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In the eerie quiet before the impending writer (and potential zombie) strike storm, few of us have truly allowed the implications of such a story-breaking and brain-eating stoppage to fully sink in. The Gays, however, have long been anticipating this day. Like stalwart, Cold War-era survivalists, they've lined the walls of their flawlessly appointed fallout shelters with enough canned Dean & DeLuca delicacies to sustain them through the long, Ugly Betty-free winter ahead. AfterElton.com sugarcoats nothing in detailing what they can expect:

First to be affected would be talk shows. As early as next week there would be no more David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, or Jay Leno. [...]

Also immediately impacted: Saturday Night Live. Amy Poehler says the show has no backlog of scripts so, "Boom — our show just shuts down." [...]

[I]f a strike is called tomorrow most shows have four or five scripts in the hopper. Expect your favorite series such as Brothers & Sisters, Ugly Betty, et. al. to run out of new shows by early January.

While circumstances are indeed dire for story-loving gay men, perhaps no group is better equipped to handle a creative blackout: Conditioned from an early age to entertain themselves using whatever non-traditional materials were at their disposal, they'll simply fill their leisure time much as they did in their childhoods—wiling away the primetime hours hosting Barbie tea parties beneath their covers, or subjecting the family pet to humiliating runway fashion shows.