Daniels and Wilson on what they did during the break:

DANIELS: Well, mine was very boring. I just walked in circles a lot waving the placard and didn’t travel anywhere or do anything. But the first day that we came back was very good for the writing staff because this was the longest break that we had had since the show started and people had time to recharge their batteries in a good way. So we had a lot of fun tossing out ideas on our first day back.

WILSON: I did a little bit of picketing. I played a lot with my three and a half year old son, which was good. I think the strike was terribly painful for the families of Los Angeles, the working families of Los Angeles, but it was also great for the families of Los Angeles. And I went to Israel and I did some writing And I worked on my backhand with my Zen tennis coach.

Wilson and Daniels on creative people going slightly mad in an office setting:

WILSON: You know, we all go a little bit mad even in the office setting about eight hours into sitting under those fluorescent lights on the set of The Office. And surfing the web, there’s only so many times you can check CNN.com to see if a bomb has gone off somewhere. We start to go a little bit stir crazy and things start to get out of hand. So I think that is true. But recently we’ve kept ourselves entertained by doing Brian Baumgartner imitations and coaxing Ed Helms to do all of his imitations. He does an incredible Tom Brokaw and we love to have him say albondigas - the soup albondigas as Tom Brokaw. And here’s my imitation of Ed Helms saying albondigas as Tom Brokaw, 'Meanwhile, albondigas...'"

DANIELS: I think his Tom Brokaw is better than his Greg Daniels.

WILSON: Does he have a Greg Daniels?

DANIELS: No, you [laughs]

Daniels and Wilson on whether the characters should see the documentary that’s been filming in their office for the past three years:

DANIELS: We have talked about it. I don’t think we’re there yet. but I definitely love it as a big, game-changing story move. But hopefully when we do press that nuclear button. It’ll be prepared for and everybody will be. People will think it’s worth it.

WILSON: I think it’s hard. Once they see the documentary - I’m just speculating here because I know nothing about those conversations - but I think once they see the documentary and you kind of deal with the fallout of that, I don’t know how much longer you can then continue storylines, with all the characters kind of living in the public eye and stuff like that.

DANIELS: Well, there are certain things that we have, like in our back pockets, and I feel like if we ever got to a place where we were discussing storylines and we just had nothing, then we would say, 'Alright, time to scramble the world and see what comes out of that.' You know, time to shake the Boggle set.

Rainn Wilson on what Dwight would do if Dunder Mifflin went on strike:

"If Dunder Mifflin went on strike, you know what Dwight would do? Dwight would join the Pinkertons and he would immediately try and bust the strike. And he’d work for management. He’d go to corporate headquarters and figure out a way to bust up the union, maybe kind of join as a secret under a different identity and rabble-rouse and be a counteragent. But he would love to join the Pinkertons, wear one of those hats, maybe carry a derringer and be a badass."