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My colleague Andy Greene suggests Kaling’s version of Michael was a bit more vulnerable and needy than that of some of her peers. (*) To be fair, The Office had this problem with Michael, who could behave wildly differently depending on who wrote that week’s episode. At times, the fictional Mindy could come across as a pure sociopath, which made it hard to reinvest in her love life. And whatever momentum Kaling built up on the more sincere end of things could be wiped out in an instant by a punchline that was too funny to cut, no matter how it reflected on Mindy Lahiri or one of her colleagues(*).

The show could be riotously funny, but it was also trying to be a romantic comedy and a character study of a woman struggling to grow up without losing the things that were uniquely her. That situation wasn’t her fault, obviously, but her next series, The Mindy Project (which she both wrote and starred in), had a weakness for doing that without the help of meddling network executives.

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But it feels oddly appropriate that the most beloved episode of TV she’s written so far in an impressive career was greeted at the time with complaints that it was sacrificing characterization for punchlines. Kaling was glad that episode’s reputation eventually did a 180. “I think fans of Jim and Pam’s romance really thought it was like a very pointed ‘fuck you’ to them and where the story was going.” “The Injury” was written by Mindy Kaling, who years later recalled that because of that scheduling choice, “On message boards, people were so angry” about an episode where Dwight vomits on camera, Michael falls off the toilet, and Jim and Pam barely interact. It was meant to air back-to-back with “The Secret,” where Jim frets that Michael is going to blurt out his secret to the world, but instead it was followed by this wholly comedic, standalone story where Michael just wants Pam to rub Country Crock on his injured sole. The previous week’s installment, “Booze Cruise,” ended with Michael finding out about Jim’s crush on Pam, and encouraging him to pursue her. It is easily the funniest episode of that show, and one of the most consistently laugh-out-loud half-hours of this century.Īt the time it debuted, though, “The Injury” was wildly unpopular with many Office fans, because NBC was running episodes out of order. And after she spoke to her brother and got permission, we felt we wanted to use it in the series, because we thought it was a really fascinating physical manifestation of a teenager's grief.It’s been nearly 15 years since The Office gave us “The Injury.” You remember “The Injury,” right? It’s the one where Michael cooks his foot on a George Foreman grill, Dwight gets concussed and starts acting nice to Pam, and the gas station in Carbondale does not have fresh yams. So that was hard to resist as something to talk about. In researching it, this is something that happens to people, particularly young people, sometimes after trauma. And then, all of a sudden, they started working again. And brother, after her parents got divorced, had about four months when his legs were paralyzed. about love and sex and all of that-and we were both really interested, because we had parents that died unexpectedly, in talking about grief and how grief manifests itself.

'When we were talking about the series-there are so many teenage series. During an April 2020 interview with Terry Gross on the National Public Radio program 'Fresh Air,' Mindy Kaling said that the element of the series's plot in which Devi develops temporary paralysis in response to her shock and grief over her father's death was a true story from the real life of the brother of the show's co-creator, Lang Fisher.

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