Tucked in this Playboy profile of a con man who ripped off the Pentagon is this tantalizing nugget: A company claimed to be working on an adaptation of Road House, the 1989 Patrick Swayze vehicle and Cinemax staple.

In an epic-sized post over at the Team Fortress 2 blog, the Valve writing staff goes into great detail on how exactly their original vision for Meet The Sandwich morphed from a four-hour epic film into a minute-long short. It all comes down to the original script, which the executives trashed at the last minute.