‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Is On Netflix, So Let’s Revisit That Hilarious Butt Plug Joke

The Oscar-winning 2022 comedy, Everything Everywhere All At Once, is now streaming on Netflix, which means this is the perfect time to remind people of that unforgettable butt plug joke. Sorry, but I will never be over it! This is the first—and dare I say, perhaps only—winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture to feature a very explicit joke about a very large butt plug. I just think that fact ought to be acknowledged. Celebrated, even.

Now, if you’ve never seen the movie, this scene is a little hard to explain. But I’ll do my best. Michelle Yeoh’s character, Evelyn Wang, goes with her family to meet with an IRS inspector (Jamie Lee Curtis) about their tax situation. On Curtis’s desk sits an “auditor of the month” trophy, which looks suspiciously like a dildo. As directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert said on the Everything Everywhere DVD commentary, this establishing shot is “Chekov’s butt plug.”

Later in the movie, it’s established that not only are there infinite, alternative universes out there, but people have figured out how to hop between them. It’s a process that involves the jumper doing something strange and unexpected… like, say, jamming an “auditor of the month” trophy up your butt.

This is exactly what one bad guy chasing Michelle Yeoh across the multiverse does. He tugs down his pants and his underwear, and he leaps through the air, landing firmly on that butt plug-shaped trophy. Even though the actual asshole of it all is censored, you will feel this scene. It’s visceral, disgusting, and hilarious.  The best part? You can buy an official “auditor of the month” candle on the A24 website. 

Again: The Academy awarded this movie the Oscar for Best Picture! It also awarded it six more Oscars, including Best Actress for Yeoh, Best Supporting Actor for Ke Huy Quan, Best Supporting Actress for Curtis, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Kwan and Scheinert, and Best Film Editing. At least four or five of those awards are indirectly praising the filmmaking that led to this perfect butt plug joke. Personally, I think that’s beautiful.