Q: 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?
A: 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