"If you're allergic to animals, please let me know now, so we
can work around that."   Yeah, that was my hand that went up,
and that was my voice shrieking about being allergic,
specifically to bears. Like, at some point in my murky past, I'd
been deliberately tested for bear allergens. I got shots and
everything. Oh, and yelling to the world that I was on the rag,
even though I wasn't. The rest of the background pool looked at
me with eyebrows raised, and laughed at me. Go ahead and laugh,
suckers. I'll be safe up here in the bleachers, and you'll be
bear snacks.  The filming got underway, with me cowering up in
the topmost row of seats, shivering. The scene was about the
beer that Drew & Oswald had invented, the one with caffeine in
it. Can't remember what it was called on the show, as I only
ever watched that one episode. (Yeah, to see if I could spot
myself. Shut up.) And the gimmick is that the bear is drinking
the beer at the beer convention they're all at.  So the trainer
puts the bottle into Chuckle's