History Heartwarming / TheOfficeUS

* "The Incentive" where Andy is trying to get the office excited about sales, via incentive points. Jokingly, he offers to get his ass tattooed for 5000 points, forgetting the group is allowed to pool their points. In a show of exactly why Scranton has survived after so many company changes, the employees get together and hit their goals in a very short time. At first, they torture Andy with a terrible design, but after Jim reassures him privately that no one expects him to go through with it he puts on a brave face and actually ''does'' go through with the tattoo. [[IncrediblyLamePun In the end]], Andy discovers they got him a design that suits him perfectly. It's an example of what they can do when they all put aside their bickering and work together, and one of few shows of respect for Andy as a boss and as a friend.

* Special mention has to be made to "Business School", where Pam has spent the entire day at her art show unsatisfied as no one from the office as come to offer strong support for her work (the only familiar faces to show up were Roy and Oscar, the latter of whom criticizes Pam's work with his boyfriend). Enter Michael, who, after dealing with the conflicts of Ryan's business class, responds enthusiastically to Pam's work, particularly the drawing of the office building's exterior. He buys it and hangs it up in the office.

* "Benihana Christmas" has a slew of these. Pam and Angela merging their party with Angela's, allowing her to save face. Angela and Dwight communicating over the walkie talkies he won in the raffle. The Christmas party showing the staff just enjoying each other's company and singing karaoke.

** Ultimately, [[spoiler:Michael sides with the company]], and afterward Wallace apologizes to Michael for speaking negatively about him, and dragging his personal life into the proceedings. Despite everything...

* In Season 4 after [[spoiler:Andy has started to date Angela]], Dwight is crushed and goes and sobs in the stairwell. ''Jim'', who has spent 98% of his time in the office making fun of Dwight, tormenting him, or both, goes in there and tells Dwight the following:

** After Michael tries his hardest to help her, Jan orders him not to date Holly. Michael's response? [[spoiler:To walk up the stairs, hug Holly warmly, and ask her if she wants to go out. Holly's expression is what does it, really.]]

* What Dwight does in "China": [[spoiler: He and Pam are fighting it out as building owner and office manager respectively. Pam realizes she's inevitably going to lose because she is just making things up as she goes along, and breaks down to Jim in the stairwell about how she fails at everything. Suddenly Dwight's assistant delivers her a book of building standards that Dwight has violated, and Pam uses that information to force Dwight to go back on his more draconian policies. Dwight talking heads about how he only capitulated to keep Pam from carrying through on her threats so he can keep leeching off her work. Under this, on screen, we see flashbacks of Dwight seeing the breakdown on the stairs, showing his assistant the law books, and making him give it to Pam so that she would win their fight and feel good about herself. Before he drives away he watches her smile in the rear-view mirror.]] Could double as a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome.

* In 'Garage Sale', Michael tries to make [[spoiler:proposing to Holly]] a grand romantic gesture and manages to pull it off beautifully; first, he gets her an enormous [[spoiler: engagement ring after mistaking the three months salary rule as 3 years.]] Next, he brings her on a tour of the office building, reminding her of all the milestones they experienced there. Finally, he brings her to the hall that leads to the annex where all of his colleagues are gathered holding candles and he tells her that this is where their love will face it's greatest test. [[spoiler: One by one, Jim, Stanley, Oscar, Gabe, Ryan and Angela propose to Holly and she refuses each of them. Then he brings her into the annex which he has filled with candles, gets down on one knee and proposes in a Yoda impression, as a call back to one of their first conversations, while the sprinklers go off, mirroring Jim's proposal. She accepts, again in a Yoda voice]] It's especially sweet to see Stanley and Angela, who usually appear to hate Michael the most, participating in his gambit, and being just as happy as everyone else when he succeeds.

* In "The List", the office spends most of the episode trying to figure out what a list of their names in opposing columns, written by their new CEO, means. When it turns out that he has divided them into 'winners' and 'losers', Andy, in his first show of confidence [[spoiler:as manager]], writes a new list of their names, explaining to the CEO why each of the 'losers' are winners in his eyes. While we only hear a few, they are all clearly quite touched by what Andy has to say about them.

--> '''Erin:''' Maybe we'll get sent to anger management together.
--> '''Andy:''' That would actually be cool, I'd love for you meet some of the guys.

* The fact that Roy [[spoiler:turned into a perfect gentleman during his second engagement, taking piano lessons and throwing a beautiful wedding so that he could impress his second fiancé.]]

--> '''Employee #1:''' Darryl, I was a newspaper editor.
--> '''Employee #2:''' Science teacher. Volleyball coach.
--> '''Employee #3:''' I work at a home shopping network.
--> '''Employee #4:''' I’m a laywer. I’m the only one here who can honestly help!
--> '''Jim:''' And as you know, I'm a paper salesman.

* Dwight's [[spoiler: proposal to Angela]] in A.A.R.M. And the scene preceding it, when Jim convinces him to do so.

** In the same scene, Dwight finds out [[spoiler:Philip really is his son.]] His reaction is just so amazing.

** [[spoiler: Michael]] showing up for Dwight and Angela's wedding to be Dwight's "Bestest Menschen". This time he's finally acting like an adult and Angela - the one who probably disliked him the most - is happy to see him.
*** [[spoiler: In the run-up to the finale, the show's producers had stated that Steve Carell would ''not'' be involved at all. His name wasn't even shown in the credits. The writers broke the fourth wall and pranked us all.]]
*** The reveal that [[spoiler: he and Holly have several children]], which he is so excited about that he owns and pays for two phones just to hold all of the pictures he shows people.

** [[spoiler: Erin's long lost parents]] showing up at the panel session. Plus [[spoiler: everyone's reaction to this. Phyllis was shown to be crying, everyone is seen to be so happy for her. Erin's reaction is to instantly run up and hug them as soon as she figures it out, no words just a hug.]]
** Dwight and Angela's [[spoiler: first dance as a married couple. Angela's [[ItMakesSenseInContext legs are cramped from being stuffed into a car trunk the night before]] so Dwight is holding her off the ground the entire time. Neither seem to care though, because they're both beaming at each other.]]
** Stanley has retired to Florida and carves wooden birds, and it's clear that Phyllis misses her old desk-mate and friend. Later in the episode, [[spoiler:Phyllis shows off the little statuette that Stanley carved for her as a gift — a small likeness of Phyllis with bird legs — and by the tone of her voice, you can tell how much it means to her. She even stresses that, buried beneath all the grumpiness, Stanley is really a very kind man.]]
** After struggling for years to find a foster child, Nellie gets [[spoiler: Ryan's]].
** Jim and Pam [[spoiler: go into Dwight's office to give their resignations, Dwight immediately cuts them off and fires them. When they try to stammer out an explanation, he reveals he did it so they could have severance pay.]]

*** [[spoiler: Stepping down from his position as "Bestest Mensch" so that Michael could take his place]]

** On the subject of people's dreams coming true, we can't forget [[spoiler: Michael. Throughout his run on the show, the one thing that he yearned for above all else was to be a father. In the Finale, it is revealed that he now has several kids with Holly (three with one on the way, per supplementary material on the NBC website)- who have clearly changed him for the better. D'awww!]]

* Special mention has to be made to "Business School", where Pam has spent the entire day at her art show unsatisfied as no one from the office as come to offer strong support for her work (the only familiar faces to show up were Roy and Oscar, the latter of whom criticizes Pam's work with his boyfriend). Enter Michael, who, after dealing with the conflicts of Ryan's business class, responds enthusiastically to Pam's work, particularly the drawing of the office building's exterior.

** Michael's reaction to the engagement in the next episode is also one of these.

* The ending of "Dunder Mifflin Infinity", when Michael watches the rest of the office taking stuff from the opened gift basket with a smile on his face. Accompanying it is a talking head of Michael musing about how technology will never replace humans and human connections.

** In a scene released in the extended cut, Creed gives Meredith a piggyback ride out of the office after she passes out at her desk.

** Once the results come in and Kevin announces it was negative, everyone -including Michael- congratulate him.

--> One could make the argument that Dwight's reaction was less about defending Jim than about his own desire to enforce order in his territory. His later reactions to Jim's attempts to thank him would seem to bear this out.

* Even after years of verbal abuse from them, Kevin still considers Angela and Oscar his friends and admonishes Senator Lipton for exploiting them for his political campaign.

* The fact that nobody, sans Angela, in ''2006'' shows any aversion to Oscar for being gay. Even Michael's bigotry in the matter is completely unintentional.