#I see you’ve played Knifey Spooney before

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KENTA x realizing he’s standing directly where Jay is about to go Pose

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It’s not as fun if Tana isn’t there to make a grumpy face 😅

Just look at him

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Salim: You call that a knife? *This* is a knife.

Y/n: That’s not a knife, that’s a spoon.

Salim: Alright, alright, you win. Heh. I see you’ve played knifey-spooney before!

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Phantasms - 7.6

I could have sworn we did this ep, like, a WHILE ago, but I think I was just remembering the cake from my childhood viewing of the series because that cake is not an image you get out of your head. You’ll see. 

There's not a ton of fashion in this episode, but there is some truly bananas shit. The episode opens with SPOOKY-ASS MUSIC and Data seeing what look like some miners busting a hole in the wall of the Enterprise:

When you have an emotional breakthrough but you realize you literally punched a hole in your wall

The miners or whatever are dressed in some mid-to-late 1800s looks, and have some truly incredible layering going on:

These outfits have everything: overalls, vests, vests over overalls, suspenders under overalls, neckerchiefs

I'm pretty sure that dude on the right is wearing overalls AND suspenders AND a belt?? Maybe it's a tool belt, but like...the whole thing with overalls is that they go...over...all. I also enjoy the fedora as a work hat, because it does absolutely nothing to protect one's head (but does give the wearer the belief that they look like Indiana Jones even though they don't). Let’s also note that the middle guy is just straight-up wearing a flood lamp on his head.

The workers end up attacking Data and pulling off his head:

It's not fair / to remind me / of the cross-eyed head that you gave to me / you, you, you / Data's head

You can see here that Fedora Worker is wearing suspenders OVER his vest, which...that's not how suspenders are MEANT to be worn, but if that's how you want to roll, I'm not going to stop you. Layer everything. Wear a hat as a necklace. Fashion “rules” were established by a patriarchal society and are meant to keep us in our places and stifle our creativity and if wearing suspenders over a vest makes you feel revolutionary, YOU DO YOU.

After we see Data's head get ripped off, though, it turns out it was all a dream:

I really wanted to see Data’s PJs, but this does make sense

Is Data taking a Mondrian-inspired painting class? That work next to his bed (which is where I keep all MY unfinished paintings) looks like it's in progress rather than a part of his decor.

The main thrust of this episode is that Data is having weird dreams and that the Enterprise is installing a new warp core, so we spend a bit of time in Engineering, where we meet this adorable ensign:

When your hair needs to be pulled back for OSHA reasons but you've still got style

She's real cute, has picked a GREAT lip color to complement her Engineering Mustard, and she has a major crush on Geordi. Literally nothing comes of the fact that she's crushing on Geordi, so I think the writers just threw that detail in there to be nice.

Data is trying to figure out what's up with his weird dreams, so he researches the best way he knows how:

Even on a spaceship, cats take up as much space as possible

Spot is having a nap, and Data is watching her sleep to see if he can figure anything out.

Streeeeetch

He doesn't figure anything out, but I love Spot so it's fine. Instead, he sees Troi for a quick therapy sesh and her season 7 hair is doing it up:

This hair goes to 11

They talk a little bit about dream interpretation, and then we get to see Data sleep some more.

THRILL as Data TAKES A NAP

This dream is where the bonkers cake shows up. This cake honestly doesn't even look that good, but it still made me want some cake:

Cake to bridge: I'm delicious

Hmm, that's odd. There's a communicator badge on that cake. What could that possibly--

NOPE

One thing I will say for this cake is that it was made in a time before every fucking cake was, like, required by law to be covered in fucking fondant. FONDANT IS TRASH AND CAKES COVERED IN IT ARE ALSO TRASH. So on that level, I appreciate this cake for just having a sensible buttercream.

Other than that, this cake is a literal nightmare. In the dream, Data feels compelled to cut into Troi's right shoulder with a serrated cake knife:

Delicious?

This will be important later. Also important: Worf says that the cake is "a cellular peptide cake...with mint frosting." I don't know about you guys, but I feel like mint is a weird choice for a cellular peptide cake. Maybe a cream cheese would have been better?

Oh, also in this dream, Crusher is sucking out Riker's brains with a straw:

Curb_Your_Enthusiasm_Theme.mp3

This is probably a weird sex thing Riker would be into though. After this disturbing dream, Data decides to consult a dream expert:

Zis is ferry disturbink

Yes, that's ol' Siggy, the father of psychiatry and cocaine addict. Data visits him in the Holodeck. He's wearing a pretty straightforward three-piece suit:

I think that cigar is just a cigar

The touch I like here is that shirt lapel. Look how long that thing is!! Old-timey as fuck.

After Data's Freudian adventure, he's helping Geordi fix something related to the warp core (which isn't working at all) and he notices that this piece of the ship looks VERY similar to the cake knife:

I see you've played knifey-spooney before

Honestly, that thing looks so much like a weird Klingon knife that I feel like at some point Geordi asked Worf to fix something in the warp core and Worf accidentally broke something off and was like "oh shit" and just replaced it with a knife. That's not very Worf-like, actually. A better story is that BARCLAY broke something accidentally and then stole the knife from Worf's quarters and used it to MacGyver the engine. There. Better.

So Data thinks he's awake, but then this happens:

Listen to your heart / when it's calling for you

So that's...weird.

It turns out Data's dream program has gone pretty much haywire and he's drifting into a dream state without realizing it and yadda yadda yadda, he stabs Troi in the shoulder...the right shoulder! From before!! When she was a cake!!!

Rude!!!!!

It's not great that Troi got stabbed, BUT we do get a little extra fashion from her stay in sickbay:

Fashion Johnny

I'm kind of feeling this horizontal knit corduroy situation here. What I'm wondering is - how does that shoulder seam reattach? I don't see snaps or buttons or velcro, so I'm forced to conclude that it is a magnet. I'm in the middle of making a shirt and I'm wondering if I could use magnets instead of buttons. ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT.

Data is worried that he will hurt Spot (aww) because of his dream hallucinations, so he asks Worf to cat-sit, leading to this delightful image:

"I will feed him."

Let's just see that from another angle, because it's delightful.

He is a good cat and a pretty cat

Side note: @Spiggitzfan on Twitter made this adorable Data + Spot and then OMG THIS ACTUAL BABY KITTEN SAT ON IT AND I DIED.

😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭

At this point, Beverly figures out that the thing causing the issues on the ship are these interphasic creatures who eat cellular peptide (that’s what the dream cake was made out of!!!!), and you can only see them with this special light:

Later they shined this light in Riker's quarters and it was like a Jackson Pollock piece

To fix the issue, the crew hooks Data’s brain up to the Holodeck so they can go into his dream. Sure. They see CakeTroi again:

How does her hair look so good even when she is a cake

I bet that black frosting was hard to create. Actually, that blue is so dark I bet that was tough, too. Let's give it up for the art department.

Geordi and Picard tool around in Data's dream for a while, and those miners from before come back:

Miner Catastrophe, the new line from Zara Man

I didn't even notice that one guy's mustard pants earlier. That is a bold pant choice that I respect.

Somehow the "going into Data's dream" plan fixes everything, and all is back to normal. Spot is being a regular cat:

Cat toy technology has not changed

And Troi brings Data a cake of himself as a joke:

Black and mustard, the two most delicious-looking frosting colors

HAPPY THANKSGIVING, AMERICANS!!

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I doubt it tbqh

The rumour mill is working overtime of course...depending on who you ask his contract is ‘up this month’ or ‘was a seven year deal,’ and with a three month standard no-compete clause neither of those would leave him free to show up at the rumble regardless of whether he’s leaving, which he probably isn’t.

Frankly I think he’d be out of his mind to go wwe when, just like Shinsuke, everything that makes him unique and genuinely one of the best of his generation comes from HIM & would immediately be micromanaged into generic slop by a team of ex-sitcom writers & geriatric egoists...like idk, maybe they’d have been willing to drive up a dumptruck of money before the pandemic to entice him but idk if they would right now, and I’m seriously skeptical he’d take it even if they did. 

Bearing in mind I know absolutely nothing about anything, I think they’re trying to make it seem as though he’s genuinely left, maybe even with an absence for a few months, juuust long enough to make it an ‘aaaahhhh!’ moment when he shows back up again.  The only special insight I can offer is they’ve removed him from the trade screen on NJPW collection and some of his old cards have been taken out of the draft lineup and are now ‘sold out,’ which they’ve typically only done when people have left or retired (Nakanishi, Liger, TAKA)...however, I’ve still seen people marked with him as their fave wrestler, whereas if people had Liger or Nakanishi or whatever the photo area would be blank now unless they’d picked somebody else.  So he’s still in there but for some fiddling and somebody wants us to think ‘oh no, Jay’s gone!’

Anyway in conclusion I hope he’s not that stupid

lads what if jay white is in the rumble...

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Never gonna be over this tbqh

Not redeemed, not entirely humbled, but in the end, he returns to Tana

Practically needs to be carried, but he does it

Milano conspicuously turning away because he doesn’t need to start crying tonight

Tana pulling down his mask, broken-out teeth on display, saying “Thank you, Jay” in his accented english

Gedo, subtly shaking his head in disbelief as they walk away

The last nod of acknowledgement

Jay looking back at him until turning the corner forces him to turn away

Wrestling ;____;

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Laugh rule: Jado’s ice-cold waving

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I am going to miss this nonsense

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Fucking poetry tbqh

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You and your FUCKING HUBRIS

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“Stay up, stay up!  Don’t fucking fall down!” - Jay, somewhat ironically

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*stops to laugh like a supervillain, immediately gets flattened*

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*Taps playing in the background*