First off, this will hopefully be the last time I mention anything about being sick. Definitely feel far better than yesterday. Despite starting the morning coughing up blood, I’m actually feeling on the mend.
Since I’ve been bedridden for most of the last 48 hours or so and illin’ in general since Monday, my creative juices just ain’t been flowing today. Proof? This post almost turned out to be a 2500 word essay contrasting Spongebob Squarepants and Fairly Odd Parents. Thankfully, Common Sense managed to fight its way through my sickly haze and convince me what a dumb fucking idea that was.
And the fact that Fairly Odd Parents totally <insert whatever phrase the cool kids use nowadays that means “Jumped the Shark” but won’t make me sound like a nob here> when Cosmo and Wanda had little Baby Poof. Everyone knows that introducing a new character, especially a child, is the death knell for any established TV show. Come on, people. And the men-having-the-babies thing was lame when Mork hatched Jonathan Winters.
But this is a post about a great folk hero… One who popped into my head during one of my fever-induced hallucinations. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a clip of just the part I wanted, so you’ll have to sit through the first 90 seconds or so of this before you get to the part that matters:
