A sentient pasta dish exiled for being too spicy is funnier than it has any right to be. The absurdist premise never winks at itself, never breaks character to apologize for existing. It commits entirely to the emotional truth of a creature that cannot go home, wrapping a genuinely melancholic core in comedy so specific and unhinged that most people will never find it, which is exactly why the people who do become obsessed.

A plate of spaghetti napolitan is kept from ever going back to the town it came from. The reason is its sauce, which is so fiery that it counts as a crime. Released online as a single episode, this short takes that odd premise and presents it as a psychological piece.