Traveling salesman Todd Packer comes to Dunder Mifflin looking for a desk job in the office. However, the office is unsure if they want him to work there due to his previous behavior. After dealing with computer problems, Andy confronts office administrator Pam to get a new computer.
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“Todd Packer” ranks #179 of 183 The Office episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 80.6 — Elite. The episode packs 68 scored jokes at 2.7 per minute, averaging 6.9 on craft and 6.8 on impact, with Dwight landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Jim · Dwight: Jim's Justin Bieber prank idea; Dwight: 'Who is Justice Beaver?' Jim: 'He's a crime-fighting beaver.'
Jim Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Pam · Darryl: Pam and Darryl negotiating sick days: 'I think I saw one sick day.' 'I think maybe I saw five.' 'Three.' Pam's talking head: 'I'm full-on corrupt.'
Pam Darryl Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Michael: Michael's comedy hierarchy: 'Bill Cosby, Steve Martin, Charlie Bit My Finger, Michael Scott, then all the way down here, Todd Packer.'
Michael Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Dwight: Dwight's apocalypse monologue: 'Kevin will be eaten. Pam will be taken slave. Jim will be made a warlord's jester. Meredith will do okay.'
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Dwight: Dwight's talking head: 'Kevin, in sumo culture, you would be considered a promising up-and-comer.'
Dwight Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Standout Moments
Michael: Michael's comedy hierarchy: 'Bill Cosby, Steve Martin, Charlie Bit My Finger, Michael Scott, then all the way down here, Todd Packer.'
Michael Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jim · Dwight: Jim's Justin Bieber prank idea; Dwight: 'Who is Justice Beaver?' Jim: 'He's a crime-fighting beaver.'
Jim Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Pam · Darryl: Pam and Darryl negotiating sick days: 'I think I saw one sick day.' 'I think maybe I saw five.' 'Three.' Pam's talking head: 'I'm full-on corrupt.'
Pam Darryl Escalation Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback All Jokes — 68 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Dwight: Dwight explains he has the best-stocked survival shelter in northeastern Pennsylvania and must eat everything before it expires.
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist Dwight · Jim: Jim offers cheese from his fridge; Dwight counters 'I've got some cheese you might like too. In between my toes.'
Dwight: Dwight's apocalypse monologue: 'Kevin will be eaten. Pam will be taken slave. Jim will be made a warlord's jester. Meredith will do okay.'
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Todd Packer: Packer's talking head: 'I got a couple love bumps on my ding-dong, so I was like, Game over.'
Todd Packer: 'It was the best of times. It was the awesomest of times.'
Todd Packer · Holly · Michael: Packer to Holly: 'Michael, I thought we were meeting Holly today, not Jennifer Aniston.'
Michael · Holly: Michael tells Holly that Packer is funniest after five shots and it also helps if she's had five shots. Holly: 'I already have.'
Michael: Michael introduces Packer: 'a man who needs no introduction, probably because most of you have done it with him. Just kidding. He wouldn't be interested in any of you.'
Michael Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Todd Packer: Packer: 'It's great to be among friends. And until then, you suckers will do.'
Michael: Michael: 'He is turning in his condoms for a condominium, although he's probably going to have to use condoms from here on out.'
Michael Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Holly · Michael: Holly's visible discomfort and confused reaction as Michael praises Packer's hiring in front of the whole staff
Erin · Gabe: Gabe fell in the shower and it took the fire department forever to get there.
Erin Gabe Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Todd Packer: Packer brags that the old reception computer's IP address was 'one.'
Jim · Pam: Jim's talking head: he cleaned up their daughter at 4am, implying that qualifies as 'helping someone out' and therefore feeling good
Jim Pam Deadpan/Understatement Observational Michael · Dwight · Todd Packer: Michael asking Dwight to permanently relocate so Packer can have his desk, and revealing Packer had carved 'Packer was here and so was your mom' under the desk years prior
Todd Packer: Packer to the Zen garden: 'What are you growing in here, bull crap?'
Oscar · Holly: Oscar and the others to Holly: 'Don't what's up us. You think you're so cute with your pretty blond hair. Pull it back.'
Phyllis · Holly · Pam: Phyllis: 'That's how he gets you to take off your panties.' Then Holly: 'Why are you nodding?' Pam: 'United front.'
Oscar · Holly: Oscar: 'We can't fire someone because we don't like him. Right. This isn't the U.S. government.' Holly: 'What are you referencing?' Oscar: 'Everything.'
Kelly · Holly: Kelly: 'He humped Michael.' Holly: 'Well, if that's the case, I guess I've got to be fired, too.'
Unknown: The Yarmouth Regatta sailing video enthusiast ('Luff him up! Luff him up!') watching their video on the new computer Packer gave Erin
Unknown Observational Character Comedy Todd Packer · Pam: Packer: 'Gwen Stefani has this computer.' Then to Pam: 'What does a guy have to do to whom to get one of them?'
Andy: Andy: 'If you donated my computer to Africa, it would become famous as the slowest computer in Africa.'
Andy Observational Character Comedy Pam · Stanley: Stanley's non-reaction to being mentioned; Pam: 'So something good happening to Stanley is crazy now?' — Stanley says nothing
Phyllis: Phyllis: 'What, are you gonna play mahjongg faster?' to Andy's computer argument
Phyllis Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Todd Packer · Kelly: Packer: 'Three muske-queers.' Kelly: 'Mean, but good.'
Unknown office character: 'Mean, but good.' — office character's reaction to Packer's 'muske-queers' joke
Todd Packer: Packer to Todd (Stanley?): 'She's turned into a bitch. Most days she's great, but some days she acts like her mom.'
Todd Packer · Kevin: Packer to Kevin: 'Since when did you learn how to read?' Kevin: 'I do know how to read, though.' Packer: 'Yeah. You know how to read a menu.'
Kevin: Kevin's talking head: 'I... He's right. I mean, I could lose some weight.'
Kevin Character Comedy Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Callback Dwight: Dwight's talking head: 'Kevin, in sumo culture, you would be considered a promising up-and-comer.'
Dwight Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Erin: Erin gave Packer the computer meant for reception because 'he seemed to really need a new computer and he knows so much about that one'
Erin Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Pam · Andy: Pam coaching Andy to 'take three deep breaths' while clearly trying to manage her own frustration about the computer situation
Pam Andy Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Michael · Dwight: Michael to Dwight as he sends him on an errand: 'Please make sure nobody is humping me.' Then asks him to take Dwight's ant farm to the annex.
Dwight: 'I think the ants are waking up. They need to start farming soon.'
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist Dwight · Michael: Dwight asking if he should get 'stripes shaved into the side of his head.' Michael: 'Did Todd tell you to do that?' Dwight: 'Yes.'
Holly · Michael: Holly: 'He's not funny at all.' Michael: 'So I'm less funny than not funny at all?'
Todd Packer · Jim · Pam: Packer to Jim and Pam: 'How's the sex?'
Packer: Packer declines the hot chocolate: 'The only hot chocolate I'm into is Vivica A. Fox.'
Packer Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Dwight · Todd Packer: Dwight offering Packer poisoned hot chocolate; Packer: 'The only hot chocolate I'm into is Vivica A. Fox.'
Jim · Dwight: Jim intervenes in Dwight's laxative scheme: 'You know you can't actually poison him. Right?' Dwight: 'It isn't poison. It's a laxative. People take laxatives all the time. This is just a lot more of a laxative.'
Jim Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Jim · Dwight: Jim suggests: 'Pepto-Bismol in his hot chocolate.' Dwight: 'You have got to stop with the hot chocolate stuff.'
Jim Dwight Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Callback Dwight · Jim: Dwight's prank idea: 'Jam his drawers so they only come out two inches. That way you can see everything in them, but you can't get at it.' Jim: 'Does Edgar Allan Poe know about that one? So sinister.'
Dwight Jim Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Jim · Dwight: Jim suggests Dwight write his top 40 prank ideas. Dwight: 'I'll email you 100.' Jim: 'Write up your list of 100, edit it down to your top 40, and I'll read it over.'
Jim · Pam: Jim books a conference room with a sign-up sheet with 'mods' (5-minute increments) to have a private conversation with Pam
Jim Pam Character Comedy Observational Dwight: Dwight's drawer-jamming prank backfires immediately; the drawer jams and he can't access his own pen — 'Damn it.'
Dwight Physical/Slapstick Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Dwight · Jim: Dwight's 400 prank ideas: 'Number three, eat a frog.' 'Number four, eat a dog.' 'One thirty-five? Eat a brog.'
Dwight Jim Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Andy: Andy deliberately infecting Erin's new computer with viruses: 'Allow all cookies? Why, soitenly. Pop-ups? Yes, please. Bit torrent streaming from a Somalian music website? Yeah, why not? I hope you don't get sick, Mr. Computer.'
Andy Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Andy: 'Why are you doing this to me, Andy?' — the computer seemingly 'responds' to Andy's sabotage (implicitly another character or Erin sees him)
Andy Reaction Beat Character Comedy Callback Andy: 'Because I hate your broke ass. And a 76ers fan to boot.'
Andy Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Callback Packer · Michael: Packer tells Michael that Holly is laughing at complaints about him — 'She was laughing hysterically the whole time'
Todd Packer · Michael: Packer calls Holly's boyfriend uptight, suggests having Michael come to Florida to meet 'the local talent' — not realizing he's being sent to Florida as a trick
Michael: 'You've been on the road too long. You've been an outdoor cat. And now you have to be an indoor cat, so you can't be peeing all over the walls.'
Todd Packer · Michael: Packer: 'Michael, can I open the kimono with you?' Michael: (reaction)
Kevin: Kevin's confessional: 'I should be apologizing to Packer, because everybody knows that I can dish it as good as I can take it.'
Kevin Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Packer · Kevin · Ryan: Packer's apology: 'I'm sorry if you were offended by my comments earlier.' Kevin: 'I wasn't offended.' Packer: 'Well, like I said...'
Packer: Packer's 'real' apology: 'Kevin, I am so sorry. You are skinny, and you're a genius.' — wildly overcorrecting
Packer Character Comedy Escalation Michael: Michael's 'apology' speech reveals Packer's backstory: 'Packer is a survivor of divorce, Stanley. Packer doesn't speak with his child, Meredith. Packer never lived up to his parents' expectations, Andy.'
Michael Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Michael · Todd Packer · Angela: Michael: 'Angela loves pussycats. Packer loves...' Packer: 'No, don't.' Michael: 'I was going to say dogs!'
Jim · Dwight: Jim and Dwight scheme to make the company laptop look used/old so Packer will be sent to Florida without realizing it's a trick; Dwight: 'We should break this hinge maybe.' Jim: 'Let's not go crazy.'
Dwight: Dwight's cover story for the laptop: 'An elegant old lady kept it around in case her grandkids came to visit. But they died, and they never came.' Dwight: 'I'm gonna make myself cry.'
Dwight Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Michael: Michael's elaborate misdirection: sending Packer to 'Jo's place in Florida,' telling him to hop a locked gate, check out Harry Potter World — an entirely fake cushy job setup
Michael Misdirection Character Comedy Todd Packer: Packer: 'Also, I'm a huge boob nerd.'
Michael · Holly: Holly to Michael after Packer leaves: 'I'm sorry about your friend.' Michael: 'No. He's an ass.' Holly: 'You are.' Michael: 'What are you, wicked smaht?'
Darryl · Pam: Darryl discovers Pam found Andy's computer 'in the warehouse.' Darryl: 'I know every inch of that warehouse... Maybe you could go back down there and find me some extra sick days.'
Darryl Pam Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Top Episodes — The Office
