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Posted: 2020-05-14T14:58:00Z | Updated: 2020-05-14T15:14:20Z

Though Michael Scott may come across as having no filter or self-awareness, apparently there are some things The Office boss wont do.

A page from the style guide for The Simpsons went viral recently, featuring certain things you would never see on the show. So in a recent interview with former Simpsons writer and award-winning TV showrunner Greg Daniels , HuffPost asked what things we wouldnt see on his other shows.

On his new Amazon series Upload , a comedy about uploading to a digital afterlife ruled by capitalism, Daniels said you cant enter the afterlife post-mortem. Its got to be preemptive. On his other new show Space Force , a comedy about the sixth branch of the military that also reunites the former The Office showrunner with Steve Carell , he said you probably wont see the president.

But when it came to The Office, one particular dark storyline popped into his mind.

At one point, the writers pitch the story that Michael ran over Meredith in the parking lot and backed over her as to finish the job, Daniels said, Which is a horrible, horrible story. I had to put a stop to that. Thats the first thing that comes to mind.

Daniels continued, Michael doing something that is truly evil is not something that we would see on the show. That probably goes for every show. You dont ever want to take your comedys central character and make them a casual murderer.

In The Office Season 4 premiere, Fun Run, Michael does hit Meredith with his car in the parking lot, but its clearly an accident. No casual murder to see here.

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