Pressed to boost the bottom line, Andy finds a novel way to improve sales, while Dwight explores corporate opportunities outside Scranton.
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“Trivia” ranks #181 of 183 The Office episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 80.0 — Elite. The episode packs 64 scored jokes at 3.1 per minute, averaging 7.0 on craft and 6.8 on impact, with Andy landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Dwight: Dwight to Gabe, being dragged away: 'Listen, you're a perfectly fine toilet. I'm just an extraordinary piece of crap. Let's go.'
Dwight Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Dwight: Dwight's response to the toilet speech: 'You know, Gabe? You could have gone with garbage disposal, incinerator, or eraser, and instead you chose toilet. God bless you. You're an American classic.'
Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Callback Gabe: Gabe's toilet monologue: 'I am the toilet of this office. I flush away annoying problems so others can keep their hands clean. And, just like a toilet, I am essential.'
Gabe Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Robert California · Dwight: Robert: 'Alligators are dinosaurs, Dwight. You know that, right?' / Dwight: 'N... it's complicated.'
Robert California: Robert California: 'Florida is America's basement. It's wet, it's filled with mold, strange insects, alligators.'
Standout Moments
Gabe: Gabe's toilet monologue: 'I am the toilet of this office. I flush away annoying problems so others can keep their hands clean. And, just like a toilet, I am essential.'
Gabe Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Dwight: Dwight's response to the toilet speech: 'You know, Gabe? You could have gone with garbage disposal, incinerator, or eraser, and instead you chose toilet. God bless you. You're an American classic.'
Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Callback Dwight: Dwight to Gabe, being dragged away: 'Listen, you're a perfectly fine toilet. I'm just an extraordinary piece of crap. Let's go.'
Dwight Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback All Jokes — 64 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Kevin · Oscar: Kevin saying 'Oh yeah' every time he eats a candy bar, Oscar calling him out, and Kevin being unable to stop himself — doing it again immediately after being confronted
Unknown: 'It was a raccoon eating a hamburger like a person!'
Unknown · Andy: Someone singing '♪ I'ma love you downstairs tonight ♪' during the group distraction purge, repeated despite Andy's attempts to move on
Kevin: 'You can write a book about chairs.' — Kevin's answer to 'What else can be done with paper?'
Kevin Character Comedy Absurdist Andy: Andy getting increasingly unhinged about the concept of infinity as a sales pitch: 'There is an INFINITY of things you can do with paper!'
Andy Character Comedy Escalation Andy: 'Let's get high on our own supply!' — Andy pitching the office to buy their own paper
Andy Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Andy: '...and, the next quarter, I need to sell the $2,200 of paper that's in my garage.'
Andy Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Dwight: Dwight's talking head: 'Animals, machines, vast virtual armies. All of these things I have successfully managed. The only thing I haven't managed is people.'
Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Dwight: 'So, like a Spanish conquistador, I have come to Florida to claim what is rightfully mine.'
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist Dwight: 'I'm not here to be given anything. I'm here to take what is mine.'
Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Callback Dwight · Gabe: Dwight to Gabe: 'Impressive office you have here. Surrounded by shrubbery, like a squirrel's office.'
Dwight Gabe Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Gabe: Gabe's talking head: 'Scranton says, go back down to Florida. So, Tuesdays and Thursdays I'm up there. Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays I'm down here. I can think of no better way to confront my deathly fear of flying.'
Gabe Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Robert California · Dwight: Robert California: 'I don't know what's worse, the trip or the destination.' — on Dwight's drive to Florida
Andy · Oscar: Andy's plan to make a fake accounting error: 'So make that error!' — Oscar refuses because it's not his kind of thing, Andy says 'I know that making errors sounds like your kind of thing'
Oscar: Oscar's dramatic refusal to cook the books — then revealing he's skipping out to go to 'Triviocalypse'
Oscar Misdirection Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Oscar · Andy: 'It's only the biggest night of trivia of the year. There's a $1,000 prize.' / 'What?' — Andy's total confusion at the word 'Triviocalypse'
Andy · Jim · Others: Andy interrupting Oscar's trivia bar story: 'Stop right there. I love it.' / 'I'm in.' — before Oscar even finishes explaining
Andy: 'I'm so psyched you guys are into it because I thought, I was like, this sounds really stupid.' — Andy admitting his own plan was stupid only after everyone agreed
Andy Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Dwight · Gabe: Dwight to Gabe: 'Gabe, I always wondered what it is you do around here. Now I found out. You're the bagel guy.'
Dwight: Dwight's talking head: 'CEO to COO, what a difference a letter makes.'
Dwight Deadpan/Understatement Wordplay/Pun Gabe: Gabe: 'He has me toilet a lot of people for him.' — using 'toilet' as a verb
Gabe Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Callback Robert California · Gabe: Robert California calling Gabe on the 'hallway phone' with instructions to manage Dwight — 'Make him feel valued, make him feel heard.' / 'Your wish is my command.' / 'It's a command.'
Andy · Oscar: Andy shows up at the bar: 'How would you like to be captain of the Dunder-Mifflin team? Although I reserve the right to overrule you.'
Jim: 'There were times on the 2 1/2 hour drive when I experienced doubt.'
Jim Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Andy · Oscar: Andy's response to 'What does this say about you?' — 'That I believe in my staff's intelligence and that I'm willing to try anything.' / Oscar: 'Not anything.'
Andy · Oscar · Kevin · Meredith · Kelly · Erin: The team self-sorting into A-team, Backup, and 'Good-timers' — with clear visual implication that Kevin and other weak players self-select into the good-timers group
Unknown: 'Go on, kid. You know you don't belong here.' — someone being sent from A-team to backup
Unknown Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Andy · Others: Dwight's A-team reaction beat: 'Except...' followed by an implied long pause at [10:08]
Ryan: A-team's Ray Charles answer: 'Let's reverse engineer this. You're a black singer, where do you go? Somewhere where you're a novelty. Alaska?'
Ryan Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Kevin: Kevin's reasoning for what blind people think about: 'Oh, what do blind people think about? Okay, dogs, canes, signs, manholes, stairs, piano, darkness.'
Kevin Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Dwight · Gabe: Dwight confronting the 'fire' excuse: 'There're no fires within eight miles of here.' / Gabe: 'Well, it's nine miles away.'
Dwight Gabe Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Trivia Host: Trivia host's question: NBA sixth man of the year 2011, framed as 'you're not an All-Star of the NBA, but you did get your game on'
Darryl · Jim: Darryl: 'That doesn't sound right. I want to say Ladameon Washington.' / Jim: 'Wrong, for so many reasons.'
Darryl Jim Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Ryan: Ryan: 'Well, I know Elizabeth Taylor's sixth man was Richard Burton. Is that helpful?'
Ryan Character Comedy Absurdist Darryl: Darryl: 'That's it, I'm going to go watch the boats on the river.'
Darryl Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Kelly: Kelly's triumphant explanation: 'Lamar winning sixth man was a big storyline on Khloé and Lamar.'
Kelly Character Comedy Observational Callback Kelly: 'Ryan is MSNBC. I'm E!, TLC, and Oxygen.' — Kelly assigning TV network identities to team members
Kelly Character Comedy Observational Gabe · Dwight: Gabe's smile during Dwight's pitch — 'What's with the smile?' / 'You're doing great. You know, so good.'
Gabe Dwight Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Oscar · Kevin: Kevin checking his phone during trivia: 'I'm sure you're just checking your Grindr account.'
Kevin: Kevin: 'I can't not... touch it.' / 'I want to be with my phone.'
Kevin Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Andy: Scoreboard reveal: 'Dunder-Mifflin A-team has four points.' followed by 'So, the best chance of hitting our mark is now in the hands and brains of Kevin, Meredith, Erin, and Kelly.'
Andy Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Trivia Host: Team names at the trivia: 'Aesop's Foibles,' 'The Queerenstein Bears,' 'Dunder-Mifflin A-team'
Andy: Andy's talking head: 'Do I like these odds? My answer is no.'
Andy Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Trivia Host: Einstein question reveal: 'Who was the relatively unknown patent clerk who discovered E=MC²?' — everyone gets a point except the team called The Einsteins
Einstein Team Member: Einsteins ring the bell for Salman Rushdie but one member says 'What? I did my part, babe. I'm just the bell girl.'
Kevin · Erin: Kevin hits the bell immediately on 'On a square-rigged ship...' — gets the answer 'flying jib' before anyone processes the question
Kevin Erin Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Robert California: Robert California wrestling Stu in his condo when Dwight arrives — 'One nine-minute bout is the cardiovascular equivalent of running uphill for three hours.'
Robert California: Robert's analysis: 'One nine-minute bout is a cardiovascular equivalent of running uphill for three hours. I could go to this gym three times a week, or I can wrestle Stu once a month.'
Kevin: ADHD vs. dyslexia trivia answer — Kevin confidently buzzes in 'ADHD' and is wrong; correct answer is dyslexia
Kevin Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Robert California: Robert to Dwight, eating an Oreo: 'They haven't really improved on the Oreo, have they?'
Dwight · Robert California: Dwight's riddle pitch: 'A manager, a salesman, a leader, and a warrior walk into a restaurant. The hostess says, table for one?' — Robert solves it immediately
Robert California: Robert California: 'Florida is America's basement. It's wet, it's filled with mold, strange insects, alligators.'
Robert California · Dwight: Robert: 'Alligators are dinosaurs, Dwight. You know that, right?' / Dwight: 'N... it's complicated.'
Dwight: Dwight about the medal: 'It's a job interview, not a flea market.'
Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Trivia Host: Trivia host: 'I hope you're ready to play doctor.' — on the health question round
Kevin: Kevin immediately answers 'The standard American analog scale has a maximum capacity of what weight?' with '300 pounds!'
Kevin Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Kevin · Meredith: The obscure French film question — answered correctly by the B-team because 'Marie Cotillard exposes herself a number of times in that film.'
Andy: Andy's closing speech: 'here's a piece of trivia... A fluke is one of the most common fish in the sea. So, if you go fishing for a fluke, chances are, you just might catch one.'
Andy Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Andy · Oscar · Team: The office discovers the bar is hosting the Stonewall Alliance Trivia Championships with a $4,500 prize — four times what they expected
Andy: Andy: 'Let's just do our thing, collect our hardware and get the hell home.' — when they discover it's a championship
Andy Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Kevin · Meredith · Erin · Kelly: Final montage: The B-team rattling off answers — 'Riboflavin.' / 'Michigan.' / 'POTUS.' / 'John Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath.' — with total confidence
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