When Towel Boy is shot — again — the Crew replace him with a cybernetic version, the Electric Towel Boy. Hilarity — and learning — ensue.

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Posts tagged Optimus Prime
ITC 3.6: IH8UALL (2005)
Well, it’s been almost a full year and it’s just about time for Noel to snap and go to the dark side again! Will anyone be able to talk him back with reason or will he have to be put down like the dog he is? Guest starring: George W. Bush!
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I Don’t Belong Here: Optimus Prime Died For Your Sins
(This week’s I Don’t Belong Here originally published in 2006 in If You Don’t Give Me Heaven. Original content to resume shortly.)
I cried when Optimus Prime died.
As a child I had already had to accept that they killed Jesus and that they killed John Lennon – in fact, to look around the world it seemed like most everyone was crazy and people kept killing each other right and left. Back then we still lived under the bombscare and it even seemed like somebody might kill us all some day soon. When Grandpa died I numbly came to terms with it though the whole concept of death seemed very unfair. Already I began to understand that one day I too would die – it was in the fine print of this contract that I couldn’t quite recall signing. But all of that was the real world. The world of cartoons, the world of children’s stories, was a sacrosanct place where ugly realities like death weren’t supposed to tread. Then Optimus Prime died. It was as if one day Elmer Fudd killed Bugs Bunny or the Big Bad Wolf ate Little Red Riding Hood. It wasn’t supposed to happen. And certainly not to Optimus Prime. READ MORE »