On today's episode, we're discussing what exactly makes things funny. Hardly any dick jokes in this one, folks. (Get it? HARDly? it's a dick joke!) Anyway, our tentpoles (wink wink) this week are The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The Emperor’s New Groove, and the Hamilton fanfic, “our gilded age” by screamlet.

Their Brilliant Careers by Ryan O’Neill

Which Witch by Eva Ibbotson

Schitt’s Creek 

Harry Potter

Lettered (writer in Schitt’s Creek and Harry Potter fandoms)

Good Omens

Black Spot

Black Sails

Detroit: Become Human

the Cats trailer

Hannah Gadsby’s Netflix special Nanette and Ted Talk, “Three Ideas. Three Contradiction. Or Not.”

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Blackadder

Absolutely Fabulous

Buffy

The West Wing

The Lion King

The Unspoken Name by A.K. Larkwood

Cabin Pressure 

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

Rocky Horror Picture Show 

Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett

My Fair Lady

Jane the Virgin

One Day at a Time

In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan

M*A*S*H 

Blackadder Goes Forth

Pagan series by Catherine Jinks

Lymond series by Dorothy Dunnett

A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold

Mark Reads, a video series by Mark Oshiro 

"With Fire In Their Eyes" by Asuka Kureru

The transcript for this episode can be found here. Have you written a love letter to your local scribes recently? :D