So Jim’s proposal to Pam at the at the gas station, right? So three versions, I don’t know if you remember this, Jenna, we had three versions. One of them was the car pulls over, the camera is across the street and is shooting super long lens. And all you hear is traffic whizzing by in the foreground and you can’t- they’re not mic’d in this in this version. The sound was off, so you saw Jim walk up and you saw Pam in the haha and then all of a sudden they’re talking. You don’t know what they’re saying. Jim gets down on one knee, Pam reacts and they and then they hug and they kiss and it’s over. And second version was or that the final version was like very traditionally shot like you were right with them in the gas station, sort of looking in a classic TV coverage, and you could still hear traffic whizzing by in the background. But you couldn’t really see it, and the cameras are right up close. And then there was a sort of intermediate version where you were a little bit further away, but you could hear what they were saying. And he screened all three of them and the the one that was where the camera was super, far away and you couldn’t hear a word gave me like the greatest goosebumps feeling of my life. Like, I was like, That’s so beautiful. It’s so perfect for the show. It reminded me of the scene in the British office, where Tim takes off his mic and goes in and talks to Dawn. That was the sort of model of that. And you don’t hear what they’re saying. Then he comes back out and grabs the mic and says, she said no, by the way. And and it’s terrible and sad. And I was like, Well, that’s that’s a home run. That’s like the most beautiful. It’s so perfect. It’s the most beautiful thing ever. And he was like, Yeah, we’re not using that version. And I was like, why? And he was like, Because this is a moment that fans of the show have been waiting for for five, six years, whatever it was. And it’s not- it’s just fundamentally not fair to deny them the ability to hear Jim say, Will you marry me? It’s just mean. It’s like- and and this might be the most sort of like beautiful, artistic, you know, like highfalutin version. But if if what- what are we doing, if we’re denying fans the ability to hear Jim say, Will you marry me? And hear Pam say, yes. That’s just cruel. And I always fought him on all of those decisions and he was always right. It’s just like at the end of the day, I was like, Of course, of course you need to hear, will you marry me? Yes. Like that, that’s such a foundational moment in the history of the show. And so he had that- he had that thing of like, let’s develop and explore every possible idea. Let’s walked down every path. Let’s pull every name out of the hat. And at the end of the day, we will choose the one that is the best for the show, not the one that’s loved the most by the people who work on the show or the writers who write things or any anything else. Just what is the best thing for the show? And that’s why the show, over the course of its decade long run, had such integrity to it I think. It’s because it was always the decisions were always made in terms of what’s best for the show, not not what a bunch of like jaded writers thought would be the coolest thing or something like that. -Mike Schur
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