From The Writers Of The Webisodes

If you need a little fix of The Office today, here is a very interesting article about the writers of the webisodes. Even still, there is a lot of great information in there about much more than the webisodes.

Here is a little bit about the writing of the webisodes:

Schur explains that when the webisode idea came up and he and Lieberstein signed on to do it, the show was in that frantic time period. It turned out that Schur and Lieberstein were the only writers who had time to work on the webisodes at the time. Schur says, “We came up with this idea, and we just worked on them whenever there was a crack in our schedule where we could find fifteen minutes or twenty minutes,” with Lieberstein working on the webisodes whenever he could, sometimes just off set, while still in costume as Toby.

Lieberstein says that “like a regular episode, there is a storyline that runs through all ten of them. But they play very much as vignettes. It let us just work on one at a time. With a basic premise being $3,000 is missing — we focus on the accountants. Then we’d come up and say, OK, they’re gonna turn to Stanley now. What could happen with Stanley? And it’d be a little sketch with the accountants interviewing Stanley. It didn’t demand the kind of continuity that a regular episode does.”

You’ll want to read the whole article here.

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