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Office Ladies

Second Drink: Dinner Party

Office Ladies

Audacy & Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey

Comedy, After Shows, Tv & Film

4.8 • 88.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

This week we’re breaking down Dinner Party! Michael finally outsmarts Jim and Pam forcing them to come over to his condo for dinner. Steve Carell reads this week’s summary, and we hear from Melora Hardin, John Krasinski, Rainn Wilson, Ed Helms, Beth Grant and director Paul Feig on what it was like to be a part of this infamous episode. The ladies also discuss the writer’s strike, which scene was the hardest to get through without laughing and a gassy car incident. So put that Osso Buco in the oven, turn off your tiny plasma TV and curl up on your bed bench to enjoy the behind-the-scenes magic of this amazingly cringey episode. Office Ladies Website - Submit a fan question: https://officeladies.com/submitaquestion  Follow Us on Instagram: OfficeLadiesPod Follow Us on YouTube Follow Us on TikTok To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to your second drink of dinner party. This is such a great breakdown. We got so many

0:07.6

audio clips from our cast for this episode. We got Steve Correll, John Cresensky, Rayne Wilson,

0:13.0

Ed Helms, Malora Hardin, Beth Grant. Plus, we got tidbits from the director Paul Feig,

0:18.7

Anne Writers, Gene Stupubninski and Lee Eisenberg.

0:21.9

It's an epic episode.

0:23.7

And we also discussed more about the dinner party episode in our Office Lady 6.0 episode, Dinner Party Horror Stories.

0:30.8

I was a little stumped as to what we might be able to add to the discussion in this second drink.

0:36.4

But then I thought, why don't we read more

0:39.1

of the fan letters from our submissions from dinner party horror stories? Yes, there were so many good

0:44.3

ones. If you remember, we ask you all to send in your own dinner party horror stories and you guys

0:49.6

really delivered. I'm going to start us off with one from Becca J in Tennessee. Okay. Becca says,

0:56.3

when applying for medical residencies, it's common to have a dinner with current residents.

1:01.7

This way, everyone gets a sense of the culture, and if you like them, and vice versa. Like many of the

1:07.5

group, I ordered a glass of wine. Then I quoted Michael Scott and said I was getting an okey afterbirth.

1:16.0

Unfortunately, my dinner companions were not familiar with the U.S. office, including an

1:22.0

Aussie who complained about the show after I explained my weird phrase.

1:26.4

Ultimately, I matched that program and I made great friends

1:29.4

and I introduced the office to many residents. I mean, could you imagine the crickets if you said

1:38.0

your wine had an oaky afterbirth to people who didn't get the inside joke, the office reference?

1:43.6

I mean, this is a room full of residence.

1:46.3

What if some of them are like OBGYNs?

1:48.4

And they're like, what is happening?

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