Michael's idea to use "Golden Tickets" for prizes for clients causes a problem in the office. Kevin seeks advice from Andy, Jim, and Pam about dating.
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Wins Above Replacement
“Golden Ticket” ranks #155 of 183 The Office episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 72.1 — Solid. The episode packs 57 scored jokes at 2.5 per minute, averaging 6.4 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: We will ask the questions.
Dwight Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Dwight · Jim · Dwight · Jim · Dwight: We have other houses to visit. If you wanna come back then, that'd be fine. We'll come back at... How is 4:45? I get home from work around 6:00. How about 5:15?
Dwight: To keep secrets from my computer.
Dwight Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dwight: I did fall on my sword once. I was running with it in my belt. Won't happen again.
Dwight Misdirection Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Michael: I do want the credit without any of the blame.
Michael Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 57 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Michael · Jim: Character trying to tell knock-knock joke while someone is on phone, creating overlapping dialogue chaos
Michael Jim Awkward Silence Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Michael: Buddha this bread for me, won't you?
Michael: There's butter on my desk
Michael Visual Gag Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Dwight: We will ask the questions.
Dwight Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Dwight: Mine was retribution.
Dwight Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Dwight: The KGB will wait for no one.
Dwight Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Michael: I am not Michael. I am Willy Wonka!
Michael: These are extraordinary jelly beans!
Michael Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Michael Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Michael: Too many words. Good ideas are simple... Golden ticket.
Michael Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Michael: NASA took five or six golden ticket ideas to get men on the Moon.
Michael Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat Ryan: I'm a textbook over-thinker.
Ryan Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Andy: I like your dress, but I'd like it more if you had prettier hair.
Andy Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Jim: Guys with girlfriends don't.
Jim Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Andy Reaction Beat Character Comedy Michael: Was it a spoiled little girl with big lips? Or an odd little boy with a cowboy obsession?
Michael Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Michael: You found five golden tickets? And does it say 'Limit one per customer'? Nope, it doesn't.
Michael Escalation Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Michael · Dwight: You idiot. Start over.
Michael: What is a pallet?
Michael Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Michael: There's a one in thirteen chance that this could be anybody's golden ticket idea.
Pam: He's not back from the civil rights rally. I'll have him call you the minute he gets back from the Lincoln Memorial.
Pam Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Pam: An Obama fashion show. Whatever that is. Or 'Trapped in an oil painting.'
Pam Absurdist Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Stanley · Oscar · Stanley · Oscar: The good news is... they can't fire all of us, right? They can. No, they can't. Yes, they can.
Michael: I am just a net that traps all of your crappy subconscious ideas and adds a little bit of my own childhood memories and whimsy
Michael Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Michael: It is not my fault that you bought a house to impress Pam. That is why carnations exist.
Michael Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Jim: Does that mean an idea that blows up in our faces later?
Jim Irony/Sarcasm Callback Callback Creed: Why don't you skip on up to the roof and jump off?
Creed Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement Pam: He's having a colonoscopy.
Pam Callback Cringe/Discomfort Callback Michael: My colonoscopy was an examination of my large colon and the distal part of my small bowel with a camera.
Michael Cringe/Discomfort Escalation Callback Michael: There is an explanation that involves me not letting it happen. And I just don't... I don't... know.
Michael Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Michael · David · Michael: We might have hired an outside marketing consultant. We might have hired... OK, what firm? You're breaking up.
Michael · Dwight · Michael · Dwight: I just wanted to congratulate you on that great golden ticket idea. That was your idea. Who told you that? You did. Several times.
Dwight · Michael · Dwight: I wrote it down in my diary. You don't keep a diary. Yes, I do. You've just never seen it.
Dwight: To keep secrets from my computer.
Dwight Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dwight: I wasn't given candy as a child, so a movie that fetishized it that much would have made no sense to me. Plus we weren't allowed to see movies.
Dwight Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Ryan · Jim: Like that? No. Stop it.
Ryan Jim Physical/Slapstick Cringe/Discomfort Andy: Put your heart out there like that, it's liable to just turn into this blackened carbon brick. It has barbecue sauce of shame and rage.
Andy Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Andy · Ryan: Nacho chips. I was thinking about how the skin is the largest organ of the body.
Dwight: I did fall on my sword once. I was running with it in my belt. Won't happen again.
Dwight Misdirection Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Dwight: I have an idea for a fancy men's shoe store called Shoe La La, and it's just men's shoes for the special occasions in a man's life
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist Michael: Although I probably will never do it again, I had fun. I really had fun with my best friend, Dwight.
Michael Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Jim: He can do the same, right now, by getting fired instead of you.
Jim Irony/Sarcasm Setup/Punchline David: I just want to say that this golden ticket idea is one of the most brilliant initiatives I've ever seen at this company, and how about a big round of applause for Mr. Dwight Schrute!
David Irony/Sarcasm Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Michael: That's what she said.
Michael Running Gag Setup/Punchline Callback Dwight: Never know when it's gonna strike. How did it pop into your head? Just... 'boom.'
Dwight Cringe/Discomfort Escalation Michael: You've been talking about that movie for years. I even made fun of you when you dressed up as Willy Wonka to pitch this idea
Michael Escalation Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Dwight: There's not a dog listening in? I hear panting.
Dwight Character Comedy Misdirection Marketing person: There is no movie called Willy Wonka. It's called Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
Michael: It's a net, a circular net you put inside the toilet to catch your change and your wallet from falling into the toilet?
Michael: Horse boat! A canoe built around your horse so you can go from riding to water travel without slowing down.
Michael Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Michael: Everybody has to go to the bathroom.
Michael Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Dwight: It's Michael's idea that he forced on me on threat of death!
Dwight Escalation Character Comedy Michael: I do want the credit without any of the blame.
Michael Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Ryan Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Jim · Dwight: I just got out of the shower. One second. When you are done, open the door.
Dwight · Jim · Dwight · Jim · Dwight: We have other houses to visit. If you wanna come back then, that'd be fine. We'll come back at... How is 4:45? I get home from work around 6:00. How about 5:15?
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