Michael tries to motivate the Scranton branch to lose weight as part of an interoffice competition. Jim is lost after Pam leaves for art school in New York, and Angela continues to see Dwight even though she is now engaged to Andy.
WAR
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Wins Above Replacement
“Weight Loss” ranks #85 of 183 The Office episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 79.0 — Elite. The episode packs 66 scored jokes at 1.7 per minute, averaging 6.9 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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Creed · Ryan: I swallowed a tapeworm last night. It's going to grow up to three feet inside of me, and then it eats all my food so that I don't get fat. And then after three months, I take some medicine and then I pass it. Creed sold it to me. It's from Mexico. / That wasn't a tapeworm.
Creed Ryan Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Angela: I once went 28 years without having sex. And then again for seven years.
Angela Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Jan · Jim: You remember last week when that girl went missing? Guess whose candles they used for the vigil? / Cool. / Thank god they found her too. / Oh, they found her?
Jan Jim Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jim · Pam: Pam, will you marry me? / Oh, my god! / So? / Yes!
Jim Pam Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Holly: Not that guy who murdered his mother. He was not so handsome. Also Kevin.
Holly Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 66 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Michael: This is your last meal. So eat up.
Michael Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Michael: From this point forward, you will not use the bathroom. We need to keep our starting weights high so we can lose more.
Michael Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kevin · Michael: I'm taking the dumplings for my wife. / No, no, no! This is your last meal. There will be no leftovers.
Andy: I'm excited to lose weight for the wedding because I really want to have washboard abs the first time Angela sees me naked.
Andy Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Angela · Andy: Ex-squeeze me. / No, I will ex-squeeze you.
Michael: Wait a minute. One more bite of eclair each. Hold it in your mouth if you can't swallow.
Michael Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Michael: Pam-cake, no, no, no. We would love your extra poundage, but you are going to be leaving us next week, so vamoose.
Michael Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Kevin · Pam · Holly: Pam, you weigh 226 pounds? / Almost, Kevin. / Not almost though, Holly. I mean, not-- not close to 200.
Holly Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Kelly · Ryan: All I had this weekend to eat was a chicken breast and a case of diet coke. / Really? / Yeah. / 'Cause I haven't eaten anything since noon on Friday.
Stanley: I happen to be losing weight on my own for my own reasons. The truth is I have lost a little of my speed. A little of my fire.
Stanley Deadpan/Understatement Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Stanley: Here's what I used to look like. Look at those biceps. We were fighting the power and eating whatever we wanted.
Stanley Visual Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Creed · Jim: Jimbo. / Ah, they moved the shower. / Did you see Holly's butt? / Nope, I didn't.
Creed Jim Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Jim: Because most of the time friends don't talk about other friends' butts.
Jim Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Creed: And that her butt refuses to quit!
Creed Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Creed · Jim: That's insane. I thought you had to pee. / I'll just go later.
Creed Jim Character Comedy Callback Callback Holly: Actually, I'm a lesbian. / I'm gay. / I'm not a lesbian. I don't know why I said that. Stupid joke.
Holly Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Michael: Oh, you think it's a choice?
Michael Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Michael · Holly: I'm messing with you, Holly. / I knew that. Okay, bye.
Pam: I will be a little fish in the big apple. What up, 212?
Pam Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Dwight: It's not gonna take her ten minutes to fax it, Jim.
Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Andy: Ang... Ela. Ela ela ela under my angerela ela ela ela eh eh eh--
Andy Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Andy: Every little boy fantasizes about his fairytale wedding.
Andy: No, no. This is where my parents decided not to get divorced.
Andy Dark/Subversive Misdirection ★ Rewatch Dwight · Angela: Oh, we done good in there, half-pint. / Well, that was the last time, Dwight. I mean it.
Michael: I wrote you a good-bye poem. It's really long. I left it... Up in my office. Could you just please wait till I go get it?
Michael Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Michael · Pam: The last word is 'seagulls.' / I'm sure it was really lovely. / I took a lot from other poems.
Michael Pam Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Jim: Something about a guy who used to work here.
Jim Irony/Sarcasm Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Callback Jim: I can't believe I'm saying this, but Michael is actually killing it with Holly. And I think I know why. It's because Holly is kind of a major dork.
Jim Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Michael: I'm MC Mike Scott, and I am hot she's DJ Jazzy Flax, and she is the best
Kevin: I don't really know Ronnie. But I have a feeling I will get to know her very well over the next few years. And eventually declare my love for her.
Kevin Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Pam: Sorry I'm late. I accidentally switched my alarm clock setting to Zapf Chancery.
Pam Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Professor · Kelly: You're shaking. Are you all right? / Just leave me alone! I am on the third day of my cleanse diet.
Kelly: I just bought some bikinis online, size two. So... Gonna look amazing
Kelly Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Jan · Jim: You remember last week when that girl went missing? Guess whose candles they used for the vigil? / Cool. / Thank god they found her too. / Oh, they found her?
Jan Jim Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jim: When Michael told us that Jan was pregnant, he led us to believe that he was the father... By telling us that he was the father.
Jim Deadpan/Understatement Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Oscar: Yes, she is. And clinically insane.
Oscar Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Holly · Angela · Kevin: No! You do not talk to him like that! / But he's an idiot! / He is not an idiot. / Thank you, Holly. / He is mentally challenged. But he's doing a super job here.
Kevin: Do you think that I'm retarded?
Kevin Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Angela: Dangerous, tacky, sharks, haunted-- no.
Angela Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Angela: I have a nice comforter and several cozy pillows. I usually read a chapter of a book, and it's lights out by 8:30. That's how I sleep at night.
Angela Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Pam: I'm gonna watch HGTV, and maybe go to Bungalow 8 with John Mayer.
Pam Character Comedy Escalation Michael · Ronnie: We call her Rice-a-Ronnie. She is hilarious. She is wonderful. A beam of light in this dark, dark office. / Not really so much.
Ronnie · Michael: The nerve. / Oh, calm down, weirdo. It's just a joke. She's such a weirdo!
Stanley: I was at the hospital. I lost four pounds. I don't know what those other fools were doing, but I lost four pounds.
Stanley Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Angela: I once went 28 years without having sex. And then again for seven years.
Angela Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Kevin · Oscar: Shotgun weddings. / That's not what that is. / Fright. Being scared to death.
Michael: Cryogenics. Spare me five.
Jan: I don't want you to end up with a surprise pregnancy like me.
Jan Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Andy: All I care about is that we're gonna spend the rest of our lives together.
Andy Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Stanley: Stanley, now all I like is baklava.
Stanley Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Holly: Not that guy who murdered his mother. He was not so handsome. Also Kevin.
Holly Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Creed · Ryan: I swallowed a tapeworm last night. It's going to grow up to three feet inside of me, and then it eats all my food so that I don't get fat. And then after three months, I take some medicine and then I pass it. Creed sold it to me. It's from Mexico. / That wasn't a tapeworm.
Creed Ryan Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Ryan: I'm keeping a list of everyone who wrongs me, so when I'm back on top, they'll be sorry. Kevin just made the list.
Ryan Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Ryan · Jim: I've even started, um, volunteering. Giving back to the community. / That's great. / You're talking about your court-ordered community service? / I don't need a judge to tell me to keep my community clean. / But he did, right?
Ryan Jim Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Kelly: This is the hardest thing I've ever had to do in my entire life. I haven't had a very hard life.
Kelly Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Ryan: I wanted to say I'm sorry for treating you bad the past couple of years. I-- I was in my mid-twenties, and... I was going through a lot of stuff. I think I never really processed 9/11.
Ryan Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Dwight · Phyllis: Phyllis Vance, ladies and gentlemen! / You left me in a bad part of town. / Yeah, I took your purse. What are you worried about?
Michael: This big fat pig is beautiful.
Michael Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Michael · Holly: Fat people are not monsters. / Bang, boom! Case in point.
Kevin Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Kelly: I wonder what people like about me. Probably my jugs.
Kelly Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Kevin · Ryan: Shaved off my goatee. I am goatee-less. We are the goat-less brothers. / Yeah, yep!
Jim · Dwight: I'm gonna write you both up for not working. / I'm gonna write you up for not working. / Okay. Well played. / Neither of us will write the other up for not working.
Jim · Pam: Pam, will you marry me? / Oh, my god! / So? / Yes!
Jim Pam Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Ryan: I went zip-lining my third day in Costa Rica. I... Guess the harness wasn't strapped in exactly right. I broke my neck. And... I've been in the hospital five weeks now. Still haven't seen the beach.
Ryan Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch ⏩ The part you fast-forward
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