Eleanor: No, no, this is more like a philosophy overdose. Basically, Michael just smoked a big bowl of ennui, and now he's having an existential crisis. So, we need to cheer him up.
Chidi: Look at how pretty the restaurant is. Didn't Tahani do a good job?
Michael: Parties are mere distractions from the relentlessness of entropy. We're all just corpses who haven't yet begun to decay.
Eleanor: Yeah, but... balloons!