Dwight is tasked with hiring a part-time salesman to be Jim's substitute, so he rounds up a supergroup of his cronies, including his oddball beet-farmer cousin, Mose. Pam is left wondering who her new deskmate will be. Erin seeks her birth parents with help from Pete.
WAR
25.6
Wins Above Replacement
“Junior Salesman” ranks #172 of 183 The Office episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 69.4 — Mixed. The episode packs 61 scored jokes at 2.6 per minute, averaging 6.4 on craft and 6.4 on impact, with Dwight landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Dwight: Mose could make a great paper salesman. He's got a natural fear of paper, which would motivate him to get as much of it out of this office as possible.
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Clark: I need you to breathe in my face right now.
Clark Cringe/Discomfort Absurdist Dwight: Troy is literally one of a kind, and he's a goblin, or a hobbit, or a kobold, which is a type of gremlin.
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist Dwight: Wolf is hilarious. He has executed me over 100 times at point-blank range. Half of 'em, we were on the same team.
Dwight Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Pam · Meredith: They smell so bad. If I ever get that bad, you'd tell me, right? I tell you all the time.
All Jokes — 61 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Brian: It was my first slipup in nine years of miking you.
Brian Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch Meredith: When are you gonna boom me?
Meredith Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Dwight: Ballers only. Must be this cool to ride.
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist Dwight: Oh, did I? Oh, yes, I did.
Dwight Reaction Beat Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dwight: It's like, 'really, Jim? You don't understand the difference between a slaughterhouse and a rendering plant? Uh, remind me not to lend you any dead cows or horses.'
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Clark: I went above and beyond-- and under.
Clark Wordplay/Pun Cringe/Discomfort Dwight: Guy goes fishing with hand grenades.
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist Dwight: Trevor-- he'll make you laugh so hard, you'll puke your pants.
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist Clark: You put in 12 grueling weeks at a company, and what do they do? They make you compete for a promotion, like an animal.
Clark Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Clark: I thought this was an office, not the thunderdome.
Clark Character Comedy Absurdist Dwight: No longer a Pam-Jim alliance against Dwight. Now it is Dwight and a friend axis against Pam.
Dwight Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Jim · Dwight: You could've just called that an alliance too, right? I chose my words very carefully.
Clark: I've been working here 12 weeks. That's a full season of Homeland. A ton of things can happen in that amount of time, as we've seen.
Clark Character Comedy Observational Rolf · Clark: Rolf Ahl? Sounds kinda like Roald Dahl. Go to hell.
Rolf Clark Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Dwight: When you're with the R-O-L-F you're literally rolling on the laughing floor.
Dwight Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy Dwight: Just try and rattle Rolf. I dare you. Such a sweet guy.
Dwight Irony/Sarcasm Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Callback Rolf: I hope you like Norwegian black metal, because I don't do earbuds. No earbuds!
Rolf Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Rolf · Dwight: Well, a lot of that information is private. How do I know you're qualified to evaluate me? What are your credentials?
Rolf: I think I've heard everything I need to hear.
Rolf Irony/Sarcasm Cringe/Discomfort Dwight: You say, 'jump,' and he says, 'on who?' He loves to jump on people, that Trevor.
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist Trevor: Can I take a 20 on that? Maybe we can circle back around to it.
Trevor Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Trevor: Pass. Next one. No, no, and no.
Trevor Cringe/Discomfort Absurdist Trevor: There were only two options. Checkmate.
Trevor Character Comedy Absurdist Trevor · Dwight: This is a bus transfer. Nothing gets by this guy.
Clark: I need you to breathe in my face right now.
Clark Cringe/Discomfort Absurdist Clark: What are we working with, peppermint or wintergreen? I looked at you coming around, and I said, 'wintergreen.'
Clark Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Dwight: I can't hire Clark. He looks like a Schrute, but he thinks like a Halpert and he acts like a Beesly.
Dwight Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Clark: So I'd Kobayashi Maru it. I just Kobayashi Maru'd the whole process.
Clark Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential Dwight: Star Trek rules. It does, but still no.
Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Pam · Meredith: They smell so bad. If I ever get that bad, you'd tell me, right? I tell you all the time.
Pam: Walked right into that one.
Dwight: Mose could make a great paper salesman. He's got a natural fear of paper, which would motivate him to get as much of it out of this office as possible.
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Mose Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm Dwight · Mose: You know we live together, right? And I've never seen you go to work, ever.
Zeke: Everyone was in the shower. It's a cow shower, so there's, like a ton of people in there.
Zeke Absurdist Character Comedy Woman candidate: I was his babysitter, and then we dated for a while. He was a passionate lover and the sweetest little baby.
Nate: You went to X-Men school too?
Nate Character Comedy Absurdist Dwight: I have a few powers. Night hearing. Dogs understand where I point.
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Dwight: Our training included picking carrots, scrubbing tubs, sewing imitation levi's. A lot of telemarketing.
Dwight Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Stanley: We can't blame a weirdo for bringing in weirdos. We can blame a normal for creating a situation where a weirdo was allowed to bring in weirdos.
Stanley Character Comedy Observational Pam: I'm in a position where I'm rooting for Nate, and that just feels wrong.
Pam Character Comedy Observational Pam: I have some pointy trees that I need to round off.
Pam Character Comedy Observational Dwight: I'd love to invest. No, thanks. I'd like to give you $100 million.
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist Nate: It's dense, like bread.
Nate Character Comedy Observational Oscar: Your friends are like Spiderman, if he had gotten bitten by a spider and then got really into masturbating.
Oscar Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Dwight: Wolf is hilarious. He has executed me over 100 times at point-blank range. Half of 'em, we were on the same team.
Dwight Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Wolf · Dwight: Do you want this paper? I sure do. It's not very good. I will pay you whatever it takes.
Dwight: Trevor is great, but I saw no fire in him today. And this is a guy who loves to start fires.
Dwight Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Callback Dwight: Troy is literally one of a kind, and he's a goblin, or a hobbit, or a kobold, which is a type of gremlin.
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist Candidate · Dwight: I've been double-parked for five hours. No, you've been towed by now. They tow after about 45 minutes. Well, the joke's on them. I live right next to the tow yard.
Trevor: Can you imagine how insulting that would be? The contempt that a person like that would have to have for you.
Trevor Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jim: Ahh, I love staring off in one direction. If I'm not looking south, I'm not livin'. That's what I always say.
Jim Character Comedy Absurdist Jim · Dwight: I knew it. You designed a uniform for Dunder Mifflin. Summer. Winter. Jungle. Formal.
Candidate: This is such bullcrap! So much crap. It's just a load of BC.
Nate: Do we get our resumes back or do you keep them? Because I only have the one, and I have a chili recipe on the back that I really wanna keep.
Nate Character Comedy Absurdist Clark: This is Jim Halpert's home address, in case you guys wanna toilet paper his house or whatever.
Clark Character Comedy Dark/Subversive Wolf: Don't open any suspicious packages you may receive. No, wait. Do open them. Totally safe.
Wolf Dark/Subversive Character Comedy Dwight: Yeah, it's that weird hour where it's too late to start a slow roast and too early for a Swanson's.
Dwight Character Comedy Observational Clark: Oh, I'm sorry. You gotta be this cool for coffee.
Clark Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Dwight: Welcome to the club, pig!
Dwight Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy Jim: The people around you are basically who you end up spending your life with. I mean, because of where my desk was, I spent all those years looking at Pam, and I fell in love.
Jim Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch ⏩ The part you fast-forward
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