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Yes, I do watch a lot of old TV

One of my sidekick's many amazing super powers is the ability to be ignorant of virtually every culturally-significant piece of media produced in the past hundred years. I have no idea how. They lived in England until she was two, then moved back to the US, and no, they aren't weirdly religious -- her father sailed a desk in the Navy for a quarter century and her mother used to ride herd on middle schoolers. She just somehow managed to grow up in a bubble with a television that would only tune in PBS. I, and occasionally other people, have made it our mission to show her all of these random things, from whence all the weird quotes and references come. Answer to obvious question: Moggie also has the magical ability to pay some fucking attention to the world around her. She figured out approximately what a flux capacitor was about a decade before we realized she had not actually seen Back To The Future, and told her to apply her butt to the couch and watch it or else . She made...