History Main / OfficeSports

->'''Lenny:''' ''Oww!'' Unnecessary roughness!\\
'''Carl:''' So what? That's legal in Rollo Pollo.\\
'''Homer:''' I thought we were playing Cincinnati Time Waste.\\
'''Lenny:''' Oh, in that case...''[hits Homer in the groin with his broom]''
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "Ice Cream of Marge (with the Light Blue Hair)"

* ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'': Mitchell and Webb imagine such activities elevated to an actual [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm49HqGuYvg Office Olympics]] international and televised like the real Olympics.

* ''Series/{{The Office|US}}'': UpToEleven. 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.

* OfficeGolf: Characters play (mini)golf in their office.

** In the pilot, Jake Peralta and Rosa Diaz compete in the fire extinguisher roller chair derby.

** Episode "The Jimmy Jab Games" has the office event described by Diaz as "a bunch of dumb contests we play to kill time"; 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".

** "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.

-->--''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "Ice Cream of Marge (with the Light Blue Hair)"

* ''Series/NaturallySadie'': While cleaning the corridor during detention in "Life Cycle", Hal and Rain start playing chair hockey using rolling chairs, brooms and an aluminium can.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'' had Mr. Spacely doing golf practice once or twice. And George playing some sort of virtual chess or something simlar with Rudy a few times.

This trope usually appears in [[WorkCom Work Coms]] and it's almost always PlayedForLaughs. Can very well be MundaneMadeAwesome.

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Characters in a StandardOfficeSetting (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 utilise 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 RealLife, but in Fictionland, [[UltimateJobSecurity bosses tend to be more lenient.]]

Why do they do it? To kill time and avoid boredom. Also, it's ''fun''. Not everything must 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 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 SeriousBusiness. More prim and proper employees refuse to participate.

!!Relational troping:

'''Lenny:''' Oh, in that case...''*hits Homer in the groin with his broom*''

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* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''? The characters play Stankball using a ball made from unwashed socks.

'''Lenny:''' Oh, in that case...''[[GroinAttack (hits Homer in the groin with his broom)]]''

* ''Series/{{The Office|US}}'': UpToEleven. The characters had an Olympics in their office.

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->'''Lenny:''' ''Oww!'' Unnecessary roughness!
->'''Carl:''' So what? That's legal in Rollo Pollo.
->'''Homer:''' I thought we were playing Cincinnati Time Waste.
->'''Lenny:''' Oh, in that case...''[[GroinAttack (hits Homer in the groin with his broom)]]''