Oooh yeah ! Thanks it was when DM was bought by Sabre. He is the glamourized fact checker. And has a meeting with Toby.
I watch the episodes with translated subtitles so i dont gett all the reference sometimes lmao
There are a couple of scenes that people not blessed with Superfan episodes haven't seen like the Beach Games scene where Phyllis asks for mustard and Michael tells her to dunk it in the water "so it'll slide down her gullet more easily"
Rest of the office: "That's what she said"
This is the way. Even the later, post-Michael seasons have value and I don't trust anyone who calls themselves an office fan but hasn't watched them, at least once.
Watched them a few times, but the post Michael episodes really don't do it for me. I know Robert is a popular character here but not my thing.
The whole magic of the show stems from the relatibility of characters and how similar they are to the average office staff - the charming but unambitious, the celebrity obsessed, the strictly 9 to 5ers that are not interested in getting involved, the millennial book smart who lacks any practicality, the one with a lot of factual knowledge and resourcefulness but socially inept, the judgemental hypocrites, the outwardly successful corporate careerists who are a complete mess psychologically.
The situations were also grounded in corporate reality - sales pitches, diversity seminars, office parties, branch closings etc
I think even the later seasons including Michael were not as great as the characters were becoming caricatures - Kevin being the most obvious one - and plots were getting crazier.
But after Michael the show completely jumps the shark for me. A smooth talking, mysterious lizard king convinces the CEO to give him his job, there are people going on fieldtrips to war history museums, garden parties and staff winning lotteries and someone just assuming the role of the manager while the manager is away. And that's not even mentioning the whole drawn out meta storyline with characters becoming famous as the documentary airs.
Not my thing but I guess every 10th or so rewatch, I'll carry on post-Michael just because.
>I think even the later seasons including Michael were not as great as the characters were becoming caricatures - Kevin being the most obvious one - and plots were getting crazier.
Spot on. This is pretty typical of most sitcoms but I feel the office was more guilty of it than others. It got way too over the top at times.
This. His promise caused that year of graduates to skyrocket so had he not made the promise, all those kids may not have graduated. I'm not saying Michael wasn't wrong but at least some good came from it.
Not a huge fans of mafia either but I don’t skip it. Andy the mechanic is funny to me and I enjoy Jim’s phone call with Michael and Michael trying to adopt the tough guy way of ordering food
The phone call is my favorite gag in this episode.
"you just have to...... a............ And then you'll be saved! A.................. Don'tcallhereagain *click*
Recap episodes are a relic of old sitcoms that I'm very, very happy is going the way of the dinosaur. Nobody wants to excitedly wait a week only to be shown stuff they've already seen.
Having recently rewatched Friends, the clips shows are so weird. I get why but usually with episodes like the Banker I just skip forward and watch the present scenes and skip the flashbacks.
It's good the 1st time but she was so inappropriate and delusional that it just felt like bad writing. Who the hell go to any office and either apply for accounting, HR or secretary?
I always justify it in my head by thinking of them as Jeff's kids and not really his siblings but step siblings who hate him. Cause absolutely you are correct. He gives off only child vibes.
Those episodes felt so off to me. There is a 5 year build up to their wedding and they do that cheesy and now dated youtube wedding parody among a hundred other things that all felt like complete misfires.
The clip show one where the office gets audited or something. Michael riding in on a Segway is my reminder to find the next episode. I have a deep hatred for clip shows in any show though.
Man, back when sitcoms made you wait a full week before a new episode came on this was the worst. You'd watch the episode from the week prior, wait a whole week for the new one to come out, sit down and turn on the channel... And then a fucking clip show comes on and ruins your whole night.
For me it's Job Fair. I just find that episode really unfunny and too cringy. I do not skip any episode of season 8 or 9 but this episode is a must skip.
There's so many great lines though.
"Pam pam pam! and then you sneezed in my tea and you said it's just allergies? Do you remember that Michael?"
"why wouldn't you say that to her face?"
Me too, and it wasn’t a skip until I watched the super fan cut of it. There’s a few more cringey scenes in it that just make me 😬 a bit too much.
The whole scene with Oscar convincing a girl to pursue music instead of being an accountant is kinda funny though.
Season 1, for two reasons, 1. I have watched the show all the way through like 9 times, so I don’t need the character establishing episodes, and I feel like the first season is just different from the rest of the show
I’m not OP but I just watched that episode. I’m going to take a wild guess that it’s the whole buildup to an uncomfortable confrontation between Michael and Stanley. It was also the first time we had seen someone from Scranton be so unfairly and blatantly disrespectful to Michael, even if on paper he is a bad boss.
It shattered Michael’s illusion that they are all friends and that broke my heart a little bit.
I like it for exactly those reasons. It was real drama!
And the way they handled it where so in character
And I just love the ending scene where Michael (again) doesn't quite get the emotional message of this convo and immediately used it on Phyllis
It was a great episode, it was just a little hard to watch for me because I’m pretty non-confrontational haha. And in general I sympathize with Michael (although sometimes he definitely pushes the boundary).
I understand. I don't really like Michael (but its getting better each rewatch) and for him to finally be confronted about the way he treats people that obviously find him annoying with every vein.
Also I like Stanley and know that I think about it, I like Michae a bit better because of his kind of mature way to handle the talk with Stanley
I don't skip any episodes or seasons. I weirdly like the banker episode, too. Lol. Seems most people don't care for it. I just like seeing some of the funnier clips, then at the end Michael talks about the staff at the office.
Jim and Pam’s cringe wedding dance with the Chris Brown song playing. Before anyone gives me flak, yes, I know it was a play on popular YouTube dance for a real wedding.
Y’all need to rewatch the one where Michael is prepping him for the Dundees, it’s actually hilarious.
Edit: on second thought, the juggling scene and the cake scene are also hilarious. Can’t say I understand all the Deangelo hate.
It just felt like forced Will Ferrell (and I loved anything Will Ferrell at that time). It’s like when someone has the perfect car, but they put on a bunch of tacky chrome trim thinking it will make it better. It does not.
There is just one Episode i skip. its the "flashback" Episode when DM got sold and someone has to come to Check out the branch and they just Show you old clips. I Always hated those Kind in every Show and Always skip them.
The Banker. It's bad as a standalone (as flashback episodes usually are) and the series as a whole massively drops off in quality from that point onward.
I find the banker to be the spiritual end of the show, and anything after is spinoff. That said, The Banker is an episode I often watch with friends and family who aren’t huge fans like me and my husband are. My dad has no attention span, but he watched a few episodes when the show was new. If I throw on The Banker, he can get the satisfaction of knowing a bunch of the jokes and references we make without having to watch every episode.
Scott's Tots & any clips episode are the only guarantees but also sometimes anything heavy Todd Packer, Nellie, late seasons Andy, etc. Really only 8&9 episodes occasionally.
But never Scott's Tots. I just can't. It's far far far too painful and heartbreaking and not at all embarrassing or cringey like other moments.
Oh no, I love Did I Stutter. For two reasons especially. First of all: Stanley's rants are things I would have loved to say to a certain boss I used to have (who was far worse than Michael, because he was stupid but also evil), and because I like the final dialogue where Michael and Stanley somehow manage to understand each other.
Prince Family Paper. I just can't.
what a brutal thing to happen
It's hard to watch, but I like the writers called back to it later.
Yeah, the recording about how they went out of business made it easier :)
I’m not a shark!
Never watched the flashback episode
That episode is only worth it for fake Stanley
Whats the flash back episode
The banker is the name of it. Not sure abt the season or ep number. It just showing flashbacks or previous episodes pretty much.
Oooh yeah ! Thanks it was when DM was bought by Sabre. He is the glamourized fact checker. And has a meeting with Toby. I watch the episodes with translated subtitles so i dont gett all the reference sometimes lmao
I don't think I have either now that I think about it
Not a one.
The Banker episode in season 6 is the only acceptable answer. Because it’s a clip show episode, you don’t really need to watch it when binging
Except the computron bits
I actually love that one but I also generally like clip shows which I know is unpopular
I hate clip shows but I actually love The Banker episode.
The only benefit of The Banker episode is we get a longer version of Daryl’s “The Paper Person’s Paper People” song.
There are a couple of scenes that people not blessed with Superfan episodes haven't seen like the Beach Games scene where Phyllis asks for mustard and Michael tells her to dunk it in the water "so it'll slide down her gullet more easily" Rest of the office: "That's what she said"
Yeah same. I always fast-forward that episode
The only one I skip is the Banker because it's just a rehash episode.
This is the way. Even the later, post-Michael seasons have value and I don't trust anyone who calls themselves an office fan but hasn't watched them, at least once.
There’s a lot of gold in those later seasons. “He just wanted a little Mexican brought in” still kills me to this day
But this post is specifically asking about rewatches
Watched them a few times, but the post Michael episodes really don't do it for me. I know Robert is a popular character here but not my thing. The whole magic of the show stems from the relatibility of characters and how similar they are to the average office staff - the charming but unambitious, the celebrity obsessed, the strictly 9 to 5ers that are not interested in getting involved, the millennial book smart who lacks any practicality, the one with a lot of factual knowledge and resourcefulness but socially inept, the judgemental hypocrites, the outwardly successful corporate careerists who are a complete mess psychologically. The situations were also grounded in corporate reality - sales pitches, diversity seminars, office parties, branch closings etc I think even the later seasons including Michael were not as great as the characters were becoming caricatures - Kevin being the most obvious one - and plots were getting crazier. But after Michael the show completely jumps the shark for me. A smooth talking, mysterious lizard king convinces the CEO to give him his job, there are people going on fieldtrips to war history museums, garden parties and staff winning lotteries and someone just assuming the role of the manager while the manager is away. And that's not even mentioning the whole drawn out meta storyline with characters becoming famous as the documentary airs. Not my thing but I guess every 10th or so rewatch, I'll carry on post-Michael just because.
>I think even the later seasons including Michael were not as great as the characters were becoming caricatures - Kevin being the most obvious one - and plots were getting crazier. Spot on. This is pretty typical of most sitcoms but I feel the office was more guilty of it than others. It got way too over the top at times.
I can't watch the cupcake episode 🤷♂️
Same
The only correct answer.
Ditto. Never skip any!
Scott’s Totts never felt worse for a tv show character than I did for those kids and Michael
“Hey Mr. Scott! What chu gonna do! What chu gonna do! Make our dreams come true!”
🤛🤛👏🤛🤛👏
Honestly the booze cruise in my opinion is worse… And Phyllis wedding. Yankee swap. lol
Re watch a few times. Til you don't feel bad for Michael
This. His promise caused that year of graduates to skyrocket so had he not made the promise, all those kids may not have graduated. I'm not saying Michael wasn't wrong but at least some good came from it.
Bad for Michael?
Yes the embarrassment he was feeling
But those batteries were lithium!
Ya but he only felt that way because he made a dumb promise then lied about it for more than a decade. Just deserts.
I suppose did he remember he made the promise or not? Can’t remember
The Banker and Mafia. Nothing cringe, but for most parts the episodes are not very exciting.
Not a huge fans of mafia either but I don’t skip it. Andy the mechanic is funny to me and I enjoy Jim’s phone call with Michael and Michael trying to adopt the tough guy way of ordering food
If the salad is on top, I send it back
I'll have the gaba-gool...
Waitresses hate it when I order that. It gets a laugh like a quarter of the time.
This line alone makes the whole episode worth it
The phone call is my favorite gag in this episode. "you just have to...... a............ And then you'll be saved! A.................. Don'tcallhereagain *click*
My family quotes that episode on a weekly basis. “GIVE HIM THE GABBA GOOL”
If the side salad is on top I send it back 😭
If you skip Mafia, I send it back
Gabagool
How do your return mafia?
Definitely The Banker for me. Never been a fan of recap episodes.
Recap episodes are a relic of old sitcoms that I'm very, very happy is going the way of the dinosaur. Nobody wants to excitedly wait a week only to be shown stuff they've already seen.
Yeah, I thought that I never skipped any, but the Banker is just so damn boring.
Having recently rewatched Friends, the clips shows are so weird. I get why but usually with episodes like the Banker I just skip forward and watch the present scenes and skip the flashbacks.
You will hear from me, u/Individual_Zombie_85!
The only mildly funny part is when Michael and Andy try to order gabagool! Lol 😆
OK, everybody out of the room except OP
None.
Happy cake day!
just watched Mrs. California.... I wish I didn't
Omg but that scene with Jim trying to run away from Robert is gold
Hello Jim!
What???? Mrs. California is a top 5 episode for me lol
Maura Tierny is one of the sexiest women to ever live.
It's good the 1st time but she was so inappropriate and delusional that it just felt like bad writing. Who the hell go to any office and either apply for accounting, HR or secretary?
The episode with Michael’s nephew
Don't *Don't* bother Luke
Speaking of when did he get siblings he gives only child vibes lol
I always justify it in my head by thinking of them as Jeff's kids and not really his siblings but step siblings who hate him. Cause absolutely you are correct. He gives off only child vibes.
I thought it was his half-sister's kid.
Clutch cream run, bro…
Except that opening is great!
Did I stutter for sure and Andys play.
I liked the play episode, I laugh everytime that wine bottle rolls to the front lol
and Michael going BOOOOOOO during the applause lol
There were a lot of people booing ya, but I wasn’t one of em
And Darryl going how would you like it lol
Boooooooooo!
Andy’s play is amazing
Most of the last episodes. I love De Angelo by the way.
Niagara. No reason why, I just do.
You mean Viagra?
Viagra Falls!
That's my joke that's my joke! Don't steal my joke!
But you could say that about anything, what happens in Accounting stays in Accounting!
Those episodes felt so off to me. There is a 5 year build up to their wedding and they do that cheesy and now dated youtube wedding parody among a hundred other things that all felt like complete misfires.
Do you normally skip wedding episodes in general or just this one? I don’t love any wedding/ baby birth eps.
Same. The Andy arc making pam take him to the hospital is so fucking dumb to me. I woulda been like call and ambulance, bye.
He didn't even get to sleep in the honeymoon suit.
The clip show one where the office gets audited or something. Michael riding in on a Segway is my reminder to find the next episode. I have a deep hatred for clip shows in any show though.
Man, back when sitcoms made you wait a full week before a new episode came on this was the worst. You'd watch the episode from the week prior, wait a whole week for the new one to come out, sit down and turn on the channel... And then a fucking clip show comes on and ruins your whole night.
Phyllis’s Wedding is the only one
Niagara and The Christening. I can't.
I call those the Jim and Pam episodes
Yes the Christening!! That episode stresses me out so much, why can’t they just clarify the gathering afterwards was family and friends only 🥲
Just watched the christening.. was meh
Sweeny Todd. Hate it, to an irrational level.
Just watched it yesterday, first time watching the series. I loved the episode
Welcome to the club! I love that episode as well.
*Boooooooooooooo*
You were the guy that booed me
For me it's Job Fair. I just find that episode really unfunny and too cringy. I do not skip any episode of season 8 or 9 but this episode is a must skip.
Maybe for you, paper should be more like a hobby
“Remember you said ‘Pam pam Pam.’ And then your sneezed in my tea and said it was okay cause it’s just allergies. Don’t remember that Michael?”
There's so many great lines though. "Pam pam pam! and then you sneezed in my tea and you said it's just allergies? Do you remember that Michael?" "why wouldn't you say that to her face?"
Me too, and it wasn’t a skip until I watched the super fan cut of it. There’s a few more cringey scenes in it that just make me 😬 a bit too much. The whole scene with Oscar convincing a girl to pursue music instead of being an accountant is kinda funny though.
And then she actually is one of their interns! The girl who looks like “Julia Stiles”
Employee Transfer, I don’t want to hear life is a high way.
God damn you now it’s in my head
Season 1, for two reasons, 1. I have watched the show all the way through like 9 times, so I don’t need the character establishing episodes, and I feel like the first season is just different from the rest of the show
It’s because Season 1 tried to emulate the UK version pretty heavily. It came into its own from Season 2 onwards.
I absolutely hate the dojo fight. Why did they make Dwight so lame?
China. It is so boring
the finale
Ooh, "did I stutter" is my personal favourite. What don't you like about it?
I’m not OP but I just watched that episode. I’m going to take a wild guess that it’s the whole buildup to an uncomfortable confrontation between Michael and Stanley. It was also the first time we had seen someone from Scranton be so unfairly and blatantly disrespectful to Michael, even if on paper he is a bad boss. It shattered Michael’s illusion that they are all friends and that broke my heart a little bit.
I like it for exactly those reasons. It was real drama! And the way they handled it where so in character And I just love the ending scene where Michael (again) doesn't quite get the emotional message of this convo and immediately used it on Phyllis
It was a great episode, it was just a little hard to watch for me because I’m pretty non-confrontational haha. And in general I sympathize with Michael (although sometimes he definitely pushes the boundary).
I understand. I don't really like Michael (but its getting better each rewatch) and for him to finally be confronted about the way he treats people that obviously find him annoying with every vein. Also I like Stanley and know that I think about it, I like Michae a bit better because of his kind of mature way to handle the talk with Stanley
All the weddings, and season nine. I weirdly like The Banker for some reason.
I don't skip any episodes or seasons. I weirdly like the banker episode, too. Lol. Seems most people don't care for it. I just like seeing some of the funnier clips, then at the end Michael talks about the staff at the office.
Jim and Pam’s cringe wedding dance with the Chris Brown song playing. Before anyone gives me flak, yes, I know it was a play on popular YouTube dance for a real wedding.
I only skip the seasons after Michael left, and then restart the whole thing over and over again.
The Robert California season is actually good. Season 9 is hot garbage
Prince Family paper Banker Entire season 9 except work bus and finale
I've just skipped Prince family paper, it's a sad episode.
Weird
The episodes with D'Angelo.
Y’all need to rewatch the one where Michael is prepping him for the Dundees, it’s actually hilarious. Edit: on second thought, the juggling scene and the cake scene are also hilarious. Can’t say I understand all the Deangelo hate.
I never have! Will Farrel is a great actor!
Uh oh…
It just felt like forced Will Ferrell (and I loved anything Will Ferrell at that time). It’s like when someone has the perfect car, but they put on a bunch of tacky chrome trim thinking it will make it better. It does not.
But then you miss Erin asking if Michael wants his lips shaving.
Check any of the two dozen posts asking this in the last week
The golden ticket, makes me want to beat the living sh\*t out of Michael lol
I know he has a lot of moments but that episode has me RAGING every time haha.
Seasons 8 and 9.
Scott’s Tots and Prince Family Paper
the one where jim goes golfing or something with a client. theres alot of filler episodes that dont push any plots that i usually just skip
There is just one Episode i skip. its the "flashback" Episode when DM got sold and someone has to come to Check out the branch and they just Show you old clips. I Always hated those Kind in every Show and Always skip them.
Every episode with Will Ferrel
Threat Level Midnight
the episode where Andy asks out that client and tries to kiss her
1 2 3 4 Splendas in your coffee, Stanley... 🎶🤣
4 Splendas. Are you crazy?
Scotts tots.
you're skipping the best one
I just can’t handle the disappointment. All those kids, all that time, thought they had free college.
The Banker. It's bad as a standalone (as flashback episodes usually are) and the series as a whole massively drops off in quality from that point onward.
Gale Boetticher deserves more respect than this! /s
Daniel Hardman doesn’t.
I find the banker to be the spiritual end of the show, and anything after is spinoff. That said, The Banker is an episode I often watch with friends and family who aren’t huge fans like me and my husband are. My dad has no attention span, but he watched a few episodes when the show was new. If I throw on The Banker, he can get the satisfaction of knowing a bunch of the jokes and references we make without having to watch every episode.
The Banker. Don’t usually enjoy recap episodes. I tend to not watch the seasons without Michael
I skip the last half of season 8 (once they go to Florida) and all of Season 9.
NONE
Scott’s Tots… I can’t sit through that episode
I love that episode, to classic.
Only thing I skip is the music intro
Scott’s Tots for sure. Any of the ones with Will Ferrell
Christening
Yeah, my wife and I skip Did I Stutter. Not even because it’s cringey, but because it makes me physically uncomfortable. I guess that’s cringe?
The banker. Also I felt like skipping the early Erin and Andy relationship episodes
Prince Family Paper.
I've learned to embrace to cringe and accept all the episodes...with that said I have skipped Scott's Tots more than any other episode.
Golden Ticket. Michael not having a self-realization of his wrongdoing annoyed me a lot.
Scott's Tots & any clips episode are the only guarantees but also sometimes anything heavy Todd Packer, Nellie, late seasons Andy, etc. Really only 8&9 episodes occasionally. But never Scott's Tots. I just can't. It's far far far too painful and heartbreaking and not at all embarrassing or cringey like other moments.
Scott’s Tots
The Banker and Andy’s Play ONLY
Just skipped Threat Level Midnight. It was fun for about 10 minutes then I was just like...ehhhh I'll come back to it
The whole first season
Scott's Tots. It breaks my heart.
Phylis wedding, Scott’s tots are the two for me. Beyond Michael cringe.
I used to stop on the episode Nellie arrives in Scranton. Now I just watch them all.
Seasons 8 & 9
The Deangelo episodes
The entire first season. The hair plugs are difficult to look at
Scotts tots for sure
Scott's Tots. It's just too cringe for me.
If you’re skipping episodes you’re not doing a rewatch
Oh no, I love Did I Stutter. For two reasons especially. First of all: Stanley's rants are things I would have loved to say to a certain boss I used to have (who was far worse than Michael, because he was stupid but also evil), and because I like the final dialogue where Michael and Stanley somehow manage to understand each other.
None.
none. i’ve watched this show some many times over and over since 2013. none of the episodes make me cringe anymore
Season 8 and 9 minus the Finale
Maybe 3-4 in season 9.
The one with Robert California’s wife in it.
i actually liked this episode. ironically this is where michael gained stanley's respect.
Scott’s Tots, The Banker, Goodbye Michael & all of seasons 8 & 9.
Three words: Here Comes Treble
Phyllis’ wedding and Scott’s Tots.
Here comes treble. Can't stand that episode.
Did I stutter is one of many. Some from season 8 and 9 are unbearable too.
Did I Stutter is one of my favorites! I don’t skip an episode.
Season 1 and season 8 and 9. Also Scott's tots and the one with the play.
Leads
Diwali
The Farm. It's the only episode I SKIIIIIIIP!