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1. about 23 hours ago on Bad Machinery

   This was covered back in “Team Spirit”, Sonny. Zebra is fine creature to admire, but if you ride the zebra, she ends up crashing a satellite in the middle of your football pitch.

2. 1 day ago on Bad Machinery

   Six or eight years, I think. I don’t recall Darren’s actual age being established anywhere, but he was already a teen when we first met him in Scary Go Round (before we met Shauna, actually). Definitely more than a month and ten days, anyway.

3. 1 day ago on Bad Machinery

   The lettering got redone for printing. The actual text is all the same as in the original web version, but for some reason, the line break in that balloon ended up in the middle of “monster” instead of between words as it was in the original.

4. 1 day ago on Bad Machinery

   Mildred’s older than Shauna by a month and a bit, so it’s possible that Ella could be Shauna’s mother, but not old enough to be Mildred’s.

   However, Shauna has an older brother…

5. 2 days ago on Bad Machinery

   Yeah. Next time we see him, he’ll mention that he’s had a triple bypass.

6. 3 days ago on Bad Machinery

   “One week later” brings us back up to where we were at the beginning of the case. Shauna and Lottie are back from Wales, having been tossed out of SpaceUK early because Ben Bishop got biffed in the guts.

7. 3 days ago on Bad Machinery

   In the prequel story “Expecting to Fly”, set back when Ryan, Erin’s older sister Shelley, and their friend Tim Jones were students at Griswalds, and Mr. Knott had both eyes and more hair, Tim set up a complicated Rube-Goldberg machine, possibly in this very science lab, to help tutor Ryan in science. Mr. Knott had the misfortune of stepping through the door of the lab just as the machine reached its last stage, which involved launching a lollipop across the room at a cushion mounted on the back of the door. However, the door was unexpectedly opened, and Mr. Knott caught the lollipop stick in the eye.

   As it happened, Mr. Knott was coming to give Ryan a notice that he had won a scholarship for his poetry, but the letter was lost and forgotten in the excitement, and Ryan took the blame for the events to protect Tim, dropped out of school, and went to work at Percy’s pea factory (which featured in “Unwelcome Visitor”) and lived in a filthy squat until Shelley and Amy between them dragged him out of his life of squalor and transformed him into the loved and respected father and teacher that he is today.

8. 4 days ago on Bad Machinery

   If Mr. Knott had taken the advice on the poster, he’d still have both eyes.

9. 4 days ago on Bad Machinery

   I think it’s just the accumulated weight of little slights from everybody over the years. Like, back in “Lonely One”, she was ready to throw in with the aliens, because who cares what happens to all her classmates? They never cared about her.

10. 4 days ago on Bad Machinery

    They did a remake with Harrison Ford… which was also before Jack was born. Though really, with the advent of streaming services and such, there isn’t really any “too young to remember” anymore. I’ve been watching The Prisoner lately, which dates from before I was born.