13 Things You Didn't Know About Timothy Olyphant

Timothy Olyphant guest-starred on The Office as the suave leading salesman at a competing paper company. In the season seven episode "The Sting," Dwight and Jim show up for a sales appointment, only to see Danny Cordray, Olyphant's character, is already there to pitch to the same client. They call for reinforcements, but Danny alone easily defeats the combined efforts of Jim, Dwight, and their boss Michael — so they decide that in order to beat him, they have to steal his secrets, and go so far as to set up a decoy office and lure him to make a sale while they surveil the fake setup via hidden cameras.

Danny eventually uncovers the ridiculous sting operation, but Michael realizes that they didn't need to steal his tactics after all — they can simply steal the man himself, which he does when he hires Danny as a traveling salesman. During Olyphant's brief guest-starring tenure on the show, most of the storylines revolved around his attractiveness: Jim finds out that Pam and Danny once went on a few dates, while later in the show at a Dundies ceremony, Danny (who isn't even in attendance) pulls an upset when Michael names him "Hottest in the Office" instead of giving the award to Ryan as he does every year.

Olyphant's desirability isn't limited to this character. After he was enlisted for his memorable stint on the NBC sitcom, Office vet Mindy Kaling cast him for her own show, The Mindy Project. "Tim is like so funny. He came up doing standup, so no one knows how funny he is 'cause he plays essentially modern day cowboys in a lot of the stuff he does. Or, actual cowboys like in Deadwood," Kaling told MTV. "But he's also just like a super-funny dude."