Great Scott quoteĮpisode: Michael Scott Paper Company (Season 5, Episode 23) Good times.īest line: "Wow! Halpert's got game!" - Dr. J recreates his famous under-the-basket reverse layup against the Lakers, with Jim playing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - Pam is dealing with the fallout of giving everyone in the office lice. While he's living out a childhood dream - at one point, Dr. J's private court, and the legend offers Jim a pair of Japanese Nikes. That's technically true, but the meeting is with basketball legend Dr. Then Jim is working with his company in Philly, and he has what he tells Pam is an important meeting. Jim thinks his Sixers are going to make it to the conference finals, but Daryl says to watch out for the Knicks and Nets. Office sports: The episode opens with Jim, Daryl and Kevin in the lunchroom, talking about the NBA playoffs. Now, maybe? We have a hoop downstairs and a real ball, so you don't have to mime it."ĭeangelo: "Only because no one has called NASA to request a liftoff." Cut to an ambulance taking Deangelo away.īest line: Jim: "Today. After they head down to the warehouse, Deangelo jumps over Kevin to dunk the basketball - but he hangs onto the rim. Right after he shouts, "The doctor is in!" the hoop comes crashing down on him. Then Deangelo brags that he can dunk from the free-throw line, and Jim suggests he should try it on the real hoop in the warehouse. Gabe calls him "Magic Jordan," because Gabe is dumb. That group is in Deangelo's office, where the new boss is giving a dunking clinic on the tiny hoop hanging on the office door. His replacement, Deangelo Vickers (played by Will Ferrell), picks his Inner Circle. Office sports: Michael has left to join Holly in Colorado. De DunkĮpisode: The Inner Circle (Season 7, Episode 23) To give you a reference point, I'm somewhere between a snake and a mongoose. "Got to pick it up if you're going to beat Toby!" Then she goes back inside.īest line: "I am fast. I mean, she brought a digital thermometer, not a stopwatch. She, of course, has no intention of actually timing him.
Dwight and Pam go outside for Pam to time Dwight running around the building. "Why's that great?" They start going back and forth, with Dwight (as Dwight does) saying he could do so much better than Toby because he outran a pepper snake the previous weekend.
"Great," Toby says, "I finished." Dwight, at the copier, scoffs. Office sports: Toby walks into the office, and Pam asks how his run the previous day went. Racing TobyĮpisode: The Merger (Season 3, Episode 8) And I really want a wife and kids." - Michael 18. There's no time to spend with your wife and kids. A bonus … during the 2006 NBC Winter Olympics preview, Michael is skating around wearing a Team USA jersey naturally, he checks Toby into the boards.īest line: "I thought about playing in the NHL, but you're on the road so much. When Kevin gets the call that his test comes back "negative," Michael throws down his gloves, rips off his fake Livestrong bracelet and gives Kevin a big hug - because, of course, he thought that was a bad thing. Of course, he check Toby into the boards at the first opportunity.
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Michael comes out in full hockey gear, including pads, a helmet, gloves and a stick.
Everyone's having fun skating - gingerly - around the rink.
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Office sports: Michael is actually awesome at ice skating, so he steers his birthday party to an ice rink, even though it's under the guise of being concerned for Kevin, who is waiting for the results of a test for skin cancer.
Do you really not know how Netflix works?" - KellyĮpisode: Michael's Birthday (Season 2, Episode 19) Karen loses everything.īest line: "What I do is this: I go online, I go click, click, click, and I change the order of the queue so I can see 'Love, Actually' as soon as I want to. And they bet on whether Creed will notice when they switch out his apple with an potato (he doesn't notice Toby, Pam, Ryan, Jim and Oscar win). They bet on how many jelly beans are in the bin at Pam's desk (49 Jim wins). They bet on how long Kelly can talk about how Netflix works (2 minutes, 42 seconds Ryan wins) and how many times she'll say awesome (12 Pam wins) and how many romantic comedies she'll mention (six Jim wins). It's hard to shake March Madness, you know? Kevin and Jim make the first bet - the over-under on how many people get their arms cut off in warehouse baler accidents every year - and it snowballs from there. Office sports: Kevin's going through a bit of betting withdrawal after the NCAA Tournament. Bets, bets, betsĮpisode: Safety Training (Season 3, Episode 19) (Quick note: We only considered actual sports moments for this ranking, not entire episodes). That's not even an exhaustive list of honorable mentions.Īnyway, on to the top 20 sports moments in The Office.