On July 19, Mindy Kaling will host The Office Games in Scranton, PA — "a day of fun Dunder Mifflin style" that’ll include a 2K Fun Run (hopefully more successful than the show’s alfredo sauce-laden one, pictured) and a "red and messy" beet-eating contest in honor of Dwight. But if you could devise your own event, what would it be and which Office character would you want to beat? Your hilarious responses could appear on the Feedback Page of an upcoming issue of EW! Be sure to give us your ideas by Thursday, July 3, at noon EDT, and please include your e-mail address in case your submission is chosen for the magazine. I’ll get the ball rolling — make that, I’ll hurl the football across the office at an unsuspecting Pam…
– Create a more awkward dinner party atmosphere than Jan: singing AND dancing elements required
– Survive a Michael Scott windshield wipeout and/or host a solo drinking contest at one’s desk, like Meredith
– Bare-handedly catch fish in a pond, like Creed (or, start a blog in a Word doc — but who hasn’t done that?)
Yours must be better!
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This is SO easy:
You hand everyone the same crossword puzzle and then whoever solves it first wins. Stanley…you’re going down!
Also, a “Fashion show! Fashion show! Fashion show at lunch!” could be fun. Maybe dress up as your favorite Office character (I LOVED when Jim dressed up as Dwight and vice versa).
In honor of Meredith cracking her pelvis, I’d have everyone get crotch casts. Whoever gets the most people to sign their unfortunately-placed cast wins.
FASHION SHOW AT LUNCH! How did I not think of that one?? I go around saying that in our office constantly!
I’d also want to square-off with Angela in a cat-naming/cat-dressing contest. The goal would be to dress a cat in the most absurd way possible and give it an equally horrendous, but fitting name.
A scavenger hunt: place Andy Bernard’s cell phone in a hidden location and who ever finds it first?
You have a yoga ball and two people on defense. The other team has two people with a pair of scissors. See how long you can sit on the ball before it is burst (although this may be a tad dangerous).
Place an item in a jello mold and the first person to eat their way through to the item and use it properly wins?
Fill a phone receivers with nickels and see who can hold the receiver to their head the longest.
Of course, I’d want to play “Flonkerton,” “Hate Ball,” or perhaps “Work hard so I can send my daughter to college.”
Mine also has to do with cats, but, more specifically, what Dwight thinks of cats.
The contest would be versus Dwight in a replica of Angela’s apartment, and the challenge would be to off as many cats as possible without anyone catching you in the act! I think it would be scored like figure skating, with both technical (efficiency of cat-i-cide, etc.) and artistic (creative?) marks.
I hate cats, but I think Dwight would still win.
A “That’s What She Said” Set Up Competition: the contestants have to come up with as many set ups for “That’s what she said” in 60 seconds. It’s pretty hard, but I think I could do it all night.
A “Delete the Porn from Kevin’s Computer” Competition: see how many dirty emails you can delete from Kevin’s computer in 60 seconds.
I’d also challenge Jim to convince Dwight that he’s one of the Immortals from “The Highlander.” Jim would earn bonus points if he was able to convince him that someone else was an Immortal as well (possibly Phyllis). More bonus points would be earned if Jim was able to get Dwight to seriously consider beheading Phyllis with a provided sword. Since beheading cannot be condoned on company grounds, Jim would have to stop Dwight before he commits the deed. Faxes from future Dwight would be against the rules, but faxes from other future people would not.
On second thought, the crotch cast contest should probably have a no-hands allowed rule. Yeah, in fact, I’m sure that’s the only way to go.
The “pick shiny things up in the parking lot” contest. Most things wins.
A third party would fill up Kevin’s M&M jar and we’d have to guess how many are in there. But Kevin would win because he knows how many M&M’s would fit because they sit on his desk.
Lunar Watermelons…See who can hit a series of targets by tossing watermelons off the roof and bouncing them off a moon jump.
Beets, Bears or Battlestar Galactica? A series of trivia questions for which the answer is either beets, bears or battlestar galactica.
Example: This animal eats beets.
Answer: Fact. Bears eat beets.
I’d want to form a music group with Darryl and take on a cappella Andy in a jam session. Here Comes Treble, you’re going down!!
I’d also like to add that I’ve been to an Office Olympics and that “how many m&ms can you fit into your mouth?” is a game that only Kevin should attempt to play. I’ll spare you the details.
Since Creed is everyone’s favorite kleptomaniac, I’d challenge him to a food-stealing contest. The goal would be merely to survive. You can only purchase food on days when you’re not in the office (weekends, holidays, etc.). On workdays, you can only eat whatever you can steal. The first person to get caught, give up, or die of hunger loses. If Creed forgets that he’s playing a game due to his chronic drug use, then I have no obligation to remind him, which will probably result in me winning.
I say there should be an all-out ping pong tournament. I’m looking at Darryl & Jim, who never got to finish their game due to Pam & Kelly’s interference, and we need to see Dwight in action.
Ok, this would be another Dwight game/prank. Pam would be the main player. She’d have to draw a fairly decent picture of a whole slew of random objects and hang it somewhere in the office where Dwight will notice it. After a certain interval of time each week, Pam would draw the picture again exactly the same way but without one of the items. Whatever item she removes, she’ll put an actual copy of on Dwight’s desk before he arrives (i.e if she removed a boomerang from the picture, Dwight would find a boomerang on his desk). Pam would get points for each item she is able to place on or by his desk before Dwight stops paying attention or before he destroys one of the pictures in a fit of rage. For this game, faxes from future Dwight can be used.
We’ve actually been doing Office Olympics in my office since Feb 06 which was inspired by the episode of The Office. Our first event had the coffee cup relay, a name-tag/cubicle challenge, a post-it post-off, and a magnet toss (we sell magnets). Our last two summer games have included a proof javelin throw, rolling chair relay races, magnet search (with magnets attached to cars in the parking lot), a donut eating contest, hula hoop toss…some of the most amazing times here at work…
There HAS TO BE sumo wrestling…..
I’d love to see a contest in which each person has a Jello mold with a stapler in the middle. The winner must retrieve the stapler using only their mouth. I think Kevin would win this one.
A celebrity trivia contest with Kelly! I would so be able to beat her!
I’d play guess the ethnicity plastered to your forehead using only excessively offensive stereotypes. Of course, I’d follow that up with a game of “Who would you do?”, present company not excluded. I play that like every night when I go to bed.
Well, a contest to devise the best prank on Dwight seems too easy. So I’ll propose crafting bobbleheads of the office members — best one wins!
I’d challenge Dwight to an “American Gladiators” style gauntlet where you run from station to station and try to knock out a “Roy type” instigator using only the weapons Dwight keeps in his desk- Throwing stars, Spud gun, Mace, etc.
And then I’d challenge Michael to a Photoshop contest: Best Threat Level Midnight poster wins. Although I’d probably lose that one, Michael’s sort of a expert at Photoshop.
Gift Basket Geocaching: Based on one of my favorite episodes when Michael & Dwight try to win back clients with good old fashioned baskets of food but end up in a lake after a GPS mishap. The game is played when many gift basket goodies are hidden throughout the area and GPS coordinates for each item are given as clues. The team that finds the most goodies and best fills their basket is the winner! Bonus points for finding the box of Turtles. You lose points if your car needs to be towed out of a pond.
Cheese Pita Fire: Contestants are given the ingredients to make a cheese pita (cheese, pita) and a microwave. First contestant to get their cheese pita to start a fire wins!
Going back to season one with this but a basketball game the Office vs the Warehouse. One team plays for the Office characters and one team for the warehouse characters. If I had any basketball skills I would want to beat the Warehouse guys (no offense). I don’t though so may the best team win!