The Bean

The Bean is the 3rd episode in the series.

Plot
Matt and Jay prepare a Christmas plan to promote Nirvanna the Band: make a float and participate in a Toronto parade. Despite both proclaiming their plans to sleep well, they find themselves awake late into the night and unable to sleep. With nothing else to do, they resolve to figure out what happened to them during the day that rendered them unable to sleep.

While on their way to buy supplies for the float, Matt stops at a coffee shop to use the bathroom, and the two are forced to buy some coffee so he can use it. Jay finds the tree to use for the float, and Matt, after watching Tim Burton's Batman, is inspired by the Joker to throw money off the float. The two continue to set up the float, keeping themselves running via a constant stream of coffee. Despite this, Jay concludes that they are awake because they are scared of the "Queen Street Strangler", an urban legend that Matt had told Jay of that morning. He claims the strangler followed him earlier that night in his truck, but Matt explains that he had stolen the truck and was driving it, trying to call Jay over.

The two realize they have been up for so long that the parade is starting. They drive haphazardly to the site, only to find the parade already begun and the roads blocked off, preventing them from entering. Crashing, Jay falls asleep on the piano in the back of the float as Matt watches in anguish. As the parade ends, Jay wakes up and the two perform for passersby, having a good time. At home, Matt struggles to find the lesson in the events of the parade, and concludes that "coffee makes you sleepy."

On Christmas day, Matt pretends he is blind so Jay can give him his gift: the original Star Wars trilogy on VHS, and tickets to the premiere of The Force Awakens. Matt, who has never seen any of the movies, vows to be a fan.

Appearances

 * Jay McCarrol
 * Matt Johnson

Notes & trivia

 * The central reference of The Bean is Home Alone, the 1990 movie starring Macaulay Culkin.
 * While the title of this episode, The Bean, can be easily confused with the nickname of the famous Chicago statue Cloud Gate, it is actually a reference to the fact that coffee is made of beans.