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1.77sLook, Stewie, first of all, you're insane,
2.67sand second of all, I have to be inspired before I write.
2.23sWell, how about a little TV?
2.87sANNOUNCER: We now return to Magnum, b.m.
3.1sMagnum, I found a fingerprint smudge at the crime scene.
1.8sDo you have poo on your hands?
2.53s(SNIFFING) A little.
2.14s(MAGNUM, P.I. THEME PLAYING)
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2.37sNo, no, no. This won't do, Paul.
3.97sYou can't just have Snuggly Jeff magically brought back to life by a child's wish.
1.37sIt's insulting to the reader.
1.07sWhat do you mean?
1.27sWell, it's just bad storytelling.
1.5sLet's see. How can I explain this to you?
1.47sDid you ever see the movie Contact?
1.63sYeah.
2.6sSo, like, they spent a trillion dollars building this mile-high space machine,
1.83sand Jake Busey blows it up.
2.97sSo now they're all like, "Oh, no! We can't use the space machine."
7.87sBut then this other guy's like, "Hey, it just so happens "I built another identical trillion-dollar space machine "at my own expense on the other side of the world."
2.7sAnd we're supposed to believe no one noticed that?