# henry swanson says um what dr. orloff: hope that wasn't another world breaking whedonesque quip henry swanson quips: there's a mile high monster lurking in the booth behind us isn't there dr. orloff tripping over a quality pulp paperback appearing at ir feet: waaaa henry swanson: is this about the more actual essential everyday absurdity of team sports orloff reads sign out loud: earth's most authentic 50's amerikan diner ok in which to notice a scientist's ability to fire off smirkingly smart quippy quips yokes and knowing winks in repo-intense situations it keeps the tone lite providing anaesthetising comfort to an invisible missing audience of easily pleased dolts even if the lives of the two dimensional characters are only ever in deep synthetic danger // republic of bob