But really, it’s Kris and Khloe’s unique closeness that shines most, emerging as its own accidental storyline. While helping Khloe process her anxiety, Malika mentions an arrangement that apparently exists between mother and daughter: Kris shares her beta blockers with Khloe.

Later, at James Corden, we watch Kris outright offer Khloe one of her pills. “Oh, I love those,” Khloe says, tossing some hair over her shoulder. “I know, they’re really great,” Kris replies. The duo then goes rug shopping for their neighboring homes, and winds up rolling around the store’s floor together. Toward the end of the end of the episode, Khloe and Kris sit in the back of a parked SUV. Kris is eager to bring Khloe into a Kravis-related scheme we’ll see in the next episode, but they need privacy. “Close the trunk!” Kris hollers at the car’s driver. Khloe flinches at her mother’s brashness and rolls down her window to ask him nicely. Then she tells Kris: “It’s not what you say but how you say it.” She’s right, but she’s also reveling in their Bert and Ernie-like rapport.

The Amy Schumer Meeting

While in New York for SNL rehearsals, Kim visits Amy Schumer at Amy’s Manhattan loft to go over the in-progress monologue. This scene is full of gems. Straightaway, we discover that Kim, Kanye, Dave Chappelle, and Michelle Wolf are all in a group chat to generate ideas for material. Kim’s life has reached a once-unthinkable scale, and it’s apparent she has access to the most expert assistance for any endeavor she takes on. It’s also clear that Kim wants her onstage moment to be edgy and funny, and she’s willing to roast herself and her loved ones if she must. “You’re the best at taking jokes,” Amy tells Kim. It’s a unique compliment, but it somehow rings true to Kim’s mythology of self-determination, which has, in a sense, finally brought her to SNL’s fateful stage.

Amy shows Kim how to do standup “pauses,” and advises cutting certain jokes that “take too long” to get to the payoff. It’s always cool to watch comedians wax philosophical about the construction of a good joke, but that process is not something you’d expect to see on such a fashion and cosmetics-focused television show. Again, the Kardashians deliver novelty by dipping into a different domain.

Plus, watching the workshopping process—when we, as viewers, already know which jokes will stay, which will be cut—was pretty engaging. After all, as Instagram’s influence increased, KUWTK caught some flack for recycling storylines that audiences had already seen online. Kim even called this phenomenon “the death of us.” That social media is becoming a predominant form of entertainment might remain a challenge for the entire reality TV genre, but—for exactly this reason—watching the making of Kim’s memorable monologue made for a more layered TV experience.

Towards the end of their time together, Kim tells Amy that she’s starting to feel some anxiety about the impending show. Amy makes some statements of reassurance, but then she says: “To me, it’s like, you’re just someone who wants to have every experience.”

This was the second unique compliment of the day, which rang true not only to Kim’s mythology of endless growth and expansion, but also to her whole family’s larger, cross-genre, inter-disciplinary brand. The Kardashians cover so much ground—in their show, across media—that viewers, too, are vicariously delivered “every experience.” What will next week bring us?