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Second Drink: Crime Aid

4/13/20261 hr 6 min

This week we’re breaking down Crime Aid! Michael and Holly get caught up in the magic of their third date and consequently, the office gets robbed. Meanwhile Phyllis helps Dwight deal with his Angela romantic woes. The ladies give Roy a Show Bible Goodbye, Angela does a deep dive on the Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum, and Jenna reveals why Wikipedia doesn’t have an “Office Robbery Statistics” page. Also, there’s a lot of great talk about auctions.  So enjoy this episode, and remember “Crime reduces innocence, makes everyone angry, I declare”!

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  1. Angela Kinsey· Host0:00

    [upbeat music] Welcome to our second drink of Crime Aid. We have some fantastic behind-the-scenes details from the writer of this episode, Charlie Grandy.

  2. Jenna Fischer· Host0:08

    And Jen Celotta also shares about directing this episode. It was her first time directing on The Office. What a debut for her.

  3. Angela Kinsey· Host0:16

    I know.

  4. Jenna Fischer· Host0:17

    It's got so many classic moments.

  5. Angela Kinsey· Host0:19

    So many. Okay, let's start with the fan favorite moment from Lisa R. in Plumas Lake, California, and Melanie D. from Austin, Texas. It's when Michael explains what Crime Aid stands for. Melanie said, "Ladies, when Michael says that Crime Aid means crime reduces innocence makes everyone angry, I declare" [laughs] "I laugh every time. I'm curious if there were any alts for that." Well, we did share that the writer, Charlie Grandy, came up with that acronym by himself, but I went to the candy bag alts, 'cause I was curious, and I went to the original table draft of the script to see if there were any other versions, and Melanie, Charlie nailed it from the very beginning. Crime reduces innocence makes everyone angry, I declare- [laughs] ... was in all of the early drafts of the scripts. No alts needed when something is that funny.

  6. Jenna Fischer· Host1:10

    I mean, every time you just said it, it made me laugh- I know ... out loud.

  7. Angela Kinsey· Host1:13

    I know.

  8. Jenna Fischer· Host1:13

    It's so ridiculous. [laughs] Oh, I'm really tickled. Our next fan favorite moment comes from Cecilia W. in Shawnee, Kansas, who says, "My favorite scene in Crime Aid is when Daryl says that Michael gave him a

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