An ostracized Michael does all he can to sabotage Gabe's party while Angela requests sex from Dwight.
WAR
79.6
Wins Above Replacement
“Viewing Party” ranks #105 of 183 The Office episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 87.0 — Elite. The episode packs 65 scored jokes at 3.0 per minute, averaging 7.3 on craft and 7.1 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: In the Schrute family, the youngest child always raises the others. I've been raising children since I was a baby.
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Erin · Michael: I hate your roof. / Do not raise your voice to me. / I'll raise it all I want. I'll raise the roof. / I will pull this car over. / I hate it. I hate your car.
Michael: Better men than Gabe have tried to be my boss. David got fired. Charles got fired. Jan went crazy. Ed Truck, who I liked, got decapitated.
Michael Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Pam · Dwight: Michael, just don't think of it as degrading. Think of it as you happen to be moving the pizza six inches this way, and he happens to be biting it. / I'd prefer for him to think of it as degrading.
Pam Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Unknown · Creed: Hey, Creed. Do you read Chinese? / Better than English.
Standout Moments
Michael: Better men than Gabe have tried to be my boss. David got fired. Charles got fired. Jan went crazy. Ed Truck, who I liked, got decapitated.
Michael Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Dwight: In the Schrute family, the youngest child always raises the others. I've been raising children since I was a baby.
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Erin · Michael: I hate your roof. / Do not raise your voice to me. / I'll raise it all I want. I'll raise the roof. / I will pull this car over. / I hate it. I hate your car.
All Jokes — 65 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Michael: They should do that thing where they play the really good music to get him to come out.
Dwight: Just say copies. Why do you have to drag cats into this?
Dwight Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kevin · Michael: What if it's another Waco? / It's pronounced 'wacko.'
Jim: Balloon boy, Michael Jackson's funeral... things that, if you didn't see them live, you wouldn't really care that you didn't see them at all.
Jim Observational Deadpan/Understatement Andy: I bet he's wishing he had a hybrid, right? Sixty miles to the gallon in the city!
Andy Character Comedy Absurdist Unknown: No, I bet he's wishing he was strangling someone.
Unknown Dark/Subversive Deadpan/Understatement Michael: Grandpa, where were you the day the Scranton Strangler was caught? Well, I was there, kiddo. I was there.
Michael Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Michael: And I'll tell you what, you go sell these and buy yourself a nice spaceship.
Michael Absurdist Character Comedy Callback Michael · Erin: Michael performs a fake-out: pretends to be too busy to care about Glee, then immediately caves and admits he's a 'total Gleek.'
Michael: You know who my favorite character is? The invalid.
Michael Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Erin: Take Gabe, take Michael, you make 'Gaymike.' Best friends.
Erin Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Dwight: Extended Glee critique: continuity errors in Mr. Schue's choreography, Jesse's sudden turn on Rachel — 'That show, it's just... it's irresponsible.'
Dwight Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Dwight: Of all feelings, to base a show around glee? Thirst. Now that's a show I'd watch.
Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Angela: Tonight might be a convenient night for us to have some intercourse.
Angela Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Michael · Gabe: Try and keep me from coming. / Why would I keep you from coming? / Try and hide it, I will track this party down. / Why would I hide it?
Kevin · Michael: Kevin tells Michael he should go because 'you got to go to the boss's party.' Michael insists Gabe is not the boss — and then checks with the group.
Michael: You don't really toss the dough. Try to destroy the old ways, Gabe. I will not let you.
Gabe: I did my senior year abroad in Japan. Best year of my life. / I like to create soundscapes. Imagine one instant of a song expanded to be the size of the universe.
Gabe Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Unknown: I can't even do that. [In response to Gabe's soundscape description]
Unknown Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement Jim: Cece is reverse cycling — she sleeps all day and is up all night — 'which basically means I'm up all day, and I'm up all night. And if it doesn't stop soon, I am gonna be up all night.'
Jim Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Michael · Unknown: Which one's Glee? / You have to stop.
Michael: Turn it up to 11. / Come on, Michael. / Spinal cord.
Michael Meta/Self-Referential Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Michael: Right down the hall is a bedroom. All the real Glee fans are gonna go down the hall to the real Glee party in the bedroom.
Unknown · Gabe: What's your angle? / That woman. / She's been in a couple of episodes of Friday Night Lights.
Michael: Pam, I have a loaded gun in my desk at work. And if I ever start acting like that weenie, Gabe, I want you to take that gun and shoot me, like, 100 times in the groin till I'm dead, okay?
Michael Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Pam · Michael: You have a gun in your desk? / Somewhere.
Pam Michael Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Gabe · Dwight: The five Chinese virility herbs / powdered seahorse / 15 Chinese soldiers fought off the entire army of Genghis Khan just using this stuff.
Dwight: I find it absolutely disgraceful that no one followed you in here for your walk-out. I took the liberty of making a list... Jim, Oscar, Creed, me, at first... Kelly...
Dwight Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Dwight: Are you gonna quiet that baby or do I have to?
Dwight Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Kevin: So much Asian stuff! I wonder if there's a guy in China right now looking at a bunch of our stuff.
Kevin Character Comedy Observational Kevin · Andy: Andy, look, all I know is, if I was a girl and I had to choose between a tall dude who loved Asia and a you-looking dude who loved sweaters and wearing sweaters, I'd choose you. That's really nice. Thank you. And I'd blow your mind.
Jim · Oscar: Jim checks scores on his phone during a commercial break; Oscar demands he flip it back.
Jim Oscar Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Multiple · Jim · Oscar: Oh, my God. What song was that? / I wasn't recording it. / They did Blinded by the Light, and they did it with an actual blind guy. / Was it worth it, Jim? 'Cause we missed it.
Dwight: Just go to Gabe's refrigerator, get a lump of suet, or any kind of congealed animal fat will do, really. Tie a piece of string to it, tie the other end to her toe, pop the suet in her mouth, she'll be happy for hours.
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Michael: Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Phyllis Vance.
Michael · Phyllis: Is that White Diamonds by Elizabeth Taylor? / You know your perfumes. / My nanny used to wear that.
Dwight: I just ate an entire seahorse. I have to admit, I did not think it was gonna work, but it's totally working. I feel exactly like a seahorse.
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Callback Michael · Gabe: Is this the same dough that you used for the pizza crust? / Yeah. Waste not, right? / So, these are pizza dogs. These aren't pigs in a blanket, per se.
Gabe: So, these are pizza dogs. These aren't pigs in a blanket, per se.
Gabe Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Michael: That's what she said. [After Michael says 'you are making this harder than it has to be']
Pam · Jim · Dwight: She loves him. / I don't know about 'love.' / She loves me.
Jim · Dwight: What kind of pizza would you like? / Surprise me. / No. / Pepperoni.
Jim Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Unknown · Creed: Hey, Creed. Do you read Chinese? / Better than English.
Andy: Hello, UPS, still waiting on that five minutes with Erin I ordered. Oh, never mind, it's here.
Andy Character Comedy Awkward Silence Andy · Erin: Did you wear my favorite outfit on purpose? / Andy, you look awful. / You're four seasons in a day.
Pam · Dwight: Michael, just don't think of it as degrading. Think of it as you happen to be moving the pizza six inches this way, and he happens to be biting it. / I'd prefer for him to think of it as degrading.
Pam Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Dwight · Jim: Beer me, Jim. / Gentle. / Mmm, mmm.
Dwight Jim Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Callback Dwight · Jim: She needs to be serviced. / You need to stop talking.
Dwight · Jim: Sex contracts exist, okay? / Okay, fine, there must be some way to get out of it, even just for tonight. / Yeah, sure. Jim can go see her.
Dwight: She is in heat. She will eat your face off.
Dwight Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Dwight: A single piece of pepperoni, please. (Dwight, while holding CeCe, imperiously requesting one piece of pepperoni be placed in his mouth.)
Dwight Character Comedy Escalation Callback Michael: I wanted to eat a pig in a blanket in a blanket.
Michael Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Phyllis: Bob and I took our time. The first time we saw each other naked, we didn't even make love. We just stared at each other until we fell asleep. It was magical.
Phyllis Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Pam: It's not Dwight. Don't think it's Dwight.
Pam Character Comedy Reaction Beat Angela · Pam: Are you authorized to do this? / Yes. I have been so authorized.
Angela Pam Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Angela: How did he seem? You know, like, did he seem disappointed?
Angela Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Michael: He's just a weird, little, skeevy guy with no waist.
Michael Character Comedy Observational Erin · Michael: Why do you care whether we like him or not? / I care if you like him. / Why? I'm not your father.
Michael · Erin: Go to your room. / What? / Go to your room, young lady. / I'm not going to my room. / You listen to me. You listen good. You are not to see that boy anymore.
Michael · Gabe: If you break that girl's heart, I will kill you. / It's just a figure of speech. / But seriously, if you break that girl's heart, I will literally kill you and your entire family.
Jim · Dwight: What happened? / I accidentally ate some seahorses. / How much? / I don't know. It's powdered, so... like, four or five, I don't know.
Jim Dwight Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Gabe: This one is called 'Earthrise on the Moon.' [New Age music plays]
Gabe Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Callback Top Episodes — The Office
