Michael trains Deangelo to take over his job of hosting the Dundie Awards, while Erin struggles with her dislike for her boyfriend, Gabe.
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“Michaels Last Dundies” ranks #156 of 183 The Office episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 84.0 — Elite. The episode packs 76 scored jokes at 3.4 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
Andy · Jim · Pam · Dwight · Kevin · Erin · Oscar · Meredith · Angela · Stanley · Ryan: The office performs a parody of 'Seasons of Love' ('Rent') customized with Michael-specific details: 'You hit me with your car / You helped me get off drugs / I watch you when you sleep / I forgive you for kissing me'
Michael · Deangelo: Script reads: 'They say he's going to be my right-hand man, [ad-lib masturbation joke]. No.' then 'I hate this. I hate it so much.'
Erin · Gabe: Erin breaks up with Gabe at the podium during her Dundie acceptance speech: 'I'm not attracted to you. I just... I cringe when you talk.'
Erin Gabe Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Gabe: Gabe: 'Thank you for hearing me.' — accepting the breakup with creepy formal gratitude
Gabe Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Michael · Deangelo: Michael shouts 'Hey, Toby, you suck!' at Toby's house in the early morning, then they sprint away
Standout Moments
Michael · Deangelo: Script reads: 'They say he's going to be my right-hand man, [ad-lib masturbation joke]. No.' then 'I hate this. I hate it so much.'
Erin · Gabe: Erin breaks up with Gabe at the podium during her Dundie acceptance speech: 'I'm not attracted to you. I just... I cringe when you talk.'
Erin Gabe Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Andy · Jim · Pam · Dwight · Kevin · Erin · Oscar · Meredith · Angela · Stanley · Ryan: The office performs a parody of 'Seasons of Love' ('Rent') customized with Michael-specific details: 'You hit me with your car / You helped me get off drugs / I watch you when you sleep / I forgive you for kissing me'
All Jokes — 76 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Michael · Deangelo: Michael comparing Dundie nomination deliveries to the Oscars, going house-to-house at 6am
Michael · Deangelo · Jim: Jim answers the door at 6am in apparent confusion; Michael yells 'Surprise! Congratulations!' at him
Michael · Deangelo: Michael shouts 'Hey, Toby, you suck!' at Toby's house in the early morning, then they sprint away
Deangelo · Michael: Deangelo: 'Is this an employee of ours?' as they speed away from Toby's house
Deangelo: Deangelo says 'I've never seen this place in the daylight. This reminds me of Katrina.'
Deangelo Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement Michael · Deangelo · Meredith: Meredith answers the door in last night's clothes having clearly not come home; her door was unlocked and ajar
Meredith: Meredith excitedly invites Michael and Deangelo in for 'Vienna sausages and napkins' for breakfast
Erin: Erin pretends she doesn't have plans, then excitedly reveals she's going to the Dundies
Erin Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Michael: Michael's talking head: 'When Larry King died, they didn't just cancel his show. They got Pierce Morgan to come in and do his show, and that way, Larry lives on.'
Michael Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Ryan · Michael · Oscar: Ryan's 'breadsticks are like crack' exchange — 'What can I use? I don't know. Something from your world. The breadsticks are like scrapbooking.' 'You're right, you're right. No, I'm a middle-class fraud.'
Deangelo: Deangelo: 'Always the Padawan, never the Jedi.' Then immediately declines to co-host.
Deangelo Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Deangelo: Deangelo admits to 'singing in the shower' as his only performance experience, then says 'Boy, okay.'
Deangelo Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Michael: Michael's banter attempt: 'Deangelo, you and I have a lot in common. You lost 200 pounds, and I lose my car keys every morning.'
Michael Setup/Punchline Character Comedy Deangelo: Deangelo takes the weight-loss/car-keys joke literally and offers sincere advice: 'For me, it was portion control. For you, you need a keychain.'
Deangelo Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Callback Ryan · Michael: Ryan demonstrates banter: 'Why don't you ask my therapist? My mom certainly pays her enough.'
Deangelo: Deangelo's banter attempt: 'You, sir. Are we having fun tonight?' 'Having a great time, thanks.' 'Where were you on September 11th?'
Deangelo Cringe/Discomfort Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jim · Michael: Jim: 'Why don't you think of hosting the Dundies like you're just running a meeting?' Michael: 'Jim, please, no loopholes.'
Michael: Michael: 'If I want mind control over him, is that too much to ask?'
Michael Character Comedy Absurdist Callback Michael · Deangelo: Michael asks Deangelo to share a childhood trauma for comedic material, then immediately rejects it: 'Too personal. I don't want to hear about that stuff.'
Michael · Deangelo: Michael puts headphones playing loud music on Deangelo so he 'can't hear himself' and makes him read the teleprompter
Deangelo: Sweet potato fries aside: 'I just don't understand the desire to push sweet potato fries on me. I just want regular fries.'
Deangelo Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Erin · Jim · Pam: Erin hides in the car during lunch to avoid Gabe, then whispers urgently for Jim and Pam to get in
Erin: Erin: 'I eat lunch in the car now. It's my alone time. It's just nice to have some time away from Gabe.'
Erin Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Jim: Jim bails on Erin's emotional conversation mid-sentence: 'I think I'm going to go.' / 'I'm sorry, that just wasn't interesting to me.'
Jim Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat Erin · Pam: Erin tells Pam: 'I can't just dump him, Pam. I'm not like you. I can't be mean.' Pam: 'Wait, when am I...'
Erin Pam Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Deangelo: Deangelo tours the restaurant venue and gives one-word evaluations: 'Nice.' 'Appalling.' 'Eyesore.' 'Surprisingly adequate.'
Deangelo Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Jo · Deangelo: Jo's call: 'We're in serious horse manure here. The Dundies are tonight, and we ain't got no host.' / 'Billy Crystal? Better. Neil Patrick Harris? He's in Little Shop of Horrors on Broadway.'
Jo · Deangelo: Jo's phone call sets up a fake dramatic scenario where Deangelo must 'find Michael Scott' — played as an action-movie mission — even though Michael is presumably right there at the Dundies
Deangelo · Angela: Deangelo asks Angela if she can help find Michael; she says 'My boyfriend can. He's a state senator.' Deangelo: 'Oh, no, he can't help because that title has no meaning.'
Jim · Deangelo: Jim to Deangelo: 'Oh, I totally don't know where Michael is, dude. Hey, you want to listen to some records?'
Deangelo: Deangelo's spiral: 'I've fallen and I can't get up. Maybe I just need to look into my heart. Deangelo, where is Michael Scott? I'm here. In a good way. I've been here the whole time.'
Deangelo · Dwight: Deangelo's grand entrance is met with Dwight's confused 'Is that part of the...?' as he apparently freezes or does something strange on stage
Michael: Michael's speech to Deangelo: 'You're doing this for all those kids out there eating off the Louie Volpe's kids menu who are wondering, does it get better?'
Michael · Deangelo: 'Stop hitting me.' / 'You can do it, just say it.' / 'Hit me again.' — Michael slapping Deangelo to get him pumped up
Deangelo · Michael: Deangelo's first ad-lib: 'Fall asleep right after sex. Huh, guys?' — then Michael immediately cuts him off: 'Nope, go back to the script.'
Jim: Jim wins 'Best Dad Dundie'; his acceptance speech: 'Cece, if you're watching this at home, it's way past your bedtime. By the way, how'd this get televised?'
Jim Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential Pam: Pam's 'Didn't think to mention me, huh?' directed at Jim after his Best Dad acceptance speech doesn't mention her
Pam Reaction Beat Character Comedy Michael · Meredith: Meredith Palmer wins 'Best Mom Dundie'; audience member: 'Say what?'
Meredith: Meredith accepts: 'I'll tell you one thing, I'm not going to be a good mom tonight!'
Michael · Jim · Meredith: Michael wants a photo of 'the best mom and the best dad' — Jim and Meredith are made to pose together
Michael: Michael's preamble: 'Year after year, I catch a lot of flak on this particular award because year after year, I present this award to a guy instead of a girl.' — Hottest in the Office goes to Danny Cordray (who isn't there).
Michael Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Unknown Female Employee: Talking head of female employee very carefully articulating why she's 'very relieved' not to win Hottest in the Office and questioning Michael's criteria
Angela: Talking head — character (Angela implied) on not winning Hottest in the Office: 'I'm very relieved. How do you judge something like... What is his criteria, even? It's so subjective.'
Angela Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Michael: 'Stanley Hudson is a grump, everybody knows that. But did you know that Stanley Hudson is also the face of a debilitating disease known as diabetes? The Diabetes Award goes to Stanley Hudson!'
Michael Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Michael: 'Come on up here, you sick bastard.'
Michael Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Callback Deangelo: Deangelo's aside: 'I have diabetes too. You don't see me making a big deal about it.'
Deangelo Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Dwight: Dwight wins 'Promising Assistant Manager Dundie' and dedicates it to 'the humble trash can.' 'This is for you, trash can.'
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist Angela · Kevin: 'This is a cloth tablecloth. You can't color on it.' / 'Oh, really?' (ignores it and colors anyway)
Michael: 'Did you know herpes affects one out of every five sexually active adults?' — delivered mid-awards show by Michael
Michael Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Michael: 'Pippi Longstocking, Ronald McDonald's wife, Ron Howard, Ron Weasley. What do they all have in common? Redheads. And, Erin Hannon, come on up here to receive your Cutest Redhead in the Office award.'
Michael Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kelly: After winning Cutest Redhead: 'That is bull.' — reaction beat from another female employee (Kelly or Phyllis implied)
Kelly Reaction Beat Character Comedy Erin: Erin's acceptance speech: 'This is the first award I've ever won in my entire life. People were right about the Dundies, they are magical.'
Erin Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Erin · Pam: Erin: 'I have to be honest. Right, Pam?' — turning to Pam for validation while publicly humiliating Gabe
Erin Pam Cringe/Discomfort Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Callback Gabe: Gabe: 'Thank you for hearing me.' — accepting the breakup with creepy formal gratitude
Gabe Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Gabe: Talking head: 'Obviously really angry at Erin. Here comes that quarter-life crisis everyone's talking about.'
Gabe Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Callback Oscar: 'Damn, that was cold.' — audience member reacting to the breakup
Oscar Reaction Beat Observational Callback Michael: Michael's talking head: 'It is difficult to recognize the person who will be replacing you.' — then gives Deangelo the Best Dundies Host award
Michael Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Deangelo: Deangelo's acceptance speech: 'I was in the bathroom, vomiting and vomiting in that men's room.' / 'That's why it has been shut down for most of the evening.'
Deangelo Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Michael · Deangelo: Michael cuts off Deangelo's speech mid-sentence: 'We're done, we're done.' Deangelo: 'What?' Others: 'Michael, are we...' Michael: 'What?'
Michael: Michael's talking head: 'I was hoping it would be more like Godfather III, that wrapped up the whole franchise in an extremely satisfying way, but instead it is like Godfather I, that was very confusing, had maybe three big laughs.'
Michael Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Pam · Michael: Pam asks if they can move the Dundies to the office to finish; Michael resists, then asks 'So what you're saying is, you kind of liked it?'
Pam · Michael: Pam references 'the Phyllis bit' — 'That got a big laugh. It did. That actually got a big laugh. Pretty huge laugh. You were laughing, right? I was.'
Dwight · Michael: Dwight's talking head: 'I thought it was the worst Dundies I've ever been to.' Michael: 'Man! Maybe you should have won the Kind of a Bitch Award.'
Dwight: Dwight: 'Gladly. I'd accept that award, because a bitch is a female dog.'
Dwight Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Callback Pam · Michael: Someone (Michael) stops the car suddenly; Pam: 'Please don't stop so suddenly. Seatbelt's pressing on my bladder.' / 'Why are you even wearing a seatbelt? You're sitting in the backseat, baby.'
Dwight: Dwight's critique: 'And next time, why don't you pick a co-host that doesn't have microphone-a-phobia?'
Dwight Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Michael · Deangelo: Michael sprints to a gas station bathroom; Deangelo narrates: 'He is in an all-out sprint.'
Michael · Andy: Andy wins 'Doobie Doobie Pothead Stoner of the Year Award'; Michael reads: 'By his own admission, this person actually tried marijuana in college.'
Andy · Michael: Andy's acceptance speech: 'There's a lot of people I'd like to thank, but I think we all actually want to thank you, Michael.'
Michael: Michael's transition back to the Dundies: 'Well, this is going to hurt like a mother.' (then proceeds to give Toby the Extreme Repulsiveness Award)
Michael Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Michael: 'Every day, millions of Americans suffer from extreme repulsiveness. Someone in our midst is bringing that problem to light. Toby Flenderson, please come up here and accept the Extreme Repulsiveness Award.'
Michael Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Callback Toby · Oscar: Toby: 'It's fine.' / 'It's his last Dundies. You got to play along, man.' / 'Come on, Toby.' — Toby accepting the award to protect Michael's feelings
Toby: Toby's acceptance speech transforms into a confessional about the Scranton Strangler case: 'A man's being put to death, I was part of the verdict, and I'm not so sure he's guilty anymore.'
Toby Cringe/Discomfort Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Top Episodes — The Office