Spin-offs are not always a good idea. For each “brew” or “Young Sheldon”, which is from “Cheers” and “The Big Bang Theory respectively, there is a” Joey “, the follow -up of” Friends “which collapsed and burned.” The Office “did not get a spin-off immediately after its end in 2013, but it almost Made – and one of the last episodes of the series was a stolen door pilot for the spin -off that has never been. This is a good thing that it never happened, frankly … because it would have messed up the happy ending between the main characters Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) and Angela Martin (Angela Kinsey).
The 17th episode of the ninth and last season of “The Office”, simply entitled “The Farm”, was intended for a stolen door pilot – an apparently over -gone practice where the showrunners center an episode around the characters and the scenarios they hope to train a spin-off later. In the episode as it was broadcast, Dwight returns to Schrute Farms for the funeral of her aunt Shirley and finds his family, including his brother Jeb (Thomas Middleditch) and his sister Fannie (Majandra Delfino). Nora Kirkpatrick, who plays the girlfriend of Dwight, Esther, throughout season 9 of “The Office”, also appears in the episode, which seems to indicate that, if “the farm” had been in series, Esther and Dwight would have remained involved.
As we all know now, “The Farm” has never turned into a series in its own right, and in the final of the series of “The Office”, Esther is out of the image and Dwight and Angela finally finish The knot. So what happened with “the farm” at the end?
The farm finally failed
Despite the fact that Rainn Wilson only signed 13 episodes of season 9 of “The Office” to move to “The Farm” – and the writer and showrunner Paul Lieberstein, who played Toby Flenderson on “The Office”, jumped Help launch the business – NBC refused to choose “the farm” as a complete series, and the project has died. Wilson announced this news online, according to The Hollywood Reporter; In an article on X (known as Twitter at the time), the actor wrote: “Farm update”: NBC adopted his future with the television program “The Farm”. A pilot explosion – forward and up! ” One of the original creators of the series, Greg Daniels, weighed on the whole in the conversation with TVAnd as he said, the episode was simply rewarded and reworked to integrate in the last season of “The Office”. “We are not going to broadcast exactly what he was, because he has certain appropriate aspects for a driver of a new show,” said Daniels at the time. “We are going to draw some additional equipment to get it in the season more.”
Frankly, it was probably for the better – and if you don’t believe MeYou may believe a writer who is one of the main “office” experts. In a Interview on Medium with Jeremy RobertsAndy Greene, who wrote the 2020 book “The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s”, was quite frank on the whole.
“Everyone I spoke to thought it was a bad idea. I agree. You don’t want to spend so much time with Dwight on the farm. He’s funny in an office with people who are its total opposites. ” The farm “is a pilot recovered that they cut a regular episode because NBC did not want to pick it up.
Because the farm has never become a real spin-off, Dwight and Angela obtained their happy
The fact that “the farm” was simply interrupted in the last season of “The Office” rather than giving its own place of delay on NBC was a good thing for many reasons, and the chief among them is that if “the Farm “had become a show show, the final of the series of” The Office “could have been a bit bad!
Here is what is happening in the final if we completely do not know that “the farm” was going to be a show (something I am happy to do). After several seasons of a booming love story, Dwight and Angela finally made the knot – and in one of the last episodes of the series, Angela told Dwight that her son, who, according to him, was Debted by his ex-Mari Senator Robert Lipton (Jack Coleman), is in fact the child of Dwight. Thanks to the decor of a wedding, the episode is able to bring back several very deceased characters, including Mindy Kaling and the toxic lovers of BJ Novak, Kelly Kapoor and Ryan Howard, and in the most resonant scene emotionally included a ” This is what she said “Joke, Steve Carell, who left” The Office “in season 7, reappears as a former Manager Michael Scott to be the best man in Dwight (or, as Dwight and John Jim Halpert of Krasinski calls him, “Best Mensch”).
Watch Angela and Dwight get married and bring together all their loved ones in the process is a real final of the series, especially when you consider that the “office” has seriously plunged into its subsequent seasons, so let’s all be grateful “the farm” Not ended up happening.
As for “The Office”, this whole series is in trouble on Peacock now.
