Tim hates that show. It's a part of the sweeping misinformation of America, what happens when you show people of average intelligence something beautifully filmed and deftly edited in a clever little package with no real disclaimers about this all being theoretical. People tend to miss the more subtle verbal clues in the narration, because it's hard to appraise word choice when there's a well-rendered green alien on the screen.

The History Channel is one of the worst offenders. It's not quite the joke that The Learning Channel has become, but it still uses a belt sander to further erode the annals of history.

"Yeah, it did," Tim confirms. He doesn't even know what 'We're Back' is, but he knows that it lied. His father was an archeologist; he didn't have to rely on school to teach him about dinosaurs and other cool bits of ancient times. Even then, Tim's always been able to go to better schools, having spent time at a number of boarding schools.

It's not that he thinks Howard is completely uneducated. He acknowledges that dinosaurs are fascinating. That makes them one of the easier historical errors to fall into. People want to think that humans were using trained triceratops as cars. Tim thinks that public schooling needs to do a better job of stamping out this misinformation that pop culture spreads. A more informed person is more likely to view things critically, to take press releases with a grain of salt.

"They showed you what you wanted to see. It's not a bald-faced lie - the creators probably believe it themselves," he explains as he starts kicking at the counter. That cash register most likely had an ethernet cable, and Tim wants it for a makeshift rope. "But the truth is, over sixty million years separate dinosaurs and modern humans."

The counter has dry-rotted and caves in easily. Tim starts pulling free chunks of it and throwing it to the floor, looking for anything interesting.