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
44.6
Wins Above Replacement
“Moroccan Christmas” ranks #72 of 183 The Office episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 80.0 — Elite. The episode packs 55 scored jokes at 2.5 per minute, averaging 7.2 on craft and 6.4 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
Dwight: Dwight's murder logic: 'It's never the person you most suspect. It's also never the person you least suspect, since anyone with half a brain would suspect them the most. Therefore, I know the killer to be Phyllis, the person I most medium suspect.'
Dwight Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Dwight: Dwight begins fighting himself in elaborate physical demonstration
Dwight Physical/Slapstick Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jim: Jim's explanation of Tube City: 'plastic tubes all over the office and placing hamsters inside of them'
Jim Absurdist Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Dwight: Dwight's absurd scenario: 'You are all members of the Yakuza, visiting the Lackawanna Trolley Museum, and you are attacked by Triads'
Dwight Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Stanley: Stanley's exhaustion: 'Today is the hardest I have worked in a long, long time.'
Stanley Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 55 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Dwight: Dwight's over-the-top karate demonstration with sound effects - 'Got you! Broken arm. Boom! Boom! Boom! Broken nose!'
Dwight Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jim: Jim's talking head: 'the one thing that thousand-year-old martial arts do all the time is change'
Jim Irony/Sarcasm Observational ★ Rewatch Dwight: Dwight's absurd scenario: 'You are all members of the Yakuza, visiting the Lackawanna Trolley Museum, and you are attacked by Triads'
Dwight Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kevin · Dwight: Kevin refuses to attack Dwight: 'Last time, you pulled my pants down, and then you tried to choke me with my shoelace.' 'False. I did choke you with your shoelace.'
Jim: Jim suggests Dwight fight himself: 'I think the most worthy opponent of you is you'
Jim Setup/Punchline Misdirection ★ Rewatch Dwight: Dwight's caveat: 'unless there happen to be measles present'
Dwight Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dwight: Dwight begins fighting himself in elaborate physical demonstration
Dwight Physical/Slapstick Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jim · Pam: Jim and Pam's commentary on Dwight fighting himself: 'he's making you look like such a fool' 'He really is'
Jim Pam Observational Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Jim: Jim continues commentary: 'You two are so evenly matched, I don't know how one of you is gonna get the upper hand'
Jim Deadpan/Understatement Absurdist ★ Rewatch Michael · Erin: Michael's claim about stand-up comedy: 'I did stand-up comedy once. Yeah, I killed. That sounds like it was hilarious. It was hilarious.'
Michael: Michael's email confusion: 'I get like eight e-mails a day'
Michael Character Comedy Observational Erin: Erin's confusion about 'the Journal': 'Your feelings journal? You told me to put it in the time capsule'
Erin Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Jim: Article paywall: 'It's $1.99 to finish the article'
Michael · Jim: Michael's dismissive 'Are you serious?' about paying $1.99 while Jim says 'Tuna beat me to it'
Dwight: Dwight's job offer: 'You can all have jobs at Schrute Farms as human scarecrows. It doesn't pay much and you can't unionize'
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Michael: Michael's suggestion to David Wallace's assistant: 'maybe you should spy on him. Oh, my God! Wouldn't that be hilarious?'
Michael Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Michael: Michael's phone sign-off: 'I'll catch you on the flippity-flip'
Michael Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Jim · Michael: Bathroom exchange: 'Did you throw up in there?' 'No, just pooping. You know how I be.' 'But it smells like throw-up' 'Crazy world, lot of smells'
Jim Michael Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Andy: Andy's talking head: 'it's time for the Nard-Dog to take matters into his own paws'
Andy Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Michael: Michael's stress response: 'I need more Mullins'
Michael Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Michael: Michael's rhyme: 'Monkey see, monkey do. Monkey pee all over you. That rhymes.'
Michael Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Stanley: Stanley's work philosophy: 'I only slack off when things are good'
Stanley Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Michael · Office: Michael's murder announcement: 'There has been a murder!' 'What?' 'There's been a murder in Savannah'
Michael: Michael's game therapy speech: 'Battleship got me through my parents' divorce. Operation got me through my vasectomy, i.e., My Operation'
Michael Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Jim: Jim's callback: 'Tube City. You owe me one'
Jim Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Jim: Jim's explanation of Tube City: 'plastic tubes all over the office and placing hamsters inside of them'
Jim Absurdist Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Michael · Stanley: Food negotiation: 'There will be food. You leave, you do not get food.' 'What kind of food?' 'Sandwich platters.' 'I'm in.'
Michael · Kevin: Michael's character suggestion: 'So if you talk slowly in real life, your character could, say, have been kicked in the head by a horse.' Kevin: 'Cool. I'll try it.'
Andy · Erin: Characters revealed: Andy as Nathaniel Nutmeg and Erin as Naughty Nellie Nutmeg, the incestuous siblings
Stanley: Stanley's character discomfort: 'I'm not comfortable with this.' about playing Voodoo Mama Juju
Michael: Michael complaining about his character: 'I have to play Caleb Crawdad, handsome playboy. Every night a different woman, being ogled, having to hug and kiss and spoon. I make them feel beautiful.'
Michael Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Jim · Michael: Southern accent debate: 'You don't have to keep saying I do declare anytime you say something, it means you're declaring.' 'That is the way Southern people talk.' 'And what designing woman are you basing that on?' 'Delta Burke, I do declare.'
Jim · Pam · Michael: Accent criticism: 'You sound like Forrest Gump.' 'I do not.' 'Well, you do, actually. You got this kind of like Florida Panhandle thing going, whereas what you really want is more of a Savannah accent, which is more like molasses just sort of spilling out of your mouth.'
Michael · Jim · Kevin: Swedish Chef confusion: 'Oh, now do the Swedish Chef.' 'I'm not familiar. What province is he from?' 'He lives on Sesame Street, dumbass.'
Toby · Michael: Toby's arrival interruption: 'Sorry, I'm late, boss. What's going on?' 'Sir, there has been a murder, and you are a suspect.'
Andy · Erin: Andy's date proposal: 'I would be remiss if I did not ask the pretty young lady out on a date for this weekend.' 'Sounds like a plan, sugar.' 'All right! A plan it is.'
Stanley: Stanley's voodoo backstory: 'It's not my fault. I was exposed to Harry Potter.'
Stanley Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Dwight: Dwight's murder logic: 'It's never the person you most suspect. It's also never the person you least suspect, since anyone with half a brain would suspect them the most. Therefore, I know the killer to be Phyllis, the person I most medium suspect.'
Dwight Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Andy · Erin · Kevin: Character flirtation: 'How about a threesome?' 'Yeah. My boudoir's always open.' 'Nice.'
Andy: Andy's worry: 'I'm a little worried I might have asked out Naughty Nellie and not Erin. Which would be a whole lot less appealing, because Naughty Nellie says yes to everyone, and she might be a murderer.'
Andy Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Kevin: Financial crisis in character: 'This plantation, we're running low on greenbacks, and we're having problems paying the people who give us the seeds and the dirt. We can't pay them.'
Kevin Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Michael · Phyllis: Michael skipping ahead: 'I'm gonna skip forward to a really big clue. Here we go. Well, by now, you figured out that old Beatrix Bourbon was the killer.' Phyllis: 'What? Michael, I was doing so well.'
Michael: Michael's character commitment: 'I do believe you have me mistaken. My name is Caleb Crawdad.' when Jim tries to talk business
Michael Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Michael · Erin: Weekend at Bernie's reference: 'I was just thinking about Weekend at Bernie's. So funny. The guy's dead the whole time.' 'I haven't seen it.'
Erin · Andy: Date reality check: 'Did you mean a real date?' 'No. Did you?' 'Totally not.'
Erin Andy Cringe/Discomfort Awkward Silence Erin: Erin's confession: 'I thought it was for real. So I was excited, but it was part of the game.'
Erin Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Michael: Michael's interrogation escalation: 'Stop playing games with me, Crawdad!' 'This is not a game! This is my life!' 'You are out of order, sir!'
Michael Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jim · Pam: 'Snapped or stuck?' 'Both. They're both worse.'
Jim Pam Observational Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Michael: Crime scene recreation: 'Because this is the recreation of a crime scene. I'm the dead body, and these are my brain chunks.' 'Hey, shut up. You're dead.'
Michael Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Michael: Michael's defense of the game: 'They need this game, Jim. Let us have this stupid little game, all right?'
Michael Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Michael: Phone call deflection: 'Tell him I'm not here.' 'No, I only answer to Detective Wallace, 'cause I got a warm body in the other room.'
Michael Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Jim: Jim's lifeboat metaphor: 'if you're a family stuck on a lifeboat in the middle of the ocean, one parent might want to just keep rowing. But if the other parent wants to play a game, it's not because they're crazy. It's because they're doing it for the kids.'
Jim Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Stanley: Stanley's exhaustion: 'Today is the hardest I have worked in a long, long time.'
Stanley Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Jim: Triple agent reveal: 'Andy revealed himself to be a double agent, at which point, Dwight felt comfortable revealing that he also was a double agent, and then, Michael announced to everybody that, get this, he was a double agent.'
Jim Escalation Absurdist ★ Rewatch Phyllis: Phyllis's practical ending: 'Hey, I want to go home. Get the keys out of my purse, start the car.'
Phyllis Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch ⏩ The part you fast-forward
Our scorer flagged 18:00-19:00 range with phone call and serious company crisis discussion as the stretch with the fewest or weakest comedic moments. Everything else lands harder.
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