diff --git a/test/backend/test_multitensor.py b/test/backend/test_multitensor.py
index 54347a1a97..9bb05c737b 100644
--- a/test/backend/test_multitensor.py
+++ b/test/backend/test_multitensor.py
@@ -752,7 +752,7 @@ class TestMultiTensor(unittest.TestCase):
 
     # test no left join
     with self.assertRaises((AssertionError, ValueError)):
-      t0.reshape((26*15,7)).contiguous().schedule()
+      t0.reshape((26*15,7)).schedule()
 
   @unittest.skip("no longer supports uneven shard")
   def test_reshape_on_axis_uneven(self):
@@ -982,18 +982,18 @@ class TestShrinkMultiTensorShardedAxis(unittest.TestCase):
     with self.assertRaises(AssertionError):
       # sharded axis shrink on non-device boundry is not allowed
       a = t.shrink(((0, 3), (0, 8)))
-      a.contiguous().schedule()
+      a.schedule()
     with self.assertRaises(AssertionError):
       # cannot shrink sharded and non-sharded axis at the same time
       a = t.shrink(((0, 2), (2, 4)))
-      a.contiguous().schedule()
+      a.schedule()
 
     a = t.shrink(((0, 2), (0, 8)))
-    a.contiguous().schedule()
+    a.schedule()
     assert a.shape == (2, 8)
 
     p = a.pad(((0, 6), (0, 0)))
-    p.contiguous().schedule()
+    p.schedule()
     assert p.shape == (8, 8)
 
   @given(strat.sampled_from([dtypes.float, dtypes.int, dtypes.int64, dtypes.int16]))
diff --git a/tinygrad/tensor.py b/tinygrad/tensor.py
index 8be37a026e..f52228a0cd 100644
--- a/tinygrad/tensor.py
+++ b/tinygrad/tensor.py
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ class Tensor(OpMixin):
 
     NOTE: A Tensor can only be scheduled once.
     """
-    big_sink = UOp.sink(*[x.uop.base for x in (self,)+lst])
+    big_sink = UOp.sink(*[x.uop for x in (self,)+lst])
 
     # this is where the schedule cache should go
     becomes_map, schedule, var_vals = complete_create_schedule_with_vars(big_sink)