"C.K. Dexter Haven! Oh, C.K. Dexter HAAAAVEN!"

Liberty Valance!

Napoleon Solo
Miles Edgeworth
Hercule Poirot
Havelock Vetinari
Bathsheba Everdene
Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov
Mordin Solus

This was touching and hilarious and thought-provoking, like all the best Black-ish episodes. Ruby was perfect, and so was Junior. (When he t'd up his dad it actually made me gasp, even though I really should have seen it coming.)

I totally lost it at the chalk dust toss.

Dre does have two teenagers. How old is Zoe, 17? She's old enough to have watched Jimmy Neutron, it was on until 2006, apparently. Junior's a little young, I guess, but maybe they had the movie on DVD.

Zoe didn't have a lot to do in this one, but the look of sheer delight on her face when Dre is demonstrating his throat punch move on Junior in the car was one of the highlights of the episode for me.

This reminded me a bit of the great M*A*S*H episode "Point of View," although I don't think it worked nearly as well. (That was the one shown entirely from the first-person perspective of a soldier with a throat wound who couldn't talk.) On M*A*S*H, they used the format experiment to show a different perspective on…