The Dunder Mifflin staff head to Niagara Falls for Jim and Pam's wedding, with the understanding that her pregnancy is a forbidden discussion topic, but Jim's slip of the tongue prods Michael to attempt damage control.
WAR
51.4
Wins Above Replacement
“Niagara” ranks #140 of 183 The Office episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 74.1 — Great. The episode packs 79 scored jokes at 2.0 per minute, averaging 6.7 on craft and 6.6 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: I invented a device called Burger on the Go. It allows you to obtain six regular-sized hamburgers or 12 sliders from a horse without killing the animal.
Dwight Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jim · Pam: Pam's veil tearing and Jim ripping his to match
Jim Pam Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Kevin: I got six numbers. One more would have been a complete telephone number.
Kevin Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Angela: Some of us have to be our own grandmother.
Angela Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 79 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Pam: My stomach's a little more sensitive lately, so if you wouldn't mind wearing a little less perfume... And if your lunch is especially pungent, maybe have it in the break room.
Pam Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Pam: Pam's pregnancy morning sickness sensitivity demands from coworkers (no perfume, different soap, eat lunch in break room)
Pam Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Jim: A three-ounce fetus is calling the shots. It's so badass.
Jim Observational Character Comedy Phyllis: I guess I missed the meeting where we all voted for you to get pregnant.
Phyllis Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Creed: All morning I look forward to my afternoon cigars, and I am not stopping for anybody.
Creed Character Comedy Absurdist Ryan: Watching people get sick always makes me sick. And... Well, frankly, so does talking about it, so...
Ryan Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential Jim · Pam: Jim showing off something he spent all morning doing, Pam's confused reaction about doing it to 'our--'
Jim Pam Reaction Beat Misdirection ★ Rewatch Jim: Uh, believe it or not, Kevin, firecrackers are in the 'don't' column.
Jim Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Kevin · Jim · Dwight · Andy: So you're gonna provide them, then? - No, this is a firecracker-free wedding. - What the hell? - You've got to be kidding me.
Angela: Decent people everywhere will get offended.
Angela Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Angela: Some of us have to be our own grandmother.
Angela Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Pam · Angela · Jim: You know, Angela, um, you don't have to come to the wedding. - Really, Pam? - Yes, she does.
Todd: What happens in Niagara stays in Niagara.
Todd Wordplay/Pun Setup/Punchline Michael: So I will see you up here in 'Viagra' falls.
Michael Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Dwight: Pam and Jim's wedding will be the single best pickup destination in the history of the universe.
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist Dwight · Andy: Dwight's elaborate wedding guest research including mountain bike selling history
Dwight: I stole the guest list from Jim's desk, and I search-engined every female on both sides of the family.
Dwight Character Comedy Escalation Andy: Okay. You're an idiot.
Andy Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement Kevin: Kevin's new haircut reveal and immediate regret
Kevin Visual Gag Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Kevin: Kevin's hair transformation talking head: 'It's the hair.'
Kevin Visual Gag Character Comedy Ryan: Nah, this is so much cooler. We feel like we're in a limo and you're our driver.
Ryan Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Michael: She smells like my mom.
Michael Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Michael: Click. Oh, you blinked. Damn it. Now that's in my brain forever. What a lousy picture. Should have hired a professional to take the mental pictures.
Michael Absurdist Escalation ★ Rewatch Jim · Pam: Mental picture joke sequence with Jim blinking
Jim Pam Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dwight: Hello. My name is Dwight Schrute. If you're listening to this, you're a lucky woman Michael has seduced.
Dwight Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Dwight: Don't be scared of your night in heaven.
Dwight Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Hotel Guest: Hey. Got the room the night before you guys. I'll break in the bed.
Jim Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement Jim: Their proximity to the falls makes everything smell like a basement.
Jim Observational Character Comedy Dwight: And I had spoken to Theresa about a room with two safes.
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist Dwight: If I have a woman up there and things are getting amorous, she's gonna get turned off if she looks in the bathroom and she sees you brushing your teeth with butter and clay, okay?
Dwight Character Comedy Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Michael: When Mary was denied a room at the inn, Jesus was born. When Michael was denied a room at the inn, we don't know what happens, because that story hasn't been told yet.
Michael Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Stanley: A queen-size bed is five feet wide. I am not five feet wide, Michael.
Stanley Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Michael: I'm not a physics major, Stanley. I'm just saying be careful.
Michael Character Comedy Misdirection Kelly: You are going to be sleeping by yourself for the rest of your life, so you should just get used to it.
Kelly Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Pam: She's the only 80-year-old with no smile wrinkles.
Pam Character Comedy Observational Michael: Didn't move my lips.
Michael Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential Meemaw: Well, I wouldn't care to live if I thought that.
Meemaw Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Dwight: Because while I was busy trying to improve the company and make it a success, Jim, the bad man, was busy kissing the boss man's butt.
Dwight Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Penny · Kevin · Oscar: Penny mistaking Kevin for Pam's boyfriend, Kevin's outraged reaction
Kevin: You thought I was dating this? What the hell is wrong with you?
Kevin Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Oscar: I would be proud to date you.
Oscar Character Comedy Reaction Beat Meredith: Like I did with Erin.
Dwight · Andy: In 1996, her 10th grade volleyball team went 10 and 2. What am I supposed to do with that, Dwight? - That's a very good record.
Michael: Never married... Never... for a noogie.
Michael Character Comedy Misdirection Michael: Michael's smart car routine falling completely flat
Michael Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Jim: Pam, I can now admit in front of friends and family that I do know how to make a photocopy. Didn't need your help that many times.
Jim Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Jim: She shouldn't, because she's an alcoholic. Pam is an alcoholic.
Jim Escalation Cringe/Discomfort Michael: They had an accident, and you know what? These two people, they're living together. They are having lots of consensual sex.
Michael: And you know what? You can't expect them to be careful every time, because, frankly, it's just a different sensation.
Meemaw: The hotel's television set had a movie on called Bruno last night. The remote control had so darn many buttons on it, I couldn't turn it off. So I had to just sit there while it happened to me.
Meemaw Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Pam · Jim: Is there something about being a manager that makes you say stupid things? - I have not found that to be the case.
Pam Jim Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Michael: Michael's excitement about free hotel room from Meemaw leaving
Michael Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Meemaw: Oh, you're that foul man that kept talking about intercourse.
Meemaw Character Comedy Callback Callback Michael: And I know in your day she would be considered a whore, but now women go out and they have sex and they get wild and they take their tops off and they have pictures taken of them.
Michael · Meemaw: They're gonna call it Meemaw. - You mean Sylvia. - Yes. And if it's a boy, they will call it Sylvio.
Andy: 'Cause that would help me deliver on some promises I made. Whoo!
Andy Character Comedy Escalation Michael · Dwight: Looks like you're going to a fish fry, Dwight. - No, they're howling at the moon. It's suggestive to women. Because of howling during sex.
Toby: You have that thick, beautiful, Chicano hair. So nice.
Toby Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Dwight: I invented a device called Burger on the Go. It allows you to obtain six regular-sized hamburgers or 12 sliders from a horse without killing the animal.
Dwight Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Michael · Dwight: They're men, Dwight. - I love finding a good set of twins.
Meredith · Andy: Meredith's robot dancing critique leading to Andy's dance battle
Andy: Did someone change my name to Baskin Robbins? Because I feel like a banana split.
Andy Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Andy: I was dancing and I did a split and I landed on my car keys in my pocket. I tore my scrotum.
Andy Physical/Slapstick Cringe/Discomfort Michael: That Pam? Hey! Have her come out. Have her come out! It'll be like Coyote Ugly.
Michael Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Michael: 'Jim, hey, why don't you braid my hair? I want to watch TV.' Now you sound like Kermit.
Hotel Manager: When the bag was opened by our shoeshine, the smell overcame him. I, too, smelled them and made the choice that they must be thrown away. Incinerated, actually.
Kevin · Hotel worker: Kevin's shoes being incinerated due to smell
Dwight: She's a dental hygienist from Carbondale, and she makes love like one. She's a bumpkin. Pass.
Dwight Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Jim · Andy: Andy's scrotum injury pillow offer from Jim
Jim Andy Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Callback Creed: I have painted a portrait of the two of them from memory. And I have another one of them in the nude. But that one is for me.
Creed Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Pam: Mom, you're totally projecting and being a drag.
Jim · Pam: Pam's veil tearing and Jim ripping his to match
Jim Pam Character Comedy Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Angela: Apricot. Made of real apes.
Angela Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Michael: End up going to sleep by the vending machine. It was loud, but it was warm.
Michael Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Kevin: I got six numbers. One more would have been a complete telephone number.
Kevin Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Kevin: My Kleenex shoes were a huge conversation piece, but man, my dogs are barking. My feet were so sweaty, I can't even feel the cold.
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