Is that why he hasn't been around much lately?

And the rate seems to be even better than that for really important stuff.

Brian Benben will be avenged!

It would be a perfectly valid point if it were an industry run by smart people- but, if that ever was the case, it certainly hasn't been for decades now…..

To prove that you can, I assume…..

And some entertaining parodies of it from an April Fools' Day in the mid-1980, albeit in poor quality.

Including after it was removed!

The sort of thing one usually only sees in parody…..

More like syphilis from Alexander Woollcott.

So, whatever happened to McFarland?

Well, he was in movie distribution…..

Assholes at delis…..

Pig Pen, this here's Rubber Duck…..

Certainly that's the way online debates tend to go….

Maybe the writers for those all were assumed….

In 1927 New York, perhaps…..

Wait- if there's that few, who has been designing all the awful-looking office buildings in my neck of the woods?

*Red-shirts immediately take ship on joyride into a different galaxy*

Same way that we aren't sure they ever drove in the cattle on Rawhide.

It also doesn't help that, too often, the items given full-season arcs don't really merit full-season arcs even when it is only eight to ten episodes- note, for example, the third season of Boardwalk Empire, where they had about an episode and a half's worth of material but drew a full season from it anyway.