When Steve Carell announced that he was leaving The Office during season seven, he called it a “dynamic change to the show, which could be a good thing, actually,” which is a nice way of saying he wanted to focus on his film career. It worked out for everyone involved — The Office is still extremely popular, even if the post-Michael Scott episodes are bumpy, and Carell was nominated for an Academy Award — but the real reason Carell left is supposedly more complicated than “he wanted to welcome us to Marwen.”