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Power Family: Stanley, Phyllis and Andy
Stanley’s Best Moment: Season Five, Episode Two: Weight Loss Part 2
When he takes off 5 extra days for vacation anyway as a reward to himself for losing seven pounds over the summer
Stanley’s Worst Moment: Season Two, Episode Twenty-One: Conflict Resolution
After his complaint comes out that Phyllis cries too much and she says they’re close he replies “we sit close” when you can see she’s clearly upset and feels she’s getting ganged up on
Stanley’s Best Line: Season Four, Episode Twelve: Did I Stutter?
Line: “It’s like I used to tell my wife, I do not apologize unless I think I’m wrong. And if you don’t like it you can leave. And I say the same thing to my current wife and I’ll say it to my next one too”
Stanley’s Most Memorable Moment: Season Six, Episode Twenty-One: Happy Hour
After doing 26 pushups and getting to go home early he just says “excuse me” and just leaves for the day
Phyllis’ Best Moment: Season Six, Episode Ten: Murder
When she does well fooling everyone (but Dwight) that she was the murder as Beatrix Bourbon; and how upset she gets when she’s outed by Michael.
Phyllis’ Worst Moment: Season Nine, Episode Eighteen: Promos
When she makes everyone uncomfortable as she humps everything around her while listening to 50 Shades of Grey on tape.
Phyllis’ Best Line: Season Seven, Episode Twenty-Two: Goodbye Michael
“But, you can’t get them wet, and they can’t be dry cleaned either. You have to hand was without water, ring dry gently, and use a hair dryer on cool.”
Phyllis’ Most Memorable: Season Five, Episode Eleven: Moroccan Christmas
“Oh I don’t think its blackmail, Angela just does what I ask her to do so I won’t tell everyone that she’s cheating on Andy with Dwight. I think for it to be blackmail, it would have to be a formal letter”
Andy’s Best Moment: Season Eight, Episode One: The List
When he doesn’t accept Robert California’s bullshit explanation of why it’s okay he called people losers.
“But, you don’t know these people but I do and if I let you work with fault information than I’m not doing my job as regional manager”
Stanley, you may think he is a lazy grump but did you know he has the most consistently high sales numbers of anyone in this office
Meredith Palmer, supplier relations, the word no, not even in her vocabulary
Pam, easily the most creative and kind person I have ever worked with
Erin, the receptionist and my closest confidant, a winner if there ever was one
Andy’s Worst Moment: Season Nine, Episode Sixteen: Moving On
When he hires Alice and Gabe, Pete’s and Erin’s exs, to “prove a point” about how working with an ex while they are in a new relationship at the office isn’t something you just “move on from”. Yes it’s rough but Erin and Pete weren’t obnoxious about their relationship, but also, Gabe could probably guess on some level why he was getting hired and at least knew Erin would be there. We have no idea what Alice left or why, it was really messed up and selfish.
Andy’s Best Line: Season Four, Episode Three: Launch Party
When he gets his acapella group to help him sing a song in asking Angela out
“If you change your mind, I’ll be first in line.
Honey I‘m still free, take a chance on me.
If you need me, let me know, gonna be around.
If you got no place to go, if you’re feeling down.
If you’re all alone, when the pretty birds have flown.
Honey I’m still free, take a chance on me.
Gonna do my very best, and that ain’t no lie.
If you put me to the test, if you let me try.
Take a chance on me”
Most Memorable: Season Six, Episode Thirteen: Secret Santa
When he got Erin the 12 days of Christmas, even though he could have done the first days with just the birds differently, pushing to the 12 drummers drumming was perfect.
Michael (Gary Scott)
Michael’s Best Moment: Season Seven, Episode Four: Sex Ed
Earlier when Michael calls to tell Holly that he has herpes (he doesn’t) she tells him how he made them out to be more than they were. After he sees a lot of his ex’s and he tries to talk to her again explains how she’s wrong because 1) he remembers every second of them, 2) his feelings for her were more than the others, 3) they joked together, 4) she was the only one happy to hear from him and how he didn’t make them up.
Michael’s Worst Moment: Season Two, Episode Ten: Christmas Party
Michael’s temper tantrum following getting Phyllis’ oven mitt when he bought Ryan an iPod and ends up ruining, or at least seriously dampening, the Christmas Party 1st, by changing Secret Santa into Yankee Swap, 2nd how he sarcastically compliments Phyllis’ oven mitt (especially in mentioning how you can tell how much she worked on it) then following it up with (3rd) calling a Meredith a sucker for taking it, and 4th, asking Dwight how the paintball gun and party is “better than an iPod”, 5th, blames Phyllis and then 6th getting pissed off at everyone for being upset with him with the final moment being when (7th) he tells everyone he got a bonus because he fired Devon.
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Michael’s Best Line: Season Five, Episode Twenty-Five: Broke
As head of The Michael Scott Paper Company and in the meeting with David Wallace, in response to David low-balling the buy-out offers Michael replies:
“I’ll see your situation and I’ll raise you a situation. Your Company is losing clients left and right, you have a stock holder meeting coming up and you are going to have to explain to them why your most profitable branch, is bleeding. So they may be looking for a little change in CFO, so I don’t think I have to wait out Dunder Mifflin, I think I just have to wait out you” to David Wallace (Season Five, Episode Twenty-Five: Broke)
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Michael’s Most Memorable: Season Five, Episode Twelve: The Duel
A moment that truly describes Michael is his “improve conversation” line to David.
“David here it is, my philosophy, is basically this. And this is something that I live by, and I always have, and I always will. Don’t ever, for any reason, do anything, to anyone, for any reason, ever; no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with or, or where you are going or, or, where you’ve been. Ever, for any reason whatsoever--”
Ryan <3 Kelly
Ryan Howard
Ryan’s Best Moment: When he ‘empties’ out his desk during Cleaning Day but nothing is there (Season Two, Episode Eleven: The Secret)
“If I had to, I could clean out my desk in five seconds; and nobody would ever know I had ever been here. And I’d forget too.” *sighs*
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Ryan’s Worst Moment: He mentions to Kelly and Pam that he doesn’t ever see himself after getting married after Kelly notes she’d like to get married in June and asks Ryan when he’d like to get married. Pam asks that he be more sensitive to Kelly’s feelings for him. Pam mentions to Ryan that he should be nicer about what he says since Kelly clearly is interested in him. (Season Two, Episode Seventeen: Dwight’s Speech)
“I know what I said”
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Ryan’s Most Memorable Moment: When Ryan get’s delivered new business cards on the day they are told the branch is closing (Season Three, Episode Seven: Branch Closing)
“It makes perfect sense that it would happen today because I just received this in the mail—a thousand business cards with this address and phone number”
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Ryan’s Best Line: Ryan gives “a reason” but really every reason for why he cannot go out with Michael, Andy and others to lunch so Jim can’t provide another reason. (Season Three, Episode Ten: A Benihana Christmas)
“Oh man I can’t, I’m not feeling so well. I got a ton of work to do here, MSG allergy, peanut allergy, I just ate their last night” (Season Three, Episode Ten: A Benihana Christmas) when he first gives Michael excuses to why he can’t go to ‘Asian Hooters’ and then the rest to Jim
Kelly Kapoor
Kelly’s Best Moment: When getting the Women in the Workplace Training from Jan and they’re going over sports metaphors about successes and failures in the workplace Kelly refocuses it on romantic sports metaphors, poking at Jan’s recent romantic interactions with Michael (Season Two, Episode Fifteen: Boys and Girls)
“What about second base? Like, if Michael said he got to second base with you. Does that mean you like, closed a deal? I mean that’s a baseball term right?”
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Kelly’s Worst Moment: When she tells Ryan he got her pregnant when he’s back visiting the branch after getting promoted (Season Four, Episode Two: Dunder Mifflin Infinity)
At first she solemnly nods no to the camera expressing she’s not pregnant but as we learn he agrees for them to talk in private after work about ‘everything’ she gets all excited and chirps “We have a date!”
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Kelly’s Most Memorable Moment: When another interesting thing finally happens in the office. (Season Eight, Episode Seventeen: Test the Store)
“Will someone explain what’s going on here. Since the interesting thing happened, so much time has past. It feels like my life is buffering”
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Kelly’s Best Line: Kelly explaining how she’s *so smart* following the minority executive training program…but she’s still Kelly (Season Seven, Episode One: Nepotism)
“You guys, I’m like really smart now, you don’t even know. You could ask me ‘Kelly, what’s the biggest company in the world?’ and I’d go blah blah blah, blah blah blah’ giving you the exact right answer”
