Office Ladies · Audacy & Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey

Second Drink: Baby Shower

April 6, 2026·1 hr 6 min·5 clips

Jenna and Angela reveal which celebrity might be Jan's sperm donor in this behind-the-scenes breakdown.

It starts chatty and drops right back into Baby Shower. The second drink returns to Jan's baby shower after the baby has arrived, which is very Office logic. There are tidbits, of course. Jenna and Angela bring in notes from writer Erin Schur and prop master Phil Shea, so the recap stays practical and full of little production breadcrumbs. The sperm donor mystery gets a tease. They say a celebrity connection was a big find, then hold back just enough to make it feel like friend gossip. The favorites still get their moment. Jan singing Son of a Preacher Man lands. Dwight testing the stroller lands too. But the room really lights up over a deleted Kevin scene. Kevin says he donated to the same sperm bank Jan used, the one by IHOP, and the hosts treat it like they found treasure in the edit. Leah S. from Germany writes in, and her baby shower blooper question opens up a sweet explanation of what was improvised and what simply broke everyone. Then the Sarah Kaya bit takes over. Pam tries to tell Jim a story from art school, Jim cannot quite catch the shape of it, and Dwight's confused final tag was improvised. That makes them pause. What starts as a joke about a name turns into something very recognizable about long distance, where the other person's new world stays fuzzy. They know that feeling. One host remembers hearing a location story about a prop mishap and realizing she could not picture the people or the room. So, send the video. By the end, the episode has gathered Sip and See facts, custom M&Ms, stroller praise, and one last wonder about 2008 babies Emma and Aiden.

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A warm Baby Shower revisit built on deleted-scene lore, improv finds, and the first visible strain in Pam and Jim's distance.

Office Ladies' Second Drink revisit of "Baby Shower" leans into the odd premise of throwing Jan a party after the baby has already arrived, and the hosts find plenty to enjoy in the episode's stranger corners.

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The deleted scene where Kevin and Jan discover they share a sperm bank nearly broke the entire cast.

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