Damn Flanders.

I've adopted this line to describe popular perceptions of the Middle Ages to my students. I'm not sure any of them have ever recognized it.

I've met far too many people who say it was formative to their conception of friendship.

@avclub-85d8ce590ad8981ca2c8286f79f59954:disqus You know, when the episode aired, the best-known Trek reviewer at the time posted a really pissed-off review accusing it of pretty much that.

Still, she's not that much worse than Lwaxana Troi…

@avclub-b3fe4f5a8793b5499e143cdf1253caff:disqus I was still in grad school when I turned 30 and felt like a massive failure on account of it! (It wasn't entirely my fault — my adviser died right after I started my dissertation — but still.)

You're a galactic treasure, @avclub-08583010875140f818fcc80783f3a15f:disqus (also, we can totally tell from the video).

Also compulsive gamblers!

Bitter, snarky Vorta are the best Vorta. Well, after Weyoun. He's snarky, but he's also perky.

I'm really surprised it took them 24 years to get around to doing Freaks! I am guessing they forgot they hadn't done it, because it's the type of movie I assume the writers in the early years would love, based on stuff they say in the DVD commentaries.

ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD

Jonson doesn't get anything like enough love. Okay, so maybe he's something of an acquired taste, but seriously, The Alchemist is amazing, as is Epicene, and I don't care what anyone says, I love Bartholomew Fair.

Don't forget that Shakespeare probably contributed to Sir Thomas More as well, with Anthony Munday et al. In fact, the argument for Shakespeare's expansion of The Spanish Tragedy hinges on the relevant pages from More being in Shakespeare's hand (it has to do with characteristic spellings/misreadings by printers on…

Whenever I teach the Henry IVs I tell my students they're getting an intensive crash course in Elizabethan dick jokes.

@avclub-04d524031f29c89d78cae864bd6f0de7:disqus Well, the whole point of "Paper Moon" is that Vic and his milieu are a fantasy, so yeah, he was well-used there. But some of the stuff they do with the program afterwards is pretty terrible.

But if we'd been able to hear it performed, we'd all have noticed! Weak eyes, good ears.

The one thing that sticks with me from Resurrection is the scene with mirror Bareil slicing that weird pudding. I hadn't watched this episode since it originally aired, which was, what, 15 years ago? And I still remember the damn pudding.

Of course, in this context it would actually be appropriate and thus not as funny. ;)

It works on so many levels!

That doesn't explain why you ate my soap! Wait, maybe it does.