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‘The US Office’ cut a parody of ‘The Matrix’ from its final episode
The Office originally featured a parody of The Matrix.As revealed in new Office podcast An Oral History of The Office, the episode, entitled Finale, was set to see Jim play one last prank on Dwight.The new oral history podcast is hosted by Brian Baumgartner, who played Kevin Malone in the hit show.In the recent 11th episode, Baumgartner spoke to The Office editor Dave Rogers, who revealed that Jim was set to prank Dwight in the show’s finale to make him believe that he was inside the matrix.“We had a whole thing,” The Office editor Dave Rogers says in Episode 11 of An Oral History of the Office, “but we cut it for time.”“We can talk about the prank that hasn’t made it to the big screen, that I think we’re saving for the 10-year reunion, The