The Office: Michael’s Last Dundies, 7.21
Thursday, April 21st, 2011 | 152 comments
W: Mindy Kaling, D: Mindy Kaling
Summary (NBC): Michael trains Deangelo (guest star Will Ferrell) to take over the job of hosting the Dundie Awards. Erin struggles with her dislike of her boyfriend, Gabe.
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The Office Michael’s Last Dundies trivia
- Video clips
- Photo from the set | Behind the scenes | Episode photos
- Video and lyrics to Seasons of Michael.
- Read more: Angela’s date Robert Lipton | Scranton Strangler | Danny Cordray
- A cue card from the Dundies incorrectly misspells Dwight’s last name as Shrute and not Schrute. Mindy Kaling wrote the episode and has admitted on Twitter that she misspelled his name for seven years. This is related to a Shrute vs. Schrute twittersation Mindy recently had with Michael Schur.
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In a poll conducted April 21-25, 2011, Tallyheads rated this episode: 8.56/10
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The Office Michael’s Last Dundies quotes
Quotes manually transcribed by tanster. :)
Stanley: Have you lost your mind. Get off my property before I call the police!
Michael: Hey Toby, you suck!
Michael: I’ve never seen this place in the daylight.
Deangelo: This reminds me of Katrina.
Meredith: I’m so busted. Walk of Shame.
Meredith: I have Vienna sausages and I have napkins. Let me fix you breakfast.
Michael: You are getting so funny.
Michael: When Larry King died, they didn’t just cancel his show. They got Piers Morgan to come in and do his show. And that way, Larry lives on.
Michael: Anything can happen at the Dundies. They’re like the Golden Globes, but less mean.
Dwight: Remember, the Dundies is a black tie affair.
Dwight: Every day is black tie optional!
Michael: Tonight we will be hosting at Louie Volpe’s.
Pam: Their breadsticks are like crack.
Ryan: I love when people say “like crack” who have obviously never done crack.
Pam: Well the breadsticks are like what, then, Ryan? What can I use?
Ryan: I don’t know, something from your world. “The breadsticks are like scrapbooking.”
Pam: You’re right. No, I’m a middle class fraud.
Dwight: Always the Padawan, never the Jedi.
Kevin: I love banter. But I hate witty banter.
Michael: There needs to be, what you call, a rat-a-tat. And right now, it’s all rat and no tat.
Deangelo: Where were you on September 11th?
Michael: Jim, please, no loopholes.
Michael: If I want mind control over him, is that too much to ask?
Jim: I just don’t understand the desire to push sweet potato fries on me. I just want regular fries.
Jim: I’m sorry, that just wasn’t interesting to me.
Erin: I can’t just dump him, Pam. I’m not like you, I can’t be mean.
Dwight: Appalling. Eyesore. Surprisingly adequate.
Michael (as Phyllis): I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!
Oscar: The analytical part of me wants to examine it. But I know it has no content.
Dwight: Deangelo Jeremetrius Vickers!
Michael: Ryan would never do it, it’s too on the radar.
Jim: I do not parent for the award, but I gotta tell you, it feels pretty good. Cece, if you’re watching this at home, it’s way past your bedtime, by the way, how did this get televised?
Jim: Maybe being a good dad is just following your own compass.
Pam: Didn’t think to mention me, huh?
Jim: Didn’t I?
Meredith: Tell you one thing, I’m not going to be a good mom tonight!
Michael: Hottest In The Office goes to Danny Cordray!
Michael: Did you know that Stanley Hudson is also the face of a debilitating disease known as diabetes?
Michael: Come on up here, you sick bastard.
Phyllis: I have diabetes, too. You don’t see me making a big deal about it.
Deangelo: They say he’s going to be my right hand man. Ad lib masturbation joke.
Dwight: This is for you, trash can!
Louie Volpe’s manager: This is a cloth tablecloth. You can’t color on it!
Michael: Pippi Longstocking. Ronald McDonald’s wife. Ron Howard. Ron Weasley. What do they all have in common? Redheads.
Erin: People are right about the Dundies. They are magical. But, I don’t feel it.
Erin: I’m not attracted to you. I cringe when you talk.
Gabe: Here comes that quarter-life crisis everyone’s talking about.
*crickets*
Darryl: Damn, that was cold.
Michael: My last Dundies ever. I was hoping it would be more like “Godfather III.”
Michael: We had a very truncated rehearsal time.
Michael: Maybe you should have won the “Kind Of A Bitch” Award.
Dwight: Why are you even wearing a seat belt? You’re sitting in the back seat, baby.
Dwight: Next time, why don’t you pick a co-host that doesn’t have microphone-aphobia?
Michael: Well this is going to hurt like a motherf*cker.
Deangelo: Toby Flenderson, please come up here and accept The Extreme Repulsiveness Award. Oh, that’s so mean.
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The cold open was easily Top 5 All Time! I wish it could’ve been longer. Maybe drop off Creed’s nomination at the homeless shelter. Awesome!
The ode to Michael was completely appropriate to the occasion, especially given the previously established musical talents of Andy, Darryl, Creed, etc. However, even though Deangelo’s falsetto singing added humor to the moment, his participation was inappropriate, given that he is Michael’s replacement, and known him for about a week.
#144 and others – The writers are portraying a couple that have been married for a few years, with a baby as a priority. The honeymoon can’t last forever. But both know they belong together. Stop worrying!
Regardless, i still take it has him referring to the waiter that was pushing it. Hopefully TPTB know that nobody wants to see serious trouble for Jam, but some minor conflict would be ok. Especially if it involved Jim and his future or Pam and hers, career wise. I didn’t see any foreshadowing in this episode though.
@Angle
No he doesn’t say “they” , Jim says, “I just don’t see the desire to push sweet potato fries on me? I just want regular fries.
There was a lot of foreshadowing in this episode that something could go wrong with JAM down the line.
@Kurn I’m almost certain he said “they” referring to the waiter/waitress that was pushing the fries. And it seemed pretty in character to me for Jim to leave the car. It was Erin after all.. not Dwight. Little problems are ok, but anything major and we’ll all form a mob and burn nbc to the ground :D
I was confused with who won “hottest in office award”? Anyone catch that. Thanks
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Mindy episodes!!!!
Thank you Mindy!! Thank you for this wonderfully funny and yet a little sad episode!
i must’ve watched this episode 6 times in the last couple of days and it gets better every time. the song at the end is incredible. I kind of laughed at the end, during the song, considering I was Mark in my school’s version of Rent, so I thought it was kind of funny, but extremely appropriate. the only person i was shocked to see singing the song was angela, considering she would always be behind dwight in trying to take over michael’s job, but in the long run i’m glad she was there too. fantastic episode, and the promos made me cry aha
#144 – I totally agree that the world would stop turning if the writers did something to Jim and Pam’s relationship. I certainly hope those scenes you mentioned are no omen. I wasn’t worried about it after watching those scenes, but now I am…
Am I the only person who noticed the distance between Pam and Jim in this episode?
-Right before they seen Erin in her car, Jim is talking about having sweet potato fries pushed on him. (assuming from Pam)
-He just leaves Pam to help Erin, when in the past he would have been Pam’s sidekick and helped in that situation.
-She got mad at him for not mentioning her during his Dundies acceptance speech.
…….I hope to the good lord that the writers don’t do anything to their marriage/relationship………the world would stop turning if so
Some of you guys were wondering why Toby would want to sing in part of that song for Michael.
Well I bet that it was originally Dwight’s part.
But Dwigt was not there!!
To Pam sitcoms don’t have to be realistic, but at one time this one was trying for realism to some degree. I think for some the abandonment of that is a bit difficult or controversial. I’m mixed in that I enjoyed the ending song, but I did find it a bit too much. He’s Michael Scott, not history’s great hero.
RE: Episode Quotes
hey tanster – sorry to be a cotton headed ninnymuggins, but I believe Michael mispronounced Piers Morgan’s name and called him Pierce.
This episode was easily one of my favorites of the season. The ‘this reminds me of katrina’ line, as well as everything else in the opening bit was awesome. Deangelo was a lot more tolerable compared to the last few episodes too, which was nice. The office camaraderie did actually seem pretty weird at first, but I didn’t really mind it after a while. It’s kind of appropriate for the situation.
And i haven’t even stopped laughing since “i’m not sure he’s guilty anymo—OOOOHHH YYEEAAAHH”
Great episode! And so much better than last week. I laughed, i cringed, i almost cried, and then i saw that promo and i did cry! What does Michael love? Song parodies. So what a nice and appropriate farewell gift to give him. I’m a huge supporter of trying to maintain some attempted realism. But i can believe all of them would do that. Even Toby, for simply not wanting to be left out.
I think that Deangelo might be the Scranton Strangler. Toby said he thinks the wrong person was found guilty, and that could be why Deangelo was acting extremely anxious (had to pee) after they left the restaurant. If Deangelo is the Scranton Strangler, that would explain why he was fired after only four episodes (and why he had so many mood swings in Training Day). Hmmmmm…
A few things:
Dwights deserves some serious recognition from Michael before he leaves Dunder Mifflin.
I know Dwight couldn’t be manager because of his role in the office, but he deserves better than what he got these two last chapters.
About Erin: I’m glad she’s dumping Gabe
About D’angelo: I still don’t know what the character is about.
@123 – “Man…this is going to be harder than I thought it would be…!!”
That’s what she said!!!
I guess I am going to be “that guy”, but 9,986,000ish minutes isn’t quite right for 19 years. It seems they came up with that number using 365 days in a year, which doesn’t account for the several leap years that had to have occurred. Using 365.25 for the days in a year, it would come out to about 9,993,000ish minutes.
The best part for me was Jim accepting his dundie. “I don’t know, maybe being a good dad is just following your own compass. I don’t know.” hilarious! Good episode.
This episode was perfect! Everyone was amazing and the writing was terrific. The cold open was great. I think it’s one of my favorites of all time. I was laughing so hard when Michael egged Toby’s house. Some of my favorite moments were Dwight’s sound effects, Michael’s impersonations and Erin’s excitement for the Dundies. Seeing Michael in all those outfits was great. I didn’t understand why he had an earring on when he was impersonating Jim though. My favorite part of the whole episode was the song. It was so perfect and sweet! Seeing Michael cry was too much for me. It was nice seeing Angela, Stanley, and Oscar have huge smiles on their faces. That’s something small I noticed. I didn’t like that Dwight was absent from the whole thing. I hope he has a nice make up scene with Michael next week and I hope Michael apologizes to him for not recommending him. I also loved it when Deangelo sang. That was so funny! I think this episode did a good job in preparing me for next week’s episode because I started crying just seeing next week’s promo. I’m not ready to see next week’s episode:(.