10 The Office's best Jim and Dwight pranks of all time

Jim and Dwight have always been what the Urban Dictionary would define the word ‘frenemies’ to be. The pair has been known for their repertoire of world-class pranks. While Jim has always been the one who would go above and beyond to plan and execute the pranks, as we have witnessed from the very first episode of “The Office,” there have been innumerable occasions when Jim has had his ‘sweet behind’ handed to him in the form of a prank executed by Dwight. While some of the pranks were funny, others were simply mean and, at times, even dangerous, to be completely honest. Here’s a list of The Office’s 10 best Jim and Dwight pranks of all time.

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Jim impersonates Dwight (Season 3, Episode 21)

In the third Season, we see Jim Halpert sans the white or blue button-down dress shirt, fashioning a classic Dwight-approved mustard-colored half-sleeved shirt, glasses like that of Dwight’s, and a hairstyle sharing an eerie resemblance with Dwight’s hairstyle. Jim even went so far as to attach a pager to his belt and mimic Dwight’s exact demeanor. It only struck Dwight when Jim started talking about bears eating beets and Battlestar Galactica! It is exactly after this when we as an audience were blessed with one of Dwight’s famous dialogues, “Identity theft is not a joke, Jim!”. It’s just one of those occasions when Jim went out of his way to get on Dwight’s nerves.

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Quad desk (Season 6, Episode 19)

After Jim returned from paternity leave in Season 6, he found out that in his absence, Dwight had taken the liberty of combining his own desk, Jim’s desk, and Pam’s desk to form something he referred to as the ‘mega desk.’. To get back at Dwight, Jim devised a plan and formed something called “quad desk” using the same three desks. Dwight, upon realizing what this meant, had only one concern: that Jim couldn’t refer to it as a ‘quad desk’ since it was made up of three desks. This episode was a classic example of the equation Jim and Dwight shared. They both intentionally or unintentionally liked to get on each other’s nerves.

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Dwight gets a gaydar (Season 3, Episode 1)

After Oscar came out as gay in the series “The Office,” Dwight and Michael take it upon themselves to hunt the office for potential gays. Jim being Jim, he mails Dwight a’gaydar" belt from Stamford. Dwight, upon receiving the same, feels as though he has inbuilt gaydar. Dwight tries the device on everyone in the office and tries to figure out who’s gay. In actuality, the device is nothing but a mere metal detector. Dwight becomes confident after the device starts beeping when pointed towards Oscar. The episode actually gets interesting when Dwight tries the ‘gaydar’ on himself, and the device starts beeping again. Dwight gets thrown into a spiral, and he starts questioning his s*xuality.

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Asian Jim (Season 9, Episode 3)

Even when Jim would be on leave, he wouldn’t—or rather, couldn’t—let go of the opportunity to mess with Dwight. One such time when Jim took a leave to go to the dentist, he, along with Pam, put their heads together to pull an elaborate prank on Dwight. They hired an Asian actor friend of theirs to pose as Jim in front of Dwight. Pam even went so far as to kiss this friend on the lips in front of Dwight to make it seem more realistic. Dwight didn’t believe at first, then he went on to mention how Jim’s not Asian, and then this fake Jim praised Dwight for never noticing race. Dwight’s left completely blown away when he picks up the family photo on Jim’s desk, and he finds this fake Jim with two Asian kids and Pam. This marks the end of another successful prank.

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Jim makes Dwight yell at William Buttlicker (Season 5, Episode 7)

Kelly Kapoor gives abysmal performance reviews to both Jim and Dwight on customer surveys. Michael decides to personally train them both on how to be better at interacting with the customers. So, Michael asks Jim and Dwight to enact a situation wherein one of them is the salesman and the other one is the customer. Jim decides to play the role of the customer with the name’William Buttlicker, and Dwight is the salesman trying to convince William Buttlicker to buy Dunder Mifflin’s papers. Jim deliberately irritates Dwight to get him to snap. As always, Dwight falls right into the trap laid tactfully by Jim and ends up yelling at Mr. Buttlciker.

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Jim transforms into a vampire (Season 3, Episode 17)

In Season 3, episode 17 of “The Office, a bat gets loose in the office, and this is what sets a premise for the upcoming prank. Jim pretends to have gotten bitten by the bat. Jim starts mimicking the symptoms of a human transforming into a vampire. He pretends to have a headache because of the bright lights, burns his hand on the garlic bread, and pretends to have a tingling sensation where he got bitten by a bat. Dwight was worried in the beginning but then told himself what needed to be done and started to carve out a wooden stake to eliminate Jim.

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Jim clocks Dwight’s behaviour during work hours all day (Season 5, Episode 3)

Dwight was rigid about the fact that he never steals any company hours and that he’s very diligent. Jim decided to keep Dwight on his toes yet again by deciding to clock Dwight’s behavior throughout the day. Jim got a stopwatch in order to clock all of Dwight’s activities throughout the day. Dwight, for obvious reasons, started getting increasingly frustrated when Jim started describing his favorite TV show incorrectly.

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Jim’s red wire prank (Season 5, Episode 13)

There have been times when Jim has made it more than obvious that he doesn’t mess with Dwight just because he likes irritating him, but rather he himself likes to devise elaborate pranks to execute, and Dwight just happens to be the perfect victim for his amusement. Jim bought 500 feet of red wire at a flea market and taped the red wire up a telephone pole. The cord was attached to the back of Dwight’s computer. Jim ran the wire all along the office, next to his co-workers, along the halls, and out of the door. When the camera shifted from Jim to Dwight, we find the latter climbing the telephone pole; upon seeing this, Jim says that Dwight will be fine since Jim himself made it all the way up there and was just fine.

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The snowball fight (Season 7, Episode 12)

In the seventh season of the series, there is an episode titled ‘Classy Christmas.’. In this episode, we see Jim and Dwight going up against each other quite literally. Jim throws a snowball at Dwight in jest, and Dwight takes offense for the same. Dwight finally decides to give Jim a taste of his own medicine by executing an elaborate prank. Dwight dresses up as Pam to mess with Jim’s mind and land a surprise snowball attack. Jim is quite literally petrified of Dwight’s next move. Dwight fills the parking lot with dozens of giant snowmen. Jim blindly attacks each one of them, while Dwight enjoys being a passive spectator from the office rooftop, indicating that his mission was successful.

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Dwight’s wedding (Season 9, Episode 23)

In the series finale of “The Office,” Dwight is overwhelmed by Jim’s beautiful gesture disguised as another one of his pranks. On the day of Dwight’s wedding, Jim, while he was getting Dwight ready right before the wedding was about to start, said to him that he had always known that the “best mensch” couldn’t be younger than the groom. Dwight obviously felt dejected, as would anyone else, but then Jim revealed his ultimate surprise; he brought out Ace Card, i.e., he brought out Michael and insisted that nobody but he should be Dwight’s’best mensch.”. This gesture by Jim proved that Dwight was more than just his source of entertainment; Dwight was, from the very beginning, Jim’s best friend, and by doing this, he proved it.