(A non-music post for evaluation, please erase me if unwanted - no offense taken!)

On a recent rewatch, I finally clocked how the whole episode progresses like a day at the casino when you don't know when to call it quits.

5,000 Woolongs - is what they have starting out. Spike worries Jet will lose it gambling. Jet tells Spike not to play at all because he's too sharp. But Spike loses his shirt at Faye's blackjack table.

200,000 W - is the estimated value of the chips Jet wins but can't cash in (he was winning big; when does this ever happen for them)?

400,000 W - is what Spike estimates they could sell Faye's ship for

6,000,000 W - is Faye's bounty (to which she says, "is that all?")

30,000,000 W - is what they're supposed to get in exchange for the chip (but Faye makes off with it)

So at any point they could have settled for the "bird in hand" and been way better off than they were to start . . . but they keep upping the ante. In the end, "the house" wins (Spike says that Faye "beat him again") and they have zero.

EASY COME, EASY GO . . .

I know it's a day early, but I'll be busy tomorrow eating turkey the way Spike and Jet eat eggs.

Anyway, thanks for another awesome year of this subreddit doing what it does. From the start this thing was always just me putting together my own weird playlist of stuff that reminded me of Cowboy Bebop, but somehow there are thousands of other people who dig the same thing I do. Thanks for joining me.

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This year's Tank! covers:

COWBOY BEBOP THEME SONG ACAPELLA (Tank!), by The Warp Zone

Cowboy Bebop OP - Tank! [16-bit; Genesis], by Musikage

Cowboy Bebop | TANK! | Insanely Difficult Jazz Piano Arrangement by Jacob Koller

Cowboy Bebop's TANK! LIVE - Bebop Bounty Big Band

Time King - Tank! (Yoko Kanno and The Seatbelts/Cowboy Bebop Cover)

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