So does your phone, by the way. Oh, I went to WebMD. Are you ready for the top five most Jeremy places in an office? Yeah. Number one, elevator buttons.

And so many of them don't work as we've learned. Yeah. Stop touching them. Who cares?

Number two, door handles. Number three, your actual desk. Like your actual desktop. Okay. Number four, your keyboard. Number five, your telephone.

Yeah. Is this a good time to tell you that when I go into like a hotel room or something, I wipe down the remote and the light switches and like everything with a little antibacterial wipe because I watched a whole, you know, whatever, date line or something like that all about it. I feel like we all saw that date line where they went in with that special light and everything glowed blue because it was pooper earwax or something disgusting. The most disturbing part of that show for me was when they showed like secret cameras of how they don't really clean the water glasses that are left in the bathroom. Like a lot of places, they just like sort of rinsed them under water using the same rag that they had just used to like clean the bathroom. I never use those cups. Okay. I don't.

Well,

I've been using them.

I might not have any more. I put my makeup brushes in them. I don't drink out of them. And that's a no for me. Okay.

Well, I'm just saying it's a no no for me.

Well, Pam also suggests that you should cough into your elbow as a great way to prevent the spreading of germs or sneeze into your elbow, like the Dracula. Yeah, the vampire

cough.

And I read some studies on that and that is good advice.

Yeah, they teach all of our kids to do that at

school.

And now all my kids cough like that.

Well, Dwight says that he would rather people just cough or sneeze directly on him. So we have a montage of people sneezing on him, his food, all kinds of things. We got a fan question from Rosie S. And Edinburgh, Scotland, who said, I spotted a small error in the cold open.

What Rosie?

Dwight talks about the cost of wool in Transylvania. And he blames it on the Euro. But Rosie points out that Transylvania is in Romania, which does not use the Euro. It's in Europe, but they have their own currency. Dwight. And they have for a while. Now, I believe they are converting to the Euro in a few years, however.

Dwight got it wrong.

That's rare. Dwight often we find has got it right, but

not this time.

The episode starts outside of the church. Angela's walking up to Jim and Pam and they're holding Little Cece.

Yeah, the whole office is kind of congregated outside before the ceremony begins. And I'll have you know, Angela, we shot this episode, the week of September 13th, 2010. And we are recording this podcast almost exactly 12 years later in September 2022.

That is crazy.

Now, you know what the temperature is today, right? Oh yeah, it's like 103. Yes. We did all of these exterior scenes outside this church in heavy wool coats, pretending it was fall because this aired in November. Yeah. But luckily it was only 83 degrees. But still, when you watch all of these scenes outside the church, just know that we are very hot. We did not put a coat on baby CC on purpose. We did not want to overheat the baby. But Pam is in a wool coat.

Well, I got so tickled rewatching these scenes, Jenna, because I had so much fun being so sweet to the baby and so snarky to Jim and Pam. I know, I really loved those turns every time. I even went to the shooting draft, Jenna, to see if there was stage direction about it.

And it said,

Angela is cold to Jim and Pam and cute sea to CC. And you know, Jenna, in this episode, I have two improv lines that made it in.

Oh, I think I know one of them.

Well, the first one comes in this little couplet of dialogue when Angela turns to Jim and Pam and she goes, Jim, Pam,

and the precious bundle of God's gift to everything.

And then she goes back to Jim and Pam. I wish you both a pleasant day. And then I improvised.

And you too. Yes, praise God. Okay.

Aw, I just

couldn't get enough of those little girls. Those babies were so cute. People just turned into

jelly around those babies. I know. They were the sweetest. Once again, they were played by Bailey and Sienna. Although there were a few times that we used the creepy jelly baby.

Oh, I caught it.

Yeah, Phil got it for us. They're really expensive. We've talked about these before. They're like thousands of dollars and we had to be careful with them. I have some catches. I have some jelly baby catches. I do too. But in these opening scenes, it was all Bailey and Sienna.

You know, in the shooting draft, there's a series of talking heads where everyone would have weighed in on whether or not they want kids. Oh, yeah.

But

Andy saying that he wanted Nard Pups is the one that made it in and it's definitely the best one.

Well, as everyone's entering the church, Dwight is going to hand out his business cards.

And you know what, correct me up about this moment, Jenna. It's very small,

but

rain chose to deliver the line where he hands the business cards in the way

that when you walk into church, they hand you the program. Yes. I thought that was so great. He was like, Dwight Shrewt, regional sales. Dwight Shrewt, business card. Like he did that cadence. Yes. This is part of a bigger storyline for Dwight. It's in deleted scenes. It comes out throughout the episode where he is really trying to work this church crowd for business.

Well, the one person who's having trouble getting into the church is Toby. He says it's been a few years since he's attended a church service.

Yeah.

He and the big guy have some catching up to do. I went to deleted scenes and looked in our candy bag alts because I was curious if there was any more backstory. I mean, we learned in season five, casual Friday that Toby had been in seminary and dropped out because he wanted to have sex with his girlfriend, Kathy. Yes. And then followed her to Scranton and took the first job he could find, which was in human resources at Dunder Mifflin.

Well, I'm curious what you found because we had fan questions from Rachel C. and Suffolk, Virginia, and Kaylee E. and Indianapolis, Indiana, who said, so Toby has trouble going into the church, but wasn't he at Jim and Pam's wedding as well as Phyllis's wedding?

He didn't have a problem going into those churches. Oh, that's such a good catch.

Well, the candy bag alts were all versions of this.

Here's one of them.

Toby,

I studied for the ministry, but well,

it didn't work out. So I'm gonna walk into the church, maybe look up at the altar and say, Hey, remember me, it's Toby. Okay. They were all versions of that, that he left the church and there was some mystery and he's got a little bit of beef,

maybe with the big man. You know where my brand went? What? You know, who wouldn't want to enter a church if they have a problem with God? Who? A strangler.

Oh!

And he started strangling after Jim and Pam's wedding and Phyllis's wedding. Yep. Oh, Sam.

Sam, is Toby the Scranton Strangler?

Will the Reddit threads be a buzz with this new development?

Michael, of course, is gonna try to weasel his way into the family sitting area at the church. I mean, this is what he does. Remember Phyllis's wedding? He wanted to be in the family photo

and he's doing his Godfather impression and I loved this line so much, Jenna. You said, you know, I love it when you do that voice, but today I'm sorry, I need you to tell me that you know you're not CC's Godfather.

And then Michael's like, yeah. And Pam says, I'm sorry, Michael.

I need you to say it. I'm so sorry.

I have to say that exchange sort of reminded me a little bit of Carol Stills. Yeah, I felt like it was something Carol would say to Michael. Michael, we're breaking up. I need you to know that. And I need you to say it back to me. Exactly. Well, I don't know if you noticed, but little CC is holding a little toy in her hand through all these scenes. I did. It's like a little tiger. So that was a real little toy. I don't know if it was Bailey or Santa in the scene, but it was just a great way to help make her feel secure. That was something that we did sometime. We just let them carry their own blankies or their own little toys. Yeah. You know, something that is revealed in the scene, Angela is that the godfather of Jim and Pam's baby is their friend Seth, whose wife Pam met at mommy and me.

I mean,

isn't that sort of just like a quick turnaround to godfather status?

Fan

mail flurry, Angela.

So many

people wrote in to say, why did Pam and Jim choose two people they essentially just met to be sees as godparents rather than one of their siblings or even an old friend.

I am part of the fan mail flurry.

Well, this made me wonder, hey, where is Pam's sister? Yeah, this is a big moment for Pam. I know. Also, where's her friend Isabel? Yeah. I mean, a lot of people are no shows. Jim's brothers.

Yeah.

They all live in town. It's not like these people had to travel far.

I don't know.

Maybe, you know, we did have a lot of guest stars in this episode. Maybe we just like couldn't pack anybody else in.

Well, I'm with Michael. Michael's like, he can't believe that these two in his eyes, random people are gonna hold such a huge

part in Cece's life. We never find out the godmother's name. It's just Seth and his wife. Hmm. Anyway,

well, the pastor is gonna welcome everyone.

I loved this scene. It just reminded me so much of Sundays during football season in church,

because

the pastor says what a terrific day this is, and not just because the Eagles are playing, and Kevin

is so tickled. This is like the biggest laugh that he's had in a while.

We had a fan question from Kirsten Elle in Minnesota. I really appreciate that the church pastor was cast as female. As someone who is considering becoming a Lutheran pastor myself, there aren't many women pastors depicted in the media. I'm wondering how this came about. Was Alison Jones looking for a woman specifically for this role? Is this woman an actual pastor? Well, Kirsten, the script called for a woman to play this role. Minister Gail was played by an actress named Carolyn Wilson. She's also appeared in Veep and Space Force. And get this. She was the casting associate for that 70s show, including the episode in which I played Stacy Wanamaker.

Yeah. Yeah.

Well, I thought Carolyn did a great

job. So believable. I mean, I would have believed she was a real pastor. I mean, I was like, I want to hear her sermon.

Well, as

part of her welcoming everyone to church that day, the pastor is also going to share with us that their young adult ministry is going to be leaving for Mexico. And they all like applaud. They're very excited. And they're also going to have their prayers and remembrance section.

Yes, Justin's mom, who was played by Sarah Zinser, is just going to ask everyone to keep Justin in their thoughts and in their prayers. And then there is going to be a standoff for who speaks next. Because both Dwight and a gentleman stand up at the same time and Dwight stares the man down until he sits, which was an amazing moment, in my opinion.

Well, Dwight is

now going to just basically hit everyone up to buy a printer. It's like so inappropriate. And I have a jelly baby catch.

Oh, is it at five minutes and 55 seconds? Yeah. Yes. During this whole scene, I had jelly baby. And I hope you noted some of the ways that I was trying to move jelly baby to make it look like it was a real baby. You were like bobbing her on your knee.

Yeah.

And like kind of like moving her arm with my thumb. Lady, this reminded me of the most famous jelly baby in a movie. Do you remember

it? Oh,

I do. I do. I do. Wait, no, I've got it. Because Josh and I were like, this is ridiculous. This is a big budget movie. Wait, wait, wait. No, I have it.

Wait.

I can see the guy's face. Bradley Cooper. Yes.

Bradley Cooper

in American Sniper.

Yes. He's holding this baby that is so fake.

He does a lot of the same kind of jelly baby stuff I was doing. Like there's one part. I rewatched it where you see him take his thumb and move the baby's arm. But this is like an emotional scene. Yeah.

And that baby was so distracting. And I feel like he was doing a really good performance. But all I could look at was this jelly baby.

When this came out and it was all over the news, I found an audio clip.

There's plenty of buzz and controversy surrounding American Sniper moving towards a convoy. But this morning, moviegoers are highlighting one glaring issue in particular. You see it? The baby. It's a fake. It's a prop doll. For one minute and 13 seconds, Bradley Cooper, Pat's Cuddles Cradle and also gently lays down that fake baby. Now Twitter erupting with the hashtag fakebaby with post-like, did they not trust Bradley Cooper with a real baby? And had CPR class the other morning, found the baby used in American

Sniper. So I can't remember who it is, but someone associated with the movie tweeted, but then deleted why

they used the fake baby? What was the tweet?

It said something like, the real baby showed up with a fever and then the second baby didn't show up. And so they had to just use fake baby

and do their best. Why do you have to delete that tweet? That's just information.

I don't know. I guess maybe it was not his place to say why there was a fake baby. I don't know. Maybe the studio was like, don't call out the fake baby. Yeah, exactly. Enough with the fake baby.

I loved that clip from the news so much, because I loved how many different stings were in there, Sam. Did you hear him? There

was like the

screech and the glass breaking. And like, I don't

know, was there a

helicopter? It was

like a two-time radio warning.

Yeah, there were so many things. Well, I have a great photo of our jelly baby. It was in between scenes. It was pretty hot because they kept turning off the air when we would film. I was in the main part of the church sitting area. You were up on the dais and I looked over at you and you looked at me and the jelly baby had flopped over, kind of falling off your

lap. And I took your picture. It's in our book, The Office BFFs.

It cracks me up every time I see it.

I love that we have that picture because jelly baby was a big part of my life, starting now till the end of the show.

Yeah, you spent a lot of time with jelly

baby. And then you did too. And then I did too. And jelly babies are heavy.

And if you're hot, they can also make you more hot.

Oh, we got another fan question from Angela V in Ontario, Canada, who asked, who picked the hymns for this episode? Also, Jim Dever sings, he's laughing with Pam. Oh,

okay.

Good catch. Randy said most of the hymns were chosen because they were public domain with the exception of one, which was with grateful hearts, our faith professing. That was scripted and it cost $5,000 to license. About the cost of a jelly baby.

Well, I think it's time for a break and we have a few things

outstanding.