Dave Rogers
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Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
But because the episodes on TV were, you know, the time was 21 minutes and 35 seconds to fit a half-hour slot, including the main title, so much stuff got cut out.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
We gave them all of this great extra material behind the scenes stuff, bloopers, all of that. And then Greg said, hey, we have all of this material, all of these deleted scenes. Is there a way we can re-edit the shows and make – So this is Greg Daniels' idea. This is Greg Daniels' idea.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
And he said – and make kind of a – he's like, I don't want to call it like a quintessential cut because it's – the broadcast episodes we originally put on the air were pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. But still, he said, like, you know, maybe we could do something. And really, this is for the fans. And that's kind of how the super fan title came about, you know, super fan episodes.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
And he also this is very sweet. Part of it was with the pandemic going on. There was not a lot of work. This was like, you know, he's like, oh, this will keep Dave busy. So that was, you know, part of the thing, because we had worked. You know, right before that, I had done Upload season one and we went right into Space Force. You know, so I was working on these two shows. It was great.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
You know, we had great casts on Upload. Space Force was amazing to be with Steve Carell again. Yeah. And then, you know, and then that was it. It was winding down in March. We were. we were at home at that point, you know, editing remotely, uh, doing visual effects as the pandemic hit. So it was a few months later, I think it was June of 2020 when, uh, Greg first, you know, talked about it.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
And, uh, and Peacock was like, yep, go ahead. Let's go do whatever you need. And, uh, so we got together with, uh, you know, I got Rob Burnett who was, uh, my, he was one of my assistant editors on the office and he's become an editor, uh, unto himself now. I mean, he's great. He did the Mindy Project, AP Bio, Upload, Space Force. And so he works with me on these episodes.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
And he preps the stuff, but also cuts. And we send stuff back and forth just as editors. Like I say, hey, what do you think of this? And he'll say, yeah, this, this, this. And then he'll send stuff to me. And I'm like, yeah, this is good. I would tweak this a little, things like that. But we've got all the old projects. So we're back into the, I don't know, I'm just excited.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
It's me and Rob. And then we have a couple of assistant editors, Dan Ross and Josh Toomey. And then on the post side, like we have Britt Irwin, who was one of our post supervisors on the office and Eric Colgen's involved. So he's kind of nebulous. He started with us and then he kind of floats around every now and then I see like a bill that he paid for or something like that. But it's just us.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
And then Greg checks in and Howard Klein checks in. But they just trust us at this point. It's like to, you know, go through the material. And I could tell you more about that process. But it is – it's a skeleton crew putting the stuff together. And then – and we can talk about the finishing though because we have – you know, we online these shows.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
So they look – we want them to look seamless from the original ones. Yeah. We have sound mixes and VFX, and it's our same sound mix team, John Cook at Blue Wave, who did The Office. It's, you know, the same guys, Bobby Maxton from The Office, you know, same guys working on the show.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Yeah. The first thing I do is watch the show. I take the episode and I watch the broadcast version.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
And then I watch the deleted scenes. Okay. And I watch – and again, even that, we had deleted scenes that were on the DVDs and even we had deleted scenes that were on NBC. So even just –
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Most of the time they overlapped, but NBC always had – the website always had less than the DVD. That's where we would put more stuff. So I'll watch the DVDs. But then I'll go into the assembly and I'll watch the first cut of the assembly and the director's cut. And what I'll do is I have a dupe detector. So I can throw the assembly in in the timeline. Let me know if I'm getting too technical.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
So I throw the cut in and we have the, you know, we have the online master, which is the, you know, the picture. And then I have all of the tracks underneath all the original dailies and the audio tracks that we did that we, you know, and some of this, the audio is like temp. It's not, this isn't the mix track. We have that also.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
There's so many, but we had them all backed up. So, I mean, that's the thing. We're back in our old projects. I was cursing. I was like, damn it, Dean Holland didn't label this episode like the scenes. You can see mine are all clean. We started having some uniformity early on.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
I was like, look, we got to – because if we're jumping into each other's projects, I got to be able to see what scene is this and you got to know what scene. Right, right. We would laugh.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
so you have the dupe so i'll lay in the cut the master and then i'll lay in the assembly and i can see what shots are the same the dupe detector will show me what shots are the same and then what's new so i can go to areas and see oh look here's a couplet as we call it it's like a joke back and forth that was cut out and i'll watch it and i'll say oh this is actually pretty good so i'll weave it back into the show
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Yeah. And that's the thing because there's a lot of stuff that never could make it into the deleted scenes because it's like a joke.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Well, this is... But some of that, I mean, the dupe detector just helps us to see, hey, is there stuff that was, you know, from the assembly that was cut out? That's the first thing that we do. But stuff like that, then it's editing again. It's like, oh, we have other footage. That stuff may have been in the assembly, like him yelling at Ryan. It may not be. That just might be in dailies.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
But we'll go through the assembly. And then I'll see also if scenes – I mean that's the thing even – I like to say if there's a scene that's in the assembly, a lot of times a scene that was deleted is the same as the deleted scene on the DVDs. But that means it wasn't really polished. Like it was taken out in the assembly stage. Like we lost it when we were doing the director's cut.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
So we've thrown it on the DVD and maybe we've polished it a little bit for the, you know, to go to the DVDs. But now I have the freedom to kind of go in and clean stuff up. We'll add music if we need to, like where we didn't have the budget for it on the DVDs. I mean, sometimes I've watched some of the deleted scenes and like I can hear the director, you know, things like that.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Like so things can get cleaned up, you know, which is nice. I have a couple of rules.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
So I never change a take of the show. Like I feel that this is the documentary crew have come in and they've gotten more time to make these episodes longer. So they're just adding in more stuff that they've shot. So I'll never change a performance or very, very rarely. There might be something where I'm like, oh, I need –
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
I'll change a camera angle occasionally, but I'll never – you won't see a different take. If Michael says something this way, I'm not going to go to a different take of him saying the same line. I will only add – and this is for all of you. I don't want any kind of parallel universes or anything out there.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Yes. I mean, every once in a while, like a reaction shot might come out because we've added more dialogue or something like that. And that was used to cover a gap, let's say. But generally like no performance changes. Right. The other thing is that there's no alternate things like, for example, season three, the job finale.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
We have footage of Karen sitting at a fountain outside the building crying and she gets a phone call and she accepts the job. So this was like we shot that because we didn't – I guess we weren't sure which way we were going to go.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Who's going to get the job? So we shot – that's not going back into a show because it doesn't track with everything we've seen. But I do see there are things like that that pop up and I'm like, no, we can't use that. That's a different path. We really do our best not to contradict things and not to have continuity errors, things like that.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Right. We did that. We did shoot that alternate version of you guys in the elevator. I don't know if you're in it and he comes in.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Yeah, but that was the best, you know, I mean, what we got with the job. That moment is just great when he comes in, when you're like, yeah. And then it's like, hey, are you free for dinner? And you're like, yeah.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
What was I saying? You know, and it's just, there's so many little gems like that. Although I did find the rehearsal for the proposal. You know, that we shot on the back lot very far away. But we have, you know, on our back lot by the trailers, the post trailer in the back, I guess Paul Feig, it's Weight Loss. It was Paul Feig who directed Weight Loss.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Yeah. But we shot like, you know, Jim proposing to Pam. We wanted to see how it would look just being so far away.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Well, I didn't even know this existed though until I found it.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Yeah. I didn't know that. There are things like that that I've never seen before because I didn't edit all the episodes. So when I'm working on an episode that I didn't originally cut, there are things that I find where I'm like, oh my gosh, this is amazing.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
But I've just been so involved with the show for so long, it's not like it really went away. And especially since people, you know, are always, I guess my algorithm, my social media, everything is, you know. The office. Yeah. But like even just, you know, my nephews, like they reached a certain age, then they became huge fans. And I'm constantly, you know, just meeting people who are
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
You know, they just love the show and they're discovering it. And it's easy to see why. It's really funny and enjoyable. And just there's so many things that happen throughout the course of the series. Yeah. You know, so, I mean, like I could pontificate about that for, you know, hours. But it's, you know, I'll sit there and stop and watch and laugh. And, you know, I still enjoy it, you know.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
All right. Well, so the thing that's really amazing is the – and you guys are partially responsible for this. So I'm editing season – I think it was season six.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
It's just my episode title list. Like this, this was it. And then I had this on the show. We made this on the show because a lot of times all I need to do is just see the episode name and then it'll jog whatever information I need.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
And it's got food stains on it. And I could print a new one. But why? You could see even the hole punches are on the other side and stuff like that. But I don't know. I just like it. And it's got marks all over it. It's got notes and things like that.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
So it's – His invention? Yes. Yeah. Toilet buddy, toilet guard.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Where he comes out of the bathroom and he's angry and he's – Dwight goes to help him and it turns out all of his stuff fell into the toilet. And then a couple of things he threw in anger. So I'm like, oh, okay. I mean, I remember this cold open, but I'm looking, did we put it on another episode? It's like, no. I'm like, okay, it's not on the DVDs, deleted scenes. So we must have saved it.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
But what happened was, is that by the time we started season five, everything had changed. I'm turning the pages again. Yeah, because Toby was gone and Holly came in. So it was like a whole new thing going on. So it just was lost again.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
So that was the thing. So I'm looking like, wait, did we not put this anywhere? So I go to search on Google like for this. An article comes up from you guys.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
And it says, office ladies talk about a scene that was never aired. And it was this. And in reading that, you had a comment, though, about something where it was, oh, I love this thing where he throws his keys in anger or something like that. Literally, there was an extra thing. And that wasn't in the assembly version. And I put that in. That was my favorite part.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
I mean, when I went through to do a polish, and it turns out we had so much stuff in there.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
we found that in the script yes and we reached out to gene and lee about it again i was looking to see you know is this anywhere i'm checking all these episodes towards the end of season four and then i'm looking at the beginning of season five and then i was like this is weird and then i googled and then your thing came up that said that you know what there was some news story about you guys talking about this scene and i think i reached out to you guys and said hey we have it i found it you know and it was never a deleted scene or anything so that's great when you have a full a
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
fully fledged scene like that. That's just so funny. And again, I get to tweak stuff. So I love the shot with the tennis racket and Pam's face is behind it, you know, like the way that's framed. And there was just other things where, you know, there were other versions even of the scene. And it was like really carving. What's the best version?
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Michael's asking everyone who wants to try, you want to try Kevin? And then, you know, coming back to like Cree, you know, him saying that'll make a great tennis racket. And then there was an extra piece, I think that's in the show in the tag where It's like later Toby goes to his desk and he pulls out his tennis racket and he swings it and it's all bent and broken. That's what Michael did.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
He used Toby's tennis racket. Oh, amazing. He just taped it up. And Toby goes like – and he's like, hey. He reacts to his broken tennis racket. So that was a great find.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
We found another complete cold open for the Christmas wishes episode.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Andy leads everybody singing Christmas carols outside. Do you guys remember that?
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
It's in the shooting draft. I don't want to say too much, but it's pretty funny. And he has a couple of talking heads and you guys are singing and he's trying to, he's like, you guys start doing the echoes. Like you're singing Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer. Like, you know, had a very shiny nose, like a light bulb.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
And he's like, guys, no, no, no. And he's trying to convince you that it's really a poignant song. And, you know, it's it's very I think it's a very funny cold open.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Yeah. What if there were a medicine that could heal almost anything?
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
I mean, I don't know if there's an entire storyline. It's more just scenes.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
And at the end, even you discover that it... It was Ryan. It was Ryan himself who gave himself the thing to do. Yeah. There's a bunch of runners. I couldn't tell you specifically which ones, but... Even Meredith in Weight Loss is another great example, just because we had stuff going on every week. You know, Meredith gets sunburned.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
And she's got the blisters on her face. And in the final episode, you kind of see it, but there's no explanation.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Yeah. So that stuff gets restored. Those moments that are really kind of funny that we just didn't have time for it.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Yeah. I mean, they happen. It's not too often, but sometimes there is something that it's such a key thing that you're like, we can't even explain this. We don't have the time. So we just have to kind of, you know, cut around it.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
There's some stuff, like I said, where we've added like even parkour. We've added a bunch of shots. To parkour. To parkour. Yeah. You know, we did a bunch of things like, you know, they're outside, they're spinning this giant wheel and one of them jumps on it and then like hurts their crotch and things like that. You know, there's just lots of little things that pepper in.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Another great example is business school. Michael is, you know, he's talking to the students at the school. And I didn't again, I didn't edit the episode originally, but there's two takes. of Michael where he's ad-libbing. And not a lot of this made it in because the written stuff was great. But like he's got two takes. Steve Carell is ad-libbing with the students.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
And it was just, you know, and so that stuff made it in to the show. I'll give you another example of something in Michael's last Dundee's. Everybody's coming in and they're – again, I didn't edit this episode. I didn't see this footage. Everybody's coming in at the beginning and Dwight is kind of judging everyone. He's like, strangely appropriate, like adequate.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
So I'm watching and then there's a – and Ryan comes in. He's like the last one. But there's a take where someone comes in after Ryan. And it's Steven Merchant.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Steven Merchant walks in and Dwight's like, oh God. And I'm like, this is great. And he starts laughing and I'm like, this is great. We're putting this in the show. Like this can live in the show.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
So he came in and nobody was expecting, like, Rain was not expecting it. It just was this thing. And you could see them laughing. But, like, we clip it right before it becomes a blooper. Oh, that's fun. So it's just, like, just one other person comes in. And it's, like, this is, like, a real super fan thing because if they recognize him.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
They're, like, oh, look at Stephen, you know, co-creator of the original Office, you know, coming in. Yeah.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
So that was whenever I find stuff like that, I get very excited. I'm like, oh, my God. You know, and I was messaging Claire because Claire, Claire Scanlon cut the episode original. I'm like, Claire, there's a shot of Stephen Merchant. And maybe like I don't even know if it was in the bloopers. Do you know what I mean? Like I didn't even I had no recollection of it.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
And so that's, I was like, so I was just very excited. I was like, oh, this is great. We're going to work this into the show. And, you know, so.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
So we started. I didn't know how it was going to work, if we were going to do for every episode or just certain ones. And then Peacock was like, can you do for all of them? I was like, yeah. So we started doing that. There were a few episodes. Sometimes it was even just there just wasn't a ton of stuff. We may have shot an episode in four days. Sometimes we would do that.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
And that episode, I also – I tell people like if you want a great writing, just an exercise. It's just watching that and seeing what a great script it is and how the turns come and how like the act one is one thing and act two goes to another place and act three. I mean it's just so good and such a good use of the ensemble. Like just a – like a perfect episode.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
And there were not deleted scenes. There were not deleted scenes for that. I don't think there were any. But I found one thing that was like a Michael talking head. And so that made it in and that made it a super fan episode. And it was him talking about shopping and like it was just enough that it wouldn't, you know, ruin the episode in any sense. But it was still just something new.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
So that made it a super fan episode. We have other episodes that are, you know, we did producer's cuts on the DVDs. So I know like maybe starting in season six or seven or eight, we started doing like longer cuts.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
And it's like, oh, it's tough then to find it. You know, I still want to give the fans even something more. So it is tricky sometimes just finding, is there anything else? Can we get anything else that's great, that's worth putting in? And even though fans, a lot of them haven't seen these producers' cuts, again, they're on the DVDs. Right, right.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
But, you know, they haven't been on streaming or anything. But still, I do. We look we look hard and we do. Every episode is at least something new that hasn't been seen before.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
I did not. You want one? Yeah. They're so good. I'll take one.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Job fair has a ton of stuff. I mean, there was a whole storyline. And again, sometimes I have to check my notes to see what's – we send a list of the new stuff. So it'll say what was deleted scenes and what's new material. We'll send it to Peacock. Like just as we go through and they can even time how much is new material and how much has been seen before in some way.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
But there's a whole – I mean there's so much stuff with – like Job Fair has like 20 minutes of extra footage. I mean that's really a big one. There's a lot of stuff. Basketball has a lot of stuff. And Boys and Girls has a lot of stuff. There's a lot of stuff with Lonnie. It's great seeing Lonnie and Madge. Madge has this whole thing where she's wanted in like three states and stuff like that.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
She doesn't want the camera on her. And there's just more stuff like with Michael. Like he goes down there and right away he's fiddling with the boom box and he breaks the antenna and then he tries to like stick it back on. I mean there's – I love that episode. There's a lot of extra comedy in there. Yeah. I mean, so many of these have great stuff.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
I could do a little more research and message you like what really are my top five or what I think are worthwhile. I can do that.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Yeah, this is my take on it. Like I don't look at deleted scenes as canon.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Because they've been, you know, that's not to say that some of them aren't, but as they're just deleted scenes, I don't look at them as canon.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
As I've gone through and restored stuff to the show, I do look at it as canon because now I see it as like a fully finished episode. Okay. I think fans can go back and forth. I think it's really up to the individual. But I look at them as like now that these things have been put into a show that's a finished product, so to speak, I can look at them as canon.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
I was in an edit bay far away from all the locations that they shoot on that show.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
So here's something. This was a deleted scene originally.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
So this was an episode I directed. I believe it was Mafia.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
In Mafia, you know what the deleted scenes are in that episode. Very controversial. Erin is cleaning and she destroys... Oh, she destroys Pam's watercolor. Not in the Superfan episode. So in the Superfan episode, she doesn't clean, but we still have her storyline. We've restored enough of her storyline where she's just kind of...
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
She's trying to impress – everybody's kind of giving her crap and they're like, you'll never be Pam and all this. So I feel like the best elements of that story and even where she calls, we still have her calling and Pam's like, please, don't call me again. Because that was the runner with Pam and Jim is everyone's calling them.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
But even at the end of the episode where originally you saw the painting was gone on the wall, we digitally put the painting back in the last two shots. In a few other episodes after that, it'll be- It's not there. It's not there, whatever. They were cleaning the frame or whatever, the glass or whatever.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
No. It's gone. But I'm saying at the end of this episode, there's shots with her and the painting is there. There's never any destruction to the painting.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Still. So I will just buy that they, whatever, they had to clean the frames or whatever. I don't know. They had to reflatten the paint. I don't know. Whatever it was, that's why it's missing for a few episodes and it's back. But it was never destroyed. It's just one of those things. Just like Karen getting the job offer. It never happens.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
But I liked, I appreciated Aaron's, you know, it was a shame. But I was like, you know, if we get rid of this beat and we get rid of like the, you know, there's a scene with her and Kelly that we had with Kelly working on the, I was like, you get rid of that. The rest of the stuff is actually very funny and that she's trying so hard. And she even has a moment where she's on the phone with you.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
I came on right after the pilot. I tweaked a little bit in the pilot.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
She's like, you know, Where she's kind of passive-aggressive towards you, like, I'll never be as good as you. And it's just – I thought all that stuff was really funny and worth keeping. The painting's still there at the end.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Well, thank you. I mean I appreciate that. But I just – I don't know. I just love the show. I mean it's given me so much.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
But I just – I do. I just love and I care about the show so much.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
And that's the thing, yeah. I didn't want anybody else to, I mean, unless it was Dean or Claire. Sure, sure. I have sent cuts to Claire where I've sent stuff for her to weigh in on like, hey, what do you think of this and stuff?
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Yeah, and Dean I trust, you know, with things. But I was like, yeah, I couldn't handle anybody else, you know, like doing that stuff. And that's why I mean, like, it's a small group. It's just us. I mean, you know, Rob is amazing and he knows the show so well too. The other thing that I get to do when I'm looking at all the dailies is that I get to revisit the talking heads.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
And a lot of times we have, you know, different texts for talking heads.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
The candy bag alts and things like that. And sometimes they're different enough that it'd be great to get this other talking head in. In the original show, it was like you picked one for this moment. But now let's say if I have Pam commenting on something and then Angela comments on something, I can go back to Pam again and put another Pam talking head or a Phyllis talking head.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
So that's been great that I can add these things back in, these talking heads that are awesome and just there was no place for them. And you wouldn't put them on a DVD necessarily either because it's like it's tied to a scene or it's just – I call them like orphans. Yeah.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Yeah, and what's really great is like even with the tags and stuff like that, we can jump cut now. You know what I mean? For a tag especially, you can jump. We never would do that in the show. But now I feel like it might even be possible in the show I've jump cut some stuff. But in the tag, I can just get you like his best bits. And he goes off on a lot of things.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Like basketball, he talks about – he compares – basketball, the sharks, and he's saying how sharks are such, you know, they just want to play. And he goes off on this whole tangent and there's all this B-roll that we plugged in. And actually, Steve Carell actually directed Secretary's Day.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
And at the end, when he was doing talking heads with the cast, he would have them do impressions of other cast members of other characters.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
So, like... Pam does an impression of Jim. Dwight does an impression of Jim. Jim does an impression of Angela. Ryan does an impression of Chandler, which I thought was funny. And then he's like, oh, that's Chandler.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
It's not even, I mean, it's just one after another. They're all just, yeah, but it's like a montage of people doing impressions.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Yeah. He's so cute. Sometimes he comes in. I almost brought him in today because I knew you were coming in, and as a tribute to you in the Super Bowl episode... having your little cat bandit in the drawer. Well, Bryce here, if you can swing this way. This is where Bryce, he does hang out in the closet. He's got a little bed, and I've got stuff, food and toys.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Yeah. There's a lot of great talking heads from you guys. Some existed as deleted scenes, you know, but like
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Yeah. Like even early on, Pam talks about her house and like she talks about I think her dream house but also about Roy and the family. The family really likes Roy. Yeah.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Yeah, that's in the super fan episode. I think it's season one or season two.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
But you talk about like the jet skis that he spent the money on the jet skis, like all the stuff that you came up with, like. That was recorded. And then so it's, you know, it's in the episode.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
So it is a treasure trove of things like that. So I did want to say like with the talking heads, that's, you know, it's almost its own animal that these can like now live and we can have more than one where it doesn't feel like, you know, we had the time constraints before and we could only pick one.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Thank you. I'm excited for you guys to watch them. Like I am, like just to see, you know, to discover.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Yes, I'm excited to talk about it. Can't say too much now. It was great seeing you guys. You know, we have a lot of crew that carried over from the office.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Yeah. It was, it is really nice to see familiar faces. I mean, Veda.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Mahmood is there. So there are a lot of, you know, familiar faces. And that's, you know, it's always nice. We had such a great time.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
great group of people on the show we really did so it's it's nice and there's a lot of great new people that i've been working with too so it's that you will tell us about at some point that's right so we can bug them when the paper comes out for all the details on how they designed that set and did those props yeah i will say it was really nice seeing you guys come in on the set
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
And just like, oh, and everybody, I mean, you guys got a huge round of applause and everything. Everybody was just very, you know, just they know what you guys have done and what you guys have brought to, you know, television and this universe, this office universe. You know, it means a lot. You guys are royalty.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Really. That's so nice. So sweet. I was afraid. Honestly, I knew you guys were coming. I was like, oh, the cast is going to be intimidated. Like, are they going to be, you know, I hope they're not, like, all super nervous, you know. But they're pros, everybody.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Well, yeah, because we should. I think yours was probably Andy's Ancestry.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
You and Nellie. And I directed that one. So I had that one.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Well, yeah, and that was another one I did. That was an employee transfer. Those were ones I directed because I had, I remember just struggling, like, how are we gonna do the camera angles? Because you have to choose. When you're shooting an interior car scene and you have the, what we call the lipstick cams, you can only get so many cameras in there. So it's like, do you want a raking shot?
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
So I try to keep moisturized. You try to keep moisturized. Yes. I never used to, but then the ladies are always like, your hand feels like an alligator. So.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Do you want a single? So we were just looking at these kinds of frames and to say like, hey, this is what we're going for. And I had a conversation with the DP
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
afterwards because she wanted to show like the camera she's like well we should see the cameras you know when we're outside the car i'm like nope i'm like whenever we did this on the show we would not that's the precedent whatever we you know we would have these lipstick cams but sometimes we would have you know we would go film the actual car and you wouldn't see them we didn't want to obscure the actors faces we just buy that these are very very tiny cameras that are in there and then we take so this is so interesting then because
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
There's still some new things that they can do. But, yes, there are certain things that, you know, like this is the point is that it exists in this universe. We're not doing like – I mean there are so many mockumentary shows out there right now. And, you know, that's one thing I'll say. Greg, you know, he kind of wanted to get back to basics with –
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
You know, the style of the office and like I don't want to have feel like there's 15 cameras around, you know.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
And so, you know, and there have been a lot of, I think, important creative decisions on just, you know, everything from the casting to the set to the style of the show and what we're doing. Well, we're excited.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Oh, my gosh. Well, one day we got – Greg shared an email with us. I guess Aaron Sorkin had written – Aaron Sorkin, you know, the great writer who's done – He had written Greg a letter and he just said how much he loved the office, the writing, the cast, the editing.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Yeah. And he had given Greg like a case of Don Perignon. So I got a bottle, and it's still in my fridge.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
I mean, how many years? 15 years? When did we get it? I don't know. It was a long time ago.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
I don't know. There are times where I wanted to, and then other people are like, oh, no, no, no, you want to save that. It's so good. Like, you don't want to just drink it on New Year's. And I'm like, all right, just live it in the fridge. Maybe this year or next year I'll make sure I drink it. Does anybody want to share? Yeah, come over. We'll come over for some Aaron Sorkin shooting.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Thank you. Thanks for having me. I love your show. We're going to talk more about the Star Wars holiday special. But I love you guys. I love what you're doing. And yeah, I'm a fan. I'm a fan.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Thank you. It's great to be here. It's great to see both of you. Yeah. Listen, I love The Office. I love The Office ladies. Yay.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
That's high praise. A lot of pressure. But I do feel like I'm still living the show. And these super fan episodes have brought it all back where I'm back into my original projects, editing projects and watching all the old cuts and putting some deleted scenes in and some new material that no one's ever seen before.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Yeah. I was on a phone call with Greg Daniels and I think Howard Klein was on the call and some of the NBC Peacock executives. And I think – I'm not sure if it tied in exactly when Peacock, the streaming site, was starting or if it was just something that they had bought the office and then that was going to launch. And so we were discussing all the goodies that we could give them.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
And I mean just like – we used to pack our DVDs with so many things. We had behind-the-scenes videos. We had like Jenna's Booze Cruise video. We had – Bloopers. We had bloopers, webisodes, The Accountant. I mean like just – we had all this great material. A lot of times people like they – They're just discovering it now.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
Like they never – they didn't watch the DVDs or they were – kind of got onto the show after the DVDs were a thing and only watched it on streaming, on Netflix or on cable. And so I said, oh, this would be great to have a place to put all of this stuff, like to just – We've shot promos that were like full scenes. We would do for the Olympics. Yeah.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
You know, we would do stuff for, you know, just various like, you know, the Super Bowl and even the More You Know parodies that we did. Yes. These aired on NBC during the day when the show was on. But it's nice for people just to be able to have this kind of collection and be able to just access it.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
That was kind of my dream was to have like a whole office portal that people could just access this stuff.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
I love the DVDs because we spent a lot of time even just doing the artwork and the menus and things like that. And we did – again, our show, we'll get into it. But as you know, the style of our show, because we were handheld in a 360 environment, we didn't have – so much downtime with lighting and things like that. It was like, hey, we're pretty much lit, you know, small adjustments.
Office Ladies
An Interview with Dave Rogers
And because of the handheld nature of the show, we could shoot faster. So then they would write longer scripts. So we did have a lot of things that were left on the cutting room floor. I mean, just, you know, just a lot of stuff. And some of it was A-level material.