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On screen, Season 15, Episode 6 was playing now. It was the one where Peter becomes a celebrity chef. The colors were washed out, the edges bled into each other, but Leo knew every joke by heart. He knew that at 12:03, Brian would make a cynical remark about society. He knew that at 18:47, Stewie would blow up a miniature helicopter.
Leo almost deleted it. 360p? That resolution was archaic—a fuzzy, low-bitrate relic from the era of dial-up tones and chunky monitors. But nostalgia is a powerful solvent for stubbornness. He double-clicked.
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The video opened with the grainy, compressed roar of a lion, pixelated into a mosaic of muddy browns and blacks. The audio crackled. Then, Peter Griffin’s familiar, idiot-savant voice cut through the static: "You know what really grinds my gears?"
He stared at the screen for three minutes. Then three dots appeared.
