Funny / Office Space

• The opening scene where Peter is stuck in traffic — an old guy with a walker on the sidewalk is making better time than him.
  • In the same scene, Samir's cursing.
    Samir: Mother shitter! Son of an... ass!
• Peter's apartment complex is called "Morningwood Apartments"
• Lumbergh questions the consultants' judgement about Peter... and immediately finds himself being interviewed by them.
• "... 'PC Load Letter'? The fuck does that mean?!"^note For what it's worth, "PC" means "Paper Cartridge", which is an old (outdated even at the time of the movie) term for the tray that you put paper in, and "Load Letter" means "Load letter-sized (8.5 x 11 inches) paper" into that tray. Most modern printers display something like "Load letter paper in Tray 1", with the trays clearly marked as to which tray is which. Sadly, they're still not much better at recognizing that yes, letter paper is in that tray.
  • Even more hilarious is that it was completely genuine, as David Herman was distracted from the rest of his line by an actual error message from the printer.
• When a wasted Samir goes, "Back up in yo' ass with the resurrection" after leaving Peter's house.
• Lawrence and Michael give the exact same reaction where Peter tells them he thinks Anne is cheating on him. "Yeah, I know, man."
  • Even funnier is Peter's reaction to their response. "What is that supposed to mean?!"
• When Peter is grousing to Michael and Samir about his work and relationship issues he mentions being hopeful that Anne's insistence on hypnotherapy might actually help, leading to this exchange:
  Peter: I mean, he did help Anne lose weight.
  Samir: Peter, she's anorexic.
  Peter: Yeah, I know! The guy's really good!
• Peter's nightmare about Lumbergh screwing Joanna and still being his usual inane, smarmy self. All done while still drinking coffee. According to behind-the-scenes material, it didn't fully click with Gary Cole that they were making a comedy film until he was handed a coffee mug while filming this scene, at which point he broke character and cracked up.
  • The second nightmare is great as well:
    Judge: In light of the senselessness of these heinous crimes that you have committed against Initech, I hereby sentence you, Michael Bolton, and Samir Naan... Nanadajibad... to a term of no less than four years in a federal "pound me in the ass" prison. Peter Gibbons, you've led a trite and meaningless life, and you're a very bad person.
• The plan scene.
  Peter: We need to swear...to God, Allah...to never tell anyone about this.
  (others nod)
  Lawrence: (through the wall) DON'T WORRY 'BOUT ME, MAN! I WON'T TELL NOBODY EITHER!
  Michael: Who the fuck was that?!
  Peter: Don't worry about him, he's cool.
• Peter's exchange with the hypnotherapist, Dr. Swanson.
  Peter: So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.
  Dr. Swanson: What about today? Is today the worst day of your life?
  Peter: Yeah.
  Dr. Swanson: Wow, that's messed up.
• How about when they smash up that printer while the Geto Boys are playing? The icing on the cake is Michael snapping into a rage and pounding on what's left of the printer and having to be pulled off of it by Samir and Peter.
• In one scene during a montage, Peter is blowing off his job by fishing at the local lake. In the very next scene of the montage, he brings the fish to work, lays it out on one of his memos and proceeds to partially gut it, tossing the guts on a blank pile of his hated TPS reports.
• The scene with Lumbergh confronting Peter about the TPS reports while Peter is playing Tetris on his computer (and he's removed one of his cubicle walls, with stuff scattered all over the floor).
  Peter: Not right now, Lumbergh, I'm kinda busy. In fact, I'm gonna have to ask you to just go ahead and come back some other time. I've got a meeting with the Bobs in a couple of minutes.
  Lumbergh: Uh, I wasn't aware of a meeting with them.
  Peter: Yeah, they called me at home.
  Lumbergh: That sounds good, Peter. And uh, we'll go ahead and get this all fixed up for ya.
  • The World of Warcraft commercial, which replaces Tetris with their game.
• The sequence where they install the virus is Mundane Made Awesome at its finest.
  Michael: Well, that was easy.
  Peter: Yeah, I guess it was.
• This exchange between Peter and Lawrence, particularly how it takes a moment for the utter lameness of the phrase to really sink in and how much it seems to offend the latter:
  Peter: Lawrence, let me ask you something: when you come in on Monday and you're not feelin' real well, does anyone ever say to you, 'sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays'?
  Lawrence: ...No. Naw, man. (leans in) Shit naw, man! I believe you'd get your ass kicked sayin' somethin' like 'at, man.
• Lawrence lights up the screen every time he shows up
  Lawrence: So what would you do if you had a million dollars?
  Peter: I would sit on my ass all day. I would do nothing.
  Lawrence: Well, you don't need a million dollars to do nothing, man! Take a look at my cousin. He's broke, don't do shit!
• Smykowski telling the Bobs about his great people skills, by profanely screaming at them.
  Bob: What would you say you do here?
  Tom: Well, look, I already told you. I deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills. I am good at dealing with people! Can't you understand that?! What the hell is wrong with you people?!
• Peter's meeting with the Bobs:
  Peter: Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late. I use the side door, that way Lumbergh can't see me. Uh, and after that, I just sorta space out for about an hour.
  Bob Porter: "Space out"?
  Peter: Yeah. I just stare at my desk but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too. I'd probably, say, in a given week, I probably do about fifteen minutes of real, actual work.
• After his meeting with the Bobs, Peter decides to just leave the office. On his way out he encounters Lumbergh, who greets him with a standard "Oh. Peter. What's happening?", expecting Peter to stop and talk to him. Peter however just sidesteps and continues down the hall toward the exit, leaving Lumbergh standing there looking as if he can't quite process what just happened.
• "Oh, and remember, next Friday is Hawaiian Shirt Day! (blank, emotionless stares from the employees) ...So y'know, if you want to, go ahead and uh, wear a Hawaiian shirt, and jeans..."
• When Peter sleeps in and is given a string of calls from Lumbergh, all of which are in his dull monotone.
  • Following up on that, Anne calls him at 3:30 PM and chews him out, to which he hangs up. Anne's reaction is fucking priceless. She screams so loudly that the answering machine MOVES.
    Anne: Listen, asshole, nobody hangs up on me. We're through. Oh, (chuckle), and one more thing; I'VE BEEN CHEATING ON YOU!!!
• It's subtle (is Fridge Funny a thing?), but after all the hassle Peter went through slipping the letter under Lumbergh's door and then briefly trying to get it back, we see Milton coming in the next day, and walking in. It turns out the door was open all along.

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