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Kevin's famous chili!
The Office is often referred to as one of the best sitcoms in history and one of the funniest television shows ever made.

Let's just say that there's a lot of excellent reasons for why the show has gotten that reputation.

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    Season 1 

  • In "Diversity Day," Michael Scott's incredibly misguided attempt at a diversity seminar.
  • In "Health Care," Jim and Pam coming up with fake diseases. It's so funny that it even causes Angela to laugh .
    Pam: So, like, let's say that my teeth turn to liquid and then they drip down the back of my throat. What would you call that?
    Jim: I thought you said you were inventing new diseases? That's spontaneous dental hydroplosion.
  • In "Basketball," the entire trash talking scene between Jim and Pam, but especially this bit:
    Pam: Um, I think I'm gonna be up at the lake.
    Jim: I think I'll see you at the mall. Yeah.
  • In "Hot Girl," Jim and Pam make up a conversation as they watch Dwight flirt with a woman selling purses.
    Jim (as Dwight) I'm going to be the prettiest girl in the ball.

    Season 2 

  • "The Dundies":
    • Drunk Pam at the Dundies, especially when she falls out of her chair, and "THIS IS THE BEST DUNDIES EVER! WOOO!"
      • Also her acceptance speech: "I feel God in this Chili's tonight."
      • And then getting subsequently banned from Chili's due to being overly drunk (which was canonically repealed in 2017). For added value, the manager who delivers this news via talking head does so in an incredibly prissy fashion, culminating in a sort of "Well, that'll show her!" expression.
    • From the same episode, Dwight banning the girl's bathroom.
    • Ryan's response to winning "Hottest in the Office" and being handed his trophy (along with a slap on the ass) from a slightly too enthusiastic Michael.
    Ryan: What am I gonna do with the award? Nothing... I don't know what I'm gonna do... that's the least of my concerns right now.
  • "Sexual Harassment":
    • Michael has been asked to lay off the inappropriate jokes, including "That's What She Said." Jim immediately starts baiting him. He doesn't last long (that's what she said!).
    • The incredibly cheesy "Crossing the Line" video.
    • Toby has an office meeting on sexual harassment as per company requirement, and all of the staff - even Dwight - happily comply, even running the idea that they should treat every day as one where Pam's mom comes in so they'll behave better. Cue Michael entering with a naked blow-up doll, having been the only person in the office at all to protest the meeting.
  • From "Halloween":
    • Dwight trying to leverage his "offer" when Michael has to get rid of someone.
    • Creed convincing Michael to fire someone else in the same episode.
  • "The Fight": Ryan becoming so fed up with Michael's prank calls that he resorts to having them sent to his voicemail.
    Ryan's Voicemail: Seven new messages. First new message:
    Michael: Hi, Ryan! This is Saddam Hussein!
    Ryan's Voicemail: Next message:
    Michael: Hey, Ryan. This is your girlfriend and I'm mad.
  • From "The Client":
    • Pam discovering the script for Threat Level Midnight hidden away in Michael's office.
    • Michael and Christian singing the Chili's Baby Back Ribs jingle.
  • From "Performance Review":
    • This exchange:
      Michael: Pam, you're trustworthy.
      Pam: Thank you.
      Michael: And a woman.
      Pam: Oh no.
    • Dwight's attempts to get a raise.
    • The pre-credits teaser where Dwight has replaced his chair with an exercise ball, and is bouncing around on it. Jim watches for a few minutes, then goes over and stabs the ball, causing Dwight to fall to the ground. note 
  • "Email Surveillance":
    • Michael sees a man in a (Sikh) turban coming into the building and tells everyone to hide and pretend they're not there. Dwight immediately ducks under his desk. And then we cut to the talking head:
      Michael: (awkwardly) The IT tech guy and me... did not get off to a great start.
    • When Jim asks Pam if Roy can come to the party, she says that he won't be able to make it. Jim nods, briefly smiles at the camera, and leaves.
    • Pam being a blatant Shipper on Deck for Dwight/Angela.
      • The camera crew informing her of where Angela's second candy bar ended up.
    • Michael pretending to have a gun in all of his improv lessons.
  • "Christmas Party":
    • Oscar has this hilarious line: "I got Creed [for Secret Santa]. And to tell you the truth, I don't know anything about Creed. I know his name's Creed. I know he works right over there. I think he's Irish and I ... I got him this shamrock keychain."
    • Creed's present for Jim is just an old flannel shirt wrapped in a plastic bag. "Creed obviously forgot to get me something, so he just went into his closet and dug out this little number." Cut to Creed. "Yeah, that's exactly what happened."
    • Jim telling the cameramen all of the inside jokes he's putting in Pam's gift because Christmas is the "time to tell people how you feel." Cue a silent but sure moment of Did I Just Say That Out Loud?.
    • Michael makes everyone swap presents because he doesn't like his. The results are hilarious.
      • Ryan's gift.
        Ryan: (Pulls out a flowery desk-stand reading "Kelly")
        Stanley: That was for Kelly.
        Ryan: I figured.
      • Dwight's gift was a paintball lesson with him.
      • Everyone wanted the iPod.
      • At the last swap, Pam chooses the iPod and Dwight chooses the teapot (Jim's intended gift to Pam.) Cue You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me! from Jim. He spends the entire episode trying to get it back.
    • "Oh hey Ebenezer, boink!"
    • Dwight rubs Pam's gift in Jim's face by saying he'll use the spout to drain his nose when he gets sick. Jim stares straight to the camera. Cut to him saying he can't handle the idea that the gift will be used for that.
    • Pam tells Roy about her iPod, to which he reveals that he was going to get her one for Christmas. Clearly touched, she asks what he's going to get her now...to which he vaguely replies "a sweater or something". Cue blank stare from Pam and a cut to a sympathetic-looking Jim.
    • The ending of the episode. Right as Michael asks Meredith if she needs a ride, he turns around...to see her topless. Cue him quickly taking a picture and shakily walking away.
  • "Booze Cruise":
    • Jim bets the cameraman that, on the yacht, Michael will cry out "I'm the King of the World!" within the hour or he'll give his next paycheck to him. Cue Michael standing at the end of the ship and crying out "I'm the King of the World!" Followed by Jim tapping his watch and nodding to the cameraman.
    • Jim's feelings for Pam have become so blatant that when he's asked who he would save in the case of a fire, the cameraman simply zooms in on Pam, who's at least twenty feet away.
  • "The Injury":
    Michael: (from inside the bathroom) Get Ryan! He needs to lift me, and he needs to clean me up a bit. Bring a wet towel.
    (Ryan frantically mimes "No!" to Toby)
    Toby: Uh, Ryan is dead.
    • Then later, when Michael makes it out of the bathroom: "Ryan, who is supposed to be dead..."
    • "DWIGHT! DWIGHT! DWIGHT! DWIGHT! DWIGHT! DWIGHT! DWIGHT! DWIGHT! DWIGHT!"
    • Jim and the spray bottle. Really, any moment where he has to act like a overworked parent to the injured Michael and concussed Dwight in this episode is a barrel of laughs.
    • "You can't fire me, I don't work in this van!"
    • Later, at the hospital:
      Michael: (filling out intake form) Dwight, what is your middle name?
      Dwight: (completely out of it) Danger.
    • Michael's annoyance when Dwight steals a "That's What She Said" joke from him.
  • "The Carpet":
    • In the cold open, Pam has been on vacation for a week and Ryan has been taking her place behind the reception. The scene hangs a nice Lampshade on just how often Jim looks in Pam's direction each episode, so much that he can't help himself, even if Pam isn't there. Ryan isn't completely comfortable with it, but he has bigger problems to worry about... such as Michael, who apparently has been spending the week standing behind the blinds and staring really intensely at him.
      Ryan: Jim has been looking at me... kind of a lot all week. I would be creeped out by it, but it's nothing compared to the way Michael looks at me.
    • Everyone gathers around the foul substance (heavily implied to be human feces, left by Todd Packer) in Michael's office, and they're all completely disgusted. Then Creed walks up and smells it himself:
      Creed: (cheerfully) Hey guys, somebody making soup?
  • "Take Your Daughter to Work Day":
    • Stanley going Papa Wolf on Ryan.
      Stanley: That little girl is a CHILD! I don't want to see you sniffing around her any more this afternoon, do you understand? Boy, have you lost your mind, 'cause I'll help you find it! What you're looking for ain't nobody gonna help you out there! Jesus could come through that door and he's not gonna help you if you don't stop sniffing after my CHILD!
      Ryan: Stanley yelled at me today. That was one of the most frightening experiences of my life.
    • Easily the funniest moment in the whole episode has to Dwight reading Struwwelpeter to the kids.
      Michael: No one wants to hear about your Nazi grandmother.
      Sasha: What's a Nazi?
    • “There goes Mr Poop.”
  • In "Michael’s Birthday," Ryan's wordless talking-head reaction when he overhears Dwight and Angela planning a ridiculously obvious tryst:
    Dwight: What about that...meeting later? To...discuss finances?
    Angela: Yes. (whispering audibly) But don't expect any cookie.
    Dwight: But what if...I'm hungry?
    Angela: (severely) No cookie.
    Ryan: (eyes dart left...then to the camera...then right...then opens his mouth, sighs, and gives up)
  • "Conflict Resolution": A list of Jim's pranks on Dwight were read out. Granted, it's also a bit sad in how it doubles as showcasing how much of a Jerkass Jim can be at times to Dwight, but the Comedic Sociopathy is prevalent enough that it still makes it all hilarious.
    • "Whenever I typed my name, it said 'Diapers'."
    • "Jim Halpert told me there was an abandoned infant in the women's room. When I went to save the child, I saw Meredith on the can."
    • "This morning I knocked myself in the head with the phone."
      • Jim elaborates that he placed nickels in Dwight's receiver over time, then removed them at once. Which makes the scene in the pilot when Dwight takes his receiver out of a locked desk drawer even funnier.
    • "By the end of the day, my desk was two feet closer to the copier."
    • "Everyone has been calling me Dwayne all day."
    • Everyone is getting their photos taken for their new ID's. When it's Creed's turn, he instinctively turns his head to the side, as if he's going to get a mugshot.
  • "Drug Testing"
    • Dwight starts an investigation where he shows his co-workers a picture of marijuana and asks them if they know what it is. This leads to this gem:
      Creed: That is northern lights cannabis indica.
      Dwight: (disappointed) No. It's marijuana.
    • Pam and Jim's regulations for Jinx are that if you are Jinxed, you have to buy the Jinx-er a coke. Unfortunately, the machine is out, leaving Jim unable to speak for the rest of the day. Cue a series of ear-to-ear grins from Pam as Jim suffers horribly.
      • Later, Pam volunteers Jim to speak about a loved one affected by drug use. Jim then proceeds to act choked up, managing to look convincingly depressed without saying a word. Pam isn't even mad that he got out of talking, she's impressed.
    • Dwight interrogating Jim after finding a joint in the parking lot.
      Jim: I'm just saying you can't be sure that it wasn't you.
      Dwight: That's ridiculous. Of course it wasn't me.
      Jim: Marijuana is a memory-loss drug, so maybe you just don't remember.
      Dwight: I would remember.
      Jim: Well how could you remember if it just erased your memory?
      Dwight: That's not how it works!
      Jim: Now how do you know how it works?
      Dwight: ...Knock it off! I'm interviewing you!
      Jim: NO! You said I'd be conducting the interview when I walked in here. Now, EXACTLY HOW MUCH POT DID YOU SMOKE?!
      (Dwight looks genuinely taken aback)
  • "Casino Night", in which Jim convinces Dwight that he has telekinesis abilities and demonstrates by making the coat-rack behind Pam sway. Dwight watches in awe. Cut to an interview with Pam, who silently holds up an umbrella with a hook handle and grins.
    • There's also Michael's cutting speech towards Toby when he interferes with Mike plans again:
    Michael: Why are you the way that you are? Honestly, every time I try to do something fun or exciting, you make it not that way. I hate, so much, about the things that you choose to be.

    Season 3 

  • invoked "Gay Witch Hunt": In this episode, Oscar gets outed for being gay. Michael tries to quell the tension by at first hugging Oscar after angering him but then goes the long mile by kissing him. Hilariously enough, the kiss was improvised and the shock and confusion of the cast members (save Steve Carell) was completely genuine.
    • The "Gaydar" prank that Jim pulls on Dwight, particularly when Dwight's face immediately falls when he absentmindedly passes the gaydar meter (really a metal detector) over his belt buckle and it goes off.
  • "The Coup": "Your dentist's name is Crentist?"
  • "Initiation":
    • Anything involving Pretzel Day, especially with Stanley and Michael forming an Enemy Mine against Bob Vance from Vance Refrigeration to make sure that he doesn't let Phyllis cut in line in front of them.
    • Dwight attempting to get Ryan to wrestle his cousin Mose as part of his initiation into becoming a salesman.
  • When Jim dresses up as Dwight. Which leads later to Dwight pulling a reversal.
  • In "Branch Closing", how Michael breaks the news.
    Michael: (in an interview) The best thing that I can do right now is put on a brave face and be their leader.
    (Cut to him in the present)
    Michael: It's over. We're all screwed.
    • Furthermore, soon after he breaks the news, Michael gives the rest of the office the silliest grin possible.
    • Jim's latest prank on Dwight: Pretending to be his future self telling him that the coffee will be poisoned at 8am. Of course, Dwight falls for it and slams into Stanley trying to wrench his coffee mug from him.
  • "The Convict": Prison Mike. Just... Prison Mike.
    Prison Mike: The, the, worst thing about prison was... the, the Dementors. They were flyin' all over the place, and they were scary! And then they'd come down and they'd suck the soul outta ya body, and it hoit!
    • It bears repeating here: Namely, Michael apparently equates Azkaban from Harry Potter with Real Life prison.
    • "I am here to SCARE YOU STRAIGHT!"
    • Prison Mike telling Ryan "You would be the belle of the ball! Don't drop the soap! DON'T DROP THE SOOOOAP!"
    • The brief ridiculous attempt at a sneer that Prison Mike gives to the screen after Jim snarks about him claiming that he "never got caught, neither" when he's imprisoned.
    • There's also this below line from Kevin:
      Kevin: I had to have Martin explain what he was in prison for three times, because it sounds a lot like what I do here every single day.
  • The beginning of "The Return", where Michael gets a new program on his computer that reads aloud what he types. Jim and Pam have a field day with it.
    Michael: Jim, could you come in here, please?
    (Jim walks in)
    Harvey: Hi, Jim. I am Harvey, a computer. Jim sucks.
    Michael: (laughing) I'm sorry. Oh, wow! That's so rude. I'm sorry, I can't control him.
    Jim: Yeah, you can.
    Michael: You know what? Get Pam.
    Jim: For this?
    Michael: Pam!
    (Pam walks into Michael's office)
    Harvey: Pam, you look very hot today.
    Jim: Pam, meet Harvey. This is Michael's new friend.
    Pam: Great.
    Harvey: Me so horny. Me love you long tim.
    Pam: Who's "long Tim"?
    (Michael does more annoyed typing)
    Harvey: Long time. Me lobe yoy long time.
    Jim: Oh, well, maybe "Yoy" should bring "long Tim" in one day.
    (Michael types furiously)
    Harvey: You ruined a funny joke. You get out of my offive.
    Pam: Okay. Bye, Harvey.
    (Michael types some more)
    Harvey: (long pause) Boobs. (Michael sniggers at the camera)
    • The phone prank on Andy, especially its conclusion.
      • Jim’s reaction after Andy punches a hole in the wall. That is the face of a man who realized that he may have gone a little too far.
      • There's also Andy's hilarious bad attempts at wooing Pam in this episode, culminating in him singing "Rainbow Connection" in a falsetto voice.
  • In "Ben Franklin", Michael, going by Todd Packer's definition of "Separate But Equal", offers to hire a male stripper for Phyllis' bachelorette party:
    Angela: No. A man is not going to remove his clothes in this office.
    Meredith: SHUT UP, ANGELA!
    • Jim was supposed to hire the male stripper. He instead hired a Benjamin Franklin impersonator. He then tells Dwight that this is, in fact, the real Benjamin Franklin, which leads to two absolutely hilarious scenes of Dwight interrogating said impersonator to prove that Jim is messing with him, especially when said impersonator happens to answer all his questions correctly.
      Dwight: Are you near-sighted or far-sighted?!
      Benjamin Franklin: *smugly* Both! That's why I invented the bifocal!
      Dwight: GAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!
  • "Business School": A bat getting loose in the office space. Highlights include:
  • In "Cocktails", Jan and Michael have decided to go public with their relationship.
    Jan: I need you to sign these, Michael. It’s a waiver of some of your rights. You should read it carefully. It releases the company in the event that our relationship, in your opinion or in reality, interferes with work. You get a copy, I get a copy, and the third copy goes to HR.
    Michael: Awesome! I’m gonna get mine framed. I could frame yours too.
    Jan: You realize this is a legal document that says you can't sue the company.
    Michael: Over our love.
    Jan: I’ve never told you that I love you.
    Michael: [sincerely but obliviously] You don't have to, Jan. This contract says it all.
  • invoked In "The Negotiation", Roy attempts to physically attack and possibly kill Jim over his association with Pam, which leads Dwight to pepper-spray him, instantly incapacitating him. However, that's not the funny part. The funny part is when Andy comes back from his anger management course and Dwight promptly pepper-sprays him, too.
    Andy: Hey guys, guess who's back- (gets pepper-sprayed) OWWW!! AAAAAGGHHH! OW! OH GOD!!!
    • Also, the fact that Dwight not only got Roy with the pepper-spray, but also Pam, Jim (who he was saving), and himself since in his talking head segment discussing the incident, his face is practically soaked with tears.
    • Michael and Jan's salary negotiation.
      Jan: First off, Michael, this is a salary negotiation. All matters regarding our personal relationship have to be set aside, are we clear?
      Michael: Bippity-boppity.
      Jan: Right now we can offer you a six-percent raise.
      Michael: Six percent? After all we've been through?
      Jan: Oh God.
      Michael: I got you jade earrings... You wanna play it like this? You give me a good raise, or no more sex.
      [notices Toby making notes] What are you writing, perv-ball?!
      Toby: ...Just preparing for the deposition.
      Toby: (in a talking head) This may be the first time that a male subordinate has attempted to get a modest scheduled raise by threatening to withhold sex from a female superior. It will be a groundbreaking case when it inevitably goes to trial.
  • When Stanley and Ryan try to sell together in "Travelling Salesmen", Ryan offers to make the pitch whilst Stanley critiques him. What he doesn't know is that Stanley's clients are all black. Cue him clamming up from the awkwardness. Stanley laughs all the way back to the office.
  • During "Safety Training", Micheal's attempts to trick people into thinking he's attempting suicide. With him and Dwight's Bad "Bad Acting" (to the point of repeating Micheal's suicidal speech word for word when the warehouse staff arrived), everyone's completely unconcerned...until they realize his plan to survive by jumping on a bouncy castle means he might actually kill himself by accident. Then everyone has to talk him down by telling him how brave it is to live life as himself. It's the funniest a clearly fake suicide can be.
Dwight, you ignorant slut!
  • Drunk!Jim and his "Closer To Fine" duet with Andy ("TUNA! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!"), ending with him crashing his bicycle into a hedge.
  • Andy falling into the lake in the sumo suit in "Beach Games":
    Angela: (trying to sabotage him) I don't understand what you want from me.
    Andy: Angela, it's pretty simple. Look at what I am doing and go tell somebody it!
    • He's seen twice more during the remainder of the episode, first floating in the background of a talking head with Michael and once more when it's dark and he still lies in the water and is trying to get the attention of a passing car.
      • The sumo fight when Stanley roars and attacks an appropriately terrified Jim is also hilarious.
    • Creed in the same episode, catching a fish with his bare hands and eating it, only to find out later that Michael brought hot dogs.
    • Dwight's coal "walk" (crawl might be a better word).
    • The Stinger, in which (almost) the whole bus sings the opening theme of The Flintstones, Michael even bellowing "WILMAAAAAAAAA!" at the end.
  • "Creed is eating an apple. I found a potato."
  • As a way of welcoming the Stamford transferees to Scranton, Michael and Dwight have made a video called "Lazy Scranton". It... it has to be seen to be believed. Just as funny is Michael's interpretation of the The Blair Witch Project, which was the video Jim got to see on his first day.
  • Pam asks Phyllis for advice on a date. Phyllis suggests ordering the most expensive item to prove she's worth it. Stanley, without looking up from his crossword, says "If you do that, you'll have to put out." Phyllis admits "Well, yeah, you will have to put out."

    Season 4 

  • Courtesy of "Fun Run":
  • "Dunder Mifflin Infinity": The now-corporate Ryan trying to teach Michael about new methods regarding how to make sales. Naturally, Hilarity Ensues.
    • invoked Kelly telling Ryan that she is pregnant with his baby. This reveal is immediately followed by a talking head where Kelly just shakes her head to the camera.
    • Creed dying his greying hair black with the office printer's ink cartridges in an attempt to make himself look younger.
      Creed: (in a Talking Head) I'm thirty. Well, in November, I'll be thirty.
    • Michael deliberatelynote  misunderstanding his GPS and driving his car into Lake Scranton.
      Michael: Computers are about trying to murder you in a lake.
      • It's also worth noting that Dwight, of all people, is the Only Sane Man during the entire driving-into-lake sequence.
    • From the same episode, Michael and Dwight angrily returning to their last client wanting their gift basket back. Cue Michael's hilariously furious and despair-ridden scream of "WHERE ARE THE TURTLES?!?!" shortly followed by Dwight's completely serious "We're billing you" after they learn the candy turtles were eaten.
  • "Launch Party": With Pam's help, Jim tricking Dwight into thinking that the company's automated ordering service has become sentient.
    What am I?
    While you were typing that I searched every database in existence and learned every fact about everything. And mastered the violin. Oh, and sold more paper.
  • In "Money", when Jim and Pam are driving up to Schrute Farms, Mose starts running alongside their car, for no discernible reason. It kind of freaks Pam out.
  • In "Local Ad," Andy tries, and fails, to remember the Kit-Kat Jingle, thinking it's for applesauce, Chrysler cars, football cream, before finally settling on Fancy Feast.
    • The needlessly surreal commercial that Michael and the Scranton branch create for Dunder Mifflin, culminating in the immortal line "Limitless paper in a paperless world."
    • Darryl's Dunder-Mifflin theme song.
  • "Branch Wars" is absolutely hilarious from beginning to end. In an effort to keep Stanley in Scranton, Michael and Dwight rope Jim into a trip to Utica to raid the place there, and naturally, Hilarity Ensues.
    • Their disguise consists of a warehouse uniform (a female one for Jim) and a fake mustache. Just... take a look for yourself.◊
    • Things start taking a turn for the funny even before they arrive- Dwight gets the bright idea to pee in an empty soda can in a moving vehicle and ends up cutting his penis on the lid as a result.
    • Michael and Dwight finding, moving and getting trapped underneath the giant copier. You don't actually see anything, you only get to hear about it through the walkie-talkie, which Jim uses to keep in touch with them while he stays on the lookout.
      • "I'm losing control of my bladder!"
        Michael: Leave us, Jim! Leave us! Save yourself!
        Dwight: No! Don't leave us. Help us. We need help, Jim.
        Jim: Okay, first of all, stop using my name.
    • Then Karen, Jim's ex who is the regional manager at Utica, spots Jim at the parking lot. Michael asks him to distract her, while still wrestling with the giant copier.
      Michael: Take her to a motel. Make love to her.
      Jim: No, I'm not doing that!
      Michael: Just say you want to get back together.
      Jim: No! I am not doing that!
      Michael: It doesn't have to mean anything. Just... do it for Stanley. Come on, Jim, just climb on top of her and think of Stanley.
    • At the same time that conversation is going on, Jim does everything he can to stay out of Karen's sight, including telling the camera crew to stay down. When they don't listen, Jim makes a hilarious "What the hell is wrong with you?!" gesture while Karen already appears in the background.
      • Meanwhile, Michael might be dying.
        Michael: If this is it for me, promise me something... Host the Dundies.
    • When Karen bluntly states that her branch will be taking Stanley, Dwight ominously intones that "Then, we will burn Utica to the ground." The visual juxtaposition between Rainn Wilson's absurdly dramatic tone and Dwight's silly fake mustache is the bulk of the hilarity here.
  • Michael kidnapping a pizza boy who refused Michael's coupon. And everything involving this subplot.
  • Kelly's smack-talk to Pam over Darryl owning Jim at ping-pong.
    Your boyfriend's so weak, he needs steroids just to watch baseball!
    Were Jim's parents first-cousins who also sucked at ping-pong?
  • And naturally befitting a Whole-Plot Reference to Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, "Dinner Party" features a downright treasure trove worth of Cringe Comedy concerning Jan and Michael's dinner party when Jim, Pam, Andy, and Angela (along with Dwight crashing the party later on) are all tricked into attending.
    • Jim's brief Oh, Crap! look in the Cold Open when he realizes that Michael has Out-Gambitted him and Pam in making sure that they can't get out of attending his and Jan's dinner party.
    • Jan playing for them a song by her former teenage assistant Hunter and his band "The Hunted":
      ''You took me by the hand
      Made me a man
      That one night(One night)
      You made everything all ri-i-ight..."''
      • Even better is how, while everyone else is rightfully disturbed by the song's paper-thin allusions to Jan cheating on Michael with the barely-legal Hunter, Jan dances sensually while Andy very clearly enjoys the song while Comically Missing the Point.
    • Pam's reaction to Dwight and his babysitter showing up - Namely, she says in a loud whisper "Awesome!"
    • While giving Jim and Pam a tour, Jan shows off her and Michael's bedroom. Jan quickly folds up a camera on a tripod while Pam gives a WTF look.
    • Michael being utterly horrible at Charades.
    • Michael shows Jim and Pam his new plasma TV set. It's a ridiculously tiny screen hung in the wall, and Michael is only able to watch something by standing right in front of it. He then shows off an incredibly useful feature to get more space in case there are many guests in the room: folding the wall mount to move the screen a couple of inches back. Voilà!
      • The blooper reel for that scene is even funnier, with everyone (especially John Krasinski) being unable to control their laughter (at one point, Steve Carell quips that they're never going to finish the episode — and then promptly ruins the next take by cracking up himself). Even in the final cut, they can barely resist it.
    • To get himself and Pam out of the party early, Jim lies about getting a call from his landlord that his apartment flooded so they need to leave. Michael tells them only Jim needs to go and Pam can stay:
      Jim: ....That’s true. Dinner sounded delicious. Pam I’ll see you at home, thank you so much.
      Pam: (trying to hide her fury) Oh Jim, I don’t think you’re going to abandon this party here all by itself!
      Jim: (putting on his jacket) I don’t know because I everything I own is there-
      Pam: You can buy new stuff but you can’t buy a new party.
      Michael: That’s true, that’s a great point. Come on down here. (takes Jim's jacket off him as Jim glares at Pam) Sit down on that couch and be amongst friends and we are not going to think about all your stuff being destroyed, all right.
    • The dinner party culminates with Michael and Jan getting in a huge fight, and Michael screaming "That's what she said!" at the top of his lungs. This would normally be dramatic, but Steve Carell has one of the funniest screams on TV, so it's instead hysterical.
  • In "Chair Model," Michael demands everyone at the office to set him up with someone they know. Kevin pranks him by giving the number of a "hot and juicy redhead" named Wendy, and this hilarious exchange happens:
    Voice on the phone: Wendy’s.
    Michael: Hello, Wendy! This is Kevin’s friend, Michael.
    Voice on the phone: This isn’t Wendy.
    Michael: Oh, I’m sorry. Could you put her on, please?
    Voice on the phone: Dude, this is a Wendy’s restaurant.
    Michael: [mutters] Damn it, Kevin... OK, umm... could I just have a frosty and a baked potato, please?
    Voice on the phone: You have to come to the restaurant to order food.
    Michael: Well, I’ll send somebody to come pick it up. Just have it ready.
    Voice on the phone: It’s ready now.
    Michael: Well, put it aside. [hangs up]
  • In "Job Fair," Michael tries to convince a student to take an internship at Dunder Mifflin, even though he flatly rejected him earlier, and he makes comments Pam's office romances that force her to leave.
    Michael: Also, I would never say this to her face, but she's a wonderful person and a gifted artist.
    Oscar: (astounded) What?! Why wouldn't you say that to her face?!?!
    • In the same episode, Andy driving a golf cart into a sand pit.
  • Michael's goodbye present for Toby in "Goodbye Toby". Also that he has so many lying around in his car for some reason.
    • Toby's entire exit interview is hilarious because Michael has been looking forward to reaming Toby during the meeting. But he also wants to impress Holly, so when she sits in on the meeting he's left hilariously confused, trying to read his angry questions in a nicer way.
      Michael: I just have some questions that I was gonna ask. Um... Who do you think you are?
      Toby: I'm Toby.
      Michael: Yeah. Correct. Um... What gives-what-what gives you the right?
      • When Holly says she wants to hear Toby's answer to the question, "What would you improve about Dunder Mifflin?"
        Michael: (ridiculously covers his face from Holly and whispers to Toby) I'll kill you.
        Toby: ...I guess everything's okay?
    • Michael's parody of "Goodbye, Stranger" that he sings on Toby's last day (which seems to just be the original version, but with Toby's name awkwardly shoehorned in a few times). He is way too enthusiastic about this.
  • The Season 4 blooper reel where Michael reveals that he ordered the pizzas from the bad pizza place and the entire cast freaks out (Oscar really gets into it- he looks like he's having some sort of seizure).
    • From the same blooper reel: "WE GET TO GO HOME!"
      • What makes it especially funny is that if you didn't know it was a blooper, it looks like everyone breaks down in laughter at the sheer absurdity of that idea.

    Season 5 

  • Midway through "Weight Loss", Jim notes in a talking head that Michael is doing so well with Holly, which he says is because Holly is kind of a major dork. Cut to Michael and Holly rapping in the warehouse.
  • "Business Ethics": After Dwight boasts that he does not waste any time at work, Jim carries around a stopwatch to keep track of any time not spent on work related activity. It culminates with him discussing Battlestar Galactica (2003), and deliberately gushing about things like "Klingons" and "Wookies", and tells Andy that it's "practically a shot-for-shot remake" of the original. Dwight is visibly struggling with every fiber of his being to focus on his work.
  • Everything involving Dwight's fake pregnancy with the watermelon for Michael in the Cold Open to "Baby Shower". Special mention must be given to how even Creed is visibly grossed out by the whole ordeal.
  • Dwight giving Angela an ultimatum to either break up with Andy or "Say goodbye...to all...this" while pointing dramatically at his crotch.
  • During the "Crime Aid" auction, Michael does a hilarious auctioneer impression, complete with a toy gavel that squeaks when banged against the table.
    Michael: It squeaks when you bang it; That's what she said!
  • Dwight, Kevin, and Creed all dressing up as Heath Ledger's Joker for Halloween in "Employee Transfer".
  • Everything involving Michael attempting to micromanage Dwight making a sales call to Jim in "Customer Survey".
    Dwight: BUTTLICKER! OUR PRICES HAVE NEVER BEEN LOWER!!!
  • invoked The glorious moment when Michael finds out that Toby has returned in the Cold Open to "Frame Toby". Made even funnier by how Michael's final Big "NO!" is cut off by the cheery opening theme.
    • The Epic Fail that is Michael attempting to sincerely welcome Toby back to the office. Even when he’s trying his hardest, it’s clear Michael can’t stop his Irrational Hatred of Toby from bubbling up to the surface.
    • A delightfully subtle gag: The guys Michael buys the "drugs" from are named Gino and Leo. Their actors are named Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, respectively. Their characters names are basically each other's first names with an "o" on the end.
    • At the end of the episode, Dwight describes his "perfect crime". It's... well, certainly something else.
      Dwight: invoked I break into Tiffany's at midnight. Do I go for the vault? No. I go for the chandelier. It's priceless. As I'm taking it down, a woman catches me. She tells me to stop. It's her father's business. She's Tiffany. I say "no". We make love all night. In the morning the cops come and I escape in one of their uniforms. I tell her to meet me in Mexico but I go to Canada. I don't trust her. Besides, I like the cold. Thirty years later I get a postcard. I have a son, and he's the chief of police. (in an aside: This is where the story gets interesting.) I tell Tiffany to meet me in Paris by the Trocadero. She's been waiting for me all these years. She's never taken another lover. I don't care. I don't show up. I go to Berlin. That's where I stashed the chandelier.
  • The Cold Open for "Moroccan Christmas": Dwight arrives at the office to find every one of his possessions wrapped in Christmas wrapping paper. He gives Jim an annoyed look and says how easy it will be to undo. As he says this, he tosses his briefcase onto the desk and sits in his chair...only for it to collapse. The desk and chair weren't covered in wrapping paper, they were made of wrapping paper.
  • Andy and Dwight's duel in "The Duel". What could have been a really horrifying story was Played for Laughs quite successfully. The kicker being the office's realization that Andy was going to successfully run over Dwight by keeping his Prius under 5 MPH, rendering it silent - to which Oscar, impressed, noted that his old wingman "deserved the win," to general agreement.
  • Jim attaching a suspicious looking red wire to the back of Dwight's computer in the opening to "Prince Family Paper," leading to a hilarious visual gag with Dwight literally climbing a telephone pole while looking for the end of the wire.
    Jim: (dismissively) Oh, he'll be fine, I already made it up there and I was good.
  • Dwight's "fire drill" at the beginning of "Stress Relief" has been called one of the funniest scenes in sitcom history, and it's for a damn good reason.
    Michael: Oh my GOD! Okay, it's happening! Everyone stay calm. Stay calm! STAY F**KING CALM!! EVERYBODY JUST F**king CALM DOWN!!
    Michael: Okay, we're trapped, everyone for himself!
    Andy: THE FIRE'S SHOOTING AT US!!!
    Angela: Pull me up!
    Oscar: You're too heavy!
    Angela: I only weigh eighty-two pounds! Save Bandit! (throws her cat up into the ceiling; cat plummets to the ground through the ceiling with an angry yowl)
    • A panicked Michael to Stanley while when the latter is having a heart attack:
      Michael: STANLEY, BARACK IS PRESIDENT!! YOU ARE BLACK, STANLEY!!!
    • Followed by Michael trying to force his wallet into Stanley's mouth to keep him from "swallowing his tongue" and Jim, Toby, and Kevin having to physically drag him away from Stanley.
    • Kevin accidentally trampling the cameraman (and raiding the vending machine) counts as well.
    • Stanley's hilariously bleak yet accurate assessment after he learns that he will likely have another heart attack unless he learns how to lower his stress levels... but he has to keep working at Dunder Mifflin.
      Stanley: I'm going to die.
    • The entire office's experience with the CPR training dummy, starting with Michael's take on the situation:
      Michael: No, Rose. They are not breathing. ...And they have no arms or legs.
      Rose: N- That's not part of it.
      Michael: Wh-where are they? You know what? If we come across somebody with no arms or legs, do we bother resuscitating them? (Pam gives a "Hm, he's onto something" expression) I mean, what kind of quality of life do we have there?
      Kevin: I would wanna live with no legs!
      Michael: How about no arms? No arms or legs is basically how you exist right now, Kevin, you don't do anything.
      • Rose the CPR trainer then instructs Michael to compress the dummy's chest to "Stayin' Alive" for the correct rhythm; he mistakenly starts up "I Will Survive" instead with the most confident intonation possible.
      • Creed suddenly, out of the blue, telling Rose: "You were in the parking lot earlier, that's how I know you!" causing one of the most glorious awkward silences in the show.
      • When Michael pumps the dummy to the beat of "Stayin' Alive" everyone loses the thread after Andy starts singing along providing a Barry Gibb impression while Kelly dances.
      • Then as the whole session goes to hell and Dwight goes to harvest the "dead" dummy for organs, Dwight cuts off the dummy's face and scares everyone by wearing it over his own a la The Silence of the Lambs.
        David Wallace: Can you tell me why you had to cut the face off the dummy?
        Dwight: I didn't think it was very realistic in the movie, and it turns out: it's pretty realistic.
    • Honestly, all of "Stress Relief" is hysterical, but the "roast of Michael Scott" is especially worth a mention.
      • This line from Oscar leading up to the roast, especially due to his actor Oscar Nunez's amazingly deadpan delivery:
        Oscar: I consider myself a good person... But I'm going to try to make him cry.
      • Dwight's vicious "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Michael after he accidentally insults Dwight when he's protesting the roast, angrily calling Michael "a pathetic, short little man who doesn't have any friends or any family or any land."
      • One highlight comes from Andy, whose roast comes in the form of a parody of "What I Like About You" (naturally changed to "What I Hate About You"). It's fairly tame up until:
        We're stuck listening to you all day
        Stanley tried to die just to get away!
    • And rounding out the episode, Michael's absolutely hysterical revenge-roast of everyone in the office:
      Michael: Jim, you're six-eleven and you weigh ninety pounds; Gumby has a better body than you. Boom, roasted. Dwight, you're a kiss-ass. Boom, roasted. Pam, you failed art school; boom, roasted. Meredith, you've slept with so many guys you're starting to look like one. Boom, roasted. Kevin, I can't decide between a fat joke or a dumb joke. Boom, roasted. Creed, your teeth called: your breath stinks. (Creed nods thoughtfully in agreement) Boom, roasted. Angela—where's Angela? Oh, there you are, I didn't see you behind that grain of rice. Boom, roasted! Stanley! You crush your wife during sex and your heart sucks. Boom, roasted. (Stanley starts laughing like a kazoo) Oscar you are... (distracted by Stanley, with everyone else also starting to laugh) ...Oscar, you're gay! Andy, Cornell called, they think you suck! And you're gayer than Oscar. Boom, roasted!
  • The cold open from the first part of "Lecture Circuit" has Michael annoying everyone by using the intercom function on his desk phone. As Jim puts it, the phone guy came in, showed Michael how to use it...."then he just left.", implying the phone guy might've decided to troll the office workers for some reason.
    • All of Michael’s interactions with Karen when he and Pam show up at Utica. It’s truly impressive how Michael manages to confidently say the worst possible thing each time he talks to her.
    • “SAYUWS. SAYUWS IS WOT BWINGS US TUGEVAAAAA TUDAAAAYYY.”
    • Michael’s emotional breakdown during his lecture at Nashua, complete with him crawling backwards out of the room and Pam’s game attempts at salvaging the moment.
  • Another "quick cut to Creed and that's it" gag:
    Kelly: I swallowed a tape worm last night. It's going to grow up to three feet inside of me, and then it eats all of my food so that I don't get fat. And then after three months, I take some medicine, and then I pass it. Creed sold it to me. It's from Mexico.
    Creed: That wasn't a tapeworm.
  • The Reveal in "Heavy Competition" that virtually all of Michael's handwritten notes for his clients are needlessly convoluted ways to remind himself to not bring up certain uncomfortable topics around his clients. Of course, Dwight doesn't know that, allowing for a massive helping of Cringe Comedy when he brings up the client's "gay son" when Michael's trying to steal him away for his own company.
  • "Casual Friday": The Epic Fail that is Meredith trying to keep up with Casual Friday.
  • "Company Picnic": Michael has prepared a handwritten list of reasons he and Holly should get back together, and is planning to tell her at the right moment; he reads an example to the camera, but can't quite decipher his own handwriting:
    Michael: "Number one: Holly, you and I are soup snakes". Because... in terms of the soup, we like to... Wait a minute, that doesn't make sense... We're soulmates.

    Season 6 

  • In the gossip episode, Creed's response to the rumor that he has asthma:
    Creed: "If I can't scuba, then what's this all been about? What have I been working towards?"
  • Michael and Co's version of Le Parkour.
    • "HARDCORE PARKOUR!"
  • Jim convincing Dwight to demonstrate his martial arts moves on himself by asking if anyone else is a Worthy Opponent for Dwight.
  • Creed arriving late during a murder mystery party. Upon being told he’s a murder suspect, Creed makes an excuse to leave the room and is then seen fleeing to his car and getting out of there.
  • Dwight impersonating Kevin, Stanley, and Toby while calling David Wallace's office.
  • Near the beginning of "Niagara," we see that Michael has tied cans and painted "GOING TO A WEDDING" onto his car. Later, as he leaves with Dwight for the wedding, we find that the cans were still full; they bounce along and explode, showering the street and parked cars with soda.
  • As a post-honeymoon gift, Dwight gives Jim a duck mallard with an Incredibly Obvious Bug. For the rest of the episode, Jim screws with him by playing loud music, giving the mallard away, talking directly into it, etc. Eventually it is thrown away. Then in The Tag Dwight sneaks back into the office and takes out a pen he put there at the beginning of the episode. "Do you really think I'd put my primary listening device in a wooden mallard? I'm not insane."
    • In the same sub-plot, when Dwight finds out Jim gave Kelly the mallard, he confronts her about it:
    Dwight: Where'd you get that mallard?
    Kelly: What the hell is a mallard?
  • Jim's reaction to finding out that Michael slept with Pam's mom in "The Lover".
    Jim: Who's the lucky lady?
    Michael: Pam's mom.
    Jim: (stops smiling) What?
    Michael: Pam's mom, Helene. Remember from your wedding?
    Jim: (starts smiling again) You're messing with me.
    Michael: (confused) About what?
    Jim: You did not have sex with Pam's mom!
    Michael: Oh, big time.
    Jim: (still smiling) What kind of car does she drive?
    Michael: She drives a green Camry—
    Jim: (stops smiling and promptly dies inside) *bleep*
    • Notably, this gets Jim so mad that he angrily cusses out Toby when the latter just tries to say hi.
    • This exchange between Michael and Jim:
      Michael: I mean, [Helene] is right on my way home from work—
      Jim: (practically shouting) THEN TAKE A DIFFERENT WAY HOME, MAN!!
    • Pam utters a horrified Big "NO!" after discovering Michael is sleeping with her mother. Made even funnier by the ad break; in this case, she runs out of the office in a Big "NO!", and the show soon cuts to a commercial break and upon return, she's still in the midst of her Big "NO!" in the parking lot.
  • "Koi Pond": Michael falling into a koi pond and everyone snarking at him about it. "Hey Michael, did you find Nemo?" "Don't you mean Koi Story?" "When you fell in did you flounder?"
  • "Double Date": Toby giving Pam advice on how to best slap Michael, and Michael's slowly dawning terror over the impending "fight" between him and Pam.
    • Furthermore, there's Pam almost instantly punching Michael when he notes that Helene came on to him and not the other way around.
  • Jim impersonating Kevin.
  • "Scott's Tots": Stanley bursting out laughing when "Scott's Tots" is brought up: "Has it already been ten years?"
    • After Michael spills the beans that he's unable to give the students free college tuition, you think he's going to make it up to them by giving them all laptops. But no, he's just giving them batteries to power the laptops that they still have to buy themselves.
  • Andy's 12 Days of Christmas gifts to Erin. Despite the fact it was an incredibly stupid idea, the thought process and reasoning behind his over the top gift is hilariously touching. And the fact that Erin is such good-natured, it's also funny to watch her overly polite reaction asking her Secret Santa to please stop, or lack of anger upon finding out, despite having a noticeably painful facial injury.
  • "Sabre":
    • Pam's Oh, Crap! expression in the background when, after getting a package from Dunder Mifflin's new corporate owners at Sabre, Michael shouts "Scissor me!" to Erin and she cheerfully flings a pair of scissors right at his face.
    • Michael initially thinks Sabre is pronounced "Sah-bray" (instead of "say-ber", like the sword) and this pronunciation spreads throughout the office. Erin and Andy perform a parody of "Party In The USA" to celebrate the merger, but so many of the rhymes are based on it being pronounced "sah-bray" that the song quickly falls apart when they try to use the proper pronunciation.
    • Michael fawning over the Sabre's overly saccharine induction video, purely because it has Christian Slater in it. Jim then does a spot-on impression of Christian Slater making fun of how inane the video was.
  • "Frazzled": Jim when Pam is going into labor and refusing to go to the hospital. The best moment was when her contractions were coming within 5 to 7 minutes and she still refused to go to the hospital. Jim holed up in a hallway going through motherhood books.
    Jim: Five to seven minutes. (tosses book aside) Five to seven minutes. (tosses book aside) Six minutes. Different, but not really.
    • When trying to prolong Pam's contractions, Michael say they just need to do the opposite of whatever the books say will speed things up. When he reads aloud "eat spicy foods" Kevin's suggestion is "stick spicy food up her butt!".
    • The entire scene where Jim, Pam, Dwight and Michael prepare to leave the office to go to the hospital. It's just under a minute of pure chaos. Highlights include Dwight stopping Erin from calling an ambulance because they're "emergencies only", Jim frantically looking for his keys to discover that they're in his hand, Dwight asking if anyone had checked how dilated Pam was which Michael tells him off for because Jim should be doing that and Michael frantically asking if he should bring a dictionary to the hospital while packing, which Oscar replies without missing a beat that hospitals will provide dictionaries and to bring a thesaurus, while giving the camera an Aside Glance. The scene is capped off with Michael calling for the employees to wish him luck as he leaves.
    • Dwight attempting to give Jim and Pam a "police escort" to the hospital when they're about to have a baby. It results in Dwight getting pulled over as the real police officer says, "You're not supposed to impersonate a police officer. Please don't make this difficult, Dwight." On top of that, Dwight is throwing a sword and battle axe out the window.
    • At the hospital, Pam accidentally breastfeeding the wrong baby.
    • Back at the office, when Micheal advertises his services as matchmaker, he angrily asks if anyone wants to live in a world where Stanley has two lovers and no-one else has any. After a beat, Stanley quietly raises his hand.
  • After Erin and Andy share their first kiss, there's a beat just before Andy starts scatting inexplicably. And then stops.
  • Erin completely losing it at a restaurant when Michael tells her Andy was engaged to Angela. Suddenly, Michael is the normal one for once:
    (While crying, Erin starts to cover her face with her hair and Michael looks at her visibly concerned)
    Michael: (confused) What are you doing?
    Erin: In the foster home, my hair was my room.
  • Dwight hassles Kevin for the location of the leads, and then automatically interprets his answer as code.
    Dwight: Meredith, take off your dress!
    Meredith: Okey-dokey.
    Kevin: No, dear God! They're in the trash can! In the kitchen!
    Meredith: It's coming off either way.
  • Dwight's attempts to make himself infertile so he won't produce a baby with Angela yet won't break the contract they made. He held his crotch up to a microwave and put it under a ton of physical stress (his crotch, not the microwave), all the while yelling from the pain that arises from doing something that stupid.
    • As a note, the microwave part didn't cause him to yell from any pain. Dwight did choose, however, to make intense, smug eye-contact with the camera, while assuming a ridiculous and uncomfortable pose.
    • And it all turns out to have been for naught anyway as Angela winds up bearing a Schrute fruit in Season 8. Fortunately, Dwight's had a change of heart by this point and is absolutely ecstatic to learn that Phillip is, in fact, his son.
  • "The Chump": The entire argument over shooting Bin Laden, Hitler, and Toby, especially because there's no option ever given where Toby doesn't get shot.

    Season 7 

  • The Cold Open to "Nepotism" has almost the entire office do a lipdub to "Nobody Can Do" by Human Beanz. Amusingly, Angela isn't willing to be a part of the video, but Stanley (albeit somewhat reluctantly, only telling Toby that he's behind) and Dwight are.
    • While everyone does a brief act in the lipdub, Dwight reveals himself by jumping out of the hallway, biting off a stuffed animal's head, and finally showing off his knife and licking the blade.
  • invoked In "Counseling," a wronged Dwight tries to re-enact Vivian's Moment of Awesome from Pretty Woman. The gang also tries to "Pygmalion" him into a gentleman, only for it to fall apart. Then we see why he was kicked out of the store.
    Dwight: It was BEET JUICE!
  • Just about any scene in “Andy’s Play” counts.
    • One highlight was seeing Creed at the play, albeit for different reasons altogether.
    Creed (talking into a phone): Unfortunately for this ham-fisted production of Sweeney Todd, the true horror comes from the vocal performances. New paragraph.
  • In "China", Dwight attempts to lift his full coffee mug with his foot- and promptly spills it all over his crotch.
  • In the cold open of "Costume Contest", Stanley mistakenly drinks Jim's orange juice instead of his coffee and doesn't realize it. This revelation leads the entire office to attempt to get Stanley to notice things like Kevin and Phyllis switching places, Andy shirtless, Dwight with a pony, and Michael with false teeth and a hand puppet. He doesn't notice a thing, baffling the entire office, except for the clock running five minutes slow.
  • In "Viewing Party", the look of utter horror in Pam's face when Dwight of all people gets Cece to stop crying.
  • In "Classy Christmas, Part 1", Dwight finally turns the table on Jim. Jim goes into the parking lot for a planned snowball fight but Dwight isn't there. Upon turning around, he sees that the doors have been padlocked shut. Cue Oh, Crap! face. Dwight bursts out of a snowman and begins pelting Jim with a backpack full of snowballs.
    • Also, later on, there's Dwight showing the cameras that he has various wigs for impersonating the office staff, including Kevin, Phyllis, Pam, Meredith, and Stanley.
    • At the end of the episode, Dwight gets ultimate satisfaction by filling the parking lot with identical snowmen to earlier. Jim, paranoid after earlier, needs Pam to walk with him through the parking lot like a terrified child at a haunted house, clutching an umbrella. Finally he snaps and starts smashing the snowmen in a craze, all while Dwight looks on from the roof.
  • In "PDA", Pam and Jim get drunk at a champagne brunch and spend all episode trying to find a place to have sex in the office (they and Kevin are the only ones who haven't). They succeed, emerging with ruffled hair and shit-eating grins.
  • Fridge Brilliance In "China" during Micheal and Oscar's debate under Hank's desk we can see multiple copies of "Call of Duty" suggesting that either Hank is an avid gamer, or Jim, Andy, and Karen brought back some copies from Stamford
  • "Threat Level Midnight": Pretty much the entire episode is nonstop hilarity from beginning to end.
    Todd Packer: If doing The Scarn is gay — then I'm the biggest queer on Earth!
    • And in the film cut of the episode, he says earlier "The Scarn? Sounds gay."
    • Dwight proudly talks about how he plays Micheal Scarn's robot butler, complete with a discussion on how robotic his voice should be. We then cut to a very Micheal clarifying that Dwight's character is not a robot.
    • Karen's line was so over-the-top that the documentary crew went all the way to Utica just to ask her about it.
    • In the full uncut version of the movie, Angela speaks right before Karen, and she gives an extremely dejected, uncomfortable and embarrassed reading of her only line: "Come and ride the choo-choo...the sex choo-choo".
    • "And that's how you do the Scarn!"
    • The ridiculously overtop Overly Long Gag of Toby's character's head exploding from Goldenface's Boom, Headshot!. Even funnier, when Michael Scarn runs in and Goldenface mocks him for failing to save Toby's character, Scarn dismisses the "dead" Toby as "a wanted animal rapist."
    • And on a meta level, there's the fact that the official YouTube channel for The Office later uploaded the entire in-universe film.
  • Todd Packer: After Darryl blackmails Pam into giving him more sick days:
    Pam: (to camera, smiling) I am full-on corrupt.
  • Michael's proposal to Holly. He spends the entire episode trying to pick the perfect moment to pop the question to Holly. Eventually this leads to one of the best Heartwarming Moment in the show....until the fire sprinklers are set off in the room they're in because of all the candles - and even then it's still heartwarming because Michael, instead of getting upset that his perfect moment had been ruined, is laughing hysterically along with Holly, showing how much he's grown and how good Holly is for him.
  • In "Michael's Last Dundies," Michael shows a short film where he impersonates Angela, Phyllis and Jim. The last one he interprets as wearing an earring and having a hipster personality:
    "I totally don't know where Michael is, dude. Hey you wanna listen to some records?"
  • In "Goodbye Michael," the fact that Michael's last, barely audible line is "That's What She Said."
  • Deangelo yelling at Dwight for not watching him play basketball.
    Deangelo: DAMN IT, DWIGHT! ENOUGH!!! GET YOUR ASS DOWNSTAIRS OR FIND A NEW PLACE TO SELL PAPER!
    Deangelo: The doctor is in! [CRASH]
  • Creed's attempt (the key word being attempt) of being a manager.
    • Pam's reaction is what also sells it.
    Pam: We need a new manager.
    • Creed drives into the parking lot and throws his keys over his shoulder to no one.
    Creed: Keep it running!

    Season 8 

  • Jim trying to escape talking to Robert California in "Mrs. California" including rolling and crawling out of the office, getting the security guy to close the gate on him when he tried to leave the office and climbing the ladder to the roof, losing a shoe in the process.
    • Jim not taken aback by the fact that Creed is on the same rooftop piloting a drone
    • And in the cold open to this episode, Dwight has elevated his desk so that he can stand at work at all times, which Jim goads him into committing to constantly after Dwight brags about it too much. Of course, the standing quickly becomes pretty difficult to stick with, so Dwight tries to get away with sitting on a stilt hidden in his trousers. Jim notices this, walks up to Dwight and puts a hand on him.
      Dwight: Don't-!
      Jim: Because you're sitting?
      Dwight: (nervously) Standing.
      Jim: (quietly) You know I have to do this.
      Dwight: ...I know.
      (Jim pushes Dwight and he falls to the floor with a loud yelp)
      • Dwight makes a comment about how the rest of the office looks like they're in a suicide cult, which Creed has a Suspiciously Specific Denial to.
  • In "Trivia" the whole office ends up trailing Oscar to a gay bar to take part in a Trivia Night in order to meet their quarterly quota. Andy suggests that the Office break up into three teams "Team A," "Team Backup" and "Just here to have fun," but doesn't specifically assign anyone because everyone should natural know what their placement is. This actually goes off without a hitch except Kevin obliviously tries to join Team A with Andy, Jim, Darryl, and Ryan leading to a really awkward staredown with Andy until he is shamed into joining the "just have fun" team. The "just have fun" team wins and Kevin scores the winning answer.
  • "Pool Party" has an amusing variation on the usual "Jim pranks Dwight" cold opening: Jim notes that his practical jokes are more satisfying when there's an audience, and with Pam on maternity leave, finds himself tailoring his pranks to Stanley. He's baffled when it turns out Stanley doesn't seem to get more cleverly set up jokes, and only laughs at pranks involving hiding meatballs somewhere around Dwight's desk. As a callback to the pilot, Jim even puts Dwight's stapler inside a giant meatball. Turns out Dwight and Stanley decided to work together on an elaborate scam to get free meatballs from Jim.
  • "Pecker Poker"
    Erin: It's the game of cards that gets you haar- (starts sobbing)
  • Pam uses her pregnancy to get out of annoying or uncomfortable situations just by saying "I'm going into labour!". When she plays the labour card once too many, everyone in the office calls her a liar...at which point Pam's water breaks. The office then frantically tries to escort Pam out, during which she's looking at the camera with pure joy. Then a bottle of water drops out of her dress.
  • In "Jury Duty" Andy says his nickname in school was actually King Butt because he had a king-sized butt.
    • Also, Jim's "And then 3 more days happened..."
  • "Dream Team": Dwight's total inability to keep his cool when Andy assigns him a team full of people he doesn't respect. First he freaks out as Andy reads aloud each name one by one, then he excuses himself and locks himself in the conference room, at which point he lets out one long scream.
    • Dwight preparing his team for the Florida culture, which involves a lot of bizarre torture. In particular, he shoves a photo of an old man right up in Erin's face and says in a Harvey Fierstein-like voice: "I'm gonna make ya the SEVENTH Mrs. Rosenblatz!"
  • Jim's prank in the Cold Open of "Tallahassee". Figuring that Dwight was going to let himself into Jim's room to wake him up, Jim's sets up an elaborate crime scene in it, complete with an open money briefcase and "IT WAS DWIGHT" hastily scrawled on a door in red. Dwight and Erin's expressions of sheer Oh, Crap! were truly a sight to behold, especially when Jim himself falls out of a closet next to them.
    • Also in "Tallahasse" is Nellie's return, during which she presents herself as breaking the glass ceiling just by being there and says that her penis is her brain.
    (Points to her chest)"So stop looking at my breasts..." (points to her head) "...and start looking at my penis"
    • Todd Packer brags about how Jim and Dwight couldn't get rid of him.
    "Y'see, this cat's got nine lives and a nine inch-" (cut to the next scene)
  • A nervous Ryan is struggling to prepare for his speech in "Test the Store" and he laments that Kelly or his mother isn't there to calm him down, that they'd know exactly what to say. This leads to Dwight putting on an imitation of Kelly and giving him encouragement. Both Dwight and Ryan then stare at Jim until he caves in and pretends to be Ryan's mom, also trying to encourage him.
  • Robert California gives this great line at the start of "Welcome Party". The casual tone sells it.
''"Hello Robert" says no-one, because our receptionist is in Florida...
  • In "Fundraiser", Dwight misunderstands the silent auction and believes the purpose is to guess the price and you'll get the item for free. He simultaneously realizes his mistake as Jim realizes what's just happened when it's announced he donated over $34,000, so of course, Jim seizes the moment and calls for Dwight to make a speech. Dwight awkwardly fumbles into condemning everyone making such a big deal about money before making a break for it. Probably most amazing of all was that Kevin was the one to catch on early to this.
    Kevin: (grinning) I guess he's the stupid guy in the office, huh? Cause, up till now, we didn't have one.
  • invoked This now-famous Badass Boast by Robert California to Andy in "Turf Wars" when the latter is trying to blackmail Robert into giving him his job back. What makes this whole scene especially funny is Andy's genuine look of concern after Robert hangs up.
    Robert California: (darkly chuckles) Well, I will not be blackmailed by some ineffectual, privileged, effete, soft-penised debutante. You wanna start a street fight with me, bring it on. You’re gonna be surprised by how ugly it gets. You don’t even know my real name? I'm the '''*BLEEP*'''ing lizard king.

    Season 9 

  • In The Whale, Nellie's feedback on Dwight's attempts to relate to a female client:
I have written down a few questions. Have you ever killed a woman? How many women have you killed? Please sir, will you not kill me?
  • Dwight and Angela trying to learn more about homosexuality by asking Toby where gayness comes from.
  • Andy delivers a speech about how getting rid of a safety net will motivate one to succeed. He uses Cortez burning his soldier's ships as an example, then admits that it was a "huge dick move".
  • A montage of all the times Kevin screamed: "I have to go to the bathroom!". In one he jumped out of his car in the middle of the parking lot.
  • In possibly one of the best of Jim's pranks in a long time, while he is at the dentist, he and Pam get Steve, an actor friend of theirs who is Asian to pretend to be Jim, to the point where he can use Jim's password and kisses Pam. This completely freaks Dwight out. He tries to prove he's not Jim by getting a family photo from Pam's desk but is shocked to find instead of picture Asian Jim posing with Pam and their two Asian children!
    • Even funnier is that Asian Jim gets a moment to give the Jim stare towards the camera when Dwight shoves the picture of Jim and Pam into his face.
  • The cold open from "Promos" where Phyllis is listening to the erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey on audiobook and clearly enjoying it much to the distress of everyone else in the office. Dwight dumps a bucket of cold water on her and Andy takes away her iPod, promising she'll get back at the end of the day. Cut to Andy in his office listening to it and getting aroused, then getting a bucket of cold water from off camera!
  • In "Lice", Jim keeps biting his lip whenever he tries to speak. In his talking-head interview, he acts like it's no big deal. Until he bites his lip bragging about that, at which point he loses his temper, rips off his mic and storms out.
  • Erin in "Suit Warehouse" explaining to Pam just why the office is completely trashed: "You left me in charge of the pens, Pam, that's what happened. The pens happened!" Sure, It Makes Sense in Context, but Pam's reaction really sells it.
    Pam: (watches Erin walk out, turns to look around the trashed office, and then pauses) ...are the pens here?
    • The entire office subplot is hilarious. They have an espresso machine now and everyone decided to try every flavor "to know which ones to order for refills", so they spend the rest of the episode blitzed out of their minds on caffeine.
  • In one episode's Cold Opening, Dwight's busy cleaning out a cabinet, only to set out on a quest to find the Holy Grail by following a series of clues hidden within the office. Eventually, Pam calls Jim up & asks if he sent Dwight on a quest for the Holy Grail; Jim thinks for a moment & laughs, realizing that he did (apparently he set it up years ago, and forgot about it until now).
  • This gem from "Moving On":
    Dwight: We had a nurse, but she quit because she was "poisoned" by Aunt Shirley.
    Angela: What do you mean by poison?
    Dwight: Probably nothing. ...Or strychnine. Or lemonade and strychnine, which is actually what it was.
  • Kevin and Andy's "night" after the cupcakes.
  • Dwight's proposal to Angela, after nearly crashing their cars
    "This is a ring, taken from the buttocks of my grandmother, put there by the patriarch of the Coors dynasty, melted in a foundry run by Mennonites."
  • The requisite strippers at Angela and Dwight’s Bachelor/ette nights. Dwight doesn’t catch on to the fact that Elizabeth isn’t a waitress and gets increasingly annoyed as she ignores his food orders to grind on him. Angela’s stripper turns out to be Meredith’s son, which makes everyone feel awkward and grossed out, except for Meredith, who acts exactly like a proud, overbearing mother, cheering her son on, and even interrupting his routine to demonstrate some pointers.
    Angela: “Meredith, stop! No, if anything that’s rougher!”

    Webisodes 
  • In "Kevin's Loan", Kevin didn't succeed in getting his loan but decided to sell ice cream near Dunder Mifflin for only $10 a pop!
  • The entirety of "Blackmail" because it finally gave Creed some spotlight.

    Other 
  • Deleted scenes for "Andy's Play" show Oscar scrutinizing the theater's past productions on the wall of photos to find the worst one. The one he can't top is an all-white production of The Wiz.
  • In "Goodbye Michael", one deleted scene has Michael trying to play 'one last game of sudoku with a brother' and starts grasping at Stanley's sudoku book only to drop it. Out spills cards... pornographic cards. You could feel the embarrassment. The real icing on the cake, however, is Stanley's talking-head segment immediately afterwards, which contains a sentence that you wouldn't expect to hear from this show.
    Stanley: It's called "hentai" and it's art.
  • In "Trivia", Jim spearheads "the longest silent streak in office history". When the clip went up on the official YouTube channel, it was titled Dunder Mifflin is A Quiet Place.
  • This skit from the 63rd Primetime Emmys. Highlights include Tom Haverford asking Stanley how he keeps his skin so soft, and Jesse Pinkman being disturbed by the cameras, followed by Creed promptly announcing he got some crystal meth.
  • In this video by eli_handle_b.wav, they place Michael Scott into Mass Effect with him being the goofy boss he is in a Space Opera.

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