One thing The Bear has always known how to do is how to give their amazing cast a clear runway for Emmy winning acting with great writing. In “Worms” Ayo Edebiri got another turn with her talk to her cousin’s daughter, TJ, about whether she should stay at The Bear or take Shapiro’s offer for his new restaurant. TJ has a similar dilemma with a sleepover invite and Sydney tries to use similar points in describing her own fork in the road.

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Sydney: “The first house. Right? Is like really special. When things are good at the first house, its kind of like the best feeling in the world. But It doesn’t always feel like that. Most of the time, low key, high key, it feels crazy. It’s like legitimately crazy and full of crazy people and full of people who just show up sometimes and I don’t know who they are but apparently they’re important. And also, it’s kind of like Auntie Marsha’s house, like, it’s clean now. It is actually very clean and very nice. But there is always like this faint hint of stink.”

TJ: “Okaaay..”

Syd: “And the second house The second house is pretty cool. It is shiny and new and has unlimited pizza The dad there talks a lot (a lot a lot) but he cares. And he wants me to be happy I think. He’s basically given me his credit card. I can get as much pizza. I can get video games. I can even invite whoever I want to stay there and sleepover with me.”

TJ: “So, what’s the issue?”

Sydney: “Well, my friends at the first house would be very hurt if I left.”

TJ: “So, that’s the one you picked. Right?”

Sydney: “Uh. No, I haven’t actually picked yet.”

TJ: “Can your friends from the first house go to the second one?”

Sydney: “No… No. That’s not really how it works at houses like that. And. Low key. If I left, that’s just it. Kind of forever. My friends at the first house would be really unhappy.”

TJ: “Hmmmm.. Take the pizza house.”

Sydney: “Uh. Okay. But the first house..”

TJ: “The stinky house…”

Sydney: “It’s not stinky, it’s..”

TJ: “It sounds stinky.”

Sydney: “It’s not. It’s not stinky. It’s really nice. It’s more like energetically musty. Yeah. That house. When things are good at that house, it is not like anywhere else. It’s just almost kind of perfect.”

TJ: “Pizza house sounds kind of perfect to me.”

Sydney: “Well, it sounds perfect but it’s actually not even finished being built yet. So, we don’t know, like, if it would actually end up being perfect.”

TJ: “So, these are both bad choices.”

Sydney: “No, they’re not bad choices. They’re just..like, they’re the choices that are in front of us. It’s sticky, special house or shiny unfinished house.”

TJ: “Isn’t pizza special?”

Sydney: “Yes, pizza is special. But the first house, I didn’t mention this, has a big brother.”

TJ: “Ohhh, you got a crush?”

Sydney: “No, no, I do not have a crush. But the big brother there is like, he is somebody there who I look up to a lot because he is the best at the world at playing video games. He’s straight up like one of the best in the world. Like the fact that he wants me to be over at his house playing video games with him, is like low key, an honor. You know? The only issue is that, um, he is kind of a lot and doesn’t like to share. And even though like sometimes he’ll be ‘Oh, play this video game with me’, then if I do too well he acts weird and like funky with me. And it’s not always like clear and consistent, like when he wants to share and why he doesn’t want to, and like what’s going on with his life, and the other people he likes to play games with, and also just friends outside of playing games, often that comes into the gameplay and sleepover of it all, and it’s actually like a bit inappropriate sometimes.

TJ: “That sounds crazy.”

Sydney: “Yeah, well the house is crazy and full of crazy people. But like also full of goodness, purity and fun and promise”

TJ: “But no pizza.”

Sydney: “Yes, I’m aware there’s no pizza. But there is like still goodness. And I could fix or I don’t know if I could fix it, but maybe it could be fixed. It could be fixed and I could… Everything could make sense, it would be good, and honestly it’s like ‘Do I even want pizza?’. Because there is a bed for me, you know. There is a bed for me at that place. That’s my bed. And it’s not my house but there’s a bed that I can sleep in..there. And there could be pizza, you know. We could make it a place where there is pizza. There could be Thai food if we wanted. There could be video games. And just like goodness, and chaos, and peace and good food. And like that’s it and it would be there instead of me having to go to another house and like start over again.”

TJ: “But you just said its not your house. What if they don’t let you fix it?”

Sydney: “That is a really good question. Um. Do you mind getting some cheese and we can finish this up?”

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