Lake Wallenpaupack, listeners! We've made it to the Booze Cruise episode of The Office and we're joined by living legend, Greg Daniels (The Office, Upload, Star Force). Jenna, Angela and Greg break down this episode together and Greg brought his own notecards! They chat about creating the U.S. version of The Office, Brenda from corporate, and Greg shines a light on the Kelly to Mindy transition. This episode is jam-packed with info and fun insights, so wait to do your snorkel shots until the episode is over y'all! Check out Office Ladies Merch at Podswag: https://www.podswag.com/collections/office-ladies Office Ladies Website - Submit a fan question: https://officeladies.com/submitaquestion Follow Us on Instagram: OfficeLadiesPod Episode Transcript To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the Booze Cruise episode about?
Grab your life preservers, everyone. Get ready to set sail. Today, we are taking a second drink of Booze Cruise.
This was such a fun breakdown. Do you remember, Jenna, we had Greg Daniels in the studio with us for the whole thing? Yes. He was so excited, remember? He was like, I have a time code. Yes, yes. And it was his first time being on Office Ladies.
It was very special. And I felt like we covered this episode so well. We also wrote an entire chapter about it in our book, Office BFFs, with tons of behind-the-scenes pictures that we took. But I did find a couple of things that we could mention here.
Okay.
First off, we talked about Mindy's play, Matt and Ben, that she did with her friend, Brenda Withers, who appears in this episode. This is what got Mindy discovered. And we got this comment from Christine A., who said, "'Googled Matt and Ben, Mindy Kaling, and the full show comes up on YouTube. Questionable legality, but it's there.'" So if you wanted to follow up and watch it, there you go.
It's very grainy. But I also found a paperback version of the play on Amazon, Angela. Yes, it's been published, and it has 4.7 stars out of 5. That's very highly rated. Very highly rated. I think, you know, if you're an aspiring writer, maybe reading it would be like a good research or something.
Mm-hmm. Well, another thing we talked a lot about was the Jim and Pam 27 seconds of silence. Yes. We recently got a letter from Caio from Brazil. Caio, I hope I'm saying your name correctly.
They write, the 27 seconds of silence in Booze Cruise may hold the record for the longest moment of silence in a comedy, but I was just watching the West Wing episode from season seven called Here Today, and I think that might take the cake.
When Tony confesses to CJ that he leaked the space shuttle story, there is a whopping 56.9 seconds of silence between when CJ says they can't talk until the counsel's office shows up and when the lawyer finally does talk. Almost a full minute.
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Chapter 2: How did Mindy Kaling get discovered for The Office?
In the middle. We were on the boat. I remember we were on the boat when I got the call saying that NBC would like for you to be series regulars and you're going to have like an extended contract. You're not going to be a week-to-week day player. Oh my gosh. We were all talking. We were all so excited, the supporting cast.
You and I, we had a break where we got to go off the boat, but we're standing right by the boat, Jenna. We're right by the boat. And I gave Oscar Nunez my camera and I said, Oscar, I want you to capture this moment. You and I had been jumping up and down, holding hands, screaming because we were so excited. And you have that photo? I have the photo and you and I look insane.
I'm sure we're so tired. We're tired and we're mid jumping up in air holding hands like two school girls. And Oscar was like, oh, you two are so silly. And he gave us a big hug.
But this was job security.
Yeah. And yes, this was like we all knew now, one, our show must be doing well because now they're going to pay us all to be here all the time. Yeah. And then we knew we had a job.
Special, special.
I know.
Things are starting to turn now. We've been talking about how we were really wondering week to week if we had jobs, and now we're starting to feel like, oh, we're on a TV show that's going to keep coming back. Now, we still haven't been picked up for season three yet, but we know, okay, we at least have a job for like another 13 weeks at this point.
This was the most job security any of us had had since the beginning of the show. Oh, yeah.
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Chapter 3: What was it like filming the Booze Cruise episode?
When Steve is doing his dancing.
Yes.
I remember like trying to build the reactions because everybody's supposed to be like unimpressed and just, you know, straight faced. And it was almost impossible because everybody was breaking down. I made him do that over and over and over again.
For so long. Yeah. I remember when we rewatched it, I just wrote, oh my gosh, Michael's dance, because he danced for so long.
Yeah.
In my journal, I said that we started taping that around 2 a.m. Like, it was really late.
Yeah.
A fan question from Tara Leitschke. Was Steve's dance choreographed?
I don't think so. I really think he improvised that. I don't remember it being in the script. I think he just kind of went for it.
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