Oh, Snuka…will you never learn? Or rather, will plot convenience force you to forget anything you might have learned over and over again? An idiot ball is such a sublime burden.

He was trying to be helpful. Helpful! What was he thinking? Well, obviously he was thinking that there was a non-trivial chance the whole issue might go down without him putting his body on the line as life-bait in a sewer fishing expedition. Which, we can probably agree, is a shockingly naive belief for somebody who has been hanging with that crew for so long.

Reporting on an unidentified life-form in the sewers was simply absolutely bound to trigger the scientific research impulse in the Professor and Mopey. It’s a major character trait for both of them, they simply can’t help it.*

And given the past experiences the team has had with sewers, and how those have never been pleasant, it was obvious that they would chose a minimally invasive way to investigate the sewers. Drawing from an analogy with fishing, they quickly settled on a way that would require only one member of the team to be in a sort of danger or discomfort.

And, yeah…once it gets to the point where only one member of the team has to suffer pain or humiliation, there’s practically no question who that would end up being. It’s always Snuka, of course.

So, yeah, Snuka brought this onto himself, but he had good intentions! Appropriately so, since the road to his personal hell is paved with good intentions, just like the road to any other kind of hell.

More on Monday.

* Unless the plot absolutely requires them to, of course.