Odds/Ends: Help a reader out (or hire our old intern)

By Jason English |

A big thanks to Kevin Wildes of ESPN's SportsNation for name-dropping mental_floss on Bill Simmons' B.S. Report podcast. It was the highlight of yesterday's dog walk. (A close second: not getting sprayed by a rogue skunk.)
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Embedded video from CNN Video

Here's our latest CNN segment, where we chatted about Kara Kovalchik's article on the history of MTV. I skipped over most of the good parts, so you can read the whole story here.
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Earlier this week we hit 6,000 followers on Twitter. I don't feel any different. Maybe 7,500 will be a bigger deal?

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Are you hiring? Andréa Fernandes first joined us as an intern in 2007. She's been writing our 'Feel Art Again' column twice a week for almost two years now, and she's done a ton of work behind the scenes. She just graduated and is looking for full-time work. Your organization would be lucky to have her "“ besides being generally smart and driven, her greatest quality is her ability to get stuff done without asking lots of questions, and she won't require hand-holding. Send me an email (jason@mentalfloss.com) if you're interested and I'll put you in touch with her. (Or visit her website.)
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I got this email from a reader last night. Can anyone help him out?

Hi, this cartoon has haunted me since childhood and I can't find it anywhere now. Did I hallucinate it? I would have watched it in the early 80's. I'm guessing on a show like the Great Space Coaster, or Electric Company. Anyway, it's crude animation with a narrator. The narrator introduces a married couple and explains the husband doesn't like himself and wants to be someone or something else. He starts by using disguises to dress up as other people. This gets too easy and he starts to disguise himself as things. I remember an image of the wife putting a cup of tea down on a side table and, nope, it's the husband with a doily on his back. It gets so bad, the wife is never sure when he's around. One day the wife sees him sneak into the den and decides to lock him in there to teach him a lesson. Some time later, she unlocks it and he's not in there. It's just a room chock full of furniture. This is where it gets creepy and existential. The narrator says in a musing tone, maybe the husband got his wish and became something else and goes on like that for a bit. Very trippy when you're five.

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And finally, Charlotte would like to thank everyone who bought mental_floss onesies this week!