How are so many people still falling in love with fake people online? What happened to all the sh*thead kids? And is cable TV somehow making a comeback? Plus: poopy, boobies, Billy Koch and flipping the puck to the fat kid.

Further reading:

The TV Show That Predicted America's Lonely, Disorienting Digital Future (Maya Salam)

The Undertaker: A Seven-Year-Old Named Bjorn Threatened to Shoot Me in the Face and Called Me a Democrat (Jeremy Lambert)

Americans' New TV Habit: Subscribe. Watch. Cancel. Repeat. (John Koblin/Goblin)

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