Episode One

**Episode One** of ***The Office Life*** is the introduction to the series, first filmed circa February of 2019.

## Episode One

"Typical Work Day"

Martha writes on the whiteboard in the first clip of the opening theme.

### Writer

Briton Graber, Genevieve Howley, Evan Kagarise, Bryan Ly, Jack Powell, Nick Tortora

## Summary

### Before the Work Day

Episode One of "The Office Life" begins with the character of Martha (or is it Liza?) waking up on the table within the Office, implying that she has spent the night there. This is a recurring theme throughout the series, establishing Martha as the boss and primary defender of the Office.

Doug enters the Office, always being the first to do so after Martha wakes up for the work day. He slams the door shut while strutting in, accidentally locking himself out. Martha then playfully opens and closes the door, introducing the ongoing feud between Martha and Doug. After Doug eventually pushes his way in, we are introduced to the other workers at the Office as they clock in, each time doing so by interacting with an outlet on the wall. First **Peter** (played in this episode by Bryan), who swipes a card on the outlet; then Molly, who slaps her hand above the outlet; then **Tom** (played in this episode by Jack), who swipes his phone above the outlet.

### During the Work Day

After the opening theme song, the workers are seen saying the pledge of allegiance at varying speeds and iterations, Molly eventually listing various famous American images while Doug sings "Auld Lang Syne." Cut to regular office hours. Peter attempts to confess his love to Molly using a bouquet of yellow flowers, she does not respond. Martha attempts to stack plastic cups, eventually completing a stack and destroying it at the workers' applause. Doug attempts to start a meeting, to which Martha (with the help of the other workers) immediately responds by silencing him and establishes herself as the boss. Peter does his nails. Doug picks up a crutch at some point. Martha establishes that the meeting is a "Bored Meeting." A brief interlude where Martha, Molly, and Doug play "Hot Crossed Buns" on boomwhackers. Back to the meeting, Martha explains that sails are plummeting. The workers question what they sell. Doug flirts with the crutches. Tom leaves early from work at 1:00 p.m. When reminded that it is one o'clock, Tom responds "Pacific Time." Peter leaves as well. (They both return between clips.)

Next, Martha and Molly have their first talk at the water fountain, a recurring event throughout the series. The discuss how hot they find Doug, and Molly encourages Martha to kiss him on the lips. In the next clip, Martha seemingly has a breakdown and writes, "I quit," on the white board. She begins to walk out the door, then turns back to stick her middle fingers up at the other workers, much to their dismay, and begins to walk out the door while screaming, "I will see you in court!" Molly whips. Peter and Tom run to get Martha back, and when she re-enters the three begin screaming, "AAAAAAAHH!"

### End of the Day

Molly delivers one of her famous end-of-the-day speeches while the workers cry, saying the Office's slogan, "We worked hard. We ate lots." First Peter leaves for the day, followed by Tom, then Doug, then Molly. Martha goes to bed, but is woken up by **Mike**, a worker at the **company who legally utilizes the office space**. Mike panickily, asks Martha who she is, whereupon she flees from the Office.

## Production

Production for the first episode (and therefore the entire series) began in mid-February, 2019, where on a day where Mr. Staggs along with two other students (**Trevor Schoeny**, **Brynn Lackey**) were absent, while another student would not arrive until the end of class (**Nick Tortora**). After the remaining students finished their assigned readings, filmmaker Genevieve Howley said, "Let's make a short film," and shared her vision of it being an "Office type thing." The substitute teacher sat in the hall so that she could better curate her March Madness line-up.

The actors present began to improvise comedic scenes which eventually took on a storyline. Just as the class ended, Nick arrived to school and played Mike, donning the iconic tortilla brown hat.

## Iconic Quotes

 "How many kids would you
want to have? Three?"
 "Pacific time."
 "I'LL SEE YOU IN COURT!"
 "We worked hard, we ate lots."
 "Who are you? What is that?
What is going on? Who are you?

## Trivia

* In a deleted scene, Mike is seen standing in the Office moments after Martha has left. He points to something written on the white board, and ominously recites it: "Yeeto-A-Cheat?"
* Written on the white board behind all that was added during the meeting scenes is the lyrics to "Hey Ho, Nobody Home," a musical round song about working.
* Evan, while playing Doug, accidentally refers to the character of Peter as Bryan, the actor playing him. Evan has a bad habit of doing this.
* Peter appears to clock in using a gold card :o
* Among the things audible from Molly's abridged Pledge of Allegiance, the things given allegiance are" "oh say can you see," "grand flying flag" "stars and stripes," and "the Statue of Liberty." This is now the new version of the Pledge of Allegiance.
* This particular episode was edited by **Take a guess**.
* Evan's last name is misspelled as "Kagerise" in the credits, which he initially thought was a joke but now suspects that that's actually how Gen thought his last name was spelled.
* When Doug first knocks on the door, the voice of Tom (Jack Powell) can be heard saying, "Is that Doug?" A little slip up ;b