Phyllis Discovering Angela And Dwight's Affair In The Office Provided A Unique Challenge For Director Paul Feig

"I just want to be friends. Plus a little extra. Also, I love you." Ah, Dwight Shrute, always a way with words. It's clunky romantic exchanges like this that helped draw out one of modern television's best and most unorthodox love stories. The love story between Jim Halpert and Pam Beesly took center stage for the first several seasons of "The Office." But once their relationship was established, the show handed the baton to another couple.

Dwight Shrute and Angela Martin deftly carried the "will-they-won't-they?" sitcom trope all the way to the show's series finale. And while Jim and Pam's story might have been more traditional, Dwight and Angela's relationship was much more fun ... and salacious.

Along the way, cats were killed, babies were conceived, paternities were hidden, and affairs were had. The couple's tumultuous relationship began in season 2 and appeared to end in season 4 when Dwight killed Angela's cat Sprinkles. By the end of the season, Angela was engaged to another co-worker, Ed Helms as Andy Bernard, but started an affair with Dwight.

During the fourth season finale of "The Office," the reveal of the affair to a certain character proved to be quite a headache for director Paul Feig. For a show that is meant to appear as a spontaneously filmed documentary, the planning that goes into each sequence is surprisingly complicated. And real-life complications also got in Feig's way ... literally.

In the season 4 finale ("Goodbye, Toby"), Phyllis throws an epic goodbye party for Toby, where Andy proposes to Angela. She reluctantly agrees, only to return to the arms of Dwight. When Phyllis returns to the office after the party cleanup, she finds Dwight and Angela in a romantic embrace.

The scene only lasts for a few seconds, but it's integral to one of the show's main plotlines. On episode 75 of the "Office Ladies" podcast, Angela Kinsey and Jenna Fischer discuss the complexities of the scene. Kinsey revealed that one main issue with shooting the scene is that she was pregnant at the time, and there was no way to hide it, making a steamy sex scene quite difficult. Kinsey said:

"We had a whole rehearsal with a camera with no one else in the bullpen where we tried to simulate a sexy-looking shot, and it was impossible. You could not hide my belly. So what they decided to do is, Rainn has his shirt off. If you'll notice, all they did was take my hair down from the ponytail, and I have a few buttons undone, but I'm fully in my maternity romper."

Once Feig decided how to shoot, he had to decide where it should happen. And that led to some awkward moments around the office.

Director Paul Feig had to reveal a steamy affair while factoring in Kinsey's pregnancy and the fact that "The Office" aired on network television. To get the scene right, they tried to stage the scene all over the Dunder Mifflin set. Jenna Fischer explained:

"Rainn [Wilson] talked about rehearsing the scene, Angela. He said, yes, you tried a lot of different locations during your rehearsal. He said you guys tried having sex on the copy machine, on Creed's desk, on Michael's desk, on the mail cart, and on the floor by the file cabinets."

Kinsey revealed that, ultimately, they had to hide her baby bump completely. "I think what really sealed the deal that we have to have it more hidden behind the file cabinet is when we tried the floor," Kinsey said. "Paul Feig literally started laughing and said, 'OK, stop, stop.'"

Although brief, the scene is poignant in Dwight and Angela's series-long romance. Instead of ending their story with Angela's engagement to another man, the scene spins the narrative in an entirely new direction (and also sets up a hilarious season 5 "duel" between Dwight and Andy).

In season 9, Dwight would say to Angela, "We have wasted too much of our lives ignoring the fact that we belong together." Although it took the characters five more seasons after their affair to figure that out, it was something that fans — and Phyllis — knew the moment they caught the two behind the accounting file cabinets.