Trust-Building Blunder: Difference between revisions

** Also the blind egg race from the ''survivor'' style beach games Michael uses to pick his replacement. Dwight screams at Kelly so much she drops the egg out of frustration, Jim misleads Karen into the water as a prank and Stanley drops it right at the start so he can be disqualified and return to his crosswords.

* In the ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' pre-movie sketch for ''[[Gamera]]'', Tom Servo and Crow try the trust building exercise and Crow lets poor Servo fall.

* ''[[The X-Files]]'' episode "Detour" has the protagonists en-route to a "teamwork conference." Of course, they run into some trouble on the way and end up having their own wilderness retreat from hell.

* In the ''[[Murphy Brown]]'' episode "Retreat", the crew go to a camp to compete against a group of bankers in a series of teamwork exercises and fail miserably. For instance, in a simulated river crossing, all the bankers make it across but only one reporter does by actively sacrificing the others.

** They probably did it more than once. There was one where they were on a wilderness retreat where they used the counselor as a bridge over muddy ground and, given the option to save a coworker from a bear or eat a pile of donuts, got as far as "forming a committee to explore the donut option" before the coworker was eaten.

** In another strip, Dogbert decided to teach everyone about trust by having them all make out blank checks to him.

'''Dogbert''': It will teach you that trust is an excellent quality for others to have. }}

** In [http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1993-11-11/ yet another], they had a team building exercise involving walking barefoot over hot coals, insisting that they would learn something from and about one another as they did so. Wally went first.

** In ''still'' another one (which took two days to finish), Dogbert challenged the workers to build a sundial using a donut and a pencil. Pointy Haired Boss ate the donut, and when a janitor says they could have just put the pencil in the donut, they stab him... making him a sundial!

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Used in ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "You Only Move Twice", where Homer works for a [[Affably Evil|goofy, friendly Bond villain]], Hank Scorpio:

'''Scorpio:''' Oh, my God, the guy's on the floor. ''(goes to help Homer)'' Uh, that was a phone call; don't chalk that up to mistrust, now. }}

** Another episode has Mr. Burns organizing a country in the mountains, where people worked in pairs racing towards a cabin. Mr. Burns, ditching Smithers for being overly chatty lately or something, randomly pairs himself with Homer and of course cheats by using a snowmobile. Later, when the cabin has been buried by an avalanche and nobody can find actual finish point:

'''Lenny:''' "Eh… but he said there'd be sandwhiches…" }}

** They first used the trust-fall even earlier, in "War of the Simpsons"; it's part of a marriage retreat run by Rev. Lovejoy, but Homer is out fishing instead. Lovejoy tells Marge: "Even if he were here, I wouldn't recommend it."