Lake Wobegon

Clint Bunsen, one of the old reliables in Lake Wobegon, has run the Fourth of July parade for six years, turning the event into such as dazzling spectacle that it has earned the attention of CNN, but when Clint announces his run for Congress, the town remembers some unfortunate episodes of his life.

A mysterious virus has infiltrated the good people of Lake Wobegon, transmitted via unpasteurized cheese made by a Norwegian bachelor farmer, the effect of which is episodic loss of social inhibition. Mayor Alice, Father Wilmer, Pastor Liz, the Bunsens and Krebsbachs, formerly taciturn elders, burst into political rants, inappropriate confessions, and rhapsodic proclamations, while their teenagers watch in amazement. Meanwhile, a wealthy outsider...