The weren't loose before the reupholstery, but I suppose a selective whack with rubber mallet here and there was in order. By that time, they were twenty years or more in age though, and no sigh of arms falling off.
Because they never ask him if he's sexually active and he doesn't give them a chance to ask about drinking after he goes on a twenty minute gloat about how he's been dry for years and years.
Didn't kill-joy look for you at Comic Con one year and somehow didn't see you? I always wondered how such a distinct character such as yourself could be invisible.