For seven seasons on The Office, Michael Scott has served as the crazy crown prince of cringe while being responsible for more lost man hours Read the full post.
Apr 28
2011
06:05 PM ET
'The Office:' Mindy Kaling, B.J. Novak, and Paul Lieberstein have picked their favorite Michael Scott moment. What's yours?
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I loved it when Michael was talking to Jan right after he found out she was pregnant, and looked at her in full sincerity, and stated, “You cheated on me when I specifically asked you not to?”…He delivered the line with betrayal and hurt and still so comedic! One of my favorite lines of the whole show!
that’s a great one– that sticks out to me too. such a pure version of his outlook on humanity, constant belief that the simplicity of loyalty will always prevail.
I’m surprised no one put from the first Christmas episode:
“Unbelievable! I do the nicest thing anyone has every done for them and they freak out. Well, Happy Birthday Jesus, sorry your party is so lame.”
CLASSIC
Probably the most inappropriately hilarious line ever delivered: “Yes. It is true. I, Michael Scott, am signing up with an online dating service. Thousands of people have done it, and I am going to do it. I need a username, and… I have a great one. “Little Kid Lover”. That way people will know exactly where my priorities are at.”
I realize I am in the absolute minority, but I for one always hated Michael’s childish hatred for Toby. I DID laugh at the “why are you the way that you are” line though, and it still stands out in my mind, so these things must have been played well, but the bullying nature of these things always bothered me, and I never got on board and thought it showed such infantile superficial traits from an already immature character. (This is why, again probably only me, hated how Jim and Pam teases and pranks Dwight, because at some point it just becomes bullying, and as “the straight people” of the show, this was a real weakness in their characters, which does not have a counterpart in the Britsh version.)
My favorite Michael moment would have to be the booze cruise dance or when he quit (to start the Michael Scott paper compandy).
*company
Wow, typing is apparently not something I do either.
There was an episode where Michael is trying to impress a client, a black purchasing agent from a school district. He takes him to a “fancy” restaurant and it turns out this guys wife was very sick or dying, and a very different sort of Michael comes out and turns out to be real and caring. He closes the deal too. It was pretty heartwarming.
I love all the blooper reels on the dvds. I love seeing Steve and the others crack each other up. Loved the episode where he ordered the inferior pizza and took the delivery kid hostage and told Jim his request for extra pizzas was not a ransom request. Meanwhile Oscar, Stanley and Kevin are looking up jail time for accomplishes online.
Yes and the pizza kid is Artie from Glee!!
Love the part of the episode when someone calls and Pam tells Michael who’s on the line, he says something stupid but she hasn’t connected him yet. She says – it’s still me. Then when she puts the person through, he just says – hello. This happens a couple of times. Cracks me up every time I see it.
“Mrs. Levinson, I presume”
“You don’t call retarded people retards, it’s bad taste. You call your friends retards when they’re acting retarded”
YES!!! That was such a classic line, I’ve heard so many people repeat that.
I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!!!
Or how about at Phyllis’s wedding when michael gets upset about her father being able to get out of the wheelchair and walk, and then joins the groomsmen on the altar.
Love, love reading the comments on this thread. Thank you EW.
When Michael thinks the branch is closing, he tells the staff they could lose their jobs and then he scrunches his face into the most hilarious look I’ve ever seen a human being make…I cry with laughter when I see that.
i love when michael is meeting with a corporate lawyer for… is it a sexual harassment episode? diversity day? i can’t remember. jan and toby are meeting with michael because he’s just not being agreeable in going through a sensitivity training of some kind– i can’t remember. anyway, suddenly an enthusiastic bush league lawyer bursts into the office, and michael informs that he’s hired a lawyer, as if to combat the corporate lawyer. jan informs him that the corporate attorney is michael’s attorney, and the following talking head is the most realistic, hilarious human nature portrayal steve carell pulls of in the 7 years of the show (which is saying a lot). he says, “i’m always so used to being the bad boy, to fighting corporate, that sometimes i forget i am corporate.” he pauses and scratches his eyebrow with his thumb i think. “they fixed me up with a lawyer…. to protect me.” i don’t know what it is– but he’s someone totally different than steve carell in that moment. he’s that thin lipped, idiot we all know in our professional lives, or all are at moments of strange weakness and uncertainty– where we can’t admit who we are, are even too aloof to know what it is we’ve done wrong– where we come from. but he’s just that smarmy, high voiced ferret of a strange human being. he’s truly michael scott in that moment. he’s truly unaware. truly so out of touch with himself, his surroundings, and pushed and driven by his pride and his needs. so great.
I really like when Michael does the Hitler impersonation in the first episode.