ext_1235 ([identity profile] thefourthvine.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] thefourthvine 2006-08-24 06:46 am (UTC)

Re: Horshack

I've never even heard of Welcome Back, Kotter. And Best Beloved, who usually knows all this stuff, is failing at the critically important task of getting the TV stuff.

(And, well, I probably am old enough to have seen it in first run - I'm 32 - but when you're thinking TV, you have to remember that I didn't watch any until I found fandom, and I still only watch stuff that a) has a major fandom and b) is available on DVD (or, occasionally, via download). (Or, the rarer option: c) was produced by the BBC and is thus 90% dialog anyway.)

And even now I don't watch nearly as much of it as I should, but I swear I'm honestly trying. I just don't have time, and TV is hard. I don't know how you people can watch more than a couple episodes each week; if I tried that, my brain would blue screen on me. One show and I'm generally totally exhausted, and that's a huge improvement from when I started.)

My point is: I almost never get TV references without footnotes. If it wasn't for Best Beloved, you people would wonder how I managed to operate a browser without federal assistance. (And even with BB's help, I manage to embarrass myself quite often, but that's okay; I'm used to it, and I've realized there's no alternative. In college, I tried to make lists and memorize all the TV stuff that everyone else knew automatically, but my brain is just not big enough. It was impossible; there were always, like, 18 billion more shows.)

But, hey! I learned something tonight! I'll get Horshack references from now on! (And bouncing up and down and begging to be called upon - which I would call a Feynman Maneuver, myself - makes for a much better mental image than a dance called the Whore Shack. So, so much better.)

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