+The genesis for the episode came from an idea Angela Kinsey (Angela Martin) and Jenna Fischer (Pam Beesly) had while spending time together on the set of the series. +The math problem Michael gives, 13579 divided by 8724, equates to 1.56. +Pam's monologue on reading about a girl who lived in a house with a terrace was based on a real book from the Choose Your Own Adventure series, although not specifically identified as such in the episode, read by Jenna Fischer when she was a child. +Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey came to Greg Daniels with the basic idea for this episode: Jan would hold a seminar with the Dunder-Mifflin women as a cover to see if any of them had management/executive abilities, and Michael would get jealous. Daniels like the idea and asked them what came next in the story, and Fischer admitted they didn't have more of a plot to outline. Daniels then called BJ Novak into his office and assigned him to write the script from their original idea. +Scenes were filmed where Dwight brought his "spud gun" to the men's meeting and wreaked havoc, but they were cut from the original broadcast because they upstaged the other parts of the story.
Review by Felipe IbañezBlockedParent2018-07-10T20:37:07Z
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+The genesis for the episode came from an idea Angela Kinsey (Angela Martin) and Jenna Fischer (Pam Beesly) had while spending time together on the set of the series.
+The math problem Michael gives, 13579 divided by 8724, equates to 1.56.
+Pam's monologue on reading about a girl who lived in a house with a terrace was based on a real book from the Choose Your Own Adventure series, although not specifically identified as such in the episode, read by Jenna Fischer when she was a child.
+Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey came to Greg Daniels with the basic idea for this episode: Jan would hold a seminar with the Dunder-Mifflin women as a cover to see if any of them had management/executive abilities, and Michael would get jealous. Daniels like the idea and asked them what came next in the story, and Fischer admitted they didn't have more of a plot to outline. Daniels then called BJ Novak into his office and assigned him to write the script from their original idea.
+Scenes were filmed where Dwight brought his "spud gun" to the men's meeting and wreaked havoc, but they were cut from the original broadcast because they upstaged the other parts of the story.