If you've watched the entirety of the show:The Office,you know that Dwight and Angela do get their own happy ending somewhen. In the last two episodes, Dwight realizes that he wouldn't exist happy without her, then he runs her off the road on the manner to Poor Richard'due south to propose to her using a megaphone and a barrel-bullet ring. (We wouldn't wait whatever less from Dwight.)

After Angela accepts his proposal, she reveals that the infant she had in flavour 8, Philip, really is Dwight's infant afterward all, making it the ultimate happy ending for him: He gets engaged and finds out he's a dad in the same minute, after already having achieved his dream of existence made manager.

Of grade, this being the ending that fans wanted, most didn't question any function of information technology (including the fact that babe Philip was somehow the aforementioned historic period at their wedding a year later). However, there was one particular that couldn't really be ignored upon a re-watch of the show: In the season nine premiere, a DNA test concludes that Dwight was not the infant's father. This detail had many fans asking, "What gives?"

The Ultimate 'Gotcha?'

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Dwight seemed to know from the first instant that he looked at baby Philip that he was his baby... or at the very least, that he wasn't the Senator'due south kid. He was a big, sturdy babe, and the timing was as well good. Angela denied it vehemently, simply Dwight didn't give up: The plan he devised for a family portrait studio, which Jim was and then sure was a prank on him somehow, was actually pretty brilliant. He'd go some of babe Philip'southward Deoxyribonucleic acid during the shoot, and then bring it to a lab to exist tested. The only problem? Angela was onto him.

Of course Angela wouldn't want to admit that Philip was Dwight's baby. It would exist concrete evidence of her wrongdoing, which she is and so committed to denying at every turn. But the matter is, it seems similar she knows that a DNA exam would most certainly reveal that Dwight was the father, since she spends half the episode in a high speed motorcar chase with Dwight and Mose on the way to the lab. And so why and then, if she was so sure, and if Dwight was in fact the male parent, does the test come dorsum negative?

Well, Angela's tactics did work a fleck after all. Because Dwight couldn't obtain any of Philip's DNA from him directly (nether Angela'south watchful middle), he had to go dumpster diving. Or, rather, he had to dig through the trash in the men's bath, where Senator Lipton went to change his diaper.

However, Dwight'south mistake was assuming that the first diaper he saw in the trash bin would be the right one — in fact, it wasn't. Philip wasn't the only infant (or even the only Philip) there that day. Jim and Pam'south Philip was likewise there, and probably wearing diapers around the same time as Angela's baby.

Now, the question is, did the writers do this on purpose? Did they build this alibi in to keep the audience in suspense for longer? Well, according to a post-finale interview with David Rogers, the managing director of the finale episode ("A.A.R.M."), no, that wasn't the programme at all: In gild for Dwight to exist able to go off and doThe Farm,a spinoff serial they had planned, they had originally planned to break Dwight and Angela upward:

"A big if not the sole reason for initially ruling out Dwight as the begetter in the beginning of the season was because of the changes that would have taken identify to let for Dwight to go out for The Farm. We needed him untethered and leaving behind a son, and even a adult female he loved, would not have made sense logically or been beneficial to who he is as a character. Nosotros always wanted them to end up together but I'm not certain when it was decided that it was time to make the big step. I think in one case The Farm was no longer going to be its own series, so that cleared the fashion for Dwight and Angela to really reconcile and be together."

Dwight would have originally gotten another honey involvement in Esther, his girlfriend for the latter half of the 9th season, introduced on the episode, "The Farm." And so no, this wasn't some brilliant programme they concocted a flavour previous to build suspense; just an almost-plot hole and a happy coincidence that covered it.

And while it might be pitiful knowing we almost got a prove of simply Dwight and his siblings and cousins trying to run a farm, at least we know now that considering we didn't, Dwight, Angela, and Philip got to have their ain happily ever afterwards.

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