The Office: Pool Party, 8.12
Thursday, January 19th, 2012 | 103 comments
Writer: Owen Ellickson, Director: Charles McDougall
Summary (NBC): Robert’s last hurrah — after Robert decides to sell his mansion following his divorce, Kevin suggests that he have an office pool party. Erin tries to make Andy jealous by flirting with Dwight. Meanwhile, Robert gives everyone a tour of his massive home.
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The Office Pool Party extras
- Video clips
- Photos
- The song in this episode is Big White Elephant by Canadian band In-Flight Safety.
Rating
In a poll conducted January 19-23, 2012, Tallyheads rated this episode: 7.23/10
The Office Pool Party quotes
Manually transcribed by tanster :)
Jim: It’s always more fun to mess with Dwight with an audience. That was usually Pam.
Jim: Turns out that Stanley is quite the comedy fan. But not everything makes him laugh. He has very specific tastes. Through a painstaking process of trial and error, I found out what he likes. And it’s really weird.
Stanley: You’ve been meatballed! Are ya ready for some meatball?
Stanley: What’s our haul?
Dwight: 32 meatballs.
Dwight: That idiot’s been feeding us for a week.
Stanley: We’ll never have to buy meatballs again.
Erin: I’m taking an Italian class. So far, I have learned tortellini, spaghettini, linguini… Well, it’s not so much a class as a restaurant.
Erin: You sound really pretty today.
Andy: Jessica, I love you. That’s a message from my mom.
Andy: Mom took the main diamond out. She thought that had more of my little brother kind of vibe to it.
Jim (looking at online photo of Robert’s house): Oh, it’s pretty nice. Got a little bit of The Shining vibe, though.
Dwight: Big. Stupid. Pure chump bait.
Robert: The 1% are suffering too, people.
Robert: This was hot on the heels of Eyes Wide Shut, mind you.
Robert: The ultimate insult? They’re calling my speakeasy lounge a rumpus room.
Robert: Does my turmoil amuse you, Jim?
Robert: How hilarious it is to laugh at clowns, the painted jesters of a dying circus industry.
Kevin: Yeah, all of us in the pool, saying hurrah. Maybe the last one who says hurrah is it.
Kevin: Hey, Oscar, was that you who just created a party out of thin air, or was it me.
Erin: It seems like you shouldn’t drive, maybe ever.
Erin: Andy’s such a weird stalker. I should get a restraining order.
Jim: DJ Pam Halpert is spinning some serious Radio Disney tonight.
Jim: You’re looking at the master of leaving parties early. The key is you have to make a strong impression, so you want to have a picture taken, you want to say some peculiar non sequitur that people remember, you want to note something unique, a talking point for later. I don’t mean to brag but, New Year’s Eve? I was home by nine.
Jessica: What are you doing.
Andy: Flicking a bug off my weiner.
Jessica: Gross!
Erin: Funny, how we can be surrounded by people and still feel so lonely.
Erin: How about this weekend we take that sucker to a duck pond or something. Maybe get caught in rain.
Erin: He told me he was a ride I wouldn’t survive. And I believe him.
Darryl: Red plastic cup, red plastic cup. How about that?
Val: You know, you are just as dumb at night.
Stanley: Pants only need a chair if there’s a person in them.
Robert: Here we have the parlor. I imagined people would set down their coats, and symbolically, their inhibitions. You enter this room a lawyer, a doctor, a teacher, a judge. But beyond it, you’re simply a penis, a vagina, a hunger, an ache. Susan used it as a Pilates studio.
Oscar: Toby, Chateau Margaux 95. You know your wine.
Gabe: And Gabey makes three.
Dwight: Why would you choose me? Because I’m mighty? Cause I’m the manliest man in the office? I’ll do it.
Robert: I pictured myself here every night, eating a leg of mutton, the juices dripping down my bare chest, wiping my fingers on the walls. Then I met a vegan.
Oscar: Toby, what’s compelling about this is the note of persimmon. Right?
Toby: Note? It’s a symphony!
Toby: Toby, you are playing a dangerous game. I guess I’m through the gateway now, right?
Meredith: No top scum, no band aids, this thing is choice.
Darryl: I’ve been working out. But the problem is, I’ve been building muscle underneath. And the top layer hasn’t burned off yet. It’s an awkward stage.
Erin: I think sexy eating is a dead end.
Erin: What is the most romantic thing.
Dwight: We can get some chicken fights going in the pool.
Erin: Dwight, our chemistry is really clicking. We work so well together.
Dwight: I know, I could just bang you right now.
Robert: When I put in this screening room, I bought three movies: Caligula, Last Tango in Paris, and Emmanuelle II. Last two movies I actually watched in here were Marley and Me and On Golden Fucking Pond.
Gabe: I got a Korean film on my iPod. If you want to just, if you have the cables.
Val: Does Darryl not swim?
Kevin: That’s racist!
Kelly: You’ve broken up your last couple, you evil ring.
Dwight: That Erin. She’s sure a ripe little tiger, isn’t she. And to think, I always thought of her as a second Meredith.
Andy: I like to get my monag on. It’s monagomy for my hog in me.
Dwight: You’re an idiot.
Erin: The Bernard family seal. Duh.
Andy: Duh.
Andy: Honestly, Erin, I don’t know what I’m doing.
Erin: Andy’s confused. That’s not what I was hoping for, but it’s not so bad, either. I can live with confused. I get confused. I totally get confused.
Robert: And of course the pool — ultimate lubricant for any wild evening. And it was here that my parties would have crescendoed into true madness.
Oscar: I am Bacchus, god of wine!
Toby: I am Bacchus’ friend!
Robert: This is no get together. This is a party.
Jim: And there’s my talking point.
Robert: It’s not a party if you don’t do something that scares you.
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I kind of feel like Jim was indeed drunk when he drove and that makes me uncomfortable…love the Darryl/Val dynamic.
Does anyone know the name of the music(BGM) at the last scene Gabe and Ryan dancing together?
I LOVED this episode… but I have a question.. what was up with Oscar and Toby?? Insights please :-)
Favorite part– Gabe falling into the pool with his pants still on!!!
I’m getting annoyed at Kathy and Jessica… they look too much alike and are both boring me to death. Take them out asap!
This is the second episode this season that I’ve wanted to watch more than once. So upon my second viewing it dawned on me that Phyllis snatched the ring away from Andy to buy more time for Erin. Seeing as how she feels motherly toward her & calling to mind when Andy asked Phyllis to find out if Erin & Gabe were being intimate.
I’d mentioned liking Stanley & Dwight working together to trick Jim. In particular, I liked the idea of Jim & Dwight switching roles as prankster & prankee. What a rare treat! I’m starting to see the human moments, funny awkwardness, & call backs coming back to the show & these are some of the elements that caused me to fall in love with The Office in the first place.
Speaking of call backs (no pun intended): a clip of Dwight’s examination of Erin’s spine as being “jacked” was yet another nice touch.
Agreed about the Kathica & Jessathy thing. And they are sooo dull.
I would like to say that with a toddler & new baby at home, as well as wife Pam, I doubt that Jim would risk pulling a Roy. Also, I liked the dynamic of Dwight & Stanley in cahoots pulling a prank on Jim.
I hadn’t realized I was doing this until I read some of the other comments, but I too had been blending together Kathica & Jessathy.
I broke up with The Office in season 8, but I still wanted to remain friends. However Christmas Wishes & Pool Party has rekindled some of the magic I felt before Steve Carell left.
I felt like there was a call back to a scene in season 3 during The Merger when Andy & Dwight are in the elevator calling each other idiots. Except this time around when Dwight says to Andy in regard to Erin, “You’re an idiot”, it touched my heart.
This episode kind of convinced me about Andy & Erin. They’ve had lots of small, funny scenes together over the years and a good chemistry between them, but they were put together too early the first time, and I was never quite sure if it was a good idea.
But the scene where Erin’s hand brings him the ring out of the water (held like a proposal), and she is genuinely sorry when she thinks Andy’s proposal was ruined, despite her own feelings, made me think that the time is right to finally wrap it up, get them together, and give them both some new stories. Maybe that ring moment was a foreshadow of a proposal to come.
I so agree, for every absurdity that is being mentioned and nitpicked this season there are multiple examples from every other season that are equally as absurd! This show was NEVER about reality, but an absurd form of it. Plain and simple there are Michael Scott fans who will never accept the show without him, and will continue to tear it down just because he is no longer in the show. Unfortunately, it’s human nature when we love something to want to make that which replaces it seem to be of lesser quality than that which we loved…it is hard to openly accept change when our heart rules our brain.
Loved this episode!
For some weird reason, I really want Dwight and Erin to start dating
Yes, there seems to be a tendency when a show is seen to have dropped quality overall to start nitpicking every little thing, when previously people didn’t worry about all the things that didn’t make sense. So there were a couple of minor picks – the episode was still funny, well written, with characters in character and some genuine feeling to it. Rather this than episodes like Incentive, Lotto, Gettysburg.
@91 daoffice: Not to mention if they wrote an episode where, say, the boss somehow burnt his foot on a George Foreman grill, or a company was running a successful “booze cruise” boat in a cold January, now those plots would be unrealistic…
@pete 84
seems like it’s in vogue these days to nitpick every little detail about the show. Things that were either overlooked or cheered during the so called “golden years” are now looked at with disdain. I’m sure had Michael Scott and Dwight had a wrestling/martial arts match at lunch time during season 8 it would be looked at as unrealistic, lol
I’m really loving Val and Darryl – she’s a great character (the normal person who strikes a comparison with everyone else’s crazy) and I almost cheered when Darryl finally jumped in the pool (plus Kevin’s “racist” comment was hilarious). Lots of great little moments in this one.
I liked the moment where Dwight called Andy an idiot and where Erin tried to explain that she understands confusion by saying “I totally get confused.” but beyond that this was one of my least favorite episodes ever. It was not funny and it didn’t even feel like I was watching the same show.
@ Christian 82: since when hasn’t the office been loaded with sex jokes, even in earlier seasons? Ex: That’s what she said Todd packer etc etc
I thought this episode was great, really funny. The last two, I’ve felt have been really good.
Erin was really cute :3
My random thoughts…
-Creed, in a black Speedo wearing a crown, totally caught me off guard and cracked me up!
-Pam/Cathy conflict – isn’t Cathy just a temp till Pam comes back? Wouldn’t she be gone when Pam returns? Hope they won’t add yet another character!
-The dog dressed as Dwight was hysterical!
-When Gabe was undressing to skinny dip, it was so funny how he didn’t even get his pants all the way off and fell into the pool!
I haven’t been a fan of this season’s slack plots, lack of characterization etc. But I thought this was a very funny episode, made me care about the characters again and got a laugh at just about everything from Erin trying to be positive then clumsily ‘flirting’(???) with Andy and Dwight to Toby’s wines. We got to see the rare good side of Dwight and a humorous California. Had a lot of my favorites -Dwight,Andy and Erin. And an actual story. Last few episodes been looking up.
I don’t understand all the hatred directed towards this season. I think the show has definitely improved over time. (IMO season 1 was not even as good as the BBC original.)
Keep in mind that The Office follows a documentary style. It is NOT a real documentary. It certainly excels as a real-life cartoon and I feel greatly entertained.