"Oh, that's alright then." There's a difference between being bored by just this show, and being bored by the telly altogether.

He couldn't explain the speech thing if Jimmy outright asked. It's just one of those traditional things, like America has their turkey parade. And a church hall, especially one with heat during a winter power outage, is just full of elderly people impatiently waiting for something traditional.

"There's, there should be... A few backgammon sets, and a chequerboard," Russell offers, keeping his eyes on the final dance of the show. "In the closet by the kitchen. I think they got rid of the scrabble board, though. Too many kids were spelling... you know."