Hi Jay,
I love reading your advice in the sitcom advice column. It seems the most down-to-earth, but you don’t seem stressed by life. You seem to be holding the whole group together, but I’m not sure why. Does this column and the sitcom itself deserve to be saved?
—Everybody Loves Jay
Jay: Holding what together exactly? An advice column? A friend group? You know I’m also their landlord. They’re paying me rent every month.
Do Eliza, Gene and Kenny have messy lives, make mistakes and give dubious advice at times? Why, yes, they do. How entertaining. What you’re really asking is, why are these people your friends?
I mean, of course, these people are my friends. They make life worth living. I am so entertained by the continued shenanigans of these three people.
Recently, Gene concocted a scheme where he was going to work two jobs, blocks apart, across the city. He wanted to just show up at the office at random times to make people think he was working. One day, he got stuck at one of the jobs. So he paid Kenny to sit at his desk dressed up like him.
Kenny started doing such good work that the company expected far more of Gene. Kenny ended up doing that job, but Gene had to attend more meetings. So Gene recruited Eliza to do the work on the other job.
In the end, Gene was losing money by doing two jobs well because he had to pay Kenny and Eliza so much. When I pointed this out, he went to his bosses and explained that other people were doing the jobs. Instead of keeping the people doing good work, all three of them were fired.
Who wouldn’t want friends like this?
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