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Character Analysis

Paul Lieberstein

Toby Flenderson

Played by Paul Lieberstein

125 jokes across 62 episodes of The Office

WAR

23

Total Jokes

125

Avg Craft

6.9

Avg Impact

6.5

Comedy Style

Character Comedy

Toby delivers 125 scored jokes across 62 episodes of The Office, averaging 6.9 on craft and 6.5 on impact for a career WAR of 23.0. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.

Funniest Toby Lines

All Jokes — 119 total

S1E02

Toby · Michael:Hey we are not all gonna seat in circle in it so are we? / Get out! / I'm sorry. / No this not a joke, ok?

6.77.0
S2E02

Toby:Technically, I am in human resources. And Dwight was asking about human anatomy. I'm just sad the public school system failed him so badly.

7.27.0
S2E08

Toby:Office romances are nobody's business but the people involved.

5.95.0
S2E08

Toby:Aren't the suggestions meant for you?

6.56.0
S2E13

Michael · Toby:He is in love with a girl he works with who's engaged. / Pam?

7.39.0
S2E17

Toby:I always set it at 69.

5.55.0
S2E18

Toby:I only have one goal today. To make one kid like me. Just one.

7.27.0
S2E18

Michael · Toby:Do you think that it is too late for me to have kids? Well, you need a wife first or at least a girlfriend. What about Jan? Not Jan.

6.86.0
S2E19

Michael · Toby:I didn't even invite you to my birthday party. I work here. 'I work here.'

7.06.5
S2E20

Toby · Michael:Hookah is not an illegal drug, Michael. / Yes, it is. / No, it's not. It's a type of pipe.

7.17.0
S2E21

Toby:That box is the special file in New York.

7.17.0
S2E21

Toby:Actually, I have a separate folder for complaints against Michael. This is January through March of this year.

7.98.5
S2E22

Toby:Should I keep going?

7.16.5
S3E04

Toby · Michael:Toby's bird story and Michael's aggressive interrogation about checking its vital signs

7.87.5
S3E09

Toby:They're teasing you. To be funny.

6.36.0
S3E10

Toby:Clean it in your car.

6.86.5
S3E12

Toby · Michael:Toby explaining HR disclosure requirements while Michael accuses him of being a 'skeevy little perv'

7.27.0
S3E16

Toby · Michael:Toby... Yeah! I just want Phyllis to have a great day. Phyllis and you will be great together. We are great together. We are a great team. The Celtics were a great team. Yes. Yes, they were. Robert Parish...

6.05.0
S3E16

Michael · Toby:I should talk to her. I don't want this to ruin her honeymoon. Well, nobody ever helped me. I had to do it myself. Even the doctor didn't know. Dude, keep it together.

6.45.0
S3E19

Michael · Toby:Wow, that is... that time really adds up. That's like a half an hour every hour. / Take them at the same time.

6.86.5
S3E19

Michael · Toby:Like sometimes, computers can explode. / Can they not? / No, no.

7.06.5
S3E19

Michael · Toby:What about a long-sleeved tee? / Well, that'll work. / Long johns? A shawl?

6.56.0
S3E19

Toby · Michael · Darryl:Sedimentary. / Sedentary. / Yes, 'which can contribute to heart disease.' / Heart disease kills more people than bailers. / That's called having a fat butt, Michael.

7.37.0
S3E20

Michael · Toby:That's like a half an hour, every hour? / Take them at the same time.

6.86.0
S3E20

Michael · Toby:Like sometimes computers can explode, can they not? / No. No.

6.55.5
S3E20

Toby · Oscar:sedimentary lifestyle / Sedentary.

5.85.0
S3E22

Michael · Toby:Oh, you know what? Uh, you're not going. It's beach day. Yeah, I know. I'm sorry, Toby.

6.36.0
S3E22

Toby · Meredith:Hey... want my sunscreen? Oh, great. I forgot mine, and I'm wearing a two-piece. Thanks, Toby.

6.05.5
S4E01

Toby · Michael:I don't think you understand how jeopardy works. Oh, right. I'm sorry. What is 'We're fine'?

8.18.0
S4E02

Toby:For the record, I've never been involved with anyone at work in any capacity.

6.15.0
S4E02

Toby · Jim:Let's just wait and see what happens, you know. What? Well, let's just wait.

6.56.0
S4E03

Michael · Toby:You hadn't noticed she's a woman? I hear she's single and ready to mingle. I'm thinking about making a play for her. What do you think? Crazy, right?

6.35.0
S4E04

Michael · Toby:Toby: 'Ryan used me as an object.' Michael: 'So whomever's name is Toby, why don't you take a letter opener and stick it into your skull.'

7.47.5
S4E07

Toby:Made so many s'mores, that I finally had to say, 'No more s'mores, no more s'mores.'

5.35.5
S4E07

Toby:My birthday was two months ago. There was no party. Well, it... there was. But Michael scheduled it for 4:58 on a Friday. You know, people sang in the parking lot.

8.08.0
S4E10

Toby:If I had somebody to set you up with, Michael, then I'd take her for myself.

6.96.5
S4E11

Toby:I... am moving to Costa Rica. Thought about it... for a long time now. And I'm finally gonna do it.

7.87.5
S4E11

Toby:So... I'm just gonna hop the fence and jog home then.

7.67.0
S5E04

Toby:Mike gave me a list of his top ten springsteen songs. Three of them were huey lewis and the news. One was tracy chapman, fast car. And my personal favorite, Short people.

7.88.0
S5E08

Toby · Ryan · Michael:I'm not going to punch you, Michael. / Are you really not going to punch him? / No, why would I punch you? / Son of a bitch.

7.26.5
S5E08

Michael · Toby:You wanna hear a lie? / What? / I think you're great. You're my best friend.

8.07.5
S5E10

Toby · Michael:Toby's arrival interruption: 'Sorry, I'm late, boss. What's going on?' 'Sir, there has been a murder, and you are a suspect.'

7.57.0
S5E13

Toby:If you ever put sun block on a window, you might be Michael Scott.

7.27.0
S5E16

Toby:oh,my god. i think the eagles could clench the n. f. c. east. and she said that we're done.

7.26.5
S5E20

Michael · Toby:The sales department smashed my sandwich. Yes. All of them. Together. It's a conspiracy.

7.47.0
S5E20

Michael · Toby:That's what she said. Yeah.

5.65.0
S6E01

Toby:He didn't do anything sexual. He just made far, far too many Monica Lewinsky jokes

7.67.2
S6E04

Toby:You have that thick, beautiful, Chicano hair. So nice.

6.26.0
S6E06

Jim · Toby:Get the hell out of here, idiot! What did I do?

7.07.0
S6E06

Toby:That's why they pay me the big bucks.

6.45.3
S6E06

Toby:Okay, you're a jackass.

7.06.3
S6E12

Michael · Toby:Oh...The antichrist. - Okay, you can't-- - sss! - Ow!

7.27.3
S6E17

Toby · Michael:Honey and jelly sandwich time. You saw who did this, and you didn't stop 'em? Didn't have to see. It was sales--I can feel it.

6.86.5
S6E17

Toby:The sales department smashed my sandwich. Yes. All of 'em. Together. It's a conspiracy.

6.76.2
S6E17

Michael · Toby:That's what she said. Yeah. Yeah.

5.25.3
S6E22

Toby · Michael:That's Meredith's cake. It's her birthday. I don't care. I have an appetite for life!

7.16.7
S7E01

Toby:Yeah, I'm really looking forward to working with you, Michael.

6.87.5
S7E02

Toby:the walk from the yogurt shop To my car, after I drop My daughter off on Sunday afternoons

7.07.0
S7E02

Michael · Toby:Jeff was my mother's boyfriend, Who she married... So her husband and your stepdad... Yeah, I guess I never thought of it that way

6.76.0
S7E02

Toby:at risk for homicidal behavior

6.67.0
S7E11

Toby:Let's just say I'll be up to my neck in jury duty.

5.75.0
S7E11

Toby:I know people are only this excited to talk to me because of the trial. But they talk to me for a while, and maybe people realize I have something to say. And then one day, we're just talking.

6.55.5
S7E11

Toby:There's no connection between the origin story and the quest. We need to know who Jimmy Halpert was before he was bitten by the bear. Otherwise it's the bear's quest.

7.26.5
S7E11

Toby:So we laugh and laugh and laugh, and then we spend the rest of the day walking around slo-mo drinking latte.

6.45.5
S7E11

Toby:A.J. won't commit to Holly. And she's gonna tell him that if he doesn't propose to her by the end of the year, it's over. And I don't know about you, but I don't know a lot of happy marriages that start off with an ultimatum. Do you?

6.35.5
S7E21

Toby:I am a little happy right now to have a platform to talk about the outcome of a case that I was recently a juror on, the Scranton Strangler. A man's being put to death, I was part of the verdict, and I'm not so sure he's guilty anymore.

8.48.5
S7E22

Toby:Was thinking I might glue a stapler on top or put a hole here and stick pens in it.

6.76.5
S7E22

Toby:Well, no, he hates jams.

6.45.5
S7E23

Deangelo · Toby:Don't thank me. Hey, don't thank me, guy.

6.15.0
S8E01

Kevin · Toby:The thing that I like about elmo is the tickling. - I should not be here. I'm in the-- I was in the wrong-- I'm...I'm sorry. Uh, just picture me back there. I-I was never here.

7.07.0
S8E03

Toby:I've never been lucky. And I'm not talking about the lottery. I'm talking about stuff like developing a soy allergy at 35. Who gets a soy allergy at 35? And why is soy in everything?

7.07.0
S8E03

Toby:I would spend a lot of time launching my true crime podcast, 'The Flenderson Files.' Duh-buh-bum.

7.17.0
S8E05

Toby · Gabe:♪ dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones ♪ ♪ now we're the skeleton crew ♪

5.04.0
S8E05

Robert California · Toby:And how are you, Toby? / So great.

6.66.0
S8E05

Toby · Bert:Wanna see the dance? ♪ dem bones, dem bones, dem-- ♪ / You're fired. / What? / You heard me. Pack your things. / I'm the CEO's son. Pack your things. You're done.

7.88.0
S8E06

Gabe · Toby:Toby, I'm gonna tell you her last name tomorrow because she's gonna be screaming it tonight. She's gonna be screaming her own last name?

7.37.5
S8E07

Gabe · Toby:Whom I'm seeing is Val from down in the warehouse. Oh. I'm not technically seeing her, but I've seen her-- with the eyes-- and there was attraction in at least one direction.

7.07.5
S8E07

Gabe · Toby:Toby, I'm gonna tell you her last name tomorrow because she's gonna be screaming it tonight. She's gonna be screaming her own last name?

7.58.0
S8E10

Toby:'I feel like a kitten being cradled by a gorilla'

7.47.0
S8E10

Toby:Toby's Chad Flenderman description: 'Just an easy-going black guy who knows the streets, yet he also went to Oxford. So just as comfortable on a motorcycle as he is on Air Force One. And he's also the world's leading Egyptologist'

8.28.0
S8E10

Michael/Ryan · Toby:'Toby, nobody cares about your sex-crazed black detective' 'No, no, no, no, no women chase him. He misses his wife'

7.67.0
S8E12

Toby · Gabe:With ammunition like this, we are in for quite a night you and me. And Gabey makes three

6.56.0
S8E12

Toby:I guess I'm through the gateway now though, right?

7.06.5
S8E12

Toby · Gabe · Robert:To both these bears

7.47.0
S8E12

Toby · Gabe:Robert, I want you to know I'm here to rock with you as late as you want. And that goes double for me. I'll stay even later than you'd like

7.17.0
S8E12

Robert · Toby:Toby, I am Bacchus god of wine. And I am Bacchus' friend

7.67.5
S8E13

Toby:we used to recreate the various stranglings with empanadas from Ernesto's

7.47.5
S8E13

Toby:You mean food truck Ernesto's was a food truck

6.35.5
S8E14

Toby · Unknown:'It really has been a long, lonely winter Wow. Seasonal affective disorder, a.k.a. SAD. That sounds like a very real thing, Toby It is real. Thank you for saying that'

6.66.5
S8E17

Andy · Toby:Toby is teaching us self-defense. Me? Toby, will you teach us self-defense? Yeah. Um... I can't believe you remembered I do self-defense.

6.36.0
S8E17

Toby · Andy:Um, I'll go put on my cup. Great.

6.35.5
S8E17

Toby:Self-defense is not some fun boxing match, okay? This is about escaping with your life. So... Strike, scream, and run.

6.05.5
S8E17

Toby · Unknown:That may have been my fault. What the hell, Toby?

5.75.0
S8E17

Toby:So just remember, I-a-a-t-g. 'It's all about the groin.'

6.36.0
S8E17

Toby:Why are you fixated on this hypothetical transgendered attacker?

6.16.0
S8E17

Andy · Toby:What can the attacker then do to better protect himself? It's interesting that you're drawn to the point of view of the attacker.

7.27.0
S8E17

Toby:The latest Chad Flenderman novel... Based from the point of view of his nemesis, Dr. Lucifer Wu.

7.37.0
S8E17

Jim · Toby:Go to a nearby store and get him a yellow or green sports drink! Now, if your attacker is willing to defile a corpse, you better stop playing dead right away and just make it known that you're alive.

7.37.5
S8E17

Toby · Andy:There's no shame in getting beaten up by a girl. My ex-wife used to demolish me. No, there is shame in it, okay? We have to draw the line somewhere.

7.07.0
S8E17

Toby · Andy:Good point? What is a tub of electricity? - I don't-- I don't--

6.36.0
S8E17

Kelly · Toby:You think you're so pretty! Well, you're not gonna be so pretty come prom time! Okay, this is what's called pre-violent posturing.

7.07.0
S8E17

Kelly · Toby:Take that! Not so pre-violent anymore! Okay, I'm at what's called 'the decision point.'

7.58.0
S8E18

Kevin · Darryl · Toby:50? Hungrier. You're not talking... Triple digits. Oh, yeah, I'm talking triple digits.

6.86.5
S8E18

Kevin · Darryl · Toby:Now people will think I'm doing hot girls all day. I don't know, man, they might think we're drag queens. Yeah, I don't know why you picked names that are also guys' names.

6.46.0
S8E18

Toby · Darryl:This may be wrong, but there's a limit to what I would do for my child. Yeah, I have my dignity too. I refuse to be another man's horsey.

6.66.5
S8E19

Toby:Welcome. I'm Tony. What? I said, I'm Tony. Okay, I made a mistake. I thought it might go unnoticed. But I'm Toby.

7.87.0
S9E04

Toby:Toby: 'I wish! No, I made some short lists, I had a couple of sleepovers, but I never managed to get in the end zone.'

8.28.5
S9E05

Toby · Oscar · Kevin:I'm Sexy Toby. Gross. I love it.

6.56.5
S9E05

Toby · Darryl:Are... are you me? Yeah. I thought I'd, you know, be you.

6.26.5
S9E09

Toby:George Howard Skub, AKA the alleged Scranton strangler, because he's in prison for something he may not have done.

6.85.5
S9E09

Toby:I would start at the beginning, but I think I need to go farther back.

6.85.0
S9E16

Nellie · Toby:Nellie's Scranton Strangler advice: 'Do something about it. Get it out of your system, whatever it takes.'

6.56.0
S9E16

Toby:Toby's Bogart impression: '[As Bogart] I think this is the start of my first friendship.'

7.27.0
S9E16

Toby · Nellie:Toby's strangling aftermath and Nellie's commentary about 'the proud neck of justice'

7.07.0
S9E18

Toby:Turns out she's allowed to have feelings of sexual arousal. Doesn't become a violation till she physically acts on it.

7.37.0
S9E19

Toby:Let's do it. Let's get personal.

6.36.0
S9E23

Pam · Toby · Dwight:Toby will stop it. Any time anyone's ever been fired, Toby's blocked it, so... / Yeah. Yeah, I don't think... / Toby, wait, wait. Hold that thought. Here's your cake.

8.48.5
S9E23

Toby:At least I got chocolate.

7.57.0
S9E23

Toby:Kelly was hoping that you would keep the baby so they can start a new life together.

7.48.0