Jim convinces Dwight that he needs to choose someone to act as an Assistant to the Assistant Regional Manager; the two subsequently hold tryouts for the position. After her daycare turns away her child, Angela is forced to bring her kid to work. Andy auditions for "The Next Great A Cappella Sensation".
WAR
64.4
Wins Above Replacement
“A.A.R.M.” ranks #86 of 183 The Office episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 79.0 — Elite. The episode packs 70 scored jokes at 1.8 per minute, averaging 7.1 on craft and 6.7 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: It was made from a bullet I took out of her left buttock. She was a moonshiner shot by Adolph Coors. This is my grandmother's buttock bullet ring.
Dwight Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dwight: This is a ring taken from the buttocks of my grandmother, put there by the gangster patriarch of the Coors dynasty, melted in a foundry run by Mennonites.
Dwight Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Creed: Over the course of this documentary, I've had three affairs. If you find my body in a ditch, let me save the police some trouble. My wife did it.
Creed Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dwight: From now on, anyone who needs to speak to me, has got to go through me first. All right?
Dwight Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dwight · Phillip: Which will it be, money or the beet? Beet. Yeah. Any ordinary child would have taken the money, but you're no ordinary child, are you?
All Jokes — 70 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Dwight: Now they're protecting America's real treasure, papefl
Dwight Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dwight: Something that's been really missing from my life has been writing secret codes. It's not the KGB, but it's a start.
Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Dwight · Jim: But that's three wrongs, so I've got to give you the steam. No. Unless you want me to break protocol.
Dwight: It's just harmless steam to panic intruders. I'd like to get harmful steam, but the prices are absurd.
Dwight Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Jim: Oh, I'm saving a fortune on dry-cleaning.
Jim Deadpan/Understatement Observational ★ Rewatch Oscar: Ironic that now it's Angela who's living in the closet. Hey-o!
Oscar Wordplay/Pun Irony/Sarcasm Oscar: Saddle shoes with denim? I will, literally, call Child Protective Services.
Oscar Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Dwight: It was made from a bullet I took out of her left buttock. She was a moonshiner shot by Adolph Coors. This is my grandmother's buttock bullet ring.
Dwight Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Andy: On this show all three judges are mean!
Andy Character Comedy Observational Dwight · Jim: much like Germany and Italy, in World War... Nope. Good call.
Dwight Jim Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Jim: Pre-conference room meeting with Dwight went really well. Oh! Bodes well for the post-conference room meeting. All depends on the conference room meeting itself.
Jim Absurdist Observational ★ Rewatch Dwight: Some say, the only failure there is, is the failure to try. That is wrong. Failure of any kind is failure.
Dwight Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Jim: Michael J. Fax, from Fax to the Future!
Jim Wordplay/Pun Setup/Punchline Creed · Jim: Nice jugs! That's obviously nonsense.
Creed Jim Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Stanley: I've been on my best behavior for nine years. If it wasn't for the cameras I would've done some truly vulgar crap.
Stanley Meta/Self-Referential Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Creed: Over the course of this documentary, I've had three affairs. If you find my body in a ditch, let me save the police some trouble. My wife did it.
Creed Dark/Subversive Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Kevin: Some of us whose televisions got broken during an all-you-can-eat-shrimp commercial will be watching tonight at Poor Richard's.
Kevin Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Todd Packer: When this thing started, I was still having sex with women. As was Kevin, I believe.
Andy: Can you imagine if Martin Luther King were here and sang I Dreamed a Dream from Les Miz? With that baritone? That would be historic.
Andy Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Kevin: Do you want to see a video of a weatherman who says 'bold front' instead of 'cold front'? It's insane!
Kevin Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Kevin Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Jim · Dwight: My God. I'm so sorry. Well, this might make up for it. I think I have found an enormous source of overlooked PFN.
Jim Dwight Reaction Beat Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Dwight · Jim: Potential Future Nonsense. Yes. Good abbreviating, Jim. That saved some time.
Dwight Jim Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Dwight · Jim: What did you have in mind? Well, I know this sounds crazy, but how would King Arthur choose the next knight of his Round Table? That doesn't sound crazy, Jim. That's the sanest thing I've ever heard.
Andy: A cappella is all about pitch, and I am nothing if not a total pitch-bitch.
Andy Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun Andy: Pour some Sugar Ray on me! On a roll much? I don't know where that came from. That was amazing, man.
Andy Character Comedy Wordplay/Pun ★ Rewatch Pete · Jim · Dwight: 'Plop'? Still? We owe Andy that much. Yeah. Absolutely we do.
Dwight: You'll always have the upper hand when you've got a good AARM. Trademark pending.
Dwight Wordplay/Pun Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Jim: By 2:00, Dwight will choose himself to be assistant to his own assistant, me.
Jim Observational Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Darryl: I pulled the old Irish exit. Just slipped out without making a big deal. No hard feelings. No feelings at all.
Darryl Character Comedy Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Dwight · Meredith: Nine-hundred-eighty-five trillion seventeen. Not even close, Meredith. Come on!
Dwight · Pam: It was the theme song to Boy Meets World. Wait! No, no, no, stop. Spouses can read each other's minds. You're trying to give your wife this job.
Dwight Pam Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Pete · Dwight: What's the opposite of a horse? A sea horse. A sea horse! Whoa. How did you know I was going to say that?
Clark · Dwight: There's no Turkish Ambassador to Armenia, the two countries don't have diplomatic relations. Uncanny.
Andy: Great, more screen time for the war vet. All you got to do is risk your life for this country and everyone goes ga-ga for you.
Andy Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Andy: Is this a show about the resiliency of the human spirit, or is it a show about singing?
Andy Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Darryl · Pam: Jim is happy here, selling paper at Dunder Mifflin? That's what he says. If you say so.
Darryl Pam Character Comedy Irony/Sarcasm ★ Rewatch Phyllis · Dwight: Here you are, sir! Here's your coffee. Ow! My skin! Ow! Ow! It burns! Ow! Uncanny.
Warehouse workers · Darryl: You broke our hearts! Get upstairs. I don't think I should. Get upstairs, mister! Right now!
Dwight · Jim: The new Assistant to the Assistant to the Regional Manager is Dwight K. Schrute! Yes! Yes. Thank you.
Dwight Jim Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Callback Jim · Dwight: I think you might want to kneel for this. And yet, the manager of Dunder Mifflin kneels for no man.
Dwight: From now on, anyone who needs to speak to me, has got to go through me first. All right?
Dwight Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Darryl: These dudes are definitely in a weird mood. Picked the wrong day to return a truck.
Darryl Observational Deadpan/Understatement ★ Rewatch Kevin: Did we ever have lunch together, just the two of us? You know what? I'm going to make reservations right now at Cugino's.
Kevin Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Darryl · Office workers: I'm not going to spend the rest of the day here doing stuff with you 'cause you're feeling sentimental. You have to! Hey, hey, hey, hey! I'll do one thing with y'all.
Angela · Kevin: Kevin, could you not do that? What? I'm moving the ink down in my pen, for work. Here, use my pen. Don't tell me what to do!
Kevin: Tell Phillip that his stupid little baby wish came true!
Kevin Character Comedy Cringe/Discomfort ★ Rewatch Callback Creed: Smart baby. That's the most flavorful bond.
Creed Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Andy · Jim: You even look shorter. Oh, I took out my lifts.
Andy Jim Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Andy · Dwight: Get the sheep baa-ed. Oink the pigs. That is very important. Dwight, I'm telling you all the things Ma said after the horse kicked her in the head.
Dwight: The way that boy looks at the Galactica, is precisely the way I look at the Galactica. And he eats the same kind of paper I do.
Dwight Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Creed · Stanley: Stanley is sleeping. You don't want to wake up the grumpy old walrus, do you? I heard that.
Creed · Pam: You want me to take the little diaper blaster? Pam can attest, there's no one better at getting brats to shut their yaps. He does have a gift.
Creed Pam Character Comedy Dark/Subversive ★ Rewatch Dwight · Phillip: Which will it be, money or the beet? Beet. Yeah. Any ordinary child would have taken the money, but you're no ordinary child, are you?
Dwight: I can tell by your gorgeous, widely set eyes.
Dwight Character Comedy Observational ★ Rewatch Andy: I'm Casey Dean. Be seeing the last of me. Or I meant you won't be seeing the last of me.
Andy Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Dwight · Angela: This baby is of superior intelligence and can tell when he is being tricked out of the experience of a real human breast. Come on. He's not that smart. He doesn't know where I hid his duck.
Andy: Busted. Got it. Yes, all right, tried to get your attention with tricks, but you just want to hear me sing. I respect that.
Andy Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Andy: Slept in my car last night, quit my job, burned all my bridges! I went to the bathroom on my boss's car, and I did unspeakable things with Carla Fern.
Andy Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Producer · Andy: You can't just sit here and cry. I can so just sit here and cry!
Jim: Yeah, a $25 gift card, iTunes. I think there's, like, $7 left. It's just his way of saying, 'Thanks for letting me hang out in Accounting.'
Jim Character Comedy Setup/Punchline ★ Rewatch Kevin · Jim · Pam: What a chubbers. Whoa... Okay, hey. I'm losing my balance. Okay, Kevin, no. No. No horseplay. You want to play with the cactus? No! No!
Kevin: He's a little stand-offish at first. But once he starts buying you things, man, you can tell he likes you.
Kevin Character Comedy Absurdist ★ Rewatch Dwight: Then the two of you would move to my 1,600 acre estate, which let's face it, is a big step up from living in a gay man's closet.
Dwight Character Comedy Callback ★ Rewatch Callback Dwight · Jim: Plus, her dowry contains a walk-in freezer full of frozen premium cattle sperm. That's a lot of pros.
Dwight: Plus, her dowry contains a walk-in freezer full of frozen premium cattle sperm. That's a lot of pros. And did I mention that she weaves? Colorful, durable blankets and rugs! It all adds up.
Dwight Character Comedy Escalation ★ Rewatch Dwight · Jim: Some sort of virus? Love. Oh.
Dwight Jim Character Comedy Misdirection ★ Rewatch Dwight: This is a ring taken from the buttocks of my grandmother, put there by the gangster patriarch of the Coors dynasty, melted in a foundry run by Mennonites.
Dwight Absurdist Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Angela · Dwight: I just needed you to want to marry me because you wanted to marry me. Get out! I'm a dad! You're a dad!
Andy: This show is about me and my attempts to find love in all the wrong places. One more for the doc!
Andy Character Comedy Meta/Self-Referential ★ Rewatch ⏩ The part you fast-forward
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