Synopsis:

• A Monday morning office meeting quickly disintegrates into a brawl making it impossible for constructive productivity.
• Office politics quickly get personal after the team leader puts Freebert on the spot to show him his proposal for making money.
• Insults and accusations abound as Freebert is accused of having no brain or sense of style in his choice of tie and shoes.
• A free-for-all ensues as co-workers let their own egos, insecurities, judgments, and baggage get in the way of office decorum.
• The lack of respect and disdain for one another becomes painfully apparent as each wants their own way; the woman with the Big Idea to the man feeling “vexed”.
• When one man finally advises that he’d like to “refer the group to the words of Jesus Christ”, no one seems interested. The team leader actually picks up a a sword.
• Set to Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake (Nutcracker), the melodrama which uses SFX (sound effects) and dialogue subtitles is reminiscent of the silent movie era. The  physical comedy which includes a food fight and karate chops appeals to any Three Stooges Fan.

Application:

• The folly of anger can quickly get out of hand.
• Each of us has a responsibility to leave our egos at the door
• Pride is at the center of most of our negative dealings with other people.
• Once things are said, it’s impossible to take them back.

Suggested Uses:

•  Mediation or in anticipation of potentially divisive discussion.

•  Allows broaching the destructive issue of pride and its adverse impact at work, church, and home in a humorous, non-threatening way.

•  Sermon on pride and/or anger

Biblical References:

Phil 2:3 Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility or mind regard one another as more important than yourselves.

Eccl 7:9  “Do not be eager in your heart to be angry, for anger resides in the bosom of fools”

Proverbs 16:18 “pride goes before destruction”

Proverbs 11:2 “when pride comes, then comes dishonor”

Proverbs 15:21 “folly is joy to him who lacks sense”