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S1E5 · Basketball

Michael challenges the warehouse staff to a basketball game versus the office staff.

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Michael and the office staff take on the workers in the warehouse in a basketball game, with the losers having to work on Saturday. Through racist and sexist ideals, Michael chooses many of the lesser skilled office workers over their more athletic peers. Michael claims a "flagrant personal intentional foul", stops the game, and declares his team as the winners. The warehouse finds the call unfair and Michael caves under pressure, and concedes the victory to the warehouse staff. Michael eventually tells the office that they don't have to come in on Saturday either, but it does little to calm them: "Like coming in an extra day is going to prevent us from being downsized."

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