@rxantos,
no, that was just Alices suggestion, and it was only if they were to "lose" their CEO, such as if he were to drink this slug here, THEN he would be replaced by a bag of moss (and maybe moss that had grown on his own dead corpse).
And for those of you who didn't know, spit take is something done by stand-up comedians: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spit-take