John Oliver kicked off Final Week Tonight with an prolonged section on the pure disasters which have hit the jap coast of america in current weeks amid hurricane season.
All through the introductory bit, Oliver joshed all the pieces and everybody from Dancing With the Stars to president Joe Biden, with quite a few minutes devoted to Southern breakfast meals joint Waffle Home, the Index of which serves as an unofficial however a lot relied-upon metric by FEMA categorizing the severity of utmost climate storms.
First off, he performed a clip of Alfonso Ribeiro introducing a quantity set to Scorpions’ basic “Rock You Like a Hurricane,” a line the host delivered somberly as he stated the selection was made “weeks prematurely” of Hurricane Milton‘s path towards Florida.
“Yeah, that’s not nice,” Oliver stated. “Whereas I’m positive the tune was determined weeks prematurely, it’s additionally the center of hurricane season proper now! This wasn’t some freak unforeseeable factor like if he’d have to return out and say, ‘Earlier than our contestant’s cha-cha to ‘The Thong Track,’ we wish you to know, it was chosen weeks earlier than this morning’s mass thong-strangling.’”
The Waffle Home Index, originated by the federal government and coined circa 20 years in the past, is predicated on the restaurant chain’s enterprise technique of staying open as a lot as attainable, figuring out that earnings improve earlier than and after local weather catastrophes. Oliver pointed to the irony that the chain’s open doorways signify a beacon of hope of types throughout hurricane season when the institution in any other case embodies chaos with frequent patron brawls and “staggering variations of hash brown bowls, described by Waffle Home as ‘the jazz music of the breakfast scene,’ which I assume is sensible as a result of, like jazz, the concept of a hash brown bowl sounds enjoyable however what you truly expertise is, you suppose to your self, ‘There’s an excessive amount of happening right here and I’m undecided I’m having fun with any of it.’”
Oliver then pointed to Waffle Home’s 1999 re-recording of basic tunes for his or her in-house jukeboxes, like “Raisin Toast,” a parody of Frankie Valli and The 4 Seasons’ “Sherry.”
“‘Sherry, Child’ [sic] is a tune about Frankie Valli being sexy for a woman, and that is mainly that, however raisins. Attractive for raisins, which — not for nothing — sounds prefer it may very well be a plausible title for a Joe Biden memoir,” Oliver quipped, as a pretend guide cowl titled “Attractive For Raisins, C’mon!” flashed on display screen, that includes a smirking Biden holding up a carton of Solar-Maid raisins.
The political host then transitioned to a different instance of Waffle Home’s balancing act between chaos and order: the best way line-cooks are supposed to bear in mind orders — and it’s not in a computerized system or by good old school pen-to-notepad record-keeping. In two clips, one from an worker posted to TikTok, in addition to an official trainee video from the restaurant, packets of condiments, in addition to their exact positioning on a plate, point out a wide range of plate combos.
“Sorry, but when it’s cool with you, I am going to let that mayo packet confuse me as a result of I really feel insane proper now. I used to be confused if you stated two pickle slices within the No. 3 place means bacon sandwich. You may have stated Vince Vaughn at a christening on Fourth of July means cheese omelet, and it could have had the very same impact on me as a result of what the precise f— am I taking a look at there?” Oliver stated. “That may be a plate with two free pickle slices, a Kraft single and an unopened mayo packet. That’s not a type of communication. It seems to be like dinner on the Fyre Competition.”
