten Bucks, Creed's Choice, Warehouse Vacation, No Internet, Stanley Gets Your Lunch, Go Home Now, Candy Bar, Spin Again, and Bankrupt.
2. Ellie Kemper and Sara Chase are both in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Andy's Ancestry

1. When Jim and Darryl talk in the warehouse, the sign in the foreground "Celtics fans parking only" is a plant by John Krasinski.
2. During the driving scene with Pam and Nellie, the aspect ratio was off. This is the second episode where a scene's aspect ratio is completely different. This previously happened in the season 6 episode "Scott's Tots."

Work Bus

1. Breaking Bad and Malcom in the Middle star, Bryan Cranston, directed this episode
2. When Kevin is asked 19154 pies divided by 61 pies the answer is said to be 314 pies. This is a reference to the irrational number Pi, and it's first three digits 3.14
3. Andy Bernard (played by Ed Helms) actually plays the banjo.

Here Comes Treble

1. Meredith yells "stop bagging my head!" after Dwight traps her in a net. This is in reference to when Dwight trapped a bat in a bag with Meredith's head inside from S3 E17.
2. Despite playing classmates, Ed Helms and Stephen Colbert are 10 years apart.
3. Phyllis costume is a nod to the actress Phyllis Smiths days as a St. Louis Cardinals cheerleader in the 1970s.
4. The first episode in which someone says "that's what she said" since Michael left.

The Boat

1. After this episode, Ed Helms doesn't return as Andy Bernard until the episode "Couples Discount" due to filming The Hangover Part III.
2. After Kevin walks into the break room and sees Dwight without his pants and shirt on, we later see Kevin sitting in the background eating his snack, now also with his pants and shirt off.

The Whale

1. Carrie Kemper who plays Jan's secretary Mollie is the younger sister of Ellie Kemper (Erin).
2. The table in Jan's office has a Serenity by Jan candle on it. The candle company Jan started making when she was living with Michael.
3. After this episode, Clark Duke doesn't return as Clark Green until the episode "Suit Warehouse" due to filming Kick-Ass 2.
4. Erin appears to misinterpret the meaning of "No Woman, No Cry," but the joke is on the writers: The lyric actually does mean "No, woman, don't cry," not "Women cause men to cry."
5. The context in which Erin says "no woman, no cry" appears to show that she does actually understand the meaning of the lyrics. i.e. "No woman, NO cry!"

The Target

1. At the end of this episode when Angela and Dwight are asking Toby questions about gay sexual relations it is a tribute to an earlier episode when Dwight was asking Toby about sexual relations.
2. When Jim asks Stanley and Phyllis to cover him when he's in Philadelphia, Stanley asks why should they help him? Jim responds by saying "because we're friends!" To which Stanley asks "when's my birthday?" Jim says "unfair. When's my birthday?" Stanley responds "I don't know because we're not friends." However, in Season 8 ep. 10, Jim mentions how he got Stanley Lewis Black tickets for his birthday. So, Jim does know Stanley's birthday.
3. First of many times the opening credits contained only Pam and Jim. This is where the focus of the "documentary crew" shifted on them instead the office.

Dwight Christmas

1. The staff blames Angela for forgetting to plan the Christmas party when it was Pam's responsibility. According to Pam, first duty as "office administrator" (Season 7; Episode 2; "Counseling") was to dissolve the party planning committee.
2. There is no cold opening for this episode.
3. Belsnickel is a crotchety, fur-clad Christmas gift-bringer figure in the folklore of the Palatinate region of southwestern Germany along the Rhine, the Saarland, and the Odenwald area of Baden-Württemberg. The figure is also preserved in Pennsylvania Dutch communities.

Lice

Suit Warehouse

1. When Pam is in the car with Darryl, she refers to Jim as "Gumby with hair". This is a callback to S5E13 "Stress Relief". When Michael is giving his roast of everyone in the office, his roast of Jim is "Jim, you're 6'11" and you weigh 90 pounds. Gumby has a better body than you."
2. Oscar becomes excited that there is hardwood floor after they rip the carpet moving the copier. However he knew there was wood from when Dwight shot a hole in the floor in episode 7.24.

Customer Loyalty

1. Angela Kinsey's (Angela Martin) daughter Isabel was in Cece's dance recital scene.
2. Dwight tells Darryl that he's "delivering a big shipment of fun" as he starts to listen to music. The band singing the song, which is titled "We Are Young," is named Fun.
3. Linda Purl did have a speaking part in this episode, but it ended up being cut. (It can be seen in the "deleted scenes" portion of the DVD.) You can, however, just see her face behind Pam during the children's play.
4. The first episode to show the camera crew recording the The Office documentary.

Junior Salesman

1. At one point Clark (Clark Duke) is talking to Rolf (James Urbaniak) and mentions that he has been working at Dunder Mifflin for 12 weeks "an entire season of Homeland (2011). James Urbaniak made his first appearance on Homeland 6 months before this episode.

Vandalism

1. Jenna Fischer's husband Lee Kirk directed this episode.
2. This episode marks the first time the documentary crew stepped in to influence filming. Also the first and only time a documentary crew member is fired from the show.

Couples Discount

1. The reason for Ed Helms' long absence from the show was due to his filming of 'The Hangover Part 3'.
2. When Andy sings, "Who's that girl? Who's that girl? It's Andy!", he's imitating the intro to the show, "New Girl," with Zooey Deschanel.

Moving On

1. When Pam interviews for the Real Estate job in Philadelphia, Bob Odenkirk plays the manager of the Real Estate company who interviews her. Pam immediately sees the resemblance to her old boss Michael Scott. Bob Odenkirk auditioned for the role Michael Scott, but Steve Carell was eventually chosen.
2. In this episode Phyllis says, "I can't be around sad people, it makes me sad." Actress Phyllis Smith (Phyllis Vance) played the character Sadness in the movie Inside Out (2015).
3. According to Pam's very short resume', her address is 363 Linden Avenue, Scranton PA, 18503.Her phone number is (570) 555-0148.Her work experience includes Office Manager (July 2011 to Present) where she "worked closely with customers and office staff," and Receptionist (August 2003 to June 2011), where she "forwarded communication for clients with various departments in the company."Her education includes Pratt Institution, where she pursued a Fine Arts Major, and Valley View High School.Her interests include "My children, art and painting."
4. Collette Wolfe was in Hot Tub Time Machine along side with Clark Duke and Craig Robinson
5. Andy mistakenly calls Erin & Pete's Relationship Disclosure form a "contract". Michael Scott, who was the previous manager for a majority of the series, made the same mistake numerous times before.
6. In this episode Jim mentions the movie "A Night at the Roxbury." Will Ferrell, who stars in this film, also appeared in four episodes of The Office in season seven.
7. In this episode, Pam's new boss Mark (played by Bob Odenkirk) references the movie "Horrible Bosses" by saying "I'm the horrible boss around here, please don't hire Jamie Foxx to kill me!" while introducing himself. Although Odenkirk is not in either "Horrible Bosses" movie, everyone's favorite Dunder Mifflin CEO, Mr. David Wallace (played by actor Andy Buckley), does plays a security guard in "Horrible Bosses 2"
8. In this episode, Pete's former love interest, Alice, is brought into the office. Unaware of her relationship to Pete, the receptionist Erin (Pete's current girlfriend) welcomes her to her first day and Alice compliments Erin's sweater. In Season 3, Episode 8 (The Merger), Karen (Jim's then-current girlfriend) walks into the office on her first day, meets the receptionist Pam (Jim's former crush) and compliments her on her sweater.
9. At the end where Oscar got stuck, the camera zooms in on the small notification on Oscar's computer. It is an ad for premiere of "The Office: An American Workplace". This is the title of the "documentary" that the camera is filming, a heads up about the end of the series.

The Farm

1. "The Farm" was originally intended to be a spin-off series to "The Office", centered around Dwight. However, NBC passed on airing it, so the pilot episode of the show was aired as an episode of "The Office" instead.
2. The song that Mose is playing is "Oh What A Beautiful Morning".
3. The song, "Sons and Daughters" by the Decemberists from the album, "the Crane Wife" is sung by the Schrute family on the front porch.
4. The little boy who plays Cameron played a different, Scranton-based child in a previous episode.
5. First and only episode in the series where more than one angle is used in a single interview.

Promos

1. In the promo for Danish television, the narrator's accent is much more Norwegian than Danish.

Stairmageddon

1. Paul Feig, who has directed several episodes of The Office, appears as a client of Carla Fern (Roseanne).
2. In this episode, Stanley hates the idea of taking the stairs, and struggles to get up them. In "Weight Loss: Part 1"(S05E01), he avoids the elevator to take the stairs in his effort to lose weight.
3. Josh McAuliffe, the reporter Dwight mentions, actually writes for the Scranton Times Tribune.
4. Much like he did with Phyllis in "Cafe Disco" (S5:E25), Dwight treats Stanley like livestock, referring to various parts of his body as if he was a horse or bovine.

Paper Airplane

1. The least viewed episode in the entire series.
2. "Weyerhammer" is a contraction of the names of two real paper companies, Weyerhaeuser and Hammermill.

Livin' the Dream

1. When Jim and Pam do the air high five after Jim gets his seat back, this is a throwback to a much earlier episode when Pam was still a receptionist.
2. The episode was originally scheduled to air in its regular half-hour time slot, but NBC later announced it would be expanded to fill an hour time slot beginning a half hour early, although it still counts as one official episode, similar to the earlier season episode "Moving On". Rogers noted that "we knew the last two episodes would be hour-longs, and The Finale might even end up running longer, but we still had a lot of great storytelling to do leading up to them, and 'Livin' the Dream' was one that ultimately deserved to be an hour long episode as well!"
3. After Jim (Big Tuna) moves to the annex, he says to Pete (Plop) "Go Phillies." After little to no reaction from Pete (Plop), Jim (Big Tuna) says that he forgot Pete (Plop) didn't like baseball. However, in the first episode of this season, Pete (Plop) tells Jim (Big Tuna) that he's a Red Sox fan.
4. The actor playing Sensai Billy was one of the stars on The Sopranos, the hit HBO television show.
5. A tribute to the title, this episode contains what a few of the characters' had wanted to do: Dwight got his black belt after 20 years and becomes the manager, Oscar got to see Angela get off her prideful image, Toby Flenderson (Paul Lieberstein) got to make a funny face to the camera, Pam and Jim got to double date another couple, Andy got to make a firm decision and go through with it, Darryl got the big break from the buyout.

A.A.R.M.

1. In Poor Richard's Bar, when the documentary first starts airing, the documentary is actually the very first scene of the series from the pilot episode with Michael talking to Jim about closing a sale with a library. The scene ends with Michael closing the previously mentioned sale as well as mistaking the woman on the phone for a man, blaming her smoker's voice for the confusion.
2. Several specific shots and scenes in this episode are similar to other moments in the series' history: the shot in which Jim and Dwight survey the office in Dwight's office directly references a scene in the season 3 premiere, "Gay Witch Hunt", in which Michael and Dwight try to figure out which office workers are gay; Dwight using his fake car siren to pull Angela over resembles a scene in the season 6 episode "Delivery", in which Dwight attempts to give Jim and Pam an escort to the hospital using the same method. Additionally, the A.A.R.M. challenge in which Phyllis and Dwight have to run cups of hot coffee through an obstacle course is similar to a game the workers play in the season 2 episode "Office Olympics", though the producers have stated that this resemblance in particular was unintentional.
3. The idea to have Jim finally give Pam his card had been considered in the writers' room for some time, but only during "A.A.R.M." did the writers feel it was the right time. The card and envelope was the same one used for "Christmas Party" almost seven years prior. In fact, the card contained a genuine message that Krasinksi wrote for Fischer. Rogers admitted that the Pam and Jim video was inspired by a number of fan videos that exist on the internet. The reason that "Open Your Eyes" by Snow Patrol plays over the video is that Claire Scanlon, the series editor, felt that it was similar in style to "Sing" by Travis, which played in the second season episode "The Banker".
4. This episode guest stars Aaron Rodgers, Clay Aiken, Mark McGrath, Santigold, and Jessica St. Clair. In order to get them, the show reached out to "a small group of celebrities that the producers thought would be good". Both Aiken and Santigold accepted. Baumgartner then asked Rodgers, who was a friend, and he accepted. McGrath later became available, and he was chosen as well.
5. Dale Waddington played Kaitlyn, the church lady who denied Phillip into day care. Due to time constraints the scene got cut.
6. The obstacle course in the warehouse was crafted by Rogers and Forrester, with input from the show's art department. Wilson also helped, since he eventually was the one who ran through it; it was his idea to have the course terminate on a raised palette of boxes. Originally, the course was supposed to be in the park lot, but Rogers moved it, feeling that the warehouse was "more organic" and that the heat would have been detrimental to the finished product.
7. Angela's son, Phillip, was played by twins Vince and Evan Edwards. The child that filmed the scene in which Phillip picked the beet was only supposed to point to the beet. In the end, the child said "beet!", which Rogers called "amazing".

Finale

1. The actor who plays Meredith's son in this episode is the same actor who played her son during Season Two, in the episode "Take Your Daughter to Work Day".
2. NBC ran a series of on-line "where are they now" articles after the series finale to discuss what happened to various characters. Amongst other things, Gabe Lewis ended up working for a Chinese corporate program that rented out Caucasian men to appear more friendly to Western investors (where Gabe was ordered to be seen and NOT heard), Toby Flenderson took a job as the HR director at a TJ Maxx store, and Angela and Dwight remained married and had three more children.
3. When Jim gives the limo driver the address of Kevin's bar he says "3030 Adams". The address is, in fact, one of the entrances to the campus of Marywood University which is located in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
4. Dwight mentions that Creed was a member of the band "the Grassroots" in the 1960's. The actor who plays Creed, Creed Bratton, was in fact a member of this band in the 1960's.
5. Though not regonized by Dwight, the stripper at his bachelor party is in fact "Elizabeth the Stripper", the same stripper hired by Dwight in Season 3, Episode 10 "Phyliss' Wedding" to preform at Bob Vance's bachelor party.
6. In the original script, Jim was supposed to prank Dwight one last time with an extravagant Matrix scheme; this was cut out most likely because they were short for time.
7. During Dwight's wedding, Motley Crue's song "Angela" can be heard as they dance. Besides the obvious choice of using this song for his new bride Angela, this may also be an homage to Dwight's love of the band. He used to head bang (in preparation of a new sale) to Motley Crue's "Kickstart My Heart".
8. Actress Dakota Johnson, who starred in the movie Fifty Shades of Grey, appears in this episode. Earlier in the season, Phyllis was listening to the audio book.
9. The realtor seen in this episode selling Jim and Pam's house, is Carol, one of Michaels girlfriends from earlier in the series
10. The last line of the series is said by Pam: "I thought it was weird when you picked us to make a documentary. But, all in all, I think an ordinary paper company like Dunder Mifflin was a great subject for a documentary. There's a lot of beauty in ordinary things. Isn't that kinda the point?"
11. Directed by Ken Kwapis, who directed many episodes in the series including the pilot, the very first episode.
12. It won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series.
13. The woman in the panel audience who says if she had Jim "he could do anything" is The Office writer Allison Silverman.
14. Creator Greg Daniels' wife Susanne Daniels plays the PBS panel moderator. She is the sister of Paul Lieberstein who plays Toby as well as producer Warren Lieberstein, who was once married to Angela Kinsey who plays Angela.
15. The song played by the band as Angela walks down the aisle is Sweet Child O' Mine by Guns N' Roses.
16. The panel audience member who asks Pam how she could doubt Jim is Jennie Tan who runs the fan site officetally.com She asked the producers if she could be in the finale and they said yes.
17. The panel audience member who asks "What was in that teapot letter" is executive producer Dan Sterling.
18. The panel audience member who asks "How did if feels to see your lives played out of TV" is director/producer/writer Brent Forrester.
19. When the men are going off to Dwight's bachelor party in the limo, Oscar goes "wazaaaaa" just as Michael did in [error], the series' first episode.
20. Casting director Allison Jones plays the woman guarding PBS swag at the warehouse party.
21. Editor Claire Scanlon can be seen at the warehouse party. She won an Emmy for editing this episode.
22. Steve Carell reprises his role as Michael Scott, he speaks only two lines of dialogue: "That's what she said" and "It's like my kids have grown up and married each other, it's every parents dream".
23. In the table read for the episode, Michael's last line was given to Creed.
24. When everyone is taking a group photo in the warehouse party, Greg Daniels, show writer and credit as a creator, is one of the PBS executives. He is seen between Pam and Clarke
25. Mindy Kaling and BJ Novak reprise their roles as Kelly and Ryan.