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Since Netflix started streaming The Office, fans have had a super convenient way to re-watch the classic workplace comedy. But anyone who owns the DVD box sets of The Office will be able to spot some clear inconsistencies between the episodes streaming and those that aired on NBC.

On the latest episode of the Office Ladies podcast, former co-stars Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey talked about filming the Season 3 episode, "Traveling Salesmen." But in rewatching it, they learned that the "Traveling Salesmen" episode on the Season 3 DVD box set doesn't quite match up with the episode on Netflix.

"Angela and I were so confused, because we were trying to outline this episode and there were all these scenes that Angela was talking about that I remembered shooting...but that weren't in the version I was watching," Fischer explained.

After doing a little digging, Fischer learned the story behind the discrepancy. Turns out, two different "Traveling Salesmen" episodes aired on NBC back in the day. The original aired on Jan. 11, 2007. But on March 15, 2007, NBC aired a repeat of the episode.

"You know, when they would run repeats they wouldn't get as many viewers, which meant fewer ad dollars for commercials, right? Cause that's how networks make money. So they thought, 'If we add a newpeat where it's mostly the old episode but then some stuff you've never seen before, maybe it would up the viewership,'" she told Kinsey. "That's why there are now these two different versions of this episode living out in the world. Because somebody in marketing at NBC came up with this newpeat idea."

If you don't have the DVDs to reference (or didn't start watching The Office until it was available on streaming), have no fear. Kinsey broke down what you're missing when you watch the episode on Netflix.

"First of all, 'Traveling Salesmen' [S3, Ep12] and 'The Return' [S3, Ep13] are one episode on the DVD. They're not two episodes. They're one like supersized huge episode," she said before revealing a few newpeat Pam plot lines.

"Pam gets a phone call that a watercolor she made won a sixth grade elementary school art contest. The sixth graders picked your art, you were really excited," she told Fischer. "You won $100.00. You were really excited to tell Kevin about it, and Kevin's like, 'Yeah, well I won $400.00 betting on a Celtics game.' And you were like, 'OK. Thanks for that, Kevin.'"

Kinsey said that Pam was so desperate to tell someone that her art won, but everyone was out on a sales call. So she decided to tell Angela. "Jenna, we have one of those classic over-the-partition Angela and Pam scenes. And she tells Angela, and Angela has all this good favor in her heart towards Pam right now, you know? They've gone and got coffee, they've bonded. And so Angela goes, 'Congratulations' and then she says, 'I really like having these little moments with you.'"

Kinsey also shared that Angela was in such a good mood that she offers Pam one of Sprinkles' kittens (the dominant male named Ash). Pam rejects her offer, and Angela is pissed. "[Angela] instantly goes back to just being this cold, snarky person to Pam. That's it. Their friendship's over. It was so fleeting," Kinsey said.

"Pam is so excited to tell him, and he's on his way out to have coffee with Karen. Pam's like, "Jim," and he starts talking to her about it, and Karen's like, 'Um, we're going to get coffee...'" Kinsey said.

Though Kinsey thought this was the show's only "newpeat," Fischer said thinks it happens again in a Season 4 episode. "Phyllis tells Jim about her house that Bob bought her. It's on the DVD, but it's cut out of the Netflix version."

So there you have it, folks. If you're looking for ways to become an even bigger Office fan check out the DVDs, brush up on deleted scenes like Angela, and be sure to listen to the full podcast episode for more behind-the-scenes stories about filming "Traveling Salesmen."

Nicole is a Senior Editor at Mashable. She primarily covers entertainment and digital culture trends, and in her free time she can be found watching TV, sending voice notes, or going viral on Twitter for admiring knitwear. You can follow her on Twitter @nicolemichele5.

Per interviews with its writer, this "Schumacher Cut" was darker and more psychological, with the extra 40 to 50 minutes getting into the mind of Bruce Wayne (played by Val Kilmer) and the guilt he held over the death of his parents. It also provides a better explanation of why the film is called Batman Forever.

Of this missing footage, about 15 minutes worth of deleted scenes have been released through various DVD and Blu-ray releases of the third Batman movie. Though there could be plenty of darker stuff locked in the Warner Bros vault, those hoping for a Dark Knight-style dark movie may be disappointed; the deleted scenes are just as goofy as anything that we actually see in the film.

Alfred goes on to speculate that Bruce "never faced up to why he became [Batman] in the first place." Bruce then goes into a cave, where he first reads from his father's diary, then in a moment that is goofier than the film thinks it is, squares off against a human-sized bat.

Scenes of this bat flying towards the camera did appear in the finished version, but the stuff about Thomas Wayne's diary did not. In the theatrical version, we see Bruce take his father's diary during the wake for his parents, running away until he falls in a hole. It is then that he sees the giant bat.

However, in the longer version, we actually get to see what Thomas Wayne wrote in his diary: "Bruce insists on seeing a movie tonight..." as his parents would die outside of the movie theater, the film argues that the burden of guilt from discovering this is what leads to Bruce becoming Batman.

In this deleted scene, it is finally confronting the bat that brings Bruce psychological clarity. He emerges from the cave knowing his purpose in life, saying, "I'm Batman, Alfred. I'm Batman." Though he doesn't say it, the implication is clear: Bruce Wayne will be Batman...forever.

If that subtext was not clear enough, another deleted scene spells out why the film is called Batman Forever. In this scene, Dr. Chase Meridian (Nicole Kidman) is in a car with Alfred and asks him, "does it ever end, Alfred?" To which the butler replies, "no, Dr. Meridian, not in this lifetime."

Those hoping that the 40 minutes-or-so deleted from the Schumacher original version is all the dark and moody stuff will be disappointed by one deleted scene that shows another time The Riddler (Jim Carrey) gets one over on Batman.

In this scene, Batman is following what can only be described as a bat-nav, a TV in his car featuring a big X on the map rather sillily labeled "crime scene." Arriving there, however, Bruce finds himself in the middle of a woman's salon. One of the hairdressers jokes: "A little off the ears, Batman?"

Fans have also previously been given a glimpse of a longer version of the tussle in the helicopter at the start of the film between Harvey and Bruce. The cut scene does hint towards some of the darker psychological demons Bruce may have been fighting in this longer version of the film.

In the scene, Harvey says to his black leather-class nemesis: "'Batman doesn't kill'...that's a good one. It's too good to be true. What's that lethal curl of a lip? What's that homicidal gleam of the eye? You're a killer too, and you know it."

The deleted scenes also make clearer Bruce's reasons for allowing Dick to live with him after the horrific circus accident that left his family dead. Basically, Bruce sees a lot of himself in the young man who becomes Robin.

On YouTube, one more deleted scene has been released, a fairly inconsequential clip in which Bruce watched a news report that pleads with Batman to retire; a sentiment supported by Alfred, who then tells Bruce to tell Chase that he loves her.

The website Batman on Film, which has compiled scripts and other materials to try and reconstruct the Schumacher Cut, also includes details of other cut scenes. These include Chase helping to fight off attackers in Wayne Manor, plus extended scenes featuring Sugar (Drew Barrymore) and Spice (Debi Mazar).

Longtime fans of the Final Destination franchise may have noticed that one particular scene was cut out from the streaming version of the film, specifically from the iconic plane crash that kickstarts the movie's events. It is a key scene, as it foreshadows one of the character's deaths well before it actually takes place, but the streaming giant has chosen to excise it. Here's what happened to the scene where Tod (Chad Donella) mimics hanging himself from the version of Final Destination sent to Netflix in 2015 from Warner Bros. and what appears in the HBO Max version.

The year 2000 was an incredible year for horror movies not least because Final Destination released and spawned an entire franchise that is currently composed of five movies with a sixth in the making. In that same year, the Scary Movie horror comedy franchise began with comedic parodies of some of the genre's most popular flicks. As the twenty-first century began, horror moved away from stale slashers, overdone zombies, and traditional hauntings. Within that change, Final Destination was a major milestone that went on to define the atmosphere of teen-oriented features. It introduced the concept of fate and destiny in regards to death's grand design. Alex Browning (Devon Sawa) has a premonition that the plane taking his high school class on a field trip to Paris, France explodes during take-off. As it shifts from character to character, there are subtle hints at how each character will die, but Tod's is particularly morbid.

When they board the plane, Tod is asked to switch seats with a fellow classmate. After he makes an excuse for why he can't, she asks Alex, who looks at Tod only to see him mimic the motion of hanging himself. He gets off the plane with Alex, but he is the first in Final Destination's version of Death's grand design to take back the original victims of Flight 180. As the invisible presence manipulates his surroundings, Tod dies from an accidental hanging in his bathroom. He suffers the fate he mimicked on the plane, which was cut out of the current streamable version of Final Destination.

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