Take, for instance, the skits that involve paying restaurant checks with actualmelted caramel.
It just made us laugh, continued Berlant.
We like the way it sounded.
It sounded funny in our mouths.
And so when we were looking in the vault for things that make us laugh, that was it.
We liked having this kind of strange element in an otherwise totally mundane transaction thats so universal.
We wrote this before Covid, before theFriendsreunion, explained Early.
Weve just always been obsessed with this.
The true inspiration was this video of Suzanne Summers and Joyce DeWitt reuniting.
Which you have to watch, added Berlant.
It was a very early video in our friendship that John showed me.
Its of these two women and the hostility and the anger and competition is like so in the room.
Theyre so happy to see each other, but theres so much brewing underneath it.
Check out the panel video above.
