When Dwight embarrasses Michael by punching him in the stomach at work, Jim organizes a lunchtime rematch at Dwight's Dojo. Meanwhile, Pam becomes annoyed at Jim when he gets too physical with her, Ryan updates the emergency contact information on a secret mission, and Michael tantalizes Ryan when the boss gets a hold of Ryan's cell phone number.
WAR
58.8
Wins Above Replacement
“The Fight” ranks #51 of 183 The Office episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 81.8 — Elite. The episode packs 73 scored jokes at 3.5 per minute, averaging 6.8 on craft and 6.8 on impact, with Michael landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Michael: Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.
Michael Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Michael · Jim: So? I've beat up black belts. Yeah. / How'd you know they were black belts? / They told me, after.
Michael Jim Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jim: Colder. Warmer. Little warmer...
Jim Visual Gag Running Gag ★ Rewatch Dwight · Jim: I am now sempai, which is assistant sensei. / Assistant to the sensei, that's pretty cool. / Assistant sensei.
Dwight Jim Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Jim: That's not advice. What advice sounds like is this. Don't ever bring your purple belt to work, because someone might... steal it.
Jim Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 73 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Dwight Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Jim · Dwight: Okay, well, you're the one who lost the desk. / I didn't lose my desk
Jim: Where was the last place you saw it?
Jim Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jim: I think you should retrace your steps.
Jim Absurdist Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Jim: Colder. Warmer. Little warmer...
Jim Visual Gag Running Gag ★ Rewatch Dwight · Jim: Jim, I've given you this information like 20 times. / I know.
Dwight Jim Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Dwight: Wash your hands Kevin.
Dwight Character Comedy Observational Dwight · Jim: Hello, it's sempai. / Was that you mom? / No. That was my sensei. / Thought it was your mom.
Dwight: Arigato goazai mashta. Hai.
Dwight Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Dwight · Jim: I am now sempai, which is assistant sensei. / Assistant to the sensei, that's pretty cool. / Assistant sensei.
Dwight Jim Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Dwight: Not that a lot of people here in America know what a sempai is. But it's equally as respected as a sensei.
Dwight Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Pam: Michael tends to procrastinate... a bit whenever he has to do work.
Pam Deadpan/Understatement Observational Pam: But once a year, it all falls on the same Friday. And that's today. I call it the perfect storm.
Pam Observational Escalation Michael: 'I don't want to work,' 'I just want to bang on this mug all day.'
Michael Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick Michael: Here's the bizzle. I have a very top secret mission for you.
Michael Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Ryan · Michael · Pam: Why is that secret? / Hello. Oh, God. Busy work. Ah, get away, get away. Cretin.
Michael: Shalax, Pam. Stop Pam-MSing.
Michael Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Michael: What if there's a tornado, Pam? People's legs are crushed under rubble. Please, would you be so kind as to call my wife? No I can't. Because we don't have any emergency contact information.
Michael: Because Pam said it wasn't a priority. Think. Think with your head Pam.
Michael · Ryan: That's the problem with being a boss, is that when you are tough, they resent you, and when you are cool, they walk all over you. / Catch-22. / Catch-22, yes.
Michael · Ryan: This is Michael Jackson, calling from Wonderland. / You mean Neverland? / This is Tito.
Jim · Pam: Your major and minor lines cross at a ridge. / That sucks. / You're making this up as you go along, aren't you?
Jim Pam Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Pam · Jim: Well, at least I don't have cavities. / Yes, you have very nice teeth. / Thanks.
Pam Jim Character Comedy Observational Michael: This is Mike Tyson.
Michael Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Jim · Dwight: As sempai, do you ever think there's gonna be a day, where humans and robots can peacefully coexist? / Impossible. The way they're programmed... / You're mocking me.
Jim Dwight Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Jim: That's not advice. What advice sounds like is this. Don't ever bring your purple belt to work, because someone might... steal it.
Jim Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dwight · Jim: Okay, give that back to me. / Okay, say please. / No, that is not a toy. / Please. / Please? / Good. And it absolutely is a toy.
Dwight: This is not a toy. This is a message, for the entire office. So that everyone could see that I am capable of physically dominating them.
Dwight Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Michael: And this is more of a ying yang thing. The Michael is all cursive, Scott all caps. Left brain, right brain. Or duality of man.
Dwight · Jim: No women or children, unless provoked. / Okay, Roy. / Warehouse guy. Doesn't count.
Jim · Dwight · Michael: Michael. Could you beat up Michael? / Yeah, I don't think that would happen. / Cause we're friends. / Because I would kick his ass.
Michael · Jim: So? I've beat up black belts. Yeah. / How'd you know they were black belts? / They told me, after.
Michael Jim Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Michael: I used to run with a very tough crowd, street fighter types. Real, real bad people. I'm just lucky I got out.
Michael · Jim: When you're a jet, your're a jet all the way, right? / You're a jet?
Michael · Dwight: Oh Michael! Sleeper hold. Bedtime for vato. / Stop it. / You are, the weakest link!
Michael: But sometimes your best friends, start coming in to work late and, start having dentist appointments that aren't dentist appointments.
Michael Observational Character Comedy Michael: Oh, queer! Eye, Queer Eye. That's a good show. Important show.
Michael Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Michael · Jim: Well, that would be kind of worthless, because I know a ton of 14 years old girls who could kick his ass. / You know a ton of 14-year-old girls?
Michael Jim Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Michael · Dwight: When we rented Armageddon... he cried at the end of it. / No... / That was because it was New Year's Eve, and it started to snow at exactly midnight.
Michael: 'Oh, Bruce Willis, they're going to leave him on the asteroid.'
Dwight: Did I want to harm Michael, the one man I've been hired to protect? No, I did not.
Dwight Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Michael: I come from a long line of fighters. My maternal grandfather, was the toughest guy I ever knew. World War II veteran. Killed 20 men, then spent the rest of the war in an allied prison camp.
Michael Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Michael: My father battled blood pressure and obesity all his life. Different kind of fight.
Michael Character Comedy Observational Pam · Jim · Kevin: I'll buy you a bag of chips. / Why are you twisting around? / French onion? / Obviously.
Jim Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement Michael · Pam: Dwight can't stop you from being mugged. He's just not tough enough. / He's a purple belt. That's really high. / I could beat up Dwight. That's ridiculous. I can murder him.
Michael · Dwight: Watch out Kelly, might sucker punch you. / I didn't sucker punch you Michael. / No, really? In case you didn't remember, I was defending my honor. Like samouraï.
Michael: Okay, fine, tit for tit.
Michael Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Michael · Dwight: If we were in a bar, right now, there would be two punches. Me punching you and you hitting the floor. / No, I'd block your first punch, rending ineffective.
Michael: You know what? I have an idea, why don't you just leave right now? Why don't you walk away from the room, okay?
Michael Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Pam: The Albany branch is working right through lunch to prevent downsizing. But Michael, he decided to extend our lunch by an hour... so that we could all go down to the dojo and watch him fight Dwight.
Pam Observational Irony/Sarcasm Michael · Dwight: I recognize that. That is Japanese for California roll. / No it's not. / I think it is, a guy told me about that.
Dwight · Michael: Actually, it's a symbol for eternal discipline. / Wow, that is really interesting.
Sensei · Dwight · Michael: After a clean strike to the chest, stomach, or kidneys, I will separate you and award a point. First person to three wins, alright? / Yes, sensei! / Lot of rules. Lot of rules. On the street, we didn't have any rules. Maybe one, no kicks to the groin, home for dinner.
Michael · Dwight · Sensei: Okay, purple belt. / Okay, I got it. / No. / I got his pants. / That was my pants. / No points for pants.
Sensei · Michael: Clean technique gentlemen. / Come on. Do that again. Do that again. I dare you.
Michael · Sensei: One point. Two points. Three points. / I said break. / How many points now? / I win, I win. / No, you didn't. / Eight points, nine points.
Michael: You talkin' to me?
Michael Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential Michael: Raging Bull, Pacino.
Michael Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Michael: Hi, Ryan. This is Saddam Hussein. / Next message. / Hey Ryan, this is your girlfriend. And I'm mad.
Michael · Ryan: My emergency contact is Todd Packer. Todd F. Packer. / You know what the F stands for? / Fudge?
Dwight: Just put... The hospital. / Contact number: Just put 911.
Dwight Character Comedy Escalation Michael: You know what, do yourself a favor. Just leave me as his contact. And I will call the hospital. Cut out the middleman.
Michael Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Michael · Ryan: Well, if you do anything crazy, give me a shout. / Yeah. Alright, I will, see you Monday.
Michael: Let's gang bang this thing and go home.
Michael Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Michael · Dwight: I have been testing you the entire day. Did you know that? / Of course.
Michael: So, effective immediately, I am promoting you, from assistant to the regional manager to assistant regional manager.
Michael Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Dwight · Michael: So I guess this'll just by my office. / No. No. Title change only.
Michael · Dwight: Three month probationary period. Let's just not tell anybody about this right now. / Just a formality? / Absolutely. But not really.
Dwight · Michael: I have so much, to learn, from you. / Yes you do. / Thank you. Sensei.
Michael: I told Dwight that there is honor in losing. Which as we all know is completely ridiculous. But, there is, however, honor in making a loser feel better. Which is what I just did for Dwight.
Michael Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Michael: Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.
Michael Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Michael: And I think I proved that today at the dojo.
Michael Character Comedy Callback Callback ⏩ The part you fast-forward
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