Jimmy Kimmel and Carrie Brownstein were the big name cameos in Curb Your Enthusiasm’s season 9 return tonight, but, for The Office fans, it was Andy Buckley’s brief stint that was cause for excitable tweeting – none other than Dunder Mifflin’s embattled CFO, David Wallace.
You can read our review of Curb Your Enthusiasm season 9 episode 1, “Foisted!”, here.
Buckley wasn’t technically playing Wallace in Curb, of course, but the similarity between Wallace and Buckley’s FBI director character was good enough for fans to believe him saved.
Though he would return to the paper company as its CEO, there were question marks as to whether he would hold it together.