there is a tie that binds

plausible deniability remains highly erotic

let's convince ourselves that this is okay. let's rely on technicalities to exonerate ourselves. let's avoid looking what we're doing in the eye. let's live under its shadow, both aware of what this is but unwilling to say it out loud, since that will shatter the careful illusion we've built

2025 thirty rock episode cerie calls jenna's new belt 'so cunt' and jenna immediately clings to this new young slang but only uses it to the crew who does not know its a compliment and become more and more offended. meanwhile jack has discovered generative AI and think it would be fantastic for script writing. liz is deeply morally offended by this implication but is distracted from her moral stance by the crew starting an uprising against jenna, calling her a misogynistic pig. jenna is beside herself about the 'pig' bit. pete begins to implement the AI behind liz's back because he doesnt give a fuck. the AI is only referencing news items that have not happened and tracy's real scandals, as a result tracy begins to believe that the AI is alive and wants to kill him. kenneth strongly believes that god is communicating with him through the AI chatbot. dot com refuses to help tracy because he is strongly morally opposed to the idea of AI in the arts and has expressed this to tracy many times. kenneth convinces jack that the AI chatbot is god, jack begins to confess his sins and the bot starts to use them to write skits for the show. liz sees what is happening but thinks that using these skits is the only way to make jack see that AI cant write for the show and save the writers jobs. tracy digs through his dressing room floor and stabs through the ethernet cable to kill the bot after learning the layout of the internet. the show is cancelled that week due to pulling funding from network television.