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Laser hands.

Impressions:

This was just as much anti-comedy as the bits I watched previously. You can't even really call it a Twilight Zone knockoff either. The first half's bit is a couple office workers going to a hostess club during lunch. The 'twist' that damns them is that they get drunk off their asses, rack up a huge bill, and get yelled at by their boss. I have no idea what the joke is supposed to be in there. The weird retro way they draw people? Especially their mouths? That their boss has a Hitler stache? The second one could at least pass for a Twilight Zone premise. He gives a frumpy lady a credit card where everything she buys with it is repossessed the next day. So she uses it to buy a makeover, whereupon he uses his magic powers to make her fat and ugly. It's not even anything subtle like she wakes up that way. He ambushes her in a dark alley and shoots uglification lasers.

So it's not really humor in any way, dark or otherwise, nor can you call "salary men slack off by getting drunk" much of a horror story. It's hard to even call these twist endings either when characters pretty much straight up go "Surely he can't repossess the beauty I would get from a makeover," and especially not when they're resorting to laser hands to do so. So what the hell is it supposed to be then? A question I'm sure we'll be returning to for plenty more shows this season, even the ones without laser hands.