Turns out John Krasinski has the teapot from ‘The Office’

John Krasinski isn’t just doling out Some Good News during his time in quarantine; turns out he’s got plenty of time to relive some of his favourite memories from projects past too. Naturally, that includes The Office. The A Quiet Place director joined his former co-stars Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey’s Office Ladies podcast to help recap the season two finale, "Casino Night" (AKA, the one where Jim and Pam kiss!). The trio got talking about which props they stole from the set once the show wrapped and apparently Krasinski was quite the thief.According to Krasinski, show creator Greg Daniels had called dibs on the famous Dunder Mifflin sign all the characters did their talking heads to. Unfortunately, Krasinski had already snatched the sign when Daniels told him that. “Literally my brain exploded and I went, ‘That sucks man. Whoever did that, that sucks,’” he recalled to the ladies. “I lied to my dad! I lied to my TV creator!”The iconic sign isn’t the only thing Krasinski walked away with though. Further on in the conversation he spilled some actual tea when he revealed one of the crew members later sent him a box of other goodies. In it was Jim’s satchel, his nameplate, and the teapot his character memorably gifted Pam on the “Christmas Party” episode of the show.

 

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“You have the teapot!” Fisher and Kinsey both shouted at the same time. “That’s huge,” Kinsey added. Huge indeed. As fans will recall, Jim gifted Pam that teapot during Secret Santa and stuffed it full of little mementos the two of them shared along with a heartfelt letter as a sweet way to show that he was into her. But then Michael Scott (Steve Carell) sabotaged the gift exchange and turned it into a Yankee Swap, so Dwight (Rainn Wilson) snagged the teapot instead. (He made quite the show of how he was going to use it as a Netty pot in the process).In the end, Pam realized the gift was important to Jim and trades the best score of the gift exchange—an iPod—for it. Jim removed the letter in the nick of time, but Jim-Pam fans everywhere still swooned. As for that note? It finally resurfaced in season nine when Pam got to read it, but to this day only Fischer and Krasinski know what it actually said.[video_embed id='1957077']RELATED: ‘The Office’ cast reunites for a fan’s wedding on ‘Some Good News’[/video_embed]Krasinski didn’t offer any further information about the beloved prop (not even whether he uses it to clear his own nasal passages these days) but he wasn’t the only one in his feelings about his mementos from the show. Kinsey admitted that she got to take home the painting of her, while Fischer revealed she really wanted the watercolour of the office building her character had created. Sadly, she was told no by NBC, who wanted to catalogue it. "I was really heartbroken," she said. "That was really the one thing I wanted… As I was leaving, [art director] Phil Shea ran up to me and he said, ‘Here, you should have this. I made a colour photo of this. They'll never know.'" Well now they do.Being the good podcast guest that he is, Krasinski also took the opportunity to gush about the moment he knew The Office would be a hit: when he saw Fischer and knew she was going to get the part of Pam. "As soon as I saw you walk in [the audition room], Jenna… I genuinely had like a metaphysical event where I was like, ‘Oh, that's who's in the show. That person will be in the show,'" he said. "I remember thinking 'If I don't go in with her, I'm screwed.'" Luckily for the actor, he eventually tested with Fischer and the rest, as they say, is (a teapot full of) history.[video_embed id='1943353']BEFORE YOU GO: This teacher's COVID-19 song made our hosts cry with laughter [/video_embed]