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  • Minute 96 - We Put False Hope On A Bagel!

    Minute 96 - We Put False Hope On A Bagel!
    2026/07/15
    Foxy Waymond asks what if you had come with me all those years ago — and then we're at the New Year's party in full swing. Evelyn comes back to life in the Alpha Verse, stares at her hands, and the music rises with what sounds exactly like a hero's reawakening. Then she picks up the phone, tells Deirdre to shut up, tells her nothing matters, and her eyes fill with black. We end in the green-lit alleyway outside the Hong Kong theater, with Evelyn advancing on Waymond saying they'd have woken up every day in a tiny apartment.We spend time on Rick, played by the late Biff Wiff, who passed away in February 2025 after a late-career run that included this film, I Think You Should Leave, and Jury Duty. He's standing at the party in his red suspenders, insinuating himself just close enough to Evelyn to be technically arguable, and we trace everything the movie has done with him since the beginning. We also dig into Debbie the Dog Mom showing up without the dog and actually talking animatedly with Evelyn like they're friends, Jobu's expression when "nothing matters" lands — not triumph, something much more like nausea — and the shot of Evelyn's eyes going black, which is easy to miss and hard to come back from. The false hope of this minute is the whole point.
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  • Minute 95 - We Put Gong Gong's Party On A Bagel!

    Minute 95 - We Put Gong Gong's Party On A Bagel!
    2026/07/08
    The bagel pulses, and every version of Evelyn feels it at once. We watch them in rapid succession staring directly into the camera — from the IRS, from Hong Kong, from a robotics factory with a red eye, from a winter street where she appears to be the cold itself, from a scene near the end of the film with blood in her mouth looking genuinely monstrous — before landing at Gong Gong's party, where red envelopes are being handed out, the Chinese New Year decorations are finally up, and Debbie the Dog Mom has somehow actually shown up. Then Jobu's voice comes in from the temple: all this time, she wasn't looking for someone to kill. She was looking for someone who could see what she sees and feel what she feels. We get pulled through the eye of the bagel, past a swirling vortex that turns out to contain an enormous number of toilets and guitars, and land outside the Hong Kong theater with Foxy Waymond.We go frame by frame through the entire montage, cover what red envelopes are and why Gong Gong gets to hand them out, try to explain why Joy is simultaneously inside and outside the laundromat at the same time, and spend a long time on the moment Jobu's plan is finally revealed, comparing it to the script version and to why the finished line lands so much harder. The short version: we thought this was a movie about stopping a villain. It turns out it was always about a mother and a daughter who stopped being able to talk to each other.
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  • Minute 94 - We Put The Sanctum Sanctorum On A Bagel!

    Minute 94 - We Put The Sanctum Sanctorum On A Bagel!
    2026/07/01
    Jobu finishes telling Evelyn that right is a tiny box invented by people who are afraid, and the film cuts to a memory: Joy introducing Becky to Gong Gong, the same scene from the start of the movie, except Evelyn's face looks different this time, softer, more apologetic. Back in the temple, Evelyn insists she still knows who she is, that her life was happy. Jobu, instead of looking triumphant, looks almost sad. Then two acolytes tear the curtains down (not pull, tear) and reveal the bagel, still bagel-sized, somehow filling the entire frame anyway, pulsing hard enough to crack the marble walls of the inner sanctum before sucking Evelyn, Jobu, and the audience through a single eye into the hot dog universe.We spent a good chunk of this episode on sacred inner sanctums across world religions, from the Jewish Holy of Holies to Hindu garbagrihas to Shinto honden, trying to figure out what the Daniels were drawing on when they designed this space (the building really was a Catholic cathedral, which explains a lot). We also dig into a cut script line where Jobu makes the binary explicit, telling Evelyn she can love and hate her at the same time now, and we walk through exactly how this bagel reveal differs from the one we glimpsed earlier in the film, including a continuity wrinkle in just how cracked those walls already were.
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  • Minute 93 - We Put The Bagel Temple On A Bagel!

    Minute 93 - We Put The Bagel Temple On A Bagel!
    2026/06/24
    Evelyn is marched the length of the Bagel Temple, a real downtown Los Angeles building that used to be a working Catholic cathedral, past rows of white-robed acolytes including one very recognizable face standing just behind her shoulder the whole time. Jobu hands her a Dr. Seuss-style picture book titled, in a nice bit of self-reference, Everything Everywhere All at Once, with the line "I am your daughter, your daughter is me" written in cheerful rhyme. Evelyn flashes back to a tense, unfinished moment in the Winnebago, and Jobu closes things out with a line that sounds wise enough to stop the scene cold: right is a tiny box invented by people who are afraid.We spend a good chunk of this episode on the temple itself, the former Cathedral of Saint Vibiana, now an event venue that's hosted music videos for Beyoncé and The Weeknd, and we correct ourselves on an earlier mistaken claim about which building this actually is. We also dig into a deleted draft of this scene that gives the silent acolyte standing behind Evelyn real dialogue, defending Jobu's worldview almost like recited scripture, and what it means that the finished film cut her lines but kept her devotion written all over her face. And we talk about why an earlier, more philosophically tangled draft of this confrontation, one that actually argues about whether Evelyn's understanding of the multiverse is correct, got simplified down to something much more emotional: Jobu doesn't need to win an argument about reality. She needs her mother to admit she got something wrong.
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  • Minute 92 - We Put The Crack On A Bagel!

    Minute 92 - We Put The Crack On A Bagel!
    2026/06/17
    Evelyn asks Jobu a real question — not an accusation dressed as a question, but an actual "why" with no predetermined answer waiting — and Jobu responds by inviting her to sit on the crack of the couch. They fall through. They land in the Alpha Winnebago, where Evelyn is a talking urn coughing on her own ashes, a retired Alpha Waymond is doing the crossword, and the big revelation is this: the Alpha Verse wasn't destroyed by Jobu. It was destroyed by verse jumping itself — by everyone finding whatever version of truth they wanted and then just fighting about it forever. The Daniels filmed that speech with a camera pushing in and the score swelling. We have thoughts.We dig into why that deleted scene was cut (it introduces infinite Alpha Verses, which would dissolve the stakes the film needs), what Evelyn's genuine open-ended question to Jobu actually costs her, and a long conversation about conspiratorial thinking, personal truth, and what it means when people stop caring whether something is real. Then the curtain opens on the Bagel Temple, and Jobu — dressed like alien royalty, per the script — is sitting there posed and barely containing her excitement, because the hero was never the obstacle. The hero was always the goal. Captain Hook letting Peter go. Father Marin finally arriving at the Macneil house. Evelyn, coming through the curtain, dressed like a peasant.
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  • Minute 91 - We Put Happiness On A Bagel!

    Minute 91 - We Put Happiness On A Bagel!
    2026/06/10
    Everything in This MinuteIn minute 91 of Everything Everywhere All at Once, Jobu tells Evelyn "you're like me" and invites a punch — which Evelyn throws, badly — triggering a strobe-lit freeze and a rapid montage of mother-daughter interactions: braiding hair, strangling each other, playing chess, riding a tandem bicycle, and doing something that might be Thriller. They both end up holding their noses, Waymond wanders in, and Jobu announces she just fell on the couch.This Episode All at OnceWe spend a lot of time in this room, and that is correct. The Wong family living space — the mirror from the film's very first shot, the unused exercise bike, the two VCRs attached to a flat screen, the possibly-bok-choy glass sculpture with a googly eye, the old cat carrier — turns out to be a place worth staring at for a long time.We dig into the villain trope double-header happening across this and the previous minute — the "this is how the world really works" speech plus the "we're not so different, you and I" moment — and compare the motivation behind each, from Syndrome's "if everyone's super, nobody is" to Satan's forty-day argument with Jesus in Paradise Regained. We also track how the Jackie Chan script handles the same scene, with Joy's version landing entirely differently: warm, welcoming, genuinely excited that dad has finally caught up. Then there's the Happiness board game by Milton Bradley sitting on the shelf — real, from the 1970s, with six different themed paths (love, health, friendship, self-improvement) and no guaranteed way to finish any of them. And we discover that Joy's cat was named Bagel, which we are choosing to believe.Everything Else
    • The rapid montage reads like a fight, but most of those frames are things you actually do with your daughter: braid her hair, play chess, ride a bike together. The strangling is less ambiguous.
    • Jobu's "la la la" after Evelyn's karaoke cover story is not in the script — it's a discovered line, either Stephanie Hsu or the Daniels on the day, and it's perfect: backing mom's play while somehow making it worse.
    • Waymond enters but takes exactly one step off the shoe-free zone to grab a bag, keeping his shoes off the rest of the floor. That detail was put there by someone who grew up in that house.
    • Joy is wearing house slippers, not boots, on the couch — she switched them at the door, at some point, during or between universe jumps. The universes are at stake and someone made sure to do that.
    Evelyn punched her daughter in the face, which we are going on record as saying is bad. Waymond bought it. The couch, the mirror, the Happiness board game, the cat carrier — this room holds everything.Everywhere Else
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  • Minute 90 - We Put Piñatas On A Bagel!

    Minute 90 - We Put Piñatas On A Bagel!
    2026/06/03
    Jobu is in the building — and she's smiling with a smile that is definitely not Joy's. From the laundromat, she drags Evelyn through a bamboo forest Wuxia standoff, a black-and-white prison corridor, a fully animated crayon universe where a stab wound erupts in candy, and finally a park where piñata versions of both of them hang from a tree until a blindfolded kid ends the minute. The funniest concrete beat: the bamboo branch Jobu tears from a tree transforms through roughly thirty objects — a tiny shark, a Minecraft torch, a novelty lollipop, a number one foam finger, and what appears to be an Oscar — while Evelyn stands there watching the light show reflect off her face.We go deep on the craft of this sequence: how the crayon animation is drawn fresh on new paper every single frame, why Evelyn accidentally yanks them into the cartoon world (and why that delights Jobu), and how a single bamboo plant just off camera and some well-placed fog turns a California park into a Wuxia film. We also deliver on a promise made in the very first episode of this show: the history of piñatas. Turns out the word derives from an Italian term for a clay pot, they arrived in Spain as a Lent tradition with seven points representing the seven deadly sins, and — here's the part that sent us into a spiral — they were originally Chinese, brought to Europe by Marco Polo, and made in the shape of New Year's animals. Evelyn's clay pot is leaking. Her mind is a piñata. We don't think the Daniels knew any of this, which makes it so much better.
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  • Minute 89 - We Put EVERYWHERE On A Bagel!

    Minute 89 - We Put EVERYWHERE On A Bagel!
    2026/05/27
    Part Two of Everything Everywhere All at Once begins here, and it sneaks up on you. Evelyn sits at her dining room table, holds up that receipt with the big black circle, and splits the screen cleanly in two — placing it in both piles at once. Warm piano kicks in, title cards appear, and then a buzzer cuts everything off: the Chinese choir has arrived, and right behind them is Joy.Before we get there, we finally deliver on last episode's promise and cover the Spaghetti Baby Noodle Boy deleted scene in full. An elbow macaroni rises through a boiling pasta pot — voiced by Jenny Slate — calling out for his spaghetti mother, asking whether he'll stick to the wall on Throwing Day, and wondering why God would give him a hole for no reason. The Daniels called it the hardest thing they ever cut. We connect Evelyn's response to him — "you're not gonna stick, you're a different kind of pasta" — to the first real flicker of her villain arc.We also dig into what Evelyn's clean universe-split actually means (control of powers, wrong use of powers), break down the quantum suicide imagery in the receipt shot, and spend a loving amount of time on the Chinese choir: the late Waymond Lee reunited with Craig Ng in the doorway of the laundromat, with D.Y. Sao following along and Waymond Lee doing absolutely none of what Craig Ng is conducting.
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