This Is the End · 2013 — 第 22 / 27 章 · 3'48" · B2

The Group Realizes There's a God, Explained:pay the piper

With Jonah possessed and the world ending, the group turns to religion: if the Book of Revelations is coming true, then there really is a God — and none of them lived like it. They argue about the Commandments, then start confessing their worst acts, deciding it's time to answer for them.

あらすじ

The group confronts what the apocalypse means: if the Book of Revelations is real, then God is real, and they haven't lived as if He were. They argue about the Commandments and the Trinity, then start confessing — one admits gouging a man's eyes out, another a night with Lindsay Lohan — and agree that it's time to answer for a life of bad deeds.

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このシーンの表現

pay the piper

to face the cost

After the confessions, an old saying closes the night like a verdict.

We ignored the warnings, and now we pay the piper.

このシーンの他の表現

  • in vain

    to use a name disrespectfully

  • saw that coming

    to expect it

  • the Ten Commandments

    the biblical ten laws

  • bullshit

    nonsense, crudely

  • look someone in the eye

    to meet someone's gaze

このシーンのメモ一覧

84 行のセリフに 30 件のメモ

発音chasing us

Link chasing and us so they share one sound.

There's a fuckin demon chasing us.
表現 · A2happen to someone

to befall someone

What the fuck happened to you guys? That
発音What the fuck

Each word is stressed, and the line slams shut.

What the fuck happened to you guys? That
表現 · B1be supposed to

to be expected to

Is that... I was supposed to do that, right?
発音supposed to

Supposed to weakens into a quick unstressed run.

Is that... I was supposed to do that, right?
スラング · B1cray cray

crazy, slangy — A playful slang spelling of crazy, casual only.

This shit's cray cray, guys.
表現 · B1as though

as if

I haven't led my life as though there's a God this whole time.
文法 · B2as though there's a God

as though clause: As though introduces a hypothetical, here implying he never really believed.

I haven't led my life as though there's a God this whole time.
表現 · B2see something coming

to expect it

Someone marvels that nobody expected an actual God to show up.

Who fuckin saw that coming? That there's actually a God?
スラング · B1fuckin

vulgar intensifier — A crude intensifier, kept to close company.

Who fuckin saw that coming? That there's actually a God?
表現 · B1stay away from something

to avoid

You might want to stay away from saying that.
表現 · B2take a name in vain

to use a name disrespectfully

A commandment is quoted after someone uses the name too casually.

Thou shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
文法 · B2shall not

archaic shall: Shall not is the archaic, scriptural way to forbid, heavier than must not.

Thou shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
表現 · B2look someone in the eye

to meet someone's gaze

He claims he can look each of them in the eye and vouch for them.

I can look at each one of you in the eye. I know you're good.
表現 · A2get paid

to receive money

The talk turns to money as someone notes they are paid for their work.

We get paid handsomely, much higher than the average profession.
文法 · B1It's not like

negative comparison: It is not like sets up a contrast, denying an implied assumption.

It's not like it was just handed to any of us.
スラング · B1drawers

underwear, slang — An old slang word for underwear, jokey in tone.

you in your drawers talking about something, everybody's surfing.
表現 · A2make a mistake

to err

I think God might have just fucked up, made a mistake, and left us behind by accident.
発音might have just

Might have blends together with a weak have.

I think God might have just fucked up, made a mistake, and left us behind by accident.
表現 · B2have a lot on one's plate

to be very busy

I mean, He's got a lot of shit on His plate.
表現 · B1an oversight

a careless miss

It's not an oversight, it's not a mistake, okay?
表現 · C1gouge something out

to dig out crudely

I gouged a man's eyeballs out.
表現 · B2get in someone's face

to confront aggressively

He got all in my face and I smashed a bottle across his face.
表現 · B2shit happens

bad things just happen

Someone shrugs off his own confession with a crude fatalistic phrase.

That shit happens. I'm saying that's... I think that's why I'm here.
表現 · A2got to admit

must confess

I got to admit something.
表現 · B1bang on the door

to knock hard

and she kept banging on my door.
文法 · B1kept calling

keep plus gerund: Kept calling means she went on calling him that name again and again.

She kept calling me Jake Gyllenhaal.
スラング · B1bad shit

bad stuff, crudely — A crude way to say bad things, casual only.

We've all done bad shit, you know.
表現 · B2pay the piper

to face the cost

After the confessions, an old saying closes the night like a verdict.

it's time to pay the piper.
表現 · B1go insane

to lose your mind

It's the soundtrack of us going insane.

「The Group Realizes There's a God」を読み解く

What's really going on

The chapter turns the disaster into a crisis of belief. Once the group accepts that the events match the Book of Revelations, the logic lands hard: 'that means there's a God,' and, as one of them puts it, 'I haven't led my life as though there's a God this whole time.' What follows is comedy built on panic theology — an argument about the Ten Commandments, a riff comparing the Trinity to 'Neapolitan ice cream,' and a defense that they are good people because 'we bring joy to people's lives.' The scene's real turn is the confessions that follow: a bar fight that ended with 'I gouged a man's eyeballs out,' a night with Lindsay Lohan. Everyone has done 'more bad shit than good,' and the chapter lands on a single sentence: 'it's time to pay the piper.'

Theme

FaithThe apocalypse forces the group to take God seriously for the first time, and they measure their lives against the Commandments.
GuiltThe chapter becomes a confession: one admits gouging out a man's eyes, another a sordid night, and they conclude it's time to pay for it.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Old sins can all come due in one night.
  • In vain can mean disrespect or wasted effort.
  • Shit happens shrugs off bad luck crudely.
  • Looking someone in the eye is a claim of honesty.

発音のポイント

  • chasing us — Link chasing and us so they share one sound.
  • What the fuck — Each word is stressed, and the line slams shut.
  • supposed to — Supposed to weakens into a quick unstressed run.
  • might have just — Might have blends together with a weak have.
I mean it's like the real like Apocalypse. It's like the Book of Revelations, like that means there's a God.

The realization that frames the chapter: the disasters match the Bible's end-times prophecy, so God must be real after all.

I haven't led my life as though there's a God this whole time.

The admission underneath the panic: he has lived without regard for God, and now he may have to answer for it.

Thou shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.

The commandment quoted when someone is warned to stop saying 'Jesus Christ' — religious language surfacing as an actual rule.

I think God might have just fucked up, made a mistake, and left us behind by accident.

A competing theory: rather than being punished, they were simply forgotten — God was too busy to notice them.

I gouged a man's eyeballs out.

A confession that shifts the tone: what began as a comic debate becomes a list of real, ugly sins.

it's time to pay the piper.

The chapter's closing verdict: after a life of more bad than good, the bill has come due.

このシーンについての質問

Why does the group start talking about God?

Because the events match the Book of Revelations. If the end-times prophecy is real, then God is real — and that means they have to reckon with how they've lived.

What do they confess?

One admits gouging out a man's eyes in a foosball fight, and another admits sleeping with Lindsay Lohan. The point is that everyone has done 'more bad shit than good.'

What is the Trinity compared to?

Neapolitan ice cream — Father, Son, and Holy Ghost as three flavors in one, which is how the group tries to make sense of the religious rules they barely know.

What does 'pay the piper' mean here?

It means facing the consequences. After listing their sins, someone says 'it's time to pay the piper' — the debts of a misspent life have come due.

What happened to Jonah?

They say he's possessed — 'It's Jonah. He's possessed' — and they have to tie him up, joking that he'll be 'bad news when he wakes up.' Later his growling becomes the soundtrack of the scene.

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