Delightfully Friday Junior: Curiosity Roundtable

From Muppets to geothermal pools, a peek into everyone’s world

This week’s Delightfully Friday Junior (if you’re catching up on what this is, learn more here) involved a roundtable sharing of some prompted questions.

A few of these questions were: “What song have you had on repeat?”, “What cartoon or movie character would you want to meet and why?”, “What is the most beautiful place you’ve been?”, “What was your first job?” and “What’s a hobby or activity you’ve picked up in the last couple months?” just to list a few.

As expected, the weirdos at Flagrant did not disappoint in their answers. Here are some highlights.

Gusgus (What cartoon or movie character would you want to meet and why?)
All of the Bob’s Burgers cast (What cartoon or movie character would you want to meet and why?)
Nighttime dip in a historic geothermal pool in Iceland (“What is the most beautiful place you’ve been?”)
“The Rainbow Connection” (original Muppet Movie version) (“What song have you had on repeat?”)
“Chalk Outlines” – Ren and Chinchilla (“What song have you had on repeat?”)
Bakery Clerk (with a very ugly green polyester shirt :’) (“What was your first job?”)

These questions pull out answers you wouldn’t normally hear in day-to-day conversation. Not just the highlights, but the small details that come with them, like that each cast of Bob’s Burgers feel like a different human personality that we all have, or why the muppets could be an answer to every question.

You start with a simple prompt, and suddenly you’re picturing someone standing behind a bakery counter in a questionably green shirt, or imagining what it would actually feel like to sit in a geothermal pool in the middle of the night.

And while the answers themselves are fun, it’s really the sharing of them that makes this a favorite. It gives everyone a chance to bring a small piece of their world into the room, whether that’s a song they can’t stop replaying or a place that left a lasting impression.At the end of the day, this is the kind of thing that makes work feel a little more human and a lot less like just work.

Not a bad way to break up the week.