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Thu Oct 02 2003 08:39 Cave closing soon. All adventurers exit immediately through Main Office.:

Send in your last-minute Tonight's Episodes, because it's time for it to go. Unless I get some good-quality contributed entries, next week will be Jason's mixed-metaphor series "Tonight's Episode Buys the Farm", and that will be the end of that. All things must pass, as TE has already given us many opportunities to learn. The past is dust, and the future but smart nanodust. So if you've been saving up your TEs, send them to me now.

Mon Sep 15 2003 18:12 Dada Nancy:

Brendan brought to my attention that Scott McCloud, possibly the only cartoonist to be lampooned in a Tonight's Episode (what, you're going to check?), has in an act of preemptive revenge gone back in time and ripped off Dada Pokey with Five Card Nancy. A non-Scott McCloud person implemented a nice CGI that lets you build a never-ending Nancy strip by selecting from randomly-presented panels. This would be a really good mode for Dada Pokey.

I keep going to the Five Card Nancy CGI, building some stuff, then getting bored and quitting. It's like a game of FreeCiv, but much quicker. Here are my best ones so far: Short attention span Nancy, hyperactive Nancy.

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Mon Aug 18 2003 09:12:

Time once again to check in with the bottom of the barrel (a regular feature here on NYCB) and see what it has in store for us. Ah, yes. It's Jason's TE license plate slogans. We did the obvious one (New Hampshire) the day I first saw Spirited Away, but there are seven more: as luck would have it, one for each day of this blessed week.

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Wed Jul 16 2003 10:48:

In case you haven't noticed, this is Tonight's Episode Palindrome Week (aka Tonight's Episode Barrel-Bottom Scrapefest), featuring broken and actual palindrome TEs from Jason.

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Fri Jul 04 2003 19:02 Bonus Independence Day Tonight's Episode:

We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Immolating

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Mon Jun 16 2003 11:02 In The Roadkill:

I forgot to mention that the Tonight's Episode Beatles Anthology is going on so long partly in tribute to one of the previous non-anthology TE Beatles songs, "Eight Dies A Week"; but also because I have 16 Beatles-related TEs and if I do them in two sets of eight then there are no embarrassing leftovers. Tomorrow normal TE service will resume, until Saturday, when I leave for Belgium and the whole thing starts up again.

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Sun Jun 08 2003 22:43:

Tomorrow begins the Tonight's Episode Beatles Anthology. This, the first part of a noncontiguous two-week series, covers the Beatles' early years as a group by making fun of their song titles. It started when I realized that somehow half of my remaining TEs were references to Beatles songs. Sumana helped, as did (involuntarily) Brendan.

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Fri May 09 2003 18:05 The Poisoned Feed:

I buckled to popular demand (well, demand from Aaron ~~Swatch~~Swartz, who's pretty popular), and created an RSS feed for Tonight's Episode.

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Sun May 04 2003 10:31:

Attention Tonight's Episode fans: Monday kicks off Tonight's Episode Sweeps Week, five days of sensationalist TEs designed to boost flagging ratings, courtesy of Jason Robbins. Jason also sent me an email titled "off the hook for spam":

Today I got the following spam:
Subject: Unless you have a PhD, READ THIS E-MAIL h zt b
Oh Kay.

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Sun Sep 22 2002 23:21 Great Murders In History:

One last thing before the sleeping: the long-awaited Tonight's Episode archive.

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Sun Apr 29 2001 11:19 Tonight's Episode: Murder At Random:

I wrote a CGI to manage the ever-growing and slowly-shrinking list of Tonight's Episodes. I can specify a particular one for the next day, or failing that one will be chosen at random. It'll be easy to set up an archive script, should I ever feel so inclined. Plus, Tonight's Episode is now syndicated, though I'm uncertain whether or not "here, use this string" is a valid syndication format.

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