Dr. Joel Eisenberg is Night Vale's only flying dinosaur expert. He was consulted when a group of pteranodons appeared through a portal and began attacking women who wore glasses. Unfortunately, he had still not recovered from his 2011[3] bout with throat spiders, and so was unable to grant any assistance.
A few years later, Joel has been in remission for almost 5 years before receiving a diagnosis of the recurrence of throat spiders. They eat most of his esophagus and gain the ability to speak in his voice, they however don't understand human language, so Joel ends up talking gibberish. Doctor Veronica Duff performs arachnid-dectomy on Joel, rebuilding his esophagus using a part of his intestine.[4]
Mentions[]
- Episode 4 "PTA Meeting": He has not yet recovered from his bought with throat spiders.
- Bonus episode 1 "Minutes": He used to be the teacher for the Freshmen Seminar at Night Vale Community College, until his extended medical leave.
- Episode 130 "A Story About Us": He attempts to perform the Heimlich maneuver on Thomas Charles, to no avail.
- Episode 152 "The Great Golden Hand": As part of Applebee’s visiting experts program, Joel prepares a "fun dinosaur presentation".
- Episode 153 "The Heist, Part 1": He is a bank patron and is there during the robbery.
- Episode 154 "The Heist, Part 2": He is a bank patron and is there during the robbery. He offered the robbers his wallet, to which they were pleasantly surprised.
- Live show #8 "A Spy in the Desert"
- Episode 172 "Return of the Obelisk": At some point previous to this episode, he won second place in a chili cook-off judged by Susan Willman.
- Episode 176 "The Autumn Specter": Cecil mentions how Joel and his partner Danny won the previous year's Costume Gala by dressing in a tandem outfit of a stegosaurus.
- Episode 184 "The Fog"
- Episode 192 "It Doesn't Hold Up"
References[]
- ↑ Episode 176 "The Autumn Specter"
- ↑ Episode 184 "The Fog"
- ↑ Contracted the previous year as of "PTA Meeting", broadcast 1 August 2012
- ↑ Episode 192 "It Doesn't Hold Up"