When Donuts Make People Go Nuts

Posted by The Editorial Desk / Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Before Monk. Before Private Practice. Before Ned and Stacey.

There was Wings.

NBC’s oft-disparaged sitcom (I was a huge fan) focused on the eccentric-to-borderline-dysfunctional folks who endured the daily indignities of operating a tiny Nantucket airport.

Week after week, this insane asylum of a workplace would spiral into bedlam at the drop of a hat–like when a bungled breakfast order devolved into a holiday hostage crisis:

(Video: YouTube)

The lesson here: breakfast IS the most important meal of the day. (Particularly when the rest of your life is swirling down the crapper.)

–Warren

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