Stuck between Bob's enormous breasts, the narrator finally finds peace and bursts into tears. Bob is quite willing to hug the narrator in support. There, the narrator meets Robert 'Bob' Paulson ( Meat Loaf), the 'big moosie' and an ex-bodybuilder and steroid user who suffers from an extreme case of gynecomastia due to hormone treatment after his testicles were removed. He goes to his doctor seeking help, but all the doctor will do is suggest an herbal supplement instead of drugs and that the narrator visit a support group for testicular cancer to see real pain. If he can't sleep, he surfs the channels or browses through 'Furni' (a parody of IKEA) catalogs purchasing the next piece of decor to add to his apartment he's a self-proclaimed slave of consumerism. His job as a traveling product recall specialist for a car company doesn't help his insomnia since he must travel often, experiencing bouts of jet lag in addition to the everyday stress of his position, admiring the 'tiny life' of single-serving soap and shampoo at every location. The narrator tells us he hasn't slept for six months. As Tyler looks out of the high rise window to the dark city below them, the narrator recalls just how he met Tyler before stopping himself and bringing us to the beginning of the story. The narrator mumbles through the gun before it's removed and says more clearly that he can't think of anything. The gun is held by a man named Tyler ( Brad Pitt) who checks his watch, counting down to 'ground zero' before he asks if the narrator has anything to say.

We back out of the webbing of neurons and brain cells as the title credits appear, finding ourselves emerging from a pore on the sweat-glistened skin of the protagonist: our narrator ( Edward Norton), as he looks down the barrel of a gun that's been stuck in his mouth.

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