Yeah, I think I preferred it in aired order rather than DVD order myself. "Wax Lion" and "Pink Flamingos" were stronger episodes IMHO than "Karma Chameleon" and "Wound-Up Penguin," but I liked them better bracketing the latter two.

Plus, it moves that hilarious phone call with Heidi closer to her actual appearance.

What Tim said about the Wonderfalls episode order in Minearverse 1:

But we're airing the pilot first. And since I haven't been up against airdates, I've had the odd luxury of reverse engineering a few of the epsiodes that we shot later to go earlier -- ON PURPOSE. Who knows what's gonna happen. Maybe it'll be a huge hit. Maybe it'll be a lovely thirteen episode DVD set. I will say that I designed the last six to be a bit of an arc with an ending, viewing the last in the initial order as a season finale of sorts.

Then later:

FutonCritic is wrong, wrong wrong. Jess and Gus are correct. I wrote air-episode two in the production-ten slot. This was the luxury of not being up against air dates. I was able to look at what we had and, with an understanding that only comes with making ten episodes (and actually testing two of them -- a story I will relate after we air epsiode two), I was allowed to create TWO of the later episodes to go earlier.

What you will see as episode two and episode four were shot as 10 and 12. To GO IN THE TWO AND FOUR SLOTS. I promise. I might mention, however, that there is one early episode, an important episode that sets up many things to follow, that the network DID want to push. I wrote a vey specific memo explaining why I felt this was not a great idea. They agreed. Episode five will air where it's supposed to. Fear not, young ones.

And:

One last bit of hopefully useful clarification -- don't ever let production numbers fool you on this show. ep five was shot as ep 2, episode 3 as one. This had to do with cast, location and us just figuring it all out as we went.

Episode five will air where it's supposed to. Fear not, young ones.

Or, you know, not at all.

"Wax Lion" and "Pink Flamingos" were stronger episodes IMHO than "Karma Chameleon" and "Wound-Up Penguin," but I liked them better bracketing the latter two.

Yeah, I agree, although I love "Karma Chameleon" a lot, which certainly seemed to be a minority opinion on TWoP. On watching it last night, I guess I could see how Jaye's self-absorption could be a bit grating, but I also related to her a lot in that episode.

Plus, it moves that hilarious phone call with Heidi closer to her actual appearance.

Ha, good point.

What you will see as episode two and episode four were shot as 10 and 12. To GO IN THE TWO AND FOUR SLOTS. I promise.

So Tim thinks "Pink Flamingos" should be episode four too? I agree!

It was funny to show my friend "Wax Lion" because I had suggested Wonderfalls, and she said okay, and I brought it over, and about twenty minutes into the episode, once the wax lion started talking, she said, "So, clearly, I had no idea what this show was about."

(Of course, then she asked me if it was still airing, and I gave her A Look.)

In unrelated news, I recently joined a writers group. We're meeting this weekend so people have been sending in their stuff to be read in advance.

One of the scripts is a Dexter spec. I start reading and there's this one subplot that seems somewhat familiar. I keep reading and now it's really familiar. So I flip to the end and sure enough. This gentleman and I not only wrote eerily similar subplots, the final scene in each of our specs is virtually identical. We both knew the other was writing a Dexter but he'd never read mine and this was the first I'd read of his. It was just some freaky hilarious coincidence.

This came in the same week that Cold Case did an episode that bore some resemblance to my Without a Trace spec.

I think it was the best laugh I've had in weeks.

Ha, Kristen. That's funny. Great minds, eh?

it is weirdto see Tim quoting Gus. I think about that whole thing every once in a while and wonder whatever happened.

Ha, Kristen. That's funny. Great minds, eh?

Exactly.

Or maybe it means I'm completely unoriginal. But I like the funny option better.

Me too, Stephanie.

Me three. Especially since I still enjoy the TV Tropes wiki.

Or maybe it means I'm completely unoriginal. But I like the funny option better.

Let's go with that one!