oh, now we're friends?

The episode starts with Hurley dreaming about the food in the pantry, Jin demonstrating some mighty fine English speaking skills, and a guy in a chicken suit. And so as it turns out, Hurley has been tasked with doing food inventory in the hatch pantry and demonstrating math skills to ration the food. I think it’s a cruel joke, kind of like when they put all the contestants on The Biggest Loser in a room full of cupcakes. Hurley enlists Rose (who has taken on a rather large role in to help him do inventory, which turns out to be a good idea, since she convinces him not to blow up all the food. Instead, there is a big ole party with lots of potato chips and peanut butter. As for the flashbacks about Hurley and his winning lottery numbers, it involves a fast food joint, a prank full of gnomes, and a gas station clerk (the guy in the chicken suit) that apparently remembers the lottery numbers of everyone that buys lotto tickets from him.

On the other side of the island (how big is this island anyway?), turns out the guys who trap Michael, Sawyer and Jin in the mini hatch are not THE others, but rather the other survivors from the plane. And they are living in a not-so-mini-pseudo-hatch that isn’t quite as pimped out as the one where the 108 minute ticking timer has suckered Locke and Jack and Kate and everyone else into its f-ed up mind game. Oh admit it, you’d push the button too.