*giggles and wonders if he ever turns a guy into a beautiful assistant-girl... And if anyone ever DOES bring the statues back to life, eventually...*

Yes... that thought occured to me, but I decided to pander to the majority kink.

You'd think there would at least be rumors about the guy.

Excellent sketch ad story, Taral. You'd think he would have trouble getting any assistant's with his rep. Poor lovely girl.

The biggest mystery is how his reputation doesn't preceed him. You'd think the next time he opened that cabinet, three dozen burly policement didn't boil out and arrest him. While its true there's no corpus delecti in the technical sense, circumstancial evidence would be overwhelming.

And in a museum hundreds of miles away, a curator suddenly acquires a strange new collection for his exhibit... ^^

Either that or the town sqaure will have something nicer to look at than an old civil war canon or a monument to the Korean War.

You know, many town squares don't have statues.

The townspeople draw a number, and one is encased in cement for a full year then destroyed.

God, I can be so warped sometimes. ^^

Sort of a Steven King kind of thing -- the Cement King.

Well, he can make a story out of anything. ^^

From Family Guy:

King: "Okay, for my 302 book, um...there's this... *grabs a desk lamp and waves it around* "A lamp monster! Grrrr! Argh! Snarl!"

Agent: "You're not even trying anymore, are you?"

King: "Hiss."

Agent: *sighs in exasperation* "When can I see the draft?"

^^

I remember that. Most of the funnier moments in Family Guy usually have nothing to do with anything -- the writer just had a bright idea and drops it in, like a fish head in your champaigne.

I call Family Guy the "Seinfeld" of the animated kingdom. ^^

That's a very polite way to put it. I tend to call it the potty-mouth style of animation. Whereas I usually find The Simposons actually funny, all too often the writers for Family Guy just say "oh fuck," or have somebody poop their pants, and pass it off as humour. If that's getting old, somebody is run ove rby a car or crushed by a rock randomly falling out of the sky. The sad thing is that for the present generation of viewers, it works. I have equal reservations about Robot Chicken, Bevis & Butthead, American Dad, Aquateen Hunger Force, and other, mostly obscure stuff, from the Willims Street studio gang. The only show I ever thought really made something worthwhile from this aethetic was Duckman. But it was also very literate and not as infatuated with media.

I agree that "Adult Swim" is dying a slow death, and I firmly believe there is a special place in Hell reserved for "Tim n' Eric". ^^

I stopped watching "The Simpsons" years ago, though I did love the full-length movie. They brought back all the old writers and story creators, and it worked. ^^

But now I'd like them to just go away. ^^

I stopped watching the Simpsons about the same time. But it wasn't a choice, exactly. For one thing, a fan and fellow artist was hanging out a lot with me then, and he really disliked the Simpsons, and would bug me incessantly about not being available when they were on. It wore one me. I started making exceptions on Sundays when he wanted to do something, then began to simply forget they were on. Finally, I fell behind on my cable bell and lost access. I haven't seen the show since. Maybe it's gotten stale... *more* stale... than it was three years ago. I wouldn't know. Todd *loved* Family Guy, naturally. But he had the good taste to find American Dad as despicably bad as I did.