I always kinda fixate on how Sam’s gaze lingers condescendingly on Steve after he delivers this line, and it’s produced this headcanon where after the VA scene, Sam and Steve go out on a date and hit it off really well and go back to Sam’s place and bang, but Steve wakes up while Sam is still making breakfast and is like “I’m sorry to do this, but I have to go” and is apologetic and cringe-y and Sam kinda watches him dubiously with his spatula in hand but is like “alright, man, see you around.” Whether Steve left because he got cold feet or a mission kinda varies in my head. But it makes Sam’s “if u EAT breakfast u fuckin shit” face in this scene (and the startled but slightly reserved way he initially answers the door) funnier to me.
Like I have not been able to stop thinking about this????
It… also kinda explains Steve’s little “okay I deserved that” head bob?
I love how this diner is on a bunch of vaporwave/dystopia blogs for its aesthetic when in real life– I’ve eaten here many times– it’s a cozy daytime luncheon in squeaky clean Old Market, Omaha, and it’s run by a really handsome older bear daddy who wears “PAPA BEAR” pawprint tshirts while he politely brings you a tuna melt, and Omaha being what it is, suburban Nebraska straight moms think his shirt is a reference to being a protective father and tell him “Oh, I’m a ‘mama bear’!” and he always smiles kindly at them like “mmhmm okay!” and I almost choke on my chocolate milk.
throwback to the time my classics professor asked “does anyone know who sappho is?” and i immediately replied “she’s the OG lesbian” and my professor yelled “EXACTLY” and wrote the OG lesbian on the whiteboard
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