Sep 15, 2026 · 28 min · 7 segments
Written and directed by Jeffrey Bell, this episode originally aired November 5, 2003. **EXTRA BITS** Trevor is currently working on creating an art…
It is funny because in this episode, for, for those listening along and not watching along, this is the episode where, uh, the mailman's story finally comes front and center, um, and, uh, he's a luchador.
It was a thought I had watching it this time, where he's, like, super bummed out because he's used to just kind of, like, being a champion and fighting the bad guys and having, like, a physical, tangible thing, which part of me gets and understands.
Mm-hmm.
I'm like, "Oh, he's just signing paperwork." But also, the other part of me is just like, "You just helped so many people-
Yeah
... that you never would've helped before." Like, I get be, I, I feel like there should be, instead of, like, a oh, I am...
I don't know.
It...
There, there's an element where I'm like, you need to be the center of attention in this episode.
Yeah
... just was like, "I want, I wanna, I want to experience being the hero.
I don't actually wanna do these heroic things of saving all these people."
Yeah.
"I wanna feel people seeing me as a hero" kind of thing.
Y- yeah.
So, okay.
[laughs]
I wanna get into that, and it is, like, the first scene after the cold open.
And basically-
Yeah
...
the cold open is just, like, there's, um, like, a m- a security guard who's, like, walking around, and he realizes, he like gets spooked, and then he's like, "Oh, just kidding.
It's just a plumber.
It is funny because in this episode, for, for those listening along and not watching along, this is the episode where, uh, the mailman's story finally comes front and center, um, and, uh, he's a luchador.
It was a thought I had watching it this time, where he's, like, super bummed out because he's used to just kind of, like, being a champion and fighting the bad guys and having, like, a physical, tangible thing, which part of me gets and understands.
Mm-hmm.
I'm like, "Oh, he's just signing paperwork." But also, the other part of me is just like, "You just helped so many people-
Yeah
... that you never would've helped before." Like, I get be, I, I feel like there should be, instead of, like, a oh, I am...
I don't know.
It...
There, there's an element where I'm like, you need to be the center of attention in this episode.
Yeah
... just was like, "I want, I wanna, I want to experience being the hero.
I don't actually wanna do these heroic things of saving all these people."
Yeah.
"I wanna feel people seeing me as a hero" kind of thing.
Y- yeah.
So, okay.
[laughs]
I wanna get into that, and it is, like, the first scene after the cold open.
And basically-
Yeah
...
the cold open is just, like, there's, um, like, a m- a security guard who's, like, walking around, and he realizes, he like gets spooked, and then he's like, "Oh, just kidding.
It's just a plumber.
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