Back in the Lone Gunpad, the TV blares in the background as they show Yves the MRI of Adam's brain. Yves calls the electrodes tools used in "behavior modification." Frohike wants to know who Adam was before he was modified. Then a nice, low-cost commercial for an electronics store comes on, featuring one Maniac Marvin. He's so nuts, he charges you less for shoddy TVs. You know, from brand-name makers like Pansonic and Suny? Adam sits up at the sight of Marvin, and then? Goes off on Langly. Byers makes the connection.
Down at Maniac Marvin's place of business, the gun-dudes and Adam exit the van. Adam says he has no idea why the sight of Marvin would make him get all crazy violent, and Byers says that's what they want to find out. So, Adam stays out on the street with Langly, and Jimmy and Byers go inside.
Bzzt! The buzzer at the Gunpad bleats. It's a lady. The doctor lady. She's looking for Adam. Is he there? She says she's his wife. Yves and Frohike exchange expert WTF looks.
TV shop. Jimmy loves Maniac Marvin's eye patch and suggests he don a pirate suit to go with it. Marvin says he wears a glass eye for the commercials. I'm sure that's relevant to the plot, at least marginally. You know what Chekov said: if there's a glass eye in the first act, it had better go off in the third. Anyway, after some fast sales patter, Marvin looks at a photo of Adam and says he doesn't know him.
Outside, Adam sees a poster of midget wrestlers and, once again, goes off on Langly.
Back at the Gunpad, Langly holds a fake-looking piece of meat to his eye and complains. Dude, really, go home. Oh right, these guys never go home. Typical publishers, work all freaking day and night, never leave the office. Except for Internet geniuses Wing Chun and company, who frequently make jaunts to exotic locales. Dude, sometimes we writers are even invited along. Cannot WAIT for our summer convention. Anyways, Yves sees if the video camera image of Adam's "wife" will set him off too, and he's all like, Lois! My beautiful wife! Frohike and Yves bust out with their theory (not Gilligan's Island fueled) that Adam is Doctor Lady's lab rat and that during transportation, he just wandered away. Dude, this is the same structure I hate about the X-Files, where we get to see everything going on, and the main characters have to figure it out. We KNOW Adam was kept in a tub of goo. We know Lois isn't his wife, and we know it's all not really important. GET TO THE MIDGET WRESTLERS ALREADY. Yves says Lois said Adam was undergoing therapy. Some kind of midget wrestling aversion therapy? Television huckster aversion therapy? Langly-bashing therapy? Then, Adam stares at Frohike, Frohike morphs into a midget wrestler, and Adam pounces, screaming "I am not you! I will never be you! Never!" Seems like the therapy is working well.













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