Two best friends are spending their Friday night embedded deep into the couch with a supply of snacks and a tv remote. It has been a long week for both of them and this chill out session was well earned. Now it was about getting some needed screen time to catch up on their favorite shows.

“Hey.”

“Yeah?”

“It’s almost the commercials. Can you grab the remote and hit the skip button?”

“The what?”

“It should be right there, I saw it four episodes of Vigilant Shadows ago. We had just finished the one with the talking plants.”

“Oh yeah, that one was pretty good. The plants talked.”

“So do you see it?”

“Uh, that’s a big zero on that one.”

“Well, now we have to sit through the commercials.”

An ad plays for “Stray” cologne, the world’s only scent designed to be worn by both men and shelter animals. It is quite artsy and abstract, but likely just unintelligible. Nobody in the Couch Zone seemed interested in paying a premium price to smell like a very adoptable pet with a backstory.

“You know, if we had the remote by now, we wouldn’t have to sit through these ads or this news break. Hey, look at that! I was just there today. That donut shop is right next to my bagel store!”

The news break begins to describe how a local lawn chair industry leader was seen at a local circularly shaped frosting-covered cake distributor, secretly meeting with his noted nemesis. She ran a successful set of Saskatchewanian-style sushi shops.

“Yeah so that’s the guy. I guess they were smooching up a storm, but we’ve always thought they despised each other. But no, it’s like a forbidden love or something.”

“That’s wild.”

“Now I didn’t see this all happen in person. My buddy Craisin, you know that dude that loves socks? Yeah he saw it and said it was way weird. Their families have been locked in a decades long feud over some primo property spot.”

“Craisin is pretty chill. Good dude.”

“He totally is. But these people, they like have been secretly dating or racing their solid gold helicopters for a few years. Like, they’ve come up with a solution.”

“I bet it’s good.”

“Yeah, they’re going to build a sushi restaurant with its own gift shop. It’ll be an ideal one stop solution for people who have two specific plans for the day, eat some sushi and compare reclining angles on a deck chair. It’s gonna be great.”

“Cool.”