The Office & HIMYM: Favorite Cold Opens!

Office Ladies

Audacy & Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey

Comedy, After Shows, Tv & Film

4.8 • 88.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week on Office Ladies 6.0, Jenna and Angela are joined by Josh Radnor and Craig Thomas from the How We Made Your Mother podcast to talk all things cold opens! They swap favorites from The Office and How I Met Your Mother and break down what makes those opening moments so memorable. Plus, Jenna and Angela kick things off with a Taylor Swift–inspired chit chat, and reveal which episodes of The Office were their favorites to film. So, don’t skip the first two minutes… and enjoy! Office Ladies Website - Submit a fan question for Around the Town, Chit Chat, The Paper & Second Drink favorite moment: 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	I'm Jenna Fisher and I'm Angela Kinsey.
0:06.6	We were on The Office together and we're best friends.
0:09.5	And now we're doing the ultimate Office Lovers podcast just for you.
0:13.6	Each week we will dive deeper into the world of the office with exclusive interviews
0:17.8	behind the scenes details and lots of BFF stories. We're the Office
0:21.9	Lady 6.0. Hi there, everybody. Hi. We have such a fun episode today, lady. I'm really excited
0:31.1	about it. We do. We are going to be discussing our favorite cold opens. Mm-hmm.
0:37.9	I think you guys have heard us use that term before.
0:40.9	That's sort of like the two minutes of a TV show that precedes the title sequence.
0:46.5	Mm-hmm.
0:47.2	A lot of times on The Office, this was a standalone comedic bit that was separate from the
0:52.2	plot of the episode, but sometimes it was on plot of
0:56.3	the episode. Yeah. And we're going to get into some of our favorite cold opens with some
1:02.5	special guests today. We have Josh Radner and Craig Thomas, the host of How We Made Your Mother.
1:09.0	We love their podcast. You guys know it. It's on our network. They
1:12.5	rewatch each week an episode of How I Met Your Mother, and we're going to talk cold opens with
1:17.6	them today. Yeah, we thought it would be kind of fun if we traded some of our favorite,
1:22.5	The Office Cold Opens, and they told us a couple of their favorites from how I met your mother.
1:27.4	But before we get to that, we have a really great chit-chat.
1:30.7	Yeah, this week's suggestion comes from Bailey M in Oklahoma City, who said,
1:36.4	Hey, ladies, Taylor Swift recently released a music video for her song, Opelite, and Donal
1:42.4	Gleason is in it.
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