(For a list of all episodes, visit The Quick List.)
The most recent episode:
Christmas Miscellany 8 – This year’s Christmas episode consists of four stories — one of them a Christmas tale. In “Crispas Echo,” we travel back to 1985 for a tale of summer school friendship and…Taco Bell! “A Very Strange Day (On Our Neighboring Red Planet)” is about the first human mission to Mars running into a very surprising discovery. In “Dick is Dead,” two accountants end up unlucky and forced to attend the funeral of a weird coworker on behalf of their department. And finally: “Christmas Spirits,” in which three famous Christmas ghosts have had enough, and set a pharmaceutical CEO straight on Christmas Eve.
The one that started it all:
Gutterball – An English bulldog named Gutterball (and the family who loves him) must contend with the dog’s bad habit of eating everything in sight.
The most popular episode:
Horus – Sarah Nelson gets more than she bargained for when she answers a job for a writer’s assistant and must deal with the writer’s parrot, Horus.
The fan favorite:
The Other Side – After a divorce and layoff, Daniel breaks into his childhood home to see if something in his closet all those years ago is still there…
Christopher’s favorite:
“Purvis” was my first fave from the show, but it’s been replaced by A Deathly Mistake — my new favorite episode of Not About Lumberjacks!
But about “Purvis”…
Purvis – In 1984, a Dungeon Master struggles with keeping the few friendships he has together, all while dealing with a vicious bully.
[Warning: This one gets rather brutal. Also, this may be the best ending I’ve ever written.]
The one that makes people cry at the end:
Standstill – When she was younger, Maddy’s grandfather gave her a pocket watch that does much more than simply telling time.
The uplifting one:
The Art of the Lumberjack – When Erik Nilsson has a minor heart attack and finally reads a book left to him by his father, he finds something inside that changes him forever.
The award-winning one:
The Hidebehind – Something lurks in the woods outside a lumber camp in this story I SWEAR is NOT about lumberjacks…
The funny, mostly true one:
Bobo – A kid’s party clown comes to grips with what he’s become.