The Office: 10 Best Quotes From The Final Season

The much talked about, cult-favorite show The Office saw its ending in 2012. Much has been said and written about the final season and the finale. Fans and critics alike have mixed opinions about the ending of this quirky cringe-comedy. Season 9 saw the absence of Michael Scott and the arrival of some new characters.

Many stories and plot lines ended satisfactorily, while some just didn’t hit the mark. But altogether, the final season of this long-running show had some highlights and key moments that marked the end of The Office. Here are some of the best quotes from the final season to take fans down memory lane.

10 “This Is A Stupid Activity. I Would Be Embarrassed To Be Good At It.”

Andy is bent on humiliating Nellie and brings something he learned at camp to the office. He sets up a slackline and shows everyone how it’s done before he calls on some volunteers to give it a try. Seeing Dwight Jr. do it with ease, Dwight gets all riled up, claiming that he’d be able to do it easily as well. He fails miserably.

This scene is a classic Dwight moment that draws upon all of Dwight’s characteristics. Even with a bloodied nose, he refuses to accept defeat, instead claiming that slackline is a stupid activity.

9 “Gotta Burn Those Boats!”

Andy keeps going back and forth on his decision to leave Dunder Mifflin to chase his dream. He wants to go off to Hollywood but doesn’t want anything holding him back, hence, he doesn’t want a fall-back option. He tries hard to get fired instead of resigning and asks Toby to put him down for groping.

Andy’s decision to move on from this job to something else is extremely risky and the entire office is understandably worried for him. But the sheer excitement that Andy has makes it feel like something else.

8 “Yeah, He Looks Like A Schrute, But He Thinks Like A Halpert And He Acts Like A Beesly.”

Dwight is looking for someone to replace Jim when he’s away working in Philly. Everyone has a vested interest in this because Dwight is trying to bring in “weirdos” into the office that no one is fond of. Pam is concerned because she has to spend a lot of time with whoever he picks as her deskmate.

Jim wants to make sure Pam isn’t too bothered by whoever he selects. Clark seems like the preferred pick, but Dwight doesn’t want to pick him because he thinks Clark is too much like Jim and Pam. This quote is very representative of the dynamic between the three of them that has evolved over the years.

7 “It’s A Wire, People. I’m Not Buying It A Fur Coat.”

The office has a lot of bad wiring with poor insulation. When people in the office call out Dwight for his stingy behavior, Dwight, in his typical fashion, calls insulation “fur coats” for wires.

This hilarious quote said by Dwight is part of the “Work Bus” episode where Jim tries hard to get Dwight actually worried about the wiring in order to get a week off of work. Since Dwight is the owner of the building, Dwight’s stinginess comes across in a spectacularly funny fashion here.

6 “I Wish There Was A Way To Know You Are In The Good Old Days Before You’ve Actually Left Them.”

Andy says this surprisingly profound line as he reminisces about his time in the office. He talks about when he was working there, he thought his college buddies and college life was the good old days. But now that he is working in his college again, he realizes that his friends at the office and his office life was actually the good old days.

This quote actually shows how there’s no way of knowing how much you’ll miss the places you didn’t think you’d miss.

5 “How Did You Capture What It Was Really Like? How We Felt. How We Made Each Other Laugh. And How We Got Through The Day.”

Erin says this about the documentary that they finally watch. Everyone is deeply touched in different ways and has different takeaways from it. Erin pointedly asks this question to the people filming them. It’s quite meta and it feels like something that the viewers would have asked or something that fans would have felt.

Through Erin, fans hear themselves reflected in her immense feelings of what it felt like at the end of the show. The Office was loved because it captured the mundaneness and routine of day-to-day life at a job.

4 “I Worked For A Paper Company All These Years And Never Wrote Anything Down.”

Phyllis says this about herself but is a sentiment shared by many characters on the show. Even Jim talks about how the fact that they worked at a “boring” paper company for such a long time is astounding.

However, many of them have been there for such a big part of their life and most of the big things in their lives happened while they worked in the office. Phyllis has been a character on the show right from the first season till the very last episode.

3 “I Am A Person!”

Dwight exclaims this as Erin tells him to nod and talk “like a person.” Dwight isn’t the best person to have around women, especially around women in power. And the ladies of The Office take it upon themselves to educate him in respecting and talking to a potential big client of Dwight’s, who happens to be a woman.

Dwight is failing spectacularly, smiling, and nodding creepily when Erin tries to help him. Hilarity ensues as Dwight struggles to act like “a person” for Pam, Erin, Nellie, and the rest.

2 “There’s A Lot Of Beauty In Ordinary Things. Isn’t That Kind Of The Point?”

Pam says this as she talks about why they choose to make a documentary about them and the Dunder Mifflin office. She says that she first didn’t think they were an interesting enough topic, but now realizes how they were sort of a microcosm.

By showing the everyday life of the staff, they were able to see the beauty in the ordinary and mundane. Pam realizes that this was the point – that there is beauty in the small joys and small wins.

1 “No Matter How You Get There Or Where You End Up, Human Beings Have This Miraculous Gift To Make That Place Home.”

Creed was just a character in the background in the first season. He slowly started getting lines and appearing here and there before becoming a full-fledged cast member on the show. He is one of the funniest characters on the show and an enigma, of sorts.

While this quote is quite emotional, the situation in which he says this makes it hilarious. The finale episode is full of such sad-funny moments where The Office makes the viewer feel emotional and then laugh at the unlikeliest of things.

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