After Robert decides to sell his mansion following his divorce, Kevin suggests that he have an office pool party. Erin tries to make Andy jealous by flirting with Dwight. Meanwhile, Robert gives everyone a tour of his massive home.
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“Pool Party” ranks #9 of 183 The Office episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 89.1 — Elite. The episode packs 70 scored jokes at 3.8 per minute, averaging 7.2 on craft and 7.1 on impact, with Robert landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Robert: I pictured myself here every night eating a leg of mutton, the juices dripping down my bare chest, wiping my fingers on the walls
Robert Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Robert: When I put in the screening room I bought three movies. Caligula, Last Tango in Paris and Emmanuelle 2. The last two movies I actually watched in here were Marley & Me and On Golden Pond.
Robert Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Robert: You enter this room a lawyer, a doctor, a teacher, a judge, but beyond it you are simply a penis a vagina, a hunger, an ache
Robert Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Robert: Then I met the vegan
Robert Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Kelly: I'm taking an Italian class. So far, I have learned tortellini, spaghettini, linguine. Well, it's not so much a class as a restaurant. But I do Monday Wednesday, Friday from 7:00 to 9:00
Kelly Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 70 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Dwight: Oh... Oh What is this? A meatball? Really?
Dwight Setup/Punchline Physical/Slapstick Jim: It's always more fun to mess with Dwight with an audience. That was usually Pam. So now that she's out, I had to find someone else
Jim Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jim: Turns out that Stanley is quite the comedy fan
Jim Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Jim: But not everything makes him laugh. He has very specific tastes.
Jim Character Comedy Escalation Jim: Through a painstaking process of trial and error, I found out what he likes. And it's really weird
Jim Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Stanley: Jim, come on. So juvenile
Stanley Irony/Sarcasm Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Jim: You've been meatballed
Jim: Are you ready for some meatballs?
Jim Wordplay/Pun Escalation Dwight: This is not very clever, Jim
Dwight Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Dwight: Really, Jim? Really?
Stanley · Phyllis: What's the haul? Thirty-two meatballs. Good day. That idiot's been feeding us for a week. We'll never have to buy meatballs again
Kelly: I'm taking an Italian class. So far, I have learned tortellini, spaghettini, linguine. Well, it's not so much a class as a restaurant. But I do Monday Wednesday, Friday from 7:00 to 9:00
Kelly Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kelly: You sound really pretty today
Kelly Absurdist Character Comedy Andy: Pump the brakes, Bernard
Andy: I haven't proposed to anyone in years
Andy Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Andy: Mom took the main diamond out. She thought that had more of a 'my little brother' kind of vibe to it
Andy Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jim: Got a little bit of The Shining vibe, though
Dwight: Big, stupid, pure chump bait
Dwight Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Robert: The 1% are suffering too, people
Robert Irony/Sarcasm Observational Robert: I bought it to be my Playboy Mansion. A temple to wine, revelry, sex, intrigue. This was hot on the heels of Eyes Wide Shut, mind you.
Robert Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Robert: Then I met my wife, she moved in, made it her own. Now she's left me and forced me to sell the place. The ultimate insult - they're calling my speakeasy lounge a rumpus room
Robert Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Robert: What was the joke you thought you heard?
Robert Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy Jim: Kind of laughing at your own pain. Sad clown thing
Jim Observational Cringe/Discomfort Robert: Oh, yes. How hilarious it is to laugh at clowns, the painted jesters of a dying circus industry
Robert Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Kevin: I'm getting reports of a serious outbreak of the 'grumpies' in here
Kevin Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Robert: A beautiful monster cost me my 40s and my dream home
Robert Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Erin: Well, please tell Susan we all say hi
Erin Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Kevin: Like some sort of last hurrah? Yeah. All of us in the pool saying hurrah. Maybe the last one that says hurrah is 'it.'
Kevin Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Kevin · Oscar: Hey, Oscar, was that you who just created a party out of thin air or was it me? That was you, Kevin. It was me
Meredith · Erin: You going tonight, kiddo? Because I can give you a lift. Oh, I don't know Meredith, it seems like you shouldn't drive maybe ever
Erin · Meredith: How do you know where I live? Andy followed you home after the Christmas party. Why? He wanted to make sure California didn't put it in you
Erin: Wow. Andy's such a weird stalker. Following me home like that when he has a girlfriend, a restraining order
Erin Character Comedy Escalation Robert: Well, we'll say it's 82 and it'll be our secret
Robert Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Jim: Wow. Just stopping by. Got another party to go to. A wife and two kids at home party. DJ Pam Halpert is spinning some serious Radio Disney tonight.
Jim Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Jim: I don't mean to brag but New Year's Eve, I was home by 9:00.
Jim Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Ryan: Funny how you can be surrounded by people and still feel so lonely
Ryan Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Ryan · Andy: How about this weekend we take that sucker to a duck pond or something? Maybe get caught in the rain. Well, I can't. I'm going skiing with Jessica. Couple of dopes on the slopes.
Erin: But if he was jealous once before then maybe I can make him jealous again. Just not with Robert. He told me he was a ride I wouldn't survive and I believe him.
Erin Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Angela: You know, you are just as dumb at night
Angela Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Stanley: I moved them. Pants only need a chair if there's a person in them
Stanley Character Comedy Observational Dwight: You want to play you little hick?
Dwight Character Comedy Escalation Robert: You enter this room a lawyer, a doctor, a teacher, a judge, but beyond it you are simply a penis a vagina, a hunger, an ache
Robert Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Robert: Susan used it as a Pilates studio
Robert Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Toby · Gabe: With ammunition like this, we are in for quite a night you and me. And Gabey makes three
Dwight: Why would you choose me? Because I'm mighty? Because I'm the manliest man in the office? I'll do it!
Dwight Character Comedy Escalation Robert: I pictured myself here every night eating a leg of mutton, the juices dripping down my bare chest, wiping my fingers on the walls
Robert Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Robert: Then I met the vegan
Robert Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Robert: Toby, you are playing a dangerous game
Robert Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Toby: I guess I'm through the gateway now though, right?
Toby Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Kevin: I've been working out but the problem is, I've been building muscle underneath and that top layer hasn't burned off yet. Awkward stage
Kevin Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Erin: Now take a chip and crush it into my face and rub the grease around. Do it. Yeah, rub it in. Yeah. That's so good
Erin Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Erin: Andy's not even looking. Eating is a dead end. Damn it.
Erin Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Dwight: I know. I could just bang you right now
Dwight Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Robert: I had two bears sewn together to make this king size. Total waste of two bears
Robert Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Toby · Gabe · Robert: To both these bears
Robert: When I put in the screening room I bought three movies. Caligula, Last Tango in Paris and Emmanuelle 2. The last two movies I actually watched in here were Marley & Me and On Golden Pond.
Robert Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Angela · Kelly: Kelly, that's a crazy ring you found. Yeah. Thanks, I'm really glad that I found it
Angela · Kelly: Ring of a failed marriage might have some sinister energy, right? Am I just being silly? I don't think you're being silly. Oh, God. You know what? I can just sell it and put the money in the party fund. Oh. Then another woman will get it, we can't allow that. We have to destroy it
Kevin · Angela: Does Darryl not swim? That's racist. I don't know but I would say by looking at him, no, Darryl does not swim
Kelly · Angela: You've broken up your last couple, you evil ring. Do it. We're in the pool. Shove it, Angela.
Gabe: But boy, that Erin, she sure is a ripe little tiger, isn't she? Meow! And to think I always thought of her as a second Meredith
Gabe Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Andy: It's monogamy for my hog and me
Andy Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Gabe: So then you won't mind if tonight I just go crazy on her? Just go nuts... With sex
Gabe Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Andy Reaction Beat Character Comedy Erin · Andy: How did you know it was mine? The Bernard family seal, duh. Duh
Erin: Andy's confused. That's not what I was hoping for. But it's not so bad either
Erin Character Comedy Observational Toby · Gabe: Robert, I want you to know I'm here to rock with you as late as you want. And that goes double for me. I'll stay even later than you'd like
Robert · Toby: Toby, I am Bacchus god of wine. And I am Bacchus' friend
Jim: And there's my talking point
Jim Callback Observational ★ Rewatch Callback Robert: It's not a party if you don't do something that scares you
Robert Character Comedy Observational ⏩ The part you fast-forward
Our scorer flagged 01:30-02:05 as the stretch with the fewest or weakest comedic moments. Everything else lands harder.
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