Fifty-two episodes, fifty-one words. For the Season 1 finale, Kimberly reads back every word they've followed down a rabbit hole this year, in order, from "lexicon" to "humble", and Cara notices you can almost watch what was happening in the world around them. Before they get to the list there's a detour through Animaniacs, Darkwing Duck and a pair of very polite cartoon critters who stop mid-chase to say "after you". Along the way Cara mulls a switch to a 13-month calendar, and a lamprey bite mark gets nominated as the show's future logo.

Then they look at what the year gave them. For Kimberly, whose work doesn't come with a 9-to-5, the show became her routine in a year that was all over the map. Cara calls it the consistency of their novelty. They talk about why the show is named for the philosophical dialogues of ancient Greece, the difference between explaining a tangent as an apology and as a roadmap, masking as an oxygen mask you choose to put on, and a new show's neurospicy character whose every line is spicy.

"I don't need you to fix the thing that shows up... I just need enough structure to hold it."

Kimberly and Cara take on "humble", and Kimberly's brain goes straight to Hubble, the telescope that looks a little humble next to the new ones hunting dark matter. From there it's gaps in space, an icebreaker invented on the spot (ask people what's happening where they're from, then let them pick the topic), why the premise is the real horror in the robot-girlfriend movie trend, South Park punching up and a grandmother's "pride goeth before a fall" (was it only meant for the girls?).

Then it gets deep. Kimberly tracks the dominoes back to the fork in the road when something seems to come out of nowhere. Cara shares her revelation of the week, the hustle cult pattern, and the story of a grandmother who set down the whisk during holiday dinner prep and said "No, I don't!" The two land on how "humble" got used to punish people instead of lift them up, and what it looks like to take pride back.

"You don't have to be more humble. You just don't use it to humble others."

Kimberly and Cara take on "octopus", starting with Kimberly's hand-drawn octopus (which, she admits, looks more like a jelly). From there it's shapeshifters and the good auntie of the coral reef, the great plural debate (octopi, octopuses or octopodes?), a new organ transplant study that hasn't been peer-reviewed yet, orange peels and mushrooms cleaning up human messes, a phone case so pretty it keeps disappearing and camera glasses that skip the consent conversation. Cara shares the story of a client who traded chameleon survival for octopus energy: the same shapeshifting, with power, intention and play.

Kimberly closes with what she's been thinking about: the Strange New Worlds season 4 finale, and why "be in the moment" lands flat for a neurospicy brain, even when you love the show.

"Stretch out one of your tentacles and get that remote control... But don't throw an appendage at it."