Ah, the sounds of silence. Well played.

Give free markets a chance, and burn your jealousy. You'll be surprised how much better life will be.

Friends was occasionally funny, but no one on staff knew why nor how to bottle it. I suppose to some degree the same phenomenon happened with Freaks and Geeks, except that is a more extreme example: Distilled brilliance (mostly) and Apatow has never, as far as I know, been able to come up with anything remotely human…

That is kind of a big omission. Good call. I'm guessing the author doesn't check the comment section.

Augh, my language is being brutalized!

If you dress like a pirate on a certain day, they give you a dozen. Maybe that's just a local thing, not sure.

Ditto, never heard of him before that trial three months back in '11. The way I imagined him was not how he actually looks, needless to say.

Ah man. Lileks sent me here and this is really fun writing. I'm going to have to read the whole series now.

Thomas the Tank Engine had an episode where a couple of rogue Diesels were going to put a steamer in the blast furnace (saved at the last minute by Sir Topham Hatt). That was probably a little darker than Rev. Awdry intended.