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Minute 111 - We Put A SURPRISE BAGEL On A Bagel! • Every Minute of Everything Everywhere All at Once • Minute 111

Minute 111 – We Put A SURPRISE BAGEL On A Bagel!

Jobu grabs Evelyn’s hands and pries them apart in a slow, playground-style gesture — not the hand vagina from the hallway, something new — and the gap between their fingers becomes a window. Through it we see Temple Jobu’s eyes, serene and goddess-like, perfectly aligned with the hurt, human Jobu standing right in front of Evelyn. The window rises past her bagel hair bun and then higher, revealing the actual bagel, now here, in the atrium. Everything starts getting pulled in. Two of Jobu’s own acolytes go first. Then Daniel Kwan, in a cameo that ends with his face tearing off to reveal another identical face underneath. Jobu says she doesn’t care if Evelyn comes with her — enjoy your life — and walks toward the stairs with Deirdre marching behind her. Evelyn Naruto-runs through the foliage, lands in front of her like an anime character, and Jobu just smiles, nods, and turns away.

We open with something that didn’t land until after last week’s recording: Evelyn crossing back to Waymond without reaching for her daughter can only read, from Jobu’s side, as I won’t do this with you, but go ahead. Which is worse than a rejection. We also dig into why the film slowed this moment way down instead of doing it anime-style like the script describes, the three possible readings of Jobu’s “I knew it” face, and why the Daniels refused every easier version of this beat. Plus: Evelyn choking Deirdre in a way that is genuinely too violent to be funny, the Daniel Kwan cameo and the ethics of director cameos generally, spaghettification, and an unpixelated glimpse behind the movie magic.

Heads up: we’ve got a bonus episode coming at the end of the month on the 2018 Halloween requel, because we can’t stay away from Jamie Lee Curtis.

Lester and Kynan attempt to explain, evaluate, enlighten and elucidate the Academy Award-winning film, Everything Everywhere All At Once, minute by multiversal minute!