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Character Analysis

Jake Lacy

Pete Miller

Played by Jake Lacy

43 jokes across 17 episodes of The Office

WAR

3.8

Total Jokes

43

Avg Craft

6.6

Avg Impact

6.3

Comedy Style

Character Comedy

Best Jokes by Pete

All Jokes — 43 total

S5E05

Remember that thing we did when Jim was in high school with his girlfriend?

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S5E05

Like, she basically has a hobby for a job

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S5E05

We pranked you. It was Pam's idea. Pam was the mastermind

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S9E01

No, Pete is not the new Jim. The only thing we have in common is that neither of us wants to sit on Meredith's face. And if that makes him the new Jim, then every human being in the world is the new Jim.

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S9E01

They called me 'iceman.' You will be called Plop. What? Why? 'Cause you're always taking dumps.

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S9E01

You, uh, you a sports guy? Sure. Boxing, tennis. Oh! Any team sports? NASCAR, The Amazing Race.

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S9E01

You mean horses? No. Like baseball, the baseball team. I like the Red Sox. I'm from Vermont, so...

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S9E02

Well, it could be a nice letter. I write nice letters to companies all the time. That's really nice.

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S9E02

This election thing is crazy, right?

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S9E02

Yeah. I accidentally read it. It's not a nice letter.

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S9E02

Guess I'll just head over to the mall then, buy Erin some sexy, fun outfits. That Clark, huh?

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S9E02

Well, he tried to, but the fire door was blocked. He sure did.

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S9E02

I could do a couple more takes. We could do it in close-up. That might even be better for editing.

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S9E04

Pete and Clark doing mock introductions: 'Hi, I'm Pete! Puberty is such a drag, man.' 'And I'm Clark, I like to eat toilet paper.'

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S9E06

Does he have a flipper? Oh. Nope. It's not that. He, uh... He flipped a table one time when he was drunk. He sounds like an idiot. Yeah, he is.

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S9E07

I just saw your face. Oh. I'm sorry. It's for the thing. I know. That's great. It just-- it makes it look like there's an eyebrow in the middle of your face.

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S9E08

He's a sweet kid, Darryl, but not the sharpest guy in the drawer. Kevin, I can hear you.

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S9E09

My brother dared me to memorize it, and I did it, and I loved doing it.

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S9E09

Are you gonna kiss me? Yes.

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S9E10

Eiffel tower.

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S9E11

Pam! Pam! Look out! Erin's gunning for your job!

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S9E12

So far we're only popular with imaginary people, but we think this is the start of something big.

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S9E12

Alan Olifson from North Dakota. He also likes Hammermill and Georgia Pacific. Wow, that guy's really into paper. Yeah.

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S9E12

Awkward handshake/fist bump choreography failure between Pete and Erin

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S9E15

Or it's like me getting on my hands and knees and begging my partners to switch a Tuesday for a Thursday. Alakazam.

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S9E15

And poof, he disappears.

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S9E15

You know, when I was a kid we had a dog who got real sick, and we had to send him to a farm. And on his last day, we did everything he loved.

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S9E15

Really playing the scales, huh?

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S9E16

Pete's realization: 'It just occurred to me that Andy has been calling me plop for so long he forgot my real name. Which is Pete.'

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S9E16

Andy's chlamydia lie: 'I just got off the phone with my doctor, and turns out I contracted ch-lamydia from Erin. And it's incurable.'

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S9E16

Gabe's KKK music question: 'So you like songs of hate written by the white knights of ku klux klan?'

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S9E19

It's just a man pointing a bull tranquilizer at a coworker.

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S9E19

Man, he's really in Twinkle Town now.

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S9E19

weren't those darts intended for an animal, like, two to three times larger than him? / this dosage was meant for a very small bull, and Stanley's got way more body fat than they do.

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S9E19

He's like a manatee.

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S9E19

I'm kind of embarrassed to admit this, but I've never actually done this before. / Well, if I may, you're a natural. / I mean, I've rehearsed it in my head, like, 1,000 times, but, uh... / That's a little weird.

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S9E19

I need you to go down to the bottom and catch him. / I can't catch him, he's, like, 250 pounds. / You use your hands and just blunt his descent, okay?

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S9E19

Just say 'arms' and 'legs,' okay? That just-- that's the vernacular that I'm comfortable with.

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S9E19

Isn't the client, like, best friends with his sister?

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S9E21

You don't watch baseball. I keep forgetting that.

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S9E22

'Plop'? Still? We owe Andy that much. Yeah. Absolutely we do.

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S9E22

What's the opposite of a horse? A sea horse. A sea horse! Whoa. How did you know I was going to say that?

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S9E23

Uh, no one recognizes me, but now all my friends call me Plop. So, thanks, PBS.

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