The day after seeing Serenity for the first time, I turned on the TV and an old episode of Family Guy comes on.

It starts out with an idyllic scene with all the major characters enjoying a day at the lake. Then a leaf turns color, and suddenly hoards of cars come thundering in.

Oh, here's the transcript. Tell me what it reminds you of.

Meg: I love this time of year.

Brian: Me, too. The summer tourists are gone, and we finally have the town to ourselves before those idiots from New York show up to watch the leaves change and take over the whole place.

[Cars honking]

Brian: LEAFERS!

Peter: Holy crap! We gotta get outta here!

[Dramatic instrumental music]

Bonnie: What about the boat?

Joe: Leave it!

Lois: Hurry, Peter! They're almost here!

Chris: We're too late!

Man: Yo, Matty. Check out those colors. Yellow like a taxi, orange like the ball at the Knicks game and red like the sauce on my Mamma Mia's cu cazz.

Matty: Yeah, and brown like the guys I don't pick up in my cab.

Man: Beautiful!

ALL: AAAAHHH!

We were rolling on the floor.

And when they're being the voice of reason and you don't have to cringe on their behalf? Priceless.

Awesome. Although I was confused because they seemed to be lumping her in with the crazies. Whatev.

Also, from that article:

More tl;dr Firefly/Serenity wank over at Whedonesque

Can someone tell me what tl;dr means?

Can someone tell me what tl;dr means?

Too long; didn't read.

Awesome. Although I was confused because they seemed to be lumping her in with the crazies. Whatev.

They possibly were, but what she said wasn't, and well, the fandomwank posters ought not throw stones, you know.

Thanks, KernelM.

the fandomwank posters ought not throw stones, you know.

Too true.

In other news, I have successfully made a full Firefly convert out of one coworker (he admitted to buying the Serenity Visual Companion today!) and another's interest has been piqued. I may not always love my job, but my super-geeky coworkers are pretty great.

That does bring up the darkly funny image of intercepting Reaver comm calls were they're glaring at the viewscreens and screaming at each other in some way that actually works as communication.

I totally buy this explanation.

Pointing to various body parts sewn into their clothing as part of the process...

It's not macabre fashion sense, just a disgusting way of communicating. 'Reaver points to an ear sewn into his vest while grunting someone's 'name', then makes biting motions and holds up a thumb from his necklace.' translates to "Tell Frank I'm going to bite his thumbs off if he comes near my ship again."

Frank waggles his digitless hands into the vidscreen, signifying "HA! I bit them off myself. Sucks to be you!"

That's me. I've been wiped all over the board at Whedonesque. I'm unsure if they're calling me one of the craxies.