On Tuesday at the Democratic National Convention, Howard Dean brought us to the brink before cruelly denying us the greatest pleasure of all: His beautiful scream.

Dean—tan, healthy and apparently dressed for a funeral—said a bunch of words and then he recreated his famous pledge to take the fight to “COLORADO and IOWA and NORTH CAROLINA and MICHIGAN and FlORIDA and PENNSYLVANIA” but when it came time to scream “YEEAHEHHAHAHHHOOOW,” he... didn’t.

[There was a video here]

Here’s how things should have gone:

Now that’s more like it.