He wanted to say that perhaps that was the reason the Bureau wanted them to to crazy; it was actually an undercover capitalist agenda sponsored by some hair dye company! But ever time he tried to say it the words kept getting caught in his throat.

Guess he couldn't even tell a joke like that, considering some part of him knew it wasn't true.

"See, I've been trying to do that," he says, rather than saying it wasn't any help. "Maybe I've just been using the wrong activities to take breaks with. Like, I start sketching and then I end up getting too engrossed in my drawing to get back into the homework groove."