Dwight plays the role of Volunteer Sheriff after finding half a joint in the Dunder Mifflin parking lot leading to an investigation. Pam gives Jim a play challenge where he must be silent until he gives Pam a can of Coke.
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“Drug Testing” ranks #23 of 183 The Office episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 92.4 — Elite. The episode packs 71 scored jokes at 3.7 per minute, averaging 7.4 on craft and 7.3 on impact, with Dwight landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Dwight: Dwight's family history: 'My father's name was Dwight Schrute. My grandfather's name was Dwight Schrute. His father's name? Dwiged Schrued. Amish.'
Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Dwight · Oscar: Dwight asks Oscar: 'Have you ever... pooped a balloon?'
Jim: Jim's confessional: 'Wow, what a terrible day to not be able to talk.'
Jim Deadpan/Understatement Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Callback Dwight: 'And by the way, I haven't.' — Dwight's follow-up beat confirming he has made zero friends
Dwight Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Jim · Dwight: Jim (unable to speak due to jinx) sits across from Dwight during the investigation while Dwight tries to get him to confess something; Jim just stares
Jim Dwight Awkward Silence Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Callback Standout Moments
Dwight · Oscar: Dwight asks Oscar: 'Have you ever... pooped a balloon?'
Dwight: Dwight's family history: 'My father's name was Dwight Schrute. My grandfather's name was Dwight Schrute. His father's name? Dwiged Schrued. Amish.'
Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Jim: Jim's confessional: 'Wow, what a terrible day to not be able to talk.'
Jim Deadpan/Understatement Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Callback All Jokes — 71 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Dwight · Kevin: Dwight ordering Kevin to spit out whatever he's chewing as part of drug testing protocol
Dwight · Office Worker: Someone in the office compliments Dwight — 'You look cute today, Dwight.' He responds: 'Thanks, girl.'
Jim: Jim's talking-head: 'Dwight finding drugs is more dangerous than most people using drugs.' Then lists marijuana symptoms that describe Kevin exactly.
Jim Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Dwight: Dwight confessional: 'I like the people I work with generally. With four exceptions. But someone committed a crime. And I did not become a Lackawanna County Volunteer Sheriff's Deputy to make friends.'
Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Dwight: 'And by the way, I haven't.' — Dwight's follow-up beat confirming he has made zero friends
Dwight Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Angela: Angela confessional: 'I enjoy the tangy zip of Miracle Whip.'
Angela Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Pam · Kelly: Pam's talking-head about Jim's impressions: She tries to demonstrate his Phyllis impression and completely fails, then the confession dissolves into Kelly interrupting with a party story
Pam Kelly Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Kelly: Kelly's story about chugging at a party: 'The guys are saying chug chug chug but I'm so small and all I'd eaten that day was one of those Auntie M pretzels from the food court. So I said, is it okay if I sip it?'
Kelly Character Comedy Observational Dwight · Ryan: Dwight's interrogation of Ryan: 'Your ass is on the line, Mister!' followed by Ryan calmly answering 'Six' when asked what time he left
Dwight · Ryan: Dwight threatens to search Ryan's car 'the hard way' — which turns out to be going to the police station on his lunch break to get a warrant
Dwight Ryan Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Ryan: Ryan: 'Yeah, let's do it that way.' — after Dwight outlines the elaborate warrant process
Ryan Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat Callback Dwight: Dwight: 'If you are attempting to compliment me, you have done a very good job.' (responding to being called a narc) / 'I am very proud of being a narc.'
Dwight Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Michael: Michael's drug impression bit: 'Dude, where's my office? I totally lost it! 'Cause I was half-baked! Smoking doobies! Doobie Brothers. I was smoking doobies with my brothers. Peace out! Seacrest.'
Office Worker: 'Well, your office is behind you.' — An office worker gently redirecting Michael after his stoner bit
Michael: Michael: 'Mmmunchies. Who wants some munchies?' — immediately after someone directed him to his office
Michael Character Comedy Running Gag Callback Jim: Jim confessional: 'I don't think Michael's ever done drugs. I don't know if anyone's ever offered him any.'
Jim Deadpan/Understatement Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Dwight: Dwight interviews Oscar: 'Oscar visited Mexico when he was five to attend his great grandmother's funeral. What does that mean to a United States law enforcement officer? He's a potential drug mule.'
Dwight Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Oscar: Oscar simply walking out of the interview after 'Have you ever pooped a balloon?'
Oscar Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Callback Dwight: Dwight confessional after Oscar leaves: 'He sure left in a hurry. I don't wanna blow this.'
Dwight Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Dwight · Jim: Dwight holds up the drug evidence: 'Do you know what this is?' / Jim: 'Yes, it's marijuana.' / Dwight: 'How do you know that?' / Jim: 'It's labeled.' / Dwight: 'Dammit.'
Dwight Jim Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dwight · Jim: Dwight: 'That is Northern Lights Cannabis Indica.' Jim: 'No. It's marijuana.'
Dwight Jim Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Dwight · Jim: Dwight to Jim: 'Marijuana is a memory loss drug. So maybe you just don't remember.' Jim: 'I would remember.' Dwight: 'Well, how could you if it just erased your memory?' Jim: 'That's not how it works.' Dwight: 'Now, how do you know how it works?'
Dwight Jim Absurdist Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Dwight · Jim: Dwight interrupts his own interview by switching to asking Jim to do a Stanley impression — having heard from Pam that Jim does impressions
Jim · Stanley: Jim does his Stanley impression — 'Why do you keep CC'ing me on things that have nothing to do with me?' — and Stanley walks in mid-impression
Jim Stanley Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Dwight: Dwight confessional: '[Jim] does everyone in the office. Hmm.' — delivered with dawning, slightly jealous realization
Dwight Reaction Beat Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Stanley · Dwight: Stanley says 'I do not think that is funny.' Dwight says the exact same phrase simultaneously — then 'Jinx. Buy me a coke. No no no! No talking.'
Dwight: Dwight confessional: 'Jim is not allowed to talk until after he buys me a Coke. Those are the rules of Jinx. And they are unflinchingly rigid.'
Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Callback Dwight: The vending machine is sold out of Coke — Dwight announces 'Sold out! That has never happened in the history of Jinx!'
Dwight Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Jim: Jim (still under Jinx) gestures/reacts but cannot speak — and someone says 'Sorry, that's not my problem.' Jim is visibly frustrated but mute
Jim Reaction Beat Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Dwight · Jim: Dwight takes Jim aside: 'I know you're innocent. But I can't look like I'm treating you any differently.' — conducting a fake interview for appearances
Dwight Jim Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Michael · Kevin · Office Workers: Michael calls an announcement and everyone assumes he's ratting someone out — 'Narc! Narc!' / 'Kevin, that is so good, Michael.' — then reveals drug testers are coming
Michael: Michael's confessional about the Alicia Keys concert — 'I scored these great aisle seats... this beautiful girl... I never get to meet girls with lip rings... one of her friends started passing around some stuff. And they said that it was clove cigarettes. And I'm sure that it was clove cigarettes.'
Michael Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Michael · Toby: Michael cancels drug testing and says he'll do a 'visual inspection' instead — Toby: 'No, you cannot. It has to be official. And it has to be urine.'
Michael · Kevin: Michael asks Kevin about Rogaine — Kevin: 'I'm not taking Rogaine.' — Kevin's visible discomfort at being called out publicly
Michael · Angela: Michael asks Angela: 'You're not on anything?' — with clear implication that she seems like she could use something
Kelly: Kelly's confessional about her upcoming second date with Ryan — new dress, 'kind of low cut at the top to show some things but not everything. I mean, not everything, Jim. I promise.'
Kelly Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Michael: Michael's anti-drug speech: 'Take Cheech and Chong. Everybody knows that Cheech and Chong are funny. But just imagine how funny they would be if they didn't smoke pot.'
Michael Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Michael: Michael claims calling Dwight a narc was 'a test' and that everyone failed
Michael Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Callback Michael: Michael: 'I want everybody to take a look to their left. Now I want everybody to take a look to their right. One of those people will be dead from drug use at some point in their lives.'
Michael · Oscar: Michael: 'This year, more people will use cocaine than will read a book to their children.' Oscar: 'Where did you get these facts?'
Michael: Michael asks 'Do you think that doing alcohol is cool?' — 'doing alcohol'
Michael Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Office Worker: The person who responds: 'I have a glass of red wine with dinner about once a week for the antioxidants.'
Michael · Toby: Michael reveals his drug list — Toby corrects him: 'Hookah is not an illegal drug, Michael.' / Michael: 'Yes, it is.' / Toby: 'No, it's not. It's a type of pipe. You can fill it with tobacco, often mixed with fruit, or...'
Michael · Toby: Michael's response to Toby's hookah correction: 'In addition to Toby's urine being tested, I would like to test his blood and his hair.' / Toby: 'You can't do that.' / Michael: 'I can test anyone randomly. And I have chosen you randomly.' / Toby: 'That's not random.' / Michael: 'Okay, eenie, meanie, miney, moe. Is random.'
Michael · Pam · Jim: Michael puts Pam in charge of finding a drug tragedy story — suggests Jim has 'an amazing story about a relative caught up in the world of drugs' — Jim who is under Jinx and cannot speak
Michael: Michael encourages a silent Jim: 'This would be a good place to let it out, Jim. These are people you can trust. These are people who care about you. It's okay. Just... we will not judge you. We are here to not judge you.'
Michael Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Jim · Michael: Jim fake cries — escalating melodrama — then stops abruptly. Michael: 'Oh. Okay, are you sure? That looked like it was gonna be good.'
Jim Michael Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Michael: Michael's closing anti-drug speech: 'I hate drugs. I hate them. And based upon what I have seen, you all don't quite hate 'em as much as I do. So you are going to have a drug test. And I am not.'
Michael Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Dwight: Dwight calls the testing lab: 'Dwight Schrute. Assistant Regional Manager. You might remember testing my urine a few years back when I was applying to be a Volunteer Sheriff's Deputy. We test a lot of urine. Mine was green. Oh, right. How are you? I'm all better.'
Dwight Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Dwight · Pam: Dwight approaches a coworker (implied to be Pam based on context) to request clean urine — his opening: 'I need your urine.'
Dwight: 'Like, in a cup?' / Dwight: 'Yes, in a cup. We're not animals, Dwight.'
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Michael: Michael explains the Alicia Keys situation to Pam/the person whose urine he's requesting — 'I need clean urine for the lady.'
Michael Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Michael: Michael's pitch for why providing urine isn't illegal: 'Urine goes all over the place, you know? There's no controlling it. It just... Not my urine. A cup could find its way under the urine. It might be an accident.'
Michael Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dwight: Dwight's confessional about Pam providing urine: 'Do you want to give Michael your urine?' / Dwight: 'I want him to have all the urine he needs.'
Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Dwight: Dwight to Pam regarding giving permission: 'You're not gonna get my permission on this. I know that. Don't you think I know that?'
Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Dwight: Dwight: 'You're not gonna get my permission on this. I know that. Don't you think I know that?'
Dwight Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Dwight: Dwight asks the drug tester if they're hiring — 'You wanna work at the urinalysis lab?' / Dwight: 'Yeah, maybe.'
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist Dwight: Dwight's confessional about his father — beloved man who cheated at games but never told him until years later. 'I was shocked when I found out.'
Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Dwight · Jim: Jim sitting silently under Jinx while Dwight tries to get him to confess something — 'You look like you wanna tell me something. You look like you have something really important to say and you just can't for some reason.'
Dwight Jim Cringe/Discomfort Awkward Silence ★ Rewatch Callback Jim · Dwight: Jim (unable to speak due to jinx) sits across from Dwight during the investigation while Dwight tries to get him to confess something; Jim just stares
Jim Dwight Awkward Silence Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Callback Jim · Dwight: Jim finally breaks Jinx by buying Dwight a magazine instead of a Coke — 'I'd like a magazine.' / Lab worker: 'We just need urine, sir.' / Dwight: 'I'd still like one.'
Jim Dwight Setup/Punchline Running Gag ★ Rewatch Callback Dwight · Jim: Dwight tells Jim he passed thanks to 'your untainted pee'; Jim looks at camera
Dwight Jim Reaction Beat Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Dwight: Dwight resigns from the Volunteer Sheriff's Deputy position because he violated his oath by falsifying Michael's drug test
Dwight Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Jim · Dwight: Jim buys Dwight's Coke from him — establishing contact — 'I haven't talked to you in hours, and it's been weird.'
Jim Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Callback Michael · Dwight: Michael 'rewards' Dwight with a self-made certificate: 'Dwight K. Schrute, I hereby declare you an honorary volunteer corporal in charge of assisting all activity security.'
Dwight · Michael: Dwight: 'Can I have a gun?' Michael: 'No. I don't have a gun.' Dwight: 'Okay. I'll have to bring in my bow staff.'
Dwight · Michael: Dwight immediately pivots to his new security supervisor duties: 'How many orange traffic cones do you have?' Michael: 'Two.' Dwight: 'Oh... God.'
Pam: Pam's confessional: 'Dwight was literally carrying around his own urine and dressed like one of the Village People. Why does he do the things that he does for Michael? I just don't get it. What is he getting out of that relationship?'
Pam Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Callback Top Episodes — The Office