What role does the bolded pronoun serve in the following sentence?

After you have served yourself some mashed potatoes, could you please pass them to me?

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What is the bolded part? 

Answer:

Direct object

Explanation:

As you said in a previous comment that the word to be analyzed is THEM it can be said that that word functions as a direct object in the sentence.

A direct object has the function of being the recipient of the verb. You can discover the direct object of a sentence by asking the question Verb + what? In the example given you should ask yourself "pass what?" And the answer is "Them" (it is making reference to the potatoes)