Whistleblower (The Office) fourth appearance on the show, after first appearing in "Sabre". Zach Woods made his ninth appearance on the show. While talking with his real estate agent on his cellphone, Dwight states that the office park is 1725 Slough Avenue. "Slough" is a reference to the UK edition of "The Office" which is set in Slough, United Kingdom. In its original American broadcast, "Whistleblower" was viewed by an estimated 6.60 million viewers with a 3.4 rating/10% share in the 18–49 demographic coming second in its timeslot after the season finale of "Grey's Anatomy", receiving the same rating as last week's episode,
Basketball (The Office) characters] out of the office." Daniels later said that his favorite shot from the episode was when Michael takes Ryan on a tour of the warehouse because "you got to see the whole basketball [set]." The editors' cut for the episode was 40 minutes long. During the commentary for the episode, Steve Carell argued that the American version of "The Office" was more difficult to shoot because the British version was 29 minutes long, whereas the American version could only be 22 minutes. The inspiration for the episode was a deleted scene from the pilot episode where Michael talks about