Berkeley Optometry Skit Night: Squint Game Parody

Skit Night Overview

• 🏆 This video showcases the winning skit from the Berkeley Optometry Skit Night 2025, created by the Class of 2026.
• 🧠 The skit centers around three third-year optometry students struggling with procrastination while studying for their board exams using the Pomodoro technique.

The Optometry Dream Sequence

• 💡 One student, Tasha, experiences a vivid dream or hallucination after complaining of dry, irritated eyes.
• 🔬 The dream includes a parody commercial for "Max Demvy," a fictional FDA-approved treatment for Demodex blepharitis, targeting stubborn mites.
• 📚 It also features a segment for "OK Optim," a satirical board exam preparation program promising to help students "dominate, destroy, mingle, obliterate, enucleate, and murder" Part One of their boards.

Squint Game Challenges

• 🎯 The core of the dream is a "Squint Game", a parody of Squid Game, where optometry students with significant debt compete in vision-related challenges.
• 👓 Games include "Red Lens, Green Lens" (a take on Red Light, Green Light using red/green glasses), a "Relay" race with tasks like rotating a petboard, using a space fixator, applying prism diopters, and assembling a semi-rimless frame.
• ⚠️ Players are eliminated if they fail tasks or move at the wrong time, mirroring the high stakes of the original show.

Student Debt and Elimination

• 💸 Participants in the Squint Game are revealed to have tens of thousands of dollars in debt, highlighting a common struggle for students.
• 🚫 The game's premise is that players volunteered due to their financial ruin, seeking an opportunity to escape their debts.
• 🔥 The final challenge, "Survive," implies a no-rules elimination where only one player can emerge victorious.

The Wake-Up Call

• ⏰ The student wakes up from the intense dream during a study break, realizing the entire ordeal was a hallucination.
• 😌 The experience underscores the stress and pressure associated with preparing for optometry board exams.