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10 Food Moments from The Office
From Christmas goose roadkill to staplers encased in Jell-O
By Roxanne Webber
The Office is so stuffed full of squirm-inducing hilarity it’s hard to think clearly about our favorite bits. But following the lead from a Chowhound thread discussing the best food moments on the show, we spent a good few hours scouring the Internet for our most-loved segments, and we proudly call it work well done.
1. George Foreman Grills: Hazardous to Feet. Michael needs rescuing after burning his foot in a George Foreman grill: “Today I got up, I stepped onto the grill, and it clamped down on my foot. That’s it. I don’t see what’s so hard to believe about that.” We learn that kindness, in the form of some meds ground up and hidden in pudding, heals all.
2. Very Nutritious but They Smell Like Death. Creed is ahead of the trend, sprouting mung beans in his desk drawer. Unfortunately it’s also the source of his old-man smell.
3. Roadkill Christmas Goose. Dwight runs over a goose and declares it a Christmas miracle. What else would you do with a goose but clean it in your car and then roast it with a wild rice dressing?
4. Coupons Are Good, Kidnapping Is Not. When the pizza delivery kid won’t take Michael’s coupon, he does what any reasonable person would do: kidnaps him. The pizza joint does not negotiate with terrorists.
5. Dinner Party from Hell. A dinner party at Michael and Jan’s leaves us with some valuable entertaining tips: Don’t leave the video camera set up in your bedroom if you are going to give guests a house tour, don’t dip meat into your wineglass with your fork, and don’t describe your wine as having an “oaky afterbirth.”
6. Jell-O Stapler. We couldn’t make this list without mentioning the classic Jim prank: putting Dwight’s stapler in Jell-O. It’s 26 seconds into this YouTube montage of his greatest hits.
7. Don’t Use the Oven Setting. The office is evacuated after a kitchen fire, started when Ryan cooks his cheese pita in the toaster oven on the “oven” setting rather than the “toast” setting. This prompts Dwight’s rousing remake of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire.”
8. Better Than a Splash of Water. Michael reveals that he likes Splenda in his single malt.
9. Add to Résumé: Excellent Cheese-Puff-Throwing Skills. It’s hard getting the Michael Scott Paper Company off the ground; they can only cold-call so many people. But there’s plenty of time to practice throwing cheese puffs into one another’s mouths.
10. Motivational Drinking. It seems like a leadership training exercise is just low-hanging fruit for the Dunder Mifflin staff, while a leadership training exercise on a booze cruise with “snorkel shots” is ripe fruit.
My favorite was Jim and Pam's visit to Schrute Farms for a weekend full of beets, beet wine, and table-making. I would have imagined vacation to have a lot less manure. Some manure. Just less.
I'm a huge fan of Britcoms, but I had no love of the British version of the Office. However, I LOVE the American version. Steve Carrell is so much more convincing in the role than Ricky Gervais.
Or the time when Michal 'carb loaded' on a massive plate of fettuccine alfredo 5 minutes before his charity run (to find the cure for rabies.)
I grew up in the Scranton/Carbondale area. We totally eat roadkill. Regularly.
Weirdly enough tatamagouche, a lot of Brits think that the US version takes the original and goes further, making it better. It's certainly funny but the American version lacks something...not sure what, maybe the emotional side of the relationships?
Kevin's chili!
Michael's morning 'coffee" during a delivery from the Michael Scott Paper Company, just milk and sugar!
I hate to be a downer, I do like the American version. But it never will compare to the original Brit version—from which the stapler-in-the-Jello bit comes verbatim.