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It's time for "The Dundies", Michael's annual embarrassing awards show for the Dunder-Mifflin Scranton employees, which takes place at the local Chili's restaurant. He thinks they love the awards, but in fact, they're dreaded. He even has Pam go through the old Dundies footage for highlights. Jan tells Michael that corporate will not fund the party, which breaks his hopes of a drunken show. Meanwhile, Dwight tries to discover what negative comments were written about Michael in the ladies room. Michael invites friends and family to the show to quiet rumors.

The awards begin with Michael rapping. As everyone prepares to order, he then tells them they have to pay for their meals and drinks. He tries to tell jokes, but Dwight ruins them. Darryl and Roy, thinking the awards are lame, leave early, but Pam, after arguing with Roy, ends up staying as the awards begin.

After a beer and two margaritas, Pam starts getting drunk. As he sings another song, Michael gets heckled by some other customers and feels humiliated. He decides to wrap it up, but an intoxicated Pam (along with Jim) encourages him to finish the show, which he does. She braces herself for her annual "World's Longest Engagement" award, but is relieved to get the "Whitest Sneakers" award. Pam thanks Michael and God and, after celebrating, drunkenly kisses Jim on the lips. Most agree it was the best Dundies ever. As they're leaving, Pam goes to ask Jim a question, but stops herself when she notices the cameras. Angela drives her home and he smiles as he watches them leave.

• The Dundies were first mentioned in the episode "The Alliance".
• This episode starts the running gag of Michael having a "man-crush" on Ryan. He slaps him on the buttocks in this episode.
• The movie Almost Famous uses the song "Tiny Dancer" in a pivotal scene as well. Rainn Wilson was also featured in the film as one of the editors of Rolling Stone magazine.
• Devon, the employee fired in the Halloween episode, is first mentioned here.
• They used the Chili's restaurant set in Burbank.
• Originally, near the end of the episode, Pam was going to vomit and Dwight was to respond, "A woman has vomited!" On the first day of shooting, it turned out that Chili's hadn't read the script, and they didn't approve of associating their restaurant with vomiting. Chili's told them they wouldn't allow them to use the set but, after a few hours, a compromise was made: Pam falls off of her bar stool and Dwight responds, "A woman has had a seizure!"
• Also cut from the original script, was how Pam was being overserved alcohol by the Chili's staff. Chili's didn't want this in the episode either, so writers were forced to change it so that Pam was stealing drinks off other peoples' tables.
• The extras playing the waitstaff at Chili's are all actual Chili's workers.
• Since Jenna Fischer doesn't drink much in real life, B. J. Novak took her out so she could get drunk while Novak described to her how she was behaving and how it didn't match her own perception. She drew upon this experience for her performance.
• This was one of six episodes that was submitted to Emmy voters for Best Comedy consideration, which they went on to win. The other five were "Booze Cruise," "Christmas Party," "The Injury," "The Secret" and "Valentine's Day."
• John Mayer was recently given a Dundie in exchange for his song "Your Body is a Wonderland" to be used in an episode of The Office. It was the award for "Tallest Music Dude."

Michael: A lot of the people here don’t get trophies very often, like Meredith or Kevin, I mean who’s going to give Kevin an award, Dunkin’ Donuts? Plus, bonus, it’s really really funny. So I, you know, an employee will go home, and he’ll tell his neighbor, “Hey, did you get an award?” And the neighbor will say, “No man. I mean I slave all day and nobody notices me.” Next thing you know, employee smells something terrible coming from the neighbor’s house. Neighbor’s hanged himself, due to lack of recognition.

Pam: You know what they say about a car wreck, where it’s so awful you can’t look away? The Dundies are like a car wreck that you want to look away, but you have to stare at it because your boss is making you.

Michael: TMI? — “Too Much Information.” Uh, it’s just easier to say TMI. I used to say “don’t go there,” but that’s lame.

Michael (singing to the tune of Lou Bega’s “Mambo No. 5″): A little bit of Pam all night long, a little bit of Angela on the thing, a little bit of Phyllis everywhere, a little bit of Roy eating chicken crispers, a little bit of Jim with some ribs …

Dwight: That is defacement of company property. So you better tell me. Kelly, if you tell me, you’ll be punished less.

Michael: Just a little character I like to do, it is, uh, loosely based on Karnac, one of Carson’s classic characters. Here we go. The PLO, the IRA, and the hot dog stand behind the warehouse. (Opening envelope and reading card) “Name three businesses that have better health care plans than Dunder Mifflin.”

Dwight: Excuse me, everyone, could I have your attention please. I just wanted to say that the women in this office are terrible. Especially the ones who wrote that stuff about Michael on the bathroom wall. Having a bathroom is a privilege. It is called a ladies room for a reason. And if you cannot behave like ladies, well then you are not going to have a bathroom.
Pam: You’re taking away our bathroom?
Dwight: We are going to have two men’s rooms.
Phyllis: But where would we … go?

Michael: The Dundies are about the best in every one of us.

Oscar: The Dundies are kind of like a kid’s birthday party, and you go, and there’s really nothing for you to do there. But the kid’s having a really good time, so you’re, you’re kind of there. That’s, that’s kind of what it’s like.

Michael (rapping to Naughty by Nature’s “O.P.P.”): You down with the Dundies?

Stanley: You said, we could bring our families.
Michael: I did. And why didn’t ya, Stanley?
Stanley: I did, my wife’s name is Terri.
Michael: Well, I’m looking forward to meeting Terri.
Stanley: It’s this person whose hand I’m holding, Michael.

Phyllis: This says “Bushiest Beaver.”
Michael: I told them busiest … idiots.
Phyllis: It’s, it’s fine.
Michael: Well, we can fix it. We’ll fix it up. You don’t have to display that.

Ryan: What am I going to do with the award? (Makes a face) Nothing. I, I don’t know what I’m going to do. That’s the least of my concerns right now.

Michael: And the “Tight Ass” award goes to Angela. Not only because she is everybody’s favorite stickler, but because she has a great caboose. So come on down.
Angela: No.

Jim: I think those might be empty.
Pam: No, no cuz the ice melts, and then it’s like, second drink!

Michael: The “Spicy Curry” award goes to our very own Kelly Kapoor! Get on up here. Here you go.
Kelly: “Spicy Curry,” what’s that mean?
Michael: Um, not everything means something, it’s just a joke.
Kelly: Yeah, but why’d you give it to me?
Michael: I don’t know, it’s just …
Kelly: This is a bowler …
Michael: I know. It’s ju … they didn’t have any more businessmen. So …
Kelly: Yeah, but everyone else …
Michael: Just sit down, Kelly.

Michael: It is so freakin’ hot in there. Now I know what Bob Hope was going through when he performed in Saudi Arabia.

Michael: This last Dundie is for Kevin, this is the “Don’t Go In There After Me” award. It’s for the time that I went in the bathroom after him and it was really, really smelly.

Pam: I have so many people to thank for this award. Okay, first off, my Keds. Because I couldn’t have done it without them. Thank you. Let’s give Michael a round of applause for emceeing tonight because, this is a lot harder than it looks. And also because of Dwight too. Um, so, finally, I want to thank God. Because God gave me this Dundie. And, I feel God in this Chili’s tonight. WOOOOOOO!

Jim: What a great year for the Dundies! We got to see Ping, and we learned Michael’s true feelings for Ryan, which was touching, and, we heard Michael change the lyrics to a number of classic songs, which for me, has ruined them for life.

Michael: Was this year’s Dundies a success? Well, let me see. I made Pam laugh so hard, that she fell out of her chair, and she almost broke her neck. So I killed. Almost.

Pam: Oh my god. I just want to say that this was the best Dundies ever! WOOOOOOO!