The Office returns!

Favorite show to many Xroads attenders and staff, The Office, returns to television tonight after a months long absence due to the writer's strike.

To pump you up, here's an interview with Office star John Krasinski over at the Onion AV Club website.

AVC: How did the strike affect the show? The Office can do standalone episodes as well, but it also has plot developments. What happens when the strike blows a hole through the season? How do you recover from that and make a complete season out of it?

JK: I didn't know how they were going to do it. But I think they've done a great job of sort of picking up and creating these little mini-arcs, and just planting seeds. But yeah, the strike definitely devastated any chances of long lead arcs or very intricate arcs. I was really interested to see where it's going to go, but it didn't affect the tone of the show. Some of our funniest episodes are coming up now. And every episode relies at least a little on having some prior knowledge of the show. For instance, on our first episode back, Pam and I finally go to dinner with Michael and Jan, which has been in the works for a long, long time.

As you watch tonight, remember that Phyllis totally knows who "Pastor Glen" is.