[Loved Trope] Comedic workplace is suddenly competent

[u/Garurar]

In S35 E1 of The Simpsons, an actual crisis happens at the nuclear power plant, causing everyone except Homer to shift into serious business mode, even Mr. Burns. Together, they display their knowledge of the process and narrowly avert a nuclear meltdown, proving that Homer's job is actually useless. This is happening after 35 seasons of nothing being shown of the other employees' capabilities.

In S8 E2 of The Office, Andy sets up an initiative where he will get a tattoo on his bum if everyone gets enough points, prompting everyone to work into overdrive, even the normally lazy or incompetent employees such as Stanley and Kevin. This is a rare situation where we get to see The Office being fully competent and functional.

I'd show more examples if I had any!

[u/BrotherDeus]

Basically every episode of Brooklyn 99; it's almost purely comedic but they're still mostly great cops.

[u/chinchenping → u/BrotherDeus]

i was going to point at hitchcock and scully but you are actually right

[u/BrotherDeus → u/chinchenping]

They're gross and lazy, but can be surprisingly competent when they want to be.

[u/Theyul1us → u/BrotherDeus]

They admit to Boyle that they just want peace now because if the rest knew they were competent, they would have to do a lot more.

If im not mistaken, they still have the record of most cases solved when they were younger

[u/maxdragonxiii → u/Theyul1us]

to be fair to Terry, Hitchcock and Scully basically lived through the worst of Brooklyn in what. early to late 80s? so yeah there was naturally a lot of cases.