Marashian agrees. "It's hell every other week and it's a big high twice in two hours. I feel like Al Bundy on acid."

He Knows All the Words

Although Aron and Gailiunas deliver a political message, their main goal is to have fun. And the crowd, as well as the actors, do just that.

"I know all the words to the Joe Blunsten song," says Byard.

"Joe Blunsten is better than sex," claims Maya Nedkarni '92, who plays Peppermint Blunsten.

Some offer more sophisticated praise. "It's more fresh and experimental than most drama at Harvard," said Mary M. Mitchell '92. "A lot of Harvard experimental theater ends up being selfconsciously avant-garde."

Although most of the cast and audience hails from Adams House, Gailiunas says, "We didn't want [the show] to be an Adams House thing. We avoid Adams House in-jokes."

"It's taken a little bit of time for word of mouth to get around, but I've heard talk of it in my house," says Daryl C. Norcott '94, who trekked from Cabot to see Get a New Job, Joe Blunsten.

Unfortunately, the fourth episode may have been the last. "We may do a reunion episode next term, but [the show] has run its course, with people writing theses," says Marashian.

In the meantime, the fans who get their triweekly fix while missing their other favorite sitcoms, escaping homework or getting an early start on their weekend will have to wait.

But, as Selvaratnam comments, whether it is truly over, or not, Joe Blunsten will always be "the kind of thing that in 10 years people will look back and think, 'that was really cool.'"