At this point in the pandemic, everyone’s had at least one COVID birthday. We’ve all been through varying degrees of feeling lonely. And we’ve grown very accustomed to Zoom framing. I wanted to play those notes roughly, in a way that might be funny but is almost certainly depressing. Rough chuckles as a friend calls them.
I was giving Barry a rewatch and love the way that Fuches attempts to talk his way out of problems, and this might not rise above being a half-baked homage. That’d explain the black eye as well.