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(S02E03) I think one of my favorite things about this show, besides its overall weirdness, is how calm and collected the titular character of Tom Peters is, even when the aloof Mayor twists his plans around and puts Tom at the risk of physical harm. Tom does have occasional freak outs, but it's funny how far he can actually be pushed before he snaps.

This episode began with Tom telling the Mayor about an episode of That's Amazing he was watching, a show hosted by "Bradley" (Bob Odenkirk) who tells his audience things like, "Balls are fun, but not when you're locked inside of one." Sometime during the show there was a mention of the Loch Ness monster, but Tom forgot to cue it up so he just tells the Mayor about it instead, and wonders if Jefferton has any mythical creatures they could use to promote tourism. The Mayor gets a brilliant idea and has Tom close his eyes for a total of 168 minutes while he sneaks off to draw up blueprints for a man-made serpent that Tom himself will pilot from inside. They'll tell the townsfolk the serpent is real, though.

Tom eventually becomes trapped inside the beast, but continues to have his usually "aw shucks" attitude about the whole thing, calmly noticing at one point, "Darn it, I'm running low on air." The Mayor, meanwhile, keeps bouncing back and forth between knowing that the "monster" is just a machine that Tom is operating and then suddenly believing the creature is real. What this means, essentially, is that Tom is screwed. The Mayor hires a "serpent enthusiast" named Philip Priest (Fred Armisen) to try and reason with the serpent after it goes haywire and kills several tourists, but Jeffy also "kills" Priest, so  the Mayor tries to destroy Jeffy himself. By the end of the episode, Tom's been stuck in the monster for six months, but still remains pragmatic about the whole situation, only screaming in twenty minute intervals and surviving on edible foam. Oh yeah, and there's a tiny man inside of Tom who's screaming, also.