Dwight shooting his Aunt Shirley in "The Farm"
- The Schrute family is historically Amish. ("Pilot")* ("Drug Testing")
- Schrutes have superior genes. ("Health Care")
- Schrutes produce very thirsty babies. ("Hot Girl")
- Schrutes value children for their ability to help work in the fields. ("Take Your Daughter To Work Day")
- Schrutes do not back down. ("Conflict Resolution")
- Schrutes are loyal. (On the other hand, Mannheims know when to cut and run.) ("The Coup")
- Schrutes use every part of the goose. ("A Benihana Christmas")
- Schrutes marry standing in their own graves. ("Phyllis's Wedding") This was confirmed by a photograph in the Schrute Farms wedding album. ("Customer Survey")
- Schrutes who fail at something are shunned for three years. Dwight was shunned from ages four to six for not saving excess oil from a can of tuna. ("Safety Training")
- Schrutes live a long time. Grandma Schrute lived to age 101. ("Dunder Mifflin Infinity")
- When a Schrute male has sex with a woman, he is rewarded with a bag of wild oats. ("Money")
- Schrute babies are uncircumcised. ("Baby Shower")
- Schrutes believe in a five-fingered intervention: Awareness, education, control, acceptance, and punching. ("Moroccan Christmas")
- Schrute boys must learn 40 rules before the age of five. They are told that if they don't learn their rules, they will be eaten in their sleep. ("The Duel")
- Schrutes have not celebrated birthdays since the Depression.("Lecture Circuit")
- Do not turn your back on bears, a man you have wronged, or the dominant turkey during mating season. ("The Duel")
- The youngest child raises all the older children. ("Viewing Party")
- Schrutes have a dress code when mourning. ("The Farm")
- If a Schrute throws red dirt at your face, you are invited to a funeral. ("The Farm")
- If a Schrute throws black dirt at your face, you are not. ("The Farm")
- It is customary to shoot the dead at a funeral, to ensure that he or she is actually dead. (There was an unlucky streak of burying heavy sleepers at one point.) ("The Farm")
- If a man is interested in courting a woman, he may throw the beaks of a crow at her. And then, if she's interested in accepting the courtship, she has to destroy the beaks. ("The Farm")
- Nostalgia is truly one of the great human weaknesses. Second only to the neck. ("The Farm")