Last Updated on 11 May 2024
I searched the Internet for lists of the best episodes of The Office (US). Criteria included the episodes being ranked, not just listed, covering the entire run, not just lists of episodes featuring one actor or one holiday, and generally created by groups, whether teams or committees or based on general public voting (like Ranker.com).
I found 39 different ranked lists online of “best episodes of The Office.” Then I averaged the rankings each episode got and divided that average by a factor of the number of lists that episode was on. The lowest score meant a high ranking average on many lists. The complete spreadsheet is attached at the bottom.
The episodes that were on the most lists (out of 39):
- Dinner Party (S04 E09) – 36 lists
- Stress Relief (S05 E13) – 33 lists
- The Injury (S02 E12) – 30 lists
- The Dundies (S02 E01) – 29 lists
- Casino Night (S02 E22) – 28 lists
- Goodbye, Michael (S07 E21) – 25 lists
- Beach Games (S03 E22) – 24 lists
- Niagara: Part 2 (S06 E05) – 24 lists
- Niagara: Part 1 (S06 E04) – 24 lists
- Threat Level Midnight (S07 E16) – 24 lists
Here are links to the lists I used:
- TheTopTens – 10 May 2024
- Episode Ratings – 8 May 2024
- IMDb User Ratings – 8 May 2024
- Yardbarker – 8 May 2024
- Screen Rant: Funniest – 2 May 2024
- Collider – 20 Apr 2024
- Ranker – 15 Apr 2024
- The Mary Sue – 26 Mar 2024
- Toynk Toys – 27 Feb 2024
- Entertainment Weekly – 21 Feb 2024
- Comic Book Resources (CBR) – 14 Feb 2024
- Screen Rant: Best – 29 Nov 2023
- MovieWeb – 5 Nov 2023
- BroBible – 30 Oct 2023
- UPROXX – 25 Sep 2023
- IndieWire – 27 Jul 2023
- The Review Geek – 10 Jul 2023
- GHS Explosion – 24 Jan 2023
- Paste Magazine – 9 Dec 2022
- IGN Adria – 10 Aug 2022
- SlashFilm – 10 May 2022
- Mashable – 11 Apr 2022
- Variety – 15 Apr 2021
- WhatCulture – 22 Nov 2020
- TV Guide – 13 Jul 2020
- Cleveland.com – 24 Mar 2020
- The Ringer – 24 Mar 2020
- Digital Trends – 18 Dec 2019
- PopSugar – 9 Jul 2019
- CinemaBlend – 1 Jul 2019
- Business Insider – 30 Apr 2019
- ComingSoon – 4 Apr 2019
- The Nicholls Worth – 8 Nov 2018
- Stacker – 8 Aug 2018
- Odyssey – 12 Jun 2017
- WatchMojo – 12 Jan 2016
- Mandatory – 5 Dec 2013
- OfficeTally – 17 Feb 2006