So, me and the guys are sitting there one day, gorging ourselves on sushi, when I decide that I just have to share all about this incredibly terrible show I had just watched on Fox called Man vs. Beast. The show featured a hotdog eating contest between a skinny Japanese guy and a Kodiak bear (winner: bear), a race through an obstacle course by a U.S. Navy Seal and a chimpanzee (winner: man!), a world-class sprinter in footraces against a giraffe (winner: man!) and a zebra (winner: zebra), and a Sumo wrestler in a tug-of-war with an orangutan (winner: orangutan). The real show stopper though was (as Ronnie explains) a race between an Asian elephant and 44 little people to see who can pull a commercial airliner a certain distance the fastest. It was nuts!

The elephant won, by the way.

Anyhow, we all had a good laugh as I talked about this crazy show, in particular the especially exploitative use of little people, which led to a lengthy discussion of whether that’s the most PC term. “Little person” vs. “midget” vs. “dwarf”, y’know?

Which is when one of us got up to go to the bathroom or something, and noticed that there was a little person sitting right behind us — almost certainly having just sat there listening to the whole conversation while trying to enjoy his dinner, graciously refraining from asking us to shut up.

I remember feeling certain we had not said anything actually disparaging against little people — nothing like the above comic, I swear — but still . . . awkward!

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