Season 3

Ben Franklin

Acting on bad advice from his friend Todd Packer, Michael brings two "adult" performers into the office - a stripper and Ben Franklin - in honor of Phyllis's wedding shower. Meanwhile Karen confronts Pam about her past with Jim.

Memorable Quotes

Michael Scott: Yesterday I was scraping some gunk off my wall sockets with a metal fork and I gave myself the nastiest shock. When I came to, I had an epiphery. Life is precious and if I die, I want my son to know the dealio. The dealio of life.

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Michael Scott: So I am instituting "prima nocte."
Jim Halpert: [talking head] "Prima nocte", I believe from the movie Braveheart and confirmed on Wikipedia, is when the king got to deflower every new bride on her wedding night. So...

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Michael Scott: I'm sorry, I had a very different understanding as to what "prima nocte" meant.
Todd Packer: Mike, okay, a stripper is "Bachelor Party 101." If you don't get a stripper your party is gonna suck.
Michael Scott: I can't get a stripper here. Sexual harassment.
Todd Packer: Get one for the girls, too. That evens it out. You know, separate but equal.
Michael Scott: So that's what that means...

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Michael Scott: Okay, coed naked strippers in this office. For realsies.
Angela: Under no circumstance should a man strip off his clothes in this office.
Meredith: SHUT UP, ANGELA!

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Dwight Schrute: (ordering stripper) Ruddy cheeks, thick calves, no tats, no moles. No tats. No, TATS. Of course I want t-
Jim Halpert: Stop. That's disgusting.
Dwight Schrute: Leave me alone and get the male stripper.
Jim Halpert: Fine.
Dwight Schrute: I knew you would, Nancy.
Jim Halpert: Sally.

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Jim Halpert: Michael referred me to a male strip club called "Banana Slings." Instead, I called the Scholastic Speakers of Pennsylvania.

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Michael Scott: Mr. Franklin, I would say you are probably one of the sexiest presidents ever.
Ben Franklin: Well, actually, I never was president.
Michael Scott: Yes, but Ben Franklin was.

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Dwight Schrute: I don't care what Jim says, that is not the real Ben Franklin. I am 99% sure.

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Ben Franklin: You know, I invented electricity.
Pam: I know.
Ben Franklin: Well, I'm sensing a little electricity right here.
Pam: Didn't Ben Franklin have syphilis?
Ben Franklin: Yes, but I don't. My name is Gordon.
Pam: Oooh...

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Michael Scott: So you know who turned out to be kind of a creep? Ben Franklin.

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Michael Scott: Guys! Beef: it's what's for dinner! Who wants some man meat?
Dwight Schrute: I do! I want some man meat!
Jim Halpert: Michael, Dwight would like your man meat.
Michael Scott: Well then, my man meat he shall have.