Threat Level Midnight

Michael:'Clean up on aisle five' — delivered as a cold open line with no context, then later revealed as a callback phrase from the movie

Michael:Michael's production timeline: 'three years of writing, one year of shooting, four years of reshooting, and two years of editing'

Jim · Pam:Talking head: 'We thought it was a comedy. Everything pointed to it being a comedy.'

Jim · Office Worker:Jim's pre-screening briefing: 'no laughing, no comments, just positive energy' — and someone responds 'Thanks, mom'

Michael · Holly:Holly: 'It's got action. It's got heart. It's got symbolism. It's got you.' Michael: 'It's got a lot of me.'

Dwight:Dwight's talking head about playing Samuel the robot butler: he wanted a robot voice but Michael insisted on a 'very advanced android, almost indistinguishable from a real person.' Cut to: Dwight does not play a robot.

Oscar:Oscar's talking head: 'I gave up a lot of weekends because I thought it would be good for my daughter to see a black man as president, even in a silly home movie. What a stupid waste of time.'

Michael:Michael Scarn decides whether to take the mission by flipping a coin — 'best out of seven' — and the coin flip sequence plays out to six individual results

Michael:'Looks like there's gonna be a clean up on aisle five' — the catchphrase delivered in-movie as an action one-liner

Jim:Goldenface's villain monologue: 'I'm gonna dig up Scarn's dead wife, and I'm gonna hump her real good.'

Jim:Jim's talking head: 'I did not love the dialogue. Or the character. I took the role to impress a receptionist who will remain nameless.'

Michael:Narrator describes Scarn learning hockey: 'Just one problem with that... Scarn didn't know a hockey stick from a slim Jim.'

Michael · Darryl:Cherokee Jack's training method: 'Mop the ice.' / 'I'm not here to learn how to mop, I'm here to learn how to hockey.' / 'Mop it.'

Michael:Speed skating trial: 'On your marks... Get set... Die.'

Michael · Jim:After the assassination attempt: 'Nice try, Goldenface, except you forgot one thing... to kill me.' / 'Oh, I wasn't trying to kill you. I was trying to slow you down.'

Jim · Michael:After Goldenface shoots Scarn's partner: 'Oh, by the way... How's your wife doing?' — then 'Congratulations.'

Michael:Reaction beat: Michael Scarn dramatically shushes a dying person with 'Shh! Shh, shh!' as they expire

Dwight:Dwight's talking head: 'He cut the part where my circuit board malfunctioned? Then what was the point of spilling the drink on me?'

Ryan · Toby · Kevin:Reaction beat: Three co-workers shown in separate interviews saying 'He finished his movie? No kidding.' / 'Wow. That's great.' / 'Yeah, good for him.' — each clearly surprised and vaguely condescending

Michael:Michael narrates: 'Far and away the most expensive shot of the movie, but it was intregral to the story.' — mispronouncing 'integral'

Michael:After Scarn arrives: 'That man was a wanted animal rapist.'

Michael · Jim:Interrogation scene: The same exchange is repeated three times in a row because Michael couldn't remember his line — 'We've searched the whole building, Goldenface. Where is the bomb?' / 'Hmm?' (repeated three times, then a crew member says 'He said where is the bomb?')

Michael:'Hey, Goldenface. Go puck yourself.'

Jim:Jim's talking head immediately after: 'That was not scripted.'

Michael:Hospital scene: 'You're lucky to be alive.' / 'It'll take a lot more than a bullet to the brain, lungs, heart, back, and balls to kill Michael Scarn.'

Michael:Hospital scene follow-up: 'Let's just make sure that everything's... working properly.' — with an implied visual beat below the sheet

Michael · Jim:Interrogation scene: 'You just said the bomb is in the puck?' / 'Yes.' / 'Is that where you hid the bomb, Goldenface?'

Jim · Michael:Flashback: Goldenface explains blowing up the stadium for insurance — 'For the insurance money... I knew it all along.'

Michael:Narrator: 'It wasn't easy for Scarn to admit that he'd lost his self-confidence. And he hadn't, of course. He just wasn't using it right now.'

Kevin:Billy the bartender's monologue: 'You got problems? My TV don't work. I pay 30 bucks a month for the damn satellite Whatsahoozit. I can't even get the damn game. Now you tell me, what's worse than that?'

Michael:Scarn's response to the TV grievance: 'Don't ever change, Billy.'

Michael:'That table of bachelorettes over there bought you this drink.' / 'Hey. Ever banged an entire bachelorette party, baby?'

Pam:Pam's talking head: 'Why are you singling my line out, like, a million years later?'

Kevin:Billy: 'I'm gonna cheer you up the only ways I know hows.'

Michael · Kevin:Billy tells Scarn to do his dance. Scarn refuses: 'No, Billy, I haven't done that dance since my wife died.'

Michael · Office Cast:The Scarn dance sequence: Michael performs an elaborate, self-named group dance called 'the Scarn' with original lyrics, then the entire bar joins in

Michael:'If doing the Scarn is gay, then I'm the biggest queer on earth!'

Pam · Michael:Pam breaks into genuine laughter during the Scarn dance, then apologizes to Michael — Michael catches her

Michael:After the ovation, Michael starts to walk out: 'No, it's not good enough. It's not good enough.' Then: 'Some people are really popping on-screen.'

Holly:Holly to Michael: 'I loved that you got to work together with all your friends. Isn't that so great when you can all work together like that?'

Michael:Michael: 'No, no. Holly, this isn't Ocean's Eleven, where you get together with all your friends, and you just have fun, and you don't care about how it turns out.'

Michael:Michael: 'Is it... is it because you're afraid of where this is gonna take me? Because, see, I need you to keep me grounded.'

Holly · Michael:Holly: 'I'm not worried about that.' Beat. Michael: 'This is 11 years, okay?'

Michael:Michael lists his other creative projects: 'I have my book on business, Somehow I Manage. I have my HBO Comedy Special, Here I Go Again, dot, dot, dot.'

Michael · Holly:Holly: 'I'm real.' Michael: 'Yeah, you're a real pain in the ass.' Then immediately: 'And I'm sorry I called you a pain in the ass. I'm angry, and I love you.'

Michael:Michael: 'You're a real pain in the ass.' [beat] 'And I'm sorry I called you a pain in the ass. I'm angry, and I love you.'

Michael:Michael rallies the room: 'Who likes Threat Level Midnight?' (pause) 'Okay, well, then who wants to watch the rest?'

Michael · Dwight:Cherokee Jack appears at the hockey rink to cheer Scarn on. Dwight says: 'Michael, he died.' Then the next shot shows Scarn skating with a ghostly Cherokee Jack: 'This one's for you, Cherokee Jack.'

Jim:Goldenface explains his gold face: 'I worked in a gold factory. We had a boss who only cared about money. He wouldn't give us lunch breaks...'

Holly · Michael:Holly interrupts Goldenface's origin story mid-sentence to tell Michael the movie IS good. Michael: 'No, no, it's not. But they really seem to be enjoying it.'

Office Cast:The hockey climax: Scarn shoots the puck containing the bomb into the goal, saving the day — the audience (in-show) erupts in celebration — 'Yay, they're saved! Whoo!'

Kevin:'Hey, we got sports games again.'

Michael · Dwight:Post-victory: 'Some breakfast for me, some breakfast for you.' — Scarn and Samuel the robot share a domestic morning moment

Dwight:Dwight's reaction shot: seeing the robot butler scene — 'Oh, yeah, I guess I did let him be a robot.'

Kevin · Phyllis · Dwight · Jim:End of movie: The president calls for another mission. Audience debate erupts: 'Isn't the president evil?' / 'Oh, yeah. Yes, he is.' / 'No, no, he's doing it to catch the president.' / 'No, no, Dwight, he's just being stupid.'

Office Cast:Office reaction to the narrator reveal: a genuine 'Oh!' of delight from the crowd watching the film