Yes, some would have survived. All the chickens in barns would die, sure. Most of the cows and pigs. But some would go feral, and one day you'd just rebuild from whatever was left. And sheep and goats will surely still be around.

Tuscon, Arizona is probably a bad place to pick, then. You'd probably want someplace with more water, more rainfall, more arable land. Who knows, maybe in Season 2 Phil and his little band will pick up sticks and move to Arkansas or something.

No.

I think it is neither a guess nor in the show, but a joke.

Good Lord, if that's as far as your understanding of the biology takes you, you need to pick up a biology textbook. The children of siblings would not be missing a chromosome and would not necessarily be infertile, although they'd be at great risk of inheriting undesirable genes.

Since it was already mentioned, no, you don't.

It doesn't "imply" a certain lack of academic rigor, it directly states a lack of academic rigor. That's why they're called novels, i.e., fiction. They aren't supposed to be about historical analysis any more than Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" was supposed to be a documentary.

When looking up minimum required populations last night, I stumbled across this, the "greater prairie chicken".

Yeah, you could make meatballs with all sorts of animals. For that matter, at least some of the animals we eat would still be around. Chickens? Pigs?

Huffington Post—"Any comparison I make between the two actresses will just propagate troubling paradigms about conventional measures of attractiveness"

"the children of brothers and sisters are sterile"

Well, every presidential election we've ever had has been indirect.

Someone needs to tell Carol that getting married doesn't mean you stop masturbating. You just have to wait until the wife leaves the house.

Well, for the king it worked out pretty great.

It's not a TV show, but…"My Big Fat Greek Wedding"

That's sexist? Really? Sexist that a show with one male and one female character didn't pass the Bechdel test?

Isn't that Sarah Jessica Parker?

We've already had one with that brief shot of Phil's birthday party.

Just like Phil needed his Wilsons to stay sane, clearly Carol needs to pretend that society still exists.

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