The October 6 issue of Entertainment Weekly contains an eyebrow-raising tidbit about one of the subplots discarded from last year’s season of “The Office:” an unintended pregnancy for straitlaced head accountant Angela.
According to executive producer Greg Daniels, during a typically awkward Dwight-Angela encounter in the Dunder-Mifflin kitchen late last season, Angela left the room after muttering, “I’m late”…but she wasn’t referring to having someplace else to be at that time.
So why was the storyline cut?
“It was a big move, but we had it in a show that had a lot of other big moves,” says Daniels. “I don’t know if we’re ever going to end up using it.”
Probably a wise decision. It’s hard to wring comedy gold from an accidental pregnancy under the best of circumstances, and while the idea of an actual, physical coupling between Dwight and Angela may be funny to some…it’s the stuff of nightmares to many, many others.
Thus, in lieu of starting a due-date pool for Angela just yet, we’ll have to content ourselves with enjoying NBC’s ode to the oddest romance on television:
“My animal deserves a lot of loving,” muses Dwight. And he’s just the man to give it to her.
