cold open

The episode's cold open was filmed in a water tank, using a replica P-51 Mustang plane which had been designed by the art director.

The cold open was actually filmed the previous season and recycled for the episode because John Krasinski was on location shooting a movie.

Due to a decision by Glen and Les Charles, the cold open was often not connected to the rest of the episode, with the lowest-ranked writers assigned to create the jokes for them.

The Office "Personas" by Matthew Baldwin Email: matthewbaldwin@gmail.com Personas homepage: defectiveyeti.com/theoffice COLD OPEN INT.

ENGLEWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY Sheila Solomon Klass reads from her new novel, "In a Cold Open Field."

END COLD OPEN ACT I MICHAEL TALKING HEAD Flowers crowd the left side of the screen.

The cold open was marred when a rehearsed dance number was forced to be scrapped due to CBS not receiving legal clearance to play the Doctor Who theme song five minutes before air, much to the anger of Ferguson.

Handlen noted that he was pleasantly surprised that the episode did not play on clichéd amnesia tropes as he had expected, and felt that involving Black so heavily in the cold open was a good method of changing the series' usual formula.

The cold open was the last scene shot for "Canvassing", and was conceived at the last moment because the production date was near Easter, and series co-creator Michael Schur said he "thought it would be funny to put Amy (Poehler) in bunny ears".

Robert Shearman and Lars Pearson, in their book Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen, rated the episode one-and-a-half stars out of five, finding that its cold open was "the most distinctive thing about the whole case".