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Best Episode Ever

Best Episode Ever S8E17 - The Space Emperor who Drank Too Much

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Anth launches into Fireball XL5.

Dave roams into I Calvdivs.

Greg gets to know The Boy Who Drank Too Much.
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I know I saw I Clavdivs, because the one thing I clearly remember is Patrick Stewart with hair (!). (Also it led me to read quite a bit of actual Roman history over the years, which never was as exciting.) One out of three!
Rachel
I may have seen Fireball XL5, but I sort of lump all of those marionette shows together in my memory so I'm really not sure.....
Dave Brodbeck
After having been exposed to Kukla, Fran and Ollie in my childhood, I took great care to avoid all puppets and all puppet shows until the Muppets! (I was okay until then--at least, I vaguely remember being fine with Captain Kangaroo's puppets. But they weren't the whole show.)
Rachel
(I think I saw Kukla, Fran and Ollie on some thing or other they did on PBS, not the original series. But my parents put it on for us, and I thought it was AWFUL.)
Rachel
I liked the puppets on Mr. Rogers when I was little. Never was much for the muppets.
Dave Brodbeck
The Mr. Rogers puppets were very sweet, and I remember I liked them, too--but I remember them more from when my brother was little but by then I was a bratty teenager.
Rachel
I loved I, Claudius. I even read the two novels it was based on (I, Claudius and Claudius the God). My PhD supervisor is a Robert Graves expert. Graves was able to read his own obituary in the London Times. He was badly injured in WWI, and his parents were told he had died of his wounds. He didn't, of course, but they had already published his obit before they were told that he had, in fact, survived. Friend of Wilfred Owen's.
Steve "Doc Pinko"

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