DS9 S01E16 S01E15

    • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      1 month ago

      Yesss! I AM NOT A NUMBER! I AM A MAN! My first girlfriend in college had a bunch of BBC VHSs: AbFab, Python, and, yes, the Prisoner. I think I remember a strange cross over episode where one of the Pythons was being chased by a blancmange, which I thought was for sure a reference to their weird capture orb from the Prisoner–hell given how Python was always raiding BBC supplies, it might have been the exact same orb.

      But I probably would have found it otherwise; it’s not commonly referenced, but when it is, it’s like, “holy shit, what is this about? this is definitely something specific.” I’m guessing the Council of Ricks took some inspiration.

      • DagwoodIII@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        There’s an old joke about a theater critic who derides Hamlet as ‘nothing but a bunch of clichés strung together.’

        This show is nothing but a bunch of tired tropes strung together.

        • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
          4·
          1 month ago

          Yes, I think there was a TV Tropes page about that phenomenon I think called something like “Seinfeld isn´t funny.” Could also have been called, “Tolkien was a total hack.”