And this proposal is truly as American as apple pie ...
*ahem*
... and cockroaches!
Back when the US had only 28 states, which puts it somewhere in 1846, as can be seen by the count of stars not masked by this big yellow narration box, there was another encounter...
Hey, I know you, you're Kafka's great grandfather. I've got something the kid might want to write about.
Well, just stew on it a bit. His parents aren't even born yet.