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'The Office': The Dwight Schrute line fans love to recite by heart.
Published on August 9, 2020
2 min readDwight Schrute is a very quotable character. He’s intense, socially unaware, and, underneath it all, contains a heart of gold. The Office has a particularly devoted fan base. It’s not unusual for fans to be able to recite quotes from the famous sitcom at the drop of a hat. There’s one line of Dwight’s, though, that a surprising amount of fans have committed to memory.
‘Frame Toby’
The ninth episode of the fifth season, “Frame Toby,” revolves around Michael trying to get Toby fired. He attempts to get Toby fired by setting him up to harass Pam, but Pam won’t participate. Then Michael tries to get Toby to hit him but Toby, of course, doesn’t comply. Finally, Michael purchases what he believes is “two pounds of marijuana” for $500 and puts it in Toby’s desk. Dwight then calls the police, telling them there’s possibly narcotics in the office. When they arrive, they uncover a Caprese salad (not marijuana) in Toby’s desk.
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The other major plot point involves Jim buying his parents’ house without discussing the purchase with Pam. When he finally gives her a tour of the home, Pam seems hesitant at first but ultimately tells him she loves it.
Dwight’s ‘perfect crime’
The episode is also home to one of Dwight’s most iconic lines about his “perfect crime.”
“What is my perfect crime? I break into Tiffany’s at midnight. Do I go for the vault? No, I go for the chandelier. It’s priceless. As I’m taking it down, a woman catches me. She tells me to stop. It’s her father’s business. She’s Tiffany. I say no. We make love all night. In the morning, the cops come and I escape in one of their uniforms. I tell her to meet me in Mexico, but I go to Canada. I don’t trust her. Besides, I like the cold. Thirty years later, I get a postcard. I have a son and he’s the chief of police. This is where the story gets interesting. I tell Tiffany to meet me in Paris by the Trocadero. She’s been waiting for me all these years. She’s never taken another lover. I don’t care. I don’t show up. I go to Berlin. That’s where I stashed the chandelier.”
Dwight K. SchruteThe Office Instagram recently posted Dwight’s speech and several fans took to the comments section to say they know it by heart.
“is it bad that i know every word,” asked one fan.
“I learned it by heart in like 3 min,” commented another.
Another fan wrote that they’d learned the speech to recite as a monologue.
“I didn’t even open the sound I already knew its that scene cause I’ve seen it a million times,” wrote another Instagram user.
Dwight has many, many quotable lines. But the perfect crime is definitely a fan favorite.
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