“A fifth of everything is what's fair and reasonable.”
Why it's great
It dresses a candy grab in legal language, and the mismatch is the whole joke.
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Informal
Use it yourself
One slice each is what's fair and reasonable.
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The Gang Boards Up Franco's House, Explained
This Is the End · 2013
Chapter 8 of 27 · 3'40"
Holed up after the quake, the group inventories supplies and keeps getting distracted — first by Franco's real revolver, which everyone handles while someone asks to "put that down, please." Then a single Milky Way becomes a standoff: "Guys, the only issue is I kind of need the Milky Way."
Key moments
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The Fight Over the Milky Way
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The Gang Boards Up Franco's House, explained
What happens
After the quake, the survivors hole up in Franco's house and start boarding up. They inventory supplies — whiskey, wine, tequila, Nutella, pizza — and Franco shows off a real revolver kept from a movie, which the others nervously handle. Then the mood turns on a candy bar: one man insists he needs the Milky Way for his low blood sugar.
What's really going on
The chapter plays the apocalypse as a sitcom about roommates. The world may be ending, but the group's real business is supplies and who gets what, and the comedy keeps deflating the stakes: 'Look, just because a bunch of people fell into a hole outside doesn't mean we can't have some fun.' The inventory scene runs like a shopping list — whiskey, wine, Nutella, a revolver from a movie — and the gun becomes a bit everyone keeps milking until someone begs, 'Could you put that down, please? Loaded.' Then the room turns on a single candy bar. One member claims he needs the Milky Way because 'I have low blood sugar,' which is either a medical fact or the most convenient excuse in the room, and the argument over fairness collapses into jokes about cutting up someone's T-shirt. The chapter is about how quickly people rebuild ordinary pettiness inside a disaster.
Key lines & what they mean
- “A fifth of everything is what's fair and reasonable.”
- The proposed rationing rule during the Milky Way fight: each person gets one fifth of every item, offered as the obviously fair solution.
- “Guys, the only issue is I kind of need the Milky Way.”
- The candy-bar standoff in one line: he reframes a childish grab as a genuine need, so that taking the whole bar is reasonable.
- “We're a bunch of best friends hanging out. It's like a sleepover.”
- The scene's tone in miniature: the apocalypse is reframed as a friendly sleepover, which is exactly how the group wants to treat it.
- “Look, just because a bunch of people fell into a hole outside doesn't mean we can't have some fun.”
- The argument for ignoring the disaster: terrible things may be happening outside, but that shouldn't stop the group from enjoying themselves.
Theme
- Survival — The group treats the end of the world as a supply problem, rationing food and tools while outside the city collapses.
- Dark humor — A real gun, a candy bar, and a fair-share rule become the scene's biggest conflicts while people are dying outside.
What this chapter teaches
Teaching points
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Language points
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A great line in its own right — why and how to use it“Guys, the only issue is I kind of need the Milky Way.”
Why it's great
It opens like a serious objection and then shrinks to one candy bar, which is the joke.
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Informal
Use it yourself
The only issue is I kind of hate karaoke.
“We're a bunch of best friends hanging out. It's like a sleepover.”
Why it's great
Calling disaster lockdown a sleepover renames the horror, and that denial is the point.
Register
Informal
Use it yourself
We're a bunch of old friends hanging out by the fire.
“Look, just because a bunch of people fell into a hole outside doesn't mean we can't have some fun.”
Why it's great
He justifies partying right after a disaster, and the mismatch is the whole joke.
Register
Informal
Use it yourself
Just because it's raining doesn't mean we can't take a walk.
Up next · 09lone wolfThe scene: Everyone Sleeps in One RoomTakeaways
What you walk away with- A fifth of everything turns sharing into a formal ruling.
- Put that down stops someone holding something risky.
- Low blood sugar is played as a serious excuse here.
- The gun gag shows jokes sliding into real danger.
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Questions, then the linesWhy is everyone fighting about a Milky Way?
One of them says he bought it specifically to eat after the party, so he claims the whole bar; the others find that weird and want to share it. It's a petty argument that fills the room while the world falls apart.
What is Jonah's excuse for needing the Milky Way?
He says he has low blood sugar and that if his endorphins drop too low he'll be 'a nightmare to be around,' so he should get the candy rather than share it.
Where did Franco get the revolver?
He says he kept it from a movie — a functioning revolver from the set, which he calls 'Old Faithful.' The others are nervous that it's loaded and real.
Why is everyone nervous about the gun?
It's a real, loaded revolver, not a prop, and the group keeps passing it around and joking with it. Someone asks repeatedly for whoever holds it to put it down before it goes off.
What do they have to eat and drink?
The inventory includes whiskey, wine, tequila, Nutella, cheese pizza, eggs, bananas, apples, bacon, steaks, pancake mix, cereal, milk, and two kinds of weed — plus a Milky Way.