Ryan returns to Scranton but not to a warm welcome. He is making everyone in the branch come in on a Saturday to re-enter data into the new website. Michael makes it clear that Ryan is the reason they have to come in on the weekend. The rest of the staff aren't happy knowing a computer will be getting credit for all of their sales.
WAR
84.6
Wins Above Replacement
“Night Out” ranks #125 of 183 The Office episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 86.0 — Elite. The episode packs 78 scored jokes at 3.7 per minute, averaging 7.1 on craft and 7.0 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
Jim · Dwight: Jim's talking head about Dwight holding both master keys — 'If I'm dead, you guys have been dead for weeks'
Jim Dwight Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Toby: Toby's talking head: 'I have an announcement to make. I am moving to Costa Rica.' — then he just hops the fence and jogs home
Toby Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Creed: "If I had created a website with this many problems, I'd kill myself."
Creed Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Dwight: Dwight: 'I think his species might have a higher tolerance than ours.'
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Jim: "But, best-case scenario, you thought it was a quarter."
Jim Deadpan/Understatement Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Standout Moments
Creed: "If I had created a website with this many problems, I'd kill myself."
Creed Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Jim · Dwight: Jim's talking head about Dwight holding both master keys — 'If I'm dead, you guys have been dead for weeks'
Jim Dwight Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Toby: Toby's talking head: 'I have an announcement to make. I am moving to Costa Rica.' — then he just hops the fence and jogs home
Toby Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 78 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Michael · Dwight: Michael has gum in his hair because he crawled under Stanley's car to inspect something shiny
Jim: "But, best-case scenario, you thought it was a quarter."
Jim Deadpan/Understatement Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Michael: "Kill me, right now."
Michael Reaction Beat Character Comedy Michael · Jim: Michael demands an ice cream sandwich for his hair; Jim clarifies the peanut butter is for the gum, not a snack, and it's 9am
Jim · Michael: "No, Dwight, not the good peanut butter. People are gonna get mad." / "Hey, hey, hey. This is my hair we're talking about."
Dwight · Michael: Dwight tasting the peanut butter from Michael's hair and noting the calorie content
Michael: Michael's talking head about dating: 'men are visual creatures' leading into his inability to name a famous artist
Michael Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Michael: "Or an arty photograph of Cindy Crawford nude."
Michael Character Comedy Misdirection Michael: "They just lack a certain Crawfordness."
Michael Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Callback Ryan · Michael: Ryan's corporate visit framing: he's caused the entire branch to work Saturday, and Michael greets him as 'my favorite branch'
Ryan · Jim: Ryan subtly threatening Jim after Jim reveals he told David Wallace about the website concerns at the Christmas party
Ryan Jim Deadpan/Understatement Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Michael: Michael's protective speech: defending Ryan from mockery including his 'height or his half-beard'
Michael Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Ryan · Stanley: "When will that be? TBD."
Ryan · Phyllis: The Dunder Mifflin website was 'infiltrated by sexual predators' via its social networking feature
Ryan: "And then an older gentleman asks you, 'Boxers or briefs?'"
Ryan Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Callback Kelly: Kelly's defense of Ryan: "I am not applauding sarcastically."
Kelly Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Kelly: "But now, at a time TDB, all of these problems will be in the past."
Kelly Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Kelly: "You done good, kid. You done good."
Kelly Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Michael · Ryan: Michael physically clinging to Ryan while begging for a girlfriend hookup in New York
Michael: "Would you have sex with Meredith? Do you think she'd keep it quiet?"
Michael Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Jim: Jim's reaction to the Meredith question — 'I'm gonna go to my desk'
Jim Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement Michael: "Jim, it's not the horniness, okay? It's the loneliness."
Michael Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Michael · Andy: Michael inviting Andy to New York, then immediately disinviting him because he's not single, then citing 'Curse of Three'
Andy · Angela: Andy: "Old ball and chain's been a lot more chain than ball lately, if you know what I'm saying." Angela is standing right there.
Michael: Michael's exit speech: 'I am going to go get laid. Goodbye! With sex!'
Jim: Jim's plan to work late to avoid Saturday — confessional: 'And they loved it. Because this is a group that respects good ideas. The one time a year they hear one.'
Jim Deadpan/Understatement Observational Michael · Dwight: The club is called 'Prerogative' — Michael calls it out excitedly as if it's significant
Dwight: Dwight calling the packed club a 'fire hazard'
Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Michael · Dwight: "These women look like white slaves." / "No, they're just hot. Hotties."
Michael: Michael's digression about going to Cabo not to see poverty but for 'glamour'
Michael Character Comedy Observational Ryan: Ryan's reaction when he sees Michael and Dwight: dramatically enthusiastic, then cut to him telling his NYC friends 'Thanks a lot, guys. Good job!'
Ryan Irony/Sarcasm Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Jim · Dwight: The office is locked from the inside — Jim's plan backfires because the security guard wasn't told and Dwight locked everyone in
Phyllis: Phyllis: "If I'm not in my bath with a glass of red wine in one hour, you're both dead."
Phyllis Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Dwight · Ryan: Dwight: "You resemble the Tolkien character." (about Troy the hobbit-sized friend) / Ryan: "He basically is, man. He's a regular banking wizard." / Dwight: "No, no, not a wizard. A hobbit."
Dwight Ryan Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Michael: Michael asks for chicken fingers and a Midori Sour at the bottle service; told no food served; orders cups of olives and maraschino cherries
Dwight: Dwight asks Troy: "Do you live in a regular-sized house?"
Dwight Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Jim · Toby · Kevin · Oscar: Jim trying to call the security guard without knowing his name — 'Who have I got here?' / 'The African-American guy'
Jim · Kevin · Oscar · Toby · Phyllis: The cascading wrong name guesses for the security guard: Eddie, Evan, Hank, Edgar, Elliot
Dwight: Dwight tells Ryan's friends about weevil season on the beet farm: 'They lay their eggs inside the unripe beetroot, then, come springtime, the babies eat their way out.'
Dwight Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Dwight · Ryan: Dwight notices Troy has been to the bathroom several times and diagnoses a possible bladder infection, then offers to order cranberry juice
Dwight Ryan Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Jim · Dwight · Phyllis: Hank (the security guard) says he'll be there 'in just under an hour' and the staff reacts with despair
Jim · Phyllis · Others: The staff realizes nobody chipped in for Hank's Christmas tip last year — Jim was supposed to collect it
Kevin: "Now he's never gonna come." — after revealing Jim didn't collect Hank's Christmas tip
Kevin Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat Andy · Phyllis: Andy shows the office his new back tattoo — Phyllis immediately says she considered a back tattoo too
Andy: Andy's tattoo is 'Back to the Future' — 'Back' because it's on his back; 'Future' because he's the kind of guy who likes to look ahead
Andy Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Andy: Andy's tattoo artist has never heard of Back to the Future — Andy tells her to take a film education course
Andy Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Callback Michael: Michael says the club is 'like a sexy preschool' and wants a place to meet 'older women'
Michael Character Comedy Observational Michael · Dwight: Michael approaches the Jersey State varsity basketball team — a group of very tall women — and calls them 'Amazons'
Dwight: The basketball players send Dwight a drink; Dwight immediately suspects poisoning and sends it back
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Dwight: Dwight tells the woman he meets at the club that he 'washes dogs' — then clarifies 'That's one aspect of small pet grooming'
Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Michael · Woman: Michael tells a woman he 'works in finance' (Ryan's pickup advice), while the woman tells him she washes dogs
Dwight: Dwight's confessional: 'This needs to be shared.' — then a long pause before the next scene
Dwight Reaction Beat Character Comedy Dwight · Ryan: Dwight to Ryan: 'This needs to be shared.' — then Ryan sees Dwight has been narrating the weevil situation to Michael via text/radio
Dwight: Dwight's confessional: 'She washes dogs' / 'I don't want to get ahead of myself, but I think I want her to meet my mom.'
Dwight Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Callback Troy · Ryan: Troy's monologue about nuclear holocaust and jungle tribes ruling the world — Ryan's 'Yeah, maybe' response
Hank · Jim: Hank's phone call: 'Stop calling me, so I can put on my damn socks.'
Hank Jim Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Michael: Michael on his cell phone at the club talking to his mom about asking girls to dance and whether he shaved the back of his neck
Michael Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Pam · Jim: Pam imagines Michael had planned 'Scrambled Egg Saturday'; Jim counters: 'More like, Hey everyone, let's get your boss laid Saturday'
Pam Jim Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Jim · Pam: Jim's hypothetical: 'I bet Michael had some elaborate theme party planned, like Scrambled Egg Saturday.'
Jim Pam Observational Character Comedy Michael · Dwight: Michael's confessional after getting beaten up by the basketball team: 'Those girls really whaled on you bad.' / 'Why wouldn't they let me dance?'
Dwight Schrute · Michael Scott: Dwight refuses to go back in: 'I don't want to go back in.' / 'I know. Here we go.' — Michael's resigned acceptance
Oscar · Jim: Oscar suggests the cleaning crew can help them escape; Jim assumes they speak Spanish; Oscar corrects him; they do in fact speak Spanish
Oscar Jim Cringe/Discomfort Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Jim: 'They happen to speak Spanish. Lucky us.'
Jim Deadpan/Understatement Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Michael · Dwight · Ryan: Ryan's apartment: one sofa, one floor; Michael and Dwight fight for the sofa while Ryan watches; Dwight offers to sing a lullaby
Michael · Dwight: Michael/Dwight fight over the sofa: 'I got the sofa.' / 'I got the sofa.' / 'Dwight, I got the sofa, I'm the boss.' / 'Come on! I got floor!'
Dwight: Dwight: 'In case anybody needs to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, I don't want to get my head stepped on.'
Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Dwight · Michael: Dwight offers to sing Michael a lullaby; Michael refuses; Dwight: 'It's a lullaby.' — as though that settles the matter
Dwight · Ryan · Michael: Dwight offers to sing a sick-bed lullaby to Ryan; Ryan says no; Dwight persists
Ryan: Ryan confessional: 'I think my friend Troy might have a drug problem. What do I do?'
Ryan Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dwight: Dwight: 'I think his species might have a higher tolerance than ours.'
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Michael: Michael's drug advice: tell Troy you're his friend, then put a wire on him to flip him into a snitch to catch bigger dealers — 'I've been watching The Wire recently. I don't understand a word of it.'
Michael Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Michael: Michael's final confessional: 'Best night ever.' / 'It's not about the horniness. It's about the loneliness. And how can I be lonely with my boys?'
Michael Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Michael: Michael: 'Like a famous person once said, Boys on the Side. But I don't disagree. I say, Let's Hear It for the Boys.'
Michael Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Hank: Final shot: 'Son of a bitch.' — presumably Hank finally arrives to find the office empty
Hank Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Callback Unknown: Final shot: someone (likely Creed or Kevin) walks into the office the next morning to find everyone still there — or an employee discovers the Saturday situation
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