Sometime around '74 or '75 we noticed it was on a Green Bay public television station. I was around 9 or 10 when I first stumbled upon it. I had no idea about its existence before then.

The very first sketch I saw was "How not to be seen," which totally confused me at first.

eta: "be", not "bee." I have bees on the brain. Soon they will shoot out of my mouth.

Makes me wonder if the Buddhist monks only wear cotton they picked and spun themselves.

Cotton is the all-you-can-eat ice cream bar for bugs, which is why more pesticides are sprayed on cotton than almost any other crop. To get cotton without killing, those monks would have to spend 24 hours a day gently escorting bugs to a haven miles away.

But mulesing continues to "save" the sheep from issues generated from breeding for maximum skin area.

The wrinkly Merino sheep are grown in Australia because they require very little water. The wrinkly dung-caked skin around the anus is viewed by a nasty native fly as a great place to raise a family. The fly's larva (which have teeth!) kill the sheep horribly. Great strides have been made in breeding less wrinkly sheep that can survive in Australia's climate, and more humane methods of mulesing have been developed. PETA, as is its wont, blows all this out of proportion because its stand is that we shouldn't use anything from animals. They don't seem to have addressed the fact that if Australian sheep owners said, "Fly free, little sheep," most of the sheep would have lives that were nasty, brutal and short.

Yeah, we watched Monty Python on PBS. I probably should not have watched Monty Python as young as I did, but really it was so weird that the stuff that was over my head was just additional weird stuff, not must-figure-out-what-that-means stuff.

I've subscribed to a Night Vale podcast but have yet to listen. Never seems like the right time or environment to start it, somehow.

I was, of course, trying to reference The Simpsons.

I was, of course, trying to reference The Simpsons.

That's what I thought. Was the Simpsons thing about dogs with bees shooting out of their mouths?

That's how I remember it.

I remember Monty Python on PBS! I have a very clear memory of sitting on the floor watching the scene with the knight who will fight you with one hand behind his back, and one arm, and one leg ...

It was the Dr. Who theme that scared me. Every time I stumbled past it, I turned the channel immediately.

Africanized bees have made their way to northern Ohio? I thought they were just now reaching Tennessee.

They don't seem to have addressed the fact that if Australian sheep owners said, "Fly free, little sheep," most of the sheep would have lives that were nasty, brutal and short.

At least some of them, because they created a breed that doesn't shed, has wrinkly skin for maximum surface area, and will die of overheating in a season. So, problem solved! No more unhappy Merino sheep, because no more Merino sheep.

What I was trying to say was that PETA doesn't seem to be offering any options except death for the sheep that are already there. The problem would be solved, but it hardly seems humane.

I was, of course, trying to reference The Simpsons.

That's what I thought. Was the Simpsons thing about dogs with bees shooting out of their mouths?

I understood that reference! t /Captain America

Africanized bees have made their way to northern Ohio? I thought they were just now reaching Tennessee.

We're very southern Ohio; just across the river from Kentucky (and my friend with the bees is in Kentucky). My understanding, from knowing about 4 people with backyard hives, is that the Africanized bees are definitely here. I have to take their word for it.