Good news everyone: a new episode of Harvey Birdman finally aired at the weekend. Not as good as the classics, "Shaggy Busted" or "The Dabba Don", but good news after about a year since the last one. How can you not love a show whose theme tune includes the lines "Power of the Attorney! Habeus Corpus! Power of the Attorney!"? Meanwhile, I have Alf Poier's Eurovision entry on full volume and repeat play. Isn't the internet wonderful?

Feedback from my reader. Apparently the thingy attached to the teabags so as to remove said teabag from unsaid teacup is known in the trade as a tag. In fact, if I looked at the packet then I could probably have found this out for myself. They have instructions on their packs of tea. This is America. But, I'm going to try to avoid sounding like Douglas Adams and wittering on about tea all the time. I have a new crap lolly stick joke. This one just isn't trying.

Why did the annoying exterminator lose his job? He bugged his boss.

You can see that the author is going for a pun there, and the idea almost works. Except that exterminators don't bug people. Specifically, they debug houses. Hence the joke completely fails. The thing is though, this one is so close. If only the author had tried just that little bit harder. I can't believe that he messed up such an easy gag. Consider the following:

Why did the annoying secret service agent lose his job? He bugged a high-ranking opposition politician but a rival found out and leaked the story to the press prompting a witch hunt and a summary dismissal in disgrace.

Dammit! This joke writing is not as easy as it looks.