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If The Office had a historical snafu-themed episode, which disaster would Michael Scott have proudly caused?

I mean, isn't that every episode of The Office?

Like some horrible disaster?

I don't know.

I feel like the ever-given container ship getting wedged into the Suez Canal totally fits his particular kind of...

snafu yeah his particular weaknesses because that's such a that accident was so mundane like it was such a it was like people in the wheelhouse of this ship like trying kind of panicking trying to figure out what to do i mean you can imagine an episode of of the office where

or something feeling like an Office episode, unfolding in the wheelhouse of that ship as they're trying to adjust for the wind and then back up, but there's a guy behind him, and somebody's yelling at the navigator, and the navigator is like, Oscar, and he's like, I don't know, this is the data, this is all I have.

And then Dwight Schrute is freaking, he's like the engineer, freaking out, like, we're losing power!

We're losing power!

It just, yeah, that one feels...

And Michael Scott is the skipper just like frozen with fear.

I don't know.

This isn't a follow-up question, but I will tell you, for those that don't know, I was on an episode of The Office.