Trust-Building Blunder: Difference between revisions

 

== [[Anime]] ==

 

== [[Commercials]] ==

 

== [[Fan Fiction]] ==

* The blunder in ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6717308/7/But_Who_IS_He But Who IS He?]'' is that the workforce had to have training at all; once after [[Sherlock]] informed a woman that her husband was dead (most likely in his [[Brutal Honesty|usual subtle manner]]), the police department was almost sued and had to undergo two days of sensitivity training, something which Lestrade looks back on with dread. John then [[Fridge Horror|realizes in horror]] that the only thing worse than going through a sensitivity workshop would be going through it ''with Sherlock''.

 

* ''[[Mean Girls]]'' had a high-school version of the falling-backwards exercise: Everyone was supposed to admit a flaw, then fall backwards. One of the members of the [[Alpha Bitch]] [[Girl Posse]] apologized for being so beautiful it made everyone jealous. After she turns around, everyone except for one girl walks away in disgust. You can probably guess the outcome.

** Played with when another girl falls and everyone catches her -- and her [[Amusing Injuries|very heavy electric wheelchair]].

 

== [[Literature]] ==

** Even before he made the switch, though, the narration mentions that most of the participants are trying to find a way to permanently injure and disable the other players (who are all naturally rivals for better jobs), such as trying to shoot their ears.

** He gave them all what they really, ''really'' wanted. All of them were wishing they had real guns. [[Be Careful What You Wish For]].

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* The second episode of ''Hippies'' has Simon Pegg's character do this with the lead of a musical he's directing. The lead falls just as Pegg is turning to the others to explain the exercise.

* ''[[Psych]]'': Shawn has to get Gus out of a weekend trust-building retreat to work a case.

* 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.

* Daniel Tosh did "surprise trust falls" over a few episodes of ''~Tosh.0~''. Over numerous clips, only ''one'' person ever caught him...and it happened {{spoiler|in the shower of a gym with a primarily gay clientele (the guy who caught him was indeed gay)}}.

* 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.

* An episode of UK newsroom comedy, ''[[Drop the Dead Donkey]]'', had the characters attend a weekend paintballing seminar. Naturally, given that they are all a bundle of collective neurosis and almost universally hate each other, it didn't turn out well.

== [[Video Games]] ==

* [[Crash Bandicoot|"Oh, how I]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xYHOPDtxqE hate bandicoots."]

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

'''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."

* One episode of ''[[Justice League]]'' had the ''villains'' doing this to build trust before taking on The League. Grodd, the leader, also ramped it up, as the ones falling did so off a cliff about 30 feet up, and the "catcher" used his powers to bring them down; for example, Sinestro using his ring to let his partner fall slowly. When Giganta drops from the cliff toward a waiting Killer Frost, however, you just hear a loud offscreen thud, with Frost going "Ow."

** It was mostly done to avert the inevitable betrayal that ends most [[Villain Team-Up|Villain Team Ups]]. Grodd was being [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] and because he did this, his villain team was one of the more successful, going so far as to cause a temporary disbanding.