Dwight Schrute played by actor Rainn Wilson was inspired by his own family. “I brought to the writers a bunch of pictures of my family, a very eclectic and trailer park-y bunch,” Wilson said. “That gave them the idea that Dwight’s background might be more rural or white trash. It was introduced in Season 2 that Dwight owned a beet farm. That was based on Greg’s grandparents, who used to raise beets back in Poland before the war.”