A newly-unearthed clip from The Office vault reveals Michael Scott having Toby use a napkin to help him write his professional résumé.
Season 5 of The Office has been given the "Superfan" treatment at Peacock, meaning that the streamer is now hosting extended episodes of the popular sitcom featuring several never-before-seen deleted scenes. To help promote the new Superfan episodes, NBCUniversal has uploaded another one of these scenes online revealing Michael Scott (Steve Carell) begrudgingly requesting help from his arch-nemesis Toby Flenderson (Paul Lieberstein) with writing a résumé. Watch the scene below, courtesy of The Office on YouTube.
The clip begins with Michael realizing he needs to update his résumé after another interview applicant's accomplishments make him feel inadequate. After a brief scene involving Kevin (Brian Baumgartner) and Pam (Jenna Fischer) arguing over when the new copier will be ready to use, a moment featured in the regular version of the episode, the clip checks back in with Michael approaching Toby for help with his résumé. But despite Toby's best efforts, it becomes clear pretty quickly that it's not going to work out, as it begins with Michael handing Toby a napkin on which to write everything down.
"Write this down," Michael says. "Born in a medium-sized town, Michael Gary Scott always knew he was different..."
When Toby tells Michael to focus on his more recent achievements related to his work at Dunder Mifflin, Michael replies, "Change things. Ushered in a new era of love and comedy in the workplace. Hired many, fired few. Made money. Lost money. Learned to stop counting. This is our moment. This is our time. This next part should be sung, if possible..."
This particular scene is featured in "Two Weeks," the 19th episode of season 5. In that episode, per the official description, "Michael's (Steve Carell) relationship with the new vice president (guest star Idris Elba) becomes increasingly tense, as Michael finds an excuse to goof off even more than usual. Meanwhile, Pam (Jenna Fischer) faces the challenge of a new copier and Kelly (Mindy Kaling) develops a crush."
Related: The Office: Michael Scott Recalls His Childhood Tea Party in Unearthed Deleted Scene
After nine seasons, The Office aired its last episode on NBC in 2013, though streaming services have helped keep the series immensely popular in subsequent years. While DVD releases have previously delivered all kinds of cut content to fans that was not featured in the televised versions of the episodes, there are just as many other scenes that had never made it that far and still haven't been seen by fans to this day. NBCUniversal has been making the best of this by adding a lot of this unearthed content to Peacock's Superfan episodes.
Recently, another deleted scene was uploaded to YouTube from season 5's Superfan episodes. In that scene, Michael Scott attempts to convince the staff to make the best of what they have in the office by keeping their uncomfortable chairs and shoddy copying machine. To stress his point, he shares the story of his childhood plans to have a tea party with a Pippi Longstocking doll, and when he didn't get it for Christmas, he had the tea party anyway with the toys that he had. You can watch that clip below and you can view the full Superfan episodes on Peacock.
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