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Kelly Rajanigandha Kapoor [1] is a fictional character from the American television series The Office, portrayed by Mindy Kaling. She is the customer service representative at the Scranton branch of Dunder Mifflin from seasons 1 to 8.
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Kelly Rajnigandha Kapoor (केली रजनीगन्धा कपूर, Kelī Rajnīgandhā Kapūr), (born February 5, 1980) is a fictional character on The Office played by one of the show's writers Mindy Kaling. She is the former Customer Service Representative at Dunder Mifflin/Sabre's Scranton Branch, but left for Ohio with her then-boyfriend, Ravi, in Season 9, therefore...
When Michael uses the stereotype of Indians owning convenience stores during his diversity training seminar in Diversity Day, Kelly slaps him hard for his ignorance of diversity. Michael is then very stunned and then says "That's what I'm talking about!!" for showing the appropriate reaction of anger.
Kelly gossiped with Pam and Phyllis about Michael and what is written about him in the women's bathroom. She is still targeted by Michael about her race, which is why she reluctantly accepts the "Spicy Curry" award at the Dundies ("The Dundies").
Kelly appears mostly in the background during Toby's sexual harassment meeting in "Sexual Harassment".
Kelly watches Jim and Toby play Dunderball and later participates in the office olympics. She is later seen at the closing ceremonies in "Office Olympics".
During the fire, she tries to evacuate the building. Dwight grabs her and pulls her to safety, much to her annoyance. She later plays the games with the rest of the staff and agrees on Jim in "who would you do" in "The Fire".
Kelly dresses up like Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz for Halloween and Michael tells her that she should have wore soccer attire and been the Indian girl who plays soccer from the movie "Bend it like Beckham". When Kelly replies that she doesn't really play soccer, Michael responds, "Well, I don't really have two heads" referring to the fact his costume is himself with two heads. She is later invited to join Devon at Poor Richard's along with the rest of the office staff and goes in "Halloween".
Dwight starts teaching Karate to everybody in the office and shows Kelly how to fight. She seems uncomfortable when Dwight tells her that he will now attack her from behind. Michael comes in and warns her that Dwight might sucker- punch him, leading the two to start getting angry at each other. She did not attend the fight between Michael and Dwight in "The Fight".
Kelly pushes Pam to wear better clothes and helps her shop online. Kelly says Pam looks like a princess and that she is going to cry. She sets up a double date with her, Ryan, Pam and her neighbor, Alan, a cartoonist. It doesn't go well. ("The Convention")
Kelly tells Angela that Dwight is a freak. Angela screams at her. ("Initiation") She gets back to her Indian roots by hosting a Diwali party along with other Indians, however, she doesn't really know what it is. She dances and tries to convince her family that she and Ryan are meant for each other, however, they want to put her in an arranged marriage with a doctor. She hates her sisters. ("Diwali") She is sad when she and Ryan have to break up because of the closing branch, but is thrilled when Jan Levinson announces that Dunder Mifflin Stamford will be closing instead. Ryan is not as happy. ("Branch Closing")
She hugs Jim when he comes back from Stamford and tells her about how celebrities' lives have changed while he was gone. When Jim asks what's going on with her, Kelly, shocked, says that she told him. ("The Merger") She sings a song for Ryan at the Christmas Party and decides go to Pam and Karen's party in the break room. ("A Benihana Christmas") Kelly wears white at a wedding because she has an emergency: she looks really good in white. ("Phyllis' Wedding")
Her friendship with Pam is strained when she doesn't go to her art show. ("Business School") Her relationship with Ryan continues to be horrible, and finally she admits to the girls in the office that her relationship is awful. ("Women's Appreciation")
Kelly explains that she is not sad about Ryan. However, she still has pictures of him. ("Fun Run") Kelly then starts a relationship with Darryl Philbin ("Launch Party"), mostly to make Ryan jealous. Kelly wears a short dress to make Ryan want her back, and Pam notices. Kelly then tells Ryan that she is pregnant with his child and goes on a date with Ryan to talk it over. ("Dunder Mifflin Infinity") Kelly continues to ask people about Ryan's whereabouts while continuing her half-hearted relationship with Darryl. Darryl begins to defend Kelly after Dwight gets mad at her. ("Launch Party")
Kelly continues to berate Ryan. In a meeting, she tells people that Ryan used her as an object. She then makes out with Darryl in front of everyone. Ryan sends Darryl out, while Kelly looks at Ryan. ("Money") Kelly begins to make fun of Jim and Pam's relationship and talks smack towards him about Ping-Pong. She kisses Darryl throughout, continuing the relationship. ("The Deposition") Kelly tells Ryan that if Darryl was Ryan, she'd kill herself. ("Night Out")
Kelly continues her relationship with Darryl, only to make out with him in front of the new receptionist, disgraced Ryan. Kelly becomes obsessed with losing weight and passes out on the ground. She is sent to the hospital for three days with an IV. She is sold a tapeworm by Creed, although Creed explains that it wasn't a tapeworm. ("Weight Loss") Kelly sells dancing lessons to Ryan just to increase the sexual tension. ("Crime Aid") She dresses up for Halloween and, when Ryan tells her she looks good, she tells him that it is inappropriate. ("Employee Transfer")
Since Jim and Dwight didn't go to her America's Got Talent Finale party, she makes up bad reviews for them. She then admits it, but tells Michael she was raped, again. Michael decides not to follow her. ("Customer Survey") Kelly then gets back together with Ryan and breaks up with Darryl, who is relieved. ("Business Trip") However, Ryan then breaks up with her, and asks Kelly for sex one more time and money. Ryan leaves for Thailand. ("Frame Toby")
Kelly is offended by Michael making fun of her ethnicity and saying that this is what it would be like if she hadn't left India. ("Moroccan Christmas") She points out that Angela is old and doesn't understand why Andy and Dwight would even fight over her. ("The Duel") She cries hysterically when people say that Hilary Swank isn't hot, because she isn't hotter than Hilary Swank. ("Prince Family Paper") Kelly participates in the roast for Michael and points out that she would rather kiss Kevin. ("Stress Relief")
When Jim and Dwight forget Kelly's birthday, she is angry and tells them to screw themselves. She tells them that she wants a cake. Dwight then learns by going into her personal records that she went to juvenile detention. ("Lecture Circuit") Kelly later is angry when her cake is not decorated and freaks out, (Jim mentions here that he is not sure whether her name is spelled "Kelly" or "Kelley", which ends up misspelled at the party anyway) however, she is thrilled that she can take a nap at work as her present. Her odd relationship with Dwight continues when Dwight slaps her butt. ("Lecture Circuit")
Kelly begins to be nicer and pushes Michael to keep looking for the blood drive girl. When Michael says they can leave since it's 5 o' clock they stay hours later to help Michael cope. Kelly and everyone else wish Michael goodbye. ("Blood Drive")
Kelly falls for Charles Miner, the new boss and tries to get him to ask her out. She is jealous when Angela Martin also shows interest. ("Golden Ticket") Kelly continues to pine for Charles and tells him that he is smooth like Jamba Juice smoothies and tells him that she and her sisters are like the Kardashians. When Angela comes into the room to talk to Charles, Kelly tells Charles that Angela is turning 50. ("New Boss") Kelly continues to show interest and when Charles calls Kelly Erin Hannon, the new replacement for Pam Beesly, she comes in and tells him that he wanted her. ("Two Weeks")
Michael convinces Erin that Kelly is anorexic. Kelly is shocked and thrilled that Pam is pregnant. ("Gossip") She is angry when Jim is put as co-manager because she destroyed Ryan's car and needs the raise. ("The Promotion") Kelly goes to Pam's wedding and dances with Ryan. They are in an on-again, off-again relationship. Kelly is very happy when Pam and Jim walk down the aisle as a married couple. ("Niagara")
Kelly lets Ryan take nude photos of her in the office for a series called, "Exposure in the Workplace." ("Double Date") She talks with Ryan all day long and doesn't get much work done. ("Shareholder Meeting") She is ecstatic when Jim gives her a Twilight Poster as a secret santa poster and tells Phyllis that she wants Ryan for her Christmas present. Kelly hugs Erin because she was scarred from Andy's presents. ("Secret Santa")
Kelly misinterprets Andy's Valentine's Day card towards her and kisses him. However, Andy explains that he likes someone else. Kelly says that she likes him harder now, signaling that Ryan and she are broken up. ("Manager and Salesman")
In the episode "Happy Hour", Kelly is seen playing Dance Dance Revolution with Ryan and near the end of the episode, she is seen crying because she spilled her drink and the bar wouldn't give her a refill.
At Dwight's prompting, Kelly applies for and is accepted into Sabre's Print in All Colors minority executive training program. ("Body Language")
When news that Sabre's printers can catch fire leaks to the media, Kelly believes she may have been the source, confessing, "I can't control what I say to people, I spend the whole day talking. I video chat, I Skype, I text, I tweet, I phone..." ("Whistleblower")
Ryan and Kelly announce to the office that they're getting a divorce, having married over a week earlier in the spur-of-the-moment. They say the break-up is mutual, but after getting little reaction to their news, Ryan declares that the split was not amicable. After the divorce Ryan and Kelly continue to date. ("The Search")
In "Goodbye, Michael", Michael tries to say his farewells to Kelly, but in seeing that she isn't listening, is annoyed by his presence and busy doing her makeup, Michael asks if the greatest gift he could give to her at the moment is for him to just leave her alone. She immediately tells him to stop talking in "that weird slow voice."
In "The Inner Circle", Ryan lies to their new manager, Deangelo Vickers, about being Kelly's boss and asks that she play along. When Kelly asks why she should, Ryan says that he would lie for her, too, and Kelly immediately says, "Yeah, but you lie all the time. You lie for no reason. Ryan, you just like to lie." Ryan follows this up by saying "I'd die for you too." And gullibly enough, she falls for it asking if he really would. Kelly is soon after seen having a phone conversation with her mother, which implies she going to use this situation to blackmail Ryan into being a better boyfriend, when she says "he’s not going to stand us up like he did last time. He won’t ever stand us up again."
When Deangelo, to discredit rumors of him being sexist, hires Jordan Garfield as his new executive assistant, she tells the office that she previously worked at Anthropologie. Kelly reacts by aggressively asking why she gave that up for this job, dubbing Anthropologie her "dream job."
When Deangelo goes to the annex, Ryan pretends to be her boss, with Kelly trying to play along, but very soon into their interaction, says she can't do it anymore and admits to Deangelo that Ryan is not her boss. Deangelo calls her "hysterical" and believes Ryan over her.
In "Dwight K. Schrute, (Acting) Manager" Kelly comes in late for work, and Dwight surprises her by scaring her and asking why she is late, with Kelly claiming it is "very medical and personal." Dwight proceeds to tell her to "stop me when I reach the diseased area," pointing at her midsection, to which Kelly shakes her head no, failing to convince Dwight.
As Andy is filling in the cameras on placing Dwight as his number two, Kelly, who is planking on a cabinet next to Andy, remarks that it was a smart move. When Andy mutters that "this has to stop", regarding people planking around the office, she says that she can't get down. It is unknown how she eventually gets down ("The List").
When Dwight is assigned by Andy to form a team to travel to Tallahassee, Florida for the launch of a chain of Sabre electronic stores, Ryan asks that he or Kelly be sent to Florida, but not at the same time, so that he can be away from her. Andy, being given this choice, decides to send Ryan ("Special Project").
Over the course of the Tallahassee story arc, Kelly is bored without Ryan and occasionally entertained by whatever new drama may happen in the office. Not long after Ryan returns, however, she is set up with Pam and Jim's pediatrician, Ravi, and breaks up with Ryan.
For the entirety of the episode, "Angry Andy", Ryan attempts to win her back, admitting to Pam and Jim that he would rather she be alone than with someone else. She then admits in a talking head interview that while she feels Ravi actually cares about her, Ryan put her through so much drama, and that she would have to choose which one's more important to her. In the end, she decides to stay with Ravi.
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Mar 11, 2020 · Call us dramatic, but if there's one character from The Office who we'd dub as our spirit TV character, it's Kelly Kapoor.
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- Guilty As Charged. Kelly is a woman who knows her strengths. As low as she can get when she's having troubles with Ryan, she's also one of the most shining examples of high self-esteem in the office.
- You Can't Call Someone Who Texted You! Kelly isn't the youngest in the office but she's definitely cool enough to know what's considered current. From her style to her hair to her Halloween costumes, Kelly is always doing what the "cool kids" are doing.
- The Bridget Jones Fan In All Of Us. Kelly Kapoor loves pop culture. As someone in customer service who finds herself bored more often than not, Kelly loves researching the latest gossip and news in the celebrity world.
- A Lesson In Texting By Kelly Kapoor. Leave it to Kelly to teach Dunder Mifflin another lesson in texting. When the office had to stay at work late one evening, it came out that Darryl was texting Val late at night.
Mar 24, 2015 · Kelly Kapoor is someone who stood out to me around Season 3. Why? Because I felt as if we were kindred spirits (as I now do with Shoshana of Girls). But in Season 1 and 2 of The...
Aug 6, 2020 · The Office is a show that boasts a lot of entertaining ensemble characters. However, even with all of those people and their individual storylines, it's hard to miss the dramatics of Kelly Kapoor (Mindy Kaling). She thrives on attention and is willing to do whatever it takes to get it.
Feb 19, 2022 · Kelly Kapoor had one of the biggest transformations in The Office. As a writer for the series, Mindy Kaling's character worked in the annex as a way to keep her a part of the series but hidden in case Kaling was writing or producing other episodes.
