What year is the Spit card game?

In Season One, card games at the West Gate Vegas Hotel with the Elvis Suite. Then a home game “Spit” is introduced with a hive mind Wikipedia hive mind trivia “FUN FACT”.

“Spit appears to have originated in the UK in the 1980s.”

  1. RED FLAG: Carol is an American, she does not live in London. She played it as a child and she is a USA person.

  2. RED FLAG: In the years of the 1980’s. Wrong!

Research, the Pluribus in-show hive mind with the Wikipedia hive mind:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spit_(card_game)

“1973 book Deal Me In! The Use of Playing Cards in Learning and Teaching by Margie Golick, who was based at McGill University, Montreal.”

  • “the university bears the name of James McGill”

    • Author of book (Margie Golick) being tied to that university seems legit. https://www.mcgill.ca/continuingstudies/channels/event/life-and-rhymes-margie-golick-238920

      • “Margie Golick has helped learning happen for more than 40 years as a psychologist, television consultant” - https://www.pembrokepublishers.com/bio.cgi?id=35

      • For me, this is one fucking wild Ride surfing the WWW! https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/montreal-gazette-mcluhans-legacy-alive-and-tweeting-175987 “Montreal Gazette - McLuhan’s legacy: Alive and tweeting” — Minute 22 of Pluribus Episode One, Helen’s Graduate School work is on James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. “::: “He seemed a kind of embarrassing holdover from 1960s hyped-up utopian thinking. In the 1980s, the cutting-edge of media studies for grad students involved thinking about identity (gender, race, etc.) and not much about media,” said Straw, a communication studies professor and director of McGill University’s Institute for the Study of Canada :::.” - Published: 17 July 2011

        • “Finnegans Wake is the greatest guidebook to media study ever fashioned by man.” - Marshall McLuhan, Newsweek Magazine, p.56, February 28, 1966 … (Again, asserting Minute 22 of Episode One of Pluribus)

        • Vince Gilligan called social media (Twitter obviously inclusive) a “cesspool” at the writers guild speech February 15, 2025

  • "Saul Goodman (Jimmy McGill) has one brother, Charles “Chuck” McGill, a highly respected but deeply resentful corporate lawyer whose toxic relationship and sabotage of Jimmy’s career in Better Call Saul are a major catalyst for Jimmy’s transformation into the infamous Saul Goodman, ultimately leading to Chuck’s suicide and Jimmy’s full embrace of his criminal persona. " - Google Search summary 2026-01-02 evening USA

This Wikipedia section was added December 21 2025 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spit_(card_game)&diff=prev&oldid=1328738988

 

“Even the day dreamers seem to pick up speed when they play Spit.”