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This ending alone is all the evidence you need to know that the writers absolutely HATED Andy and that he was clearly their least favorite character to write for.

They really couldn't have picked a different character to be revealed as the person who leaked the story about the printers to the press? Why did it have to be Andy? They should've had it be someone like Dwight, Jim, Kevin, Darryl, etc. I feel like they chose Andy just so they could torment his character more.

There's a story going around that the writers were apparently very jealous of all the fame and recognition that Ed Helms had received after the success of The Hangover back in 2009 and this led to them deciding to make Andy the show's punching bag as a way to let out that anger and jealousy. This ending scene felt like the writers excuse to vent out everything to Ed without him knowing. Andy technically did the right thing by warning the public about the printers catching on fire. Yet, everyone treated him like he committed a terrorist act or something. They called him these cruel insults, hid his bag in the ceiling, etc. At one point, Kevin even tells him that he's the worst human being ever. That line alone felt like the writers own way of secretly saying "Fuck you Ed. Go to hell for being able to make a name for yourself without needing our help."

I don't get it. They spent the majority of Season 6 building up towards Andy and Erin getting together. Once they finally did though, they then break up like 2-3 episodes later for the dumbest and most forced reason ever. Like, what the hell happened? Did the writers have a last minute change of mind and decided that they didn't want Andy and Erin to be a couple anymore? Were they worried that their relationship was too similar to Andy and April's relationship on Parks and Recreation?

So far, I haven't found any sources with information on what made them to decide to break them up and/or why they decided to have Andy and Angela's engagement from the previous season be the reason. The Office Ladies Podcast for this episode gave zero information on this, which is weird because they do this for every other episode. Mindy Kailing (the credited writer of this episode) did an interview about this episode shortly after it aired and, again, no explanation given for these decision. It's almost like there's something that happened behind the scenes that they don't want the public to know about.

This is one of the most infamous scenes of the show. A lot of people hate it because of how Michael treated the Land Lady and I fully agree with them. But there's something else that really bothers me.

Season 4 is when I felt like the show finally started to humanize Michael a lot more. We saw that he was actually going through some struggles due to his toxic relationship with Jan. I was actually starting to feel sympathy for Michael because we got to see a different side to his character. But then this scene happens and every single bit of sympathy that I had for Michael was just thrown out the window and I went right back to hating him. Why did the writers decide to do this? Did they really think that retconning all the sympathy we had for Michael for a cheap and unfunny gag was worth it?

The way Michael treated Pam's land lady and his behavior felt out of place honestly. This feels more like something that Season 1 Michael would've done, not Season 4 Michael. Honestly, I wonder if this whole scene was an idea that got pitched back in Season 1, but never got used, and one of the writers just repurposed it for this episode without rewriting Michael's part to line up more with how he was for the rest of the season.