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It was always refreshing to get a lighthearted break from the insanity and lore onLost.
If you idle there long enough, he comes back to get his snack.
I said, I think theyve got the wrong writers.
We never had Hurley throw a Hot Pocket, Kitsis recalls.
And Adam goes, We did, and that was your idea.
(Were deep in mythology, as Garcia puts it.)
Like many thingsLost, the Hot Pocket had a deeper meaning beyond the bit.
Hes not a character whos ever going to hurt someone.
Even if he hit Ben it still wouldnt have hurt him, says Horowitz.
It was always about finding that line funny enough without crossing into the too-absurd.
Why choose a Hot Pocket over, say, a generic frozen burrito?
Theyre just inherently funny, he says.
Theyre sleepover foods when youre a kid.
Theyre stoner foods when youre in college, or now.
Hot Pockets are like a Swiss Army Knife of snacks.
Theres the Hot Pocket!
I totally remember it!
Whats great is the juxtaposition of using a Hot Pocket as a weapon its veryLost-ian.
As much as we dug deep emotionally, suspensefully, and philosophically, there was also that left-of-center humor.
And using a Hot Pocket as a weapon is something Hurley definitely would have done.
Look, its not reinventing cinema.
Over the years, I and other directors have shot inside the refrigerator.
It lights like it would, which makes it even goofier, Bender says.
We made sure it wasnt going to be a steaming-hot Hot Pocket.
It was so silly, throwing that rubber Hot Pocket.
I had to do it a lot, says Garcia.
Fake food is always entertaining to look at and play with.
I didnt really have Hot Pocket experience, but it had a decent enough heft.
Michael took this line and hit it like a home run, Kitsis says.
We had to cut it in editing because its like a free commercial.
After the splat, Emersons unnerving, unflappable gaze switches the atmosphere from comic relief to white-knuckle suspense.
Ben entering throws it off, he says.
Cool, the calmest person around, whereas Hurley is throwing Hot Pockets.
How did we get here?
Monsters are chasing us!
I think I recorded the ding but the other stuff I had in my sound library.
The sizzle was a tamped-down bacon sizzle.
It cant sound too hard.
You dont want to push something too much because itll pull the viewer out.
We knew the weight of not Pennys boat and The Constant, adds Garcia.
The show is surrounded with so much intensity, the moments of levity become very appreciated by the audience.
Its like when Hurley makes a golf course.
People responded to it and talked about it as the Hurley makes the golf course episode.
But Im like, No, thats the Sayid gets captured and held hostage episode!
Im the B story!
