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Anyway, in the show, the awards ceremony takes place at a local Chili's restaurant, which we thought would be fun and true to the show. We didn't want to invent a fake, similar-sounding restaurant, like "Peppers," or "T.G.I. Wednesday's." Since this is supposed to be a realistic show, about realistic offices, we thought setting a place like Chili's would be refreshing. We got permission from Chili's and spent weeks, with their help, reconstructing with painstaking detail a Chili's restaurant in an empty abandoned building. On the first day of shooting, it turned out that Chili's hadn't read the script, which involved, at a crucial moment, a drunk woman vomiting and a character responding by running through the Chili's yelling, "A woman has vomited!"

Well, for some reason, a vomit-filled pit of inebriation not how the Chili's people wanted their restaurant to be portrayed on television. They said they wouldn't allow us to use the set. We wrung our hands for a couple of hours while we figured out other ways to tell the story without forever linking our corporate sponsor to graphic images of public regurgitation. Eventually, we came up with a compromise that we felt was at least as funny, dramatic, and realistic.

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