That episode is great but also bothers me.
I get the idea of their communication all being based around metaphor and analogy, but you’d still need a way to communicate new concepts to people who don’t know the stories already, like children for example.

I’m here all week for outdated takes on late 80s/early 90s TV shows, if you’d like.
( Aardvark and so at last, I understood, Mon 24 Nov 2025, 13:19, Reply)

no

( mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Mon 24 Nov 2025, 13:45, Reply)

When Norm smashes a bottle over Cliffy's head in Cheers,
was Norm smashing the red tape of the US Mail, or was it because he thought Cliff called him gay?
( $$ ✅, Mon 24 Nov 2025, 13:56, Reply)

I always thought that the bottle represented the phallocentric autocracy of the whole mail system
And Woody just meant "hard on*
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Mon 24 Nov 2025, 14:07, Reply)

That makes sense now
Even Frasier Crane rubbed his nobbin on the beer mats
( $$ ✅, Mon 24 Nov 2025, 14:08, Reply)

In the 80s you couldn’t show hardcore gay penetrative sex on primetime TV
so that was a metaphor.
( Aardvark and so at last, I understood, Mon 24 Nov 2025, 15:21, Reply)

Then George Went

( mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Mon 24 Nov 2025, 23:00, Reply)

^ mongychops and Aardvark on b3ta

(The Porcupine From Purgatory we of all lost both have them, Mon 24 Nov 2025, 15:20, Reply)