Also by the fact that he never looks at the kid.
Alas, I was kind of hoping it was real. This is probably my favorite new meme -- putting kids getting whalloped into animated gifs.
That's one way to look at it, the other way is that it's like starting on a manual typewriter before going to electric -- build up those muscles, and everything after that will be easy.
Of course, this is coming from a non-guitarist, YMMV, etc.
I'd get irate, too. "All sales final." There are some restaurants, where there is exactly one thing on the menu I will eat. They should have refunded her money, as it is, it's stealing. I'd vote, "innocent", or at least, "justifiable homicide".
I don't know if we knew that things slipped both ways, though, did we? ("Friends help friends" went from the blank slate to the program state this time, and the salute went from the program to the blank slate in ep 2.)
Or maybe the point was just that it's getting worse.
I don't know -- maybe I should stop trying to be an apologist, and just say that I am enjoying the show as is, unapologetically.