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Season 1, Episode 6: The U.F.O.: Avoiding Jargon

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Henry has written an incredibly superfluous sentence in his column whn, in short, he should have explained, ""As long as he lived, he loved her."" Morton warns him that he is using gobbledygook, language littered in ""government documents and the space agency."" That's too bad, because a UFO is about to crash into the Earth. The space agency sends the UFO an urgent message littered with gobbledygook, promting the UFO's plain response, ""Doesn't anyone [on Earth] speak English?"" Morton, Henry, and Miss Newton tell the space agency to send the message, ""Turn back before you destroy the Earth,"" which the UFO understands perfectly, and complies.

All Episodes - Season 1

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Episode 1
Stocky Mariano: Vigorous Verbs
 La Bellicosa: Adverbs
Episode 2
La Bellicosa: Adverbs
 Calling Dr. Kent: Concrete Nouns
Episode 3
Calling Dr. Kent: Concrete Nouns
 The Escaped Convict: Adjectives
Episode 4
The Escaped Convict: Adjectives
 Miss Grouse: Avoiding Clichés
Episode 5
Miss Grouse: Avoiding Clichés
 The U.F.O.: Avoiding Jargon
Episode 6
The U.F.O.: Avoiding Jargon
 The Foolish Suitor: Figures of Speech
Episode 7
The Foolish Suitor: Figures of Speech
 The Spice of Life: Variety in Word Order
Episode 8
The Spice of Life: Variety in Word Order
 Fragment Fred: Sentence Fragments
Episode 9
Fragment Fred: Sentence Fragments
 Slick Stagger: Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
Episode 10
Slick Stagger: Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
 King Kane: Misplaced Modifiers
Episode 11
King Kane: Misplaced Modifiers
 Paolo Carbonara: Subject-Verb Agreement
Episode 12
Paolo Carbonara: Subject-Verb Agreement
 The Making of Flaws: Active and Passive Voice
Episode 13
The Making of Flaws: Active and Passive Voice
 The Robber's Guide: Correlative Conjunctions
Episode 14
The Robber's Guide: Correlative Conjunctions
 Rhubarb Power: Pronoun Reference
Episode 15
Rhubarb Power: Pronoun Reference
 Henry Chan: Commas with Appositives
Episode 16
Henry Chan: Commas with Appositives
 Goodbye, Cruel World: Commas with Parenthetical Expressions
Episode 17
Goodbye, Cruel World: Commas with Parenthetical Expressions
 Miss Newton's Trial: Commas in a Series
Episode 18
Miss Newton's Trial: Commas in a Series
 The Bard: Commas with Introductory Adverb Clauses
Episode 19
The Bard: Commas with Introductory Adverb Clauses
 Peter Berton: Commas with Dates and Addresses
Episode 20
Peter Berton: Commas with Dates and Addresses
 The Comma Kid: Semicolons
Episode 21
The Comma Kid: Semicolons
 Irma Faust: Quotation Marks
Episode 22
Irma Faust: Quotation Marks
 Dracula's Defeat: Quotation Marks 2
Episode 23
Dracula's Defeat: Quotation Marks 2
 Comrades X and B: Apostrophes
Episode 24
Comrades X and B: Apostrophes
 Captain Kent: Hyphens
Episode 25
Captain Kent: Hyphens
 Cinderella Newton: Sit, Set / Lay, Lie
Episode 26
Cinderella Newton: Sit, Set / Lay, Lie
 Reginald Parse: Differ with, Differ from / Continual, Continuous / Imply, Infer
Episode 27
Reginald Parse: Differ with, Differ from / Continual, Continuous / Imply, Infer
 The Mad Bomber: Is Where, Is When
Episode 28
The Mad Bomber: Is Where, Is When
 You Bet Your Life: Already, All Ready / Further, Farther
Episode 29
You Bet Your Life: Already, All Ready / Further, Farther
 Lucretia: Like, As
Episode 30
Lucretia: Like, As
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