The adventures of Dwight at his family beet farm and bed-and-breakfast come to light. Here, he and his siblings receive a surprise inheritance. Back at the office, Todd Packer tries to atone for a lifetime of boorish behavior.
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54.6
Wins Above Replacement
“The Farm” ranks #2 of 183 The Office episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 91.9 — Elite. The episode packs 39 scored jokes at 1.9 per minute, averaging 7.4 on craft and 7.4 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: He used to talk about growing a peanut-grape hybrid. One plant, one sandwich.
Dwight Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dwight: But there was an unlucky streak of burying some heavy sleepers. And when grave robbers discovered some scratch marks on the inside of some of the coffins, we decided to make sure that our dead were completely dead... out of kindness.
Dwight Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dwight: People underestimate the power of nostalgia. If baseball can use it to get people to care about that worthless sport, then I can use it to get my siblings to care about the farm. Nostalgia is truly one of the great human weaknesses. Second only to the neck.
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Dwight: You had black hair and then gray hair. You were the aunt to my cousins. Most of your life, you were 5'4". At the end, you were 5'1".
Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Dwight: In keeping with Schrute custom, I will either invite you to Saturday's funeral by sprinkling red, fertile dirt in your face, or I will ask you to keep a respectful distance during my time of grief, with a dusting of black, slightly acidic soil.
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 39 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Jim: Dwight, what a ridiculous, fancy clown you are.
Jim Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dwight: I would say that she raised me, but let's not kid each other. I raised myself. She was, however, the closest thing I had to a mother. My actual mother was very cold and distant. I'd say she was the closest thing I had to an aunt.
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Dwight Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dwight: In keeping with Schrute custom, I will either invite you to Saturday's funeral by sprinkling red, fertile dirt in your face, or I will ask you to keep a respectful distance during my time of grief, with a dusting of black, slightly acidic soil.
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jim: Yep. Acidic all right.
Jim Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Pam Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Jim: We're not even that close. I've only known Dwight 12 years. 12 years. Time is a son of a bitch.
Jim Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jim · Dwight: You can't make a dirtball-- I miss her so much. Okay.
Dwight · Mose · Zeke: Get in the sidecar. Get in the sidecar. Get in the sidecar. You get in the sidecar.
Jeb Deadpan/Understatement Unknown Schrute relative: Hey, moonface. Nice to see those shiny little Chinese eyes of yours.
Todd Packer: My name is Todd Packer, and I am in recovery. I'm working the steps. I'm on step eight of Alcoholics Anonymous, step nine of Narcotics Anonymous.
Todd Packer: Pam, I'm sorry I objectified you and personified your breasts.
Todd Packer: Actually, that goes to all you double XLs. Stanley, Kevin... this kid in a few years.
Todd Packer: I went out to the Steamtown mall, and I got you all cupcakes from that place Nipples. Think it's called Nibbles. Ha. The mind sees what it wants to, huh?
Jeb · Dwight: It's crap soil. Nothing's gonna grow here. It doesn't matter. It's a cemetery. Yeah, well, I'm saying it's garbage soil, that's all. Well, the only thing we're planting here is dead bodies. That's fine, 'cause they're not gonna grow. Well, thank God they're not, because we don't wanna make zombies.
Dwight: You had black hair and then gray hair. You were the aunt to my cousins. Most of your life, you were 5'4". At the end, you were 5'1".
Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Jim: They're a descriptive people.
Jim Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Jim · Dwight: She's beautiful. Blech.
Esther · Jim: Well, if you can snap two chicken necks with a single motion, why use two motions to slaughter those chickens? We're at a funeral. There's a funeral going on here.
Minister: Shirley, at 1,600 acres, you have the largest farm in the area, sharing borders with six other farms including my own farm and your nephew Dwight's. Okay.
Dwight: But there was an unlucky streak of burying some heavy sleepers. And when grave robbers discovered some scratch marks on the inside of some of the coffins, we decided to make sure that our dead were completely dead... out of kindness.
Dwight Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kevin: I never forget a number. Names, in one ear and out the other. Places, nope. Faces, that's rich. But numbers... I have a gift. I guess that's why I'm an accountant.
Kevin Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Todd Packer · Clark: Oh, sorry for calling you a fat little runt earlier. You didn't actually say that. No? No. Wow! I'm in this mode now where I'm apologizing for thoughts that are in my head.
Andy: Packer can go to hell.
Andy Character Comedy Escalation Jeb: After I left the army, I bought a nine-acre worm farm from a Californian. Turns out, 'worm' means something else out there, and I am now in the business of... pain management. Or the smoking of pain management.
Jeb Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dwight: He used to talk about growing a peanut-grape hybrid. One plant, one sandwich.
Dwight Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Fanny: A Willing Ignorance by Fanny Schrute. The people here are like... like a fart. You know what I'm saying? Like a fart.
Fanny Cringe/Discomfort Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jeb: Growing up with Dwight and Mose was not easy. Uh, Dwight was obviously the cool one, and Mose was the visionary, which left me to be the comedian.
Jeb Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Dwight: People underestimate the power of nostalgia. If baseball can use it to get people to care about that worthless sport, then I can use it to get my siblings to care about the farm. Nostalgia is truly one of the great human weaknesses. Second only to the neck.
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Jim: So I forgot about this old custom. If a man is interested in courting a woman, he may throw the beaks of a crow... at her. And then if she's interested in accepting the courtship, she has to destroy the beaks.
Jim Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Todd Packer: I am going through a 12-step program. I'm currently on step zero... which is have a shitload of fun. I spent six hours carefully removing the frosting and then layering in a variety of drugs, some legal, some not... some laxative, some constipating.
Todd Packer Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Pam: I forgive him so much.
Pam Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Callback Jim · Esther: Are we gonna eat these today? If you want. Is that a guillotine? This? No. That'd be cool though. It's for milking. That's a cow? Did you just ask me if this was a cow?
Jim Esther Cringe/Discomfort Escalation ★ Rewatch Esther · Jim: Gimme those teats. Didn't your father teach you anything? I never met him.
Esther Jim Cringe/Discomfort Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Phyllis: Last night, I got out all of my old dolls and played with them on the living room floor. Then I ordered ten American Girl outfits on line. It was thousands of dollars.
Phyllis Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort Callback Creed: I went Christmas caroling... in March, and I fertilized some bushes along the way. So not my best night. But not my worst night.
Creed Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Callback Andy · Kevin: Yeah, I didn't see you last night at all. Nope, I did not see you either.
Andy Kevin Cringe/Discomfort Awkward Silence Callback Fanny · Jeb · Dwight: Ooh, this is no nine-acre worm farm. This is a beast. Whoever's managing this thing is gonna have a hell of a job. Not it. Not it. It.
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