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SBTB Mailbag, Vol. 4

alimahmad: Do you think that Michelle Slater, Jeff Winger’s hot professor girlfriend from Community’s first season, was named Slater as an intentional reference to SBTB? Britta is blonde, and shorter than Slater, just like Zack.

LS: No? Maybe?? Probably??? Honestly, I have no idea. This might be a thing Dan Harmon did. I don’t function on enough levels to understand why he named her Michelle Slater, or what the shit that might possibly mean.

DG: I bet you smoke an absurd amount of pot, alimahmad.

Anonymous: if you could change anything about this blog, what would you change?

LS: I would have made it funnier.

DG: MORE KAPOWSKI GIFS.

newamsterdamlemonade: In your well-educated & nuanced opinion, how did Tori’s fashion sense rank with the other regulars?

DG: I’m pretty sure the producers of this show think that if you put a leather jacket and motorcycle helmet on a bunny rabbit, people would just start throwing their lunch money at it and then run off crying.

LS: Personally, I think they were trying to goad the executives at NBC into cancelling the show. NBC called their bluff.

Anonymous: What are you most proud of with this blog?

LS: Not being sued by NBC or ending up on the H8Rs show Mario Lopez had for about 45 minutes.

DG: I was just honored to be included. It was nice to have somewhere to put my dipshit theories about this show instead of forcing them on my friends when they’re trying to hit on girls at a bar.

Anonymous: Can you talk about the time Screech acted like he was from another planet for an episode? Why did he do that? God, Screech is the worst.

DG: Look. I’m not a mental health professional, but Screech almost definitely had some sort of mental/personality disorder like Asperger’s or autism, right? Or both. Probably both. Trying to explain his actions or figure out his motivations is a decent into madness that is outside my area of expertise and above my pay grade. He is a troubled, troubled young man, and I wish him nothing but the best as he fights to overcome whatever ails him.

LS: The only thing I have to say about this episode is the US Air Force should be absolutely embarrassed and ashamed of themselves. They sent some hot shot captain out there to investigate a UFO, and this guy actually believed that Screech was an alien! What the shit is going on over at Air Force HQ, or wherever, where they can’t tell the difference between an alien and a 12-year-old kid with a bunch of ping pong balls glued to his head?? If WWIII ever goes down we are totally fucked.

The DD: Is it wrong that I sincerely enjoy the scene in “Starship Troopers” where actor Patrick Muldoon (AKA creepy ass Max manager Jeff) gets his brain sucked out of the top of his skull by the brain bug, and actually severely dislike Patrick Muldoon as a person because of his Jeff portrayal? Am I too invested in childhood memories of SBTB or did he just sell his performance that well? I’ve take a lot of Nyquil and drank a bunch of wine and have been thinking about this for far too long now.

DG: You are certainly justified in feeling that way but HOLY MOLEY. Wine AND Nyquil?! Who are you? Aerosmith? (FUN FACT: One time I drank some bourbon after taking Robitussin and the next morning I found a file in my phone titled “Idea” that contained only the phrase “dinosaur boobs.” I would give anything to know where I was going with that.)

LS: I have absolutely nothing to say about Patrick Muldoon in “Starship Troopers,” so I’m going to talk about DG’s “dinosaur boobs.” Is it possible that you were working on a spec script for that early 90s show that part of ABC’s TGIF lineup, “Dinosaurs?” I can see it now, the teenage girl dinosaur is upset about being the last dinosaur to need a bra or something, and she wants to get breast implants, a bunch of weird stuff happens, the baby dinosaur yells “Not the mama!” while beating the dad over the head with a frying pan and then she ends up getting dinosaur boobs at the end of the episode. THE END. Yeah, that was probably it.

DG: <3