Fortnite teases a crossover with The Office

Polygon reports Epic Games has teased a collaboration that appears to bring The Office to Fortnite.

Details haven’t been revealed, but the official Fortnite account posted a photo of beets on Tuesday with the words “Build. Beets. Battle Royale.” That references a season 3 episode, “Product Recall,” in which Jim Halpert dresses as Dwight and uses the line “Bears, beets, Battlestar Galactica.” The piece notes that potential items like a Dwight Schrute skin or a stapler-in-Jell-O back bling have been floated as possibilities.

The Office ran on NBC for nine seasons from 2005 to 2013, and is based on the BBC series; it follows employees at the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. The show’s continued popularity is credited to international remakes, streaming rewatchability on services such as Netflix and Peacock, and the recent spinoff The Paper.

Epic’s wide-ranging past collaborations — from a Segway scooter emote and a Simpsons Battle Pass to skins of Kim Kardashian, Sabrina Carpenter, and WWE performers — is noted in the report, as is Universal Television’s previous unusual tie-ins like a Magic: The Gathering Secret Lair drop last year. For now, official crossover details remain unrevealed, and further announcements would be needed to confirm what will actually appear in Fortnite.

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Culture, Fortnite, Epic Games, The Office, Dwight Schrute, Dunder Mifflin