This past summer, Green, show writer Derek Harvie and cameraman Ray Hagel made a cross-country trip to shoot segments. What happened, and didn't happen, in one new segment cuts straight to the heart of Green's comedy. This is not pretty.

"We were driving from Whistler, B.C., to Prince George," he says, "driving all night. I was asleep in the back of the camper, and it was about six in the morning. Ray and Derek were up in the front and they saw it by the side of the road: a dead moose, pretty fresh. They woke me up and said, 'Hey, we got a dead moose here, so you better get up and get going.' It's cold and I'm all gorgeous in my sleeping bag, but I got up and started humping the moose and whatever. We shot an hour worth of tape, came up with a few stories. One was where I pretended the moose was asleep and I was trying to wake it up. Another was where I pretended I just hit it and people were pulling over to see.

"Then another idea came up -- you know in The Empire Strikes Back when Luke is freezing and Han Solo slices open the tauntaun and puts him inside? We had a jackknife and we were gonna open up the moose and I was gonna crawl inside, and when people pulled over to see, I'd pop out and say, 'I'm Luke Skywalker, I'm Luke Skywalker!' But it was too early in the morning, I was too tired and I held back. I said, 'No way, I can't do it, guys. We got a good one. I humped the moose.' We left, and I swear to God, I've been kicking myself ever since because that would've been some television history. That would've been a piece of comedy that we would've really been proud of."

The pang of regret in his voice is heartbreaking.