"Just get a box cutter"

Episode 2 starts with Larry opening a gift he received. The gift, a GPS system, was packaged in a vacuum sealed plastic package.

It was the plastic that is absolutely impossible to get into. The kind that you find yourself, as Larry did, stabbing at it with a knife. You try to open it from every angle, but it there is just no prevail. Even scissors, the one tool made to cut through materials, is 9 out of 10 times an unsuccessful approach.

So what's the point? Why even give someone a gift or purchase something that you can't even open?

Ellen DeGeneres even speaks of this in her stand up comedy segment. Being that scissors are often packaged in this kind of packaging, she poses the question of, what if this is the first time you've ever bought scissors?

Like Larry, you can attempt gripping it at every angle, stabbing it with a knife. Even at that, when you finally do get it open to tiniest bit, you believe that you have the man power to pull apart the rest of the packaging with your bare hands. Which, of course, only leads to the infamous plastic cut. People claim the paper cut is "the worst thing ever." Clearly these people have never had to open these packages.

So you sit there and you put the package to the side, maybe save it for later, another day even. For the stress over opening the package is unbearable.

Later in the episode, Larry gets advice from friends who tell him to just buy an exacto knife to open the package.

Isn't it ridiculous though? How many of these packages have we had to open throughout our lifetime? Tons. Even the ink cartridges for the printers we use are packaged like this. And why? There's no other packaging we can place them in? A cardboard box wouldn't be sufficient? Yet the most delicate items, eggs for example, are packaged in the most simple of materials, the easiest to rip, tear and open.

Yet we'll sit there for hours try to pry the life out of this plastic packaging so we can retrieve the scissors that are placed inside, thinking that maybe we'll be able to use those scissors to open the next plastic package we receive. But deep down we know, even the scissors won't be strong enough to cut through.