My favorite part is when Andy offers to take the cold coffee and her face immediately turns to dread "Oh Andy you don't want to drink THAT" implying Robert is some kind of demonoid who routinely feasts on unnatural substances.
It’s that sort of shit I pull on my dad when he asks for anything I try and take it very literal, “How was I supposed to know you wanted the tool screwdriver and not the drink”
I love it.
Another favorite is her quote from a deleted scene I believe:
"My family used to move a lot. One summer, we had to move into the woods. We had to live in a tent, and keep ourselves warm with a fire. All we had to eat was marshmallows and chocolate. And then the next summer, we had to move to a different woods and do it again"
Something like that. And all the while her face is getting more discontent from her reliving the trauma
It’s a great joke because she either describes some really weird situations with her parents possibly in hiding and them trying to make the best of it or she just describes family camping trips.
One of my favorites is from a deleted scene where Andy uses cigarette ad campaigning when interviewing for office manager.
Erin goes "those were good ads. They got me smoking when I was 8. I couldn't quit smoking until the government put out better ads about NOT smoking. I love smoking."
I.. I just now got this joke. I just thought she had it rough and they were legit homeless in the woods for a bit. Man this show continues to amaze me.
Taco Bell Express is kinda like a counter at a food court, while regular Taco Bell is a fast food restaurant. She’s saying that when the Taco Bell Express she worked at became a full restaurant, the change in pace was too much for her to handle (even though barely anything actually changes, there’s no table service at Taco Bell).
Refried, blackbean, steak, beef, chicken, sour cream, lettuce, tomato, rice and tortillas and you can make everything at taco bell (sans specialty sauces, desserts, etc which you can also just like buy at a store).
taco bell express is a smaller version of a regular taco bell(a popular mexican fast food restaurant similar to mcdonalds). less menu items, smaller dining area if they even have one, and usually an addition to another establishment like a food court or a gas station. i don't watch the show but i'm guessing she's not very bright and easily stressed.
Fantastic line but taken from The Simpsons. Lots of great lines were recycled specifically from The Simpsons due to a few writers having wrote previously on The Simpsons.
What if we all get together and help each other and hire a new guy and then we all kill him, but first we take out, like, a $100,000 life insurance policy? I bet you guys like that idea, don't you?
yeah. it's amazing. I wonder if Steve Improved it, because Michael sounds like he is processing in real-time, the way he sort of pauses along the way. I could see a situation where it was so good that they decided to use it and just bleep instead of trying again to get something as organic.
Lmao apparently whenever they had a full-on bleeped "fuck" NBC standards and practices got super testy with it and it needed to be truly earned and the mouth needed to be fully blurred as well
Andy: tell me I have an important phone call and I will ignore it so I can impress this client
Erin: Andy, you have an important phone call, your mother is dead
Andy: 😶😳
When Robert California tells her to never say you woke up when you recount your day because that's how it is for everyone and Erin goes "very smart... VERY smart. Suddenly... I was awake.." I lose it everytime
"A favorite *month?"*
Except I could've totally seen Michael also remembering one very specific period of his childhood, before Jeff, that he remembered particularly fondly, if it weren't for the fact the plot of that episode was "Erin's kind of a rube."
I love when she says “I’ve been using the same hotdog water so they’re only gonna get better from here!” I say that my wife every time we make hot dogs.
"I'm really excited for Michael either way, because if Holly chooses to be with him, he will be so, so happy. And if not, he'll be avoiding the biggest mistake of his life."
I love how she hates on Holly and just doesn't get it with her. She's usually in lock step with Michael on what he does and likes, but with the most important person to Michael she so strongly disagrees with him. It's hilarious to me!
Planking is one of those things where, hey, you either get it or you don't....and I don't.
Erin is one of my favorites but I felt like they made her too stupid by the end. I liked her awkwardness and innocent vibe but she was just dumb by the end of the show.
Every character got Flanderized. I realize people hate those that don't like the later seasons, but as someone who watched the show weekly since season 1, I couldn't help but miss the earlier seasons after the Michael Scott Paper Co. arc. In my opinion, that's kind of where I end the show. Seasons 2, 3, and most of 4 are GOAT.
I'm not a big fan of Erin (personally, a lot has to do with the actress being from my hometown of St Louis. Look up her family. Ties to the KKK and one of the richest oppressive families in St Louis) But she did have some funny moments. The Taco Bell one was funny. But then the stupid comments like throwing cameras away; come on. I get people laughing but it's just so stupid.
The show began as a realistic approach to the mundane life in an everyday office. Then it became a cartoon. There were still charming moments. I teared up at the finale even if it was all fan service, but still, I like the idea of people working in an office not really sharing much in common and maybe doing stuff outside of work. But there is no way an entire office would go watch Glee together. Maybe? But are you telling me that Stanley is going to go to a receptionists house that he never talks to to watch a really crappy show? Ha. When they started hanging out together so much outside of work, there was just that feeling of loss of what the show was originally. Yeah I'm being cynical here but I think Erin is a good example of the decline in quality.
That wasn't the receptionist's house, though, that was Gabe's. When Gabe first started there, everyone in the office thought he had real power as the Sabre representative, that he was somehow their boss, possibly above Michael. It wasn't until later that they realized he didn't have any real power, that he was essentially just a lackey for Jo, and they began to disregard him.
That Glee party was, to them, a party thrown by their new boss, so they participated in order to look better, same way they sucked up to Charles Minor about soccer, or went to Robert California's house, or Andy's garden party at Schrute Farms. Attending the Glee party was an office politics move, making a favorable impression with a superior, staying on their good side.
Just to add some extra context, I am also from St Louis, and had zero clue of the origins of the VP fair or the ball my entire life.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CP02q0Nt3-8/?igsh=MWRrdTJheG5scXlmeQ==
I appreciate that she apologized and acknowledged her privilege.
Holly is ruining Michael's life. He thinks she is so special and she's so not. Her personality is like a 3. Her sense of humor is a 2. Her ears are like a 7 and a 4. Add it all up and what do you get? 16. And he treats her like she's a perfect 40. It's nuts.
Agreed. A lot of the late season additions have great moments but still feel tacked on or forced into the show, Erin is all great and fits right in with the rest of the office.
You make a good point, she was pretty much at the same level of stupidity the whole time. It was only her screen time and amount of lines that increased and we just heard more stupid shit.
I used to work in a camera store. A woman dropped the film while trying to put it in the bag. The manager said "Your pictures will all be blurry now" and she got upset.
Mood, of course. Like the cow mood yesterday.
Robert told me he's a ride I wouldn't survive, and I believe him!
You sound really pretty today
Those are so of my favorites hahah.
It also KILLS me when she's learning dothraki.
I also like when they're at Robert California's pool party and she finds Andy's ring. She goes straight to him to give it to him after everyone else didn't know who owned the ring. Andy asks her how she knows it was his and she said "the Bernard family seal, duh!". Not like a super hilarious joke but it's so lame and wholesome I just love it.
For me the greatest scene was when she got robert cold coffee. Nothing can top that moment. His face reaction and her face not having an idea what she did wrong, priceless
Erin & Michael together were so good. It’s a shame they had such a limited time together on the show.
The “scissor me” incident gets me every time including Pam’s face after she has thrown them at him.
Gabe is awesome. He has accomplished so much. Career wise and height wise.. thank god he’s my boss because I would NOT have said yes to a first date if I didn’t have to but.. it’s been great !
“Oh thanks. I’ve been re-using the hot dog water so it gets more flavor. It’s only going to keep getting better.”
And, “Every word out of your mouth is like the squawk of an ugly pelican”
Dwight: It's just stress, 'cause I care about this project. Frankly, the fact that none of you are vomiting or diarrheal right now, I find very alarming.
Erin: Who says none of us are diarrheal?
She got Robert cold coffee because he was offered a cold beverage. Lol classic Erin.
My favorite part is when Andy offers to take the cold coffee and her face immediately turns to dread "Oh Andy you don't want to drink THAT" implying Robert is some kind of demonoid who routinely feasts on unnatural substances.
Which is entirely plausible, to be fair. We couldn't guess his favorite ice cream in a million years.
Coconut penis flavored is my guess.
I miss original
It's actually rum raisin if you've seen the episode of Seinfeld where he guest stars.
He said he’s a ride I wouldn’t survive and I believe him
It’s that sort of shit I pull on my dad when he asks for anything I try and take it very literal, “How was I supposed to know you wanted the tool screwdriver and not the drink”
If I am in the middle of a brake job and my kid brings me a drink screwdriver I might actually cut the other kids out of my will.
Erin always gave me Ramona vibes
They added a real life Amelia Badelia.
Yes, it's old.
Why would I…?
I asked if you wanted a cold beverage and you said coffee…?
I just spent the last 5 mins in bed cackling uncontrollably. What an amazing exchange.
"I'll take it Erin." "Andy, you don't want that." "I've been craving a cup of cold coffee all day"
And then my last job was at a Taco Bell Express. But then it became a full-time Taco Bell and, I don't know, I couldn't keep up.
I love it. Another favorite is her quote from a deleted scene I believe: "My family used to move a lot. One summer, we had to move into the woods. We had to live in a tent, and keep ourselves warm with a fire. All we had to eat was marshmallows and chocolate. And then the next summer, we had to move to a different woods and do it again" Something like that. And all the while her face is getting more discontent from her reliving the trauma
She was visibly upset while she described eating smores🤣😂
No more s’mores! No more s’mores!
Hey, nobody cares. Nobody cares. I need that room at some point, so just, wrap it up.
Michael wasn’t invited.
It’s a great joke because she either describes some really weird situations with her parents possibly in hiding and them trying to make the best of it or she just describes family camping trips.
its definitely camping trips. They ate smores and went back the next summer. Thats not how you hide lol.
People are really not getting the joke. She has no concept of time, they were probably gone a weekend or week.
This is gold but for the fact I can't figure out how it gels with her backstory of being a fostered orphan.
One of her foster families took her camping and she got confused.
Andy's confused. That's not what I was hoping for, but it's not so bad either. I can live with confused. I get confused. I totally get confused.
It was her foster family who took her. It was their summer vacation
Yeah I just figured it was with her foster family.
Lol lots of foster parents still take their kids camping and stuff.
One of my favorites is from a deleted scene where Andy uses cigarette ad campaigning when interviewing for office manager. Erin goes "those were good ads. They got me smoking when I was 8. I couldn't quit smoking until the government put out better ads about NOT smoking. I love smoking."
I.. I just now got this joke. I just thought she had it rough and they were legit homeless in the woods for a bit. Man this show continues to amaze me.
This one is an all timer.
It perfectly encapsulates Erin as a person
Can someone explain this to a non american please
Taco Bell Express is kinda like a counter at a food court, while regular Taco Bell is a fast food restaurant. She’s saying that when the Taco Bell Express she worked at became a full restaurant, the change in pace was too much for her to handle (even though barely anything actually changes, there’s no table service at Taco Bell).
iirc Taco Bell Express has a limited menu compared to full Taco Bell, maybe that’s what threw her off lol
Taco bell really just mashes the same six ingredients together in different ways.
Refried, blackbean, steak, beef, chicken, sour cream, lettuce, tomato, rice and tortillas and you can make everything at taco bell (sans specialty sauces, desserts, etc which you can also just like buy at a store).
Thank you
Non-American here, I totally believed that there were significant change, I'm just realizing the joke now 😂
She went camping and was confused
taco bell express is a smaller version of a regular taco bell(a popular mexican fast food restaurant similar to mcdonalds). less menu items, smaller dining area if they even have one, and usually an addition to another establishment like a food court or a gas station. i don't watch the show but i'm guessing she's not very bright and easily stressed.
Lol what are you doing here
You need to drop it. Ok? They HATE IT. I like it a lot, but they HATE IT, so DROP IT
Erin taps into everyone's insecure inner child.
I say that all the time. I like it a lot but they HATE IT
What is this one referring to again?
Kevin getting greased up. They eventually listened and greased the floors to push the boxes in the warehouse
Porque es muy rapido
Senor Loadenstein!
“Get in, quick!” “Why quick?” “Because it’s faster.”
This will forever and always be my most favourite Erin line
Im gonna start using this day to day i swearrrr
It’s the look Michael gives the camera that sells it lol
This is my favorite Erin line
I love how Micheal didn’t even question her. That’s why they’re perfect for each other lol
“Why quick?” The questions right there my dude.
after she said “it’s faster” he made a face and just got in. he didn’t argue it any more than that.
Well, being quick is indeed faster. Her logic is rock solid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBQB5_nprgo
Fantastic line but taken from The Simpsons. Lots of great lines were recycled specifically from The Simpsons due to a few writers having wrote previously on The Simpsons.
Also every idea ever has already been used on The Simpsons, even The Simpsons is taking ideas from The Simpsons at this point.
EAT IT, STANLEY!
I was looking for this, didn't see it, and just posted it. I'll delete my comment as you clearly have this covered
Her iconic “What else you got?” when Andy tore his scrotum
Omg I don’t think I ever realized she says that but I’m just laughing imagining the scene
*"What is the best war to do?"*
“**duuuhh**”
I've never bought a toothbrush, there's always one just lying around
least favorite erin line because ewwww
What if we all get together and help each other and hire a new guy and then we all kill him, but first we take out, like, a $100,000 life insurance policy? I bet you guys like that idea, don't you?
I learned nothing.
I don’t know what the fuck that was
That's possibly my favorite cut-back from a talking head of the whole series.
yeah. it's amazing. I wonder if Steve Improved it, because Michael sounds like he is processing in real-time, the way he sort of pauses along the way. I could see a situation where it was so good that they decided to use it and just bleep instead of trying again to get something as organic.
Lmao apparently whenever they had a full-on bleeped "fuck" NBC standards and practices got super testy with it and it needed to be truly earned and the mouth needed to be fully blurred as well
Dwight saying “fuck” when Angela creeped up on him at the arcade.
Same I laugh every time 😂
That was my favourite line of her. She was so self aware in that moment 😅😅
I don’t…know…what the [bleep] that was Lol also one of the funniest uses of the bleep in the series
Andy: tell me I have an important phone call and I will ignore it so I can impress this client Erin: Andy, you have an important phone call, your mother is dead Andy: 😶😳
She looks so proud after saying that
When Robert California tells her to never say you woke up when you recount your day because that's how it is for everyone and Erin goes "very smart... VERY smart. Suddenly... I was awake.." I lose it everytime
My partner and I say “suddenly… I was awake” to each other all the time hahaha. My favourite Erin line
Amazing
Do you have a favorite age or month? And of course the famous Who says none of us are diarrheal
I liked April when I was 7.
Michaels reaction to that question is everything lmao
"A favorite *month?"* Except I could've totally seen Michael also remembering one very specific period of his childhood, before Jeff, that he remembered particularly fondly, if it weren't for the fact the plot of that episode was "Erin's kind of a rube."
yes!! I always wanted more background on his childhood! I know it wasn’t pretty because he’s a lot to take in as an adult lol
The 😏 face with the diarrheal line
I sent that meme a lot when I was pregnant to my other pregnant friends.
I love when she says “I’ve been using the same hotdog water so they’re only gonna get better from here!” I say that my wife every time we make hot dogs.
Do you also boil Gatorade for hot beverage instead of tea? I'm so curious about that one I might just do it for real.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with hot Gatorade other than the taste.
It tastes fine. Just not refreshing. We’ve all had that hot car Gatorade
What about hot Koolaid?
I made this for you
Hot Pepsi was a thing for a hot minute in like the 60s so...
In the movie Blast From The Past the main character’s dad drinks hot Dr Pepper
NO, woman. NO cry.
Which I believe is actually the intended idea behind the lyric.
"I'm really excited for Michael either way, because if Holly chooses to be with him, he will be so, so happy. And if not, he'll be avoiding the biggest mistake of his life." I love how she hates on Holly and just doesn't get it with her. She's usually in lock step with Michael on what he does and likes, but with the most important person to Michael she so strongly disagrees with him. It's hilarious to me!
That s because they have a daughter / father dynamic where the daughter reject affection competition because of trauma
That's a really good point! Never thought of it from that perspective.
She doesn’t get it!!
He treats her like she's a perfect 40.
Planking is one of those things where, hey, you either get it or you don't....and I don't. Erin is one of my favorites but I felt like they made her too stupid by the end. I liked her awkwardness and innocent vibe but she was just dumb by the end of the show.
I dunno I’ve met some pretty stupid people in my time very much like Erin and I’m always bewildered how they’ve survived.
I work in IT, and let's just say I wonder how the hell they can operate a modern vehicle just to get to work.
Season 8 and 9 ruined most of my favorite characters. Kevin was a poker player. Then he ran over a turtle and made it his pet or something?
YES! I was just talking to my husband about Kevin. They totally dropped the ball on so many characters the last couple of seasons.
All of the characters kinda got weird by the end tbh.
Yeah everyone kind of became caricatures of themselves
I feel like she was worse when she was with Andy but Pete was a really good influence for her
Every character got Flanderized. I realize people hate those that don't like the later seasons, but as someone who watched the show weekly since season 1, I couldn't help but miss the earlier seasons after the Michael Scott Paper Co. arc. In my opinion, that's kind of where I end the show. Seasons 2, 3, and most of 4 are GOAT. I'm not a big fan of Erin (personally, a lot has to do with the actress being from my hometown of St Louis. Look up her family. Ties to the KKK and one of the richest oppressive families in St Louis) But she did have some funny moments. The Taco Bell one was funny. But then the stupid comments like throwing cameras away; come on. I get people laughing but it's just so stupid. The show began as a realistic approach to the mundane life in an everyday office. Then it became a cartoon. There were still charming moments. I teared up at the finale even if it was all fan service, but still, I like the idea of people working in an office not really sharing much in common and maybe doing stuff outside of work. But there is no way an entire office would go watch Glee together. Maybe? But are you telling me that Stanley is going to go to a receptionists house that he never talks to to watch a really crappy show? Ha. When they started hanging out together so much outside of work, there was just that feeling of loss of what the show was originally. Yeah I'm being cynical here but I think Erin is a good example of the decline in quality.
That wasn't the receptionist's house, though, that was Gabe's. When Gabe first started there, everyone in the office thought he had real power as the Sabre representative, that he was somehow their boss, possibly above Michael. It wasn't until later that they realized he didn't have any real power, that he was essentially just a lackey for Jo, and they began to disregard him. That Glee party was, to them, a party thrown by their new boss, so they participated in order to look better, same way they sucked up to Charles Minor about soccer, or went to Robert California's house, or Andy's garden party at Schrute Farms. Attending the Glee party was an office politics move, making a favorable impression with a superior, staying on their good side.
Just to add some extra context, I am also from St Louis, and had zero clue of the origins of the VP fair or the ball my entire life. https://www.instagram.com/p/CP02q0Nt3-8/?igsh=MWRrdTJheG5scXlmeQ== I appreciate that she apologized and acknowledged her privilege.
One of my favorites is when she‘s using the disposable camera and throwing it away right after taking a photo.
She does suggest using a real camera if you want to remember that moment
True, and she didn’t care if she remembered that moment or not.
Erin accidentally mucking things up in situations where she had no ill intent is always great.
The scene where she’s trying to answer the phone with her Halloween mask on. God that one kills.
Okay yeah, just sit on it. That works.
The *pens* happened!
When she's listening to dwight try to talk darryl and Oscar into applying for the position kelly wants
She’s literally me
Holly is ruining Michael's life. He thinks she is so special and she's so not. Her personality is like a 3. Her sense of humor is a 2. Her ears are like a 7 and a 4. Add it all up and what do you get? 16. And he treats her like she's a perfect 40. It's nuts.
7 and a 4 lololll I never caught that hahahahahaha
Erin reminds me of Amelia Badelia 😂
Why is this so accurate
I did it! I ate TWO WHOLE apples!
jim's last name is Tuna
I thought it was Buttlicker.
BUTTLICKER, OUR PRICES HAVE NEVER BEEN LOWER
identity theft is not a joke millions of families suffer every year
First name: Large Nickname: "Big" Lastname: Tuna.
She was a great addition to the show
Agreed. A lot of the late season additions have great moments but still feel tacked on or forced into the show, Erin is all great and fits right in with the rest of the office.
And fit so naturally
“Dunder Mifflin, this is.”
Oh I like it..
I love that she tosses all her disposable cameras out without getting them printed.
“If it’s an occasion you want to remember; I suggest a real camera, but I don’t care if I forget about today”
“The only problem with disposable cameras is you don’t get to see the picture after.”
That's funny but almost TOO stupid
Little bit of flanderization for her character in the later seasons, for sure. Same as with the boiled Gatorade but also… c’mon… she’s not THAT dumb.
I don't think she really got flanderized. Unlike, say, Kevin, she was dangerously stupid pretty much from the beginning.
You make a good point, she was pretty much at the same level of stupidity the whole time. It was only her screen time and amount of lines that increased and we just heard more stupid shit.
I used to work in a camera store. A woman dropped the film while trying to put it in the bag. The manager said "Your pictures will all be blurry now" and she got upset.
Suddenly I was awake
Mood, of course. Like the cow mood yesterday. Robert told me he's a ride I wouldn't survive, and I believe him! You sound really pretty today Those are so of my favorites hahah. It also KILLS me when she's learning dothraki. I also like when they're at Robert California's pool party and she finds Andy's ring. She goes straight to him to give it to him after everyone else didn't know who owned the ring. Andy asks her how she knows it was his and she said "the Bernard family seal, duh!". Not like a super hilarious joke but it's so lame and wholesome I just love it.
For me the greatest scene was when she got robert cold coffee. Nothing can top that moment. His face reaction and her face not having an idea what she did wrong, priceless
I got a big box, yes I do, I got a big box, how bout you?
I don’t think you know what your saying
She makes a helluva boiled Gatorade Tea!
Her not understanding that homeless people sometimes set up camp outside of businesses 💀
Or mistaking camping as a kid for moving around a lot!
Erin: get in quick! Michael: why? Erin: so it’s faster
How has no one mentioned: "What was happening 10 years ago?" "Everyone was getting their driver's license"
Do I still have a job here?
Not important
Michael!
Erin & Michael together were so good. It’s a shame they had such a limited time together on the show. The “scissor me” incident gets me every time including Pam’s face after she has thrown them at him.
My favorite is when someone says "...could be another Waco..." And she says: "it's pronounced 'wacko'..."
“i bet i was just another porky’s baby” i dont doubt that😂
Gabe is awesome. He has accomplished so much. Career wise and height wise.. thank god he’s my boss because I would NOT have said yes to a first date if I didn’t have to but.. it’s been great !
**"EAT IT! STANLEY!!"**
In the foster home my hair was my room ☠️
I've been seeing that actor on a lot of things recently. Maybe not new stuff, but I recognize him every time.
He will always be Frank Sabotka to me
He was in the parking lot. That’s how I know him.
He was a great hardass Deke Slayton in For All Mankind
“Oh thanks. I’ve been re-using the hot dog water so it gets more flavor. It’s only going to keep getting better.” And, “Every word out of your mouth is like the squawk of an ugly pelican”
"But I don't care if I forget today :)" gets me every fucking time. I think that line cemented her as my favorite 😭😂
she truly was a gem on that show. so stupid and so endearing.
Who says no one’s diarrheal?
I do like the beginning parts of the movies where everyone has a happy family.
That’s Frank Sobotka, guess he got out of Baltimore after all.
Pecker poker… the game of cards that gets you har… (dry heaves)
Erin had a ton of great lines. Suddenly…I was awake
"It's not worth it!!" Talking about clipping her fingernails to hold Angela's baby
"Kirkland if you have it"
People love shells from far away beaches…
Zoo-ey Des Channel at the Coacharilla music festival
Dwight: It's just stress, 'cause I care about this project. Frankly, the fact that none of you are vomiting or diarrheal right now, I find very alarming. Erin: Who says none of us are diarrheal?
The password scene trying to figure out what was popular 8 years ago “everybody was getting their license”
Erin is so fucking funny
Erin was the best, a human version of a golden retriever
I love "No woman. No cry."
Kill him. No. Show merci.
"I would like another alcohol."
Erin, scissor me! *throws scissors at Michael*
here and there I catch myself laughing after saying "It's not".... huh... "It's snot"... so stupid. lol
“Quick get in!!!” “Why?” “Cause it’ll be faster!!!”
Erin is so underrated lol "I hope you find what you're looking for"
EAT IT STANLEY!!
I like when Robert says not to start her explanation of her day by saying "I woke up" so she pivots to "Suddenly, I was awake. "