“I always thought that quicksand was gonna be a much bigger problem than it turned out to be.”

New in Town (2012), childhood anxiety / quicksand routine

Mulaney remembers cartoons making quicksand seem like a major adult-life hazard. He prepared mentally for it instead of ordinary adult problems such as relatives asking to borrow money. As an adult he has never encountered it, or even heard of practical quicksand warnings on a road route.