Top 10 Times John Krasinski Couldn't Keep a Straight Face on The Office
Nobody broke on "The Office" like John Krasinski. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the best outtakes from “The Office” wherein John Krasinski just couldn’t hold it together.
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00:00 "If you're promoted. Oh, it's just like the old days."
00:07 Welcome to MissMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the best outtakes from
00:11 'The Office,' wherein John Krasinski just couldn't hold it together.
00:15 "You want a carpool?"
00:17 "Sorry."
00:19 10. Last Minute Kevin
00:22 Apparently, Brian Baumgartner makes Krasinski laugh.
00:26 "Hey, Jim." "Hey, what's up?"
00:28 "Hey. Um, I know it's last minute, but I was wondering if..."
00:35 Baumgartner plays Kevin Malone on 'The Office,' and in this simple scene, all Krasinski does
00:41 is turn towards him and a smile breaks out across his face. In the second take, he tries
00:46 looking away, but again, that smile. After that, both Krasinski and Baumgartner take
00:52 turns breaking pretty much every time they look at each other. It's not even a big comedic
00:56 scene. "Hey." "Hey." "Um, I know it's last minute, but I was wondering if it would be..."
01:03 "No, that was you!"
01:06 But as fans of 'The Office' bloopers know, once the adorable Krasinski starts breaking,
01:11 it's very hard for him to stop. "I was wondering if it would be cool if I brought my..."
01:16 "Oh my God." "Wait."
01:18 "It's casual, so I'm not really worried about numbers or anything." "Cool. Alright. Thanks."
01:23 9. Dynamics in the workplace
01:26 Again, as with the previous outtake, we aren't quite sure what gets Krasinski going on this
01:30 one, but boy does he get going. "Basically the dynamics of..."
01:35 "Sh*t. Alright."
01:40 So much so that in the second take, you can still see his face is a little red from cracking
01:45 up on the previous one. And speaking of that second take, while Rainn Wilson was kind of
01:50 able to hold it together the first time, he also loses it in the next take.
01:54 "Basically..." "Within the workplace."
01:57 And speaking of red faces, both guys have faces the color of ripe tomatoes after the
02:02 laughing fit they go through on that one.
02:05 "Basically..." "Within the workplace."
02:08 8. A full desagulation
02:12 There's a very funny scene in the season 3 episode 'Women's Appreciation' in which
02:16 Dwight threatens Jim with a demerit and gives him a lengthy rundown of what the consequences
02:21 of one is. "That'll land you in a world of hurt. In the form of a disciplinary review
02:26 written up by me and placed on the desk of my immediate superior."
02:30 "Which would be me." "That is correct."
02:33 In response, Jim threatens Dwight with the possibility of a full desagulation.
02:38 What is a desagulation, you ask? We don't know. We don't think Jim knows either. But it's funny.
02:44 "You will receive a full desagulation."
02:47 "What's a des- what's that?"
02:50 "Oh, you don't want to know."
02:53 So much so, that Krasinski can't quite make it through his threat before a huge smile
02:58 appears on his face, and he has to sit down and try again.
03:02 "You will receive a full desagulation."
03:05 "What's that?"
03:12 7. How often can you donate blood?
03:15 In the season 4 Survivor Man episode, Michael is angry and jealous that Ryan invited Toby
03:21 on a company wilderness retreat but didn't invite him. He decides that he wants to go
03:25 camping and invites Jim, hypothetically, to come with him.
03:29 "And you know what hypothetical means. Not real." "Got it."
03:33 "So if I were to hypothetically ask you to go camping with me, would you go?"
03:38 "Absolutely yes." "When Michael plays the hypothetical game, I always say yes."
03:42 Jim says that he would go, but he can't because he's donating blood. Apparently Jim has used
03:47 that excuse before, because Michael questions him about how often one can do it.
03:51 "Oh, you want to go today?" "And I am always busy."
03:54 "Oh, I can't go today, because I'm donating blood."
03:58 "How often can you actually donate blood?"
04:01 "Is there a limit?"
04:02 In this outtake, you'll see things going great with both Carell and Krasinski, looking like
04:07 they're going to make it through the scene in good form. But obviously there was laughter
04:11 building up in John's body, because when the camera comes back to him, he bursts.
04:16 "Is there a limit?" "I don't know." "I don't think there was. Well, your body only has a certain amount."
04:22 6. You're Not Real
04:27 One of our favorite secondary characters on the show is Creed Bratton. The weird, unconventional
04:32 anomaly that is Creed has some of the most outlandish and funniest lines of the series.
04:37 "I open up a Word document on his computer and put an address at the top. I've read some
04:42 of it. Even for the internet, it's pretty shocking."
04:48 And his humor isn't lost on the cast either, particularly John Krasinski in this great
04:53 little outtake. After Creed fills Oscar in on what's gone on in the office while he was
04:57 away, Jim looks at Oscar and tells him he's pretty sure none of that is real.
05:01 "Whole big thing. We had a funeral for a bird." "I'm pretty sure none of that's real."
05:08 "You're not real, man!"
05:10 To which Creed responds that Jim isn't real. It's a perfect Creed line, and in at least
05:15 one of the takes, it causes one of those super cute smiles to appear on Krasinski's face.
05:20 "We had a funeral for a bird." "I'm pretty sure none of that's real."
05:26 "You're not real. Huh?"
05:31 In the Fun Run episode, Pam accidentally walks in on Michael half-unclothed in his office,
05:38 the lower half. "See how I did that?"
05:42 "That's the way you should enter a room. You knock and then you wait for the all clear."
05:45 "You couldn't have taken off all your clothes in the men's room?"
05:47 "Yes, but I have an office, so why would I do that?"
05:50 Later on the episode, Jim pokes fun at Michael's decision to go unclothed in his office by
05:54 doing one of his on-camera interviews topless and sarcastically questioning if they were
05:59 at a French beach. "Oh, I'm sorry. Is this a working office and not a French beach?"
06:05 He follows that line with a classic Jim Rye smile. However, in one of the previous takes,
06:10 rather than a funny quip and a smile, Krasinski couldn't even get to the quip before busting
06:15 a gut and having to start over again.
06:18 "What are you doing here?"
06:23 4. Pre-fired
06:25 "Don't make me fire you." "You can't fire me. You're acting manager, not office manager,
06:29 so you have no firing powers." "Don't make me pre-fire you." "You wouldn't dare."
06:34 We all know that sitting too much isn't good for us, which is why you get those reminders
06:38 from your Apple Watch to stand up every now and then. Well, on this particular day of
06:42 shooting, John Krasinski didn't need reminders from his Apple Watch because he had the pre-fired
06:47 scene, which kept him rising to his feet over and over again.
06:51 "You wouldn't dare."
06:56 "Oh man." "And when I get promoted, you're full fired." "If you get promoted, ahhh."
07:01 In the scene, Krasinski is meant to stand up, make his statement to Dwight, and that
07:05 is that. However, as you can see in these bloopers, it took Krasinski multiple tries
07:09 to get through it without laughing, each time standing up, breaking character, sitting back
07:14 down, and trying again.
07:16 "You're pre-fired. And when I'm promoted, you're full fired." "If you're promoted, oh."
07:23 "Oh, it's just like the old days."
07:27 3. Screw You
07:29 In this scene, Kelly is super angry at Jim and Dwight for forgetting her birthday, and
07:34 responds to their attempted apology with a harsh "screw you" to both of them.
07:38 "We just want to say we are very sorry." "Screw you guys, you're dead to me."
07:41 "If you say screw you one more time." "Yes, screw you, B-Farm. I'd forget your birthday.
07:44 I would never do that." "Guys, guys, guys, guys, guys. We just want to make it up to
07:48 you. What can we do?"
07:49 As we saw in an earlier outtake, Krasinski and Rainn Wilson seem to have a special knack
07:54 for cracking each other up during takes, and this scene with the two of them and Mindy
07:58 Kaling is another great, and hysterical, example of that.
08:02 "Screw you guys, you're dead to me." "If you say screw you one more time."
08:05 "Screw you, B-Farm." "Whoa, okay, guys."
08:07 "I did the face you like."
08:12 After Kelly's harsh retort, Wilson looks over at Krasinski, and that's all it takes for
08:16 him to break. Wilson even called the look he gave Krasinski "the face you like." Like
08:21 it or not, the look gets Krasinski laughing through at least another couple of takes.
08:25 "If you say screw you one more time." "Yes, screw you, B-Farm."
08:28 "Hey, guys, just cool it. You knew. You knew that wasn't that."
08:33 "I did not."
08:34 All Jim has to do in this scene is turn down Michael's offer to carpool to the cocktail
08:39 party. "Jimbo, last chance to carpool."
08:42 "You want to carpool?"
08:48 Sure, it sounds easy, but you try keeping a straight face while Steve Carell is getting
08:54 in nice and close, and verbally nudging you by saying the word "carpool" over and over
08:59 again. "Carpool?" "Yep." "A little carpool together?" "We're going to go separately."
09:03 "Separately? What?"
09:07 "We'll carpool together?" "Yeah."
09:10 If you can do it, then you are stronger than us. And John Krasinski. Yes, he eventually
09:16 made it through, but not before a multitude of takes ended with his face breaking into
09:20 a big smile and laughter, despite his best efforts not to.
09:24 "Carpool? We'll carpool together?" "Yeah."
09:28 "I'll meet you there."
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09:49 "Number one, if I quit, we'll all quit."
09:53 "I so want to quit. But if I quit, we'll all quit. It'll be anarchy."
09:58 While it's usually another cast member causing John Krasinski to break character, in this
10:03 oh-so-great outtake, the culprit is all Krasinski, and there's no one else in the scene to blame
10:09 but himself.
10:10 "I so want to quit. But if I quit, we'll all quit."
10:15 The Kras takes shot after shot at the lines, even making slightly different acting choices
10:21 on each one in regard to tone and delivery. But each time, regardless of how he chooses
10:26 to say the lines, getting through it all ends in failure, as that classic Krasinski smile
10:31 grows big across his face, and he bursts out laughing.
10:35 "I so want to quit. But if I quit, we'll all quit. It'll be anarchy."
10:40 "Does this even work?"
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