Phyllis walked into the office looking pale and shocked. A concerned staff surrounded her for comfort. She told them she had been flashed in the parking lot. Jim alerted the police and they already had three other incidents of flashing in the area. Michael didn't think much of it, because it was Phyllis.
WAR
111.4
Wins Above Replacement
“Womens Appreciation” ranks #17 of 183 The Office episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 93.1 — Elite. The episode packs 75 scored jokes at 3.0 per minute, averaging 7.5 on craft and 7.4 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
Jan · Michael: Jan hears the voicemail while standing with Michael — the breakup message plays as Michael suggests dinner ('Maybe some Italian... Chinese?')
Jan Michael Cringe/Discomfort Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Jim · Dwight: Jim: 'I have information about the sex predator.' Dwight: 'You have information about the sex predator?' Jim: 'I saw him two minutes ago.' Dwight: 'Where?' Jim: 'In the women's bathroom, above the sink.'
Jim Dwight Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Michael: Michael: 'I wish I could menstruate. If I could menstruate, I wouldn't have to deal with idiotic calendars anymore. I'd just be able to count down from my previous cycle. Plus, I'd be more in tune with the moon and the tides.'
Michael Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Michael: Michael's talking head: 'Let's face it. Most guys are from the Dark Ages. They're cavemen. And they like a woman to be showing her cleavage and to be wearing eight-inch heels. And to be wearing see-through underpants. But for me, a woman looks best when she is just absolutely naked.'
Michael Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Michael: Michael's voicemail to Jan: 'I'm just calling to say that I think we need a little break. Permanently. And I know everybody says this, but I want to remain friends. Or, at least, business associates who get along. Oh. Just so you know, it's not me. It's you.'
Michael Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Standout Moments
Michael: Michael: 'I wish I could menstruate. If I could menstruate, I wouldn't have to deal with idiotic calendars anymore. I'd just be able to count down from my previous cycle. Plus, I'd be more in tune with the moon and the tides.'
Michael Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jan · Michael: Jan hears the voicemail while standing with Michael — the breakup message plays as Michael suggests dinner ('Maybe some Italian... Chinese?')
Jan Michael Cringe/Discomfort Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Jim · Dwight: Jim: 'I have information about the sex predator.' Dwight: 'You have information about the sex predator?' Jim: 'I saw him two minutes ago.' Dwight: 'Where?' Jim: 'In the women's bathroom, above the sink.'
Jim Dwight Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback All Jokes — 75 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Dwight · Jim: The demerit escalation ladder: demerit → citation → violation → verbal warning → written warning → disciplinary review, written up by Michael and placed on the desk of his immediate superior
Michael · Dwight: Michael: 'Which would be me.' / Dwight: 'That is correct.' / Michael: 'Okay. I want a copy on my desk by the end of the day or you will receive a full desaggelation.'
Michael Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Callback Jim · Michael: Jim: 'What's a... What's that?' Michael: 'Oh, you don't want to know.'
Jim Michael Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Callback Phyllis: Phyllis explains the flasher had 'it' out 'on the map' — describing the exposure through the euphemism of the map he was holding
Phyllis Deadpan/Understatement Misdirection ★ Rewatch Kevin: Kevin: 'Phyllis. You're a married woman. The guy was just hanging brain. I mean, what's all the fuss? If that's flashing, then lock me up.'
Kevin Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Dwight: Dwight's talking head: 'Phyllis, you say?' — reacting to news that the victim was Phyllis rather than a more conventionally attractive woman
Dwight Reaction Beat Dark/Subversive Michael: Michael's talking head: 'What is so funny? I mean, did he even see Pam? Or Karen from behind? I'm guessing not.'
Michael Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Michael: Michael defends laughing at Phyllis's assault: 'Masters of comedy, a guy dropped his pants. Have you ever been to the circus?'
Michael Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Ryan: Ryan: 'We're laughing at Phyllis but she's not even here. So, no harm, no foul.'
Ryan Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Michael: Michael: 'Maybe you're the flasher. Prove it. Let's see your penis.'
Michael Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Michael: Michael's talking head: 'As that was coming out of my mouth, I knew that it was wrong.'
Michael Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Michael: Michael's talking head about the 'safe word' with Jan: 'Foliage. And if one of us says that word, the other one has to stop. Although last time, she pretended she didn't hear me.'
Michael Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Michael: Michael's confessional: 'Although last time, she pretended she didn't hear me.'
Michael Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Callback Jan · Michael: Jan on the phone: 'Michael, come over after work tonight, okay? I miss your body... I'll give you $200. And if I get up before you, I'll leave it on the dresser.'
Jan Michael Cringe/Discomfort Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Michael: Michael's talking head: 'Better a thousand innocent men are locked up than one guilty man roam free.'
Dwight · Michael: Dwight's penis photo lineup — Dwight has compiled a photo board of penises for Phyllis to identify the flasher, including what appears to be his own (in Polaroid form)
Jim · Dwight: Jim: 'Question. Won't that interfere with your other task forces?' Dwight: 'Answer. No, because this is being given priority one.'
Jim Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Dwight: Dwight: 'I know what you're thinking. Won't that just shed more light on the penises? But that is a risk we have to take.'
Dwight Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dwight: Dwight accidentally calls Phyllis 'Phallus' while asking Pam to work with her on the sketch, then recovers: 'Phyllis. Sorry. I've got penises on the brain.'
Dwight Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Pam: Pam's talking head: 'I don't often miss Roy, but I can tell you one thing. I wish someone had flashed me when I was with Roy. Because that would have been the ass-kicking of the year. Especially if it had been Jim.'
Pam Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Dwight: Dwight removing bananas from the kitchen as a safety measure against flashing
Dwight: Dwight's memo requiring women to wear 'sleeves down to the wrists,' 'button-up collars and muted colors,' no heels over a quarter inch, and no makeup
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist Oscar · Michael: Oscar suggests Dwight is putting women in a burlap sack and hitting them with a stick — Michael agrees he's 'celebrating' women and encourages Pam to 'show more cleavage'
Michael: Michael: 'R-E-S-P-C-T. Find out what it means to me.'
Michael Character Comedy Misdirection Michael: Michael: 'Oh, I don't know, James. Did I come from a woman? Have I slept with a woman? More than one? Less than three.' — defending his qualifications to lead Women's Appreciation
Michael Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Dwight: Dwight's talking head: 'Those are collectible action figures. And they're worth more than your car.'
Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Michael · Meredith: Meredith: 'Nobody likes to be flashed. When Meredith flashed me at that Christmas party, I nearly vomited.' Meredith: 'I don't remember doing that.' Michael: 'What a surprise.'
Michael: Michael: 'A penis, when seen in the right context, is the most wonderful sight for a woman. But in the wrong context, it is like a monster movie. Alien.'
Michael Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Michael: Michael's women's meeting speech: 'Look around. Are women like that? No. No, they are not. Even the hot ones aren't really that skinny.'
Michael Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Andy · Michael: Andy: 'Then the fashion models could come here and work with me.' Michael: 'What you're saying is extremely misogynistic.' Andy: 'Yes.' Michael: 'Thank you.'
Michael · Angela: Michael/Angela argument: 'I'm being misogynistic. That is insane. I am not being sexist.' 'That's the same thing.' 'No.'
Angela · Michael: Angela: 'When I got my hair cut short, you asked me if I was a lesbian.' Michael: 'Because... That was one possible explanation as to why you got that haircut.'
Ryan: Ryan's talking head: 'Malls are just awful and humiliating. They're just store after store of these horrible salespeople making a big fuss out of an adult shopping in a junior section. There are petite adults who are sort of smaller, who need to wear maybe a kids' size 10.'
Ryan Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Michael · Meredith: Michael yelling 'Meredith, slow down! We're not gonna get there any faster if we're dead.' Meredith: 'Thanks. I know how to drive.'
Michael · Meredith: Michael: 'Oh. Yeah. You really shouldn't litter.' Meredith: 'My car. My rules.'
Andy · Jim: Andy in the women's bathroom: 'Hey, Jim. You want to go in the women's bathroom? No? Yeah, but it's every guy's fantasy.' Jim: 'I think you mean a girl's locker room. And in the fantasy, there's usually girls in it.'
Andy Jim Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Dwight: Dwight to Andy: 'That's because you're a preppy freak, you're the office pariah, and nobody likes you.'
Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Dwight · Andy: Dwight: 'Aye, aye, Captain.' Andy: 'More like, aye, aye, General.'
Dwight: Dwight's talking head: 'Many women are competent drivers.'
Dwight Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jim · Dwight: Jim: 'Anna Maria's.' Dwight: 'What's the occasion?' Jim: 'Six-month anniversary.' (pause) 'Nothing. I think we all kind of thought you guys were just, like, hooking up.'
Jim Dwight Awkward Silence Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Pam: Pam's talking head: 'She might mention an e-mail that I wrote a while back...' — Pam has read Jim's email to Karen confessing feelings; Pam says 'I wouldn't want to be in an office relationship, anyway.'
Pam Cringe/Discomfort Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Michael: Michael: 'What is a Pap smear? Or is it shmear like cream cheese?'
Michael Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Kelly: Kelly: 'How are things with Ryan?' Kelly: 'Awesome. Awful, I mean. But sometimes awesome.'
Kelly Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Michael: Michael revealing Jan's schoolgirl fantasy — 'I just feel uncomfortable wearing the dress.'
Michael Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Ryan: Ryan's talking head: 'Sometimes the clothes at GapKids are just too flashy. So I am forced to go to the American Girl store and order clothes for large colonial dolls.'
Ryan Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Michael: Michael: 'Jan says anything that doesn't scare us is not worth doing.' — Michael offering this as relationship wisdom
Michael Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Michael · Pam · Karen: The pros and cons list for Jan: Pros include 'Nice butt' and 'Perfect skin.' Cons include 'Breasts not anything to write home about,' 'Flat-chested,' and 'I'm unhappy when I'm with her.'
Michael: Michael: 'I'm happy sometimes. When we scrapbook. Or right towards the end of having sex.'
Michael Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Pam · Michael: Pam: 'Don't think. Just answer. What do you want to do about Jan?' Michael: 'I want to break up with Jan!' — Michael shouts it with shocking conviction
Michael · Karen: Michael: 'I cannot believe this yogurt has no calories.' Karen: 'No one said it has no calories.'
Michael: Michael takes the women to a lingerie store as a thank-you, trying to buy them items: 'Some panties, or like a thong or G-string, T-back? Get a nice bra. Padded bra. See-through? Push-up? Lace? Thigh-high? Bustier?'
Michael Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Michael: Michael's talking head: 'Let's face it. Most guys are from the Dark Ages. They're cavemen. And they like a woman to be showing her cleavage and to be wearing eight-inch heels. And to be wearing see-through underpants. But for me, a woman looks best when she is just absolutely naked.'
Michael Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Michael: Michael in the women's room: 'What are you doing in here? This is the women's room.' Michael: 'You're in here.' [other woman]: 'I pay for that privilege.'
Michael: Michael's talking head: 'I'm a pretty normal guy. I do one weird thing. I like to go in the women's room for number two. I've been caught several times, and I have paid dearly.'
Michael Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Kevin: Kevin's confessional: 'I'm a pretty normal guy. I do one weird thing. I like to go in the women's room for number two. I've been caught several times, and I have paid dearly.'
Kevin Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Michael · Phyllis: Michael holds up lingerie to Phyllis: 'What do you think? Too much?' Phyllis: 'Jim's gonna love it.'
Karen: Karen's talking head: 'I'm kind of in between boyfriends right now, so I don't need anything sexy. But I do need some new hand towels. I figure I can cut up this robe.'
Karen Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Michael · Jan · Women: Jan's call goes to voicemail while Michael panics. Everyone tells him simultaneously to answer and not answer. The call stops.
Michael: Michael attempting to change the tire — 'Can somebody grab me the lever?' — then immediately deferring to Meredith to put on hazards so he can do 'traffic detail' instead
Michael Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick Karen: Karen's talking head: 'You know? I changed a tire today. All by myself. This bathrobe's already coming in handy.'
Karen Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Dwight · Andy: Dwight: 'Think we'll find him?' Andy: 'Yeah, I do. Because justice never rests.' Dwight: 'Halvsies?' Andy: 'No. Wholesies.'
Andy · Dwight: Andy: 'You're not a total ass.' — Dwight's talking head reaction after Andy compliments him
Michael: Michael's voicemail to Jan: 'I'm just calling to say that I think we need a little break. Permanently. And I know everybody says this, but I want to remain friends. Or, at least, business associates who get along. Oh. Just so you know, it's not me. It's you.'
Michael Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Michael: Michael: 'Okay, buddy. Somebody just walked in. I have to go. So, I'll talk to you later.'
Michael Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Callback Jan · Michael: Jan appears in person at the mall, having driven there to apologize to Michael — immediately after he left the breakup voicemail
Jan Michael Irony/Sarcasm Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Michael · Jan: Michael: 'So, we're good?' Jan: 'Abso-fruitly.'
Jan · Michael: Jan's phone rings while she and Michael are reconciling; she hands it to him — it's his own voicemail playing back
Jan Michael Irony/Sarcasm Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Michael: Michael's talking head: 'Any man who says he totally understands women is a fool. Because they are un-understandable.' — followed by the wishing fountain story
Michael Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Pam · Michael: Pam to camera: 'Michael, how can you appreciate women so much but also dump one of them?' Michael: 'You mean, how can I be so illogical and flighty and unpredictable and emotional? Well, maybe I learned something from women after all.'
Dwight: Dwight answering phone: 'Dunder Mifflin Paper / Sex Predator Hotline. This is Dwight Schrute.'
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jim · Dwight: Jim prank: calls Dwight claiming to have seen the sex predator — reveals the location is 'the women's bathroom, above the sink' — i.e., a mirror
Jim Dwight Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Dwight · Pam: Dwight sprints to the women's bathroom shouting 'Anti-flashing task force! Above the sink!' — closing shot of Pam looking at the camera
Dwight Pam Physical/Slapstick Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Callback Top Episodes — The Office