Please. I'm a seasoned professional with this stuff.

( That gets a little grin out of him. Years and years of Slurpee consumption have built up a certain tolerance against brain freeze. Or maybe he just got lucky this time. )

Well, you know. It's been pretty lame here since that whole ... debacle happened. Heather thought it might, like, raise people's spirits or whatever, so here we are. ( And he shrugs. )