Yay, Television Without Pity

[wshaffer]

Television Without Pity has not entirely deserted me. They've had Jacob do a one-shot recap of the entirety of Doctor Who season 3. It's like concentrated Jacob-recap, which means it has wordplay and Gnosticism and Kabbalah and is completely mad. A sample:

So out of nowhere, Bootstrap Maggie goes, "Buffalo buffalo buffalo, buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo." Meaning, those buffalo who are buffaloed by buffalo often turn out to buffalo other buffalo, who are also historically buffaloed by their fellow buffalo. What it means is that everybody lies to everybody else -- that there's always another head on the totem pole, below yours. And above. What it means is that "buffalo" is the password to language: verb, object, subject, noun, adjective. To buffalo, I buffalo, you buffalo, we buffalo. And if I'm tricking you, and you're tricking somebody, if we're all the buffalo that buffalo buffalo, we're all in the same trap. The only way out is to rise: to tell the truth. Bliss would call the buffalo a symbol of the Doctor, because Bliss thinks everything is a symbol of the Doctor, and vice versa. Bless Bliss, we used to say. Bless Bliss. But she's right about that, too: he's the key you turn in the lock called everything, the password to the whole world. Verb, object, subject, noun, adjective: the Doctor doctors, I doctor, you doctor, we doctor. He's the buffalo. The last of them.

And the really mad thing, is that I almost understand what he's getting at there. Bless Jacob.

Comments

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

It made me have to use this icon. Hee!

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

I've always loved that sentence. I think eight repetitions of the word are the max you can use to have a coherent sentence, and you have to specify that the buffalo live in Buffalo.

By that point everybody else is backing out the door slowly anyway.

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