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The Office & HIMYM: Favorite Cold Opens!

4/15/202652 min

This week on Office Ladies 6.0, Jenna and Angela are joined by Josh Radnor and Craig Thomas from the How We Made Your Mother podcast to talk all things cold opens! They swap favorites from The Office and How I Met Your Mother and break down what makes those opening moments so memorable. Plus, Jenna and Angela kick things off with a Taylor Swift–inspired chit chat, and reveal which episodes of The Office were their favorites to film. So, don’t skip the first two minutes… and enjoy!

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Clips

Confession: Reusing A Punchline
How Cold Opens Really Work
HIMYM’s Yellow Umbrella Hook
Bob Saget, The Secret Weapon
Not A Friends Wink? Really?
A Cold Open Reconsidered

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Jenna Fischer· Host0:00

    [upbeat music] I'm Jenna Fischer.

  2. Angela Kinsey· Host0:05

    And I'm Angela Kinsey.

  3. Jenna Fischer· Host0:06

    We were on The Office together.

  4. Angela Kinsey· Host0:08

    And we're best friends.

  5. Jenna Fischer· Host0:09

    And now we're doing the ultimate Office lovers podcast just for you.

  6. Angela Kinsey· Host0:13

    Each week, we will dive deeper into the world of The Office with exclusive interviews, behind-the-scenes details, and lots of BFF stories.

  7. Jenna Fischer· Host0:21

    We're the Office Ladies 6.0.

  8. Angela Kinsey· Host0:23

    [upbeat music] Hi there, everybody.

  9. Jenna Fischer· Host0:27

    Hi.

  10. Angela Kinsey· Host0:28

    We have such a fun episode today, lady. I'm really excited about it.

  11. Jenna Fischer· Host0:31

    We do. We are gonna be discussing our favorite cold opens.

  12. Angela Kinsey· Host0:36

    Mm-hmm.

  13. Jenna Fischer· Host0:37

    I think you guys have heard us use that term before. That's sort of like the two minutes of a TV show that precedes the title sequence.

  14. Angela Kinsey· Host0:46

    Mm-hmm.

  15. Jenna Fischer· Host0:47

    A lot of times on The Office, this was a standalone comedic bit that was separate from the plot of the episode, but sometimes it was on plot of the episode.

  16. Angela Kinsey· Host0:57

    [laughs] Yeah. And we're gonna get into some of our favorite cold opens with some special guests today. We have Josh Radnor and Craig Thomas, the hosts of How We Made Your Mother. We love their podcast. You guys know it. It's on our network. They re-watch each week an episode of How I Met Your Mother, and we're gonna talk cold opens with them today.

  17. Jenna Fischer· Host1:18

    Yeah. We thought it would be kind of fun if we traded some of our favorite The Office cold opens, and they told us a couple of their favorites from How I Met Your Mother.

  18. Angela Kinsey· Host1:27

    But before we get to that, we have a really great chit-chat.

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