Michael is surprisingly cheerful after learning some bad news about Donna. The new parents, Pam and Jim, have trouble staying awake in the office. Meanwhile, Angela takes matters into her own hands when Dwight refuses to honor their contract.
WAR
56.4
Wins Above Replacement
“Whistleblower” ranks #68 of 183 The Office episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 80.2 — Elite. The episode packs 57 scored jokes at 2.4 per minute, averaging 7.1 on craft and 6.9 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: ♪ Old Mr. Bernard ♪ ♪ Who have you silenced today? ♪
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Dwight: The Bernards, for generations, have silenced whistle-blowers. That's how we made all our money. Woody Guthrie wrote a song about us.
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Dwight: Can we all agree to say that it was Andy for now and sit with it, see how it feels?
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Michael: Now, we cannot let the pedophile win again.
Michael Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Michael: It's not even that interesting, a baby otter. It can't even stand up. It's trying to stand up. There it goes.
Michael Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 57 analyzed
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Michael: Everybody, we are at defcon 5.
Michael Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Michael: Now, we cannot let the pedophile win again.
Michael Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Michael: Get it up. That's what-- Let's do it.
Michael Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Callback Michael: Really? A baby otter? Okay, um, count me in as 'who cares?'
Michael Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Michael: It's not even that interesting, a baby otter. It can't even stand up. It's trying to stand up. There it goes.
Michael Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Jo: Cheap, foreign printers attacking innocent Americans.
Jo Character Comedy Absurdist Jo · Michael: I'm not sure you do, Teddy bear. Well, now I think I might not.
Jo Michael Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Jo: Put your hand up, Norma Rae.
Jo Character Comedy Observational Dwight: If you say anything, so help me God, I'll break off the temples of your glasses and stick 'em in your eye sockets.
Dwight Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Dwight: Even if I thought that our printers killed baby seals, I would not be a whistle-blower.
Dwight Character Comedy Escalation Dwight: The Bernards, for generations, have silenced whistle-blowers. That's how we made all our money. Woody Guthrie wrote a song about us.
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Dwight: ♪ Old Mr. Bernard ♪ ♪ Who have you silenced today? ♪
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Michael · Jo: I know when their birthdays are. I know what their favorite kind of cake is. I know what color streamers they like. All that's just birthday information, Michael.
Michael Jo Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Jo: Well, nine times out of ten, that's the anus they checked.
Jo Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Michael · Jo: We should give 'em a one-way ticket to Montego Bay... Where they keep all the Al-Qaeda. Uh, that's, uh, Guantanamo Bay.
Nick · Dwight: Wha--unh! Dwight, what the hell? - Apache persuasion hold- - that's the hell.
Angela: And like I'm gonna believe one of his 'spermed' lovers.
Angela Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Dwight: are you referring to alchemy?
Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Andy: I swear on the graves of my parents, who aren't even dead yet. That's a little much.
Andy Character Comedy Escalation Darryl: Yeah, I did. I-I was talking to this girl at a bar. Oh, no, no, no... I think she could sense my sadness.
Darryl Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Michael · Darryl: Was she cute? - No. Oh, God, Darryl!
Michael: And if that is not poetic justice, I don't know what is.
Michael Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Jo · Dwight: Why would a man who hates people want to have a relationship with a maid? Oh, uh, I don't know. They way I look at it, there's only one of two reasons. He knows a secret about her that she doesn't know herself, or he wants to use her services to mop up after a murder.
Dwight: Write your own damn novel.
Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Jim: Her husband's a reporter. Yeah.
Jim Character Comedy Escalation Jim · Pam: My mind is going a mile an hour. - That fast?
Jim Pam Wordplay/Pun Deadpan/Understatement Michael · Jim: I weirdly know exactly what you're saying to me. So I'll see you in Meredith's van in five minutes.
Jim: I have never seen so many parking tickets.
Jim Visual Gag Character Comedy Darryl: This situation all up in hee-yah is what's messed up.
Darryl Character Comedy Observational Ryan: Guys, I couldn't help it. It is so boring where we work. I mean, it's as interesting as a morgue. It might be less interesting than a morgue.
Ryan Character Comedy Escalation Ryan: I phone, I woof. 'woof' is a site that I'm launching to be the last word in social networking.
Ryan Character Comedy Absurdist Erin · Ryan: Ryan, you have a woof on line one. Thank you, Erin. Woof!
Erin Ryan Absurdist Character Comedy Callback Michael: That's just what we need, another black man in prison.
Michael Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Jo: Basement office? You mean like a lair?
Jo Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Michael: Do we give 'em a Christmas bonus? I say... Yes. It's Christmas.
Michael Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Jo Character Comedy Escalation Michael: Are you gonna kill me?
Michael Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Dwight: Make 'em an offer they can't refuse. No, on second thought, lowball 'em.
Dwight Character Comedy Misdirection Michael: I have an early dinner that I need to get to... With the chief of police.
Michael Character Comedy Misdirection Dwight: What a rich timbre your voice has.
Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Dwight: Can we all agree to say that it was Andy for now and sit with it, see how it feels?
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Michael: I bought a video camera last year, and I was looking at the tapes, and there were only, like, 12 minutes that I felt was worth taping the whole year. And most of that was just birds in my condo complex.
Michael Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Michael: It's not been a blockbuster year for me financially. My blockbuster stock is down.
Michael Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Gabe: But I'm not here to talk about that. I am here to talk about 'suck it.'
Gabe Misdirection Character Comedy Callback Dwight · Kevin: I think we all can agree that it's either Gabe or Angela. It's Angela. Get her, boys.
Michael · Phyllis · Nick: Phyllis, what's this guy's name again? I don't know. Is it 'shadow' or 'Garth'? It's something weird. I-- My name is Nick!
Michael: We liked the last guy, sadiq, because he kept to himself. And we also thought he might have been a terrorist.
Michael Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Nick: Inner-city kids use computers for two things-- games and porn.
Nick Character Comedy Observational Nick: And you definitely can't fit into a size two.
Nick Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Jo: And they'd make a Barbie out of me.
Jo Character Comedy Absurdist Jo: Nobody will want to play with my Barbie.
Jo Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Callback Michael: I-I surely do. And don't call me honey.
Michael Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential Dwight · Jo: I own a 1/8 share on a rental property down in Pittston. Well, I'm 1/8 proud of you.
Dwight Jo Wordplay/Pun Deadpan/Understatement Dwight: Enjoy that chair for now... Because pretty soon you will be on your feet, like Buckingham Palace.
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Andy: Does that make me a hero? No, it does not!
Andy Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Andy · Pam: It just seemed like the right thing to do. Yeah.
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