A running issue with actors in these sorts of iconic roles! I don’t know it for a fact, but I suspect the third season was able to course correct a bit because he was just too tired after S2 to cause much trouble. My understanding is he’s the reason Michael Chabon left after S1.

You may know this already, but when I worked in post on this show it was an open secret that the more bizarre creative decisions were mostly made by the star.

Haha, Eerie came up too!

Thanks. I was just talking with one of the writers on Pete & Pete and Gortimer came up as one of the very few kids’ shows that has that same kind of magic weirdness. It’s a really special thing.

Hey, many years ago I had the pleasure of writing and editing the audio description for Gortimer Gibbon’s. Thought about the show again when my son was born recently and wanted to see what you were up to. I’m glad to see this is the kind of thing you’ve been working on.

Few are as easy to please with your adaptation.

She’s a fake leftist because she’s a competent politician.

This is the man I keep having to have the Pinkertons chase off my gold claim.

Not sure. But I guess she lives in the neighborhood, so next time I see her I’ll run as fast as I can in her direction and ask in as loud a voice as I can manage (in case there’s traffic noise).

No. But I dare not say…