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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Wins Above Replacement
“Todd Packer” ranks #148 of 183 The Office episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 73.1 — Solid. The episode packs 43 scored jokes at 2.6 per minute, averaging 6.9 on craft and 5.9 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
Michael: I am a huge Woody Allen fan. Although I've only seen Antz.
Michael Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Michael: We filmed this during an actual Scranton High School hockey game. They were trying to qualify for states... They were disqualified. They had to forfeit the game. Undefeated season.
Michael · Office cast: The Scarn dance sequence
Stanley: 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.
Stanley Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Michael: I thought A Bug's Life was better, much better than Antz. Point is, don't listen to your critics. Listen to your fans.
Michael Character Comedy Misdirection All Jokes — 43 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Todd Packer: Clean up on aisle five.
Michael: After three years of writing, one year of shooting, four years of re-shooting, and two years of editing
Erin: Did you guys know that our own Michael Scott has made a movie, and that he maybe will let us watch it, but only if everybody's dying to see it?
Erin Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Jim: Yeah, if Michael Scott did your home movie.
Jim Deadpan/Understatement Pam · Jim: We thought it was a comedy. Everything pointed to it being a comedy.
Pam Jim Irony/Sarcasm Cringe/Discomfort Dwight: I wanted Samuel's voice to be like this. But Michael thought that Samuel should be a very advanced android, almost indistinguishable from a real person.
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist Jim: Dwight does not play a robot.
Jim Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat Stanley: 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.
Stanley Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Michael as Scarn: Heads I do it, tails I don't. Best out of seven.
Michael as Scarn: Looks like there's gonna be a clean up on aisle five.
Jim as Goldenface: See, I'm gonna lure him here, then I'm gonna kill everybody, then I'm gonna dig up Scarn's dead wife, and I'm gonna hump her real good.
Jim: I did not love the dialog, or the character. I took the role to impress a receptionist, who will remain nameless.
Jim Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Michael as Scarn · Creed as Cherokee Jack: I'm not here to learn how to mop. I'm here to learn how to play hockey. Mop it.
Michael as Scarn · Jim as Goldenface: 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 as Goldenface: How's your wife doing?
Michael as Scarn: I am so sorry I have to do this. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
Dwight: He cut the part where my circuit board malfunctioned? Then what was the point of spilling the drink on me?
Dwight Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential Todd Packer: He finished his movie? No kidding. Wow, that's great. Yeah, good for him.
Michael: Far and away the most expensive shot of the movie, but it was integral to the story.
Michael as Scarn: The joke's on you, Goldenface. That man was a wanted animal rapist.
Michael as Scarn: Go puck yourself.
Michael: That was not scripted.
Michael Meta/Self-Referential Reaction Beat Nurse · Michael as Scarn: It'll take a lot more than a bullet to the brain, lungs, heart, back and balls to kill Michael Scarn.
Darryl as Billy: You got problems? My TV don't work. I pay $30 a month for the damn satellite whats-a-whose-it. I can't even get the damn game.
Jan: Ever banged an entire bachelorette party, baby?
Jan Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Jan: Why are you singling my line out, like, a million years later?
Jan Meta/Self-Referential Cringe/Discomfort Michael · Office cast: The Scarn dance sequence
Michael as Scarn: If doing the Scarn is gay, then I'm the biggest queer on earth!
Jim: I think I was just relieved to see that Michael Scarn got his confidence back.
Jim Irony/Sarcasm Cringe/Discomfort Pam: You should enter it in festivals. Or carnivals.
Pam Setup/Punchline Deadpan/Understatement Holly: 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?
Holly Misdirection Awkward Silence Michael: 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 Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Michael: I have my book on business, Somehow I Manage. I have my HBO comedy special, 'Here I Go Again...'
Michael Character Comedy Running Gag ★ Rewatch Callback Michael: I am a huge Woody Allen fan. Although I've only seen Antz.
Michael Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Michael: I thought A Bug's Life was better, much better than Antz. Point is, don't listen to your critics. Listen to your fans.
Michael Character Comedy Misdirection Michael: We filmed this during an actual Scranton High School hockey game. They were trying to qualify for states... They were disqualified. They had to forfeit the game. Undefeated season.
Jim as Goldenface: I worked in a gold factory. We had a boss who only cared about money.
Unknown character: Hey, we got sports games again.
Jim: Yeah, I guess I did let him be a robot.
Jim Deadpan/Understatement Callback Callback Andy · Michael: Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, isn't the President evil? Oh, yeah. Yes, he is.
Andy · Jim: No, no, he's doing it to catch the President. No, no, Dwight, he's just being stupid.
Andy Jim Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential Michael as narrator: Well, because I am Michael Scarn.
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