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.
WAR
81.1
Wins Above Replacement
“The Farm” ranks #81 of 183 The Office episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 88.6 — Elite. The episode packs 67 scored jokes at 3.4 per minute, averaging 7.3 on craft and 7.1 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: Dwight confessional: 'I can't stand the fact that Jeb is a pot farmer. He could've grown anything. Anything in the world. He used to talk about growing a peanut-grape hybrid. One plant, one sandwich.'
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Dwight: Dwight's eulogy: '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 Oscar: Oscar's talking head: 'They're a descriptive people.'
Oscar Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Callback Dwight: Dwight confessional: '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: Dwight explains the Schrute custom of confirming death: doctors are needed because of 'an unlucky streak of burying some heavy sleepers' and when 'grave robbers discovered scratch marks on the inside of coffins.'
Dwight Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Standout Moments
Dwight: Dwight's eulogy: '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 Oscar: Oscar's talking head: 'They're a descriptive people.'
Oscar Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Callback Dwight: Dwight confessional: 'I can't stand the fact that Jeb is a pot farmer. He could've grown anything. Anything in the world. He used to talk about growing a peanut-grape hybrid. One plant, one sandwich.'
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch All Jokes — 67 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Jim · Dwight: Dwight enters wearing elaborate mourning attire; Jim says 'New glasses.'
Jim Dwight Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Dwight: Dwight explains he is 'dressed according to the Schrute codes of mourning.'
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Pam: Pam: 'Dwight, what a ridiculous, fancy clown you are.'
Pam Character Comedy Observational Dwight: 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 Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Dwight: Dwight explains the Schrute funeral invitation custom: red fertile dirt in the face = invited; black acidic soil = stay away.
Dwight Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jim · Dwight: Jim asks 'What color is it?' Someone replies 'It looks pretty black.' Then Dwight spits the dirt out.
Jim Dwight Physical/Slapstick Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Pam: Pam says 'Oh, thank God' upon being disinvited from the funeral, then immediately panics and backpedals.
Pam Irony/Sarcasm Cringe/Discomfort Callback Pam: Pam admits she's relieved because she has a personal training session.
Pam Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Pam: Talking head: 'I should've kept my mouth shut. We're not even that close. I've only known Dwight 12 years. Twelve years. Time is a son of a bitch.'
Pam Observational Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Dwight · Oscar: Someone tries to make a dirtball and is told 'you can't make a dirtball' while Dwight is grieving; Dwight screams into dirt.
Mose: Mose asks 'Will there be ghosts there?' about the funeral.
Mose Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Dwight · Zeke: Both Dwight and Zeke simultaneously say 'Get in the sidecar' to each other, then argue about who should get in.
Dwight · Oscar: Oscar shows up at the farm; Dwight says 'Oh, yeah' when reminded he threw red dirt — meaning he accidentally invited Oscar.
Dwight · Jeb: Dwight and Jeb greeting: bear-hug wrestling match where neither will go through the door first, escalating to grunting and 'Uncle! Uncle!'
Dwight Jeb Physical/Slapstick Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jeb · Oscar: Jeb greets Oscar: 'Hey, moon face. Nice to see those shiny little Chinese eyes of yours.'
Jeb Oscar Cringe/Discomfort Dark/Subversive Oscar: Oscar's talking-head reaction to Jeb's racist greeting: just 'Bad.'
Oscar Reaction Beat Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Callback Todd Packer: Todd Packer arrives at the office announcing he is in recovery and on 'step eight of Alcoholics Anonymous, step nine of Narcotics Anonymous.'
Todd Packer: Todd Packer arrives at the office announcing he's in a 12-step program: 'Step eight of Alcoholics Anonymous, step nine of Narcotics Anonymous.'
Todd Packer · Pam: Packer's 'apology' to Pam: 'Pam Pam and her pampams. Well, I have said some crude things about those. But they are beautiful, and I guess that's why I acted out.'
Todd Packer · Pam: Packer: 'I'm sorry I objectified you and personified your breasts.'
Todd Packer · Phyllis: Packer apologizes to 'Phylly' for things said 'to your face, behind your back, and in the form of drawings.'
Todd Packer · Stanley · Kevin: Packer extends the Phyllis apology to 'all you double XLs — Stanley, Kevin, this kid in a few years' (pointing at a child).
Jim: Someone calls out: 'Todd, you're just saying insults in the form of an apology.'
Jim Meta/Self-Referential Observational Todd Packer · Jim: Packer introduces cupcakes from a bakery he calls 'Nipples' (it's called 'Nibbles').
Officiant: The funeral officiant: 'We are here today to join this woman and the ground.'
Officiant Deadpan/Understatement Dark/Subversive Dwight · Oscar: Dwight and Oscar argue about the soil quality at the cemetery: 'It's crap soil. Nothing's gonna grow here.' / 'It's a cemetery.' / 'I'm saying it's garbage soil, that's all.'
Dwight · Oscar: Oscar: 'The only thing we're planting here is dead bodies.' Dwight: 'That's fine, cause they're not gonna grow.' Oscar: 'Well, I thank God they're not, because we don't wanna make zombies.' Dwight: 'Good. I agree. Don't worry about it. You won't get any.'
Esther · Henry: Dwight's neighbor Henry and love interest Esther arrive at the funeral; Esther says she came because 'This was on the way. We're going into town after. I need yarn.'
Dwight · Esther: Dwight flirts with Esther via an agricultural efficiency proverb: 'If you can snap two chicken necks with a single motion, why use two motions to slaughter those chickens?'
Oscar: Oscar's horrified reaction to Dwight's chicken-neck flirtation while they're at a funeral.
Oscar Reaction Beat Cringe/Discomfort Officiant: The funeral eulogy mentions Aunt Shirley's land size: 'Shirley, at 1,600 acres, you have the largest farm in the area, sharing borders with six other farms...'
Officiant Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement Callback Dwight: Dwight explains the Schrute custom of confirming death: doctors are needed because of 'an unlucky streak of burying some heavy sleepers' and when 'grave robbers discovered scratch marks on the inside of coffins.'
Dwight Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dwight: The doctor/officiant apparently checks the body and confirms death. Dwight: 'That's it for me.'
Dwight Deadpan/Understatement Reaction Beat Kevin: Kevin knows the exact price of the cupcakes: '$3.75 a cupcake actually, $3.67 if you buy a dozen. 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 Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch unnamed coworker · Kevin (likely): I don't think we should eat Packer's cupcakes. We can't give him the satisfaction. / Even though that place has a way of making those cupcakes so they're dense but they're also really fluffy.
Todd Packer · Clark: Clark introduces himself to Packer; Packer immediately apologizes: 'Sorry for calling you a fat little runt earlier.' Clark: 'You didn't actually say that.' Packer: 'No? Wow, I'm in this mode now where I'm apologizing for thoughts in my head.'
Jim · Pam: Jim starts reconsidering eating the cupcakes, invoking the prank history: 'Haven't we done enough to Packer? I mean, we've sent him down to Florida on a prank, and you did fire him.'
Jim Pam Callback Irony/Sarcasm Callback Jim · Pam · Phyllis: The entire group's dignity debate devolves into a tangent about whether Supermart's bakery is any good: 'It's awful! And it's getting worse every day.'
Aunt Shirley: Aunt Shirley's pre-recorded funeral message: 'Thank you for coming to my funeral. As I gaze at life's big sunset, I can't help but wonder where it all went wrong. You've all disappointed me greatly.'
Aunt Shirley · Fanny: Aunt Shirley's video: 'Fanny, a single mama in the city.' Fanny: 'Thank you.' (As if it's a compliment.)
Aunt Shirley · Jeb: Jeb's backstory: he bought a 9-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.'
Fanny · Dwight: I don't wanna be mean, or insulting. I know that you like it here. But, Dwight, it's just that farm life lacks a certain sort of sophistication that Cammie and I are drawn to. / I actually have written a little bit of poetry. That's crazy. And I was recently published. Which is just... Maybe I have... Yep, I do. Here it is, from the hartfordwomens litquarterly.com. 'A Willing Ignorance' by Fanny Schrute.
Jeb: Jeb's talking head: 'Growing up with Dwight and Mose was not easy. Dwight was obviously the cool one, and Mose was the visionary, which left me to be the comedian.'
Jeb Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dwight: Dwight confessional: '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 Fanny: Fanny explains Schrute courting custom: man throws crow beaks at woman; if interested, she destroys the beaks.
Fanny Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kevin · Angela: Kevin's anti-cupcake resistance breaks: 'Kevin, you can do this.' 'You don't know that.' — Kevin is clearly very close to eating the cupcake.
Angela · Kevin: The Skyfall distraction gambit: 'Let's think of something to distract us. Like the movie Skyfall. You loved the movie Skyfall, right?' / 'James Bond was a spy.' / 'Yes, he was a good spy.' / 'Yeah. He was the best.' / 'James Bond would love this cupcake.'
Todd Packer: Packer's confessional: 'I am going through a 12-step program. I'm currently on step zero, which is have a [bleeped] load of fun.'
Todd Packer: Packer describes spending six hours carefully layering drugs and laxatives into the cupcake frosting: 'some legal, some not, some laxative, some constipating.'
Pam: Pam eats the cupcake the next morning. The group reconvenes to compare drug/laxative effects.
Pam Irony/Sarcasm Escalation Callback Dwight · Oscar: Dwight takes eggs from chickens described as 'killer chickens'; he tells Oscar: 'Yes, very. You really need to stand back. 'Cause these are killer chickens.' / 'I was just asking you something I didn't know.' / 'Which is fine, and you learned something. But it was kind of a stupid question, so you're gonna get made fun of a little bit.'
Dwight Oscar Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Dwight · Oscar: Oscar: 'Is that a guillotine?' Dwight: 'This? No. That'd be cool though. It's for milking.'
Dwight Oscar Deadpan/Understatement Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dwight · Oscar: Oscar asks 'That's a cow?' Dwight: 'Did you just ask me if this was a cow?'
Dwight · Oscar: Dwight teaches Oscar to milk a cow: 'Grab a teat with each hand.' / 'Okay, you suck at this. Gimme those teats.'
Dwight · Oscar: Grab a teat with each hand. Sit down. / There you go. Squeeze from top to bottom. Really pull, use some muscle. Draw the milk out. / Well, is the udder hot? Is the milk clumpy? / I don't know any of that. / Okay, you suck at this. Gimme those teats.
Dwight · Oscar: Dwight: 'Didn't your father teach you anything?' Oscar: 'I never met him.'
Pam: Hey, everybody. I decided to eat my cupcake. I thought about it last night. I talked to Jim, I talked to my sister, and I think that as long as Todd Packer doesn't know, it's okay.
Pam Irony/Sarcasm Character Comedy Callback Phyllis · Others: Drugged cupcake aftermath montage: Phyllis played with dolls and ordered thousands of dollars of American Girl outfits; others got diarrhea; someone went Christmas caroling in March and 'fertilized some bushes along the way.'
Andy · Kevin: Andy is asked what he did last night. He says 'Nothing, really' while clearly having done something; Kevin is asked and also denies it. They insist they did not see each other while clearly reacting to something off-screen. Then they scream together.
Andy Kevin Awkward Silence Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Callback Pam · Andy: What did you do, Andy? / ANDY: Last night! Oh, God. I don't know. Nothing, really. [audio of screaming] Gosh, actually, it is hard to recall. Pretty normal night.
Pam Andy Cringe/Discomfort Reaction Beat ★ Rewatch Todd Packer · Jim: The group decides Packer is 'officially the worst human being.' Then someone gives him a red velvet cupcake and he apologizes again. 'I should apologize too.' 'It's okay. I'm over it.' Then Packer eats a drugged cupcake from his own stash.
Todd Packer · unnamed coworker: So, that's it. I just wanted to make amends. [cupcake box still in hand] / That's big of you, man. Takes a lot of courage. / Red velvet.
Dwight · Fanny · Jeb: Schrute siblings play 'Not It' over who manages the farm: 'Not it. Not it. It.'
Dwight · Oscar: Dwight tells Oscar his kid needs farm time: 'If your kid doesn't put in some farm time, he's gonna stay like that.' Oscar: 'All right, fine.'
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