The Office Cast Surprised Steve Carell With Michael's Farewell Song
A new book reveals the cast of The Office surprised Steve Carell with Michael Scott's emotional farewell song. First airing in 2005 on NBC, The Office would eventually become one of the defining sitcoms of an entire generation. The show featured Carell as Michael, the immature and unconventional regional manager of paper company Dunder Mifflin's Scranton branch.
Although The Office continued to reach new levels of popularity with each passing year, Carell decided to depart the show in season 7, much to the disappointment of many viewers. One of Carell's final episodes, «Michael's Last Dundies» features one of the show's more emotional moments as Michael heads into the conference room where the rest of the staff are waiting for him. All of his coworkers, including Jenna Fischer's Pam, Angela Kinsey's Angela, and John Krasinksi's Jim, then proceed to sing «9,986,000 Minutes,» a rendition of Rent's «Seasons of Love» with Dunder-Mifflin-themed lyrics, as Michael looks on with tears in his eyes.
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In their new book, The Office BFFs: Tales of The Office From Two Best Friends Who Were There (via Mashable), Fischer and Kinsey reveal that the emotional moment was actually a surprise for Carell. While they explain that Carell "knew something was up" during filming for the final episodes, the song was something the rest of the cast had planned and rehearsed in secret. Check out a quote from the book below:
As we did our final episodes with Steve, it was difficult to contain our sadness at losing our friend and our trusted number one. We cried a lot. The worst was the day we filmed his goodbye song. People often ask if Steve knew we were going to sing to him,
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