community. referentiality.
Apr. 28th, 2012 06:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
boxofdelightsI don't watch Law and Order, so I didn't catch those references in this week's Community, but there was a joke in there for me: when Annie called the unblooming yam "A big orange splotch on your perfect record!" I don't know why this tickles me so much, but Community + Pinkwater! Of course!
The older I get the more everything seems to refer to everything else. Possibly because there are more stories in my brain for each new story to refer to. Possibly I am just going crazy. Referentiality tickles the pattern-making part of my brain even when I know it is meaningless. (The Big Orange Splot reference is not meaningless. It tells you something important about Annie's character and, I hope, her character arc.)
The older I get the more everything seems to refer to everything else. Possibly because there are more stories in my brain for each new story to refer to. Possibly I am just going crazy. Referentiality tickles the pattern-making part of my brain even when I know it is meaningless. (The Big Orange Splot reference is not meaningless. It tells you something important about Annie's character and, I hope, her character arc.)