Michael is thrilled when he learns that David Wallace is sending him to Canada for a business trip, and wants to bring both Andy and Oscar with him. Jim misses Pam and he can't wait until she returns from art school.
WAR
11.4
Wins Above Replacement
“Business Trip” ranks #179 of 183 The Office episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 65.4 — Mixed. The episode packs 52 scored jokes at 2.6 per minute, averaging 6.2 on craft and 6.2 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
Michael: A concierge is the Winnipeg equivalent of a geisha. This is a woman who has been trained in the fine art of fanciness and pleasure, and when you meet one, it is intoxicating.
Michael Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Andy · Angela · Oscar: What is wrong with you? Why won't you do Andy? What? That's Oscar, and he wants to know why you won't do me, and I think it's a valid question.
Michael: In Japan, you must always commit suicide to avoid embarrassment.
Michael Absurdist Observational ★ Rewatch Andy: What's first base with Angela? I get to kiss her forehead.
Andy Character Comedy Observational Andy · Angela: I want to take you to sex school. What? Who is that, monkey? Is somebody there?
Andy Angela Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 52 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Michael: In Japan, you must always commit suicide to avoid embarrassment.
Michael Absurdist Observational ★ Rewatch Michael: In Italy, you must always wash your hands after going to the bathroom. This is considered to be polite.
Michael Observational Character Comedy Michael · Jim: To Canada. Where is it? Canada.
Michael: the women, the pancakes, the man of mystery
Michael · Meredith: I am ashamed at your naked face. I must cover it with my jacket. You are now sexy in your culture.
Jim Character Comedy Observational Jim: everyone here has just been so excited for me and involved and intrusive and weird
Jim Observational Character Comedy Michael · Oscar: I'm going to buy a sweater. Michael, that's for your food. Well, I'll just... I'll use different money for that.
David Wallace: it's pretty tough to find somebody who wants to go up to Winnipeg mid-November
Michael: business-class air, like a five-star hotel in the sky... Actually better than a five-star hotel 'cause you get a big, cushy seat and you sit in a row of people
Michael Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Michael: Two are empty. For souvenirs.
Michael Character Comedy Observational Andy · Michael: You wanna wear that puppy right up on the breastbone like a bra. No, I don't wanna wear a bra.
Andy: I'm just bidding a bon voyage à la mon petite fiancée. Translation, goodbye my petite fiancée.
Andy Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Andy · Michael: Meaning I will try to get other dudes laid. Yeah, baby. That's what I'm talking about.
Oscar · Michael: It's just a van. It's not just a van. Look, I know my way around a van. That is just a van.
Michael: Michael G. Scott rolling like a pimp.
Michael Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Michael · Flight Attendant: Yes, this is Beth. This is my personal valet/flight attendant, and she will be helping me this morning. We need to keep the aisle clear. Yes. Get back. Get back.
Michael · Andy: Andy brought one, too. Harry and the Hendersons.
Michael: Could you have picked something stinkier to bring on a plane? My God, Oscar, really. Do you have a bag of baby poop in there, too, to share with everybody?
Michael Character Comedy Observational Flight Attendant: Oh, I'm sorry, there are no meals on flights less than two hours.
Michael: I think I'm going to use my complimentary blindfold. I will don it and... Oh. Look at that, I can't see because I am in... God!
Michael Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Karen: Is that supposed to impress me?
Karen Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement Michael: Follow moi, bro-sieur.
Michael Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Michael: A concierge is the Winnipeg equivalent of a geisha. This is a woman who has been trained in the fine art of fanciness and pleasure, and when you meet one, it is intoxicating.
Michael Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Pam: I was. And then they switched to Acrobat just as I was learning Quark. I hate computers.
Pam Observational Character Comedy Michael · Marie: Good to see you again.
Michael · Oscar: You look, how you say, radiant tonight. And it is, how you say, a beautiful night. Michael, why? She's foreign. I...
Michael: Everybody's going to end up dying some day, and I think it's better to die with some people that you like, like Oscar and Andy and Concierge Marie, than to know that there's somebody out there that you love that you're not with.
Michael Character Comedy Observational Andy: Come on, it's Dandy Dale and Foppy McGee over there.
Andy Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Andy: Mademoiselle, beer me deux Long Island Iced Teas, s'il vous plaît.
Andy Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Andy · Bar patrons: Do you like apples? What? Do you like apples? Sorry, what? How do you like these apples?
Michael: It's Christmas Eve and everything is closed and you need to get some dry-cleaning done. 12:00, midnight, where do you go? What do you do?
Andy: I see through a hard exterior to a little jelly in the middle.
Andy Character Comedy Observational Andy · Michael: She has the softest skin I've ever seen, and I can't wait to have sex with her. You haven't had sex? No.
Andy · Angela · Oscar: What is wrong with you? Why won't you do Andy? What? That's Oscar, and he wants to know why you won't do me, and I think it's a valid question.
Andy · Angela: I want to take you to sex school. What? Who is that, monkey? Is somebody there?
Andy Angela Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dwight: Have you seen her painting, Jim? The building? There are shadows coming from two different directions. What? Are there two suns? Last I checked, that's not an office building in the Andromeda Galaxy.
Dwight Character Comedy Observational Dwight: It's totally unrealistic. There are no lines in the parking lot.
Dwight Character Comedy Observational Callback Michael: Get the whole nine nards.
Michael Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Andy: I thought I dreamed that. Oh, God. Oh, God! All right. Okay. This is so bad.
Andy Reaction Beat Character Comedy Callback Jim · Karen: This can't happen again. This has to happen again. Darryl can't happen again.
Jim Karen Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Karen · Jim: Oh, my God, he's gonna kill us. I'd like to see him try.
Karen · Jim: He says it's cool. He said it's cool! That's all he wrote? That's all he wrote.
Jim · Karen: Didn't you two date for, like, a long time? Mmm-hmm. This is like a fairytale.
Andy: What's first base with Angela? I get to kiss her forehead.
Andy Character Comedy Observational Oscar · Michael: You up for a chest bump? No. Bro hug?
Michael: The trip sucked, David. It blew chunks. It was terrible. It was a bad trip. I did not like the trip.
Michael: which was basically just a van, and business class which was basically just coach
Michael Character Comedy Observational Callback Michael: A boss that will not fire you even though you just tell him off right to his face over the phone, that's respect.
Michael Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Pam: It's just designing logos and stuff, and I miss Scranton, but it is not because I missed you.
Pam · Jim: I'm not going inside. All right. First thing in the morning, then.
Ryan: I realized that, for whatever reason, I just couldn't do better than Kelly.
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Our scorer flagged 14:21-15:48 range with exposition-heavy Pam storyline as the stretch with the fewest or weakest comedic moments. Everything else lands harder.
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