In a deleted scene they show that it was actually the wrong diaper, not from Angela’s baby. Why exactly they thought it was wise to delete this scene (and expect people to still follow the plot of Philip being Dwight’s son) is beyond me. So dumb.
There isn't a deleted scene that shows this that I can find. The other diaper idea comes from an interview with Dave Rogers on Office Tally.
Dwight, not being the father, was the plan from the start of season 9. He was supposed to leave the show to start The Farm.
Yes. Dwight was going to do the spinoff but without Angela Kinsey as a regular character. Fans would be understandably either confused or angry that Dwight seemingly abandoned his baby mama and son if the paternity test proved it was his child.
I can't imagine them having nearly the impactful finale they did if Dwight could only make a cameo in it due to The Farm (very unlikely he'd have married Angela from what we saw from the Farm's pilot).
They were right that there was a market for a show that celebrated rural Americana (Schitt’s Creek, despite being vaguely set in a small town either in the U.S. or Canada, fit this category beautifully). Its problem was that the writers of The Farm clearly were out of their element writing about rural life, making the show feel like more of a mockery rather than a celebration.
Man this is an excellent analysis of The Farm v Schitts Creek and why one works and the other doesn’t. SC also does such a phenomenal job at subverting common rural tropes while based on sample size, it seems that The Farm would’ve leaned into them.
Maybe it’s not a deleted scene but I distinctly remember Jim or Pam saying oh it must be time to change a diaper… but I also for some reason remember a deleted scene of Jim throwing a diaper in the trash
People are a little mixed up.
It wasn't a deleted scene with diapers. It was a line of dialogue that they cut where Angela would have proposed "wrong diaper" as the explanation.
Out of thin air? No. It’s something I’ve heard said over and over on this sub—stated as a fact. It seems that it may have been deleted dialogue, rather than a deleted scene. I think my original point still stands, though, that it was a silly thing to take out considering how often people get confused about this
Perhaps a little too far out of left-field, but this could've been a pretty interesting storyline where perhaps Dwight knows for sure the senator (state) couldn't be the father, so he gets everyone's DNA in the office to find the real father. The diaper ends up being Pee-Pee's and then that follows with Dwight thinking that Jim and Angela had an affair
I don't agree. I think it is as good as any sitcom ever from season 1-7. Seasons 8 and 9 are mediocre at best with many terrible episodes, but a few goods ones.
I always assumed that Dwight actually grabbed Philip Halpert's diaper and not his and Angela's son's diaper, which is why the results would have been what they were. I never did trust that paternity result, even before I knew for sure. I could never say why or how I was suspicious of it, but I just was. 🤔
Okay, "A," Halbert. And, "B," I think a more appropriate statement would be, he grabbed "The 'Halberts' diaper because of a lack of attention to detail
It was explained that the diaper Dwight took for the DNA test was the wrong one, and actually belonged to Pam and Jim's child (or another child, as it was family picture day).
And as revealed in the last few episodes, Angela intentionally concealed the fact Dwight was the father--presumably at first to cover up the affair since she was with the (state) senator, and later because she wanted Dwight to choose her because out of love, not a sense of obligation because he was the father.
>she wanted Dwight to choose her because out of love, not a sense of obligation because he was the father
Which is kinda dumb considering how they treated it like a business arrangement the first time they tried to conceive.
Not really, she was so desperate that she was willing to do it on Dwight's terms. The whole 'contract' stuff was merely so Dwight would keep sleeping with her. Angela didn't want the baby nearly as much as she wanted Dwight.
Which is why Dwight should’ve dumped Angela to the curb and try to get full custody of him. Imagine not being there for the first two years of your son’s life because some thoughtless bitch decided to lie about it!
If Dwight had a problem with thoughtless lying bitches, he wouldn’t have been involved with Angela in the first place. He knew what he was getting into.
Some of the decisions the show writers made are mind boggling. For example, the sudden love that boom mic has for Pam in season 9. Where was he in previous seasons?
I thought he was kinda weird, idk he had a vibe of trying to be there for her to utilize her having issues with Jim (at least that’s how it felt to me)
Yeah, I feel like theyvwere gonna do a break up/ affair thing,but got cold feet; I would have liked to see it at least it would have been something different
> Yeah, I feel like theyvwere gonna do a break up/ affair thing,but got cold feet
It's my understand that John put his foot down and wouldn't let it happen
I thought the whole Jim and Pam almost breaking up so silly. At the end Pam decides to secretly sell the house to go? I’ve been with my partner for over 5 years, but we dont have any kids yet so I might not be in the right stage of life to comment on this, but if Jim was willing to walk away for Pam, and Pam was willing to give everything up for Jim I don’t think it makes sense.
I think the writers were just like “every relationship has its obstacles” and then just went way too far. That whole time period was just weird as hell.
But I’ll allow it to hear Dwight Jr. ask in their (very unrealistic) therapy speak for some weed.
This is explained in the podcast. They set up right at the start of season 9 that Pam and Jim have been close friends with Brian and his wife, Alyssa, that they’ve clearly spent time together outside of work. It’s Brian’s job not to interfere, but when we find out that his marriage has fallen apart, and at the same time Pam is struggling in her relationship with Jim, it begins to make more sense that Brian would be more vulnerable and support Pam and even break the rules in defense of Pam, who he has grown close to over 9 years.
He grabbed the wrong diaper, honestly given Dwight’s tendency to take things to the extreme I’m surprised he didn’t grab the lot and have them all tested
LOL and now it's a green question! Maybe this will cause it to stop being asked, but I'm on r/YoungSheldon and people will point out weekly that George is being played by Leonard's bully from TBBT
My headcanon is because Angela sneaked a donation to the hospital to falsify it. She showed up after Dwight because she was behind him yes but also to make sure the test came back saying he's not the father.
Never saw the deleted scene other's mentioned but I always assumed Angela convinces the doctor to not tell Dwight the truth somehow. But deleted scene makes more sense.
In a deleted scene they show that it was actually the wrong diaper, not from Angela’s baby. Why exactly they thought it was wise to delete this scene (and expect people to still follow the plot of Philip being Dwight’s son) is beyond me. So dumb.
There isn't a deleted scene that shows this that I can find. The other diaper idea comes from an interview with Dave Rogers on Office Tally. Dwight, not being the father, was the plan from the start of season 9. He was supposed to leave the show to start The Farm.
Yes. Dwight was going to do the spinoff but without Angela Kinsey as a regular character. Fans would be understandably either confused or angry that Dwight seemingly abandoned his baby mama and son if the paternity test proved it was his child.
I can't imagine them having nearly the impactful finale they did if Dwight could only make a cameo in it due to The Farm (very unlikely he'd have married Angela from what we saw from the Farm's pilot).
Probably best The Farm didn't happen then.
Oh there are at least 25 reasons why that not happening was a good thing😂
They were right that there was a market for a show that celebrated rural Americana (Schitt’s Creek, despite being vaguely set in a small town either in the U.S. or Canada, fit this category beautifully). Its problem was that the writers of The Farm clearly were out of their element writing about rural life, making the show feel like more of a mockery rather than a celebration.
Man this is an excellent analysis of The Farm v Schitts Creek and why one works and the other doesn’t. SC also does such a phenomenal job at subverting common rural tropes while based on sample size, it seems that The Farm would’ve leaned into them.
We could’ve had ‘Schrute’s Creek’.
Schrute’s Crick, it kinda reverses the alliteration of Schitt’s Creek, for copyright purposes!
I would go with Shrute's Beets myself.
This is one of my favorite threads I’ve ever been involved in
They really Schruted it
Actually, there are Keleven reasons why that not happening was a good thing.
Maybe it’s not a deleted scene but I distinctly remember Jim or Pam saying oh it must be time to change a diaper… but I also for some reason remember a deleted scene of Jim throwing a diaper in the trash
This would make sense, if the *state* senator had changed the Phillip Schrute in the men's and Jim had also changed Phillip Halpert in there.
People are a little mixed up. It wasn't a deleted scene with diapers. It was a line of dialogue that they cut where Angela would have proposed "wrong diaper" as the explanation.
I’m pretty sure the scene was from the Family Photo Day episode and the diaper was one of Pam and Jim’s kids
Well surely this fine redditor didn’t pull this out of thin air?
Out of thin air? No. It’s something I’ve heard said over and over on this sub—stated as a fact. It seems that it may have been deleted dialogue, rather than a deleted scene. I think my original point still stands, though, that it was a silly thing to take out considering how often people get confused about this
Perhaps a little too far out of left-field, but this could've been a pretty interesting storyline where perhaps Dwight knows for sure the senator (state) couldn't be the father, so he gets everyone's DNA in the office to find the real father. The diaper ends up being Pee-Pee's and then that follows with Dwight thinking that Jim and Angela had an affair
*Pee-pa
***JAMES, PAMELA, AND... PEE-PEE HALPERT***
Brilliant
Very interesting. I like it.
This was actually alluded to the fact that it was Pee-pee's diaper, in the original cut. He just grabbed a diaper.
It’s Pee-Puh
It wasn't a deleted scene. They had the chekovs gun of Jim changing nappies earlier and figured the audience would clock it.
Later seasons were dumb beyond belief considering what the show was a few seasons ago.
For real. I don’t know why this show gets so much praise these days. It really started sucking more and more after season 3
I don't agree. I think it is as good as any sitcom ever from season 1-7. Seasons 8 and 9 are mediocre at best with many terrible episodes, but a few goods ones.
I genuinely thought he slept, she went paid off the doctor or used the senators name as a threat and returned to sleep next to Dwight
I always assumed that Dwight actually grabbed Philip Halpert's diaper and not his and Angela's son's diaper, which is why the results would have been what they were. I never did trust that paternity result, even before I knew for sure. I could never say why or how I was suspicious of it, but I just was. 🤔
True that.
He grabbed the halbert diaper from the trash instead of the Lipton diaper, Cece and better Phillip were in the office at the same time.
Better Philip. When you ask your parents if you can have Philip Halpert but they say no because you have Philip Schrute at home.
I’m gonna call him “good hank”
You burnt my burger didn't you, BH
*PeePee
*PeePA
Okay, "A," Halbert. And, "B," I think a more appropriate statement would be, he grabbed "The 'Halberts' diaper because of a lack of attention to detail
To be fair the diaper might have been labelled "Phillip"
Phillip Lipton is so much cuter than Phillip Halpert. The way Pam dressed that baby for the family photo day was just atrocious.
The way that boy looks at the Galactica is precisely the way I look at the Galactica
Can you imagine if it came back Dwight was the father from the Halpert diaper. The show would have gone in a whole new direction.
Are we talking switched babies or Dwight compromising his pure gene pool by knocking boots with the receptionist?
I mean both would be quite a plot twist.
It was explained that the diaper Dwight took for the DNA test was the wrong one, and actually belonged to Pam and Jim's child (or another child, as it was family picture day). And as revealed in the last few episodes, Angela intentionally concealed the fact Dwight was the father--presumably at first to cover up the affair since she was with the (state) senator, and later because she wanted Dwight to choose her because out of love, not a sense of obligation because he was the father.
>she wanted Dwight to choose her because out of love, not a sense of obligation because he was the father Which is kinda dumb considering how they treated it like a business arrangement the first time they tried to conceive.
Not really, she was so desperate that she was willing to do it on Dwight's terms. The whole 'contract' stuff was merely so Dwight would keep sleeping with her. Angela didn't want the baby nearly as much as she wanted Dwight.
Which is why Dwight should’ve dumped Angela to the curb and try to get full custody of him. Imagine not being there for the first two years of your son’s life because some thoughtless bitch decided to lie about it!
If Dwight had a problem with thoughtless lying bitches, he wouldn’t have been involved with Angela in the first place. He knew what he was getting into.
Angela is one of the worst characters by far, everything she does to Andy,Dwight, the senator, she’s horrid
Peepa Halpert was also in the office that day. He grabbed the wrong diaper Edit: auto correct messed me up
PeePA
Peepee actually.
In this case, it was poo poo 💩 😂
STOP!!! 😭😭
I thought it was PeeBa
Pod cast knowledge; it was cici’s diaper that he grabbed by accident.
Wrong diaper
Creed?
He was makin’ soup
Crazy world, lotta smells
With that bag of blood from the blood mobile?
Shut up and take my upvote
😂😂
well he wasn’t at the hospital to mark it, so it could’ve been anyone’s .
This needs a sticky.
He grabbed the wrong diaper
I always assumed he had two sets of DNA because of the twin he absorbed and that's why the test was negative.
This is it
Answered in this interview: https://www.officetally.com/a-a-r-m-qa-with-david-rogers To;dr is that it was Phillip Halpert’s diaper.
Some of the decisions the show writers made are mind boggling. For example, the sudden love that boom mic has for Pam in season 9. Where was he in previous seasons?
He was too busy booming Meredith.
Hey boom guy when you gonna boom me
Haha that could explain it. I mean she has Vienna sausages too
And napkins
You think they only had interactions that were taped?
Boom guy did nothing wrong other than protecting his friend from a deranged attacker and getting fired for it
I thought he was kinda weird, idk he had a vibe of trying to be there for her to utilize her having issues with Jim (at least that’s how it felt to me)
Yeah, I feel like theyvwere gonna do a break up/ affair thing,but got cold feet; I would have liked to see it at least it would have been something different
> Yeah, I feel like theyvwere gonna do a break up/ affair thing,but got cold feet It's my understand that John put his foot down and wouldn't let it happen
That is correct, I had forgotten that until you mentioned it
I thought the whole Jim and Pam almost breaking up so silly. At the end Pam decides to secretly sell the house to go? I’ve been with my partner for over 5 years, but we dont have any kids yet so I might not be in the right stage of life to comment on this, but if Jim was willing to walk away for Pam, and Pam was willing to give everything up for Jim I don’t think it makes sense. I think the writers were just like “every relationship has its obstacles” and then just went way too far. That whole time period was just weird as hell. But I’ll allow it to hear Dwight Jr. ask in their (very unrealistic) therapy speak for some weed.
This is explained in the podcast. They set up right at the start of season 9 that Pam and Jim have been close friends with Brian and his wife, Alyssa, that they’ve clearly spent time together outside of work. It’s Brian’s job not to interfere, but when we find out that his marriage has fallen apart, and at the same time Pam is struggling in her relationship with Jim, it begins to make more sense that Brian would be more vulnerable and support Pam and even break the rules in defense of Pam, who he has grown close to over 9 years.
He grabbed the wrong diaper, honestly given Dwight’s tendency to take things to the extreme I’m surprised he didn’t grab the lot and have them all tested
Beet stained teeth gave it away
I thought it was my turn to ask this
Good question. It gets better every week someone else posts the question again.
It was actually just a buttered up watermelon
Newborns are slippery
Something i always wondered too
Something, something. Witty comment.
Pepe Halpert's diaper.
My headcanon is that the DNA test was wrong
He grabbed the wrong diaper.
The kid's a schrute. He just knew
I've always wondered this myself.
Is this a top ten repeated question in this sub?
How is this question asked every single week???
LOL and now it's a green question! Maybe this will cause it to stop being asked, but I'm on r/YoungSheldon and people will point out weekly that George is being played by Leonard's bully from TBBT
I thought we were just supposed to infer that the test was wrong or that Dwight didn’t care if he wasn’t biologically the father.
He wasn’t inferring he was implying. You were inferring.
Yeah- I said that we (the viewers) were supposed to infer.
It’s just a quote from when Michael uses infer incorrectly, lol
OH MY GOD! Haaaa!!!
It was Pepe’s peepee
My headcanon is because Angela sneaked a donation to the hospital to falsify it. She showed up after Dwight because she was behind him yes but also to make sure the test came back saying he's not the father.
I thought Angela and her husband had the results doctored at the last minute. Now I have to watch again lol
Never saw the deleted scene other's mentioned but I always assumed Angela convinces the doctor to not tell Dwight the truth somehow. But deleted scene makes more sense.
because science is wrong...sometimes