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Character Analysis

Phyllis Smith

Phyllis Lapin

Played by Phyllis Smith

143 jokes across 89 episodes of The Office

WAR

23.9

Total Jokes

143

Avg Craft

6.8

Avg Impact

6.6

Comedy Style

Character Comedy

Phyllis delivers 143 scored jokes across 89 episodes of The Office, averaging 6.8 on craft and 6.6 on impact for a career WAR of 23.9. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.

Funniest Phyllis Lines

All Jokes — 148 total

S2E01

Phyllis · Michael:This says bushiest beaver. - What? I told them busiest... idiots!

6.97.5
S2E02

Michael · Phyllis:Like a grandmother. I'm the same age as you, Michael. We're the same high school class.

6.97.0
S2E02

Michael · Phyllis:Come here. Give me a kiss. Michael, come on, you don't have to worry. I'm not gonna... I'm not worried. Report you to HR. You know what? The only thing I am worried about is getting a boner.

5.56.5
S2E03

Jim · Phyllis:It's Phyllis ! Phyllis by a nose gold-medal in flunenton, flunkerton ! Thank you ! Delegate from Iceland.

7.06.5
S2E03

Phyllis · Jim:Are you calling me a ho ? Oh my god, Phyllis coming alive, I like it.

7.37.0
S2E07

Phyllis:Not in a thousand years, Catherine, we work together. And get off my desk.

6.86.5
S2E07

Phyllis:They had too many kids, so they made up roles like that.

7.77.5
S2E09

Phyllis · Pam:Well, you do mean you and Jim, right? Oh, God. I am so sorry. I mean, I thought... You guys hang out all the time. And you're talking all the time.

6.06.0
S2E10

Phyllis · Angela:Do you think I should have gotten the big ones? / We'll see.

6.65.5
S2E10

Phyllis:Which, to me, seems... excessive.

7.06.0
S2E12

Michael · Phyllis:Michael's disability lecture dismissing Phyllis's scoliosis as 'woman's trouble'

7.27.5
S2E14

Phyllis · Michael · Stanley:What's that? What are you doing? Nothing. I think he's dancing. No, just... That was definitely not dancing.

6.06.0
S2E14

Phyllis · Michael:What's our punishment? You're all on a time out. Just sit there quietly.

6.56.0
S2E16

Phyllis · delivery person:Happy Valentine's Day, Darling, love Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration

7.37.0
S2E16

Kevin · Phyllis:Man, that thing's bigger than I am. - No, it's not. - Oh, zip it.

6.56.0
S2E17

Michael · Kevin · Oscar · Phyllis · Creed · Ryan:Office football chaos with everyone demanding the ball from each other

4.85.5
S2E17

Stanley · Phyllis:What is that? It's like Club Med, but everything is naked.

6.36.5
S2E21

Phyllis:I'm the one who complained about you. I didn't know that Toby was going to write it down.

6.96.5
S2E22

Phyllis:I won the 2002 $2,500 No-Limit Deuce-to-Seven-Draw Tournament at the World Series of Poker in Vegas. So, yeah... I'm pretty good at poker.

7.78.0
S3E01

Phyllis:Well, he's not dressed in women's clothes, so...

6.16.0
S3E01

Phyllis · Michael:Of course, we all thought you were gay in high school. Yeah, right. Ha, ha! And I take that as a compliment.

7.68.0
S3E02

Phyllis:Oh, yeah. You'll have to put out.

6.06.0
S3E05

Phyllis · Michael:What's on your suit? Caramel dip.

6.77.0
S3E08

Phyllis · Karen:Phyllis's pine perfume from 'metropolitan Orlando' and Bob Vance introduction

7.36.5
S3E10

Phyllis · Angela:I thought you said green was whorish. No, orange is whorish.

7.27.0
S3E10

Angela · Phyllis:What's your funding? $200. What's ours again? Um, $201.

7.07.0
S3E13

Phyllis:We're the same age.

6.36.5
S3E13

Phyllis · Michael:Then, how is this amazing race? / It's... just... It's Amazing Race, Phyllis, okay?

6.36.5
S3E16

Phyllis:It was the only way I could think to get six weeks off for my honeymoon. No one else has ever gotten six weeks before.

7.57.0
S3E16

Michael · Phyllis:I swear, Phyllis, you are as beautiful as the first day you started work at Dunder Mifflin. Thanks, Michael. That's sweet. Same as when you said it outside.

7.06.0
S3E16

Michael · Phyllis:If you need to vomit, that is okay. I did. Do you want to talk about tonight? No. Because I know you're probably worried about pleasing Bob. A lot of pressure.

6.46.0
S3E16

Michael · Phyllis:Phyllis, did you break wind? It's okay if you did, it's a very natural reaction. It's your wedding, and you're nervous... That wasn't me. Okay.

5.05.0
S3E16

Michael · Phyllis:Are you set on that hairstyle? I thought it was... Michael, no... Here, let me. I don't need your help. Thank you, no. Just cover up that bald patch. Michael, please. I just need some time alone.

6.26.0
S3E16

Michael · Phyllis:And do you, Phyllis, take Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration, to be your lawfully wedded husband? I do. Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you, for the first time as a couple, Mr. And Mrs. Bob Vance!

7.07.0
S3E16

Angela · Phyllis:Your dress is very white. It's so white, my eyes are burning. Thanks, Angela.

6.75.0
S3E16

Dwight · Phyllis:Also, I'm gonna need to see a copy of the guest manifest as well as photographs of the caterers. I don't have that, Dwight. Damn it, Phyllis!

7.26.0
S3E16

Phyllis · Michael:Why don't you find your seat and enjoy the buffet. I'm already on it. The chicken? Totally undercooked. I sent it back. It's fish. I will take care of that.

7.06.0
S3E16

Michael · Phyllis:Phyllis? Phyllis, wait, please. I'm sorry. I just... I just wanted to make this a day to remember. You found Uncle Al! Yeah, yeah. He's kind of a weirdo. Thank you, Michael.

7.26.0
S3E16

Michael · Phyllis:Be careful with the... No! Oh, wow! Phyllis. Phyllis, come on. You look like a clown. Here. Oh, get me. Get me!

5.86.0
S3E19

Stanley · Andy · Phyllis · Andy:Is it nice outside? / It's gorgeous. Let's go! / Do I need my jacket? / No, really, it's very nice. / Will I be too warm in a long sleeve T? / Everyone's gonna be fine in exactly what they're wearing! Let's go!

7.88.0
S3E22

Phyllis · Angela:I don't want to hit the big rock. Don't worry, you're not... I know I'm near the big rock. I just know it. Nowhere near the big rock.

6.35.5
S3E22

Michael · Phyllis:Come on, andale, arriba, arriba. You have to stop this right now, or I'm not gonna do this anymore.

6.16.0
S4E02

Phyllis · Stanley:How do you touch just one of these buttons at a time? I don't know. Did you even try?

6.56.0
S4E03

Phyllis:So I googled 'how to deal with difficult people,' and I got all of this.

6.55.0
S4E03

Angela · Phyllis:Phyllis, these are spoons. Spoons have round tops and are used to scoop things. What we need are forks which have prongs or tiny spears on top. And we need knives which have blades. Do you understand me now? Yes. Goody.

7.06.0
S4E04

Michael · Phyllis:Michael: 'Monkey problems? No, I'm not having monkey problems. Why would I have monkey problems?' Phyllis: 'I know you heard me correctly.'

6.36.0
S4E05

Phyllis:Lunch party? It's supposed to say 'Launch Party.' Angela is worse than usual lately

6.56.5
S4E06

Andy · Phyllis:What are you microwaving?! - Popcorn. - Why don't you use the microwave in the kitchen, Phyllis? - Someone needs to clean it. It smells like popcorn.

7.57.0
S4E07

Phyllis:Jimmy had his birthday three weeks ago, so he doesn't care. Probably went to his head.

7.27.0
S4E07

Phyllis · Jim:Hey, Michael. I mean Jim. Yup, Phyllis called me Michael. And I will always and forever be haunted by that fact.

8.08.0
S4E09

Phyllis:Sue Grafton is at the Steamtown Mall. She's doing a book signing right now.

6.76.0
S4E09

Phyllis:So I kept on asking, and they finally threw me out of the store in front of all my friends.

7.17.5
S4E10

Phyllis:No, all right? No, she can't fit in a rowboat.

7.27.5
S4E10

Phyllis:Well, I'm setting Michael up with my fat friend, anyway. He can just deal with it.

7.07.0
S4E14

Michael · Phyllis:It bothers me that you're not answering the question. No, all right? No, she can't fit in a rowboat. Damn it! I knew it! I knew it, Phyllis!

7.98.0
S4E14

Phyllis:There's nobody I hate enough to write her name on this card.

7.88.0
S4E14

Phyllis:Well, I'm setting Michael up with my fat friend, anyway. He can just deal with it.

7.27.0
S5E01

Dwight · Phyllis:Phyllis Vance, ladies and gentlemen! / You left me in a bad part of town. / Yeah, I took your purse. What are you worried about?

7.67.5
S5E02

Phyllis:I got a gift for Pam and Roy. Do I have to get another one?

6.76.5
S5E02

Stanley · Phyllis · Meredith:I'll do it. I don't care. / I'll smoke with you. / I got a bag of cigars in my purse.

6.66.5
S5E03

Phyllis · Pam · Jim:I hate registries... My cousin makes the most amazing romantic birdhouse mailboxes. I know I shouldn't tell you, but you'll still be surprised when you see it.

6.96.5
S5E04

Angela · Phyllis:That's really fattening. No, it's lettuce.

7.77.0
S5E04

Phyllis:It did when Bob said I had to stop talking to my sister on the phone so much.

7.57.5
S5E04

Dwight · Phyllis:Someone let the air out of your tires. Come quick. Oh, dear.

7.67.0
S5E04

Phyllis · Michael:I have my hug. Yeah, well, phyllis, Nobody...really wants a hug, so.

6.06.0
S5E04

Michael · Bob · Phyllis:She's your wife, you idiot. $100. 200. What are you doing? I need a hug, unless you're gonna give me one. Not here.

6.66.5
S5E05

Dwight · Phyllis:If someone who barely outsells Phyllis can get in, then I should be fine. I'm sitting right here, Dwight

7.06.5
S5E10

Michael · Phyllis:Michael skipping ahead: 'I'm gonna skip forward to a really big clue. Here we go. Well, by now, you figured out that old Beatrix Bourbon was the killer.' Phyllis: 'What? Michael, I was doing so well.'

7.06.0
S5E10

Phyllis:Phyllis's practical ending: 'Hey, I want to go home. Get the keys out of my purse, start the car.'

7.36.0
S5E12

Stanley · Kevin · Phyllis:Office debate about whether Hilary Swank is hot begins

5.75.5
S5E13

Phyllis · Michael:I forgot my purse! Leave it, woman! Things can be replaced, Phyllis! People, human lives, however...

6.86.0
S5E15

Phyllis · Jim · Dwight:Can she pick a half hour of each? No. No.

6.66.0
S5E16

Phyllis:those mines aren't gonna sweep themselves.

7.57.0
S5E19

Michael · Phyllis:Is this wine? Busted. Yes. I already have wine.

6.05.5
S5E25

Michael · Phyllis:Oh, *** god! Oh, no, no, no. Oh, wow! What did you do?

5.06.0
S5E25

Phyllis:I find the rattle soothing. Puts me to sleep.

6.46.0
S5E25

Phyllis:I think Bob's gonna cheat on me with his new secretary. What's so funny? When I say it out loud, it's so silly.

6.56.0
S6E02

Andy · Phyllis:I'm in this weird, flirty, nebulous... thing... with this cousin of mine. And it's a total mind f'er. Again with the cousin.

6.66.5
S6E03

Phyllis:My cousin makes the most amazing, romantic birdhouse mailboxes. I know I shouldn't tell you, but you'll still be surprised.

6.66.3
S6E03

Phyllis:Why aren't there any beans on this very old, frizzy-haired picture of me?

7.27.3
S6E04

Phyllis:I guess I missed the meeting where we all voted for you to get pregnant.

7.17.0
S6E07

Andy · Phyllis:Yeah, I was gonna sing that part. I know. Now you don't have to. Well, except it was gonna resolve the melody, so... Now my head hurts. Feels like I held in a sneeze.

6.86.0
S6E07

Phyllis · Michael · Oscar:When you fell in, did you flounder? Good one, phyllis. Michael, flounder is both a kind of a fish...

6.46.0
S6E07

Phyllis · Kevin:Enjoying your nut? Why? I'm not mocking. I was just making an observation about her... Nut.

7.06.2
S6E09

Narrator · Phyllis:Well, by now, you figured out that old beatrix bourbon was the killer. / What? / Michael, i was doing so well.

6.76.3
S6E09

Phyllis:Hey, i want to go home. Get the keys out of my purse, start the car.

7.37.3
S6E10

Jim · Phyllis:What's so funny? I'm a co-manager. That doesn't make you a boss.

7.17.0
S6E10

Jim · Phyllis:Well, who... How did you... Who told you this? Ryan. Sorry, I'm plastered.

6.97.0
S6E12

Phyllis:I slipped a note to jim 11 weeks ago, And he said I could do it. [giggles] [tearfully] oh...It's been a long journey... But...[sniffles] I'm santa claus!

6.87.0
S6E12

Phyllis · Jim:Don't make me get bob involved. - What would bob do? - Never mind. I shouldn't have said that.

7.57.2
S6E12

Phyllis · Andy:All right, sweetie, I'll just tell her it's michael. - Okay.

7.06.8
S6E12

Phyllis:An xbox it is, Because I've decided you're a good boy.

6.86.3
S6E12

Bob · Michael · Phyllis:What in the hell is going on here? - No, no, no. - You called bob? Phyllis! - I'm sorry, I'm really sorry. It's was earlier today.

7.07.0
S6E13

Michael · Phyllis:No, this is geological. / I sent an email out to everyone in this area That this might be a side effect To my new allergy medication I'm on.

7.07.0
S6E13

Andy · Phyllis:please understand this does not mean That I like you in any way. / You don't even like us as friends? / Phyllis, you guys are like my closest friends. I just mean I don't like like you. / What are we, five?

6.96.7
S6E15

Phyllis:I can put on lipstick the way molly ringwald does in the breakfast club.

6.76.3
S6E15

Phyllis:I have an ice cream cake in the car.

6.96.8
S6E18

Phyllis:I love going to bars with Bob. I tend to wear something low-cut, get men to flirt with me, and Bob beats them up.

8.08.0
S6E23

Michael · Phyllis · Nick:Phyllis, what's this guy's name again? I don't know. Is it 'shadow' or 'Garth'? It's something weird. I-- My name is Nick!

7.17.3
S7E01

Phyllis:I'm reconsidering sending them back anyway.

6.97.0
S7E04

Phyllis · Dwight:Yeah. I got stung up my dress. Poor hornet.

7.67.5
S7E05

Phyllis · Michael:I could try to seduce him. Oh, my God!

6.07.0
S7E08

Phyllis:The first time we saw each other naked, we didn't even make love. We just stared at each other until we fell asleep. It was magical.

7.28.0
S7E09

Phyllis:Bob's finances are... Complicated. He only invests with cash and only in nightclubs.

6.56.5
S7E13

Phyllis:And you know her husband's in a wheelchair, right?

7.07.0
S7E15

Stanley · Phyllis:Click the 'X.' I'm clicking! In the box. I am clicking. Woman, you've had a computer for years! Phyllis! Too late!

5.55.5
S7E18

Meredith · Phyllis:That's how he gets you to take off your panties. - Why are you nodding? - United front.

6.86.5
S7E19

Creed · Phyllis:When I was a kid, I was on dallas. Really? We missed our connecting flight, then we spent a week on hawaii.

8.17.5
S7E19

Phyllis · Ryan:Ryan, you have such an interesting mind. So creative. All these new business ideas and artistic projects. Thank you. What you got there? Oh, it's just stanley's old photo album. I was thinking about throwing it in the garbage. I mean, why would I want some random black man's old photo album sitting on my bookshelf? I'm not james franco.

7.87.5
S7E19

Kevin · Jim · Phyllis:And that is dallas. Nice. Not bad, right? I can't really tell. I know, right? What the Oh, my god. That It is, right? I mean, it's impossible.

6.16.0
S7E20

Phyllis · Deangelo:No, not officially. I saw you coming out of the bathroom earlier. Well, I guess I'm gonna go back to my cave.

6.05.5
S7E20

Phyllis:And that is what they call a meet cute.

7.57.5
S7E21

Phyllis:I have diabetes, too. You don't see me making a big deal about it.

7.26.5
S7E22

Phyllis:I thought he knew about the baby I gave away.

7.88.5
S7E22

Phyllis:You have to hand wash without water, wring dry gently, and use a hair dryer on cool.

7.17.0
S7E23

Deangelo · Phyllis:Phyllis, where's Phyllis? Here. Do you believe in me, Phyllis? Yes. 'Cause I believe in you. Feel that connection?

6.66.5
S8E02

Phyllis:Phyllis's baby coming out of butt tattoo design suggestion

6.47.0
S8E03

Phyllis:Oh, sorry. I thought it was a guess-your-baby's-birth-weight pool.

6.06.0
S8E04

Andy · Phyllis · Darryl:This is not a picnic, Phyllis. It's a garden party. There's a grill in the warehouse I could bring. Ugh, please don't. Not a barbecue. It's better than a barbecue. It's dignified, quieter, there are rules. How is that better than a barbecue?

6.56.0
S8E05

Phyllis:Bob and I are doing the Scranton Haunted walking tour. I always wondered what kind of people went on that thing.

6.96.0
S8E05

Kelly · Phyllis · Angela:Is she Asian? / I don't know. She's from somewhere, I bet. / Maybe from the forest. / Forest? / Did Andy say his girlfriend's from the forest?

6.36.0
S8E07

Phyllis:Well, I was saving this for my retirement, which I guess is today.

7.27.5
S8E08

Phyllis:You know, all I had for breakfast was oatmeal, yoghurt, um, coffee, orange juice, and toast. Two poached eggs, and then that half a sandwich on the bus.

6.67.0
S8E09

Dwight · Phyllis:It's the second-easiest job in the world... Being a mom

6.36.0
S8E11

Phyllis:Well, I know Elizabeth Taylor's sixth man was Richard Burton. Is that helpful?

7.37.5
S8E12

Stanley · Phyllis:What's the haul? Thirty-two meatballs. Good day. That idiot's been feeding us for a week. We'll never have to buy meatballs again

7.88.0
S8E17

Girl · Unknown · Phyllis · Unknown:What about the lady you hit with a pine cone? There. That chubby one. I just had a baby. - Yesterday?

6.46.5
S8E21

Jim · Phyllis:So how's the drive in? Oh, nobody knows how to drive in the rain. You don't say? Yeah, you know the roads are actually the slickest in the first half hour? Oh, the plants are gonna love this.

6.66.0
S8E21

Jim · Phyllis:This rain... Does it make you wanna be doing something? What do you mean? You know, like aren't some things just so nice and cozy in the rain?

6.86.5
S8E21

Phyllis:And that's noon. Exactly. I mean, normally the rain would make me want to stay at home, curled up with a good book. But everybody's being so nice to me today.

7.67.5
S9E04

Andy · Phyllis:Andy's medical circulation excuse met with 'Boy, I will hammerspank your rear'

7.68.0
S9E07

Dwight · Phyllis · Pam:You just walked into her office... and begin. - Hello. - Hello. May I please speak to your boss? - No, she is the boss. - I am? Yes.

6.87.0
S9E08

Stanley · Phyllis:Because sometimes when I look at my hands, I don't even recognize them. Tell me about it. Whose hands are these? They're not my hands.

6.56.5
S9E08

Phyllis · Stanley:I did enjoy grinding your beans, son. Yeah, we really did peel your grapes. Shucking your peas!

5.46.0
S9E09

Phyllis:Maybe it's going to be great. And, if it's great... I think we all know what that would mean to us.

6.04.5
S9E09

Phyllis · Angela:Please just take my name off of everything. Just take her name off of everything.

6.35.0
S9E09

Phyllis · Dwight:It's a set of rubber gaskets for canning jars. I'd rather have the bowl. You can't have the bowl!

7.26.5
S9E10

Phyllis:Oh, that was like a car crash. I couldn't look away.

6.26.5
S9E12

Phyllis:'Athlead.' Please. They're too lazy to call it Athletes Lead?

6.25.5
S9E12

Phyllis:Jim should just call it Stumpany for stupid company.

7.06.5
S9E12

Phyllis:People, it's 2013. Erin is a strong, independent woman. Who says she has to end up with any man?

6.56.0
S9E15

Phyllis:Or the mini-mall.

7.77.5
S9E15

Phyllis:But I mean, if you don't have one of those, you can probably just bring whoever it is you use to kill your loneliness.

7.47.5
S9E15

Phyllis:They use a watch repair kit.

7.47.0
S9E17

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.

7.47.5
S9E19

Phyllis · Kevin:Oscar is with the senator too? / Yes! And I knew it the whole time.

6.57.0
S9E21

Phyllis:Andy sings beautifully, and he's really good at dancing. He's a good speaker. But there's just something there you don't want to look at.

7.57.5
S9E22

Phyllis · Dwight:Here you are, sir! Here's your coffee. Ow! My skin! Ow! Ow! It burns! Ow! Uncanny.

6.56.5