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February 08 2007

(SPOILER) Buffy Meets The Office. Joss talks about the infamous "total coincidence" he faced while directing his episode of "The Office".

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Buffy Meets The Office
Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon got a lesson in typecasting when he was brought in to direct the Feb. 15 episode of NBC's The Office. While much of the focus is on a student art show that includes the work of Pam (Jenna Fischer), there's also a bit about a bat taking up residence at Dunder Mifflin. "I was thinking I was doing something just about people," he told TV Guide during a break in the shooting. "Then there was a bat-stunt meeting, an animatronic-bat meeting.... I thought, ‘This is what I'm running away from!' There was only one bat in the entire run of Buffy. We couldn't afford it."

Pliny | General | 21:49 CET | 13 comments total | tags: joss, the office

Not to be picky, (yeah, right) but weren't there two bat scenes? One was in Buffy Meets Dracula and one was in Fear Itself (or whatever the name of the Halloween episode was with the tiny fear demon.)

newcj | February 08, 22:08 CET

Oh my God. That is hysterical! Thanks for posting it.

Tonya J | February 08, 22:13 CET

I think Joss means only one actual bat. I'm thinking the bats in "vs Dracula" were all CG.

jam2 | February 08, 22:24 CET

Poor Joss. Now we know why he was asked to direct the episode, they thought he had experience with bats.
I wonder if the office bat turned out to be Dracula. Now that I think about it there were bats on Fear Itself also.

urkonn | February 08, 22:31 CET

I'll have to tell my sister about this. She found a bat clinging to the inside of a wastebasket in her office at her former job. Now she works in a building built over a cemetery and/or Hellmouth, but that's a different story.

bloodflowers | February 08, 22:55 CET

No comment. I just wish to see Joss back in his element.

Madhatter | February 08, 23:02 CET

This is so odd. The Office is my new obsession and it seems so unlike Joss's writing style. Because Joss is so about clever dialogue, and The Office seems a lot of improv.

So I'm REALLY interested in seeing how it turns out.

numbereleven | February 09, 01:43 CET

Is anyone else imagining Michael and Dwight covering their heads yelling, "Bat!" like in Buffy vs. Dracula? Heehee.

electricspacegirl | February 09, 01:57 CET

numbereleven, I think Joss just did the directing, not the writing.

TychoCelchuuu | February 09, 02:37 CET

Above that, I see that Fox has plans to make an American version of The Vicar of Dibley... does this sound like a really bad idea to anyone else.

IMForeman | February 09, 05:07 CET

Above that, I see that Fox has plans to make an American version of The Vicar of Dibley... does this sound like a really bad idea to anyone else.

I've never really got this making American versions of UK shows. Why don't they just show the originals like we do with US shows?

Cider | February 09, 13:17 CET

Cider, Cause they need an additional 150 episodes, including multiple shark jumps and the time to run every idea into the ground before they let go ?

jpr | February 09, 13:28 CET

This is so odd. The Office is my new obsession and it seems so unlike Joss's writing style. Because Joss is so about clever dialogue, and The Office seems a lot of improv.

That just shows you how good the acting, writing, and directing are on the show--it's a scripted sitcom, just like anything else on the air, but it does often feel like it's improved. It doesn't capture quite the same documentarian feel that the BBC version had, but I think it has more than enough of its own strengths to make up for that.

JesterInACast | February 09, 15:56 CET

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