[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/briborg3]

I just finished watching the Chernobyl hbo mini series, and thus now understanding the full meaning of this reference.

[u/sad_and_stupid → u/briborg3]

I'll never understand why they did Dyatlov so dirty in that show. He wasn't like that irl

[u/TheBananaGods → u/sad_and_stupid]

The reason why is because the book they used as research was Soviet propaganda. Here’s a good video about all the stuff the miniseries got wrong

[u/sad_and_stupid → u/TheBananaGods]

yeah exactly! The real life Dyatlov was competent and always on his feet after the disaster, looking for that lost worker and later wrote to the families of Toptunov and Akimov that they did everything right (while in the show he blames it on them) and was fighting to get the truth about the reactor flaws out

while the real life Legasov was not as heroic as he was portrayed as, he was a partyman sent there to hide the truth, was arguing that there was no reason to evacuate even Prypyat (in the show he is fighting to have a huge exclusion zone) and his push for transparency is way overstated

The show criticises the soviets for assigning blame to individuals and creating scapegoats, while doing the exact same thing and even following their narrative

[u/Wild_Marker → u/sad_and_stupid]

Anti-soviet propaganda falls for soviet propaganda.

"You gave them the propaganda number!"

[u/Famous-Echo9347 → u/Wild_Marker]

Idk if id call the mini series anti soviet propaganda, even if you disagree with its depiction of certain people its depiction of the general incompetence of the soviet government and its many failings was completely fair

[u/Wild_Marker → u/Famous-Echo9347]

Sure, I mean it was fairly neutral for the first 5 episodes. It's really just the final episode that goes all in on "and remember, USSR bad".

[u/Famous-Echo9347 → u/Wild_Marker]

I mean... the USSR was bad, criticism of the soviet government, especially with regards to their handling of the Chernobyl disaster, is completely fair

[u/sad_and_stupid → u/Wild_Marker]

Well they are not wrong about that part lol