... the writing of Bottom is mostly about the jokes. There's a clever interweaving of ideas, how something is mentioned, a joke is made, but then it is later referred back to, to make another joke. But there's a clever contradictory nature about these jokes, where one minute they say one thing, the next they are saying something entirely different. All that matters it that the joke is made.

So storywise, Bottom episodes are all over the place but it doesn't matter. But there's still a clear 3-act structure to them - and initial set up, a middle, a conclusion.

As for Kim Gordon, I think it's common for musicians to just play stuff and when they like something, build upon that. But Kim mentions her band Free Kitten and how people saw it as maybe a joke band and how she didn't have a lot of time to dedicate to it.

But I love Free Kitten and I've never seen it as some kind of ironic endeavour. Sure, it's kind of a loose-ends sort of thing, but that's what makes it great when it works.

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