Forgot the soda? An accident follows

[@F41nt13]

I like the hitman theory "You are breaking the contract, I'm breakimg your arm"

[@sophiamarchildon3998]

"Fair, but tough."

[@GustavSvard]

Coca Cola is famous for murdering union organizers in Latin America, so it checks out.

[@hebl47]

Feels like something Disney would do these days.

[@jessicakorte]

Isn't a hitman an assassin?

[@bee-Il]

i was wondering if that referenced the coca cola assassinations in colombia

[@unholycrusader69]

Sabrina: "That's so neat!" Taha: "That's... so disgusting. -_-"

[@markblacket8900]

I'm with Taha on this one

[@version365]

It IS disgusting though! Not only the floor has to be wiped every day, but the ballerina's shoes has to be cleaned thoroughly every day too!

[@verdatum]

"That's Soda gusting" GOODNIGHT EVERYONE!!!!!!

[@unholycrusader69]

@@verdatum I'm sure Taha would be proud of you rn

[@verdatum]

@@version365 pointe shoes are a consumable. they are destroyed constantly. It's really not a big deal the amount of gunk picked up from a mopped down mixture of 1 can of Coke diluted into a gallon of warm water is tiny. The tack does pick up dust though, so it needs to be mopped clean and reapplied constantly, as mentioned.

[@zork999]

In about 1969, my mom read an article stating that if you spray soda on your linoleum floor, the acids will soften the grime, making the floor easy to clean. She tried it and, not to my surprise, figured that you had to scrub the floor so hard to remove the sticky soda that the floor got clean, regardless of how dirty it started.

[@trainzelda1428]

Lol. When I was a kid at my summer job I was told to use soda water to clean the grill. I guess I missed the "water" part of that so instead of carbonated water I used sprite. The sugar immediately burned and got so nasty

[@JessicaRainbow]

In NASCAR, they used to pour Coke onto the pit stalls to increase the grip levels when the cars accelerate away after a pit stop

[@jarmanimaging]

"Coking the floor" was standard procedure when we had dancers on the stage, we used 1 can of Coke in a bucket of water and mopped the whole stage with it. The cleaners hated us for it.

[@VonOzbourne]

The innocence of these kids not being around in the 1980s. Missing the obvious joke of "coking the stage" before the show, then "coking back stage" after the show. The cleaners hating that too.

[@BleuSquid]

1:27 "pop culture" was such a great accidental pun. if only they'd've noticed it

[@sponge1234ify]

Top notch spoiler-free thumbnail as always

[@jono6379]

Do you want ants? This is how we get ants😂

[@IFGchannel931]

Ants add texture to the floor, which increases grip. Win-win

[@unholycrusader69]

@@IFGchannel931 They're also pretty yummy, so you can skip the trip to the cafeteria as well

[@falconwind00]

I gave you a like on the assumption that this is an Archer reference.

[@mk_rexx]

​@@unholycrusader69 Carbohydrates and protein in one good lick

[@jvgreendarmok]

BIG DAMN ANTS!

[@audreyprewett8076]

Everything I've ever learned about ballet has been absolutely horrifying despite the art itself being so beautiful

[@iKarTehFox]

This question was quite interesting! My initial thought was leaning towards having to do something with classical conditioning. Like... she opens her can of soda every day, and it has trained someone by reminding them to do a specific task by hearing the soda can being opened.

[@sexyscientist]

This happens with everyone. I bet you can't remember how it happens to you.

[@Pascaleiro]

I was a photographer for a small indoor soccer team, and when they played at a specific adversary court, they took a tupperware and a cola bottle to dip their shoes in it, cause they had the old hardwood floor. Modern courts use a vinyl flooring, if I'm not mistaken.

[@antonm_]

When I was in high school, students playing ping pong/table tennis would pour cola on the wooden floors for traction. 😅

[@NekoMouser]

Randomly, I used to be in a bowling league and there were times when either the lane or your shoes (or the combination thereof) were too slippery. That extra slide of even just a few centimeters could genuinely throw off your game, so there were a lot of tricks to make you "stick" to the floor more. If you've been bowling, you know the shoe bottoms are essentially flat with almost no traction (because you *do* want *some* slide). And, as the alley-and other bowlers sharing the lane-really frown on pouring soda all over their floors, you need other tricks. Back in the day, one of the best ones was to grab a cigarette out of the ashtray and rub the ash on the bottom of your shoes (especially if the slipperiness was due to liquid or oils on your shoe). A pencil eraser can also scuff up the sole just enough to add some "stick." too. People would rub shoes on the edge of stairs or try to find dusty spots (like under the ball storage racks) to step in. And one of the strangest was going to the restroom (primarily men's) and looking for old urine on the floor to step in. Fresh urine was too wet, but if someone missed the urinal a few hours ago, the urine may have dried enough to be sticky (and less gross, sometimes you could find old sticky soda spills in bar or restaurant areas or under seating around the lanes). Just like the question, an overly slippery floor/shoe not only messed up your game, but could literally be dangerous-especially on ankles. I knew several people who tried to stop an unanticipated slide and rolled their ankles, spraining them. And I knew at least one who whacked their ankle with the bowling ball on their swing while trying to compensate for a slide. The worst, though, was someone in our league who started to slide, tried to correct, OVER-corrected, slid more, fell full-on into the splits on their attempt to recover-despite NOT normally being able to do the splits, and tore a groin muscle. In short bowling = ballet.

[@crabman3144]

My first thought when i read the question was "Is the can being used as a counterweight or a gauge of some kind or something?" thanks to Battletech, where a freshly-opened can of Pharaoh beer makes for the perfect track tension gauge for the Alacorn Mk. VII tank.

[@sorayaimperial]

92 kid here, I distinctly remember the ad Tom mentioned. Maybe it got to Portugal later, but the ad irked me back then and still does xD And I still remember it very well.

[@BenRyherd]

No way! I would've ruined this clip for them because I knew from the second she finished reading the question what the answer was, learned about this in the drama theater I worked at in College. And to the people suggesting a more permanent option or worrying about ants, we'd "clean mop" it back up at the end of the show and do it again the next day as needed. We didn't always want the floors tacky because most shows don't need/want it but we did it when Ballet troupes came in.

[@Aesperius]

It's similar to gymnastic where they use honey on the parralel bar to give more grip.

[@SenshiSunPower]

I thought they used chalk.

[@nate_storm]

@@SenshiSunPowerthey use both

[@Aesperius]

@@SenshiSunPower they use honey first and then add chalk on top of it.

[@robburgess4556]

In the 70s (80s?), Rod Stewart had large ramps at either side of his stage. Someone on his crew would pour Coke on them every day so that he had good grip when running up them and wouldn't slip.

[@sdc319]

When I don't have my caffeine someone gets hurt, too.

[@jamesaditya5254]

By choice or by consequence

[@abraxolotl]

Dont worry Tom. I remember. :) ... Ohh crap... I remember....

[@Qermaq]

If you want better traction and acceleration for your RC cars, you'd want to use RC Cola.

[@empath69]

Oh! THAT'S what it's for!

[@JoeBleasdaleReal]

This reminds me of that gag from Chucklevision where they’re polishing the floor before a ballroom dance competition and Barry’s opened it so the polish is dripping over the instructions so “Put one drop of polish in a bucket of water” becomes “Drop in a bucket of water” so he puts the whole thing in and all the dancers fall over 😂😂😂

[@Dabbleatory]

I haven't watched to the end yet, but I think I have it! It's so obvious! There's a mouse with a tiny surfboard, right? Every night, the mouse throws some Mentos into the conveniently open container of cola and rides the spray to safety on his surfboard, escaping a cat who is chasing him. The the cat leaves defeated. On this night, the mouse couldn't escape so the the night watchman tripped over the cat who was unexpectedly in the way because he was sitting there eating the mouse. The night watchman sprained his ankle in the accident. No?

[@gus3000spam]

Rest in Peace, surfer mouse, we'll never forget you 💔

[@RedScarab28]

In the last James Bond movie, No time to die, in the Aston Martin DB5 chase scene, Sprite (because it's a clear soda and doesn't leave stain marks) was used to make the cars have better grip on the stone roads they where driving in.

[@hoodless_1]

5:20 i like how Sabrina looked up at Melissa like she knew that'd be the way the video feeds would be arranged.

[@tttITA10]

People do something like that in Futsal (court/saloon/indoors soccer) too. But they add Cola to a rag on which the players would rub the soles of their shoes, instead of spreading it on the court.

[@glossaria2]

I remember that ad, Tom!

[@UltimatePartyBear]

I'm not merely surprised the cause wasn't the can exploding in a hot car or freezer. I'm surprised that wasn't something that even came up.

[@authorinthedark]

my initial thought was that it was something related to pressure, that the soda would be flat/more bubbly if the air pressure was at dangerous levels, but about a minute before they got it I realized I'd heard of the real answer before

[@sophiamarchildon3998]

Initial thoughts: she's a nurse/caregiver and the cola is for a patient (hypoglycemia, caffeine intake, placating the patient's desire for a cola in a safe manner, etc.). As she did not provide the cola that afternoon, maybe the patient fainted/fell and got hurt (weak from not receiving his "medicine") , or went out on his own to get their cola "fix" while unsafe to do so (prescribed rest and limited exertion/mobility)?

[@Nshadowtail]

This was my thought too-- except I assumed the patient hurt themselves trying to open the can!

[@CarloDidier]

Hah, I do remember that Ad, Tom!

[@Squant]

It's 11:30. Diet Coke break.

[@lmpeters]

Fun fact: those memorable Pepsi ads were why Steve Jobs offered John Sculley the role of co-CEO at Apple. Steve Jobs knew that they needed to do something different to market their computers to non-geeks, and he was a huge fan of Pepsi's marketing. As it turned out, John Sculley was ill-suited to the role, but you can see his influence in Apple's later successful ad campaigns, especially the iPod ads of the early 2000's.

[@CheyenneRose]

Slight spoiler story... Coke actually SAVED people from injury when they were filming the 1995 Pride and Prejudice miniseries. When the cast and crew came to film the ball at Netherfield (it's an iconic scene that sets up the rest of the story), they found that the floors had been waxed and were very slippery. Obviously someone had worked at a dance studio because this was the solution! I thought for a moment that a fellow Jane Austen fan had submitted this question! 😂

[@Maurice-Navel]

In the American Midwest, gas stations used to keep bottles of Coke on hand to rinse the (enormous) dead bugs off travelers' windshields.

[@MrCamonBear]

Other known uses of cheap cola include soaking certain weapon parts by soldiers, pouring over major blood spills by paramedics, and for cleaning up minor oil spills.

[@TR-rz1xt]

In the kitchen, it's a highly efficient pan cleaner

[@zzord]

Back in the days, some people used to pour coke on their brake discs to make them stickier.

[@duckymomo7935]

omg I love answers in progress

[@Jet-fighter]

Spoiler Shield 🛡️

[@lrizzard]

AAH NOT ENOUGH LIKES ON HE SPOILER SHIELD i got spoiled 😔

[@sammarks9146]

Any floor I can imagine would be COVERED in ants.

[@IFGchannel931]

Ants add texture to the floor, which increases grip. Win-win

[@polygontower]

@@IFGchannel931 It's not.

[@rachmanfachri]

I remember my brother when he was in high school he was some sort of young athlete in the federation and he used to pour cola onto his outer sole to increase grip

[@WhiskyOctober]

My first thought was how in bars, clubs and other venues, they open the cans so if you throw them at someone, they don't hurt as much

[@alphazero924]

I'm imagining a cleaning person walks in every day, sees the can, and bats it into their recycling bin with their hand, but ends up hurting their hand by batting the full can

[@PerpetualExplosion]

I guessed she left it in the freezer.

[@BlendyStick]

They were standing in a block of ice with a parachute that didn’t open and… uh… the other one…

[@abc-nw3hi]

You would do this for ballroom dancing as well - only you would not mop the whole floor with cola, just soak a towel and then rub your dancing shoes. I would only do this if there is no other way but yeah it works. Other means to make your shoes sticky are using wax (on the floor if its a dancing floor or in pulverized form to just put it somewhere and step into it). But at some venues you do not have the luxury of a good floor or you cannot put wax on it because of reasons, then use water or coke on your shoes.

[@Slikx666]

One can for the whole stage is the interesting bit, the layer must be very thin. 🤔

[@DanielTaber-p7f]

My first thought was an assistant for someone who did a crushing-a-can-with-their-head stunt

[@osmia]

Would have never got that in a million trillion years.

[@aqualeung]

My guess was that she worked in a stadium, and policy was to crack the can because it makes a good projectile when fans get mad.

[@wiseSYW]

but then what would they use before cola was invented?

[@jasonshere]

Abrasion?

[@IsaacMyers1]

dilute honey? tree syrup?

[@StrangeChickandPuppo]

I am at odds of whether I want to hear these segments in the show itself on apple podcasts, or whether I want to encounter them brand new in the video form; I am raptly attentive to the whole podcast the day it comes out for me and I can have time to listen, but then I don't get a chance to share in the magic of discovery with all the comments here =)

[@ZipplyZane]

I personally prefer watching the videos first, then listening to the podcast and skipping through the bits I've already seen. Well, at least, I do when I have easy access to skipping things. I also listen to podcasts when taking a long bath. The rise of actual commercials instead of just ad reads has made this something I do less often, though.

[@MeToob]

Here I had thought she was a care aid and opened the can for her client every day before leaving. Today when the client went for their Cola, they had to open it themselves and cut their finger.

[@noticiasinmundicias]

I seriously want Melissa to read books to me.

[@bj_]

I wonder if a ballet studio has ever tried TrackBite?

[@insertgenericusernamehere2402]

I don't know what it is....but Sabrina Cruz reminds me of a Disney cartoon. She reacts very much like the character from turning red.

[@AJigsawnHalo]

I remember someone told me they pour coke on the soles of their shoes when they play Basketball so they have more grip

[@edopronk1303]

Spoilershield?

[@bobdeio3227]

As soon as Tom mentioned Diet Coke advert Etta James started singing in my mind "I Just Want To Make Love To You", so yeah, it pretty stuck into everyone else head too.

[@trippydrew8492]

This is also a legit thing that parkour athletes do.

[@ecchikitty1395]

My first thought was cleaning the terminals of a car battery.

[@jaromir_kovar]

why wouldn't they build the stage from something non-slippery instead of doing this disgusting routine?

[@EinDose]

Because this is cheaper. You're probably not seeing this in dedicated high-quality ballet stages, but something more low-budget? Cheap, easy, effective. Especially given they're gonna be cleaning afterwards anyway.

[@Karnatil]

Also because if the stage is for theatre productions, and just happens to be used by ballet dancers sometimes, then having it be always high-friction isn't necessarily a good thing.

[@Archgeek0]

Plus this technique comes with a large amount of almost free _ants_ for the hungry dancers after a performance.

[@version365]

@@Archgeek0

[@xenontesla122]

Or why not just use tacky glue? I bet it's cheaper in bulk than individual cans of cola.

[@JosKampes]

I do remember the 1990's advert...

[@jetkirby]

I was imagining two coworkers sharing a fridge in the breakroom and one coworker drinks regular cola the other drinks diet cola and they have the sodas lined up so the first can in the door should be theirs assuming they always alternate shifts but one day they forgot and the next person drank the wrong cola and had a health problen for sugar spike

[@BlazeMiskulin]

YES! I was right!

[@MarcMcMillin]

Stage crew regularly mop the stage the day of a performance

[@andyb9378]

Every morning when Tabitha comes to work, she puts a room-temperature can of cola in the office freezer. In the early afternoon she takes it out, and it is now pleasantly chilled for her to drink. One day she forgets to take it out. That evening someone opens the freezer, and the cola, now frozen, has expanded and bursts the can, sending fragments of alumin[i]um everywhere.

[@stapler942]

"I see you're drinking Diet Pepsi. Is there anything else youthful you'd like to experience?" "I think I'd like to bring back that Diet Coke Break ad with the construction workers..." (Old ad plays) "...On second thought, I'll stick with my Diet Pepsi."

[@faenethlorhalien]

I can't imagine the feeling of having to walk in socks on sticky flooring tiles. EUGH! YUCK! SO MUCH NOPE. Imagine the sweet cola-ish stench.

[@DanielDugovic]

I was imagining an airplane (or other travel) steward causing some chain reaction of events.

[@ajnormandgroome]

I severely sprained my ankle on a can of coke someone had put down near a bench. A can of soda can cause lots of injuries

[@Stirdix]

The two events are entirely uncorrelated. It just happened that Tabitha forgot one day, and someone *somewhere* hurts themselves almost every evening.

[@zoefschildpad]

She had one job!

[@MarvelX42]

I was going to guess that she worked at a zoo, she regularly gave an animal 1 soda aday and when she forgot the animal was cranky and attacked someone later in the day.

[@glomann]

my first guess was that she was an airplane stewardess, and she had to open the can of coke before the plane reaches a certain altitude and the unopened can explodes on someone's face or something along those lines

[@jblen]

I used to be in a contemporary dance group and I have a somewhat similar story, so spoilers ahead: One time the group performing before us used a powder and there wasn't time to clean it up properly, so we all spat on the floor then rubbed it in with our shoes to get rid of it... Slightly more disgusting than coke

[@rachelblackwelder8716]

I've been dancing in the US, including pointe, for over 30 years, and I have never heard of this practice. Is it a European thing? Rosin isn't THAT expensive.

[@alveolate]

i am so confused... HOW would using cola that way... make the floor sticky?? like, you have to really scrub or spread that coke out for a while until most of the water in it evaporates or something? cos freshly spilled cola is DEFINITELY slippery as hell

[@IFGchannel931]

She spreads the coke on the floor during the afternoon. The studio is then used in the evening. It evaporates.

[@IceMetalPunk]

They mop the stage with cola water, so it's a thin layer, and then it dries quickly, leaving the sticky sugar residue behind.

[@DelphinusZero]

I was hoping it was a coke can that went into a freezer, and since she didn’t open it one time it exploded.

[@epimorphism]

Tabitha has a condition where she needs to consume some amount of sugar in a day. The day she forgot she ended up hurting herself (the someone in the question).

[@advanceringnewholder]

0:59 Yet again, Answer In Progress team murdered Tom by reminding him that he's old 1:02 His despair

[@tonypang83]

They really couldn't find a better alternative to Coke for this usage? 😮

[@pingreelake]

This is my favorite trio for lateral. So much fun. I kinda want to see AiP do something like this more often on their channel 😂

[@vickylikesthis]

guess in the beginning of the video: caffeine? she fell asleep and someone is hurt because she wasn't paying attention?

[@wow.m]

Guess someone at work throw the can everyday as cleanup today they hit someone with a full can

[@donaldasayers]

You see that just goes to prove that it was a rubbish advert, I could have sworn that the advert Tom references was for Pepsi not diet coke, I was wrong.

[@VonOzbourne]

I suppose I'll have to excuse the Canadian half of the panel not getting the obvious CanCon reference due two their established youth, but clearly Kim Mitchell was talking about this woman when he pointed out that she might as well go for a soda, because then nobody hurts and nobody cries.

[@cant-pl1sc]

Spoiler blocker?

[@dojelnotmyrealname4018]

First thought: Pure coincidence. Second thought: Hypoglycemia?

[@carolyngolden6681]

I think I'm the only one here old enough to get what I assume is the cola joke of Tabitha...Tab Cola...anyone? Bueller?

[@whatdoyousuppose]

SPOILERSSSSSS: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I’m a ballet dancer and have never heard of this!

[@peter-d9f3l]

I thought it was the exact opposite. ---- spoiler break ---- Cola is an acid, so I thought she was using it for cleaning. And someone got injured because she didn't clean something which the cola would have taken care of.

[@Sam-lr9oi]

My initial thought was that Tabitha worked for Trump and didn't bring him his diet coke so he did violence on someone

[@jasonshere]

TDS?

[@Sam-lr9oi]

@@jasonshere total dissolved solids? to which water sample are you referring?

[@jasonshere]

@@Sam-lr9oi A can of coke. It's about 590.33 in case you're curious.

[@roecocoa]

Spoilers in replies 👇🏻 ...

[@roecocoa]

In middle school, I went to a friend's dance recital. The stage was miked for the tap dancers, but there were also ballerinas, and the mics were hot during that part of the program. So every tiny step and every delicate landing was broadcast to the audience as a resounding thump. That's my unexpected ballet story.

[@trntom]

Please drink the verification can

[@Tangent.]

Beans

[@thepersonwhocomentz]

Thumbnail Guy must've recently discovered Pepsiman, I reckon.

[@NekoMouser]

Disappointed in you, Tom! Proud of you for bringing up the sexy Diet-Coke drinking construction worker ad. But then she brings up diabetes and you don't brings up Wilford Brimley's contemporary "dia-beetus" ads? OK, maybe they didn't run those in the UK, but no one jumped on that opportunity!?

[@undefined40]

Wait, what? That Ad is already off air long enough, that those guests don't remember it? Either I got older than I feel or Tom should stop having toddlers as guests an swich to those of his own generation.