Labor Day was often considered the beginning of fall, as well as the general start of "no fun", at least according to young children. At least Animalia had a number of funny things happening to keep people from being bored.
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Mieni Atoll, for example, had a really funny incident of a guy who wipes out while surfing and somehow loses his swimming trunks swimming back to the surface, then didn't realize it until he started surfing again. This was filed away in the Animalia Archives as a "Rare, exotic naked tourist."
There was also a case where a Japanese news reporter was doing a story on Anka Islet and accidentally got "photobombed" by two naked tourists heading to another part on the islet. This was removed from the story, but given to the Animalians to laugh about later, because that was done with these kinds of accidental clips.
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There was also a rather amusing one that was recorded in the staff lounge at Claw Coliseum. Lydia was getting her lunch ready when she opened a can of fish. When she did, everyone in the staff room were instantly floored with burning nostrils and watering eyes.
When asked about it, Lydia explained that it was "surstromming", a kind of pickled herring from Sweden, where she was from. A comment from the website described it as: "Depending on the reactions, it's definitely an acquired taste."
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There was also one from just before the return to college where one football jock from UNLV decided to allow himself to be used as a training dummy, with full protective gear, for one of the more famous martial arts moves: the one-inch punch. Since this was part of the child's martial arts after-school classes, they all thought that it was pretty funny for Shao Hua to send him out of the ring and into the wall with just one one-inch punch.
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There was one relatively minor one that both poked fun at one of the more common internet video types, got a lot of laughs, and showed some philosophy about free will.
One guy placed a cucumber near a cat Animalian's elbow while she was at lunch and got a camera on his phone rolling. When she saw it, then saw him, she picked the cucumber up and went over to her.
"And just what were you trying to prove with this?" she asked him.
"Trying to see if cat Animalians were afraid of cucumbers like feral ones are on the internet." said the guy, a little surprised.
"I see," said the cat Animalian, "you have now made your choice and now you must eat it." When she said 'you must eat it.', she jammed the cucumber into his mouth. While it was really funny, and the video did generate more than a million views on the internet, the cat still had to deal with an after school detention.
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One funny way that Beth dealt with some unwanted would-be suitors at college was actually quite creative:
First, she put an old metal car bumper from the metal shop, which was found in a junkyard, in her bed (not without easy removal later) and covered it with a blanket to make it look like she was taking a nap in bed, then set a hidden camera in the corner. When two of them came into her room, they tried to dogpile her in her bed and hit the car bumper instead and ended up with sore heads.
When she returned to her room and found the two of them still stunned, she managed to ask the question that would turn this into a AFV video for fall: "What were you guys smoking to think that would work?"
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Another amusing thing from congress, much to the president's chagrin, was the report on how Lily had successfully detoxed from her marijuana addiction during her pregnancy. This seemed to cause yet another bill lock-up, with senators, from both parties, who were more focused on the War on Drugs in America, and especially the heroin crisis, setting up an argument for using the Animalia Virus to combat the drug epidemic. While Simon's solving of The Mystery of the Tainted Paints did cause it to decrease, it wasn't decreasing fast enough for these people. However, Horizon was waiting for "the bill to be passed" before committing anything, but there was one wrinkle
Sophie and Roland, during waiting out the Storm from Nowhere, managed to get someone for the dimetrodon grandis part of Project Dinotopia. Elizabeth was a librarian in Florida who had become addicted to the opioid painkiller Oxycontin during the 90s, but remembered when Herbert Hoover was one of the most respected names in America. Her subsequent conversion, and the fact that she had officially shortened her name to Lizzie and was dancing at the Meat Market, did a lot to confirm that female RH-SD was linked to the reversal of menopausal symptoms.