![]() They reward rewatching and reward analysis. These are not shows that are designed to be watched half-attentively. ![]() Things are different with BoJack Horseman and Rick and Morty. The essence of Frasier, as with most sitcoms, could be distilled into ten episodes or less without really missing anything-other than the comfortable feeling of slipping into the grooves of a well-worn routine. My partner and I have been watching old reruns of Frasier, for instance, and there is no possible academic project that would strictly require me to watch every single variation on their relatively narrow bag of tricks. Of course, this form of time-laundering is not always equally plausible. It was a great pleasure to rewatch all of BoJack in the last month with the ready excuse that it was for my research, a trick that I have been pulling over and over in the course of my academic career. You already provided me with the opportunity to publish my first peer-reviewed article on Star Trek-establishing me as an official Star Trek scholar, a title I brandish proudly-and here today you have given me a fresh chance to transmute my TV obsessions into academic productivity. ![]() Thank you, Gerry, for the generous introduction and the invitation to speak here today on this urgent topic. Events in both series have overtaken some of my claims, but I present it in its original form, for the record…. I was reminded of this talk last night, which I gave on February 18, 2018, at Marquette University at the invitation of Gerry Canavan, and realized I had never posted it anywhere.
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