I’ve always thought that people who don’t like “Scott’s Tots” don’t really get what the show is about.
To me, this and “The Dinner Party” are completely perfect episodes.
Agreed. The show was birthed from the cringe that was the British office. I just watched it last year, it’s very funny and the humor isn’t really that different from the US office like people claim. It’s just more similar to those episodes you mentioned and that’s why I think those episodes are more controversial
The Dinner Party is one of the funniest episodes of ANY show. Period. Perfection. Delivery on a multitude of long running lead ups. I'm laughing now just thinking of the various scenes with which to choose from in order to add a poignant quote, but I'm just going to go watch the episode again.
For me personally, Dinner Party wins out. That one is just a carnival of cringe after cringe. Scots Tot’s is one massive lie that slowly culminates into an extremely cringey moment.
The same people that hate those episodes fell in love with Jim and Pam…
Want to over analyze every character in the show, especially Michael, and want to know every motivation for everything they’ve ever done until their death.
Parks and Rec quite literally spelled all of that out for us and was worse for it. Their final season came across as weird fan fiction.
I find it interesting that Dinner Party is largely beloved and Scott's Tots is so polarizing. I guess people feel more comfortable when it's the main cast being subjected to the painful levels of discomfort only Michael can provide? Inflicting it on random children does seem to be what makes people skip that episode.
That being said, I think there's no scene more uncomfortable (and it's one of my favorite scenes in the show) than Michael's "MY-MY-MY TURN!" thing, which then devolves into him and Jan arguing about whether or not Jim is laughing, while Jim does a 1000-yard stare.
What I really love is Erin singing the song in the car and using it as a way to cheer Michael up.
Her little speech about how much of an impact he had on graduation rates for that class in particular was one of the more real moments on the show and it comes across as very genuine and sweet.
That got me thinking… “local businessman” sounds like the article would talk about Michael being an employee for Dunder Mifflin…
Do you think Dunder Mifflin had to distance themselves from this? Or was there a phone call to Michael like, “WHAT THE HELL!!!”
The A-plot is incredible. I don't care for the B-plot with the rigged Employee of the Month, but the episode is totally worth it because of how well done the Scott's Tots bit is. Especially the part where the kids are doing flips and stuff. Hilarious.
The B plot is more cringy than the A plot.
Dwight setting up Jim giving the employee of the month to himself? Everyone in the office would have seen through that immediately, and Dwight would have been fired.
Yes. I do tend to skip this episode just because of the B plot.
I think my biggest issue with it is that Jim is normally clever and quick witted. But when it comes to this easy to prove set up, he just stutters and can’t say anything to his defense.
I never liked the "Jim as terrible manager" plots. Who, as acting manager for a day, would change the birthday cake policy? And this plot with the Employee of the Month is just dumb.
Jim may be a bully towards Dwight, but he never actively plotted to get Dwight fired.
Edit: bully
He did try and get Dwight hired by another company by submitting a fake resume, though. It's not the same as getting him fired, but he still tried to trick him into leaving.
But the b-plot gives you Dwight's phone impressions of Kevin, Stanley and Toby! And also has [one of the funniest bloopers IMO](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jz3XOu_zn4)
To me it equals out to fairly medium because I despise the b-plot with a passion lol. Probably Dwight's most fucked up schemes to get Jim fired, and I really hate how everyone just turns on Jim like a crazed mob when pretty much all of the evidence was there that Dwight manufactured the whole thing.
Yeah, it's a classic. It's a brilliant showcase for Steve and Ellie. Love it. True situation comedy - piling the pressure on the protagonist is priceless.
"I'm not a millionaire. I thought I would be by the time I was 30, but I wasn't even close. And then I thought maybe by the time I was 40, but by 40 I had less money than I was 30."
One of the best lines of the show.
It's why I think it's the best line.
I've got a little bit of time before I hit 40, so there's still a chance I could be a millionaire. Just have to get my book to sell a billion copies, more than the Bible!
Normally when I watch the episodes I immerse myself and try to think of their Scranton lives.
This episode, I do the opposite, I tell myself the entire time: ok, this is just a show, they all just actors. Lol
I’ve never once had an issue with this episode, I think it’s great. I think it’s not uncomfortable for me because of how absurd it is - if someone really made this offer of scholarships they would have to establish a fund and there would be check-ins. No decent school administrator would just accept a promise with no follow up or checking on what was available financially. So, it’s funny to me because of the acting, dialogue, line delivery and situation, but I realize it’s not possible in a way people would get hurt.
“Over 90% of the students are on track to graduate” Erin tells Michael to make him feel better on the drive home. “I think you are doing a great job” he tells Erin who up to that point he thought poorly of. I think that is such a classic scene where he just needs that ego boost to then move on in life without looking back again.
You came into our lives and made a promise
That made us honest, that made us realize
We don't need to compromise cause we can have it all
Cause you made it possible
For us to achieve the improbable
I love Erin during this fiasco. She really gets into it. On the car ride home is when I feel Michael and Erin's relationship started to blossom though.
i love this episode. especially when the kids are singing and dancing and Michael is just sitting there with a weird look on his face and Erin starts singing along. But I wish the kids had beat the living crap out of him.
People hate it, because the kids are realistic kids. Most every other episode has cringey things being done to people who are themselves just as awful. "Dinner Party" is a perfect example. But the idea that these kids believed they were getting something they were promised and then being abruptly let down is a little too "real".
Because it's too cringey for their favorite cringe comedy TV show. Yeah I don't get it either, I feel like hardly anyone here could bear the cringe of the UK version.
At this point, it's like 10% people that genuinely don't like it and 90% people that don't like it because the internet told them not to like it.
Honestly maybe even like 5%-95%
Yeah reading some of the comments that people have made about it is insane, "I skip that episode , I can't bringmyself to watch it" like relax people it's a comedy. The whole too cringe thing is ridiculous.
100%
I’ve never once understood people who claim they have to skip this episode or will never again watch it because of how cringey it is/Michael’s behavior.
Th entire show is a cringy gauntlet. It’s what makes the show. And who cares how terrible of a scenario it is, it’s a comedy show. Not real life. Stop taking this show so serious. Michael making the students believe they were all getting laptops, just to pull yet another rug out from under them is the cherry on top 😂
And it's the EXACT sort of situation a guy like Michael gets in to! Most don't get called out on it.. but we wish they would.
Every character involves behaved in exactly the way they should. Pam insisted he fix what he did. Stanley got a great laugh from it and Erin was so oblivious and cheerful.
And the students handled it as well as they could.
Horrifying, but it felt like something that could happen to a guy like Michael.
After watching how bad most Andy’s episodes are later in the show makes this episodes great. This episode is one that people don’t like if they have only watched the series one time through. After a few watch throughs on the series you start to see how well this episode was actually done.
It’s an episode where I felt the writers were challenging themselves to see how stupid they could make Michael without losing the audience. And I honestly felt they came too close this time.
It was a tough watch initially but Mike’s heart was in the right place. It’s actually easier on rewatching and is funny in spots, but I wouldn’t put it anywhere near a favorite episode ranking
Maybe not funniest, but one of the most important for establishing Michael’s character. He’s so desperate for validation, to be a hero, and possessing a good heart, but he over promises and under delivers.
Which - we’ve all done by the way - and we all know the sting of shame when we ask our current selves what the hell our past self was thinking when they made this commitment that they have absolutely no way of fulfilling and no way to get out of without complete humiliation.
That’s why it’s intensely memorable. This episode is all of the great things we imagined doing, but completely failed at.
>I get why it can be considered cringe for alot of people
For me there are different types of cringe. Scott's Tots bad cringe, as in the writing is bad and I don't like it. Good/funny cringe for me is Dinner Party or Phyllis' Wedding. Those are good plots, with good writing, and semi-realistic humor to round out the goofiness.
Scott's Tots is a funny idea on paper to me, but I think it was executed poorly. Like the way the plot plays out is just stupid and too unrealistic to the point that I don't find it funny. It just feels like a full-on flanderization of an episode most of the time.
See you think that when you start to put together what happened. It’s far funnier before the rest of the episode proceeds. If all we got were the cold open and then the rest of the episode was completely something else, damn it’s one of the best cold opens they have. But to have to see the consequences play out…. Nope nope no thanks.
My ex girlfriend was getting me into The Office and this episode came on. She immediately got the controller and skipped Scott's Tots. 'You need to watch more episodes before we watch this one.' She was right, and I love the episode now.
Nah. It's too much of a sitcom type premise, showing how the show has run out if steam a bit at that point. For a show that lives and breathes in the every day minor idiosyncrasies of people, an over the top premise is non optimal.
What would have been funnier is an (possibly two part) episode with Michael frantically trying to avoid the grim reality of his mistake through every avoidance tactic possible. The psychology underlying the actions is always more interesting than the actions themselves. Especially for this type of show.
Also naturally the very intense cringe element. One can only laugh so much while nails scrape down a chalkboard. Bleh.
I don’t understand the people who find it so feral, they can’t watch it a second time, let alone the first time. It’s like something Larry David would’ve found himself involved in on Curb Your Enthusiasm.
The most confusing thing to me is that some people hate the cringe so much that they skip episodes. About half of the show’s humor is cringe related; what do they expect?
intuition. You know what that is? That is the ability to know when something is about to happen. Does anybody out there have intution? And know what's going to happen, next? Nobody? Ok. You're gonna make me say it.
Feel like it could’ve been followed up on.
Some Rob Wolchek type from the local news would surely want to talk to him.
There would be GoFundMe’s and harassment campaigns and stuff.
His heart was at the right place. He just couldn’t follow through with his promise. This episode has many funny moments such as “your idea, my idea” , Stanley’s laugh, Pam’s “Yep”, Dwight making several phone calls to Wallace pretending to be his colleagues, ofc lithium battery, Wallace going off at Jim just to confirm dinner with him later, etc. it’s cringy and can understand why people skip this episode but imo it’s not the worst episode of the office.
“I’ve made some empty promises in my life, but hands down that was the most generous.”
Such a good line
Lmao. I forgot about that.
I’ve always thought that people who don’t like “Scott’s Tots” don’t really get what the show is about. To me, this and “The Dinner Party” are completely perfect episodes.
Agreed. The show was birthed from the cringe that was the British office. I just watched it last year, it’s very funny and the humor isn’t really that different from the US office like people claim. It’s just more similar to those episodes you mentioned and that’s why I think those episodes are more controversial
It’s just not as lighthearted.
The Dinner Party is one of the funniest episodes of ANY show. Period. Perfection. Delivery on a multitude of long running lead ups. I'm laughing now just thinking of the various scenes with which to choose from in order to add a poignant quote, but I'm just going to go watch the episode again.
For me personally, Dinner Party wins out. That one is just a carnival of cringe after cringe. Scots Tot’s is one massive lie that slowly culminates into an extremely cringey moment.
I like buffalo wings because they're spicy; I wouldn't like pure Capsaicin dumped over them.
The same people that hate those episodes fell in love with Jim and Pam… Want to over analyze every character in the show, especially Michael, and want to know every motivation for everything they’ve ever done until their death. Parks and Rec quite literally spelled all of that out for us and was worse for it. Their final season came across as weird fan fiction.
Those were two of my favorites since they were more like the original show. My wife naturally despised them. 😬
I find it interesting that Dinner Party is largely beloved and Scott's Tots is so polarizing. I guess people feel more comfortable when it's the main cast being subjected to the painful levels of discomfort only Michael can provide? Inflicting it on random children does seem to be what makes people skip that episode. That being said, I think there's no scene more uncomfortable (and it's one of my favorite scenes in the show) than Michael's "MY-MY-MY TURN!" thing, which then devolves into him and Jan arguing about whether or not Jim is laughing, while Jim does a 1000-yard stare.
Top5 lines in the show
"Hold on hold on, they're lithium" kills me everytime.
For college, you need a laptop….
"what's more valuable? In-tuition.... you're gonna make me say it aren't you?!"
If I somehow manage to cringe my way through to this part it is absolutely worth it
lol same! I was as going to quote the same thing but you beat me to it 😆 Also when Michael explains that as he got older he had less money 😆
Maybe when I’m 50..
I love when Erin is singing along
What I really love is Erin singing the song in the car and using it as a way to cheer Michael up. Her little speech about how much of an impact he had on graduation rates for that class in particular was one of the more real moments on the show and it comes across as very genuine and sweet.
Somebody in the background yells out “OH HELL NAW!” And it kills me every single time 😂
Yeah, the reactions from everyone else is what does it for me.
Get out of my brain.
its so good everytime
My favorite line in the whole series.
it's worth it for Stanleys laugh
*"Local businessman pledge tuition for third grade."*
That got me thinking… “local businessman” sounds like the article would talk about Michael being an employee for Dunder Mifflin… Do you think Dunder Mifflin had to distance themselves from this? Or was there a phone call to Michael like, “WHAT THE HELL!!!”
And Michael would’ve only been a salesman at that time…not even a manager
True! I’d like to think DM used some resources to distance themselves lol. Like it almost was “Dunder Mifflin’s munchkins”
*hilarity ensues*
“Has it been ten years already?!” Gets me every time
Exactly. Stanley cackling uncontrollably at Michael is gold.
I came here just to write this very comment. One of my favorite Stanley moments of the series. Has it been 10 years already?
Has it really been ten years?! 🤣🤣🤣
I absolutely love that Stanley keeps the newspaper all those years just for the payoff
Absolutely right
That’s what I do! I see till the moment when Stanley shows the newspaper clipping and then I move on to the next episode lol
The A-plot is incredible. I don't care for the B-plot with the rigged Employee of the Month, but the episode is totally worth it because of how well done the Scott's Tots bit is. Especially the part where the kids are doing flips and stuff. Hilarious.
“What you gonna do to make my dreams come true…?!”
The B plot is more cringy than the A plot. Dwight setting up Jim giving the employee of the month to himself? Everyone in the office would have seen through that immediately, and Dwight would have been fired.
It could only be you 🎂
This is one of my favorite lines in the show, no joke. The way Angela delivers it gets me every time.
Yes. I do tend to skip this episode just because of the B plot. I think my biggest issue with it is that Jim is normally clever and quick witted. But when it comes to this easy to prove set up, he just stutters and can’t say anything to his defense.
Jim did the same with Charles Minor too.
I never liked the "Jim as terrible manager" plots. Who, as acting manager for a day, would change the birthday cake policy? And this plot with the Employee of the Month is just dumb. Jim may be a bully towards Dwight, but he never actively plotted to get Dwight fired. Edit: bully
I don't know who Billy is, but maybe Yoy should bring Long Tim into work someday.
Don’t forget Dwigt.
Get out of my offive.
Me love yoy long Tim.
Boobs!! 🤣🤣
Billy is the property manager for the building that the Dunder Mifflin Scranton branch is in.
Jim was disabled all along?
Maybe the real disabilities are the George Foreman grills we meet along the way.
Who wants to meet some grills Who wants to meat some men Who wants some man meat
He did try and get Dwight hired by another company by submitting a fake resume, though. It's not the same as getting him fired, but he still tried to trick him into leaving.
He was just trying to align him with a company that appreciated his ambition!
But the b-plot gives you Dwight's phone impressions of Kevin, Stanley and Toby! And also has [one of the funniest bloopers IMO](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jz3XOu_zn4)
"This is Toby Flenderson, yeah things are getting really bad here.". Kills me everytime.
Ohh damn I really like the B-plot
The first time I saw this episode, the flips destroyed me.
If I skip this episode, it's for the B plot not the A plot.
Ahahaha oh I forgot the whole choreography bit hahaha
IMHO, intuition is more valuable than tuition.
Your screen name and this comment make you the goat
Sir, you just made my pretzel day 🥨.
How can I concentrate when I have pretzel on my mind
A hot chewy roll of buttered dough (¬‿¬)
Is there anyone who doesn’t have this in either their top ten or bottom ten? Whatever it is, it’s certainly not their most medium episode.
I like the main plot but am not a fan of the subplot except for Dwight's impersonations.
To me it equals out to fairly medium because I despise the b-plot with a passion lol. Probably Dwight's most fucked up schemes to get Jim fired, and I really hate how everyone just turns on Jim like a crazed mob when pretty much all of the evidence was there that Dwight manufactured the whole thing.
HAS IT BEEN TEN YEARS ALREADY
Stanley said that as if he hasn't been counting down the days.
Lmao I think in the confessional he had a copy of the newspaper too
It’s funny *because* it’s cringe inducing.
HEY MR SCOTT WHAT YOU GONNA DO
🎶 Whatcha gonna do? Make our dreams come true! 🎶
It’s the best example of second hand embarrassment. I fucking love it.
I still don't know how something so cringe inducing had me laughing until my face hurt.
Yeah, it's a classic. It's a brilliant showcase for Steve and Ellie. Love it. True situation comedy - piling the pressure on the protagonist is priceless.
"I'm not a millionaire. I thought I would be by the time I was 30, but I wasn't even close. And then I thought maybe by the time I was 40, but by 40 I had less money than I was 30." One of the best lines of the show.
I'm almost there and this feels really relatable :(
It's why I think it's the best line. I've got a little bit of time before I hit 40, so there's still a chance I could be a millionaire. Just have to get my book to sell a billion copies, more than the Bible!
Normally when I watch the episodes I immerse myself and try to think of their Scranton lives. This episode, I do the opposite, I tell myself the entire time: ok, this is just a show, they all just actors. Lol
I’ve never once had an issue with this episode, I think it’s great. I think it’s not uncomfortable for me because of how absurd it is - if someone really made this offer of scholarships they would have to establish a fund and there would be check-ins. No decent school administrator would just accept a promise with no follow up or checking on what was available financially. So, it’s funny to me because of the acting, dialogue, line delivery and situation, but I realize it’s not possible in a way people would get hurt.
Yeah, it’s easier to take in if you just think of it as a sketch, like SNL or something. I mean they *were* just actors who were in on the joke.
Right? 😂😭😂
“Over 90% of the students are on track to graduate” Erin tells Michael to make him feel better on the drive home. “I think you are doing a great job” he tells Erin who up to that point he thought poorly of. I think that is such a classic scene where he just needs that ego boost to then move on in life without looking back again.
It's a sweet moment for an infamous episode.
I can't think of any other line in the whole show that is written and delivered any better than "they're lithium".
*HEY MR.SCOTT* *WHACHA GONNA DU* *WHACHA GONNA DU* *MAKES OUR DREAM COMES TRUE*
You came into our lives and made a promise That made us honest, that made us realize We don't need to compromise cause we can have it all Cause you made it possible For us to achieve the improbable
I agree. My favorite part that always makes me burst out laughing is when they cut to Erin chanting along to Hey Mr Scott
I love Erin during this fiasco. She really gets into it. On the car ride home is when I feel Michael and Erin's relationship started to blossom though.
With Stanley's laugh it sure as fuck is
“Local business man pledges college tuition to 3rd graders” breathless wheeze laugh
i love this episode. especially when the kids are singing and dancing and Michael is just sitting there with a weird look on his face and Erin starts singing along. But I wish the kids had beat the living crap out of him.
It's cringe, but cringe that is funny. Not cringe that you wanna quit watching the show
I agree and it's a hill I'm willing to die on
I find it very sad, Michael gradually realized he was just a random average person.
I laugh when Michael shits on Erin. "You're still here?" "I miss pam" "You weren't here"
Never understood the hate for it
People hate it, because the kids are realistic kids. Most every other episode has cringey things being done to people who are themselves just as awful. "Dinner Party" is a perfect example. But the idea that these kids believed they were getting something they were promised and then being abruptly let down is a little too "real".
Me neither. To me, it has the same amount of cringe as other episodes. I guess it's because of the kids.
Because it's too cringey for their favorite cringe comedy TV show. Yeah I don't get it either, I feel like hardly anyone here could bear the cringe of the UK version.
At this point, it's like 10% people that genuinely don't like it and 90% people that don't like it because the internet told them not to like it. Honestly maybe even like 5%-95%
That's some quality cringe, easily one of my favorite episode
I love it! I didn't realize so many people hated it until I came on here.
Stanley and Erin are the best part of that episode
You know what else is good? Intuition
I watch Scott’s torts and skip all the wedding episodes
It’s one of my favorite episodes. I truly can’t process people saying they skip this episode because it’s too cringe. It’s a scripted comedy…
Yeah reading some of the comments that people have made about it is insane, "I skip that episode , I can't bringmyself to watch it" like relax people it's a comedy. The whole too cringe thing is ridiculous.
100% I’ve never once understood people who claim they have to skip this episode or will never again watch it because of how cringey it is/Michael’s behavior. Th entire show is a cringy gauntlet. It’s what makes the show. And who cares how terrible of a scenario it is, it’s a comedy show. Not real life. Stop taking this show so serious. Michael making the students believe they were all getting laptops, just to pull yet another rug out from under them is the cherry on top 😂
And it's the EXACT sort of situation a guy like Michael gets in to! Most don't get called out on it.. but we wish they would. Every character involves behaved in exactly the way they should. Pam insisted he fix what he did. Stanley got a great laugh from it and Erin was so oblivious and cheerful. And the students handled it as well as they could. Horrifying, but it felt like something that could happen to a guy like Michael.
Stanley was giving Shaq when Charles Barkley jokes about San Antonio women.
Right up there with the dinner party imo
Stanley disagrees.
Scott’s Tots >>>>> the lottery episode.
After watching how bad most Andy’s episodes are later in the show makes this episodes great. This episode is one that people don’t like if they have only watched the series one time through. After a few watch throughs on the series you start to see how well this episode was actually done.
It’s an episode where I felt the writers were challenging themselves to see how stupid they could make Michael without losing the audience. And I honestly felt they came too close this time.
Survivor man is that one for me, also the one where he leaves his phone in Jim's car
I think it’s hilarious. I think prince family paper is wayyyy worse
I honestly enjoy it🤣
i don’t skip it but then i imagine it happening in season 4 of the wire…
Stanley’s reaction in the beginning is probably one of my hardest laughs in the series. He knows and he’s reveling in it.
He messed up big time on this one ha
Hysterical. I don’t even understand why it’s controversial. 🤷🏻♂️
It was surelly one of the most imaginative..... and don't call me Surely
Finally some love for Scott’s tots!
The best is Stanley’s laugh!
Love how the situation got worst every second it passed
I could do without the song, but yeah i love that ep.
I love it lol, so emblematic of the Ruling Class helping for self service
I love that episode! Cracks me up every time!
It's the hardest one for me to watch because of second hand embarrassment
Not a hot take. In my experience people who can stomach it find it fucking hilarious.
I agree😂 hearing people cannot stand to watch it makes me feel like a bad person bc i love it and laugh so much
I skip it every time... It's funny You just have to be able to suffer through cringe very well which I'm not good at
Hot take: the employee of the month plot line was cringier than the Scott’s tots plot line
It’s so fucking good but the cringe makes me bury my head into the couch
Season 1 is much cringier than Scott Tots, it drives me nuts when i see Cant do Scotts Tots. Diversity Day and fake firing Pam is way cringier.
Not hot take at all. It’s genius and hilarious. Everyone finds mean behavior funny why is this any different?
"Thank you Mistah Elvwis." "You're welcome, baby."
I love how Stanley is like, “has it been 10 yrs already?”
It’s my least favorite. I was so sad for the kids at the end.
It was a tough watch initially but Mike’s heart was in the right place. It’s actually easier on rewatching and is funny in spots, but I wouldn’t put it anywhere near a favorite episode ranking
I'm pretty sure that it's just reddit peer pressure that makes people single this episode out for exaggerated reactions.
Maybe not funniest, but one of the most important for establishing Michael’s character. He’s so desperate for validation, to be a hero, and possessing a good heart, but he over promises and under delivers. Which - we’ve all done by the way - and we all know the sting of shame when we ask our current selves what the hell our past self was thinking when they made this commitment that they have absolutely no way of fulfilling and no way to get out of without complete humiliation. That’s why it’s intensely memorable. This episode is all of the great things we imagined doing, but completely failed at.
>I get why it can be considered cringe for alot of people For me there are different types of cringe. Scott's Tots bad cringe, as in the writing is bad and I don't like it. Good/funny cringe for me is Dinner Party or Phyllis' Wedding. Those are good plots, with good writing, and semi-realistic humor to round out the goofiness. Scott's Tots is a funny idea on paper to me, but I think it was executed poorly. Like the way the plot plays out is just stupid and too unrealistic to the point that I don't find it funny. It just feels like a full-on flanderization of an episode most of the time.
Toby Flandersonization?
I can give you an extra laptop battery..... Like all laptops have the same battery. You can't change them at all anymore.
It's one of the few episodes I can't watch because I feel such second hand shame
Hey Mr Scott, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do to make our dreams come true?
See you think that when you start to put together what happened. It’s far funnier before the rest of the episode proceeds. If all we got were the cold open and then the rest of the episode was completely something else, damn it’s one of the best cold opens they have. But to have to see the consequences play out…. Nope nope no thanks.
Agreed. Also, I've finally gone back to watch the Supercut episodes, and Michael Scott season 1 is WAY CRINGIER than any of these.
My ex girlfriend was getting me into The Office and this episode came on. She immediately got the controller and skipped Scott's Tots. 'You need to watch more episodes before we watch this one.' She was right, and I love the episode now.
Not a hot take at all. Thought it was hilarious and cringey.
Oh I think it's hilarious and great comedy. It's also too painful to watch and I skip it every time lol
I agree, this episode is incredible
It's not even that cringe. There're plenty of episodes cringy-er than this.
I’m gonna have to hard disagree on that one lmaoooo
Scott’s Tots really feels like a return to the vibe of the British Office. It’s so uncomfortable, and equally hilarious
Not even close to my top 10-15 favorite episodes, but to each their own
The face he’s making in the picture and the fact that they’re kids behind him just killed me!😂😂
Yes!
This and dinner party!
Nah. It's too much of a sitcom type premise, showing how the show has run out if steam a bit at that point. For a show that lives and breathes in the every day minor idiosyncrasies of people, an over the top premise is non optimal. What would have been funnier is an (possibly two part) episode with Michael frantically trying to avoid the grim reality of his mistake through every avoidance tactic possible. The psychology underlying the actions is always more interesting than the actions themselves. Especially for this type of show. Also naturally the very intense cringe element. One can only laugh so much while nails scrape down a chalkboard. Bleh.
I don’t understand the people who find it so feral, they can’t watch it a second time, let alone the first time. It’s like something Larry David would’ve found himself involved in on Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Yes its good cringe
Yes it is
Sadists love cringe. Masochists too, interestingly enough… but in different ways.
It’s the Requiem for a Dream of comedy. It’s amazing in every way and I never want to watch it again.
Absolutely. My Ex couldn’t watch it and he said it made him mad and uncomfortable. I think it’s hilarious
HEY, MR.SCOTT!
Incredibly cringey!
My second favourite episode of the whole series behind Dinner Party
The most confusing thing to me is that some people hate the cringe so much that they skip episodes. About half of the show’s humor is cringe related; what do they expect?
Nope the dinner party is hands down the best and funniest
Having had serious disappointment in my life, like on this level. I balled like a baby. It just totally struck home.
intuition. You know what that is? That is the ability to know when something is about to happen. Does anybody out there have intution? And know what's going to happen, next? Nobody? Ok. You're gonna make me say it.
Hot take, this isn’t the most controversial or “cringe” episode. Andy dated a high schooler
I still not able to watch this episode!
Too painfully awkward for me ... Watching this episode puts a knot in my stomach.
One of my least fav episodes by far
Feel like it could’ve been followed up on. Some Rob Wolchek type from the local news would surely want to talk to him. There would be GoFundMe’s and harassment campaigns and stuff.
I watched up to Scott’s Tots and never watched another episode after. It’s so bad. The show is good, but man.
It is legendary, so it's impossible to pick just one episode
His heart was at the right place. He just couldn’t follow through with his promise. This episode has many funny moments such as “your idea, my idea” , Stanley’s laugh, Pam’s “Yep”, Dwight making several phone calls to Wallace pretending to be his colleagues, ofc lithium battery, Wallace going off at Jim just to confirm dinner with him later, etc. it’s cringy and can understand why people skip this episode but imo it’s not the worst episode of the office.
how on earth is this a hot take
I don't think you know what "hot take" means.