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
47.4
Wins Above Replacement
“Night Out” ranks #59 of 183 The Office episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 81.0 — Elite. The episode packs 51 scored jokes at 2.4 per minute, averaging 7.0 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
Dwight: if I'm dead, you guys have been dead for weeks.
Dwight Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kelly: Number one: how dare you?
Kelly Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Ryan: Yes, the social networking feature of the Dunder-Mifflin Infinity website was infiltrated by sexual predators.
Ryan Cringe/Discomfort Escalation ★ Rewatch Jim: Hey... Chief. This is Jim Halpert from... where you work. You're the guy who sits behind the desk. You're the... the african-american guy.
Jim Cringe/Discomfort Escalation ★ Rewatch Jim: But, best-case scenario, you thought it was a quarter.
Jim Observational Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 51 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Michael: Michael got gum in his hair crawling under Stanley's car for what turned out to be tinfoil
Michael Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jim: But, best-case scenario, you thought it was a quarter.
Jim Observational Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Michael: Kill me, right now.
Michael Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Jim · Michael: We have peanut butter in the kitchen. I don't feel like peanut butter. Get me an ice cream sandwich. Nope, not for you, it's for your hair.
Jim: Dwight, not the good peanut butter... People are gonna get mad.
Jim Observational Character Comedy Michael: This is my hair we're talking about.
Michael · Dwight: Smells good. Taste good, too. Oh, don't, that's disgusting. Lot of calories.
Michael: Yeah, that's nice. Keep massaging, please.
Michael Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Michael: Like a piece of fine art by... any number of renowned artists. Or an arty photograph... of Cindy Crawford nude.
Michael Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Michael: They just lack a certain... Crawfordness.
Michael Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Ryan: If the website had been working.
Ryan Irony/Sarcasm Deadpan/Understatement Ryan: Watch your back, Jim. I'm just kidding.
Ryan Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Michael: or makes fun of his height or his half-beard...
Michael Observational Character Comedy Ryan: Yes, the social networking feature of the Dunder-Mifflin Infinity website was infiltrated by sexual predators.
Ryan Cringe/Discomfort Escalation ★ Rewatch Dwight: And then an older gentleman asks you, 'boxers or briefs?'
Dwight Callback Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Kevin: If I had created a website with this many problems, I'd kill myself.
Kevin Deadpan/Understatement Dark/Subversive Kelly: Number one: how dare you?
Kelly Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Kelly: And I'm not applauding... sarcastically.
Kelly Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential Kelly: But now, at a time TDB, all of these problems will be in the past.
Kelly Absurdist Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Callback Michael: That's still going on?
Michael Character Comedy Reaction Beat Andy · Angela: Old ball and chain's been a lot more chain than ball lately, if you know what I'm saying. I'm right here.
Michael: Probably wearing the same clothes that I'm wearing right now. If you catch my drift.
Michael Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Michael: I am going... to go get laid. Good-bye! With sex!
Jim: The one time a year they hear one.
Jim Deadpan/Understatement Michael: Swingers. Classic. Jon Favreau, tall guy from Dodgeball.
Michael Character Comedy Observational Club patron: I don't go to a place like that to see more poverty, you know? You go there to get some glamour...
Ryan: Thanks a lot, guys! Good job! Later.
Ryan Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Angela: If I'm not in my bath with a glass of red wine in 1 hour, you're both dead.
Angela Character Comedy Escalation Dwight: if I'm dead, you guys have been dead for weeks.
Dwight Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Michael: No, no, not a wizard. A hobbit.
Michael Character Comedy Observational Michael: Do you live in a regular-sized house?
Michael Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Callback Jim: Hey... Chief. This is Jim Halpert from... where you work. You're the guy who sits behind the desk. You're the... the african-american guy.
Jim Cringe/Discomfort Escalation ★ Rewatch Dwight: They lay their eggs inside the unripe beetroot, then, come springtime, the babies eat their way out.
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist Angela: By show of hands, who thinks we're a better couple than Jim and Pam?
Angela Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Michael: Back to the Future. 'Back' because it's on my back. And 'future' because I'm the kind of guy who likes to look ahead into the future.
Michael Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Michael · Young woman: Back to the Future?! Well, you should take a film education course.
Michael: This place is like a... like a sexy preschool.
Michael Observational Character Comedy Dwight Character Comedy Reaction Beat Michael: Nice try! I've never met anybody who does that.
Michael Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Dwight: Ryan told me to always tell a woman you work in finance.
Dwight Character Comedy Callback Dwight: She washes dogs! I know! I don't wanna get ahead of myself, but... I think I want her to meet my mom.
Dwight Character Comedy Escalation Jim · Hank: Please don't pick up. Hello? Hank... Is that you? Yeah. Still haven't left the house yet, huh? I'm getting ready to leave. Good. Please hurry. Stop calling me so I can put on my damn socks.
Michael: One of my friends is getting beaten up by some girls!
Michael Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Toby: I... am moving to Costa Rica. Thought about it... for a long time now. And I'm finally gonna do it.
Toby Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Toby: So... I'm just gonna hop the fence and jog home then.
Toby Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick Callback Oscar · Jim: Why are you assuming they only speak spanish? I just... If they speak spanish.
Oscar Jim Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Jim: Okay? It happens they speak spanish. Lucky us.
Jim Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Callback Troy · Ryan: Why don't you take your clothes off? No!
Michael: And then you put a wire on him... and you find out who's selling him... drugs. And then you get that guy and you flip him. You turn him into a snitch.
Michael: I've been watching The Wire recently... I don't understand a word of it.
Michael: Like a famous person once said, 'boys on the side.' But I don't... I disagree. I say, let's hear it for the boys.
Michael Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ⏩ The part you fast-forward
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