Andy makes a game-changing decision and takes a road-trip odyssey in the name of romance. Elsewhere, Nellie arrives at the Scranton branch and sets out to seize the manager position.
WAR
31.9
Wins Above Replacement
“Get The Girl” ranks #69 of 183 The Office episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 80.2 — Elite. The episode packs 42 scored jokes at 2.1 per minute, averaging 7.2 on craft and 6.4 on impact, with Nellie landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Nellie: I grew up poor. I had little formal education. No real skills. I don't work especially hard... And most of my ideas are either unoriginal or total crap. And yet... I walked right into a job for which I was ill prepared, ill seated, and somebody else already had and I got it. If you ask me, that's the American dream right there, anything can happen to anyone. It's just random.
Nellie Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Robert: Would you prefer a nature metaphor or a sexual metaphor?
Robert Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Erin: I'm so sorry that we have not loved each other at the same time.
Erin Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Creed: My Warcraft clan was still on speaking terms. My kid didn't have a face tattoo.
Creed Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Nellie: The way Pam trusted you to provide for her so she wouldn't have to work?
Nellie Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 42 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Jim: I guess it doesn't look that cool either.
Jim Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Kevin: I just remember pushing aside my silky bangs to say, 'Look, a balloon.'
Kevin Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Creed: My Warcraft clan was still on speaking terms. My kid didn't have a face tattoo.
Creed Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Nellie: What brings you to town? Certainly not the Harry Houdini Museum. What a nobody. Look, some Hungarian just found their way out of a sack. Let's build a shrine.
Nellie Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Toby: Welcome. I'm Tony. What? I said, I'm Tony. Okay, I made a mistake. I thought it might go unnoticed. But I'm Toby.
Toby Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Nellie: I have one simple philosophy in business: If the seat is open, the job is open. It's how I came to briefly race a formula one car.
Nellie Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Nellie: The three slowest laps ever recorded.
Nellie Callback Deadpan/Understatement Callback Erin: Look at this place! Five rooms, and I get to clean them all. That's right, I'm a maid for an old lady. Her grandson's staying with us too, because he ran out of money. Listen to me, bragging away.
Erin Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Nellie: Because it is 10:00, I've been in this chair for an hour, and no other manager has come and sat in my lap.
Nellie Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Andy Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Andy: My heart is my map. Turns out Tallahassee is about 200 miles inland, so I overshot a good amount. But still, not bad for a heart map, right?
Andy Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Andy Observational Deadpan/Understatement Robert: Sometimes the flowers arrange themselves, Jim.
Robert Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Irene: Maybe it's because he's not that handsome.
Irene Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Nellie: I think it's a cross between 'Dumbo' and 'Jumbo'. With a hint of 'chubby.'
Nellie Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Robert: Kevin ate someone's lunch, Phyllis has a new necklace.
Robert Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Kevin Misdirection Character Comedy Erin: I've been reusing the hot dog water so it gets more flavor. It's going to keep getting better.
Erin Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Andy: I just have to cross a few 'T's and dot a few 'I's.
Andy Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Irene: You didn't even stop to pee? Gross.
Irene Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Glenn: You really wouldn't feel those results after one session.
Glenn Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy Andy Misdirection Character Comedy Andy: I got the serious poops.
Andy Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Nellie: The way Pam trusted you to provide for her so she wouldn't have to work?
Nellie Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Dwight: I wouldn't let her manage a celery farm. Those who can't farm farm celery.
Dwight Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Nellie: You are our Atlas, and for that, do you not think you deserve a raise?
Nellie Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Dwight: Money isn't real ever since we got off the gold standard.
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Robert: Would you prefer a nature metaphor or a sexual metaphor?
Robert Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Robert · Jim: When two animals are having sex, one of them... Is communicating a message to the other. Nothing is mutua... this isn't very helpful. You're going to want to hear the sexual metaphor. Was that not the... All life is sex. And all sex is competition.
Robert Jim Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Robert: In the end, doesn't he decide who the manager is?
Robert Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jim: This office is mine now. Sorry, too late. I'm here. This is mine. Back off.
Jim Physical/Slapstick Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Jim: Touch me and I'll sue.
Jim Character Comedy Escalation Andy: If I had my own fountain, it would be two frogs that are spitting into each other's mouth. It's just stupid.
Andy Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Erin: I'm so sorry that we have not loved each other at the same time.
Erin Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Nellie: Dreamt I could breathe underwater like Jacques Cousteau.
Nellie Character Comedy Absurdist Pam: I think you're a witch. I think you're amazing.
Pam Character Comedy Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Irene: He got his foreskin caught in some lawn furniture.
Irene Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Nellie: I'm Tinkerbell. I'm a magical fairy who floated into your office to bring a little bit of magic into your lives, to give you all raises.
Nellie Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Kevin · Others: Come on, Jim, you're killing her. We believe!
Erin: This is the wrong Prius. I don't love you. I'm sorry.
Erin Misdirection Physical/Slapstick ★ Rewatch Andy: I just... there's always one around. I always find one. Have you heard of buying a toothbrush? Of course. I own my toothbrush.
Andy Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Nellie: I grew up poor. I had little formal education. No real skills. I don't work especially hard... And most of my ideas are either unoriginal or total crap. And yet... I walked right into a job for which I was ill prepared, ill seated, and somebody else already had and I got it. If you ask me, that's the American dream right there, anything can happen to anyone. It's just random.
Nellie Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch ⏩ The part you fast-forward
Our scorer flagged 09:00-10:00 range with phone vibrating sequence as the stretch with the fewest or weakest comedic moments. Everything else lands harder.
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