Why Michael Scott's fake suicide in The Office's Season 6 Halloween episode was pulled after its first airing on NBC

The A.V. Club

The pulled scene was uploaded to The Office's YouTube channel two years ago, yet it has received renewed attention this week because it's never been on the Netflix version, syndicated reruns or the DVDs. According to The A.V. Club, it wasn't viewer outrage that got the scene pulled. An anonymous former producer says it was pulled due to the suicide prevention work of Caryn Zucker, who at the time was married to then-NBC president and CEO Jeff Zucker. After a call with producers and representatives from the network, “the episode was re-cut and re-delivered, with the original HD-SR delivery masters collected back from NBC and thrown into deep storage," says the producer.