Ever wonder what would happen if Hollywood went all Freaky Friday, and your favorite writers from The Office had to write an episode of, say, Gossip Girl instead? New York Magazine decided to find out, asking striking writers to script the end to another show's TV season — with sometimes hilarious, often unexpected results.

The Office writers took on Friday Night Lights, making sure to require that the Dillon Panthers win each of their final games by an incredibly close margin. Writers from The Simpsons imagined what would happen if the plague struck Dunder Mifflin, and a Dexter writer created a Grey's Anatomy world where Cristina sleeps with George purely to satisfy her competitive nature.

All four of the full scenes — also including the Ugly Betty writers reinventing Gossip Girl's Upper East Side — are worth reading, but I have to give special props to the writers from The Daily Show, who took on 13 different shows including CSI and Cavemen. My favorite, on Lost: "It turns out the island is actually a peninsula. Boy, are they embarrassed."

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