Yeah, I love that episode: "well, my job is to fill the candy machines."

But even more than that, I love Ira and whatsisname the other guy flipping out when they hear something that sounds like an alarm.

Doesn't Michelle Shocked serve on that carrier?

I hear that this week's TAL is going to be a rebroadcast of Habeas Schmabeas. All the better to get members of Congress in the mood for May 1, and the push to revise the MCA.

I have to ask: why are there vending machines on a warship? Couldn't they just have an open fridge policy?

That would be un-American.

4: Otherwise, the first person to get there after the reload gets all the Reese's peanut butter cups and hoards them.

1: Reminds me of Z Shift on board the Jupiter Mining Corporation ship Red Dwarf. Their job was vending machine maintenance; a job so unpleasant and tedious that even the robots refused to do it.