Cynical human in a cynical age

There are these kids across the street selling lemonade. They keep yelling "Lemonade!" in the loudest possible voices, and it is REALLY starting to grate on our nerves.

Part of the problem is that we live on an extremely busy street, on which people drive very quickly up a steep hill, so it is extremely unlikely that anyone would even stop to buy some.

Furthermore, the most cynical part for me is that I keep thinking, I don't know these kids, they could have put anything into the lemonade, poison, pee, spit, vinegar, alcohol, who knows? I hate to be so cynical, but this is an age in which little kids hurt each other with guns on purpose or accidentally, an age in which kids get poisoned, razor-bladed apples on Halloween. My worst fear of Lord of the Flies style kids come to the fore. I know there's a 99.9% chance these kids are not like that, but since I can make my own lemonade, and since their voices are so darn grating, I just get really peeved.

Aimee Mann line

Missed it the first time, but just re-watched Sleeper and realized that Aimee Mann has an actual line in this episode, "I hate playing vampire towns".

Just brilliant that they have her knowing about the vampires and all, and that there are lots of vampire towns (like, eh, Cleveland).

Plus I finally, like the idiot I am, figured out what Pavlov's Bell is actually about -- Spike (duh, oh my god, why did I not see this before).