Nuclear Threat? Get a Barn!

Huzzah!  We’re back by popular demand and I write to you this morning from the 6:22am from Glenbrook.

Now as most of you, like me are scared to the bejesus by those Evil™ North Koreans and their nuclear test over the weekend I want to recommend watching the reasonably new TV series “Jericho” on Thursday nights.  This show, if you haven’t watched the first 3 episodes is set in a small US rural town called Jericho which is in the middle of nowhere in the Colorado wilderness.  Then one day (at the end of episode 1 to be precise) a massive mushroom cloud on the western horizon indicates that Denver has been destroyed by a nuclear bomb – was it the Evil™ North Koreans?  We don’t know this yet, but anyways the town gathers together under the leadership of a country bumpkin Mayor, his scone making Missus and his two dorky sons (the oldest of which is the Deputy Mayor, the younger the resident “Bad Boy”) and they set about “makin’ things right”.

It would have to be bordering on the most ridiculous show ever made.  This dawned on me when the town was about to be hit with a thunderstorm in the days preceding the blast and they have realised via some scratchy pieces of communication that basically every major city in the US has been wiped out.  Given that 50 nuclear warheads have gone off and the weather remains a pleasant sunny 25 Celsius the townsfolk realise that any rain will bring “RADIATION”.  Yee Gods!  So they scramble for shelter and the town sits in various cubby holes and tape up their windows with plastic sheeting and one bunch of people hide in their basement.

Then when the rain clears, they all come outside and have a BBQ!  Yes, no radiation (it passed in the rain) and their solution is to cook all the meat in the super market because its about to go off (shouldn’t it be glowing green??).  Amazing show… if this show was based on a semblance of fact you’d be asking yourself why are we so worried about North Korea?!  Surely if Kim Jong-Il drops the big bomb on the Western world, as long as it doesn’t rain we’ll be right.

If you want to watch some TV that is ridiculously bad, so bad that you have to watch it like a train wreck, then I highly recommend Jericho on Thursday nights… and make sure you take notes in case North Korea get antsy!