"The Office" had its constants: Michael Scott's inappropriate jokes, Dwight Schrute's passion for his beet farm, and the love between Pam and Jim (or "PB&J," as they were nicknamed). But in the eighth season, the show's writers wanted to shake up the Halperts' marriage. Pam was on maternity leave after the birth of their second child, and temp receptionist Cathy was working in her place.
In the episode "After Hours," Jim, Cathy, and other coworkers go on a business trip in Florida, and Cathy sends romantic signals to Jim in his hotel room. As John Krasinski told his castmate Brian Baumgartner, the script originally called for Jim to give in and kiss her. Krasinski felt that audiences would be permanently turned off if Jim cheated on the love of his life. "That's the only time I remember putting my foot down ... I remember saying things that I never thought I'd say before, like 'I'm not going to shoot it,'" Krasinski recalled in the book (via eTalk).
Instead, Krasinski and show creator Greg Daniels agreed to a compromise: Jim and Pam would come close to separating under the strain of parenthood and Jim's work ambitions but would eventually patch things up. In the finale, Pam reveals to Jim that she's selling their Scranton house so Jim can take a job opportunity in Texas. By the closing credits, viewers were assured that Jim and Pam would live happily ever after.
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