 Although Lee and Suplee had worked together before, Garcia didnt  discover Suplee because of that. Garcia discovered him while  watching the DVD version of Without a Paddle, looking at the film  because another actor in it had been recommended to him. What  convinced Garcia to bring Suplee in for an audition were comments  about him he heard on the DVDs commentary track. One of the actors  in the commentary told the story of a dispute between the films  director and Suplee. The scene the actor described was one where  Suplees character was supposed to be pointing a gun at some people  Suplee and others had captured. The commentary noted that Suplee had  insisted that he shouldnt point his gun at them after all, since in  Suplees mind, it had taken so long to capture the people that it  had given the character time to rethink his motives. Suplee got his  way in the scene, over the directors objections. The fact that  Suplee would think so much about such a small detail was enough to  get Suplee an audition. Garcia and the shows writers have  subsequently used Suplees attention to detail to the shows  advantage, in various "pestered by a bee" background activities that  Suplees character does in various scenes. The first such scene was  an improvisation in the pilot, where Suplee is looking up at the  ceiling with his mouth open.