Rick V, in Natter -- not posted because it's knee-slappingly hilarious, because it deserves immortalisation for other reasons:
About a year after the student suggested, and then dropped, the project I was surfing my six television channels, and I came upon an interesting scene. A discouraged group of characters was preparing for some challenge. The interesting thing was not the individual characters, but the way that they violated television conventions by being together as a group. There was a middle-aged intellectual. Ten full minutes went by without the intellectual saying anything pompous and irrelevant or doing anything physically clumsy for the others to ridicule. No, contrary to all television conventions, he was a valued member of this group. Next to him was an aging punk rocker who seemed a bit too weary to back up his bad attitude. There was a earth-mother hippy girl who seemed to be overdosed on psychedelics, and a couple of other young people. Strangely, the leader of this motley group appeared to be a blonde sorority girl. Ok, that's not impossible on TV. This could be an after-school special designed to increase the self-esteem of little blonde girls everywhere by showing one of them as an effective leader. But the thing is, the girl was really bad at leading. She sucked being the leader, and everyone knew it. But they all accepted her as the leader anyway. The psychological and emotional shading in the relationships was very complex for a television show. Then the punk rocker tosses in an allusion to Henry V. On network television! Finally I realized, 'This is the show that those smart people were talking about on the internet!"
Twenty minutes later the blonde girl was dead and the series was apparently over. But I wanted see what the internet people had to say about it. So I tracked down the Buffistas.
Welcome home, Rick.