Phyllis' Moroccan-themed holiday party goes up in flames when Meredith's hair catches on fire and Michael is forced to deal with the accident. Meanwhile, Dwight corners the market on the hottest toy of the Christmas season.
WAR
73.8
Wins Above Replacement
“Moroccan Christmas” ranks #80 of 183 The Office episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 88.8 — Elite. The episode packs 57 scored jokes at 2.7 per minute, averaging 7.3 on craft and 7.3 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: Dwight on the Schrute family intervention method: 'In the Schrute family, we believe in a five-fingered intervention: awareness, education, control, acceptance, and punching.'
Dwight Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Michael · Toby: Toby reminds Michael that HR rules only allow them to address work performance — Michael: 'I am not asking her to stop drinking. I am imploring her to quit being an alcoholic.'
Kevin · Meredith: Kevin's impact statement: Meredith gave him movie tickets because she was too drunk to go. 'And that was really cool.'
Michael: Michael's college drinking story: 'When I was in college I used to get wicked hammered. My nickname was Puke.'
Michael Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Angela: Talking head: 'I am not going to judge Phyllis for desecrating Christmas. There is one person who will, though. And Phyllis just stuffed him into a drawer.'
Angela Deadpan/Understatement Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Standout Moments
Michael · Toby: Toby reminds Michael that HR rules only allow them to address work performance — Michael: 'I am not asking her to stop drinking. I am imploring her to quit being an alcoholic.'
Kevin · Meredith: Kevin's impact statement: Meredith gave him movie tickets because she was too drunk to go. 'And that was really cool.'
Dwight: Dwight on the Schrute family intervention method: 'In the Schrute family, we believe in a five-fingered intervention: awareness, education, control, acceptance, and punching.'
Dwight Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 57 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Jim · Dwight: Dwight tells Jim 'you are so pathetic' about an elaborately wrapped gift, then Jim reveals it took five minutes because he is 'a black belt in gift wrapping'
Jim Dwight Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dwight: Dwight: 'yeah, no such thing. they don't give out black belts for things that are stupid.'
Dwight Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Dwight: Dwight boasts he can 'skin a mule deer in less than ten minutes' before being cut off by the title card
Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Unknown: Someone is forced to wear a comically tiny fez hat: 'I will not be the big guy in the tiny hat.'
Unknown Visual Gag Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Angela: Angela's talking head about the Moroccan Christmas party theme: 'This isn't your grandmother's Christmas party. Unless, of course, she's from Morocco, in which case it's very accurate.'
Angela Deadpan/Understatement Irony/Sarcasm Jim · Phyllis: Jim asks if he needs his invite to get into the party — Phyllis says yes — Jim says 'awesome' and pockets it
Michael · Angela: Michael negotiates with Angela about the nativity scene: 'all right, you can keep your camel, sheep, elephant, and the north african king can stay'
Angela: Talking head: 'I am not going to judge Phyllis for desecrating Christmas. There is one person who will, though. And Phyllis just stuffed him into a drawer.'
Angela Deadpan/Understatement Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Phyllis: Phyllis's talking head explaining her blackmail of Angela: 'I don't think it's blackmail... I think for it to be blackmail, it would have to be a formal letter.'
Phyllis Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dwight · Princess Unicorn doll: Dwight reveals the Princess Unicorn catch phrase: 'My horn can pierce the sky.'
Dwight: Dwight muses on the logistics of the Princess Unicorn's origin: 'The king had sex with a unicorn? A man with a horn had sex with a royal horse?'
Dwight Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Meredith: Meredith's party drink: 'This is equal parts scotch, absinthe, rum, gin, vermouth, triple sec, and two packs of Splenda. I call it a One of Everything.'
Meredith Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Creed: Creed rubs the genie lamp 'in a creepy way' and someone wishes he would stop; Creed responds 'stupid, everybody knows to ask for 100 more wishes'
Creed Character Comedy Absurdist Andy: Andy begins singing 'There's a Place in France' at the Christmas party
Andy Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Kevin: Kevin reveals his custom drink: 'That is vodka, and I mixed it with orange juice. I call it an orange vod-juice-ka.'
Kevin Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Jim: Jim plays along: 'Wow, that is delicious. I can't believe no one's thought of it.'
Jim Irony/Sarcasm Deadpan/Understatement Callback Dwight: Dwight sells a Princess Unicorn doll to a desperate parent: 'Fa la la la la la la ka-ching'
Dwight Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Oscar · Kelly: Oscar to Kelly after the belly dancing: 'Oh, so this is what every day would be like if you hadn't left India.'
Meredith · Michael · Office Staff: Meredith catches on fire from a candle — office staff react: 'Oh oh oh! Burnin'! Make way, we got a live one! On fire!'
Meredith: Meredith, post-fire, simply says: 'I'm all right.'
Meredith Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Michael: Michael's talking head defining an intervention: 'It's a surprise party for people who have addictions. And you get in their face and you scream at them and you make them feel really badly about themselves. And then they stop.'
Michael Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Michael: Michael instructs someone to make 'little triangles of pita toasted on both sides, fanned so you can easily grab them' — and napkins, also fanned — while conducting an intervention
Michael Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Michael: Michael instructs someone to make hummus: 'Little triangles of pita, toasted on both sides, fanned so you can easily grab them... And napkins. Fanned.'
Michael: After someone says they threw up from the intervention stress, Michael says 'Ecch. T.M.I.' then immediately: 'Fire girl!'
Michael Character Comedy Reaction Beat Callback Office Staff · Meredith: The fire victim (Meredith) is called 'fire girl' by someone — response: 'Too soon.'
Michael: Michael's college drinking story: 'When I was in college I used to get wicked hammered. My nickname was Puke.'
Michael Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Michael: Michael's intervention questionnaire includes: 'Have you ever, under the influence of alcohol, questioned the teachings of the Mormon church?'
Michael: Michael's 'impact statement': the party was the best Christmas party ever, but Meredith got so drunk they had to stop and do this. 'That's how your drinking affected me.'
Michael Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Michael: Michael: 'Was John Belushi fine? Was Bob Hope fine?' — delivered as evidence Meredith should seek help
Michael Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Toby · Michael: Toby distributes corporate Christmas gifts — which turn out to be anti-alcoholism literature — to everyone including Meredith, mid-intervention
Creed: Creed's talking head: 'I don't mind telling you that I have an addiction. I do... to porn.'
Creed Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Michael: Michael's zombie logic about Meredith: 'What is going to happen when you come in to work and you're dead? I stab her in the brain with a wooden stick. There are several ways to kill a zombie, but the most satisfying one is to stab it in the brain with a wooden stick.'
Michael Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Michael: Michael's response to Creed's porn confession: 'All right. No, no, no. No. That is — the image, I think we all can agree, is very disgusting.'
Michael Reaction Beat Character Comedy Callback Michael: Michael: 'You lit your hair on fire today. What about tomorrow? What is going to happen when you come in to work and you're dead?'
Michael Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Dwight: Dwight: 'I stab her in the brain with a wooden stick. There are several ways to kill a zombie, but the most satisfying one is to stab it in the brain with a wooden stick.'
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Dwight · Jim: Dwight and Jim improvise a permit exchange for controlled human burning: Dwight says he could let Meredith burn 'if it was a controlled burn in a well-ventilated area,' Jim says you'd need a permit, Dwight says he can get one in an hour.
Jim · Pam: Jim and Pam (or another character) watch Michael and Meredith through a window: 'They've been in there for 45 minutes. If she wasn't an alcoholic before, she is now.'
Jim Pam Deadpan/Understatement Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Oscar: Oscar explains that a Moroccan cookie is served during Ramadan — someone finds this delicious — visual joke of Moroccan food at a Christmas party
Oscar Observational Irony/Sarcasm Jim: Jim approaches the belly dancer to make a request — 'Please stop' — because it's a Christmas party
Jim Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat Michael · Unknown: After the intervention, someone privately asks Michael to write down the number of the rehab center. Michael's surprised 'Sure. Wow.' reaction.
Michael · Meredith: Michael drives Meredith past bars and they reminisce about missing Poor Richard's — then rapidly list alternative bars: The Bog, Cooper's, Kelly's, Brixx's, Carmen's, The Fort, Andy Gavin's — 'I have a new place.'
Meredith · Office Staff: 'Enough of this Christmas crap. Let's get some party music!' — followed by dancing and 'we're party girls'
Darryl: Darryl calls his daughter about Princess Unicorn: 'No, no, no. I'm just curious if you heard of it.' Then: 'This is great. My ex-wife's gonna be so pissed. For once, daddy's gonna be a hero.'
Darryl Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Dwight · Darryl: Dwight refuses to sell Darryl his last Princess Unicorn — Darryl begs desperately, repeating 'I need the doll' several times — Dwight sells it to him for $400
Darryl: Darryl opens the doll and it's a different version than he wanted — but he says 'it's even better than the one I wanted' — clearly lying through tears
Darryl Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Callback Meredith · Michael: Meredith's forced rehab admission — screaming 'THERE IS NO WAY' repeatedly while being physically guided into the facility
Michael: Michael at the rehab reception desk: 'I have a deposit. Alcoholic.' — while Meredith screams in the background
Michael Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Angela: Angela confronts Phyllis: 'Face it, the only power you have over me is this little secret that I know you're not gonna tell. Because then you won't be able to plan your stupid, tacky parties anymore. So you move the tree.'
Angela Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Phyllis: Phyllis reveals the affair to the entire office: 'Angela's having sex with Dwight. I caught them doing it after Toby's going-away party.'
Phyllis Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Office Staff: Office staff reaction to Phyllis's reveal: 'I knew it.' / 'You did not know it.' / 'I knew some of it.' / 'Everyone knew some of it.'
Michael: Michael's talking head: 'As it turns out, you can't just check someone into rehab against their will. They have to do it voluntarily. So I think I know what I need to do at this point. I need to find ways to push Meredith to the bottom.'
Michael Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Andy: Andy's Christmas carol serenade to Angela at the party — 'Deck the Halls' performed with full sincere commitment as a romantic gesture — 'roo da da da doo / ra doo doo doo doo doo'
Andy Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Angela: After Andy's serenade, dead silence — then: 'I think I'd like to go home now.'
Angela Awkward Silence Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Callback Andy: Andy, left alone after the room empties: 'Ooh. Tough room. Come on, I just learned it. Just so you know, protocol is a little round of applause.'
Andy Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Top Episodes — The Office
