What Episode of the Office Does Pam Have Her Baby

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"Baby Shower" is the quaternary episode of the fifth season of The Office, and the 76th episode overall. It was written by Aaron Shure and directed by Greg Daniels. It start aired on October sixteen, 2008. It was viewed past 8.07 million people.

ane Synopsis
2 Deleted scenes
3 Trivia
4 Amusing details
5 Goofs
half-dozen Connections to previous episodes
7 Behind the scenes
8 Cultural references
9 Cast
- 9.i Principal cast
- nine.ii Supporting cast
- ix.three Special guest star
- 9.iv Recurring cast
- 9.5 Guest cast
10 References

Synopsis

Dwight acts out the process of childbirth with a watermelon so Michael can be prepared for the arrival of Jan's infant. Dwight eventually drops the watermelon from his apron, which bursts onto the floor. Michael insists that the Political party Planning Committee arrange a shower but similar they gave Phyllis for her wedding. Oscar deems the whole matter pointless equally the baby isn't fifty-fifty related to Michael. Angela plans a "Estimate Whose Infant Picture" game for the shower and gets angry when Andy unintentionally makes fun of her childhood picture show. Stanley gets irritated at pregnant women in the office when they complain most bloated ankles, constant hunger, varicose veins, and nipple chafing. He has the aforementioned problems and doesn't make them mutter about it to everyone.

Jim and Pam accept a difficult time trying to communicate with each other throughout the day, with Pam telling the documentary coiffure that the 2 of them would be having an "out of sync" day even if she were in Scranton, which she is not.

When Jan arrives, anybody's surprised to see that her infant girl, Astrid, has already been built-in. The shower is held anyway with Michael doing his all-time to placate Jan by existence cold to Holly (to whom he gave a head's up prior to the shower).

The office employees pitched in money to purchase a stroller for Jan who has already bought a $1200 Orbit stroller. Dwight can't imagine a stroller should cost equally much every bit his bomb shelter. He takes the Orbit out to test its durability. While the shower continues, he straps a watermelon into the stroller and pushes it into fences, throws it from small-scale heights and ties it to the back of his car for a bumper test.

Michael loves children. He never misses an opportunity to hold one. Only when he holds Astrid, he feels cypher. He seeks advice from another "baby-daddy," Darryl. Darryl explains that Michael doesn't have whatsoever attachment to Astrid because she's not his baby.

Despite Michael's pretense at the hostility toward Holly, Jan recognizes his allure to her. After retrieving Astrid from Angela and Andy's vegetable photo shoot, she prepares to leave, simply not before telling Michael non to date Holly. He agrees. And so he goes into the edifice and hugs Holly. He feels the connectedness to her he didn't feel with Astrid and asks Holly out on a date. She accepts.

Jim and Pam call each other at exactly the same fourth dimension and go out like letters, finishing the 24-hour interval even so having not reached each other.

Deleted scenes

Michael reveals that January has allowed him to come upward with names if she has a boy (he chooses Chevy, afterwards Chevy Chase).
Michael and Dwight reveal the contents of the "go purse" Michael carries around in case he needs to blitz to the infirmary for the nascence, as written out in What to Look When Yous're Expecting. Coming from the 1986 edition, the contents are laughably out of date, though Dwight has added some items of his own.
Kevin and Phyllis pour orangish juice into baby bottles for the shower - Meredith adds her own special ingredient, assuring them "it's for me".
Stanley wonders why all babies seem genetically predisposed to stare at him.
Jan reluctantly plays a pointless babe shower game. After Holly remarks how cute January looks (to which Jim mockingly states, "Wait till y'all get to know her better"), Michael scolds her for talking during the party.
Holly talks with Toby (via speakerphone) about what information technology was like being the HR person.
Jan finds out that Kevin donated sperm at the same sperm bank she went to. While Kevin gleefully wonders if he might have "done it" with her, in a talking head interview, Jan considers her options if he really is the father: "Sue? ...icide?"
More of Dwight's "testing" the stroller bought for January, catastrophe with Dwight admitting he is very impressed when it holds upward.
Following a word regarding Astrid in the otherwise empty briefing room, Jim insists that he has no intention of beingness Michael'southward connexion with reality.
Kevin, Phyllis, and Kelly wonder whether "she" should sleep on her breadbasket or dorsum, but the camera zooms out to show not Astrid but a passed-out Meredith. In a talking caput, Kelly says that, if she makes no mention of Meredith's clothes, at that place's no reason to bring up her drinking problem.
Jan breastfeeds Astrid in plain view of the part, as Kevin and Creed happily look on.
Extension of the scene in which Michael tells Phyllis that he wants live storks. He says that if not live storks, and so he wants at to the lowest degree Big Bird.

Trivia

This episode demonstrates actress Melora Hardin'south real-life singing talent.
Afterward the episode aired, participants in Dunder Mifflin Infinity were tasked with matching up each baby flick with the corresponding actor.
Author Michael Schur's wife and son appear in the montage of Michael with babies when Michael dances with two babies at once.^[1]
Jim's chart in the common cold open has been used in a few internet memes with edited captions.

Amusing details

When Michael interrupts Phyllis's talking head interview, Angela watches with satisfaction.
Creed wraps his pes in bandages, presumably the same pes which has but four toes (equally revealed in the episode "Take Your Daughter to Work Day").
Amongst the decorations for the infant shower is a large Large Bird stuffed toy. Phyllis couldn't get the storks Michael requested in a deleted scene.
January'south throne is a conference room chair decorated with Post-It notes.
Stanley's contribution to the babe shower collection is a single dollar.
When photographing Astrid, Angela calls the babe "it" instead of "she".
Creed implies that he fought at Omaha Beach. Assuming his birthdate of November 1, 1925, is right, this would brand him xviii when D-Day occurred and thus is possible.
Holly wears a different color of smash shine on each mitt, in keeping with her quirky personality.
Michael's "special mark" that he was to put on Astrid when she was built-in was "MGS", his initials.
Jan left backside the stroller she received from the employees of Dunder Mifflin. Information technology sits outside the door to the part foyer when she drives away, and Jim later walks past it when he leaves work.
Instead of saying, "quote ... unquote", Michael says "quote ... quote unquote".
Jan allows Michael to determine the name for the baby if information technology was a boy, however, it is heavily unsaid that she already knew her baby would be a girl which means she merely allowed him to choose the name considering she knew he had no run a risk of actually naming her kid.
When Jan is sitting on the flooring, singing to Astrid, you tin encounter a hemorrhoid pillow sitting on the chair behind her. Many women get hemorrhoids after giving nativity.

Goofs

In the cold open, Jim shows two diagrams describing Astrid's parents and the watermelon's parents. According to a watcher'south point of view, on Astrid's parents' diagram, the sperm donor (the father) is on the left side and Jan (the mother) is on the right side. On the watermelon's parents' diagram, Dwight is listed on the left side and Michael on the right. However, Dwight should be listed on the right and Michael on the left in gild to correctly correspond with Astrid'southward diagram (Dwight is the "mother" of the watermelon because he'south "birthing" it, like how January is the mother of Astrid).

Connections to previous episodes

Andy calls a infant picture of himself "Nard Puppy", a callback to the nickname "Nard Domestic dog" he received in the episode "Local Advertizement".
In "Take Your Daughter to Work Day", Michael complained well-nigh having children effectually the office and was awkward effectually Toby's daughter, nonetheless, by the end of the episode he calls himself a "little kid lover". In this episode, he talks well-nigh how much he likes babies every bit well.
In "Drug Testing", Kevin asked for a mag when he went to give a urine sample. This suggests that Kevin has been a sperm donor for quite some time.

Backside the scenes

Of all the scenes of the series that were cut for time, Brian Baumgartner'south favorite was the deleted scene where Jan learns that Kevin donated sperm at the same sperm depository financial institution she went to.^[2]
When Melora Hardin'southward daughter was but a few months old, her family joined Greg Daniels's, and Steve Carell'south families for brunch. Hardin chest-fed her girl at the tabular array, which fabricated Daniels and Carell uncomfortable and may have been the inspiration for Jan openly chest-feeding Astrid in the function.^[3]

Cultural references

Michael wanted to become alive storks for the baby shower. In Western civilization, the stork is the symbol for childbirth.
In a deleted scene, Michael says that if he tin can't get storks, he wants Big Bird, a large yellow bird grapheme from the children'southward show "Sesame Street".
Michael asks for a gilded shower, inadvertently using a slang term for urolagnia, the practice of urination for sexual pleasure.
Pam mentions a friend who makes "Murakami-style collages". She is possibly referring to Haruki Murakami, a Japanese surrealist writer, or more likely, Takashi Murakami, a Japanese contemporary artist.
On the telephone, Pam talks about Sarah, the T.A., a common abbreviation for teaching assistant.
Jan wants to talk to Michael about Astrid's 529. A 529 plan is a manner of saving money for a kid's higher education. The joke is that Jan expects Michael to contribute to Astrid'southward college fund. In the United States, college expenses such equally tuition are the responsibility of the student, and families typically save money in accelerate to pay for it.
Angela's picture of Astrid in a vegetable patch echoes the style of photographer Anne Geddes.
Omaha Beach was one of the five beaches where Allied forces landed on June 6, 1944. It faced the greatest amount of German resistance and suffered the most casualties.
January sings "Son of a Preacher Human" at her baby shower. The song is sung from the point of view of a young woman who sneaks off with a young human being whenever his father (a preacher) comes to visit. It is a decidedly inappropriate song for a baby.

Bandage

Main cast

Steve Carell as Michael Scott
Rainn Wilson as Dwight Schrute
John Krasinski as Jim Halpert
Jenna Fischer every bit Pam Beesly
B.J. Novak as Ryan Howard

Supporting bandage

Ed Helms as Andy Bernard
Melora Hardin as Jan Levinson
Leslie David Baker equally Stanley Hudson
Brian Baumgartner as Kevin Malone
Creed Bratton as Creed Bratton
Kate Flannery every bit Meredith Palmer
Mindy Kaling every bit Kelly Kapoor
Angela Kinsey as Angela Martin
Oscar Nunez as Oscar Martinez
Craig Robinson as Darryl Philbin
Phyllis Smith as Phyllis Vance
Paul Lieberstein every bit Toby Flenderson (Uncredited, Vox But, Deleted Scene)

Special guest star

Amy Ryan as Holly Flax

Recurring cast

Calvin Tenner equally Calvin

Guest cast

Vanessa Ragland as Linda

References

↑ The Function: Baby Shower, Jennie Tan, October 17, 2008.
↑ Baumgartner, Brian. Episode 2: Rainn Wilson - Pt. 1. "The Office Deep Swoop with Brian Baumgartner" podcast, Feb 9, 2021.
↑ Greene, Alan. "The Writers' Room." The Office: The Untold Story of the Great Sitcom of the 2000s: An Oral History. Dutton, 2020.


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What Episode of the Office Does Pam Have Her Baby

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