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Character Analysis

James Spader

Robert California

Played by James Spader

110 jokes across 12 episodes of The Office

WAR

16

Total Jokes

110

Avg Craft

7.0

Avg Impact

6.8

Comedy Style

Character Comedy

Best Jokes by Robert

All Jokes — 71 total

S8E01

Erin, when you recount your day, never say you woke up, it's a waste of your time. That's how every day has begun for everyone since the dawn of man. - Very smart. Very smart. Suddenly... I was awake.

7.78.0
S8E01

Really great list of names, guys. Thank you so much. Good work.

7.37.0
S8E01

Some people doodle at work when they let their mind run. They draw houses, penises... Funny how the houses are always colonials, and the penises are always circumcised, don't you think?

7.98.0
S8E01

Ours is a cultural ghetto. Wouldn't you agree? - Yeah. She does like elmo. - 'Cultural ghetto'? Totally, totally agree. - Completely. - Apt. Apt analysis, Robert.

7.37.5
S8E01

I guess I think they're losers. - Ah, I knew it. Yes! - Probably shouldn't have said that. - Whoo! Whoo-hoo!

6.97.5
S8E01

Constantly worrying about where you stand based on inscrutable social clues, and then inevitably reframing it all in a reassuring way so that you can get to sleep at night. No, I do not believe in that at all.

7.77.5
S8E01

And you are aware that Columbus and his legions committed genocide against an entire civilization of native Americans. - I don't care.

8.18.5
S8E02

Andy's Neil Patrick Harris reference confusion

6.15.5
S8E02

Andy's ice cream guessing game with Robert

6.46.5
S8E02

The cold coffee incident - Erin serving old coffee as 'cold beverage'

7.17.0
S8E02

Robert's business philosophy about personal service vs superstores

5.45.0
S8E02

The doubling sales demand and Andy's overconfidence

6.86.5
S8E02

Robert's analysis: 'Because he's all surface, uncomplicated. What you see is what you get.'

7.27.0
S8E02

Robert's final observation: 'There's something about an underdog that really inspires the unexceptional.'

7.77.5
S8E07

Who's your favorite iron chef? - This report is atrocious.

6.56.0
S8E07

Sometimes the infer-- Sorry. Go ahead. Mm-hmm.

5.34.5
S8E07

Did you need something from us? Yes. Your attention. Uh, because... No. That is all.

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S8E07

Last night, I dreamed that the number two was the most valued number in the world. The vice president had all the power, athletes fought for silver medals. Women were considered the best gender. And stadiums of fans shouted 'we're number 2!'

7.87.5
S8E07

As with all my dreams, I'm guessing it was about my fear of immigrants.

8.18.0
S8E07

Chalk that one up to tweedle Dee and tweedle dum out there. Who are they? They're both Kevin.

7.88.0
S8E07

Oscar is the sex and the city gang. And Angela, if you can picture-- Sometimes I feel like you don't know me at all.

6.86.5
S8E07

And you can't have a favorite iron chef. It depends entirely on the secret ingredient. Sometimes I feel you don't know food at all.

6.76.5
S8E07

Oh, man, I'm sorry. What the [Bleep]? Sorry. Jesus. Did it break?

4.75.5
S8E07

Classic, right? Ooh. I'm all right. You all right? Yep. Skinned knee. Yep.

4.14.0
S8E08

The situation you described, returning home to a wife complaining about her paper being too masculine, is not one I'm familiar with.

6.87.0
S8E08

In the African-American community-- No.

6.06.5
S8E10

Robert's analysis of Black Eyed Peas: 'It's rock and roll for people who don't like rock and roll. It's rap for people who don't like rap. It's pop for people who don't like pop'

7.88.0
S8E10

'You usually dress like a Ghostbuster'

6.86.5
S8E10

Robert's description of Chad Flenderman: 'Chad Flenderman's kryptonite... We got a real Clarence Thomas here'

6.46.0
S8E10

Robert's predatory 'You thinking what I'm thinking?' to drunk Erin

5.65.0
S8E11

I don't know what's worse, the trip or the destination.

7.17.0
S8E11

Trust me. One nine-minute bout is a cardiovascular equivalent of running uphill for three hours. I could go to this gym three times a week, or I can wrestle Stu once a month.

6.86.5
S8E11

A manager, a salesman, a leader, and a warrior walk into a restaurant. The hostess says, 'table for one?' How is this possible? / All those people are you?

7.87.0
S8E11

Florida is America's basement... It's wet, it's filled with mold, strange insects, alligators.

7.27.0
S8E11

Alligators are dinosaurs, Dwight. You know that, right? / N... it's complicated.

6.36.0
S8E11

It's a job interview, not a flea market.

7.77.5
S8E12

The 1% are suffering too, people

6.97.0
S8E12

I bought it to be my Playboy Mansion. A temple to wine, revelry, sex, intrigue. This was hot on the heels of Eyes Wide Shut, mind you.

7.37.5
S8E12

Then I met my wife, she moved in, made it her own. Now she's left me and forced me to sell the place. The ultimate insult - they're calling my speakeasy lounge a rumpus room

7.88.0
S8E12

What was the joke you thought you heard?

7.77.5
S8E12

Oh, yes. How hilarious it is to laugh at clowns, the painted jesters of a dying circus industry

7.98.0
S8E12

A beautiful monster cost me my 40s and my dream home

7.77.5
S8E12

Well, we'll say it's 82 and it'll be our secret

6.66.0
S8E12

You enter this room a lawyer, a doctor, a teacher, a judge, but beyond it you are simply a penis a vagina, a hunger, an ache

7.78.5
S8E12

Susan used it as a Pilates studio

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S8E12

I pictured myself here every night eating a leg of mutton, the juices dripping down my bare chest, wiping my fingers on the walls

8.28.5
S8E12

Then I met the vegan

8.28.0
S8E12

Toby, you are playing a dangerous game

7.17.0
S8E12

I had two bears sewn together to make this king size. Total waste of two bears

7.98.0
S8E12

To both these bears

7.47.0
S8E12

When I put in the screening room I bought three movies. Caligula, Last Tango in Paris and Emmanuelle 2. The last two movies I actually watched in here were Marley & Me and On Golden Pond.

8.08.5
S8E12

Toby, I am Bacchus god of wine. And I am Bacchus' friend

7.67.5
S8E12

It's not a party if you don't do something that scares you

7.57.0
S8E19

Sometimes the flowers arrange themselves, Jim.

7.77.0
S8E19

Kevin ate someone's lunch, Phyllis has a new necklace.

6.55.0
S8E19

Would you prefer a nature metaphor or a sexual metaphor?

8.28.0
S8E19

When two animals are having sex, one of them... Is communicating a message to the other. Nothing is mutua... this isn't very helpful. You're going to want to hear the sexual metaphor. Was that not the... All life is sex. And all sex is competition.

7.77.0
S8E19

In the end, doesn't he decide who the manager is?

7.86.0
S8E20

Good morning, Robert, says no one, because our receptionist is in Florida.

7.36.0
S8E20

Is this a video conference you're having with... 'Drake, featuring Swizz Beatz'?

6.86.5
S8E20

I've never believed willpower was very important in a woman.

7.37.0
S8E20

Every day I imagine how happy I'd be if Pam died.

7.58.0
S8E21

I never allow sexual desire to influence a business decision. So I find it best to... recuse myself temporarily until I've had a chance to make love, and then go back and... analyze the situation rationally.

7.87.5
S8E21

Buffett operates the same way.

8.48.5
S8E21

If it makes you feel any better, I never had an orgasm until I was 42. And then when I did, it lasted till I was 44. 43 was ju-- I got nothing done.

9.09.0
S8E21

Andrew, if you say no one more time, you're fired. So... is there anything else you wanna say? No.

8.08.5
S8E22

I feel like I'm being strangled, like I'm at some erotic asphyxiation sex club over on I-84. The Red Room, say, or Dominick's.

7.88.0
S8E22

Hey, jabroni, show some class.

7.27.0
S8E22

You know what I said? Yes. Not a joke. That that was not even a joke.

6.96.5
S9E14

And if you ask me, it's time we bid bigotry hasta luego.

6.86.0
S9E14

Kevin, great to see you. Yeah. Thank you for the food. Oh, and also, you suck. I beg your pardon? You're, like, a terrible person. These guys care about you, and you're just using them.

8.18.5