Factory Love
The Playboy of Assembly Line Three, the Numbers Department, and more stories of love in the time of Avian Flu.
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Episodes (81)
The Playboy of Assembly Line Three, the Numbers Department, and more stories of love in the time of Avian Flu.
The Caretaker
An embattled cemetery caretaker struggles to appease the living and the dead.
Trick or Treat
A neighborhood eccentric creates elaborate jack-o-lanterns, a timid office worker dresses as Zorro for a company Halloween party, and a man inspects trick-or-treat candy for health violations.
Birth of an Assassination
A boy learns the exact time and date of his death at a carnival and decides to become a hired assassin.
Blue Genes
The clones of a star athlete, Abraham Lincoln, and a young boy crushed by a model of a blue whale relate the difficulties of being genetic copies.
Divorce and the Robot
The young child of divorced parents copes as his mom moves in with her doubles tennis partner and his dad purchases a marital robot.
The Little Lady
An aging TV weatherman struggles to appeal to the youth demographic, a married man secretly lusts after the eleven inch tall wife of a casual acquaintance, and the lawns of a small Midwestern town are plagued with mysterious holes.
Out of Time
A police officer lives his fantasy of being a cowboy, a millionaire abandons his mansion for the life of a hunter-gatherer, and a Mississippi high school girl dreams of marrying the Prince of Denmark.
Fortune Falls
Two stories set in small Wisconsin towns: a former Olympic pairs figure skater works as a carhop on rollerskates at a retro 50's diner, and a young man works for a maze company.
The Janitor
A recent high school graduate hired by the same school he once attended finds solace from his daily grind in the nurse's office and an out of the way service elevator.
Do the Evolution
Three first year teachers in Topeka, Kansas are ordered by law to teach intelligent design in conjunction with evolutionary theory.
Submarine High School
A year in the life of three students attending the U.S.S. Dubuque High School, embedded in a functioning nuclear attack submarine.
My Dear Persephone
An astronaut leaves his beloved space station to fight real estate development in outer space.
The Ugly Kennedy
The son of a woman obsessed with the Kennedy family leaves home to join a traveling carnival.
Nothing Touches Me
An insurance adjuster allergic to the human touch loathes his coworkers and trains to break the world record for holding one's breath underwater.
The Highway
A recently married couple adopts a highway, an awkward introvert works as a professional dater, and a young man receives a Russian mail order bride as a birthday present.
American Backbone
A lifeguard is hired as a pool cleaner by an eccentric, licentious older woman.
Fashion is Exhausting
Three Midwesterners stumble through the Miami fashion scene and the Wisconsin Miss Teen Dairy Pageant.
The Great Spumoni
The son, lover, and protege of a recently deceased magician remember his rise and fall.
Two Hundred Years of Debra
Several generations of Debras meet untimely and violent deaths.