Somewhere around this point, the fans of the show start wondering how the hell they're still getting away with it, and why hasn't ImpSec arrested everyone? So there are all these conspiracy theories out there about how they were kidnapped and brainwashed, or they'd been working for the government all along, or it's a Cetagandan plot (no this one doesn't make sense even to them) and the show's been government propaganda all along.
Thus Duv (Duv Mitchell, not Duv Galeni, although Galeni's the one who has to sell it to Simon) convinces them to do an All Propaganda Special Episode, wherein they tearfully confess they're working for Impsec, flash up "subliminal messages" that say OBEY every three minutes, and do such terrible patriotic routines that it goes all the way around from unfunny to hilariously bad to propaganda again.
It's widely considered their best episode yet and leaves everybody completely confused, but the eventual consensus is that nobody (especially Simon...) cares if they're ImpSec as long as they keep being that funny.
They do an ALL PROPAGANDA LIVE TOUR SPONOSORED BY BARRAYARAN IMPERIAL SECURITY on Komarr and sell out...they win an award in absentia at the Betan Comedy Festival. The Cetagandans can't figure out how they're doing it. This is not how propaganda is supposed to work, dammit!
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Somewhere around this point, the fans of the show start wondering how the hell they're still getting away with it, and why hasn't ImpSec arrested everyone? So there are all these conspiracy theories out there about how they were kidnapped and brainwashed, or they'd been working for the government all along, or it's a Cetagandan plot (no this one doesn't make sense even to them) and the show's been government propaganda all along.
Thus Duv (Duv Mitchell, not Duv Galeni, although Galeni's the one who has to sell it to Simon) convinces them to do an All Propaganda Special Episode, wherein they tearfully confess they're working for Impsec, flash up "subliminal messages" that say OBEY every three minutes, and do such terrible patriotic routines that it goes all the way around from unfunny to hilariously bad to propaganda again.
It's widely considered their best episode yet and leaves everybody completely confused, but the eventual consensus is that nobody (especially Simon...) cares if they're ImpSec as long as they keep being that funny.
They do an ALL PROPAGANDA LIVE TOUR SPONOSORED BY BARRAYARAN IMPERIAL SECURITY on Komarr and sell out...they win an award in absentia at the Betan Comedy Festival. The Cetagandans can't figure out how they're doing it. This is not how propaganda is supposed to work, dammit!