OfficeTally Survivor Poll: Season 7
Thursday, August 25th, 2011 | 440 comments
OfficeTally Survivor Poll is a series of fan polls posted in the summer following a full season of episodes. Similar to the Survivor reality show, you’ll “vote off” your least favorite Season 7 Office episode in each poll, until the lone survivor and most popular episode remains.
Final status
In results that should surprise no one, the episode Goodbye, Michael has won Survivor Season 7 as the ultimate survivor! Dwight K. Schrute, (Acting) Manager landed in the number 2 spot.
I’ll be randomly picking three winners from the Survivor Season 7 Giveaway (delayed until this weekend), and then we’ll move on to the final big poll of the summer, the All-Time Fan Favorite Poll.
Thanks for playing Survivor! Here are the final rankings.
The Office Season 7 Survivor Rankings, final
- Goodbye, Michael
- Dwight K. Schrute, (Acting) Manager
- Garage Sale
- Classy Christmas
- Michael’s Last Dundies
- Threat Level Midnight
- Costume Contest
- PDA
- Andy’s Play
- China
- Ultimatum
- Counseling
- Search Committee
- Nepotism
- The Search
- WUPHF.COM
- Sex Ed
- The Sting
- Viewing Party
- Training Day
- The Inner Circle
- Todd Packer
- The Seminar
- Christening
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@#442-444 – Mybad. I’d forgotten that Pam tears up in “Niagara” and “Pilot”, neither of which is a great episode IMHO. So the rule has a couple of exceptions, but is mostly solid. :-)
By my rough calculation, Pam has teared up in:
S1: The Pilot
S2: Boys and Girls, Casino Night (sort of)
S3: Back from Vacation, The Job
S4: Goodbye, Toby (again sort of)
S5: Dream Team
S6: Niagara
S7: Classy Christmas, Goodbye, Michael
Some fair to great episodes, but not really a guidepost for best of the series I’d say.
@Patrick I agree with that tip – But Pam tears up in Niagara, so i guess that’s not always the case for you? Come on, Niagara will be in the top 5, and it deserves to be.
#440 Patrick – You lost me. I remember Pam tearing up at the end of Casino Night, and maybe during the comic book scene of Classy Christmas. Did she tear up in others on your list, and I’m misremembering?
And how did The Job, the legendary *Pam in tears of joy* not make your list??
Correction: my favorite episode of season 5 is NOT “Michael Scott Paper Company”. I meant to say “Dream Team”.
As long as “Niagara” is not in the top five, I will be happy with the all-time poll.
My all-time favorite episodes of “The Office”, you ask? Well, they would be disproportionately from season 2 and 3…so instead I’ll list my favorite episodes by season:
S1 – Diversity Day
S2 – The Dundies (close runners-up: The Fire and Casino Night)
S3 – A Benihana Christmas (close runner-up: Beach Games)
S4 – Dinner Party (close runner-up: Goodbye Toby)
S5 – Michael Scott Paper Company
S6 – Murder (close runner-up: Happy Hour)
S7 – Classy Christmas
Here’s a good tip: any episode in which Pam tears up is a certifiably great episode. Think about it.
I wonder how different (if at all) the results would be if we did this poll in reverse. What we’ve determined is that Goodbye, Michael is the least disliked episode. Each week we voted off the one we hated most. What if each week we voted for the one we liked most? So week one everyone can vote for their true favorite episode. Then their favorite of the ones that are left each week. Some have talked about a few episodes being disliked by a minority of viewers (me and my disdain for PDA for example). Those episodes may have done better in this format.
Yeeeessss!!!!! I always knew “Goodbye Michael” would get higher!!!!!
Come on folks, there is no way Goodbye Michael comes anywhere close to Casino Night, or for that matter any number of Season 2 episodes, at the top of the list. I know it was the best of Season 7, but let’s not get crazy.
To be fair, if any episode has to dethrone Casino Night, Goodbye, Michael is the only option. But i still say Casino Night FTW.
Goodbye, Michael 2nd and Niagara in 3rd respectively.
That ending in the airport between Michael and Pam is so beautiful. A true highlight, and worthy of the top spot. It symbolizes just how much there friendship evolved. They took care of each other, it was what made Pam do the things she did for him like going with him to start MSPC, or what made Michael hang her painting in the office when he realized what it meant to her, and it’s what made her chase him down just to say goodbye. That is a clear indicator that there was some form of love there. Goodbye, Michael #1!!!
All-Time best?
5. The Deposition
4. Branch Closing
3. Niagara
2. Casino Night
1. Goodbye, Michael
Goodbye Michael just trumps Casino Night, in my opinion. Think about it: the writers were given the daunting task of SENDING OFF MICHAEL SCOTT!! there really is no greater challenge. Casino Night was amazing, I won’t deny that, but Goodbye, Michael had enormous expectiations set beforehand, and yet without a doubt met..nay, exceeded, those expectations.
also Tanster, what were your favorite episodes of this season?
[from tanster: the episode that i was rooting for to get higher up in the ratings was 'the sting.' one of my favorite episodes of the season!]
@Patrick: Your sarcasm is showing. :)
Don’t understand how Garage Sale is so high and Sex Ed is so low. I also thought Nepotism was really funny. Tanster, would you have rated these shows differently?
YAHOO! Congrats GM! And now I think Goodbye Michael has to win the all-time poll- amazing writing/acting. This will also (hopefully) be the episode that lands Mr. Carell his Emmy!
[from tanster: i hope so!]
All-time best episode of “The Office”? Too easy – it’s “The Banker” from season 6. Runner-up is probably “The Christening” from this past season.
Tanster, do you vote in your polls? :o)
[from tanster: no, i don't vote in any OfficeTally polls. :) ]
I don’t think you can explain how Costume Contest made it so high because people weren’t paying attention. It was ranked #6 during the season and ended up #7 here. I think the obvious explanation is that it was a fairly popular episode. Most likely because it had a lot of Jim and Pam stuff.
the answer to costume contest being ranked so high is because it was a background episode. not many people talked about it in the comments during voting as people were too busy whining about PDA and threat level midnight. the same logic applies to search committee getting to the middle of the table, honestly i thought episodes like “todd packer” and “the seminar” were better than it…
Just wanted to give my perspective on ‘Costume Contest’. I haven’t re-watched it in a while so I’m not sure how it stands up to the second half of the season, but when it aired, I was losing faith in The Office. I remember ‘Costume Contest’ being, at the time, a rare occurrence where the show felt like classic Office and it gave me hope that the show could recapture the magic. The next episode to air was ‘Christening’ and that episode was so bad that I entertained thoughts of giving up on the show. I think it was the hope that ‘Costume Contest’ gave me that kept me around over the next couple of weeks until ‘China’ aired. That seemed to be the turning point in the season for me where the magic was back. So I don’t know whether CC was a fantastic episode or just seemed that way because of the weak episodes it was surrounded by. Either way, I have fond memories of the episode.