another of my friends (not one of the two that's watching II already, the one that I rambled to and who probably knows more about the show than either one of them) decided to watch THE LITERAL FINALE for the funnies and they didn't understand a single thing that was going on lol. they did call the popcorn thing when I was talking to them about how worried I was for the finale (their exact words were "don't worry, everyone's gonna come back alive, turn the corn guy into popcorn, and live happily ever after") though so it was funny to see them react to that.
bright side!! they said they might eventually watch the whole show!!!!! I don't know when they'd ever get around to it though.