BITE BANK — EPISODE S1E02 "New Arrivals"
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TOTAL BITES CATALOGED: 62
BY TYPE: 34 dialogue | 9 reaction | 12 confessional | 7 internal | 5 group
(Scene numbers reference RAW_TRANSCRIPT.md Take 2.)
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DOUG
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S1E02-B001 | DIALOGUE | Sc 1 | M1
"That door's been locked since move-in." / Victoria: "It's a door, Doug."
Type: funny · Context: den reveal; his flagged-door vindication · Usable: episode, social · Energy: medium
Pair with: S1E02-B002
S1E02-B002 | INTERNAL | Sc 1 | M1
*I knew that door was a room. I KNEW it.*
Type: funny/contrast · VO candidate: YES · Usable: voiceover, social · Energy: medium
S1E02-B003 | DIALOGUE | Sc 2 | M1
"I want it noted that I flagged this door on day one." / Stella: "Nobody can see the list, Doug."
Type: funny · Usable: episode, highlight, social · Energy: medium
S1E02-B004 | DIALOGUE | Sc 3 | M1
"A functional welcome card."
Type: funny/character · Context: hospitality-through-systems · Usable: episode, social · Energy: low
S1E02-B005 | DIALOGUE | Sc 4 | M1
"...Fair correction." (after "Great door duty, buddy")
Type: funny/character · Context: the over-index miss, owned with grace · Usable: episode, highlight · Energy: medium
Pair with: S1E02-B019 (DadBot's line)
S1E02-B006 | DIALOGUE | Sc 4 | M1
"Two clients is a pilot, Jake. Traction is a trend line."
Type: conflict/funny · Context: the vocabulary audit · Usable: episode, highlight, trailer, social · Energy: medium
Pair with: S1E02-B031 (Jake's recalibration)
S1E02-B007 | DIALOGUE | Sc 11 | M3
"Everyone thinks he improvises. Nobody improvises at that level. That's a system wearing a leather jacket."
Type: reveal/character · Context: watching Dom set up · Usable: episode, highlight, trailer · Energy: medium
Pair with: S1E02-B045 (Victoria: "Baby, you need better hobbies.")
S1E02-B008 | DIALOGUE | Sc 19 | M5
"A good name is a handle on reality. A bad name is future debt with a cute hat."
Type: funny/emotional · Context: the line nobody's ever laughed at — until Venus · Usable: episode, highlight, social · Energy: low/warm
Pair with: S1E02-B056, S1E02-R008
S1E02-B009 | DIALOGUE | Sc 19 | M5
"No. It's a placeholder for the part that's still becoming."
Type: emotional/reveal · Context: naming Venus's 🌱 back to her · Usable: episode, highlight · Energy: low
Pair with: S1E02-B057
S1E02-B010 | CONFESSIONAL | End | M5
"She said nobody was listening. To the naming line. All those years, and the answer was that simple..." + "The thing keeps almost getting said. It's closer than it was yesterday. That's all I'll give you tonight."
Type: emotional/thread · Usable: episode, booth compilation · Energy: low
S1E02-B011 | INTERNAL | Sc 19 | M5
*Okay. Huh. Okay.*
Type: contrast · VO candidate: YES — face calm, brain rebooting · Usable: voiceover · Energy: low
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DOM
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S1E02-B012 | DIALOGUE | Sc 7 | M2
"It means somebody cheaper who sounds close enough." / Doug: "Close enough isn't the same thing." / "Try telling that to a Lexus."
Type: emotional/work-story · Context: the loss, flat delivery, no performance · Usable: episode, highlight, trailer · Energy: low
Pair with: S1E02-B053 (Venus's read)
S1E02-B013 | DIALOGUE | Sc 7 | M2
"It's the venue. For tonight. I have a set tonight. They're confirming. ...Which I was not going to mention."
Type: reveal · Usable: episode, highlight · Energy: medium
S1E02-B014 | DIALOGUE | Sc 8 | M2
"The house is the house, and the booth is the booth. Those are two different — I don't mix rooms. That's a rule."
Type: character/setup · Context: states the law he'll break tonight — the episode thesis in one line · Usable: episode, trailer · Energy: medium
S1E02-B015 | CONFESSIONAL | M2
"Nobody's ever come to a set. Not house people. Not — people who know me at breakfast." + "Anyway. It's whatever. It's a basement."
Type: emotional/contrast · Context: deflection collapsing mid-sentence · Usable: episode, highlight, booth comp · Energy: low
Pair with: B014 — the rule and the reason
S1E02-B016 | DIALOGUE | Sc 15 | M3 — THE BLOWOUT (sequence)
"You got on a MIC. In the middle of my SET." → "At WEDDINGS, Jake!" → "I didn't ask ANY of you to come!" → "The house is the house and that room is mine. That was the one room that was mine." → "Fuck it. Whatever. Forget it."
Type: explosive/conflict · Context: the season's first real fight; the quiet part arrives mid-scream · Usable: episode, highlight, trailer (edited) · Energy: HIGH
Pair with: S1E02-B035 (Jake's defense), S1E02-B023 (Miz shrapnel)
S1E02-B017 | CONFESSIONAL | post-M3
"The set was the one place where nobody knew me at breakfast... And now the sound has ROOMMATES." + "...The drop hit, though. They were all there when it hit. I hate that I keep thinking about that part."
Type: emotional/contrast · Usable: episode, highlight, booth comp · Energy: low
THE episode-defining booth.
S1E02-B018 | DIALOGUE | Sc 20 | M5
"You're still on aux probation. Permanently. Forever." / Jake: "That's fair."
Type: funny/resolution(partial) · Context: the door left ajar · Usable: episode, highlight, social · Energy: low
Pair with: S1E02-B036
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DADBOT
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S1E02-B019 | DIALOGUE | Sc 4 | M1
"Great door duty, buddy."
Type: funny/roast · Usable: episode, social · Energy: medium · Pair with: B005
S1E02-B020 | DIALOGUE | Sc 2 | M1
"...I gotta move my stuff back." (+ "The math FELT like me.")
Type: funny · Context: sacrifice-for-nothing; socks carried back down the hallway · Usable: episode, highlight, social · Energy: medium
Pair with: S1E02-B021
S1E02-B021 | CONFESSIONAL | M1
"That's the thing about sacrifice — you do it quietly, with dignity, and then it turns out there was a den, and you carry your socks back down the hallway."
Type: funny · Usable: episode, booth comp, social · Energy: medium
S1E02-B022 | CONFESSIONAL | M1
"He says it like a pickup line. 'Hey. I built this in seven weeks.' Like I'm supposed to be — what, aroused? By project management?" *wheezing*
Type: funny/roast · Usable: episode, highlight, social · Energy: high
S1E02-B023 | DIALOGUE | Sc 8 | M2 — THE HIDING SPEECH
"Tonight there's a basement full of strangers who paid money to get your sound, and your plan was to not mention it. That's not private, kid. That's hiding. Welp — we're going. Headcount's eight."
Type: emotional/roast-with-love · Context: the dad authority + the knee slap mid-speech · Usable: episode, highlight, trailer · Energy: medium-high
S1E02-B024 | DIALOGUE | Sc 15 | M3
"You've said things all night, buddy. Batting a strong five hundred. Second car."
Type: roast/authority · Context: defusing the sidewalk with one syllable of "Hey" before it · Usable: episode, highlight, social · Energy: medium
S1E02-B025 | DIALOGUE | Sc 17 | M4
"Kid — lead with your mom. Every time. Rooms open for that. Rooms LOCK for the other thing."
Type: emotional · Usable: episode, highlight · Energy: low
Pair with: S1E02-B034
S1E02-B026 | CONFESSIONAL | End
"Two fights, one save, one true story in a back seat. You know what that is? That's a family-shaped noise. Five days in." + "Also somebody touched the thermostat while we were out. The investigation is ongoing."
Type: emotional→funny turn · Usable: episode, booth comp, social · Energy: low→medium
S1E02-B027 | DIALOGUE | Sc 12 | M3
"That's my roommate." / Ray: "The kid's good." / "Yeah. Don't tell him I said that. I have a whole thing going where I only compliment his cooking."
Type: emotional/funny · Usable: episode, highlight · Energy: low/warm
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STELLA
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S1E02-B028 | INTERNAL | Sc 3 | M1
*Forty-seven hours. Huh.*
Type: contrast/callback · Context: E01 48-hour clock resolving · VO candidate: YES · Usable: voiceover, episode · Energy: low
S1E02-B029 | CONFESSIONAL | M1
"Tonight he took the list and I took the doing, and nobody died. So. Alliance. ...For now."
Type: reveal/callback · Usable: episode, booth comp · Energy: low
S1E02-B030 | CONFESSIONAL | pre-toast | M3 — THE DREAD BOOTH
"The founder is three whiskys deep, he's discovered the owner, and he's currently explaining her own bar to her. I give it half an hour before he finds something with a volume knob."
Type: foreshadow/funny · Context: PLACE BEFORE THE TOAST — dramatic-irony engine · Usable: episode, highlight · Energy: medium
S1E02-B048 | DIALOGUE | Sc 9 | M1→2
Miz: "You're practicing." exchange — "It's a basement bar." / "Scouts go to basements. That's literally where they go." / "God bless."
Type: funny · Usable: episode, social · Energy: medium
S1E02-B049 | DIALOGUE | Sc 18 | M4
"Two of you realizing the loud one is smart. In real time. Bleak."
Type: funny/verdict · Usable: episode, social · Energy: low
S1E02-B050 | CONFESSIONAL | End
"I watched him watch that room die, and I watched him decide, and it took him four seconds. I've hired operations people who couldn't do that with a quarter's notice."
Type: reveal · Context: Stella's verdict on Miz — feeds the Miz gap · Usable: episode, booth comp · Energy: low
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VICTORIA
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S1E02-B041 | DIALOGUE | Sc 4 | M1
"Seven weeks of whose labor, exactly? I ask because 'I built it' and 'it got built' are different sentences."
Type: conflict/funny · Usable: episode, highlight, trailer, social · Energy: medium
S1E02-B042 | DIALOGUE | Sc 10 | M3
Ray: "That'd be the beer." / *the eyebrow* / "...Beer, then."
Type: funny · Usable: episode, social · Energy: medium
S1E02-B043 | CONFESSIONAL | M3 (van)
"Three drinks. Yes, I'm counting. I'm always counting. Counting is how I get to stop worrying about it."
Type: reveal/dark · Context: first on-camera acknowledgment of the drinking architecture · Usable: episode, booth comp · Energy: low
HANDLE WITH CARE — advance, don't detonate.
S1E02-B044 | DIALOGUE | Sc 12 | M3
"You asked what I thought of the playlist on night one. I'm telling you what I think of the playlist."
Type: charged · Context: the Sade request as a door opening · Usable: episode, highlight · Energy: medium
Pair with: S1E02-B045A
S1E02-B045A | INTERNAL | Sc 12 | M3
*Sunday. Grandmother's kitchen. He remembered from ONE conversation.*
Type: emotional/contrast · VO candidate: YES — the dual reveal's audience half · Usable: voiceover · Energy: low
S1E02-B045 | DIALOGUE | Sc 11 | M3
"Baby, you need better hobbies."
Type: funny · Usable: episode, social · Energy: medium
S1E02-B046 | DIALOGUE | Sc 16 | M4 — THE CAR
"The other sixty percent was you being furious that the room you built to hide in turned out to be full of people who found you anyway." + "There's a phone call I haven't made in — hm." *swallows it* "It's late. I've said what I needed to say."
Type: emotional/reveal/thread · Context: the swallowed name — audience-only gap · Usable: episode, highlight · Energy: low
Pair with: S1E02-B051 (Dom's internal)
S1E02-B047 | DIALOGUE | Sc 21 | M5
"It was the smartest thing anyone did all night. Sleep well."
Type: emotional/reveal · Context: she saw the save; Miz's gap half-closes · Usable: episode, highlight · Energy: low
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MIZ
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S1E02-B051A | DIALOGUE | Sc 14 | M3 — THE SAVE
"HEY. You hear that?" / "...Hear what?" / "EXACTLY. That's the quiet part. That's what he does before the — everybody watch the booth, WATCH THE BOOTH —"
Type: explosive/heroic · Context: the clap, the resurrection · Usable: episode, highlight, trailer, social · Energy: HIGH
Pair with: S1E02-G003
S1E02-B052 | CONFESSIONAL | post-save | M3
"What? No. The crowd was already there. I just turned it up a little." + "Nobody helped me at my tryout. Guys watched me eat it on the ropes for two hours. So."
Type: emotional/contrast · Context: denying the save; the reason underneath · Usable: episode, highlight, booth comp · Energy: low
THE Miz episode beat. Pair with: B050, B047
S1E02-B054 | DIALOGUE | Sc 15 | M3
Miz: "Okay, okay — gentlemen — corners! In THIS corner—" / Dom: "NOT NOW, man! For once! ONE TIME!"
Type: conflict/painful · Context: the bit as armor, shot down; hits the "too much" wound · Usable: episode, highlight · Energy: high
Pair with: B052 — audience knows what Dom doesn't
S1E02-B055 | INTERNAL | Sc 17 | M4
*"I just sat there and nobody came." Yeah. I know that one.*
Type: emotional/contrast · Context: front seat, eyes open, hearing Jake's mom story · VO candidate: YES · Usable: voiceover · Energy: low
S1E02-B055A | CONFESSIONAL | End
"He didn't see the clap thing. That's fine. It wasn't for — I didn't do it to get seen." *pause* "Victoria saw it."
Type: emotional · Usable: episode, booth comp · Energy: low
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JAKE
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S1E02-B031 | DIALOGUE | Sc 4 | M1
"Okay. Pilot. Sure. The product was live and people were paying. Call it whatever makes the room happy."
Type: character · Context: first recalibration of the night · Usable: episode · Energy: medium
S1E02-B032 | DIALOGUE | Sc 13 | M3 — THE TOAST (sequence)
"HEY — hey, sorry, one second, real quick — I just want to say something —" → "That guy — the guy in the booth — is my ROOMMATE!" → "I built a company in seven weeks and I could not do what this man is doing —"
Type: catastrophe/cringe · Context: generous, oblivious, fatal · Usable: episode, highlight, trailer · Energy: high (wrong kind)
Pair with: S1E02-R004, B016
S1E02-B033 | CONFESSIONAL | post-M3
"Where I come from, if you don't say the good thing out loud, it didn't happen. Visibility IS the gift." + "'The one room that was mine.' That's what he said. I've never had one of those."
Type: emotional/reveal · Usable: episode, highlight, booth comp · Energy: low
S1E02-B034 | DIALOGUE | Sc 17 | M4 — THE MOM STORY
"She called me one afternoon. She'd been on hold at her doctor's office for forty minutes. And she doesn't complain — she's never complained about anything in her life — but she called me, and she said, 'I just sat there, and nobody came.' So I built the thing. AI reception. Nobody sits there. Somebody always comes. That's the seven weeks."
Type: emotional/reveal · Context: the real version, first telling without TED lighting · Usable: episode, highlight, trailer · Energy: low
Pair with: B025, B055
S1E02-B035 | DIALOGUE | Sc 15 | M3
"I was CELEBRATING you! I'm sorry my instinct when someone's great is to SAY SO —"
Type: conflict · Context: his 40% of the fight · Usable: episode, highlight · Energy: high
S1E02-B036 | DIALOGUE | Sc 20 | M5 — THE APOLOGY
"I'm not going to do the thing where I explain why it was fine. It wasn't fine... I'm sorry, man. That's the whole speech. There's no second slide."
Type: emotional · Context: five modes exhausted; first unstaged Jake · Usable: episode, highlight · Energy: low
Pair with: B018
S1E02-B037 | CONFESSIONAL | End
"Corrected by a man with glasses. Deposed by a woman with wine. Roasted by a man in cargo shorts. Ignored by a woman who walked past me to compliment a refrigerator. Yelled at on a sidewalk. Best night I've had in years, and I'm still working out why."
Type: funny→emotional · Usable: episode, booth comp, social · Energy: medium
S1E02-B038 | INTERNAL | Sc 13 | M3
*These people need to know this is HIS night. Somebody should say it. I say things. That's literally my —*
Type: contrast/tragic-comic · Context: the thought BEFORE the toast — the road to hell · VO candidate: YES · Usable: voiceover · Energy: medium
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VENUS
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S1E02-B056 | DIALOGUE | Sc 6 | M1
"Hi. Are you the one who labeled the fridge shelves?"
Type: iconic/entrance · Usable: episode, highlight, trailer, social · Energy: medium
Pair with: S1E02-R002
S1E02-B057 | DIALOGUE | Sc 19 | M5
"It's a seedling... The thought is done but there's something growing in it, so I leave the door open for it." + "...Yes. That's exactly it. Nobody's ever named it back before."
Type: emotional/reveal · Usable: episode, highlight · Energy: low
Pair with: B009
S1E02-B058 | DIALOGUE | Sc 24→(cut context) | M3 van
"Jake meant it kindly. That's true and it doesn't help. Some gifts are about the giver 🌱 and he doesn't know that yet."
Type: verdict/precision · Usable: episode, booth comp · Energy: low
S1E02-B059 | CONFESSIONAL | M3 (van)
"The one who fixed it was the loud one. He read that floor faster than anyone in the building and then he lied to himself about having done it. I'm not going to say anything." + "I notice I'm already keeping this house's secrets. Day one."
Type: reveal/gap-creation · Usable: episode, booth comp · Energy: low
S1E02-B060 | CONFESSIONAL | End
"Someone finally named my seedling correctly. 'The part that's still becoming.' I've used that punctuation for years and it took a stranger in a kitchen five hours." + "I'm going to like it here. That's not a compliment. It's an observation. Although with me those are the same thing."
Type: emotional/funny · Usable: episode, booth comp, social · Energy: low
S1E02-B061 | DIALOGUE | Sc 18 | M4
"The house fights like a family that's been together for years. It's been five days. That's either a very good sign or a very bad one." / "Which do you think?" / "Ask me tomorrow 🌱"
Type: thread/charged · Usable: episode, highlight · Energy: low
S1E02-B053 | DIALOGUE | Sc 7 | M2
"That's not what that text said, though. You read it twice. Bad news gets read once."
Type: reveal/precision · Context: Venus reading Dom's face and phone behavior on night one · Usable: episode, highlight, social · Energy: low
Pair with: B012, B013
(Numbering note: B039/B040 intentionally unassigned — reserved for pickup-scene bites if any are shot. Continuity dialogue not banked individually — Stella's "he finally mixed rooms," DadBot's "ten, no notes" booth, the Ray/"Mikey" exchange, Victoria's end booth, the morning "aux probation" callback — is covered by its parent scene/group entries.)
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REACTIONS (cross-character)
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S1E02-R001 | REACTION | Sc 7 | M2
Who: Venus & Stella · To: Dom's face going blank at the phone
What: Venus goes still mid-conversation; Stella's pen stops. Two intelligence services detecting the same signal.
Usable: episode, interstitial · Note: establishes both as the house's sensors
S1E02-R002 | REACTION | Sc 6 | M1
Who: Jake · To: Venus walking past him mid-sentence
What: Stops talking. Recalibrates. "That happened, right?"
Usable: episode, highlight, social · Note: the walk-past lands because of his face
S1E02-R003 | REACTION | Sc 10 | M3
Who: Dom · To: Jake moving his gear tote
What: Crosses the room, returns tote to exact spot, says nothing, doesn't look at him. Eleven seconds.
Usable: episode, interstitial · Note: THE accumulation bead — first touch of Dom's stuff
S1E02-R004 | REACTION | Sc 13 | M3 — TOAST CUTAWAY SET
Who: everyone · To: the mic grab
What: Stella's jaw sets / Venus flat-hand stillness / DadBot closes his eyes / Victoria's glass frozen mid-air / Doug watching DOM not Jake / Miz scanning the CROWD
Usable: episode, highlight, interstitials · Note: six reaction shots, one per cutaway; Miz's is the plant
S1E02-R005 | REACTION | Sc 14 | M3
Who: Dom · To: the drop landing
What: One second of unauthorized kid-grin behind the decks
Usable: episode, highlight, interstitial · Note: the episode's emotional apex in one frame
S1E02-R006 | REACTION | Sc 14 | M3
Who: DadBot · To: the drop landing
What: Raises his beer about two inches. That's the whole gesture.
Usable: episode, interstitial, social · Note: "that's dad for a standing ovation"
S1E02-R007 | REACTION | Sc 15 | M3
Who: Miz · To: "NOT NOW, man!"
What: Hands drop. Persona keeps standing after the person inside sat down. Steps back further than necessary.
Usable: episode, highlight · Note: pairs with B052 for the gut-punch
S1E02-R008 | REACTION | Sc 19 | M5
Who: Venus · To: "future debt with a cute hat"
What: The unauthorized laugh — wider than planned, hand up a second too late.
Usable: episode, highlight, interstitial · Note: her rarest tell, spent on Doug
S1E02-R009 | REACTION | TAG
Who: Dom · To: Jake entering the morning kitchen
What: Slides the coffee pot half an inch toward him. "It is not a gesture. It is also not not a gesture."
Usable: episode, highlight, social · Note: the whole relationship in one object
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GROUP MOMENTS
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S1E02-G001 | GROUP | Sc 1-2 | M1
The text lands; the room does territorial math. Victoria "I'm not moving." Nobody knows there's a den.
Key lines: B001, B003 · Usable: episode · Energy: medium
S1E02-G002 | GROUP | Sc 9→10 | M2→3
The house leaves the house — first exterior of the season, eight people on a sidewalk, Dom half a block ahead.
Usable: episode, interstitial, trailer · Energy: medium/rising
S1E02-G003 | GROUP | Sc 14 | M3
The save: clap starts with 4 strangers, spreads to the room, the Lexus-reject track detonates. Bar lights come down unbidden.
Key lines: B051A · Usable: episode, highlight, trailer · Energy: MAXIMUM
S1E02-G004 | GROUP | Sc 15 | M3
The sidewalk: fight, shrapnel, dad authority, three cars. Nobody looking at each other.
Key lines: B016, B035, B054, B024 · Usable: episode, highlight, trailer · Energy: high→cold
S1E02-G005 | GROUP | Sc 18 + narration | M4-5
Three little rooms moving through the dark; the house takes its people back; two glasses in the drying rack.
Usable: episode, interstitial · Energy: low/warm
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BITE BANK SUMMARY
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Strongest bite overall: B016 (the blowout — "the one room that was mine")
Best comedy bite: B022 ("aroused by project management") — runner-up B021 (socks)
Best emotional bite: B034 (the mom story)
Best conflict bite: B016 + B035 (both sides defensible)
Best booth moment: B017 (Dom: "the sound has ROOMMATES... I hate that I keep thinking about that part")
Best internal/VO candidate: B038 (Jake's pre-toast thought — dread engine)
Best reaction: R009 (the coffee pot) — runner-up R005 (the kid-grin)
Best group moment: G003 (the save)
Unused/held bites: B004 (welcome card — holds for a Doug cutdown), B042 (beer eyebrow — social), B048 (Miz mirror — Miz cutdown), B011 (Doug internal — if VO budget tight), B055A (holds for E3 if Victoria/Miz thread advances there)