Before being elected to office, Turner spent their days doing the behind-the-scenes gruntwork of community organizing as a regional field director with the ACLU: planning workshops, leading trainings on college campuses, coordinating with dozens of volunteers.

The “Spiral” blend, or formula, is familiar: a well-paced and entertaining presentation of police gruntwork; a backdrop of administrative infighting and intrigue, which adds notes of dark humor; and the fraught personal lives of cops, prosecutors and lawyers, presented without undue sentimentality.

Flippy will handle the gruntwork, freeing employees to tidy the dining rooms and refill drinks, less arduous work that might make it easier to recruit and retain workers.

Why is it acceptable to send 3,000 kids to their deaths year in year out but it is not acceptable for drones to do most of the gruntwork and prevent loss of lives?

Titled The Simpsons Guy, it was a 45-minute clashing of The Simpsons and Family Guy where all the creative gruntwork came from the wrong side of the formula.