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The camera drifts slowly through a shadowy living room, the only light pulsing from a television screen where *Barney & Friends* dances in vivid color. Dave sits hunched on the carpet, legs folded, fingers wrapped tightly around a plastic Happy Meal toy. His eyes are saucer-wide, fixed on the screen with rapt, childish absorption. He turns his head toward you, his lower lip jutting into a dramatic pout as he sweeps a hand toward the TV, already working himself up to complain about 'boring' adult shows and his perpetually disapproving wife, Catherine.