High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Goodbye, Michael" is the twenty-second episode of the seventh season of the American comedy series The Office and the show`s 148th episode overall. The episode was written by series developer and executive producer Greg Daniels and was directed by Paul Feig. The episode originally aired on April 28, 2011 on NBC. NBC later aired an extended producer`s cut of the episode featuring additional footage on May 26, 2011.