Darryl Philbin
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| Darryl Philbin | |
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| First appearance | "The Alliance" |
| Created by | Greg Daniels |
| Portrayed by | Craig Robinson |
| Information | |
| Gender | Male |
| Age | 30s |
| Occupation | Warehouse supervisor |
| Family | a daughter |
| Spouse(s) | Kelly Kapoor (girlfriend) |
Darryl Philbin is a fictional character from the US television series The Office. He is played by Craig Robinson.
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[edit] Overview
Darryl Philbin is the foreman of the warehouse of the Scranton branch of fictitious paper distributor Dunder Mifflin.
[edit] Biography
Although he is dry and humorless when dealing with Michael Scott, the office manager, he seems to be a much more relaxed, silly person in social situations. Michael refers to him as "Mistah Rogers"—a nickname with an interesting evolution: it began as "Regis" (as Darryl's last name is Philbin, a reference to Regis Philbin), then "Reeg", "Roger", and finally "Mistah Rogers". Being in a position of responsibility in a potentially hazardous work area, he dislikes Michael's disregard for rules or safety, as Michael often disrupts their work schedule and delays their shipments from going out on time. His relationship with Michael is tense, as he is often aggravated by Michael's irresponsibility, as when he stated his greatest fear is that someone would prevent them from working. On the other hand, Michael secretly believes Darryl is a criminal because he is black, and at times, has called on Dwight to stand in Michael's office as bodyguard or prevent Darryl from bonding with Meredith's son. However, it is apparent that Darryl is a far more responsible and good man than Michael believes him to be. Darryl is a Presbyterian and enjoys feeding squirrels ("Fun Run"). He has a young daughter who is incredibly important to him, but it has not yet been explained who the mother of his daughter is. The mother and Darryl are separated and he currently is dating Kelly Kapoor.
[edit] Season 1
Darryl is first seen (briefly) in the episode "The Alliance" watching Dwight come out of the box he was hiding in in the warehouse. In the next episode, "Basketball", he and the other warehouse workers play Michael's team of office workers in a game of basketball—the loser of which will have to work on Saturday. When Michael forfeits the game (while his team was ahead), he informs them that as a result, they have to work Saturday. When Darryl and the other warehouse workers confront him, Michael (intimidated by the much larger men) gives in and allows them to have the day off. Darryl seems to be the only character on the show who calls Michael "Mike" besides Andy (although Dwight did at one time refer to Michael as "Mike" in "The Coup").
[edit] Season 2
Darryl wants to wear the Santa hat for the company Christmas party, but Michael does not let him because he doesn't look like Santa (although in the end, he gives the hat to Darryl). He is usually forced into Michael's scheduling of events in the warehouse, such as a "Men's Day" workgroup session, and a "Casino Night" mock-casino. Darryl attempts to organize the warehouse workers into a union, but his efforts are quickly stamped out by Jan Levinson, Michael's boss. As a subtle prank and possible retort to Michael's antics, Darryl teaches Michael "black man phrases", such as "fleece it out", "goin' mach five" and "dinkin' flicka." In addition, Darryl teaches Michael a handshake that Michael believes to be "ghetto".
[edit] Season 3
Darryl has been shown in minor scenes in Season 3. When the Scranton-Stamford merger threatens to close the Scranton branch, Bob Vance of Vance Refrigeration offered to purchase the Dunder-Mifflin warehouse and keep Darryl and the rest of the warehouse staff employed, with Darryl remaining an employee of Dunder-Mifflin after Scranton stayed open. In "A Benihana Christmas", he brought up his synthesizer to take place of the broken karaoke machine for Karen and Pam's office party. In "Back From Vacation", Darryl is the unwitting e-mail recipient of Michael's spicy vacation photo with Jan Levinson and proceeds to forward it to everyone else while making it clear to Michael he is not sympathetic to his plight and has no intention of helping him "erase" the photo from circulation. In "The Negotiation," Darryl seeks to negotiate a pay raise with Michael, and when he finds out Michael barely earns more than he does, decides to help Michael get his own raise via a trip to New York. This doesn't stop him, however, from ridiculing Michael for mistakenly wearing a woman's suit. He also admits to teaching Michael more imaginary "black" slang, especially the phrase "pippety poppety, give me the zoppety." This subplot also shows that Darryl thinks well of Toby Flenderson when he invites Toby (who was forced to go with Michael to NYC on Jan's orders) to crash at Darryl's relatives place overnight, an offer he pointedly does not extend to Michael. In "Safety Training", Darryl leads a seminar on workplace safety for the staff, where Michael is obnoxious but Darryl repeatedly turns the tables by making Michael look pathetic in front of everyone else. During this episode, Darryl reveals in a talking head interview that he is on crutches because of Michael kicking a ladder that he was standing on and saying "Hey, Darryl, how's it hangin'?" just before Darryl fell. Later on, Darryl subsequently saves Michael's life by talking him out of jumping off a building when Michael tries to demonstrate the dangers of depression, basically implying that Michael is brave because he continues to get up and live his life every day in spite of being a loser.
In a deleted scene from "Ben Franklin", Darryl says that he has a three year old daughter. In Season 4, it is revealed that he is actually divorced and does not have primary custody of her, although he does see her often.
[edit] Season 4
It is revealed early on in Fun Run that Darryl is a Presbyterian, much to the delight of Pam, who turns around and high-fives him because she is also from the "same religion" as she puts it. Later on in Fun Run, Darryl feeds a squirrel and is caught by Michael, who at that moment was just entering into a short speech about rabies; Darryl then ignores the run to chat with Elizabeth, the "nurse" who was previously seen in "Ben Franklin". In Launch Party, Darryl is seen delivering some paper to Kelly in front of an outraged Dwight. Darryl defends her and Kelly is starting to show some attraction to Darryl. In the episode "Money", Kelly and Darryl kiss in the conference room, confirming their relationship. Darryl notes that in that and other cases, Kelly only is romantic towards him when Ryan Howard is around. He tells Kelly that he likes her but she needs to stop acting in a crazy and negative way ("you need to access your uncrazy side"), and warns her pointedly about that when she does start being nasty to him. She responds with confusion, saying, "Darryl Philbin is the most complicated man I have ever met. Who says exactly what they're thinking?" It appears from that point forward that they have begun dating, and Kelly says Darryl is her boyfriend during "The Deposition". In "Did I Stutter?", when asked by Michael whether he had ever been in a gang, "admitted" to being in such gangs as the Newsies and the Warriors. Darryl also taught Mike the term "Fluffy Fingers".
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