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Today I was going to talk about vigilantes taking out a town bully in the early 1980s, exercising before breakfast, nuclear fallout, and how when the economy tanks, companies dump less stuff into the air, but we're going to talk about the season finale of Burn Notice, a show about a spy who got fired because he was framed for a bunch of bad-spy stuff.

[Sort of Spoiler Alert] At the end of the episode, the hero ends up someplace cold. He's given a coat and sent out of a car onto a street, complete with snow on the sidewalks and lawns. He pulls his coat closer around him, and a man approaches. They proceed to have a conversation, but you can't follow it because you are too busy watching the ridiculous, cartoony-smoke vapor trails they emit when they speak. I suspect that someone told the intern to cook up some breath, said intern had never been skiing or anything and grew up somewhere warm, and suddenly it was too late to fix it. So, note to Burn Notice writers: if you have to keep up with effects like that, you'd really better step up the dialog.