Or the Groovy Ghoulies? (Or is that Goolies?)

I haven't seen this episode, so I have no idea what anyone's talking about, but I'll just say that I think The Inferno is way too Catholic for the Protestant dominated revolutionary backdrop and assume the reference is to Paradise Lost.

No problem, doog, most Americans (United Statesians?) know jack squat about American history, so you're in blissfully ignorant company.

Yes, but did he say cool things like "This ends tonight"?

"I'm like you, a brother seamus."
"An Irish monk?"

In the first novel, Tarzan goes about totally nude until, as a young man, he figures out that he's human from the pictures in the books left behind by his dead parents.

@thisisnotaninternetmeme: I think Philip Jose Farmer already did this.

@Meander061:disqus :  Right, but since the Superboy punch was apparently able to undo the entire Crisis on Infinite Earths, we have to assume its effects would ripple beyond the DC universe into Marvel territory.

And really, is a drunken Irishman joke the best they could come up with.  Lazy, just really lazy.

Is "eating pudding" some kind of euphemism?

Yep, and Arness was an authentic badass.  That limp he had was no affectation.  He got it when his leg was shattered by machine-gun fire during, I believe, the battle of Anzio.

nudist?

There's an episode in which Matt rescues a little girl and a whorehouse madam who have survived an Indian raid. Matt tells the woman about Kitty and the Longbranch, and the madam asks him how much he shakes Kitty down for to let her keep the place open.  He answers, "All the law will allow."

Yeah, when Pat Robertson started the Christian Broadcasting Network, the bulk of the programming, at least on weekends, was old Western series.  As a result, CBN regularly racked up a higher body count than any other network.  None of that turn the other cheek, love thy enemies crap for Rev. Pat. 

@avclub-5bbc67c39fbdf1c74e28b86c595f6e4a:disqus : Same here. In the episode, Festus's friend is a mentally challenged man-child and does not know his own strength (as was the case with all mentally challenged man-children of 60s & early 70s era TV).  He cannot bear to see animals hurt (the frontier's only vegetarian,…

Zerbe's one of those actors who shows up several times in different roles on Gunsmoke (I think Morgan Woodward is the champ, followed by Victor French).  He had another good role as a bank robber who falls in love with a local woman, has a change of heart, and then has to face down his gang.

@avclub-5bbc67c39fbdf1c74e28b86c595f6e4a:disqus :  "The Deadly Innocent," cited in the article, is probably the episode you're remembering about Festus attempting to commit a friend to an asylum.  It's certainly a poignant episode, though the conclusion suffers a bit from sentimentality.

Not to mention showing up on Justified

Well, they just kept saying it week after week, so it was like they were taking perverse pleasure in getting my hopes up.  Also, I was about 4 years old at the time.

When I was a wee sprout back in the 60s, I would listen to the Monkees closing theme, in which they sang, "So you better get ready/ We may be coming to your town."  Then I waited.  And waited.  And waited.  They never came.  Bastards.