in "two friends on the beach", why did the waiter serve corn right on the table? shouldn't he serve it on, like, a plate or some sort, since it's basic restaurant manners?
yes, but the point of this move is to instantly jump from the moment where the waiter is explaining what they have, to actually giving it to them. I think i realized the plate debacle somewhere in pre-production, and it was troubling to me too, because i was imagining the backfork person pushing them around a plate. But after thinking long and hard about it, i realized there is no way to deliver corn in a surprising manner like that, with plates. And also, i decided it would be inappropriate to have the table start with empty plates. It turns out, i was in for a nice surprise when i found out that the table cloths have a plaid square pattern on them, which is a perfect sort of game board to play with, pushing corn around