The backdoor pilot, which later became an episode of The Office Season 9, centered on Dwight Schrute as his siblings returned to the family farm for a very “Scrute funeral.”
Lieberstein would later take time off from the hit NBC comedy to prepare for what would become The Farm’s pilot.
At the time of the January 2012 announcement, it was revealed that The Office executive producer (who also played Toby) Paul Lieberstein and Rainn Wilson were the ones spearheading the project that would revolve around Dwight and his family beet farm.
Introducing characters like Majandra Delfino’s Fannie, Thomas Middleditch’s Jeb, Matt Jones’ Zeke, and several others, the pilot aimed to expand the Schrute family and take Rainn Wilson’s most famous character into the post-Office world.