In this episode, we discuss:
-the question of sexual propriety in a world where babies are literally delivered by storks,
-the long history of the denigration of clowns,
-a consideration of the feelings of animals being exploited by humans,
-an extended deconstruction of what it is to be an elephant and the essence of "elephantness,"
-an ambivalent engagement with the crows as a depictions of black entertainers in the 1940s, and
-the nature of human cruelty and its connection with circus culture.