‘Bred Crumbs

I’ve been trying to come up with my dream lineup for How It’s Made, the fascinatingly mundane half-hour documentary series that I dare you to not find on your cable box right now. The typical episode covers four items that are either made or refined by a manufacturing process, devoting the same amount of time to all the items regardless of their relative size, scale, usefulness, or popularity. (Though the show has developed a bad habit of occasionally devoting two segments to one thing, though there ’s no predicting which special objects get this treatment.)

The dream lineup would be one that exhibits the typical, eclectically random mix of most episodes, but contains no topics already covered. Style points for sequencing. But since this is a "dream" lineup, the items do not all have to be made in Quebec, contrary to what must be the show’s only rule.

Here’s my lineup:

• Washing-machine agitators
• Snow globes
• Aircraft carriers
• Jerky