Andy pulls out all the stops to give Erin a memorable Secretary's Day. Michael reluctantly takes Erin out to lunch and lets slip about Andy's relationship with Angela. Meanwhile, Oscar circulates a video he created that compares Kevin's voice to Sesame Street's Cookie Monster.
WAR
46.2
Wins Above Replacement
“Body Language” ranks #74 of 183 The Office episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 79.9 — Elite. The episode packs 56 scored jokes at 2.5 per minute, averaging 6.9 on craft and 6.7 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
Donna · Michael: You were right. About what? You were right.
Jim · Pam: So I told him to mark everything with the international symbol for gender. And, um... I should have been more specific. Your office is full of genitalia.
Jim Pam Setup/Punchline Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Kevin: You ever notice you can only ooze two things: sexuality and pus.
Kevin Observational Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Ryan · Kelly: This girl was really rude to me at the mall. So I created a fake I.M. Account from a hot guy at her high school, and now I'm trying to make her anorexic. Tell her everyone in home room thinks she's fat.
Ryan Kelly Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dwight: I'll slap you in the face with a rainbow.
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 56 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Michael · Erin: Buenos dias, erin. Buenos dias, miguel.
Michael: I believe that every man, woman, and child in this country should learn how to speak spanish. They are our neighbors to the south, and to cancun.
Michael Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Dwight: Guten tag, herr michael. I don't understand why michael is wasting his time with spanish. I have it on very good authority that within 20 years, everyone will be speaking german. Or a chinese-german hybrid.
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jim · Pam: So I told him to mark everything with the international symbol for gender. And, um... I should have been more specific. Your office is full of genitalia.
Jim Pam Setup/Punchline Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Michael: Eso es lo que dice el. 'that's what he says'? Damn it.
Michael Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Michael Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Michael: Like, 'I just delivered a baby. They didn't offer me a guarantee.'
Michael: Can you smell the power of halperts? Power couple.
Michael Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Dwight: If you want people to put the best face on something, why would you get two people who probably have never cut the face off of anything in their lives?
Dwight Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Pam: I don't even know who you are anymore.
Pam Reaction Beat Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Todd Packer: Did somebody order a hooker over here?
Donna · Pam: You look exactly alike. Oh, no, we're actually married. We're not brother and sister.
Donna Pam Setup/Punchline Cringe/Discomfort Michael: I have a sense about these things. All right. You have some ancestors in common... somewhere back. I knew it. You should see their baby.
Michael Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Darryl · Michael: It doesn't just sound a'ight, it sounds amazing. I didn't say 'a'ight.'
Michael: Uh, glasses wearers. Cholera survivors. Geniuses. Non-organic family farmers. The list goes on and on.
Michael Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Dwight: Ten seconds ago, this guy was driving a forklift. Okay? Now, all of a sudden, he's cinderella of the office.
Dwight Character Comedy Observational Kelly: You know what? You can go to hell. All right? Thanks for nothing. Oh, man. White people, right?
Kelly Setup/Punchline Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Darryl · Kelly: I don't know if she was white. Well, you can kind of tell from the voice.
Michael · Kelly: How many indian ceos can you think of? I can't think of any ceos, any race.
Kelly · Michael: I could be the indian julia roberts. That's not-- she's--okay.
Michael: It's subtle. That's how it works. I show her an image that turns her on. And then she looks at me, then she looks at the image, then back at me, then back at the image. Soon, she doesn't know what is me, what is the image. She just knows that she's turned on.
Michael Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Donna · Michael: Who took the photo? / Ryan.
Michael: You didn't see it, pam. She was giving me all sorts of signals that she wanted me to make a move.
Michael Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Michael: Oh, really, jim? What about pam? And you did a heck of a lot more than kiss. Maybe this could be my pam.
Michael Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Callback Donna: But I work in the nightlife industry. I get hit on all the time. In my 20s, it would have been annoying. In my late 20s, I find it really flattering.
Donna Observational Deadpan/Understatement Pam: Don't act like you understood anything that guy said.
Pam Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Kelly · Michael: Indian guys always wear their cell phones outside their pants. It's so dorky. Oh, no, no. That's not dorky. Look, it's easily accessible. Boom, like this. 911, hello. Scranton strangler's in the house. Inside the house.
Kelly Michael Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Kevin: You ever notice you can only ooze two things: sexuality and pus.
Kevin Observational Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Kevin · Angela: Maybe she's just pushing her breasts together to make them look bigger. Like that?
Oscar: Actually, I ran the numbers on this, and in this case, it makes more financial sense to gain money.
Oscar Deadpan/Understatement Observational ★ Rewatch Jim · Pam: 'cause I stopped by your desk like 15 times a day. I was after your money. Well, the joke was on you.
Jim Pam Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Ryan · Kelly: This girl was really rude to me at the mall. So I created a fake I.M. Account from a hot guy at her high school, and now I'm trying to make her anorexic. Tell her everyone in home room thinks she's fat.
Ryan Kelly Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kelly: When I become executive, I'm gonna make Ryan manager. And then the two of us are cleaning house.
Kelly Character Comedy Escalation Kelly · Ryan: Do you think you're treated differently because of your race? Would you ask that same question if I was white? We're so in.
Dwight: If you'd have told me this morning that today I'd be creating a monster capable of my own destruction, I'd have thought you were referring to the bull moose Mose and I are trying to reanimate.
Dwight Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jim: It's like cool... 'certified cool.' I like how they say 'certified.' Like there's some consortium of...
Jim Observational Deadpan/Understatement Jim · Kevin: Well, why don't you just move the m&ms? Well, why don't you shut up!
Jim Kevin Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Michael · Jim: What sort of movie would rudy have been if he had just stopped, given up, after two rejections? Would have been a lot shorter. Probably been a lot funnier.
Michael Jim Setup/Punchline Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Dwight: Indians migrated from the caucuses region of europe. Therefore, technically, she is caucasian. You're welcome, america.
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Darryl: I got my whole life to be a minority executive. I only have about a year left in these knees, though.
Darryl Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Donna: I do find that offensive, actually.
Donna Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement Michael: Do you need validation? We don't-- we don't validate.
Michael Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Jim: And have a good elevator ride.
Jim Awkward Silence Cringe/Discomfort Dwight: I wasn't talking to you, pale face.
Dwight: I'll slap you in the face with a rainbow.
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Kelly: For hobbies, um, yoga, belly dancing, snake charming. Beds of nails, I like lying on them.
Kelly Character Comedy Escalation Dwight: This is Hide Toshi Hasagawa. He would like to apply for the sabre minority executive training program 'print in all colors' initiative.
Dwight Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Kelly · Hide: God, I hate you so much! Caucasians, am I right?
Hide: In japan, heart surgeon, number one. Steady hand.
Hide Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Michael · Kevin: Was it the cleavage? Yeah, and the shoulder cutouts.
Creed: You know, when I tore my scrote, I was, uh... I was seeing this really hot urologist about it, and thought she was into me. But now I think she was just doing a bunch of stuff to bill my hmo.
Creed Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Michael: They're going to be pretty pleased in tallahassee that I snagged an indian for the program. She'll be the first. The program's mostly black. It's almost too black. That didn't sound right.
Michael Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Michael: The program's mostly black. It's almost too black.
Michael Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Dwight: Just once, I would like to be a puppet master and have nothing go wrong. Is that too much to ask?
Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Donna · Michael: You were right. / About what? / You were right. / I'm sorry. / No, no. No. / I'm sor-- / No.
Donna · Michael: You were right. About what? You were right.
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