I watched the first few seasons when they originally aired, and I liked the show but I didn’t really laugh that much. I think one reason was the awkwardness of some of the scenes, but anyway I am watching again from the beginning and I am losing weight from LMFAO.
Just a couple to start. Michael signs up for an online dating service. He says, “I need a username and I have a great one. ‘Little kid lover.’”
When Jan comes in for a woman’s seminar and Michael tries to butt in and gets jealous and decides to hold a men’s seminar in the warehouse and inspires them to start a union.
Michael burning his foot on the George Foreman grill. Dwight rushes over and gets in an accident and gets a concussion. Michael comes into the office on crutches with his foot wrapped in bubble wrap. At the hospital Michael asks the doctor if he should have a CAT scan on his foot and the doctor explains why it is not needed - “You just look at the outside and look for swelling and redness” and Dwight chimes in with “That’s what she said” and then later, when Dwight is getting the CAT scan Michael sticks his foot in.
I am really starting to love Kevin. Like when Michael decides the company will have a day at the beach. Kevin says, “I just want to lie on the beach and eat hot dogs. That’s all I have ever wanted.”
Michael - I declare bankruptcy!
Oscar - I just want to let you know you can’t just say you are bankrupt and expect anything to happen.
I like the Survivor Man episode – Michael cuts his pant legs off and then duct tapes them back on; Dwight keeps a watchful eye over him…with a rifle scope, and later rushes to the rescue when Michael tries to gobble down some mushrooms.
I seem to recall that on the booze cruise, Michael picks up the band’s guitar and hits a discord, immediately saying that “There’s something wrong with that ax.” Creed says “Oh, really?”, picks it up and runs some quick licks and says “Seems okay to me.”
“I am not offended by homosexuality. In the sixties, I made love to many women. Often outdoors and in the rain and mud. It’s possible a man slipped in there. There is no way to know.”
Kevin’s chili. It’s heartbreaking so I try not to laugh which makes it funnier but it’s so sad I try even harder not to laugh which makes it funnier etc.
And the entirety of The Dinner Party. SNIP SNAP SNIP SNAP. The plasma tv. Hunter’s CD.
I also love Holly’s introduction and she thinks Kevin is special.
That entire fire drill scene. Never has the lead up to a heart attack been so hilarious.
For my own “original” submissions, I’ll add Robert California’s interview, Dwight appoints himself Hay King, and Jim braves a parking lot full of snowmen, any one of which could be Dwight waiting in ambush. Or none of them… shifty eyes
Too many Dwight moments to count. One favorite is when he has a concussion. Michael takes him to the ER and is filling out the admission forms.
“Dwight, what’s your middle name”? “Danger.”
“Dinner Party” was an end-to-end masterpiece. There’s a deleted scene where Jan is off with the girls. The scene begins in progress, with a hammered Jan babbling about how she didn’t used to think she was beautiful: “… but then a friend of mine was voted Miss West Virginia, and people started telling me, Jan, you’re way more beautiful than Miss West Virginia, and I… I’m sorry… (to Pam)… What was your question?”
Pam repeats, “Where did you grow up?”
Jan looks horrified into the camera, realizing that she’s just revealed that she’s from… *West Virginia. *:eek:
It explains the cracks she makes throughout the episode about how much she hates being stuck in that hick town Scranton: she’s desperately trying to hide even more unsophisticated origins.
In the episode where the branches merge, and they hire a Wall Street veteran who did time for insider trading, Kevin has a talking head moment where he admits that when the trader explained why he went to jail, “it sounds an awful lot like what I do here every day”.
Stanley doing the Black Power salute on the warehouse scale at the end of “Weight Loss”. Someone on the audio commentary declared that “the greatest moment in the history of Stanley”.
Michael sitting on the roof of the building, preparing for his move to Colorado by “getting used to the altitude”.
Boy, have yeah lost yo mind, cause I’ll help you find it. Why you lookin out there, ain’t nobody gonna help you. Jesus isn’t going to be able to save you if you don’t stop sniffing around my child.