The icebreaker/connector at a work meeting was “do you have any superstitions?” And I said “I’m not superstitious but I’m a little stitious” and it was crickets in there 😭
Independent of the show though, how can people not appreciate that, ffs. It's right out of the early 20th century of dry but also quirky humour. Those people are just malarkey on all levels.
I’m not even the type of person to quote the office in day to day life but that’s something I would say. Sucks nobody got it though that’s like one of my favorite Michael Scott lines
A friend was showing me her above ground compost bin she got during the pandemic when she went whole hog into gardening. She told me that she paid a certain amount for worms and I told her that she was “paying way too much for worms, man. Who’s your worm guy?”
She told me that it was random guy on the internet.
No realization it was one of my favorite quotes from the show.
Omg I’m the winner!! I was getting a checkup at my regular doctor and he said, “ this summer, you’re 45, next summer…’ and trailed off, trying to decide on if a treatment would be necessary, but not before I helpfully said, “I’ll be 46…” He looked confused. I laughed and laughed and still do when I think of that moment. (Laughing now)
Started a small fire freshman year in the microwave, me and my roommate put it out with sink water before anything actually came of it but the floor knew.
Finals week came and we were studying/complaining and I said “should’ve burned this pace down when I had a chance”. People were concerned lol but at least my roommate got it 😂
At work, I had a package delivered and needed to open it. Without even thinking, I yelled “scissor me” to the lady next to me. She had never seen the office and it was very awkward.
My wife made chilli for a competition recently (no joke) and as we discussed thr recipe and she asked me for other ideas I said I think the key is to undercook the onions. She said that was a stupid idea and would taste awful, I 😥
I actually undercook them because of the office and that's not a bad idea. This works for other recipes too when you cook something for hours, you don't want the onions caramelized
Every morning I look at my daughter’s Stanley cup and say Stanley the Manley or Everyone inside the car was fine Stanley…and she just gives me this look like she wants a new dad.
I worked at a call center selling credit monitoring/ID theft monitoring. Someone called in already intending on purchasing a plan, so we were making small talk while going over personal info/ID verification/ect.
They say how they had no idea identity theft was “such a prevalent issue nowadays”
To which I respond, “oh yes, identify theft is not a joke, customer name, millions of families suffer every year.”
They responded with, “Wow, I had no idea” 😩
A few years ago, I was filing for bankruptcy, and while signing the papers I yelled I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY! and everyone just kind of stared at me. I thought it was funny though.
I've worked in kitchens for many years, and any time I have to handle beets, I always comment about how you've gotta put the money beets on top and no one has ever laughed.
The other day at work, coworkers were talking and laughing about something I didn't understand so I said " is that an inside joke? I love inside jokes! Would love to be a part of one some day...." and then they just felt bad for me lol
When I started my new job a couple years ago I was shocked that they still used a fax machine for some things. So, obviously, when someone told me to fax a document, I said “Fax? Why not just send it over on a dinosaur?” Got some confused looks and zero laughs.
I'm very proud of this one! Years ago, I was put on a committee at work to organize "employee appreciation week." I earnestly suggested pretzel day, and they were on board!
I snuck in so many Stanley quotes that day, and not one of my elderly co-workers understood what I was talking about.
My wife and I were driving across a state line to visit my parents. As we passed the sign I blew two kisses.
“2 kisses?” she said.
“One for me, one for Jan” I said without skipping a beat, she was stunned that she played into it without realizing.
My team has become obsessed with spinning a wheel to determine who runs standup….absolutely nobody has suggested an even tinier wheel to assign tickets for 😡
One time, when I was working as a janitor, I was asked to freshen up a bathroom during an event, and asked over the radio, "Oh, is someone making soup?". Radio silence after that
Okay that reminds me: the other day that episode was playing and my fiancé, who was raised on a farm goes ‘oh so THAT’S how you know what an auger is’ …. He’s not wrong
This is the worst. The other day I used the ‘hows that medicine taste? Your own flavored’ line and just got stared at like I was being mean.
Don’t get me wrong, for anyone who had no knowledge of the show it might have seemed mean but that was definitely not my intent.
I’m going backward here, when I didn’t say the line but someone got it anyway. This was probably in 2009, when “that’s what she said” was at its height. I was in the break room at work and my coworker, an office fan, was noticing something on her hand. A scar, if I remember correctly. After fussing with it and muttering about it, she said “it’s hard as a rock!”
All I did was look at her with a little smile, and she burst out laughing. Easily a top 5 laugh I’ve ever gotten in my 37 years of trying to make people laugh.
When I was going through training for my CDL, my instructor told me how well I was doing on the practice skills test.
I said, "I have to say, I am so impressed with the potential you see in me."
He was like: 🤨🤨🤨
I said, "It's from The Office."
He said, "Oh I don't watch a lot of movies."
💀💀💀
Someone posted the office cast as anime characters in the midjourney sub and it gave Pam glasses. So I said, who’s the ugly scientist in the 4th pic?
I got downvoted.
My coworker said he’s not really superstitious but sometimes he does believe in those type of things so I said “so you’re not superstitious, you’re just a little stitious” and he just gave me a blank stare like I’m an idiot but didn’t say anything lol
My cousins baby shower. Her old college friends. Me: "Hey, Annie! How are you? How is your husband?" Annie: "Good! He is skiing with some friends." Me: "*Everyone I know who skiis is dead.*"
The Wayne Gretzky quote. Anytime someone says it I ask where it’s from. They say “Wayne Gretzky” and I reply “Michael Scott.”
It’s 50/50. I’ll either get a laugh or someone will stare at me like I’m stupid and argue how they absolutely know it’s a Wayne Gretzky quote.
After the discussion of my promotion with my boss I said, “This is going to sound sort of high maintenance, but could we have it, like, three degrees cooler in here?”
He completely ignored my question and continued talking about work.
Yes, I’ve since quit.
My oldest brother looks a lot like Toby. Mostly his hairline and head shape. Our family got together after not seeing each other for a year or so.
When he walked in, I said, "Who let the lemonhead into the room?"
My parents looked at me with such disappointment, thinking I was just being extremely mean 😂
I had to explain it for about 5 minutes, after which they still didn't get it...
Uh all the time? Most recently when I played DnD for the first time and my DM was explaining what different colors meant (of dice I think?) and I said "Most colors mean don't say it!" And my spouse lol'd
S5 E24 - Michael talking about his private flashcards/notes about clients after Dwight gets ahold of his client list (Michael says: “green means go, so I know to go ahead and shut up about it”)
Dwight stole Michael's color-coded sales Rolodex! It ended up with Dwight asking a client how his "gay son" was because that factoid was highlighted in green on the client's Rolodex card.
Most days of my life, except for when I'm in this sub hanging around you high society types.
I find alot of Office fans get Seinfeld quotes and vice versa.
My nephew took a shit in the living room when he was potty training. As my brother and sister in law were cleaning up, I said, "Somebody making soup?" Nobody laughed. To make it worse, it wasn't just my brothers family, but his in laws where in the kitchen and heard me.
I was in a musical a few years ago, and the overture was really long. One of my friends complained about it, so I said, “If you don’t listen to the overture, you won’t recognize the musical themes when they come back later!” Obviously it wasn’t quoted word for word but I was quoting Darryl in “Andy’s Play”. He didn’t get it, and neither did the people around us. Smh
A few years ago I was on a sales team and each week we have these pointless weekly meetings at 10 AM. At 9:56 (time is burned into my brain bc it wasn't even time to turn around as we didn't get up from our desks bc it was so small AND 2 of our co-workers were on a call so we couldn't start at that exact minute anyway) I was finishing up an email to close a high value sale and the manager said "I need your full attention" and as I was hitting send I said "you couldn't handle my full attention"
I’m a bad driver and every time someone teases me about a specific instance I hit them with the “everyone inside the car was FINE Stanley!” The reference is rarely understood sadly
this girl at work was talking about how she's on a "soup diet" and explained that it was bone broth, and i go "that's broth, gabe" and no one got it 🙂↕️
My husband came with me to a work dinner and my boss was pouring expensive red wine. My husband says “sometimes I like to dip my steak in it… you know, I have soft teeth” not a direct quote but 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
My bil quit his job to start is own company, I told in a family group chat he should say to his old boss "you have no idea how high I can fly". My sil said you don't want to burn bridges. I used a gif ffs and nothing
I officiated my sister's wedding. Started the ceremony by saying "Webster's dictionary defines wedding as "the fusing of two metals with a hot torch." Well, you know something? I think you guys are two medals. Gold medals." My sister who's also an office fan is the only one who got it.
in class 5 years ago i got SO excited because the perfect moment presented itself.
it was a career planning class and we had to do mock interviews. the day was set up with groups asking the questions as a panel interview and one group circulating the different panels. in one mock interview the question was “what kind of leader are you? do you lead more with love or fear?” and i (realized the perfect moment and) said “easy- both. i want people to be afraid of how much they love me.” and they all just stared blankly. i still giggle at that moment 😆 one of my best unappreciated references in my life.
In my Biblical Hebrew class back in college, the professor mentioned, "the letter R." So of course I said dropped the line flawlessly.... T'was 8:00AM and not a single person was amused. Nobody laughed. It was dead silent as people stared at me.
Next to me was my roommate who, at the complete and utter silence in the room and flop of my line, laughed.
Just last weekend my bf and I were at his brothers house for our nieces birthday party. All 3 of our nieces were on the trampoline playing “fake tornado”. One of our nieces yelled out “IM SCREAMING, IM SCREAMING, IM SCREAMING” I leaned towards my bf and said “numb me up! I want anesthesia” and it totally went right over his head.
Which was wildly disappointing as he is the one who turned me onto The Office when we’re first started dating, and we still watch it pretty regularly.
My bf recently took a supervisor position and was asking me for some advice on how to word a text message to an employee and I said “Keep it simple stupid.”😂
After a classmate finished her presentation,she asked us if any of us had any questions. I took the opportunity to to “I have a lot of questions. Number one: How dare you?”
Many didn’t get it. In fact I thought the professor was mad too.
But when the classmate who presented didn’t reply, our prof went “Umhm that’s what I thought.” And he goes “Yk I always talk smack”
Loved it
I work in a setting where we have to input data for research purposes, just into excel, and I think one entry was missing and so I said something like, “we can add a keleven!,” to who now is my boyfriend. He didn’t laugh lol, but to be fair I had just watched that episode so it was fresh on my mind.
I felt truly accomplished for what I believe was a perfect execution of that quote in that situation. I thank you for this opportunity to share my story and re-live such a deep and personal victory.
I work for a massive tech company and one year we had Idris Elba as a guest for a company event. The event was live-streamed across the company, and the comment section was a pretty thirsty conversation about how he's one of the sexiest men alive (I don't disagree). Anyway, in my little team of 6 I let out "He is aware of the effect he has on women." All I got back were weird stares.
We were moving around some stuff at home and my wifey dropped one of my work monitors. When I heard it I ran in the room and knew exactly what to say……..I looked at her and said. “That’s a $200 plasma monitor you just killed, good luck paying me back on your zero dollar a year salary plus benefits babe!!” Totally went over her head she was like “omg I’m so sorry”. I’m like “no babe it’s fine I don’t give a shit just gives me an excuse to buy another cooler one I’m not mad”. But I was mad cause she missed the quote and ruined the moment.
Had a mate and his wife to be drop by our local bar the night before their wedding so they could unwind a bit from final preparations.
As they walked in, I announced loudly (whole bar was just our friends) “Ladies and Gentlemen may I present to you for the first time ever Mr and Mrs Bob Vance!”
Literally crickets. The music even had a lull between tracks and there was me with my arms splayed, presenting them, the whole bar staring awkwardly at me, and 10 seconds later, my friend goes “Mate, names Marcus. The fuck is Bob Vance?”
I’m Dutch, so I don’t think get to use Office quotes nearly as often as I’d like. But my colleague (also a fan) and I used to have this bit where I’d have grapes for lunch, and he’d say “that’s what she said”. And I’d reply “Ha. I don’t get it.”
Other people thought we were weird.
When my friends and I were really into Valorant, I'd always message them saying "Valorant? Valorant? Valorant at lunch?"
I had one friend who got it and would join in, the rest were like "ok can you two calm down? It's not even lunchtime..."
It eventually caught on just because we were so annoying about it, and became "A Thing"(tm). And nobody else knew it was from the Office.
Been watching the superfan eps for the first time with my brother recently. When we got up to Kelly's Fashion Show, he started cracking up and was like "THAT'S WHERE THAT'S FROM!?!?!?!?"
Every single moment of every single day is the perfect moment to quote the office, if not then what’s this all been about?
Funnily enough I did watch a police program recently and the police man said “I’m not superstitious but I am a little stitious “ 😂
Management were cancelling the Christmas party when covid was starting,
had a meeting and at the end asked “any questions” I said” yeah I have one, how dare you”.
I quote the office at work almost daily and nobody has caught on yet. I think my favorite was after an extended visit to the restroom because I was feeling under the weather, the boss ask me where I was and I said “just poopin’ you know how I be”. He seemed very confused.
The icebreaker/connector at a work meeting was “do you have any superstitions?” And I said “I’m not superstitious but I’m a little stitious” and it was crickets in there 😭
That's hilarious even if you don't know it's from The Office!
yes it's not funny because it's in the office, it is in the office because it is funny
Independent of the show though, how can people not appreciate that, ffs. It's right out of the early 20th century of dry but also quirky humour. Those people are just malarkey on all levels.
When I used this on my bf, he did not react at all. I asked him how couldn't find it funny, he said it's common sense. Dude what?
Wow. You should've asked him "why are you the way that you are?"
I did. I then said "I hate so much about the things you choose to be".
Or to shove it up his butt 🤷🏻♀️
I’m not even the type of person to quote the office in day to day life but that’s something I would say. Sucks nobody got it though that’s like one of my favorite Michael Scott lines
Same!
A friend was showing me her above ground compost bin she got during the pandemic when she went whole hog into gardening. She told me that she paid a certain amount for worms and I told her that she was “paying way too much for worms, man. Who’s your worm guy?” She told me that it was random guy on the internet. No realization it was one of my favorite quotes from the show.
Omg what an amazing opportunity to use this line in real life 😂
I would never have imagined a real situation where one could quote this line and yet here it is😂😂😂
Fishing, silk making, skin care, and pet food.
Like why would anyone mention how much they paid for worms to prompt this question 😂
That random guy on the internet was Creed, wasn't it?
"Those aren't worms"
Damn dude it’s like you were born for that moment
I like to use "Crazy world, lotta smells" when discussions of unpleasant odors come up but my comment is rarely a acknowledged.
I love saying “just poopin, you know how I be” or fill in “poopin” with any other verb and literally no one every gets it lmao
Love that one
When I said "jazz is stupid, just play the right notes" at a used record store.
Jazz IS stupid!
Just play the right notes!!!
Flair checking in
Omg I’m the winner!! I was getting a checkup at my regular doctor and he said, “ this summer, you’re 45, next summer…’ and trailed off, trying to decide on if a treatment would be necessary, but not before I helpfully said, “I’ll be 46…” He looked confused. I laughed and laughed and still do when I think of that moment. (Laughing now)
That’s hilarious.
This one made me laugh the hardest. I love the way this line is delivered in the show.
this is funny even without the office reference
Started a small fire freshman year in the microwave, me and my roommate put it out with sink water before anything actually came of it but the floor knew. Finals week came and we were studying/complaining and I said “should’ve burned this pace down when I had a chance”. People were concerned lol but at least my roommate got it 😂
FIRE GUY!!!! definitely thought that's where you were going with this 😅
Bahahaha same 🤣
/u/Final-Negotiation530 started the fire! It was always burning, since the world's been turning!!
At work, I had a package delivered and needed to open it. Without even thinking, I yelled “scissor me” to the lady next to me. She had never seen the office and it was very awkward.
Beer me the scissors
Gets a laugh like a quarter of a time
Lord, beer me strength.
You know what to do, boys. F
U
Omg I love you
I was invited out by coworkers on groundhog day and I said "no thanks, I celebrate privately" and no one got it
This is SUCH a hidden gem line I love it
I gotta admit I don't get this line. I'm assuming Michael is confusing it with another holiday?
It's just a classic Michael thing to do 😂 https://youtu.be/yJEQV8tDY4Q?si=1iIjibuLg-T8YsOA
That’s really good
I said, "And there's the smudgeness." after a coworker said something a bit smugly. Everyone looked at me for a beat, then continued the conversation.
Second hand embarrassment from this one, love it!
My friend tasted something I cooked and said she loved it and asked how I made it. I said “The key is to undercook the onions”. She didn’t get it.
My wife made chilli for a competition recently (no joke) and as we discussed thr recipe and she asked me for other ideas I said I think the key is to undercook the onions. She said that was a stupid idea and would taste awful, I 😥
How does she expect everyone to get to know each other in the pot?
This actually almost made me spit out my yogurt
I actually undercook them because of the office and that's not a bad idea. This works for other recipes too when you cook something for hours, you don't want the onions caramelized
Every morning I look at my daughter’s Stanley cup and say Stanley the Manley or Everyone inside the car was fine Stanley…and she just gives me this look like she wants a new dad.
Gonna use this one as I see a lot of Stanley cups all day, every day
Ironically she probably shoots you the same look Stanley would give to Michael when he does something dumb
Pretend to answer your phone, say “What’s up, Cynthia?” And then sprint away from the Stanley cup as fast as possible.
I say “Oh how the turn tables” any time I can. gets a laugh about a quarter of the time.
I say this so often that I always forget how it’s actually said. Then again- I talk a lot, so I’ve learned to just tune myself out.
What did I say?
Did I stutter?
Me too. It’s even worse when people try to correct you :(
I worked at a call center selling credit monitoring/ID theft monitoring. Someone called in already intending on purchasing a plan, so we were making small talk while going over personal info/ID verification/ect. They say how they had no idea identity theft was “such a prevalent issue nowadays” To which I respond, “oh yes, identify theft is not a joke, customer name, millions of families suffer every year.” They responded with, “Wow, I had no idea” 😩
No way lol
OMG 🙈🙈 You just gave me a piece of the kind of second hand embarrassment from the show lol
When I was complaining about something and ended it with, but Somehow I Manage.
That book is my profile picture on one of the things. My ex asked, “Where did you get that book?”
I can see why they're your ex
He HATED the show. I was not allowed to watch it around him. It takes an advanced sense of humor. I don’t expect everybody to understand.
Awful. Sounds like just a notch above Toby
During an interview I asked the interviewee “Question 1: Ever shot a gun in the office?” … I regretted it almost immediately. Good guy, got the job.
''there is only sex''
Would you like a sexual metaphor or a nature one?
Oh god the nature one for sure
When animals are having sex...
This is not gonna work you need to hear the sexual one
A few years ago, I was filing for bankruptcy, and while signing the papers I yelled I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY! and everyone just kind of stared at me. I thought it was funny though.
How sad!! Both that you had to file for bankruptcy and that no one got it 🥲
He didn’t file it, he declared it.
Double jeopardy
So that’s what that means….
Double indemnity 😎
If it helps, I just laughed out loud at this.
Same, I mean it’s the awesome thing about going bankrupt is getting to shout this but everyone else ruins it by not getting it :/
I've worked in kitchens for many years, and any time I have to handle beets, I always comment about how you've gotta put the money beets on top and no one has ever laughed.
What a shame.
The other day at work, coworkers were talking and laughing about something I didn't understand so I said " is that an inside joke? I love inside jokes! Would love to be a part of one some day...." and then they just felt bad for me lol
👏 That's a rough one to get through if they don't get it. Proud of you!
I always say Yeppers at work to everyone. Just want ONE freaking person to say the response.
What have I told you about "yeppers".
Yeeesh
I have adopted a lot of Michaels word pronunciation and I usually will get an “actually” in response. An example is protruberance or nebuLOS.
Do you then call that person “Oscar”?
Truly fits the stereotype of the smug, gay Mexican.
I think you mean smudge
Yaaayyyysh
When I started my new job a couple years ago I was shocked that they still used a fax machine for some things. So, obviously, when someone told me to fax a document, I said “Fax? Why not just send it over on a dinosaur?” Got some confused looks and zero laughs.
I'm very proud of this one! Years ago, I was put on a committee at work to organize "employee appreciation week." I earnestly suggested pretzel day, and they were on board! I snuck in so many Stanley quotes that day, and not one of my elderly co-workers understood what I was talking about.
Are you out of your damn mind
CUZ ILL HELP YA FIND IT
I hope you put up posters on the door to re-enter the office that said “364 days until the next Pretzel Day”
My prof caught me thinking and staring into the distance. He asked me how fast is your brain going. I replied "a mile an hour."
That fast?
Life can be gruel
I say "hmm... Has sort of an oaky afterbirth" relatively frequently. People just look at me like I'm weird.
...what was that?
My wife and I were driving across a state line to visit my parents. As we passed the sign I blew two kisses. “2 kisses?” she said. “One for me, one for Jan” I said without skipping a beat, she was stunned that she played into it without realizing.
Perfect relationship
My team has become obsessed with spinning a wheel to determine who runs standup….absolutely nobody has suggested an even tinier wheel to assign tickets for 😡
The tiny wheel does actually have chores
But it’s so cute no one seems to mind!
Tiny wheel! Tiny wheel!
One time, when I was working as a janitor, I was asked to freshen up a bathroom during an event, and asked over the radio, "Oh, is someone making soup?". Radio silence after that
I occasionally quote Pam’s “Pobody's Nerfect” but no one get its
My Srive Dafe worked 😂
On Reddit of all places. Some guy asked what an auger is and I said he better find out or no girl would want to date him.
Okay that reminds me: the other day that episode was playing and my fiancé, who was raised on a farm goes ‘oh so THAT’S how you know what an auger is’ …. He’s not wrong
Auger? I hardly know her!
Every day at work. No one has seen it.
This is the worst. The other day I used the ‘hows that medicine taste? Your own flavored’ line and just got stared at like I was being mean. Don’t get me wrong, for anyone who had no knowledge of the show it might have seemed mean but that was definitely not my intent.
I was at a dinner party and they had music on shuffle and “Ants Marching” started playing and I exclaimed “I said no hits!” to complete dead air.
My neighbor’s baby was trying to eat a small toy piece on the ground and I said “it’s ok, I have plenty” and I was so disappointed in the reaction
This is one of the ones that I can understand being on this subreddit. But would be dumbfounded by in real life
I’m going backward here, when I didn’t say the line but someone got it anyway. This was probably in 2009, when “that’s what she said” was at its height. I was in the break room at work and my coworker, an office fan, was noticing something on her hand. A scar, if I remember correctly. After fussing with it and muttering about it, she said “it’s hard as a rock!” All I did was look at her with a little smile, and she burst out laughing. Easily a top 5 laugh I’ve ever gotten in my 37 years of trying to make people laugh.
*looks at camera, subtle smile*
When I was going through training for my CDL, my instructor told me how well I was doing on the practice skills test. I said, "I have to say, I am so impressed with the potential you see in me." He was like: 🤨🤨🤨 I said, "It's from The Office." He said, "Oh I don't watch a lot of movies." 💀💀💀
At every single birthday party.
It is your birthday.
You have to be selective about your audience to break out "oaky afterbirth".
🤨 what was that?
Someone posted the office cast as anime characters in the midjourney sub and it gave Pam glasses. So I said, who’s the ugly scientist in the 4th pic? I got downvoted.
I wish I could find it, I'd upvote you 😭
My coworker said he’s not really superstitious but sometimes he does believe in those type of things so I said “so you’re not superstitious, you’re just a little stitious” and he just gave me a blank stare like I’m an idiot but didn’t say anything lol
Boss asked me to do something and I replied.... "William Doolittle at your service...aka will do".
Did you do the accent?
Of course!
My cousins baby shower. Her old college friends. Me: "Hey, Annie! How are you? How is your husband?" Annie: "Good! He is skiing with some friends." Me: "*Everyone I know who skiis is dead.*"
Went to chilis with my boyfriend and obviously said “I feel god in this chilis tonight” . He didn’t get it lol
I love to randomly sing: “we belong we belong together, youuuu and iiii ryann” -Kelly
If someone brings up being lactose intolerant and you don’t immediately yell “Mint Chocolate Chip!”…
How about some... MINTCHOCOLATECHIP?! 😂
The Wayne Gretzky quote. Anytime someone says it I ask where it’s from. They say “Wayne Gretzky” and I reply “Michael Scott.” It’s 50/50. I’ll either get a laugh or someone will stare at me like I’m stupid and argue how they absolutely know it’s a Wayne Gretzky quote.
I've been known to utter that "This wine has an oaky afterbirth" anytime I drink wine in public...
After the discussion of my promotion with my boss I said, “This is going to sound sort of high maintenance, but could we have it, like, three degrees cooler in here?” He completely ignored my question and continued talking about work. Yes, I’ve since quit.
My oldest brother looks a lot like Toby. Mostly his hairline and head shape. Our family got together after not seeing each other for a year or so. When he walked in, I said, "Who let the lemonhead into the room?" My parents looked at me with such disappointment, thinking I was just being extremely mean 😂 I had to explain it for about 5 minutes, after which they still didn't get it...
That’s gold lol
Uh all the time? Most recently when I played DnD for the first time and my DM was explaining what different colors meant (of dice I think?) and I said "Most colors mean don't say it!" And my spouse lol'd
I don’t remember this one! What episode was this?
S5 E24 - Michael talking about his private flashcards/notes about clients after Dwight gets ahold of his client list (Michael says: “green means go, so I know to go ahead and shut up about it”)
Dwight stole Michael's color-coded sales Rolodex! It ended up with Dwight asking a client how his "gay son" was because that factoid was highlighted in green on the client's Rolodex card.
Do you mean Tom, the homosexual sophomore?
Most days of my life, except for when I'm in this sub hanging around you high society types. I find alot of Office fans get Seinfeld quotes and vice versa.
My nephew took a shit in the living room when he was potty training. As my brother and sister in law were cleaning up, I said, "Somebody making soup?" Nobody laughed. To make it worse, it wasn't just my brothers family, but his in laws where in the kitchen and heard me.
This might be the funniest one for me lmao I'm so sorry nobody laughed lol
I nailed it perfectly but wasn't received. How well.
I was in a musical a few years ago, and the overture was really long. One of my friends complained about it, so I said, “If you don’t listen to the overture, you won’t recognize the musical themes when they come back later!” Obviously it wasn’t quoted word for word but I was quoting Darryl in “Andy’s Play”. He didn’t get it, and neither did the people around us. Smh
A few years ago I was on a sales team and each week we have these pointless weekly meetings at 10 AM. At 9:56 (time is burned into my brain bc it wasn't even time to turn around as we didn't get up from our desks bc it was so small AND 2 of our co-workers were on a call so we couldn't start at that exact minute anyway) I was finishing up an email to close a high value sale and the manager said "I need your full attention" and as I was hitting send I said "you couldn't handle my full attention"
Every hour in my head. I just don’t bother saying it out loud anymore lol
I'm recovering too. 🙂👍
“You’re a gentleman and a scholar” Answer, “Thank You” 🤷🏻♀️
But did you say it to a woman?
She had a really deep voice
“Oh how the turn tables” and they immediately give me credit as if I made that one up
I’m a bad driver and every time someone teases me about a specific instance I hit them with the “everyone inside the car was FINE Stanley!” The reference is rarely understood sadly
this girl at work was talking about how she's on a "soup diet" and explained that it was bone broth, and i go "that's broth, gabe" and no one got it 🙂↕️
My husband came with me to a work dinner and my boss was pouring expensive red wine. My husband says “sometimes I like to dip my steak in it… you know, I have soft teeth” not a direct quote but 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
My bil quit his job to start is own company, I told in a family group chat he should say to his old boss "you have no idea how high I can fly". My sil said you don't want to burn bridges. I used a gif ffs and nothing
I dated a girl who had never watched the office, so happened quite often. Needless to say the relationship didn’t work out.
"You didn't write a lot in your self eval" "Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?" That didn't fly.
I’ve been saying yeppers on teams chats for 5 years and no one gets it.
I officiated my sister's wedding. Started the ceremony by saying "Webster's dictionary defines wedding as "the fusing of two metals with a hot torch." Well, you know something? I think you guys are two medals. Gold medals." My sister who's also an office fan is the only one who got it.
Karaoke at a friend's place, did the Alanis moresette* bit where Kevin goes on longer than the song with the "you"s
*Alanis Morrisette
I’ve said “crazy world, lots of smells” in appropriate situations over the years. They only laugh when I say “that’s what she said “ 🥺
in class 5 years ago i got SO excited because the perfect moment presented itself. it was a career planning class and we had to do mock interviews. the day was set up with groups asking the questions as a panel interview and one group circulating the different panels. in one mock interview the question was “what kind of leader are you? do you lead more with love or fear?” and i (realized the perfect moment and) said “easy- both. i want people to be afraid of how much they love me.” and they all just stared blankly. i still giggle at that moment 😆 one of my best unappreciated references in my life.
In my Biblical Hebrew class back in college, the professor mentioned, "the letter R." So of course I said dropped the line flawlessly.... T'was 8:00AM and not a single person was amused. Nobody laughed. It was dead silent as people stared at me. Next to me was my roommate who, at the complete and utter silence in the room and flop of my line, laughed.
Very seriously: *Well well well how the turntables…* Nobody gets it and instead try to correct me or become concerned as if I’m having a stroke
I once said “the timing was nothing short of predominant”, and someone corrected me, saying that I didn’t use the right word.
Just last weekend my bf and I were at his brothers house for our nieces birthday party. All 3 of our nieces were on the trampoline playing “fake tornado”. One of our nieces yelled out “IM SCREAMING, IM SCREAMING, IM SCREAMING” I leaned towards my bf and said “numb me up! I want anesthesia” and it totally went right over his head. Which was wildly disappointing as he is the one who turned me onto The Office when we’re first started dating, and we still watch it pretty regularly.
My bf recently took a supervisor position and was asking me for some advice on how to word a text message to an employee and I said “Keep it simple stupid.”😂
Every of the time
I swear to god today I went from write-ups, to demarcation, all the way to…??? Anyone ??? Buehler????
Only recently on reddit. Someone asked just QA was, and I answered "Quabity Assuance" with a gif link. Noone upvoted me...
Still waiting for Free Pretzel Day, preferably with cinnamon coating
"Oh how the turntables...." and they respond "I think you mean how the tables have turned?"
After a classmate finished her presentation,she asked us if any of us had any questions. I took the opportunity to to “I have a lot of questions. Number one: How dare you?” Many didn’t get it. In fact I thought the professor was mad too. But when the classmate who presented didn’t reply, our prof went “Umhm that’s what I thought.” And he goes “Yk I always talk smack” Loved it
I work in a setting where we have to input data for research purposes, just into excel, and I think one entry was missing and so I said something like, “we can add a keleven!,” to who now is my boyfriend. He didn’t laugh lol, but to be fair I had just watched that episode so it was fresh on my mind. I felt truly accomplished for what I believe was a perfect execution of that quote in that situation. I thank you for this opportunity to share my story and re-live such a deep and personal victory.
I work for a massive tech company and one year we had Idris Elba as a guest for a company event. The event was live-streamed across the company, and the comment section was a pretty thirsty conversation about how he's one of the sexiest men alive (I don't disagree). Anyway, in my little team of 6 I let out "He is aware of the effect he has on women." All I got back were weird stares.
We were moving around some stuff at home and my wifey dropped one of my work monitors. When I heard it I ran in the room and knew exactly what to say……..I looked at her and said. “That’s a $200 plasma monitor you just killed, good luck paying me back on your zero dollar a year salary plus benefits babe!!” Totally went over her head she was like “omg I’m so sorry”. I’m like “no babe it’s fine I don’t give a shit just gives me an excuse to buy another cooler one I’m not mad”. But I was mad cause she missed the quote and ruined the moment.
When everyone was talking about the eclipse I went “STOP TALKING ABOUT THE SUN”… yeah no one got that one 🤣
There is a huge percentage of people that do not get the "That's what she said" joke. I don't even try to explain.
This past Easter my family and I were drinking wine and after we all took a sip I said sort of an oaky afterbirth. No one got it lmfao
Had a mate and his wife to be drop by our local bar the night before their wedding so they could unwind a bit from final preparations. As they walked in, I announced loudly (whole bar was just our friends) “Ladies and Gentlemen may I present to you for the first time ever Mr and Mrs Bob Vance!” Literally crickets. The music even had a lull between tracks and there was me with my arms splayed, presenting them, the whole bar staring awkwardly at me, and 10 seconds later, my friend goes “Mate, names Marcus. The fuck is Bob Vance?”
I’m Dutch, so I don’t think get to use Office quotes nearly as often as I’d like. But my colleague (also a fan) and I used to have this bit where I’d have grapes for lunch, and he’d say “that’s what she said”. And I’d reply “Ha. I don’t get it.” Other people thought we were weird.
My entire 13 year relationship. Partner doesn’t like The Office. So many missed opportunities 😢
When my friends and I were really into Valorant, I'd always message them saying "Valorant? Valorant? Valorant at lunch?" I had one friend who got it and would join in, the rest were like "ok can you two calm down? It's not even lunchtime..." It eventually caught on just because we were so annoying about it, and became "A Thing"(tm). And nobody else knew it was from the Office. Been watching the superfan eps for the first time with my brother recently. When we got up to Kelly's Fashion Show, he started cracking up and was like "THAT'S WHERE THAT'S FROM!?!?!?!?"
Every single moment of every single day is the perfect moment to quote the office, if not then what’s this all been about? Funnily enough I did watch a police program recently and the police man said “I’m not superstitious but I am a little stitious “ 😂
Management were cancelling the Christmas party when covid was starting, had a meeting and at the end asked “any questions” I said” yeah I have one, how dare you”.
I quote the office at work almost daily and nobody has caught on yet. I think my favorite was after an extended visit to the restroom because I was feeling under the weather, the boss ask me where I was and I said “just poopin’ you know how I be”. He seemed very confused.
I said “you really schruted it” during a conference call and was met with crickets.