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Office Sports
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Characters in a Standard Office Setting (or equivalent) engage in some improvisational horseplay with the tools nearby. Sometimes this includes children's toys (like Nerf or wiffle balls), but usually they utilize some handy office supplies; stationary, paper, furniture, decor, old food from the fridge, job-specific tools, and more. They can make a ball out of crumpled paper or rubber bands. Notepads and small boards can be rackets. Brooms can become improvised hockey sticks. White boards or flip charts are used to keep score. Most people would get fired for these antics in Real Life, but in Fictionland, bosses tend to be more lenient. Why do they do it? To kill time and avoid boredom. Also, it's fun. Not everything has to be taken seriously, especially career or work in fiction. And it can be surprisingly good team-building. It develops improvization and creativity. It builds camaraderie, competitiveness, and/or rivalry among characters. It can serve as characterization device because it shows the characters as goofy, silly or competitive. Some overachievers will be over-the-top competitive and people will very often treat it as Serious Business. More prim and proper employees refuse to participate. A Wacky Startup Workplace might encourage this. This trope usually appears in Work Coms and it's almost always Played for Laughs. Can very well be Mundane Made Awesome. Related tropes: Office Golf: Characters play (mini)golf in their office. Swivel-Chair Antics: Goofing around on swivel chairs: Sitting and moving around the office on chairs that have wheels and spin around. Wastebasket Ball: Characters crumple up a piece of paper and try to toss it into a wastebasket (usually without standing up from the chair). |
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The Jetsons had Mr. Spacely doing golf practice once or twice. And George playing some sort of virtual chess or something similar with Rudy a few times. | |
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In Better Off Ted episode "Lust In Translation", Linda and Veronica played a game called Lindabagel. | |
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In Rules of Engagement, Jeff and Adam invent a sport called Mannequin Head Ball when they have to clean out an old clothing store Audrey wants to use to start a business. | |
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In one episode of The Simpsons, Homer, Lenny & Carl are playing chair hockey at work. Mr. Burns comes in to yell at them, but it turns out he's the coach and he's yelling at their poor teamwork. | |
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Community, "Geothermal Escapism": Abed declares a school-wide game of hot lava in Greendale Community College. It's a classic children's game in which you are not allowed to touch the floor, or you're dead. | |
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Our Miss Brooks: In "Trial By Jury", Mr. Conklin practices his casting in his office. | |
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine: NYPD detectives from Precinct 99 love those sports. In the pilot, there's a flashback of Jake Peralta and Rosa Diaz competing in the fire extinguisher roller chair derby. The fact that their old captain couldn't care less is used as one of the reasons the precinct was struggling. Episode "Old School" has Rosa, Amy, Charles, Jake and Hitchcock goof around with a bomb-disposal robot and they blow up Scully's smelly shoes in the Cold Open, and they all blow up Jake's old book by Jimmy Brogan in The Tag. Episode "The Jimmy Jab Games" has the office event described by Diaz as "a bunch of dumb contests we play to kill time" while waiting for a VIP to arrive; examples would be "the monster mouth bagel toss" (trying to hit Scully's open mouth with a piece of bagel), "the mouthathon" (eating month-old Chinese food from the fridge) or "bulky bulky run run" (the bomb suit foot race), "keep your cover" (they must talk to as many officers as they can without being recognized) and "obstacle course". "Lockdown": Everyone is supposed to fling gourds (Thanksgiving decor) and hit the elevator door. Jake tries to dodge them with a police shield. "Mr. Santiago": They play Holt-off with a bowl of marshmallows. Everyone must perform the same scenario: Their no-nonsense, deadpan superior Captain Holt eating a marshmallow for the very first time. "Skyfire Cycle": They're waxing floor during their night shift and Jake Peralta takes this as an opportunity to do the FBP, aka The Full Bullpen: He skids on his socks from Holt's office to the elevator. Even a locked up perp cheers him on. Surprisingly, Captain Holt is perfectly supportive of this stunt when he sees it. In "The Therapist", they play bowling with huge barrels of water; Jake tosses them with a swivel chair while Charles Boyle's sitting in it. |
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Franklin & Bash: One episode opens up with a curling game using janitor brooms and people sitting in rolling chairs. | |
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The X-Files, "Detour": Agents Mulder and Scully join over-enthusiastic Agents Kinsley and Stonecypher and they go with them to a team-building seminar that's supposed to involve building towers from office furniture. Mulder appears to be in hell and takes the first opportunity to disappear. He later jokes that he and Scully can build the tower in their motel room. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Sound: Mitchell and Webb imagine such activities elevated to an actual Office Olympics international and televised like the real Olympics. An animated version can be found here. | |
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Naturally, Sadie: While cleaning the corridor during detention in "Life Cycle", Hal and Rain start playing chair hockey using rolling chairs, brooms and an aluminum can. | |
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The Office: The characters have Office Olympics when their boss is away for a day, complete with opening and closing ceremonies. Events include "Flonkerton" (box-of-paper snowshoe racing), "who can put the most M&M's in their mouth", "Dunder Ball", "Hate Ball" (called so because of how much Angela hates it), then there's a paper football game and "paper triangle flicking and hitting things" game. And Angela reveals she plays a game "Pam-Pong" (she counts how many times Jim gets up from his desk and goes to reception to talk to Pam). Also, Pam tries to throw stuff into Dwight's coffee mug. | |
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Frequent in Gaston Lagaffe. Gaston may not have much energy for work, but he has plenty to invent weird occupations for him and/or his accomplices. He and Jules-de-chez-Smith-en-face held a Chariot Race in swivel chairs once. | |
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Occurs in a hospital setting in the The Resident episode "Snowed In" — with no patients arriving and little to do during a freak Atlanta blizzard, several med students commandeer a rolling IV stand and launch each other down the hallway towards a formation of exam glove boxes (arranged like the pins at a bowling alley). They call it "med student bowling." | |
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Teen Titans: The characters play Stankball using a ball made from unwashed socks. | |
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Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids: In "The Stranger", Fat Albert, Weird Harold and Rudy are playing a game in the classroom that involves Fat Albert and Weird Harold throwing blackboard erasers at Rudy's face while Rudy attempts to block them with a textbook. | |
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Between Failures has a nerf-gun fight in the shop, at one point | |
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