Back in the eighties, I was complaining to a screenwriter that the situation comedies were difficult to understand and not funny. He explained that the writers usually were well-supplied with nose candy, and that the sitcoms were perfectly logical and quite hilarious if the viewer was coked up, too. State-dependent humor. Few things on television, reality, political comment, even news shows reach the standard of scientific accuracy of Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner cartoons; perhaps it is unreasonable to expect them to do so.