One of the best parts about The Office was its mastery of the cold open. These opens, often having zero connection to the episode’s plot, gave us some of the funniest scenes and most memorable moments of the entire show. While I did rank all the cold opens during the rewatch (169/185 episodes had one) I will only be listing my Top 10. This is just a nice, easy, fun one. No analysis, no thoughts. Just laughs. Watch and enjoy.
Sorry in advance for the poor quality on some of the videos. Some of the better quality videos couldn’t be embedded and played here. I linked to those when possible.
And be sure to check out my episode and season rankings if you haven’t yet. Links to all below.
Episode rankings
#185-150
#149-101
#100-51
#50-21
#20-1
10) “Baby Shower” Season 5, episode 4; Michael and Dwight practice for Jan’s birth
9) “Fun Run” Season 4, episode 1; Michael hits Meredith with his car
Better quality video here.
8) “Gossip” Season 6, episode 1; Parkour
http://dai.ly/x2ufrvi
7) “Casual Friday” Season 5, episode 26; Kevin’s Famous Chili
https://vimeo.com/199208577
6) “Moroccan Christmas” Season 5, episode 11; Jim wraps Dwight’s desk
Better quality video here.
5) “Dwight’s Speech” Season 2, episode 17; Michael and Dwight play catch with a football
http://dai.ly/x6jqm4x
4) “Search Committee” Season 7, episode 25/26; Creed as manager
Better quality videos for parts of this clip here and here.
3) “Phyllis’s Wedding” Season 3, episode 15; Jim does a variation of the “Pavlov’s Dog” experiment on Dwight
https://vimeo.com/35754924
2) “Stress Relief” Season 5, episode 14/15; Dwight’s fake fire drill
1) “Andy’s Ancestry” Season 9, episode 3; Asian Jim
Episode rankings
#185-150
#149-101
#100-51
#50-21
#20-1
