32 Iconic "The Office" Moments From Its Best Episode:"Dinner Party"

The Office. Everyone's favorite modern mockumentary sitcom. The perfect blend of cringe and comedy. From start to finish, it's just a great, great show. There's something special about it, the way the characters grew, but the show still had a charm to it. One big reason The Office works is the way it balances serialized stories that take place across many episodes with stories finished in a single episode. That serialized quality makes viewers feel at home at Dunder Mifflin.
Of course, one of the best episodes of the show is "Dinner Party". In the episode, Michael Scott and his girlfriend Jan, the former Vice-President of Regional Sales at Dunder Mifflin, throw a dinner party and invite Jim and Pam, Andy and Angela, as well as an uninvited Dwight. As you can expect, it's equal parts second-hand embarrassment and gut-busting comedy. But this episode is a special one. Not only is it one of the few episodes to take place primarily outside the office (it takes place at Michael and Jan's sad little condo), the episode was actually filmed in a condo, not on a set. Dinner Party also showcases the best quirks of the characters featured. It's a flawless episode.
Dinner Party isn't just the best episode of The Office, it might be the best episode in the history of televised comedy. Why? Here are 32 moments to prove it to you, from beginning to end. From Dwight crying to Jim and Pam wanting SO BAD to leave, to Michael admitting he had 3 VASECTOMIES. Everything is absolutely brilliant.

#1 Michael successfully tricks Jim to join the dinner party

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#2 Dwight not getting invited because its couples only

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#3 Pam and Jim arrive at the condo

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#4 The stairwell art

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#5 Jan showing her workplace

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#6 Jan shoving the candle to Jim's nose

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#7 When they enter the bedroom

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#8 Michael revealed he sleeps at the foot of the bed because Jan has "space issues"

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#9 Michael showing his wonderful plasma screen TV

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#10 "Sometimes I will just stand here and watch television for hours"

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#11 Michael calling Jan his second-best trophy

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#12 "When in Spain"

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#13 The smoking afterbirth of wine

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#14 Jan dancing to her old assistant's song

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#15 Jan dancing with Jim

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#16 Jan implying Michael cheats on her with Pam

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#17 "He's laughing"

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#18 Jim and Pam tries to bail

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#19 Jim tries to throw Pam under the bus

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#20 When it's Michael's turn into a celebrity and he gets to two people.

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#21 Girls' trip

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#22 Michael promoting Serenity by Jan

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#23 Michael revealed he had THREE vasectomies

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#24 Pam thinks Jan is trying to poison her

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#25 Michael dipping meat into wine

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#26 Dwight bringing his ex-babysitter as a date

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#27 Michael's neon beer sign

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#28 The huge fight

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#29 The police arrives and Michael takes the fall

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#30 Michael trying to stay with Jim for the night

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#31 Angela and Andy getting icecream

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#32 Dwight giving Michael a ride but not his date/ex-babysitter

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