Tonight's episode concerns the boys' attempts to earn or cadge money for a history-class's field trip, while sneaking Acerelo's grandmother's medicine past a border of thugs.

Here a troupe of actors repetitively and obsessively works through character studies culled from scenarios that range from the broadly physical slapstick entertainment that was part of Irish wakes a few centuries ago to the life of Birdie Jo Hoaks, a twenty-fiv e-year-old woman who passed as a thirteen-year-old orphan boy to cadge welfare benefits in the mid-'90s.

One way these congressional staffers use their power is to cadge free travel from organizations with a keen interest in pending legislation.