‘The Office’ Star Angela Kinsey Reveals How Sprinkles the Cat Actually Got Her Name

Kinsey recalled, “In the pilot episode, I was the one that kind of came up with Sprinkles’s [name]. The director wanted me to pass out papers, and I had drawn a little cat on a Post-it note, and wrote, ‘You’re invited to Sprinkles’s first birthday party. 4 p.m. in the parking lot.’ I had made up that I’d found a cat.” Pretty genius improvisation if you ask us.

She went on to explain, “I was just sort of in the background, I had a lot of downtime in those early episodes. We didn’t have a ton of dialogue as a supporting cast. And so I’d sort of made up that I found a cat in the parking lot. And I handed that out to everyone, and then Jenna [Fischer, who played Pam Beesly] improvised a line to John [Krasinski, who played Jim], like, ‘Are you going to Sprinkles’s birthday?’ And that was off the Post-it note.” We remember it clear as day, actually.

Kinsey concluded, “So, I guess I did name Sprinkles. Yeah, I did. I named Sprinkles.” Sadly, Sprinkles ultimately lost her life while Dwight Schrute (played by Rainn Wilson) was cat-sitting, but that’s a story for another time.

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