For The Pynchons S01E02: Slouching Towards Dignity, Enberg borrows from three storylines (Thomas Pynchon’s 1960 short story Entropy; that of The Simpsons local drunk, Barney Gumble; and tribulations of The John Laroquette show’s John Hemingway, a recovering alcoholic and bus depot night-shift manager) to build a material storyboard of consumption, entropic excess, intoxication, exhaustion and recovery