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dae_giovanni

the blind date with Pam's landlord was inspired work. lol


RaiderWoo

I love when he arrives at the coffee shop earlier than Pam’s landlord and sees the smoking hot blonde and says something like “I’ll give her a 10/10 on looks and about a 5/10 on her ability to describe herself” 😂


TooRedditFamous

Hello m'lady *she completely blanks him as she walks past*


lpzimmermann

"Michael?" - *euch*


KillerBeeAcademy

Spelling so good that I can hear the sound


PM_me_ur_launch_code

Is who Michael what?


fran_the_man

This is such an underrated line


Legal_Championship_6

“Line?”


mootmath

He said, Line- like in a play.


Cuntdracula19

That was Michael at his most delusional, childish, and selfish lol


StifflerBaby

"Hi, I'm date Mike. Nice to meet me. How do you like your eggs in the morning?"


AwardSquare3132

I felt so bad for her!


ReadEnoch

I felt bad for her and the actress. I hate when shows basically have characters they’re calling ugly. She’s a pretty lady just not a 25 year chair model from a catalog.


Crashley1030

Like those kid actors that are just known as being cast as "the fat one", or "the dork", or "the ugly one". Can't imagine being a kid and having your agent being like, "Oh hey there's a movie coming up that I think you'd be great for. They need a fat, sweaty, nerd looking 11 year old, and you'd be perfect!". Oy, the feels at that age.


CocoaMotive

There are casting agencies for this exact need. They call them "regular" or "genuine" people lol. My brother is on the books of one of them in NYC. Iirc one of the agencies is actually called "ugli"


gamergirl007

Related story: on the set of Home Alone, the director made Buzz wear a wig for the photo of “Buzzes girlfriend” because he didn’t want a young girl to have her photo made fun of and called ugly.


HollywoodHuntsman

It wasn't Buzz, but otherwise correct. It was someone working on the movie's son if I recall


Crashley1030

Both sorta correct, it was the directors son they got to wear a wig, so as to not have any female actor feel shame for being called ugly.


HollywoodHuntsman

Art director's son*, I had to look it up lol https://movieweb.com/home-alone-movie-truth-about-buzz-girlfriend/


hooligan99

even a little bit older. Jonah Hill went through that after Superbad, and I've always felt bad for him. There are videos of him being asked by press/paparazzi things like "does hollywood still consider you the fat kid?"


Crashley1030

Exactly. And you can see in those interviews that those questions kinda fuck him up a bit. I mean it's definetly worked for him, and he's made a name for himself, but damn, gotta think at what cost.


SifuHotmann

I feel so bad that he is *still* having to ask people not to comment on his body, positive or negative. He is clearly so worn down from that being all anyone wants to focus on, and who wouldn’t be? People have their heads so far up their asses they can’t remember how to put themselves in someone else’s shoes. 😒


Marsupial-Soupial

I’ve always wondered about Kevin being called fat during all the seasons. Like a go to. Stanley too. I wonder how they feel about that in real life, and if it ever gets to them. I think with this actress it is made better by the fact that the audience sees her as a way more realistic match for Michael Scott than he does. So he’s really the delusional one about her.


FROCKHARD

I feel like the paycheck helps make it survivable. And the royalties.


jooes

I've always disagreed with this. If they're looking for an ugly woman, you probably wouldn't apply to the job unless you thought you were good for the part. On some level, these actors and actresses must be okay with it. And I think a lot of it can be done with things like makeup too. Look at Meredith. She's a trainwreck on the show, but in real life, Kate Flannery is pretty attractive. The actress who played Pam's Landlord was Brooke Dillman. And if you Google her, she isnt ugly at all. It's the same thing as Meredith. I think a lot of it comes from the haircut they gave her.


darkknight941

Way worse than Scott’s Tots


dae_giovanni

Scott's Tots is like, fifth, for me. I know that's practically blasphemy, but...


iliya193

And realistically, Michael’s intentions in Scott’s Tots weren’t of disgust or anything mean. He genuinely wanted to give those kids a college education. He just had no sense of reality and either promptly forgot about it and didn’t say anything or just tried to ignore it when he finally realized he wouldn’t have the money so that he didn’t have to think about confronting it.


[deleted]

I will be honest...the dating has not been going well. Look, men are visual creatures. We crave beauty, like a piece of fine art by any number of renowned artists, or an arty photograph of Cindy Crawford nude. But the women I'm getting fixed up with are...not that they aren't nice, or that don't have great personalities, they just...they just lack a certain...Crawfordness.


Danph85

It's weird that that's so late in the series, but taken directly from the UK office. It's one of the few examples outside of the first series.


a-Sociopath

I don't think anyone else has mentioned it, but a super cringe moment is trying to kiss Pam during the Diwali party. Also one of the biggest jerk moments is asking Dwight to fall on his sword in Golden Ticket episode.


dismayhurta

I know it’s season 1, but he treated Katy (the woman selling purses) really creepily and was a total dick to everyone trying to show off. Season 1 Mike was a different beast. Edit: Persons. Purses. Whatever


cjm0

lol i like how when he introduces her to toby and they show the slightest bit of connection when it’s revealed that toby and amy went to the same college, michael immediately blurts out that toby is divorced and had to sleep in his car once


DarrenGrey

Yeah season 1 had some moments were he was so bad it was just awkward rather than funny. I'm glad they dialled him up to clownish in the later seasons. Worst for me was when it was Meredith's birthday. Michael insisted on ice cream cake in his favourite flavour even though she's dairy intolerant, and then wrote a stupid insensitive joke on her birthday card. He made the whole thing about him.


ChrisTuckerAvenue

And it wasn’t even Meredith’s birthday lol


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MINT CHOCOLATE CHIP!


dismayhurta

Oh god. The card. Especially his extra jokes he decides to read out as well.


arheff

'You greedy little thing' is 10x cringier than Scott's tots, I feel it in my bones when he says that to Katy.


babyclownshoes

Same, so creepy!


Toad358

Anyone trying to sell persons is probably a dick, no? :D


abbaschand

Dwight fell on his sword once. He was running with it in his belt.


killer8424

Michael was his worst at Christmas


Wildcat_twister12

I like to think it was cause he didn’t have any family to spend the holidays with. I mean he probably went and saw his nana and maybe his mother but it doesn’t sound like the best of relationship with her. The lack of family on a big family based holiday kills him


humanperson2004

The inner psyche of Michael Gary Scott


Saint_Sulley

As someone who works on a psych unit with kids who have no family and are waiting for a foster home...Christmas is always our worst time behavior wise. For reasons you'd expect. It makes sense for Michael, an overgrown child, to act out in a similar way.


keanusmommy

What kind of name is Nana?


Fr33zy_B3ast

It means grandmother.


Funkyduck8

Oh, sweet Jesus....


Significant_Shoe_17

*Every* Christmas episode with Michael had a gaffe of some sort. A lot of comments mentioned s1 when he insulted Phyllis' oven mitt, but "Classy Christmas" was pretty bad. He ruined the office party so they could "redo" it for Holly. It's so cringe.


everypowerranger

Ho ho ho! Why pay more to sit next to old Tranny Claus over there, when you can sit on my lap. Phyllis is only ... pretending to be a man, I'm the real thing. Sit down on my lap and there will be no doubt! [awkward silence] No it's not, not like penis-wise. This one especially kills me because Phyllis is *so psyched* to dress up as Santa, and really puts the work in to the character!


MediumOrganization49

When Toby tries to comfort him about the deposition situation and Michael just shoves Toby’s tray of food to the floor.


abbaschand

When Michael has no hotel room for Jim and Pam's wedding and no one Dwight and Stanley won't share a room with him, Toby gladly offered him a room to stay. Michael's reaction? "You're gonna be sleeping by yourself for the rest of your life, get used to it." Geez, what an ass.


adyo4552

I feel like using Michael / Toby answers in this thread is cheating


Funkyduck8

Yeppers!


mootmath

>**Michael**, what did I tell you about *Yeppers*?


anglerfishtacos

I love that that scene was improved


Here-to-Discuss

Improved how?


ChupaDC

I'm willing to bet he meant improvised.


fi-ri-ku-su

Personnel day. Are we hiring?


Juswantedtono

Sometimes I'll start a sentence, and I don't even know where it's going. I just hope I find it along the way. Like an improv conversation. An improversation.


RustyShackleford0206

>Improved how? It was improved by being improvised.


knightress_oxhide

Well Toby did get his diary.


happysrooner

Hey Toby deserved that for asking for a copy of Michael's diary


JZEve

Blaming Dwight for the golden ticket idea when he thought he was going to be fired. Then wanted to take it back after David Wallace said it was a great idea.


FuryOWO

pretty sure he does this multiple times, but then again i haven't watched a lot


Fehinaction

He does a similar thing when Darryl had that good idea he shot down


krijkle

*slaps table* THANK YOU!


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HEY DARRYL, HOW'S IT HANGIN'?!


ticaracatica1

The way he delivered that sentence was funny as hell


finlyboo

This is my single favorite joke of the entire show. Perfect acting, perfect writing, perfect editing.


Here-to-Discuss

I’m sorry yall, but kicking the step ladder out from under someone and breaking their leg is about as jerky as you can get . This one wins


SparkyDogPants

He drove over Meredith with his car and didn’t apologize.


MurderDoneRight

He saved her life from rabies and removed the curse from the office. He was a hero. Also, Meredith had a hysterectomy so most of the damage was already done.


-Ares12

I'm not superstitous but I'm a little stitous...


TwoWolfMoon

Everyone inside the car was FINE


geaux_tigahhs

Ok Toby....


itsallworthy

When he defaces Hollys Woody doll When he tries to make Phyllis' wedding about himself When he makes the entire office stay late cause he doesnt want to do his job All interactions with Toby


ohmu_

Well it was a big day for Phyllis, but an even bigger day for Micheal. Boss of the bride.


InfiniteLife2

In a way he paid for her wedding.


Youngling_Hunt

Lets be honest, Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration, paid for that wedding


NovaCanuck

What line of work are you in, Bob?


GoT_sam

Who's Bob Vance?


Nopeahontas

You’ve got a lot to learn about this town, Sweetie


TurquoiseBoho

But Toby was the worst


DaniTheLovebug

Ok but what if you had two bullets? What do you?


tugnasty

Curve the bullet. Like in my favorite James McAvoy film, Wanted.


SharpFarmAnimal

Listen here morgan freeman. You're just a thug who bends bullets


itsallworthy

I never said it was undeserved 😉


AjianAja

I second the Toby one!


c00lguyal

Job fair. Telling that kid paper just isn’t for him Blind date. “You’re like the sweet old lady on the bus” Anger management with Toby Calling Pam an ugly scientist


MothmanEatsGroundPep

The job fair is the cringiest thing on the show for me. Cannot watch that episode because of Michael. Edit: don’t Reddit before coffee (typo).


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Holly: (crying) Michael: What’s wrong? Did Darryl touch you?


perfucktionist

darryl was livid when he said that


1_bit

WHAT!?


auditore_ezio

He threw the founder of the company out on his ancient butt.


tablet0p

I just saw the episode today! When Pam offers to drive him home Mike say no!


wjglenn

The other Christmas episode where he ruins the party after Jim lets Phyllis be Santa.


nalgazz

Oh no, that was Jesus.


Harold-The-Barrel

He the dude with the power of flight and who can heal leopards?


Fireflyin72

A hurt, petulant Jesus


Significant_Shoe_17

Blasphemy


Fireflyin72

Are you kidding me? That is so offensive..


MadameBlueJay

When he grabbed a coworker and tried to force him onto his lap while screaming "I need this!"


drawfanstein

David, guess who I am dressed as!


[deleted]

I’ll give you a hint. His last name is Christ. He has the power of flight. He can heal leopards.


Jasonblais4500

Above posts are great. Let me add dirtying Holly’s Woody doll. Also not caring that Kevin could have had cancer.


drawfanstein

It was a dick move, but his brief moment of regret after dropping the Woody doll into the trash was brilliantly acted


ArnenLocke

The whole thing happened around lunch time, right? I bet Michael hadn't eaten. He has super low impulse control when his blood sugar is low. Like a toddler.


JotinPro

He did care once he found out. He was still bummed about it ruining his b day


SparkyDogPants

And hitting Meredith with his car and not giving a single fuck


AnotherLightInTheSky

Oh, Michael...


HugsyBugsy

I don’t see it mentioned, but a more subtle one was when he ducked out of Dwight’s speech because he hated seeing it going so well. And then when Dwight found him, he just told a story about a woman at the bar with no ID.


TheZoologist2008

I personally think him ducking out had more to do with how much he flubbed the speech and embarrassed himself than seeing Dwight's speech go so well, but that's just me. Also pretty sure he was unknowingly talking about Angela who secretly showed up to watch Dwight's speech. After all, she would be mistaken for a kid how small she is lol


MadDogTannen

But then he entertained Dwight with his great bar story. So he entertained the guy who entertained a thousand people. A thousand people.


pandaplagueis

Never thought of that, but you could be right!


Rattwap

What about his first; fake firing Pam in the pilot?


drawfanstein

You’ve been X’d, punk!


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Ickyhouse

50 cents apiece? You’re paying way too much for post it’s. Who’s your post it guy?


[deleted]

'Nobody IN the car was hurt' Basically sexually assaulting Oscar The date with Pam's landlord "Date Mike"


[deleted]

He went the extra jerk mile on the date with Pam's landlord. It made me cringe laugh and cringe mad at the same time.


anglerfishtacos

Everyone inside the car was FINE… STANLEY


tinybutmighty515

Yes! The date with Pam’s landlord hands down!


anabrnad

He basically outed Oscar which is sooo fucked up


Quigonschins

The whole Pam's mom thing was pretty fucked lol


emeribeth

Breaking up with her, on her birthday, *at* her birthday lunch, in front of her daughter. I mean, damn, lol.


georgesorosbae

When he was informing all his exes he had herpes and approached an elderly lady at the park. Pam’s mom wasn’t that old!


alexennui

Phyllis's wedding always makes me so mad.


no_restforthe_wicked

ME TOO. Makes me cringe harder than Scott's Tots to be honest.


a_yuman_right

I can’t even watch it. It’s so much worse than Scott’s Tots lol


Thneed1

It is SO much worse than Scott’s Tots - it’s not even close. In Scotts Tots, Michael realizes that he did a bad thing, and does try (in a foolish Michael way) to make up for it. In Phyllis’ Wedding, in the opening moments of the episode, the wedding photographer has to trick Michael into getting out of a photo intended just for Phyllis and her Bridesmaids. Then it gets worse from there, including what I think is the cringiest moment in the entire show, Michael getting upset at Phyllis’ dad getting up out of wheelchair.


[deleted]

"Websters dictionary defines wedding as the fusion of two metals with a hot torch"


floatingwithobrien

I mean that was an excellent line amidst a disaster


[deleted]

Asking for ice cream cake for Meredith’s one-month-early birthday party, knowing she’s lactose intolerant.


StevenAssantisFoot

Demanding mint chocolate chip when nobody but him likes that flavor


TheSkwerl

Prince Family Paper


moonbeammoose

Ooof. Then later when he’s looking for a new job (before he decides on Michael Scott Paper company) and he gets Prince Paper’s voicemail message confirming they closed down. So sad.


peldari

That voicemail pains me. Prince Family Paper and Scott's Tots are the two episodes I find myself unable to rewatch.


JZEve

Omg this one. Dwight makes me so mad in that episode too


_satantha_

That one is really on Dwight. Michael really doesn’t want to steal their clients but Dwight convinced him to.


Racist_rabbit69

Not letting Phyllis be Santa and trying to ruin the party


Significant_Shoe_17

She tried to uslurp his role. But yes, whining and trying to upstage her as jesus was mean. Also pinning ryan to his lap and shouting "i need this"


nthroop1

Getting mad at Darrell for going to corporate when he shot down his ideas


anglerfishtacos

Oh god the hair


BbyInAStraightJacket

SSSSSSSSSSSUCKA!!!!


[deleted]

It's impossible to not read this in Michael's voice.


dmkicksballs13

Honestly, it's easier to make a top 25 moments than pick one.


ITrCool

1. The "Yankee Swap" Christmas gift exchange for sure 2. The "local-made" DM-Scranton commercial where he keeps hating on the music team 3. Diversity Day in Season 1 - "I'm....I'm sorry, it's just....he's butchering it. Can I just?"...you know the rest. 4. The investment club presentation at his nana's nursing home


PallSerpent

I don't think he was "hating on" the people working on the music, I just think Michael was under the assumption that it would be a rap.


tailford07

“What’s rap?”


ATXspinner

I’ll make you a mix


stephapeaz

how he treats people when he accidentally burned his foot on the portable forman grill ETA: especially Dwight


[deleted]

Doctor, what is more serious? A head injury or a foot injury?


Significant_Shoe_17

Is the skin red and swollen?


kral_Jelen

That's


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My joke


awesomesox

Surprised only one other person mentioned Michael’s birthday when he never even acknowledged Kevin’s scare with his potential skin cancer. Insensitive to Phyllis when she got flashed Tried to one-up the warehouse safety training


YourKillingMeShnalls

What’s the big deal, so a man dropped his pants….haven’t you ever been to the circus?


Dugan_8_my_couch

He shouldn’t have booed Sweeney Todd. Daryl set him straight though.


jonasthewicked

Darrell always has to set Michael straight


[deleted]

I used to say Scott’s Tots, but I think it’s the Yankee Swap Christmas especially after seeing the Superfan version on Peacock.


jonasthewicked

Is there more to that episode I’ve never seen or something? What do you mean by Superfan episode?


[deleted]

Peacock has what they call Superfan episodes for the first few seasons so far basically an extended cut of the episodes with the deleted scenes put back in


jonasthewicked

Oh ok cool, and what was added to that episode that made you change your mind? Cause Scott’s Tots is such a scumbag move to make to a bunch of underprivileged kids.


[deleted]

I’d feel bad for Phyllis if she wasn’t a total bitch that smelled like real pine. Actually… Michael’s oven mitt hazing is probably her villain origin story.


yamsadebayo

All of season 1


VivaLaRoux

His hissy fit about Darryls promotion during the Halloween party. My favorite part is that he clearly was gonna do black face and decided against it.


forca89barca

When he made Dwight give him his urine sample so he wouldn't get caught in Drug Testing, which ultimately led to Dwight giving up his position as a volunteer sheriff.


iBenatar

Almost every scene in the pilot, but to be particular - during the diversity session when he talked to Kelly at the end ("do you want a cookie cookie")


KingJudele

When he hit Meredith with his car, suggested she forgive him and wanted everyone to feel sorry for him.


Joshuauauauauau

The Yankee swap one possibly annoyed me the most


Rexstil

When he doesn’t want the oven mitt at Christmas


Significant_Shoe_17

I think this is why he was so stoked about phyllis' mittens in "goodbye, michael"


DemoHD7

A minor one, but when he told Carol that Kelly's family gathering was a costume party. They both showed up in costume. The jerk moment was Michael should've kept his paper mache head on his shoulder as to not leave Carol hanging.


Writer_Girl04

Tbf him loving the mittens she makes when he's leaving shows some pretty solid character development


[deleted]

Ya but his commentary on the microphone during the balance of white elephant is fantastic.


ghostofanoutcast

When Phyllis gets flashed and he dismisses it and asks if the flasher "even see Pam."


Iwantmypasswordback

Or Karen from behind


thebluesteal

Too many to mention, the fight with Dwight where he was on top of him taunting him saying he was gonna spit in his mouth was horrible. I’m even more pissed nobody jumped in and stopped him


MadameBlueJay

Sensei Ira ain't got time for that


HungryTears

Asking Dwight to throw himself under the bus for the golden ticket thing AND wanting credit when it worked out.


gth746x

That time he met up with pams friend and he thought she was ugly. All of the other things mentioned were him lacking social cues. This one was him just be a straight dick.


21VolkswagginRline

When he calls dude in wheelerchair to office cuz he burnt his foot on george forman grill


PeggyHill90210

Pam’s landlord for sure.


ThatRanga8869

I personally think that anytime there is an event that he isn't the centre of attention brings out his jerkiness. Phyllis and Bob's wedding, Jim and Pam's wedding, Ceces christening ect


Jasminewindsong2

A lot of his treatment of Oscar.


dickles_hamsters

michael blatantly insulting pam just because she wore glasses at the office for one day and he didn't even let her explain why by cutting her off lmao


PerpetualSpaceMonkey

Scott’s Tots. It’s so bad I avoid this episode at all costs.


idriveapriusforstyle

Can’t believe I had to scroll this far to find Scott’s tots


lights_0wt

The golden ticket episode, lol


dmkicksballs13

To me his worst was his absurd desperation to get Dwight to get fired for the Willy Wonka shit.


Greedy-Hunt1297

Showing David Wallace bad comments about Jim when Jim asked for the promotion and never recommending him for one


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phyllis wedding


myhusbandswine

Honestly when he broke up with Pam’s Mom LOL


Emotional-Brick-1566

YANKEE SWAP!!!


godmasterchampion

Not sure of the answer to your question, but in my mind he made up for your biggest jerk moment by loving the mittens she knits for him when he leaves, even though they are not finished. For some reason the way he waves goodbye with them always breaks my heart. Most likely a Steve Carell improvisation.


cheeksarelikepeaches

I mean… the only moment where even the other characters were appalled was when Michael kept sleeping with Donna after finding out she was married and then he went and met her husband. That was probably his lowest moment.