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In the middle of the 20th Century, it was fashionable for mystery writers to write round robin novels. Ten to fifteen writers would each write one chapter, and the result was always a chaotic mess. Well, Marv Newland recruited over twenty animators to make a cartoon. Each animated one scene, and apart from the requirement that the character Foska appear at the beginning and end, content was not stipulated; indeed, none of the animators knew what the others were doing. The result will hold your interest, but the whole very definitely is not greater than the sum of the parts.

This is a good PM episode in every way, but the casting rose to the level of genius. From the start, we realize that an actor was hired to impersonate an old man. The actor was played by Paul Richards, the old man was played by Trevor Bardette, and except in the matter of age, the two men could not look more alike! Their facial bone structure, their hair, their eye color, the shape of their noses and ears--all were identical. At one point, the actor is made up to look like the old man and brought into the courtroom, and everyone stares at him. All it took was whitening of his hair, a false mustache and some dark lines on his face, and Paul Richards was transformed into Trevor Bardette. We don't doubt for a moment that even people who knew the old man well would have believed the impersonation. This courtroom scene was once chosen as interstitial programming by a popular TV arts channel, and it's no surprise that it was singled out as the exemplary PM moment.