003: The Nimrod Cometh

Frame 1 - Jed is wearing a suit and tie and working at his computer in a cubicle. Nimrod peers over the top.

Nimrod: I see you still have a cubicle with "+5 Nerd."
Jed: Don't you work? Like, at a job?
Nimrod: One of the joys of teaching is that I have a surprising amount of off-time.
Jed: You're an Assistant Professor. I thought you did research during this supposed "off-time."

Frame 2 - A flashback. Professor Demetri Romanov is red-faced and screaming at his students while Nimrod happily watches.

Demetri: Fifteen years I work here! Knuckles bleed to bone! I am once working at largest nuclear facility in Russia before other idiots use my technology to create Night of Lepus! I am run out of country, come to work at this, eh...ah, what is word? Shit Factory! And still no tenure! They want research? Fifty page research paper from YOU by next week! I grade myself, like big man that I am! Idiot Assistant! Give all students big F. They earn their freedom the way I do! Through scabs on heart!

Frame 3 - Nimrod now stands behind Jed, leaning against the cubicle wall. Jed continues to face his computer.

Nimrod: The Senior Professor started drinking again.
Jed: He's a hero to us all.