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In the first season, Jim had a quiet crush on Pam, who was engaged to Roy.

“How did we get here?

John Krasinski with slight smile on the red carpet

What did ‘The Office’ do right?”

Baumgartner interviewed the show’s cast, crew, producers, and writers to get some answers.

But in the eighth season, the show’s writers wanted to shake up the Halperts' marriage.

Jim and Pam wedding on The Office

Krasinski felt that audiences would be permanently turned off if Jim cheated on the love of his life.

“That’s the only time I remember putting my foot down … By the closing credits, viewers were assured that Jim and Pam would live happily ever after.