Home Creators Posts Import Register Favorites Logout

Content

Go to this site: Cinebingers.ca for the unedited versions of all our content.

👉 https://cinebingers.ca/xRiYxRtgf5 👈 for the full reaction where you do not need your own copy.

👉 https://cinebingers.ca/0kBtCnCmc5 👈for the full reaction where you need your own copy.

If you are on a phone/tablet, hold down the link above and press "open in browser", or go straight to Cinebingers.ca on your browser app.

Files

Comments

Paul Davey

When will Better Call Saul 5 begin?

Jeff K.

I’m so glad I just binged the whole thing instead of watching it when it was initially on, because waiting three years for the second season must have been torture.

Śéáń

Defiant Jazz.

Sean

Season 2 soon?!

Divinerights

Rewatching, I never considered that Reghabi was willing to kill to protect everything.

Cinebinge

Will come after season 5 of BCS!

Sean

Awesome! i can only believe it to be a better experience than we had, in that we had to wait 3 years

Helly R

Helly's recitation of the break room statement to the mirror is such a brilliant callback. Apparently it was also Britt Lower's idea and was not in the script.

Emptysea93

After better call Saul and severance end I hope you add What We Do In The Shadows to your rotation, especially since you loved the movie so much.

Josip Buretić

That would be awesome!!I loved the show even more than the movie

REDR58

For anyone who is interested and has Apple Music, they have several playlists of music heard on the show and both the current season soundtracks and a remix of second season music by ODEZSA. Just search for “Theodore Shapiro” (the composer). Here is the playlist featuring the music from “Defiant Jazz”: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/severance-defiant-jazz/pl.c43f25a3ee1c48fbb890cbdc39d72cdc The song played during the MDE is called “Shakey Jake” by Joe McPhee for those who don’t have Apple Music. Great song. Here is a YouTube link for it: https://youtu.be/YujwEeUYnnw?si=xrDX87fFZAngcNk4

David

anyone knows when better call saul season 5 begins

J.R.

For Patricia Arquette check out David Lynch's Lost Highway, and also all the other Lynch movies as that must happen

Inkpendude

Season 2 took 3 years because of the writer strike

Richard B

Irving painting to Motörhead was not on the bingo card.🎸

Helly R

Also the SAG strike. Season 2-3 should be 2 years, we can hope.

Michael Haug

My second watch through. Just noticed a cool line as Mark is taping up Gemmas picture right before her face revel. He's mentioning traits about her and right before her face is shown he says "I love all these things about her... equally"

Denashi

I am quite lucky I didn't find this show right when it aired. I "only" had to wait about 18 months for season 2! This is to this day the only show I've watched, that made me so anxious, that I had to get up from my chair and pace back and forth, in front of my TV (in the last 15 minutes or so of ep. 9)!

Urbanform

Hi guys, I mentioned this last week on the previous reaction, sorry to repeat it. Can you react to The Last of US season 2 starting next week? I know its not in your schedule but it will be cool if we can watch it during the time it airs. Thank you.

Peter Vasey

My favourite Patricia Arquette movie is A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), also starring a young Laurence Fishburne.

Monica Alarcon

The song is Times of your Life by Paul Anka the Man (not the dog)

Ira K.

I've watched the last episode so many times, and it's actually the first time I've noticed Dan Erickson in the background at the party! Wow I'm blind lmao

Tits McGee

I have been waiting for this reaction for 3 years!

cincassette

I'm more of a film person and don’t watch a ton of series, but there are definitely some standout prestige shows I’ve really enjoyed, Severance and Better Call Saul among them. Severance has easily been one of my favourites of the past few years. Here are a few other shows I’ve really loved and would be excited to see featured on the channel at some point: Short shows: - Russian Doll - The Good Place - The White Lotus - Barry Longer shows: - You - Mr. Robot

Monica Alarcon

For more Patricia Arquette watch True Romance. With a script by Quentin Tarantino...

Jon Johns

HAHAHAHA "Holy Shit-Fuck!" 🤣

TGrimace

The work is mysterious and important!

Mike B

This reaction was transformative. I might have to change my name again.

Liuzetz

I also only noticed this when I re-watched and it is such a nice touch and easter egg to the wellness sessions and how Mrs Casey presents the outies qualities. So so good.

Helly R

Second Barry

CryoniC

My theory about Cobel's side mission, she seems to be trying to break severance and hence why she is so interested in the reintegration. Coupled with the fact that she has that medical bracelet for a Charlotte Cobel in her shrine, makes me think she has family at Lumon that is severed like Miss Casey, and she is trying to see if it's possible to bring them back.

Liuzetz

What a blast it was to re-watch this show with you. Your reaction to this series has been amazing. Those 3 episodes are so so good and well connected that I'm glad you watched them all together back to back. This show has so many intercade plot details and sutil aditions in each episode that although we don't have a lot of answers till this point, we still get satisfaction because things are in progress and moving and we can connect some dots and theorize wtf is going on. Excited for when you will start season 2. Also, I freaking love all the Milchik's dancing scenes. PS: Hope your cat is doing well, Simone! I love see the cats in the background or lap, it warms my heart just how lovely and cozy they are.

mpd

What's with all the sores on the back of your head?

Onikaze

Palindrome is when a word or phrase is the same back to front. Patricia Arrquette's first role, I think, was in Nightmare on Elm Street 4 the Dream Warriors.

mky

Shame on Simone and George for not recognizing a big hit by a Canadian artist. ;)

Kenneth thomas

Patricia Arquette for me at least makes me think of True Romance. Cant remember if you guys watched that one

Monica Alarcon

I wouldn't go that far. I didn't recognize the song but I did recognize Paul Anka, so it's obviously not made for the show.

Jon Johns

In Irving's wellness session, Miss Casey says, "Your outtie likes the sound of Radar." Which is kind of sad, now?

Joe Concepts

Can't imagine what I would've thought a few years ago if someone told me I'd be touched by the love between John Turturro and Christopher Walken.

Jeff K.

It wasn't until this rewatch (which is my first rewatch) that I picked up on the fact that it closes with a callback, as well, to the wellness session with Ms. Casey, where as Mark is taping the photo back together, he's talking about all of the things Gemma did, and finishes by saying he loves all of those things equally... the same way Ms. Casey goes through her sessions saying "Your outie is good at..." etc, and says to please try to enjoy each fact equally.

Jeff K.

The Good Place, weirdly enough, kinda pairs well with Severance, to me. (Plus it's just a phenomenal show.)

Ste Rawlings

I imagine lots of people have suggested it but just in case, Adolescence could be great for you guys to react to. Only 4 episodes and judging by the buzz it could do pretty well on youtube.

Joe Concepts

Nope, that song is an old one.

zak

If you want more Patricia Arquette True Romance is a great one, and you'll get more Walken.

Helly R

To your question about the shooting locations: a lot of the exteriors of the town are shot in Kingston and nearby in upstate NY. The Lumon building is Bell Labs in New Jersey.

Jon Johns

Quick anecdote for Simone: when I first watched this episode, my dog growled at me. It was when I realized I was squeezing her too hard 🤣 🐶😭

Jeff I.

Yeah, it would probably never win a poll since it just came out and most Patrons maybe haven't seen it yet, but they've gotta see Adolescence someday. It's so good!

Ari Ramirez

...I'll take a guess and say that a lot of people were complaining about Better Call Saul for some reason?

Tay Schumaker

No George always does stuff like that, because even though the schedule is set and people should know, people still ask. I'm sure it gets annoying

REDR58

It’s not quite a medical bracelet, but something related to that…

Music

I just noticed that this time, too.

Dragonhunter

Also recommended this a few days ago. It was really good and could be a nice inbetween like penguin maybe.

Helly R

True Romance

Dragonhunter

Barry and Mr. Robot are awesome

Dragonhunter

Hope they watch Breaking Bad 2 Hollys Revengeance after that

matan ron

Kier Eagen is said to be taming the Tempers, dominating them. In the picture that Irving saw outside the wellness room (episode 2, i think) you see Kier flogging the four tempers so that's propably what Dylan supposed to do with them in the ritual.

Jonas

I was really excited for you guys to see the reveals in these episodes, and now I'm excited for George to meet Tuvix. Janeway goes hard.

REDR58 (edited)

Comment edits

2026-09-05 05:00 In Episode 7, Milchick says the coffee came directly for Rwanda. I doubt the innies ever know what Rwanda is. Helly R. completed her project "Sienna." Dylan G. was working on "Eminence." Not only is it remarkable how few / no other apparent Security people Lumon has on that part of the Severed floor with the exception of Granger, there seem to be no other staff wandering the halls outside of the various departments other than Milchick, Cobel, Miss Casey and sometimes Natalie... Irving Bailiff lives at "Leonora Lake" which is named for Leonora Eagan, the 7th CEO of Lumon. In Episode 8, "What's for Dinner" is a callback to what Irving B. says to the MDR office each morning after they all come in and Dylan G. hates the joke. I think we see that in the first episode. Cobel has a sculpture of Kier Eagan's head in her office and it's in her box when Milchick escorts her out. In Episode 9 after Irving B. found his father's US Navy Medals and uniform, he then came across the paperwork with the list of Lumon employees and the location of Burt Goodman's home...He did that research himself (or was given it?) as the Irving Bailiff persona. Lumon was founded in 1866, after the US Civil War ended in 1865. In the restroom before the speech, Helena Eagan's father was telling her the story of how he showed her the prototype Severance Chip as a child with the green and blue lights. Later, when introducing who she thought was Helena Eagan for her speech, Natalie remarked that "...while Kier may have never seen a Severance chip in his lifetime..." Simone, Cobel/Selvig drives a 1981 Volkswagen Rabbit I (Typ 17). (Edited car info for Selvig.)
2025-04-08 20:12

Urbanform

Cant wait for Musk's Nueralink chip. How bad can it be..

robodong

not just that, but he literally says when they will return to S5 at the end of S4, so its even more weird to ask cause i assume if youre a fan of the show, youre watching the reaction, which means you would hear them say when they will return for next season.

Alex

Innies have general knowledge. Helly knew about state Delaware, so they should know about Rwanda, unless their outies don’t know. Innies just don’t know any personal information or the current state of affairs in the world.

JediLounger

For Patricia Arquette movies, I saw several people suggest True Romance (1993), but I did not see anyone say Boyhood (2014). She won an Oscar for that role, and it's an incredible movie. I would watch it.

Alex

Yes, but I took it as they were bad drawings and she wasn’t sure if those boxes were houses or smth else, but I could be wrong. I would assume they def know what houses look like, they’ve seen Kier’s house and know about a lot of stuff in general, like animals, the ocean, explosives etc.

Jonas

Yeah, the cat of 9 tails labelled with the 9 Core Principles to tame the 4 Tempers. Also, according to an interview with Ben Stiller, can have sex with them afterward, which is probably what makes the Waffle Party such a coveted prize. Refiner of the Quarter, indeed.

akaTheBAY-AY-RON

OH MY GOD thank you for mentioning Dillon's glasses. The way they hang real low on his nose PISSES me off to no end. I can practically feel his glasses on my nose XD.

Billy Ostrander

I just wanna make something a lil clearer cause Simone seemed strangely relieved that "at least that pregnant lady consented to being severed", yeah her outie consented to be severed - but only for the process of giving birth. She consented to intentionally creating a separate version of herself whose entire existence is waking up, giving birth to a child that's in her mind not even her own, and then effectively dying immediately after. Or waking up once again if the outie ever decides to have another kid

Joey Johansen

and the whole technology seems perfect for cults especially, isn't there literally techniques and methods cults use to try and 'blank slate' people so you can indoctrinate? Breaking someone to build them up in the image you want, that serves your views etc.

Inkpendude

That's how you know the actor doesn't need glasses lol

Jesse Coombs

Also Lost Highway and Boyhood, which are also excellent.

Inkpendude

this is my THIRD watch..and for some reason it was the first time I heard it too.

John

I agree with the Good Place recommendation, I would also add Luther with Idris Elba

ManuG20dt3

Aargh, I wish you guys were rolling right into season 2–I’ve been off the patreon since about the end of Breaking Bad, forgot about the on and off with the shows. Well, look forward to season 2 and since you guys made so many references to Black Mirror watching this hope you’ll consider getting back into that with the later seasons for a quick in between show and a news season is about to drop

joejud1017

That retirement song for Burt is by Paul Anka, a very famous Canadian singer songwriter.

Cory Garron

Uhh, when will BCS Season 5 begin? Insert several terrible insults here) Did I make the next mean comments video? P.S. - Love the reaction!

Cory Garron

I tried to enjoy each reaction equally. I have 10 points remaining

Pendergasted

For a Patricia Arquette film, I'd recommend Stigmata or Holes if you haven't seen either of those two. She's not a main character really in Holes, though. It's all i really remember her from. I liked her tv series, Medium, but I'm sure that's not going to be reacted to.

dys

Sorry if this has been asked already, are you guys going to do season 2 of The Last of Us in a few days/weeks after release like season 1? It premieres 4/13.

RabidMango

It was 3 years 'cause first season was covid and then strike before season two. Apple us pumping it, Ben Stiller said they're already writing and going for it. But then again...you never know. Could be another 3 years or 1 or 30. I'm hopeful.

RabidMango

You mentioned soldiers at the end. Imagine soldiers that can't suffer from PTSD. Also we saw Irving looking at service medals. Though they might be his dad's? Maybe both? Edit: Maybe being a gay service member has its own difficulties. Anyhow....my favorite characters are Mark, Helly, Dillon, Irving, Burt, Milcheck, Cobel, Devon, Ricken, and more. I'm a fan.

REDR58

To add a little bit more about Paul Anka, as he's been mentioned a few times already below, he is of Syrian/Lebanese ethnicity and of course born in Ottowa in 1941. He has a bunch of song hits and several gold records over his 70-year career! He is also an actor, appearing in movies like "The Longest Day" (1962), hosted his own TV show and even appeared on "Gilmore Girls" and "The Simpsons," so Simone and George, there you go! For MST3K fans you might remeber him from "Girls Town" (1959) when it was spoofed/reacted to by Mike Nelson and The Bots. He's been on "That 70s Show," "The Fall Guy" and a bunch of other stuff. He wrote the theme for "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson" and "My Way" for Frank Sinatra. And he is going back on tour this year. Here is "Times of Your Life" from his 1979 concert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ0DlthTZLI And I'm sure some people here know his song, "Puppy Love": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ0DlthTZLI Paul Anka on "The Simpsons" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYh6gyeUfio And on "Gilmore Girls": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vpzZWDeT5E

Kevin

1. For Patricia Arquette movies, you definitely should watch True Romance (written by Quentin Tarantino, starring all kinds of big actors). And Boyhood (for which she won an Oscar). 2. You both are catching on that Severance could have a lot of possibilities. Not just cultish office jobs and birthing, but indeed there could be many scary implications of what an innie might be subjected to. From mundane to potentially horrible shit (sexual abuse?). 3. If you want to see Radar (Irv's dog) again, hes also the dog in Succession (an even better show than Severance if you can imagine!)

Robinson vs. Parkinson's

I think there are the arbiters of fate and "macrodata refinement" is them consigning sould to heaven or hell. ;) I was totally joking about that theory until the waffle party demon strippers. Now I am completely fucked up but having a great time. Seriously though, since the first episode I've felt some supernatural going on. Either that or a Matrix reveal is coming.

Robinson vs. Parkinson's

I was just going to recommend True Romance for a Patricia Arquette role. Alabama Whorley is the complete opposite side of the spectrum from Scary Boss Lady here.

Amelie W

I got greedy and devoured the whole show so now I can't comment on any of your theories, but I'd like to say I very much enjoy your watch-along.

cincassette

I never got around to watching Dark, but I hear it’s great. I’ll definitely have to check it out, especially as I myself am German.

Jake Urick

I’m glad you guys are rocking this show! Your reaction are always great. I sooooooo hope Andor shows up in a poll again because I think you’d both love it.

s0rd3z

Well that took a turn right off I didn't see coming at all. The dance experience was wild, the only part of the show I had seen with no context as it was a meme set to a Meshuggah song which is hilarious. Very impressed. Continually being caught off guard and subverting my expectations the way this show has so far is not all that common in a lot of modern TV shows.

UNC

Yes please Succession. After Season two of Severance? It’s so fucking good need a reaction to it asap!

gfixler

Re: mandatory fun, when I worked at Disney, we had a guy who ran our "Ministry of Fun" Department, always with a frown and low enthusiasm—he was always in character. It was full of things like pizza parties, pie parties, holiday parties, and weird things, like a whole Back to School event with school-based challenges. It was not mandatory, though (but everyone went, because he was actually very fun to work with), and he ran the whole thing like a joke on the corporate environment. He had been one of the people on the ToonTown team, famous for its bad guy businessmen ("Cogs"), and he was a staff writer, so all of the emails were dripping with corporate nonsense about the event being good for you, and boosting morale, and demerits if you didn't show up. They were probably the most read of all "corporate" emails we received. He also ran (and wrote!) the office D&D campaigns, which ran for years, and I think are still going at his current job, 15 years since I worked with him. I know Simone would love him.

Michael Stutsman

The prison industry would love severance. Imagine being able to sell the ability to let someone else do the time basically.

p0sthum4n

The address on the mail in Irving's apartment is an otherwise standard address format with a US Zip code but located in "Kier, PE" which is not a real state abbreviation. Irl the zip 07452 is in Glen Rock, New Jersey. Scientology owns almost 200 properties in a city here in Florida but thankfully they haven't reached this scale yet.

Silver Linings Starman

Patricia Arquette movie, "True Romance" 1993. Written by Quinten Tarantino and staring Patricia Arquette and Christian Slater, along with an absolutely stacked supporting cast, it's a must see.

REDR58

One last thing from me about this, here is a 10-minute video pointing out a bunch of details that some of us may have not noticed about season 1. It does not talk about season 2, so no spoilers to worry about: https://youtu.be/I3b6H8VS7dM?si=9ZcEAH3npC_md6iV

Louis Marti

Simone was right. Lumon did not kill Petey. He died on the ground in front of the gas station, he never made it to the hospital. Listen to what the paramedics say.

CD

You will not believe THAT'S Ms Cobel!

Beddoe

Another vote for Patricia Arquette in 'True Romance' (1993).

Theo Bracco

You should definite see Sherlock, as a "short" TV show, which has only 3/4 90-minutes episodes per season, and it's quite interesting. Also features "Hot Priest" (mild spoilers).

Darcy Smith

Oh my good lord yes please

Darcy Smith

As George mentioned after episode 7, I believe that it's clear that Lumon is stealing bodies. As to why, I think this is also clearly what the testing floor is, pushing the boundaries of what the severance procedure/chip is capable of. For instance, could separating parts of the brain's functionality enable people to continue living even after conventional brain death? Even if this would result in people acting "strange"? Whether this is correct or not, this fits really well into the whole late-stage capitalist corporate dystopia theme explored by the show. Even though it's a classic sci-fi exaggeration, we can all see how modern mega-corporations continue to extend their power creep into as many aspects of our lives as possible. A natural extension of this trend, albeit at an absurd degree, is reaching their control even to our dead. Anyone else agree with me here, or am I just crazy?

Rev

I second this. I love that movie.

Rev

Did anyone, be it George, Simone, or another patron commenting, mention the similarity between the combo of Burt and Irving and the combo of Bert and Ernie?

Beddoe

It also has a sneaky cameo by Val Kilmer (RIP). As well as a scene featuring another 'Severance' co-star.

Kim Jong-un

Fun fact. In season 1 when Irwin went to Wellness, Ms Casey tells him "your outie enjoys the sound of radar". Radar is his dog!

droodly

We talkin aboot Patricia Arquette, and no one mentioned Little Nicky (2000)? Blasphemers!!! :P

Ari Ramirez

Something I don't see mentioned regarding how a corporation would control a blank army of workers: that's probably the reason why the CEO and his lineage is treated as a religion, even by the people in charge. It gives the employees a sense of meaning and the feel that they're working towards something greater.

Marylou inProgress

Aaa this was so good! Ok a couple observations about the finale. - Dylan's tie must be reinforced with carbon fiber or something 😂 - holy crap the line delivery on "I wanna remember my fucking kid being born" was so raw and heartfelt - Milchick running with clenched fists is TERRIFYING - omg I love that Irving on the outside is actually cool as hell xDD Theories! I think severance is still very new and everything we've seen so far has been part of a testing period. That's why the office is still mostly empty. The floor below them is for testing that's somehow less humane or more likely to fail. The baby goats are for animal testing on this floor. Every day Ms. Casey thinks she goes back up to her outie life, but really she goes down to the testing floor. MDR, I think, is somehow helping calibrate the chips that are being tested down there. (Four tempers. Four different emotions of numbers to sort. It seems an obvious parallel.) There's something really weird about it being called the Perpetuity Wing, plus Helly's dad said that weird thing about being present at his "revolving." So I'm guessing the testing floor has something to do with saving people's entire minds into a chip and putting it in someone else's head. Maybe each CEO literally is Kier, or at least some part of him, and they're... idk, working on perfecting that technology? I don't think it's exactly that but something similar at least. Cobell is obviously following Mark around just to see if he remembers seeing Jemma at work, but it's weird that she's so heavily invested... Combine this with the fact that the intro shows a bunch of Marks... Also the perpetuity wing has really eerily lifelike statues... This is totally just a vibes based hunch, but I think Lumon is messing around with honest to god cloning. (That was even referenced as a joke in the very first episode, where Helly wonders if she has no memories because she's just been cloned.) I'm gonna guess that our Mark is an experimental clone, and the orange-clothes-Mark from the intro is actually original Mark, who has been on the testing floor all this time. Lastly I think Irving on the outside is trying to subconsciously send his innie a message about shady stuff he uncovered, like you said. Maybe he's hoping his innie will get a music dance experience, pick that Motorhead song, and be triggered to remember the painting. Oh and I have no idea what optics and design does lol

m

I love the notion of George doing QA on his bit where he repeats that QA is doing things over and over again, watching over and over again how he says over and over again how important QA is. Which is really important and yes, this is how it should be done. Milchick clear MVP.

Louis Marti

I'm sure you have a reason why you decided to take a break between seasons but I hate it. At least you could have not done it with two of the most popular shows of all time

Cinebinge

Hi Louis, the reason we stagger 2 shows back and forth from season to season is because regardless of the show, not everyone in this community is a fan of it, and we want to make sure that no patron has to wait too long before something they enjoy becomes available again, rather than having to wait potentially months before something new comes. This way, the wait will never be more than a month at most, it is not the most perfect system but its the best solution we have so far, with the assumption that everyone here are adults and therefor mature enough to not require instant gratification.

Rob Bob

(No spoilers for the show mentioned) Incredible season, the final episode is quite possibly one of my favourite episodes of television. One important thing to mention that you both brought up is the amount of memory "bleed-through" that happens. You saw many times in season 1 that experiences of the outie do in fact bleed through. This is seen with Irv and his oil paint dreams (only happens while sleeping, meaning it might activate certain parts of your brain that the chip normally switch off), and Mark sculpting the tree in the wellness session. Clearly, emotions of the outie can have influences on the innie, even if the innie doesn't quite know the significance. The wellness sessions are meant mostly to test this theory, like with Irv getting facts like "your outie enjoys the sound of radar" being his dog, and saying he is "skilled with love making" even though he is lonely. Ms Casey is watching to see if they react to a correct detail about their outside life, which could show an attachment deep down between innie and outie. Freaky stuff, and I love how much detail the show goes into regarding it.

Holdenk

Patricia Arquette is in Little Nicky with Adam Sandler. She plays the love interest

K Ray

Thanks for a wonderful series, looking forward to more! I joined your patreon specifically for this and your discussions have been really fun! K, but Tuvix is the stuff of nightmares…

MacGuffinStuff

True Romance x 3! She's a completely different character, Patricia Arquette. Which to me, that's the standard for an actor, range and impact on screen.

MacGuffinStuff

Oh man, Irving meeting his dog for the first time somehow really got me, imagining meeting my own dogs, who know and love me, and worry whenever I leave the house. So imagining how Dillon must feel knowing he has an actual son, oh man this show really knows how to tear your heart strings right out lol Exactly how to twist your mind and rip your heart out at the same time, and sometimes laugh. So awesome.

Katzchen1984

When Simone guessed his wife was Helly R... the only reason that would not make sense is because outie mark saw her on her first day outside of work when he was leaving in his car and almost hit her

Nabikon

Interesting that the book was able to make it in without setting off alarm. Is it because Cobel brought it in? I'm still working on season 2 so not sure if there's anything to that yet.

Ashton Lewis

The worst part of mandatory "fun" that the company I work for ever tried to force me to participate in was a team apple bobbing exercise. It was Christmas, 20 of us were all sat around this small bucket filled with water and a few apples and everyone in turn was supposed to bob for the apples. I was near the end of the circle, so by the time it was my turn the bucket was basically 5% water, 94% saliva and 1% debris from people's teeth from the Christmas lunch. I of course refused, and they (management, and a few of my coworkers) spent about 10 minutes

Ashton Lewis

insisting that I join in the "fun" and stop overthinking it. I was adamant that I was thinking the correct amount and everyone else was underthinking it. To this day people still tell me that I should have just gone with the flow, but it's a hill I will die on. I will never partake in dipping my face/and or actual tongue into a bucket of coworker swill for brownie points. I still wake up in a cold sweat from time to time thinking about it