"Guys, this is the best laundry party I've ever thrown." "You can't just stick the word "party" on anything and make it fun." "You're just mad because you missed" "Brad's gum surgery party." "Well, save the date, because next week..." "I'm having an asymmetrical mole removed." "The theme will either be "dressed to the benigns"" "or "it's time to get my affairs in order."" "Ooh!" "That's a lot of laundry, buddy." " Actually, this is all candy." " Oh." "Yeah." "I trick-or-treated my way over here." "It's not even close to Halloween." "Yeah, but it turns out if you ring someone's doorbell and then scream in their face "trick or treat?"" "as loud as you can, they'll just give you whatever they have on them." "This one guy-- he gave me all his laundry." " Hmm?" " And the cool is that it's all XXL, so I have room to grow into it." "You're a terrifying individual." "Oh, hey, Dave, you wanna throw your shirts in with mine?" "Oh, no, no, no." "These-- these require special attention." "In fact, sometimes I throw them on wet and run-dry them so they keep their shape." "But then I get all sweaty, and it's like, here we go again!" "Would not change a thing about what you're doing." " Thank you." " Oh, my God." "There's a groupon at the aquarium to swim with the dolphins." "Mama likes dolphins." " Nope." " Hey!" "Mama always does this." "You see something you like, you buy it, and then you lose interest immediately." "You're too impulsive." "I am not too impulsive." "You bought us a time-share in Tampa." "The lady at the kiosk said it's the Sacramento of the East." "Now we gotta go to Tampa every year." "Tampa's not a place that you go." "It's a place that you end up." "My bitch is the same way." " What?" " Brad buys so much junk on QVC, we could start our own show." "But we won't." "Whatever, Jane." "It's not junk, all right?" "For example, while you porkers have been doing laundry," "I've been sitting here, getting a killer ab workout with my new... electro ab-belt." "The electro-pulse stimulation..." "Uhh!" "Tones and shapes your abs!" "Huh?" "For improved muscle defi nition!" "Anyway..." "I predict that Alex buys the groupon and never uses it." "I am absolutely gonna use it." "Okay, how many unredeemed groupons do you have currently?" "What?" "Mm?" " How many?" " 11." "11." "Okay." "Well, I think it's time that you learned a lesson." "Tell you what." "If you use all your groupons in one week," "I'll buy you that dolphin groupon and..." "I'll do it with ya." "You're on, ping-pong." " Mm." "Okay." " Well good luck, Alex." "I'm rooting for you." "Okay?" "You all right?" "What I meant to say is, I'm in your corner!" "Ow!" "Oh, God!" "It's just-- it's not even pulsing anymore." "Ow!" " Get that off of him." " It's just constant." "I don't-- ow!" " So painful!" " It shocked me!" " Take it off!" " All right." "I'm trying." "I don't know where the" "Ohh." " I need to sit on a trash bag." " We need a trash bag." "We just-- it happened." " No!" " It's happens." "It just happens." "It's okay." "It's okay." "Last time I was there, I think I left a suede jacket." "I'd love to get that back, with or without the cat." "Oh, PS." "There's a live cat living in that jacket." "Oh, my God." "I see the guy whose life I ruined, who in turn vowed to ruin mine." "If you find my coat cat, he answers to the name "coat cat."" "Gotta go." "Bye!" "Hey, Chase." "Buddy, old pal." "You know what's cool?" "The last time we saw each other, we left things on the best terms possible." "I've been looking for you, Max." "To tell me that you're back at work and that you're back with your wife?" "Nope." "Thanks to you, I'm still unemployed, and my ex-wife's engaged to my brother." "I'd kill myself, but guess who has to give a toast at their wedding?" "Ooh, boy." "That is rough'em stuff'em robots, pal." "I've been following you for weeks, trying to craft a plan to ruin your life." "Funny thing is, your life is so pathetic" "I doubt I can make it any worse." "It's un-sabotagable." "Hey." "Come on." "I got a lot of stuff going on." "I, uh, recently bought a ladle... for soups." "I, uh, I read half an article on fish oil." "And, uh, I just learned how to do the heimlich." "Can even do it on myself, so now chewing food is my prerogative." "Your life sucks." "You have no job, no love life." "Your apartment is disgusting." "I considered releasing rats in there, but you already had rats in there way bigger than mine." "Don't beat yourself up, pal." "We're all just raising our rats the best we can." "What I'm trying to say is, I'm not gonna ruin your life because it's impossible to ruin something that's already terrible." "It'd be like adding more moms to Facebook." "Penny, aren't you sick of paying a professional ear cleaner to come to your house and painfully remove your unwanted canal wax?" "Look, Brad, I know Jane's making you sell all your little gadgets, but" "Well, now you don't have to... with the revolutionary ear genie." "Try it out." "No!" "What?" "No, I do not wanna buy your used ear cleaner." "Totally understand." "I get it." "Let's talk shoes." "How are you heating yours?" "I have a problem!" "I need help!" " I have a problem and I need help." " No!" "Me!" "Okay, okay." "Alex first." "Alex first." "Yeah." "Okay." "Thank you." "So you know how Dave challenged me to do all these groupons?" "I-I keep getting distracted." "I didn't even make it to my pottery class this morning." "Ohh!" "It was a total puppy pile-on." "So you never used your pottery groupon?" " Which means you still have 11." " 12." "The puppy store lady said that there was a groupon for eyelash extensions." "I need those!" "I have my dad's stubby eyelashes." "You guys have to do these groupons with me, keep me on track." "Well, as the author of several dozen cries for help," "I know a good one when I hear one." "But we have to be fair." "In the interest of conducting a civil discourse, the fat slob from Illinois has the floor." "Thank you." "Now you guys remember Chase, right?" "Yes." "Super cool guy, vowed to ruin your life." "That's the one." "Well, he said that my life is so pathetic that it is un-sabotagable." "So I need to improve my life to prove him wrong." "Hmm." " Huh." " Hmm." "Well, Max... you know we love a challenge." "But that's not so much a challenge as it is a suicide mission." "So we're gonna go with Alex!" "Yes!" "Sorry, brah." "You're on your ahn." "You ain't Private Ryan, and I ain't shaking hands with Tom Hanks." "Max, there's only one person who's really up to this challenge." "I've waited ten years for you to come to me." "Mm!" "How did you get a picture of me in my underwear?" "Well, you're-- you're always in your underwear." "In fact, it's hard to find a picture of you when you're clothed." "I do not envy the task you are about to embark on." "What are all those red arrows for?" "Oh, those are all the areas that need improvements." "But those are all of them." "Yeah." "You got lots of bad areas." "You're like the Oakland of gay guys." "Okay." "Well, where do we start?" "Small stuff-- haircut, shower, stop asking waiters if your food could be "lasagna'd."" "Jane, I'm in your undiagnosed OCD hands." " Ahh." " Let's do this." "♪ how can it be permissible?" "♪" "♪ she compromise my principle ♪" "♪ yeah, yeah ♪" "Yeah." "Yeah." "♪ That kind of love is mythical ♪" "♪ she's a craze you'd endorse, she's a powerful force ♪" "♪ you're obliged to conform when there's no other course ♪" "♪ she used to look good to me ♪" "♪ but now I find her ♪" "♪ Simply irresistible ♪" "♪ she's all mine ♪" "♪ there's no other way to go ♪" "♪ simply irresistible ♪" "Well, well, well... if it isn't doubting Dave." "Might have to start calling you "doubting dolphin Dave."" "Feeling pretty good 'cause you knocked out a few groupons, huh?" "Not just a few." "Many few." "We got these cool hooded scarves... and we got our teeth whitened... twice." "Whitened up them teeth!" "And we took this gorgeous portrait." "Show him." "Got it." "Isn't it beautiful?" "It's like a portrait of two lipstick lesbians who adopted a lost boy of Sudan." "Yeah, it's just been good times." "Oh!" "You guys, up next... tequila shots!" "50% off..." "with this guy." "Si, señor." "Ooh!" "Yay!" "I hate tequila." "These groupons are the worst thing ever." "No, the worst thing ever is that at this rate," "Alex is gonna finish these groupons by tomorrow." "You know what we need to do?" "We need to sabotage her so she can't finish." "Why would I do that?" "Because, Pen, if Alex wins this, she's gonna be dragging you to groupons for the rest of your life." "You wanna be 50 years old and single and doing half-priced trapeze lessons?" "I resent you making me single in this hypothetical." "See, you could've at least given me the dignity of having been widowed." "Okay!" "Down the hatch." "Our brow-shaping groupon is in 10." "They shoot a laser right between your eyeballs!" "Here." "Ready, Pen?" "!" " Yes!" " Whoo!" "Whoo!" " Mm!" " Ugh!" "Let's take that bitch down." "Yeah." "Jane!" "Check out this machine." "It's amazing." "It sucks the garbage off the ground, so now I don't have to throw it out on the street through a hole in my pocket, Andy Dufresne style." "Max, you look great." "I mean, really great." "I feel great." "This morning, I flossed my mouth, and my gums only bled a lot, as opposed to an alarming amount." "And you had that interview today at that grocery store?" "How did that go?" "I nailed I it." "This supermarket is the worst." "Here's what you gotta do." "You gotta move the sugar cereals from the bottom shelf to the top shelf, 'cause people like me don't and/or can't bend over to pick it up." "I thought you were here for the bagger position?" "I said, any questions?" "!" "Chop-chop!" "I thought you said you nailed it." "I did nail it, Jane." "In fact... they're making me... assistant manager." "No way." "Curds and whey." "Guy said he liked my real talk and fresh takes." "Wow." "My plan is working much faster than I thought." "Come to think of it... maybe a little too fast?" "I mean, I'm weirdly happy." "My nipples stopped burning." "No one likes my real talk and fresh takes." "Once, a guy liked my real fresh take on talks, and that guy was me, and I was lying." "What is your point?" "There's no way my life could've turned around this quickly on my own." "The only logical explanation is that Chase is secretly trying to improve it, building me up only to knock me down." "That is crazy." "Just relax and enjoy your progress." "Enjoy the progress, huh?" "That's exactly what Chase would say!" " What?" "!" "Ah!" " Show yourself, you beautiful genius!" " Max!" " I'll tear this face off!" "All righty." "Max, I'm not Chase!" "My bad, Jane." " Full disclosh, though?" " Yeah?" "Not the first time I thought you were a dude." "Aw." "Thank you." " Oh!" " Okay." "Today is the last day that Alex's dolphin groupon is available." "All we have to do is make sure she doesn't finish the others." " Exactly." " So you, Alex, and Brad are supposed to go to dinner tonight at that new barbecue joint, except you're not because you and I are gonna" "Throw the phones through the window, covering their pulled pork with shattered glass and phones." "What?" "No." "No, we're gonna call and make so many reservations that you guys can't get in." "But you are overlooking one very obvious detail-- the restaurant is gonna recognize our number." "That's why I got all these burners, baby." "To throw at the reservation guy to distract him." "Yes!" " No!" "No!" "You fool, no!" " Oh." "We call from 40 different phones using 40 different personas." "Here are yours." "Uh, Southern lawyer?" ""I do declare."" "Nantucket housewife." ""Uh, white wine spritzer, please?"" "Julian Assange?" "Is that the Wikileaks guy?" " I can't do him." " You want me to do him?" "Whatever." "Just honor the spirit of the characters." "But don't forget to have fun out there, okay?" " Now your first character is Alex." " Mm." "Call the restaurant as her and cancel the reservation." "Okay." "Oh, I don't know if I can do this." "You got this." "You got this." "You got this." "Hey, I'm Alex Kerkovich." "I'm short and I love ribs." "Do you know anything about Alex or how reservations work?" "This is what she sounds like!" "I need to cancel a reservation." "Uh... fantastic." "Thank you." "We're screwed." "She has been there already and used all three ribs groupons herself." "God, we should've known." "Breakfast ribs are her favorite." "Damn, damn, damn!" "Wait." "Why do you care so much?" "I... it's just a bet." "Because I care about Alex, and I'm trying to help her grow up and be more responsible with her money." "What's the real reason?" "I have a paralyzing fear of dolphins-- as in, when I'm near them..." "I lose my poop." "Now come on." "There's only one groupon left, and it's the military obstacle course" " at the Major Fitness Boot Camp." " Okay." "If she does this, I lose, all right?" " So we gotta stop her." " Okay." "Why dolphins?" "They seem so sweet." "Let's just say they understand a lot of things, but "no" isn't one of them." "Hey, Max." " How's the new job?" " Great." "Actually, too great." "This morning, I got approved for a credit card, my teeth stopped burning." "There's no way Chase is not behind all this." "Max, that is just normal stuff that happens to pretty much everyone every day." "Oh, my God." "She's choking!" "Kevin!" " I don't know what to do!" " Do I have to do everything?" "!" "Okay, ready?" "Here we go." "Heimlich on three." "One, two, three!" " Oh!" " Oh!" "Oh!" "All right." "Wow." " It's great!" " No, it's not." "Chase knows that I've been learning CPR." "He is behind everything that's happening." "It's a coincidence." "Thank you so much." "I'm a reporter for WLS Chicago, and you've gotta let me do a story about you." "You're a real hero." " Yeah, it's Chase." " Yeah, it's Chase." "Welcome to the Major Fitness Boot Camp!" "We have a groupon to use the military obstacle course." "Yep." "Can't wait." "Let's do this." " Sorry, it's closed!" " Oh." "The course is flooded." "It's super yucky, ma'am." "Welp, I guess the only obstacle left for us to overcome is disappointment." "That's it?" "I lose?" "I'm sorry!" "Do you have to yell everything?" "I'm yelling on account of my injury!" "Of course." "You lost your hearing in combat." "Well, we appreciate the sacrifice you've made" " to preserve our freedom." " No!" "I busted my eardrums using that ear genie ear wax remover you buy on TV!" "Stay away from them!" "Well, well, well." "Penny told me you didn't finish the obstacle course." "So it looks like instead of swimming in a tank with dolphins," "I'll be soaking in our tub with a well-worn copy of "The Time Traveler's Wife."" "Yeah, you won." "I lost." "You're right." "I make terrible decisions." "I'm an impulsive idiot." "Oh, honey, come on." "I wouldn't say "idiot."" "Really?" "The cotton candy maker I bought on the way home might disagree with you." "It doesn't actually talk." "Those were, like, $200 more." "Hey, listen." "Don't beat yourself up over it." "I love cotton candy, too." "Well, I am returning it, 'cause it's time for me to get my head out of the clouds and stop eating food that looks like clouds." "Cauliflower is healthy, and it looks like clouds." "Now I'm confused... and hungry." "Would you care for some delicious, fluffy cotton candy?" "I lied." "I did spend the extra $200." "And it was... $300." "_" "Chase is doing some dang old good work." "A tip of the ol' James hat to him." "But I am not gonna give him the satisfaction of destroying my life." "No, sir." "I'm gonna do that myself." "You're sure you wanna do this?" "Yeah." "Breaks my heart, but okay." "You do have a full-time job, right?" "♪ Simply irresistible ♪" "There we go." "Get it." "♪ Simply irresistible ♪" "♪ she's so fine, there's no telling where the money went ♪" "♪ simply irresistible, she's all mine ♪" "♪ there's no other way to go ♪" "♪ simply irresistible ♪" "Well, you're pretty much right back to where you started-- human pastrami." "It's not good enough, Jane." "You gotta take me to negative 5, make sure Chase stays away for good." "But there's nothing left to destroy." "I mean, all you really have left is your health." "Okay." "Take it." "Hit me." "No, I'm not gonna hit you." "Jane, you ankles are fat." "Yeah." "I'm not falling for that." "Jane, your bundt cake is on the wrong side of moist." "That is ridiculous." "At times, you're woefully unprepared." " Uhh!" " Ohh!" "Oh!" "This is the first time I've ever been attracted to a woman." "I wanna put a baby in you." "So what'd you guys do, bring me here to gloat?" "Alex..." "I have a confession to make." "Penny and I engaged in the French art of sabotage." " We flooded the course so you couldn't do it." " What?" "!" "I can't believe you guys." "I didn't want a laser shot at my eyes." "I don't think that's an unreasonable position." "But then, Alex, I saw you with that cotton candy machine, and I realized that I love that you're impulsive and you do those kinds of things." "That's what makes you, you." "Aw!" "Yeah, it is." "It's great." "We really complement each other." "I mean, you're the impulsive one, and I'm the grounded one that thinks things through." "No." "No." "No, no, no, no." " You're not grounded in the least." " No." "No." "No!" " Super impulsive." " No." "Yes." "How am I impulsive?" "When you saw "Munich," you tried to get Bar Mitzvah'd." "You bought a time-share in Tampa next to Alex's." "You bought 40 burner cell phones to make 40 untraceable dinner reservations." " You have the facial hair you have." " Eh!" "Okay, I get it!" "I get it." "Leave the goatee out of it." " It's hard to leave it out." " Really hard." "You know what?" "Maybe two impulsive people can work in a relationship." "Hey, it works for Ice and Coco T." "Sure as hell does." "Here's the dolphin groupon." "But before I give it to you, you have to do the obstacle course." "But it's closed." "So let's be impulsive." "Hmm." "Aah!" "Uhh." "Uhh!" "Aah!" "Perhaps there's a downside to having two impulsive people in a relationship." "Someone should warn Ice and Coco T." "I don't think you guys should be left alone without supervision." "Yeah, it's like all of a sudden we're parents to two 30-year-old dum-dums." "Three." "Max, again, I am so, so sorry." "It's okay." "You did good, baby." "Chase can't hurt us anymore." "Max, is that you?" "Chase?" "What are you doing here?" "After we spoke on the street," "I slipped on that slice of pizza you dropped and I hit my head." "I've been unconscious for three days." "Unconscious?" "So then it couldn't have been you building my life up only to knock it down." "First of all, I'm fine." "Thanks for asking." " I didn't ask." " Secondly, no, I wasn't." "But I'm so glad you're here because I wanna tell you something." "I don't know where you fall in the existence of an afterlife, but I'm here to tell you there is another place." "It's a spiritual realm ruled by powerful yet merciful beings." "I was there, Max, and I was headed for sweet eternal peace." "But then I realized I could not transcend to the next plane until I took care of the unfinished business of this world-- the unfinished business of ruining your life." "It was you." "I came back for you." "I have looked deep into the abyss of the next world, and it is beautiful." "But before I make that pilgrimage," "I will stop at nothing to lay waste to what you so tragically call your life." "Wow." "That guy is still so cool." "That was perfectly timed with his exit." "Do you think he rehearsed that with the nurses beforehand?" "You know, Max, the good news is that now we know you have the ability to improve your life all... by... yourself." "Yeah, I guess you're right." "And I would be more than happy to help you." "Because if you put your mind to it, you could achieve things you only dreamed of." "So what do you say?" "It sounds like a lot of work." "Hard pass." "Yeah, that's okay." "I understand." " Well, I gotta go, buddy." "Take care." " Bye, everybody." "Ugh." "I got passed up for another promotion at work." "I really need to change some things in my life." "You know, on second thought, why should I even doubt myself?" "I mean, I don't even want that job anyways." "Yeah." "Yeah." "So, Alex, are you going to that dolphin thing with Dave today?" "Oh, no." "I can do this." "I can do this." "Oh, no." "No way." "I know what you guys want, and you're not gettin' it!"