A conversation in a shopping mall ends with a call to security.

The characters in violent commercials realize they can resist their dark fates, and they rise up against the consumer establishment.

In an increasingly inappropriate recorded message to a customer, a department store clerk compares their product complaint to kangaroos he saw at the local zoo.

In desperate times, a couple considers a risky gig to make money.

Al Roosten, a local business owner always second-best to his competitor, Larry Donfrey, contemplates returning to an anti-drug charity event to ensure that Donfrey is able to help his disabled daughter.

Humanity has eliminated all plants and animals in a futuristic world that isn't meant for human consumption. One man refuses to kill his pet animals and plants, and the government tries to convince him to comply.

After returning the I CAN SPEAK mask for babies, which plays and simulates sophisticated speech, a woman receives a lengthy letter from an overly-enthusiastic sales rep about the mask's ability to make babies more intelligent and loveable.

A young man is working at a hotel resort during quarantine-era Covid. When a quirky couple comes to stay, his service to them makes him reconsider why he’s making the lifestyle choices he is and what the point is of self-restraint.

In a future where technology has advanced to the point where humans can undergo "optimization" to rid themselves of emotions and increase their mental functions, one man decides to cling to his humanity in an effort to atone for his sins and appreciate the beauty of being human.

A man working at the Met is given an interesting—and daring—proposition regarding one of the museum’s artifacts.