All About the Bring Your Pet to Work Day Episode of 'The Office' That Almost Happened

The Office is a splendor of weirdness, from Dwight Schrute crowning himself as the Hay King to Kevin Malone's mess of chili all over the floor. Or how about when Dwight cut the face off of the CPR dummy and wore it? That was, um, special. It's hard to believe, but there were actually some script ideas that were borderline even stranger that didn't make the cut.

One such idea was in a proposed episode called "Pet Day," as Andy Greene brings to light in his upcoming book, The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s, according to Entertainment Weekly. The script was written by Greg Daniels and the idea behind it was, as evidenced in the title, that everyone at Dunder Mifflin would bring their pet to work. "I think Michael had a parrot named Jim Carrey," writer Justin Spitzer recalls. That would've been incredible.

Spitzer continues:

"There was a moment at some point in the run where we realized, 'Okay, the characters and their situations have changed so much now that we can never, ever do 'Pet Day.' The show has changed too much now. It wouldn’t play.' There were a few seasons where we were like, 'There’s always 'Pet Day'!' whenever we’d get into trouble."

There were also some other golden ideas in the mix for episodes that never made it. Writer Warren Lieberstein says in the book that they were working on an episode called "Premonition," which was, "An interesting story about someone having a dream that someone died on the way home from work and no one wanted to leave the office because they started to believe that it was going to come true."

Writer Aaron Shure had a dream that Michael would be playing basketball in an episode and his shirt would get stuck in the garage door, meaning he'd be crucified. In this idea, Michael, "gets pulled up by the garage door, underneath the basketball hoop, which is like the crown of thorns. And no one notices and they leave him there overnight." Hilarious!

It's a shame fans couldn't have seen all of these episodes, because they sound just the right amount of wacky and pretty perfect for the Dunder Mifflin gang. You can pre-order Greene's book on Amazon here.