NBC yesterday released Season 4 of "The Office" on DVD, including the episode "Local Ad" featuring Clear Ink's Second Life work. New to the DVD are two of the deleted scenes, along with commentary from episode writer BJ Novak and director Jason Reitman.

Reitman says that the Second Life scenes scared him the most, given that you couldn't actually animate the scenes - they had to be acted out by people running the characters. Though what we delivered to Reitman were finished QuickTime files, we had the sense that he thought he was watching the action in real time; I think this is confirmed in his commentary.

He also expressed concern about how to convey the written script - Jim is a guy with a guitar from Philly who is a sportswriter - into Second Life in just a few seconds. I think we got that one.

The deleted scenes include a great paintball fight and a funny reveal in Dwight's apartment.

The whole episode as shot ran quite long and was edited for time, so I'm glad these scenes are now available.