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!
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.