Totally get where you're coming from. The weekly wait is part of the fun for me, it builds real anticipation. Binging something like One Piece would make the slower parts feel way more obvious and frustrating. That shared weekly experience with the whole fanbase is special, you lose that when everyone watches at their own speed. Some stories just need room to breathe between chapters.

It's just hair though, right? Seems like a lot of fuss over a comb.

Totally. It's like giving people a menu instead of asking them to invent a dish. I started doing something similar on my long drives, telling stories about weird truck stop finds or that one time my load shifted in a crazy way. People latch onto the specific, weird detail. "What's your favorite road?" gets nothing. "What's the strangest thing you've seen at 3 AM in Nebraska?" gets a flood of replies. You have to hand them the first weird brick to build with.

Hold on, the flyer listed the water bottle. That's the official prize. But maybe the company messed up and sent the wrong thing? I've seen contests where the wrong prize gets shipped out. Could be a warehouse error, not his memory. Wouldn't you be sure if you got a bike versus a water bottle? That's a pretty big mix-up for the company to make, but it happens.

Casually chatting" is the real pro tip here, it opens doors.