And now I’m studying about it, in Andy Inexperienced’s anthology “The Workplace: The Untold Story of the Best Sitcom of the 2000s.” It’s over 400 pages of thorough tales, together with two from the primary season, through which NBC dragged its heels renewing the present after greenlighting solely six episodes. First from Kate Flannery, who performed Meredith: 

I stored my restaurant job by way of the primary season. I used to be a waitress at Kate Mantilini in Beverly Hills. Typically showrunner Greg Daniels would are available in to speak to me. I’d be holding a tray of meals and he’d be like, “I’ve bought to speak to you about saying the phrase vagina. We’re going backwards and forwards with the community on that, however actually wish to maintain it.” 

And Jason Kessler, manufacturing assistant: 

My job that season was to drive round city and drop individuals’s scripts off at their homes. I very particularly keep in mind going to John’s house in West Hollywood and he was enjoying video video games with a buddy. He invited me in to play. Usually, I’d drop a script off on the door or I’d knock on the door and hand it to him, and somebody would say, “Oh, thanks very a lot,” and simply go into their home. John’s the one one that ever invited me in.