Ah, the power of two. There’s nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons?

Crosley’s comic riff on “the power of two” satirizes how social and economic structures privilege couples over single people. By piling up mundane examples—splitting utility bills, sharing parenting, buying a “grown-up” bed—she shows how partnership is treated as the default unit of adulthood and competence. The joke about Noah’s ark (“Who wants to waste the wood…”) sharpens the critique: even mythic survival narratives presume pairing, making singleness seem inefficient or unnatural. Beneath the humor is an observation about cultural bias: pairing is framed as practical, moral, and even divinely endorsed, while single life is cast as an avoidable exception.