Heads and Horses

Heads and Horses (also called Be-Hooved) is the pilot episode of JonTron's Happy Hour. In it, Jon, Sergio, Andrew and Mike discuss various topics: Sergio's obsession with Blu-Rays, Bathroom Mirrors, Government Surveillance, the supposed many flavours in Dr. Pepper, and ending on a discussion about how people died in the previous centuries.

This episode contains a brief plug for Jon's merch store, where he has just released two new Heat Syncope T-Shirts.

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Reception by fans towards the episode was polarizing in spite of a 95% like/dislike ratio as of August 2019, wherein a successive episode is yet to be produced.

Synopsis
Jon, Sergio, Mike, and Andrew are all hanging out at a pub together. After making general small-talk, Sergio kickstarts the first topic: his Blu-Ray obsession. Sergio claims he is the kind of person who will make sure that a Blu-Ray is in pristine condition, as well as treating them as if they were irreplaceable. Andrew interjects by claiming that Sergio is not just obsessed with Blu-Rays, but also to whatever is the newest home video format. Mike shares that Sergio has already upgraded his collection to 4K Ultra HD discs, while Jon brings up the time where Sergio invited him over to compare video formats, and even though Sergio insisted there was a difference, Jon was only able to notice the miniscule brightness difference, and even then, wasn't even sure there was a difference. Sergio claims that sometimes, Blu-Rays aren't as high quality as they could be, and sometimes get updated versions released, but Andrew doesn't buy it. Jon brings up the fact that streaming services are better overall, but Sergio interjects by saying that the Internet won't be around forever, though Jon believes that by that point, mankind will have bigger problems. Sergio goes on about how he likes physical copies of movies to look at on a shelf, which Jon and Mike compare his ramblings to that of a crackhead. Mike claims that this conversation is turning into an intervention. Andrew brings up the time Sergio told him that we was replacing a bunch of his DVDs with Blu-Rays, and Andrew makes the logical assumption that Sergio and going to replace them with HDRs, but Sergio claims otherwise. Andrew wonders if Sergio sees upgrading his movie collection as a bragging right that he uses to convince his significant other that he has made progress with his life, which Jon compares to a caveman upgrading his rock collection.

Andrew states that he talks to Sergio because he's the only person who listens to him, but Sergio admits he zones out completely whenever Andrew speaks. Everyone claims that this is because Andrew's speech is indecipherable, but Mike says that Sergio has a similar problem. Sergio admits that he has "word diarrhea", prompting Jon to say that he has regular diarrhea, prompting Mike to bring up the time where Jon was in the bathroom even after Mike came back from lunch. Jon, while admitting his notoriously long bathroom times, claims that they aren't that long. Sergio wonders what Jon does to make them so long, to which Jon responds that he looks at himself in the mirror longingly. Sergio takes this to mean he looks in the mirror while on the toilet, which Jon claims is a very real possibility, depending if the mirror is placed in such a way, which segues into how the designers of bathrooms with that setup and perfectly okay with watching themselves on the toilet. Andrew asks if Jon is very self-conscious on the toilet, to which Jon responds that it's not reasonable that he'd just have an anxiety attack. Mike asks Jon if he leaves the bathroom door open since he lives by himself, which Jon says that it depends on the situation. Sergio claims that he leaves the door open even though he doesn't live by himself, which Mike thinks is weird, coupled with the fact that Sergio also has phone conversations on the toilet. Mike claims that having phone conversations on the toilet makes him uncomfortable, which is why Sergio doesn't tell him, even though Mike can clearly tell. Andrew claims that it ties in to Mike's government paranoia, which Jon takes as an opportunity to segue into the topic he wanted to discuss the most: Mike's comically overblown government surveillance paranoia. Mike apparently has a piece of a Trader Joe's bag covering the webcam of his laptop. Mike responds "If you wanna see the show, you gotta pay for it". Sergio remarks that "Mike Shayne" is a very common name, which Mike considers "very handy". When asked what for, Mike responds "I plead the fifth".

Jon bring up the concept that, as humans, people detest the concept of boredom, such to a degree that they will go to extreme lengths to not be bored. For example, water is a boring drink, so in order to not be bored, people will drink diet soda, which is the same thing as regular soda, except it tastes like bleach. Mike remarks that Dr. Pepper tastes like chemicals, even though it's a regular soda. Jon attributes this to Mike just hating Dr. Pepper in general, leading to Jon reading off the 23 ingredients that make up Dr. Pepper, stopping occasionally to remark on some of them. They all express fascination at the fact that so many things can be mixed together and still result in something that tastes like anything. Mike dubs it "The Dr. Mengele of soda", and they jokingly plan to go back and time and stop it from being brewed. Sergio warns them that "back in the day" being stabbed by swords was very common, and Andrew remarks that what he calls "back in the day" is pretty far. Mike jokingly states that back in his day, people would get their heads stomped on by horses. Sergio adds that people used to die that way, but Jon states that that's still a possibility, and that people's heads have not grown impervious to horse legs.