Last night I had a dream that my friend Mike Trebilcock set up a meeting for me with a friend who was an executive at Adult Swim and I was going to make a pitch for an animated Ghastly's Ghastly Comic series but when I got there to make the pitch I somehow totally forgot what my old webcomic was even about so I said "Well the whole cartoon is going to be centred on this really flamboyant guy who says things that are shocking or surprising and when people say "really?" he says "No... but oh my god, seriously could you imagine?""

It was the best idea for a cartoon that I could come up with on the spot and I'm sitting there thinking to myself "that was the stupidest idea for a cartoon ever" but the exec loved it and bought 2 12-episode seasons of it. So now I'm panicking because I have to come up was 24 episodes that revolve around this flamboyant guy and I realized I had no idea what I was going to do with him. So I called my friend Peter Lloyd to help me because he's a writer and I was hoping we could come up with something. So I'm sitting in Pete's kitchen and I tell him, "okay this is all I got. So the flamboyant guy is a doctor at the hospital, right? And there's this scene where these parents are waiting in his office and he comes in looking very serious and puts some X-rays up on those light things and says "Mr. and Mrs. Simone, I have some very bad news. Your daughter has cancer" and then the mother cries "really?" and the flamboyant guy laughs and goes "No.. but oh my god, seriously could you imagine?" and he continues to laugh and the parents sort of do a semi-relieved, nervous laugh along and the mother says "so... she doesn't have cancer right" and the flamboyant guy says "No, no, she's fine. She's totally fine, but oh my god, seriously could you imagine?" and the parents laugh nervously and go "but she's alright, she's fine." and that's all I got"

So then Pete says "Okay and then the flamboyant guy leaves and goes into the next room and you just hear him say "Congratulations! We've cured your daughter's cancer!" and you hear the parents should excitedly "really?" and then we cut to the next scene.

And then I'm like "good! good! that's a solid transition. okay so what next?" and Pete and I try really hard to come up with another scene but we just can't and we realize that flamboyant guy is just a sort of Family Guy throw away bit and not someone you can build a whole series around. By then I remembered what my webcomic was about so I went to Mike and asked him to arrange another meeting with his friend and he said "No. I heard about that flamboyant guy thing and I've done enough. No way am I getting my fingerprints on that train wreck."

So I snuck back into the studio and went to the guy's office to tell him I can't deliver the flamboyant guy cartoon but I'd like to do an animated Ghastly's Ghastly Comic. But when I got into the guy's office there was a dummy in his seat made entirely out of marshmallows. I asked his secretary where he was and she said "Oh, he was stoned out of his skull when he agreed to buy your flamboyant guy cartoon and when he sobered up he realized what crap it was and so now he's hiding from his boss using this marshmallow decoy. So I ran into Pete who was hanging out with the Scooby Doo gang and we all spit up to look for the Adult Swim executive.