For most of these duos, their on-screen personas have underlying dynamic chemistry. For Jim and Dwight, their friendship began as an office rivalry. What started as a practical joke quickly escalated into an ongoing battle of pranks. Throughout each season, Jim and Dwight perform hilarious acts to get on the other person’s nerves. Whether they pull a prank or a practical joke, such as putting stationary in jello or sending the other person faxes from the future, the results never fail to make viewers laugh. When Dwight opens his desk drawer, he finds that his stapler has been put in jello yet again. A very frustrated Dwight goes to Michael and tells him its the third time that this has happened. Michael suggests that Dwight eat the stapler out of the jello because there are very hungry people in the world. Thanks to Jim, Dwight was able to buy almost all of his items back one nickel at a time. However, Pam did beat Dwight in purchasing his beloved pencil cup. However, Jim begins playing a game of hot and cold to get Dwight to start searching for his belongings. After rummaging through the entire office, he finally locates his desk in the men’s bathroom. Jim walks in and takes a seat at his desk. He then proceeds to ask Dwight which kind of bear is best before quickly declaring, “Bears, Beets, Battlestar Galactica.” Dwight looks up from his work to see that Jim is dressed exactly like him … down to his calculator watch. A very disturbed Dwight then proceeds to yell that identity theft is not a joke! Jim proudly confesses in the interview room that the whole Dwight outfit only cost him $11. Jim then admits to Dwight that he is feeling tingly and abnormally strong after the bat supposedly bit him on his neck. To Jim’s delight, Dwight starts to believe that Jim must be transforming into a vampire. He immediately begins interviewing fellow staff members in order to find out who it belonged to. When it’s Jim’s turn to get interviewed, he tries to convince Dwight that he (Dwight) smoked the joint and the reason Dwight can’t remember it is because it’s a memory loss drug. It all begins with Michael feeling bad for calling Oscar “faggy” because he didn’t know that Oscar was actually a homosexual. In order to keep Michael from calling another gay person a “faggy,” Dwight suggests buying a Gaydar. Dwight originally heard of the device from Jim. So they call him to get more information on it. The best part is that Jim pulls off this prank from the Stamford office. Jim begins his day by sending over faxes to Dwight using Dwight’s own stationery paper. He sends messages such as: Dwight is terrified when he receives theses faxes because he believes they are real. He even goes as far as to knock a hot cup of coffee out of Stanley’s hand. Jim tries to reassure him that all computers have wires but Dwight continues to curiously inspect it. He begins to follow the red wire all through the office, along the halls and eventually up a telephone pole. Jim watches Dwight through the window and confesses that he bought the spool of red wire at a flea market for $20, as (you guessed it) a prank. He decides the best way to do this is to insert a secret recording device into the belly of a wooden mallard that sits on Jim’s desk. Unfortunately, Jim realizes what Dwight is up to and plants the wooden mallard on overly talkative and sometimes obnoxious Kelly Kapoor’s desk. Every year the paper company throws a festive Christmas party. In the seventh season, things aren’t so merry for Jim and Dwight. It all begins when Jim throws a snowball at Dwight in the office. Dwight is less than amused and challenges Jim to a snowball fight. Things start to get intense when Jim becomes increasing paranoid by the threat of getting hit with a snowball by Dwight. Dwight confesses that he is a farmer by hobby and trader by trade. He begins his series of swaps with a simple thumbnail and ends up trading his way to a telescope. Dwight is about to leave the garage sale when he notices Jim’s Professor Copperfield’s Miracle Legumes. Jim insists that a mystical man sold them to him. A very intrigued Dwight then trades his telescope for Jim’s magical beans. Jim greets Dwight with, “Happy Holidays,” as he approaches his desk, wrapped in wrapping paper. Dwight begins to make fun of Jim for wasting his time with something he can unwrap in five minutes. As Dwight goes to sit down in what he thinks is his chair he falls to the floor. His desk and chair were actually cardboard replicates. He begins episode fourteen in season five with lighting a trash can on fire, then locking all the existing doors. Havoc quickly spreads throughout the office when the staff realizes there is a fire. Angela throws her cat through the ceiling, Kevin breaks into the vending machine, and Michael throws a projector out a window. Jim and Pam ask their actor friend, Steve, to try and convince Dwight that he is the real Jim. When Dwight sees the Asian Jim, he becomes increasingly worried that the intruder has access to sensitive Dunder Mifflin information. Dwight tries to prove that Steve isn’t Jim by showing him a family picture from Jim’s desk. However, Jim’s family photo has been replaced with a picture of Steve and the kids. Dwight looks at the picture, confused and horrified. Jim decides to take advantage of this situation by secretly selling Dwight The Ultimate Guide to Throwing a Garden Party written by James Trickington. The guide is filled with ridiculous instructions such as screaming a guest’s name every time they enter, doing a proper courtly dance, and performing a closing ceremony. The power quickly goes to Dwight’s head. As a result, Jim decides to trick Dwight into thinking that he is leading an uprising group called The Fist in order to bring him down. Dwight takes to walking around the office with a pistol in his holster. He does this to not only impress Jo but to show off his power to the other office members. Dwight and Erin take it upon themselves to personally wake up each staff member in the hotel. When they go to wake up Jim, they find that his room has been rampaged and that he has been targeted by a gang. A frightened Dwight proceeds to open up the closet to find Jim playing dead. When Jim has his chance to rip the suit off, Dwight is left wearing nothing but his underwear. See the hilarious prank for yourself in the 24th episode of season eight. So while Pam is away, Jim finds a new person to entertain. Unfortunately, Stanley isn’t easy to please. Out of all the pranks, Jim realizes that Stanley enjoys pranks involving meatballs the most. Little does Jim know that Stanley and Dwight are in on the prank and are collecting and eating all the meatballs. They begin by clicking their pens in code, but once Dwight figures out what they are doing, he quickly puts on his headphones. This doesn’t help much because Pam then starts blinking Morse code messages. The prank begins with Jim offering Dwight an Altoid every time he restarted his computer. After several weeks of doing this, Jim restarts his computer and Dwight places his hand out to receive a mint. However, instead of giving him a mint, Jim asks what he is doing. Dwight responds, “I don’t know. My mouth tastes so bad all of a sudden.” Yet, instead of calling a local strip club, Jim decides to call the Scholastic Speakers of Pennsylvania. Too much surprise of the office, a Ben Franklin impersonator shows up. Jim tries to convenience Dwight that the impersonator was actually the real Benjamin Franklin. However, Dwight is 99% sure that the real Ben Franklin has long been dead. One year for Christmas, Pam decides to give Jim the ultimate Dwight prank. The practical joke involves sending Dwight secret messages over several months. Jim later convinces Dwight to destroy his cellphone because it has been compromised. However, one of the very last pranks Jim ever plays on Dwight is probably the most heartfelt. Jim tells Dwight he can’t be his best man because the best mensch has to be older than him. He then admits that he brought Michael in from Colorado to be his true “bestest” mensch. Jim reveals it was his best prank ever.
