Warning: Major spoilers for Sausage Party: Foodtopia Season 1, Episode 8 below.

For those watching via high-quality M4P encodes, Episode 8 runs a tight 26 minutes, and it wastes no time grinding the characters (and their utopian dream) into paste. After last week’s cliffhanger—where the human survivors led by the vengeful Chef (a returning Will Forte) launched a full-scale siege on the food city—our heroes are cornered. Frank (Rogen), Brenda (Kristen Wiig), Barry (Michael Cera), and Sammy Bagel Jr. (Edward Norton) realize that their dream of a food-ruled society has failed spectacularly.

“You’re just content,” the DVD case sneers. “M4P is just a container. You’re not even real—you’re ones and zeros with feelings.”

It’s a nihilistic gut punch. Frank tries to argue for free will, but Brenda points out the obvious: they’ve been screaming about consumerism and religion for eight episodes, and nothing changed. In a bold move, Episode 8 kills off 90% of the cast. The humans detonate a microwave bomb, and most of Foodtopia is vaporized. The final scene shows Frank and Brenda, half-eaten, lying on a supermarket floor as a janitor sweeps them into a dustpan.