April 2006 Archives

So Tony is awake. His recovery is nothing short of miraculous. He’s become fast friends with rapper Da Lux, who is also in the hospital, after being shot seven times. The rapper’s entourage holds a pay-per-view boxing party, to which Tony is invited, and nothing much happens other than some existential discussion with another patient, this one a rocket scientist, who ends up fixing the satellite dish.

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Close to Home Recap: Land of Opportunity

This episode took a different tack, with the initial case being solved right off the bat. And when I say right off the bat, I mean right off the bat – it was solved, and the suspect arrested, tried and in jail within the first minute or so. But as it turns out, that was just to get things going.

The first suspect was just a mad client of a crooked appraisal firm, who had been over-inflating their appraisals, and when he went to resell his house, another firm revalued it for a whopping $83,000 less than the first firm. Naturally he did what anyone would do and drove his truck through the window of their office.

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Dirty Jobs Recap: Chimney Sweep

Chimney Sweep. First, Mike becomes a certified chimney sweep in rural Indiana. As it turns out, the most difficult part of this job is finding the chimney sweep certification facility. It has a huge chimney, yet no one seems to know just where this place can be found.

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