While Dumbo is hauling his tusks down to Waco (as on-site witness Downpuppy reported), Mark gets read-in on Ellis’s second assignment option . . . GOOD GAWD! New age animal healing?! Is Rivera deliberately trying to piss off even more Trailheads? I have to keep reminding myself that Rivera just likes to inject outrageous plot devices into the theater-of-the-absurd atmosphere that makes up this nouveau Mark Trail.

And Cherry’s expression looks a lot like my wife after I just told her that “Yes. I could do the dishes or I could retreat into my office and watch harpsichord videos on YouTube. What do you think, honey?”