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You may have missed it among any (poorly timed) April Fools' Day pranks, but Wednesday was Census Day, that time of year where your residence starts counting for the 2020 census. _Full
Frontal_'s Samantha Bee did not forget. On Wednesday's show, filmed in the woods, Bee said — no doubt accurately, in many cases — that you've probably received a letter from
the U.S. Census Bureau already and dropped it "in your mail quarantine pile." "If you open it, you'll find an ID code that, for the first time, lets you fill out the
census online," Bee said. "It shouldn't take more than 10 minutes — and I do know that you have 10 minutes right now." Since the census is so "incredibly important
to fill out," Bee said, she commissioned a song from rapper and filmmaker TT the Artist to explain why, with help from _Full Frontal_ animators Daniel Spenser and Cassidy Routh. The
Census Bureau is legal compelled to finish collecting information about every American by Dec. 31, but it suspended field operations two weeks ago to assess the safest way forward amid the
coronavirus pandemic. If people fill in their census forms online, fewer census takers will have to start knocking on doors starting in mid-April or May. As of the March 31, more than 38
percent of households had already answered the census questions. In case you didn't watch TT the Artist's song, the decennial census determines the number of U.S. House seats and
Electoral College votes each state gets, plus the amount of money from the federal government. SUBSCRIBE TO THE WEEK Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis
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