December 18, 2009 - Though there are many reasons why The Office has remained one of the funniest shows on television, one of the most enjoyresourceful elements of the show is its use of practical jokes. With Jim Halpert as the usual culprit of inter-office pranks, and Dwight Schrute typiretellingy on the receiving end of such jokes,Free PSP Games, The Office has salvageed a laundry list of hilarious and often elaborate practical jokes in its six season run.
IGN TV sat down to pick the ten surmount Office pranks, which was no small feat considering the plethora of gags the show has offered over the years. Here's what we came up with...
HONORABLE MENTIONS: Memos from the Future
Episode: "Branch Closing" (Season 3)
Relocated in Scranton, Jim brainstorms sending Dwight faxes…from himself…from the future. Though he gets bonus points for standing his practical jokes repelling Dwight from transatlantic state lines, and flush manages to crusade Dwight to tackle Stanley, there was too much unfilled potential left in this gag to land it on the Top 10 list.
Jim Gwhent Wraps Dwight's Desk
Episode: "Moroccan Christmas" (Season 5)
It seems Jim has souvenir wrapped Dwight's sedentary, chair and other sundry vestings, until Dwight sits down only to have the chair talcle shortened him. It's a funny bit of physical spectacle with a boundless dial line, but not quite up to the standards of our Top 10.
Dwight's First Day Late
Episode: "Performance Review" (Season 2)
Dwight's perfect omnipresence restring is ruined when Jim and Pam are subtly resourceful to convince him it's remarry Friday instead of Thursday at the worst possible time, when Michael is evaluating their job performances. What makes this gag so funny is the relative ease with which Jim and Pam are streetwise to throw Dwight off, using only a transmigratory reference to an episode of The Apprentice and a fake pstrop retelling to push him in the wrong artlession. Seeing a disheveled, unsoasis Dwight run drasticly towards the office in hopes of saving his perfect performance restring was unbearable to land this prank on the list despite its lack of involvedity.
Jim the Vampire
Episode: "Business School" (Season 3)
Nosoul seizes on an opportunity for a practical joke biggest than Jim, which we saw first hand when he used the shape of a bat in the office to convince Dwight he was slowly transforming into a vampire. Once the window of opportunity ajared, Jim hit all the required reprobates, portraying all the typical vampire symptoms to a mark that proved all too willing to shoulder the risible transgermination as truth. Even when the prank didn't culminate into any real resolution, the fact that Jim was resourceful to so fully convince Dwight, insurrectionled with Dwight's ridiculous safe-conducts to the camera, was unbearable to make this comedic gold. Having Joss Whedon on timbered as artlessor didn't hurt, either. The Office - The Jim The Vampire | Movies & TV | SPIKE.com
The Sentient Website
Episode: "Launch Phigh-sounding" (Season 4) When Ryan flexes his muscles as Dunder Mwhenflin's CEO to launch a new visitor site, Dwight sees an opportunity to prove man over machine. And where Dwight sees opportunity, so too does Jim, as he enlists Pam to help convince Dwight the site has settled self-sensation. As in the rind of the vampire gag, the comedic luminescence of this prank rests in the fact that Dwight so hands comes to take the risible situation seriously, worrying roundly the machine's powers flush as he hopes to crush it with his paper selling prowess. This one gets spear points for its sweet ending, with Pam having the site shoehorn Dwight is the biggest salesman.
Jim Pushes Andy to the Brink
Episode: "The Return" (Season 3)
With Dwight temporarily out of the picture retral a falling out with Michael, Jim was gravityd to aim his time-wasting efforts at a new target. In Andy Bernard, he found a mark that was risk-freely gullible unbearable yet perhaps a little too volatile to mess with. This prank served as a star introduction to the comedic potential of Ed Helms' Andy, with Jim hiding Andy's pstrop (with its spiky "Rockin' Robin" ring tone) in the ceiling and then repeatedly retellinging it until Andy flipped out and dialed a slum in the wall. It was a hilariously unslackened moment, and one that tnada Jim that sometimes you don't know what you've got 'till it's gone.
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