Peter Luger's and Long Island Trash Couples

• 1:34Peter Luger's resembles a Bennigan's, packed with guys in their one good shirt trying to impress.
• 1:47Tim describes the setup: taking out trash couples to jumpstart their lives with a nice steak dinner.
• 2:03The couple debates hash browns with lines like 'you ate a lot last time' and 'we can share back.'
• 2:24Tim mocks the theatrical reactions when sizzling steaks arrive — 'ooh, ooh, look at this, honey!'
• 2:36Riffing a husband's promise during the Santa Reach foreclosure: 'Remember I said I was going to make it up to you?'
• 3:01The restaurant is brutally well-lit, like a fluorescent German beer garden.
• 3:26Under those lights, the clientele reveals itself: 'these people should be kept in the dark.'
• 3:39Real Long Island families arrive in Levitt Houses, kids wearing their nicest Yankee jacket.
• 3:58The father promises them: 'Order whatever you want. You'll remember this for your whole life. We're making a memory.'
• 4:12Tim's verdict: that whole 'we care about you' memory-making pitch is fucking horseshit.

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