'The Office' Almost Used Modest Mouse's "Float On" as Its Theme Song
The Office star Rainn Wilson—Dwight K. Schrute, beet farmer and assistant to the regional manager—just published a memoir. And in The Bassoon King: My Life In Art, Faith, And Idiocy, he's got a juicy scoop from inside Dunder Mifflin, including a few alternate routes the perfect theme song could've taken.
So why didn't Modest Mouse of the Kinks get the gig?
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