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Viewers Are Geniuses

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Viewers Are Geniuses	comment	The public's been clamoring for some more intelligent television in the wake of Reality TV and Lowest Common Denominator Recycled Scripts. So, you go and write a series loaded with difficult quantum mechanics, quoting obscure 17th-century philosophers, with characters who are philosophical Magnificent Bastards who speak a dozen languages while conversing to each other by sending Shakespearean Zen koans hidden into chess move patterns, and packed with allusions to ancient Sumerian religion. You make sure all your Technobabble is scientifically plausible and go to great lengths to make sure all your ancient Roman soldiers are wearing exact replicas of period equipment. Now it's True Art, right? So you sit back and watch the ratings — which plummet faster than a rocket-propelled brick in a nosedive. What went wrong? In trying to avert making the classic mistake that Viewers Are Morons, you went too far and ended up assuming that they're geniuses instead. Of course, if you're working in a medium that doesn't need an audience of millions to be profitable, you may not care. While a lot less common than its more insulting opposite (any show without the "mass-market appeal" that the less high-brow stuff has will be Screwed by the Network without mercy), overestimating the audience can be more of a death knell than underestimating it, even without network sabotage. The opposite is also true: an intelligent, engaging work may lack any sort of references at all. There's also the trap of being so consumed with the complexities that you forget simpler things like plot and characterization. However, in the eyes of artists and some fans, this is a Justified Trope. There are many instances where a film with dense references and information provides an Unconventional Learning Experience, introducing high concepts in a dramatic, entertaining fashion. This empowers readers and viewers and makes them interested and curious in exploring offbeat ideas that they otherwise might have felt they are not educated to understand and accept, since many of them have internalized the Viewers Are Morons ideas and reflexively feel some movies or books are not for them. For instance, Joseph Campbell's Heroic Journey concept was fairly obscure before Star Wars used a Heroic Journey plot, which brought the concept into the mainstream. There's also changing societal norms to consider. The number of people with college educations is higher today than it was, say, in The '60s, so what used to be obscure becomes mainstream with the passage of time, and indeed, new genres and new storytelling techniques are created because audiences have become too smart for old plots and hackneyed clichÃ©s. In the case of some artists, the dense play of text and subtext for them is the reason why they make art in the first place, and they set out to fill it with Genius Bonuses and Rewatch Bonuses so that audiences can immerse themselves in understanding the work fully. Ironically, the reverse is also true. Art forms that we regard today as High Art like opera, classical music, poetry, and even Greek or Shakespearean tragedy were popular and commercial work in the day. Audiences across the class and educational spectrum had no trouble understanding and following these works. And indeed, they were all filled with topical and common references that audiences had no trouble following. It is this distinction which is why you see so much dissonance in understanding humor as a general topic. It is far easier for the Lowest Common Denominator to "get" a joke, if there is a clear "butt" of the joke. However, people who really follow humor aren't aiming to disparage people, but are instead in finding out the Twist Ending, or the Pun. The most successful way to do this may be to provide a Genius Bonus. If a writer gives the more intellectual content a small dose at a time, viewers can still enjoy the work at their level, but those who get the Easter Egg will enjoy its hidden depths. See also Faux Symbolism, Mind Screw, and Moon Logic Puzzle. Not mutually exclusive with Artistic License or Falsely Advertised Accuracy — just because a show is crammed with obscure knowledge doesn't mean that it is correct, even when it comes from the show to begin with. This can be the result of too many In Jokes being included in a work. See also Viewers Are Morons, the opposite side of the coin. When this trope and the latter trope conflict however, you can wind up with an Unpleasable Fanbase.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_11788bea	comment	In one example, he had Kevin Nash cut a promo alluding to a time in the past when a Canadian wrestler had allegedly refused to put Nash over (lose a match to him.) The intention was presumably to make WCW's dwindling audience think that Nash was talking about Bret Hart, since, apparently, Bret's the only wrestler to come out of Canada and/or the only Canadian wrestler who had ever refused to lose a match to someone. In fact, Nash was most likely referring to Pierre Carl Ouelette, who had been a 3x WWE World Tag Team Champion as a member of the Quebecers w/Jacques Rougeau in 1993-1994, but, aside from a meaningless cup of coffee with the WCW Hardcore Title, had not been involved in anything particularly relevant in years.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_12058c99	comment	Hark! A Vagrant deals with fairly obscure western history on a pretty regular basis... much of it [shudder] Canadian history, which even those of us who are Canadian aren't too familiar with.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_1253f289	comment	Many Dream Theater fans need to listen to their songs at least 3 times through to catch all the little details. Deciphering Scenes from a Memory could prove as a real challenge to those inexperienced to reading between the lines.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_14f9297e	comment	The Far Side actually became quite popular among academics for its realistic portrayal of the natural world, including a foreword in the 2nd Far Side Gallery by a PHD (specializing in slugs). To the point that paleontologists now actually refer to the spiky end of a Stegosaurus as the "thagomizer", coined by a cave man professor in one Far Side strip as "named after the late Thag Simmons". Another "Easter Egg" example is the "Cape Buffalo Fear" strip, coupling the animal with the then-recently remade movie for the obvious pun. This is made far funnier when the reader knows about the animal's propensity for getting revenge, to the point that they're the most deadly of the "Big Five" African animals.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_17af7793	comment	The climax of Trading Places involves a surprisingly complex commodities market scheme. However, earlier in the film, the Duke brothers explain the basic concept of commodities trading in such simplistic turns that Billie Ray gives an Aside Glance to the audience.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_19d740d8	comment	The Great Mouse Detective has got a very subtle one when it comes to Ratigan's Disney Villain Death. His foot slides on the clock hand of Big Ben when 10 p.m. strikes, causing him to fall to his death. You don't get it? We can't blame you. A not very well-known outside of England fact is that at 11 p.m., there is a little tune playing in Big Ben. An even lesser-known fact is that there are actually lyrics written for this tune. What are they?
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_1a95cc49	comment	His Border Trilogy (of which All the Pretty Horses is the first) has characters have whole conversations entirely in Spanish. There's a website where you can download a list of all of the translated dialogue, which you may need by your side during the reading.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_1c788346	comment	Through the Wormhole can easily slip right through people's heads like a neutrino if they don't already have a strong background on science. The experts on the show try to make the concepts understandable to normal people through analogy, but this usually confuses viewers further.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_1d1d9e9c	comment	Gorguts, starting with Obscura, are effectively the Technical Death Metal version of Captain Beefheart (see below). To understand their music properly it helps to have a working knowledge of death metal, Progressive Rock, Avant-Garde Music, twentieth-century Classical Music, and several other genres. A thorough background in music theory won't hurt either. (Bandleader Luc Lemay has acknowledged Dmitri Shostakovich and Krzysztof Penderecki as major influences on his writing, if that gives you any indication what you're in for.) To understand their lyrics, it helps to have a detailed understanding of history and various forms of mythology. Even with those under your belt, most of their albums won't even begin to make sense until you've listened to them at least ten times. They'll also be terrifying on the first several listens, even if you already have thorough familiarity with death metal.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_1d85a23d	comment	WWE commentator Matt Striker slips a ton of obscure references into his commentary. Most are designed so that they are bonuses for the hardcore fans, such as referencing past names that wrestlers have used. Sometimes, though, he goes for extremely obscure comments such as saying that Ghanian wrestler Kofi Kingston will be bringing his title back home to Prince Nana (a Ring of Honor manager who is the ruler of Ghana in that promotion's Kayfabe).
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_1e703d1f	comment	It is virtually impossible for a single viewer to correctly identify all of the music and pop culture references made in Gilmore Girls without looking them up. The cast would spend the majority of their readings just trying to figure out what the hell their characters were talking about, and eventually a book of "Gilmorisms" was distributed with the DVD sets to help aid curious fans.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_1e7bc8cd	comment	Some of the backstory and references in Sonic X: Dark Chaos are nearly impossible to understand without a theology major, historical research into the Bible and the Koran, knowledge of American right-wing Evangelical beliefs, familiarity with the works of HP Lovecraft, and knowledge of Christian and Jewish demonology. Some understanding of LaVeyan Satanism helps too. Not to mention the numerous shout-outs to the original Japanese third season of Sonic X - which was never officially released in the West and is much different than the western dub version.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_1f140feb	comment	The Silmarillion — J. R. R. Tolkien's epic history of Middle-Earth — needs the reader to have both a photographic memory and an understanding of pre-medieval Norse/Germanic naming conventions just to keep up with the characters that were introduced hundreds of pages previously but then turn out to have a child who married the child of the child of... okay, enough of that. There is a list of characters at the back though, along with family trees so you can see such things as how Aragorn is related to Celebrimbor.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_20b55945	comment	David's ex-boyfriend is a spot-on parody of a specific kind of art world hipster, and the show expects the audience to catch on to his Grey Gardens style intentions to humiliate Moira.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_2126592a	comment	Most viewers can enjoy Girls und Panzer for its story and presentation, but an extensive knowledge of World War II-era armored fighting vehicles, weapons, military tactics, and other wartime esoterica definitely helps. For instance, why is Leopon team called that, and why is that particular tank in the hands of the Automotive Club? You'd first have to know that a leopon is a hybrid big cat (leopard and lioness crossbreeding), and that their Tiger (P) tank uses a hybrid transmission (petrol engines mated to electric motors). You'd then have to remember that while the gun worked fine, the Tiger (P) was more infamous for its notoriously unreliable motive systems — it's with Automotive Club because no other team would have the time or patience to make it work.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_2275c659	comment	House is a textbook case. It started out this way, collecting a small but highly intelligent and medically-savvy fanbase on the official site, tended to include lots of Freudian themes and captured the overarching themes of "Everybody lies" and "No one is ever truly happy". Later on though, the writers began to appeal to the Lowest Common Denominator and skimp on the research.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_230ec9cf	comment	Tony's series 2 episode of Skins makes a lot more sense if you have a very strong understanding of Jungian psychology.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_2350acad	comment	Cheers and Frasier were unafraid to have obscure references and gags because the producers knew that the joke was that the erudite characters (Diane and Frasier in the former, Frasier and Niles in the latter) were confusing the hell out of the down-to-earth characters - and people who got the reference would get more mileage, but those who didn't would laugh at the contrast. Frasier gets a special mention for being one of the shows that pulled it off well while still getting high ratings. Frasier, Niles, and some of their highbrow friends frequently make reference to all manner of obscure, highbrow things, often within the subcultural worlds of opera, wine appreciation, and psychology. They're particularly fun of clever puns or sassy insults that show off their knowledge, though these can be difficult to follow for the un-elite.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_24003723	comment	Achewood is full of obscure references to pop culture, music, history, and foreign languages.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_24f727a3	comment	The Chess-centric YouTube channel agadmator operates under the assumption that anyone watching chess analysis of their own free will is smart enough and well-versed enough in the game to understand some very esoteric chess jargon, and uses such with cheerful abandon.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_25f6f1a0	comment	Umineko: When They Cry It has Ryukishi07 go on about the basics of Schrodinger's Cat, Raven Paradox, and Devil's Proof. He also makes lengthy articles about his philosophies of anti-mystery, cultural noise, and chessboard logic. And to top it off, he makes numerous references to famous mystery writers. However, his critics accuse him of not knowing what he's talking about, even when it comes to his own inventions. Counterargument: Shkanonyasutrice. The Second or, possibly, the Third.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons, particularly the first ten years or so, managed to do this from time to time while still managing to be hilarious to most people who didn't get the more obscure references. Indeed the show has a considerable Rewatch Bonus for younger people who come back and catch the Genius Bonus that passed them by on first viewing. The show's characterization is so strong a lot of viewers will laugh at jokes despite not completely grasping the subtleties of the underlying gag. For instance, Lionel Hutz hastily changing the punctuation on his business card from saying "Works on contingency — No money down" to "Works on contingency? — No, money down!" is funny simply as evidence of Hutz' shamelessness, even if you don't know what a lawyer working on a contingency basis is.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_26674ed5	comment	Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty delves into meme theory so deeply that it is used to teach meme theory. (That is, units of cultural transmission, not Internet memes.) Some parts of the plot were explained in later games, but those were the simple parts, not the parts involving Raiden as a deconstructive metaphor of the relationship between player and game, or the parts where the plot deconstructs itself to examine the game's nature as a sequel. Those were not explained at all.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_26698c5a	comment	The Name of the Rose includes monks arguing about classic Greek literature and philosophy, quarreling about medieval church dogma, and throwing untranslated Latin quotes at each other... yet all the discussions should be fully understood to get the whole book. Bonus points if you spot the deliberately anachronistic elements, such as the medieval narrator quoting Wittgenstein. The early line '"It was a beautiful morning at the end of November" is in homage to Snoopy's literary style in Peanuts.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_26ef42e7	comment	In Kevin & Kell, writer Bill Holbrook de facto left it up to the readers to chose Leona's wedding dress from five different options. A month and a half later, when Sheila bemoaned the fact that Leona's wedding dress was chosen by "strangers", the spirit of Leona's mother responded thusly:
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_2a67f290	comment	Spike Lee's 25th Hour has a deleted scene where a pair of gangsters explain the exact reasons why the protagonist has 24 hours of freedom. Pretty much every single review either couldn't figure out the reasons within the context of the film, or presumed that the 24 hours were not Truth in Television. They were, at least at the time.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_2a842e3a	comment	The Doctor Who Expanded Universe is notorious for this, often requiring a very good knowledge of "Doctor Who" history for this and referencing other parts of the EU, even if it may take place in a different continuity. Big Finish Doctor Who can be especially hard to follow with its mass of interconnected plots in a series that started in 1999 and has released a new audio every month, not counting the bonus releases and spin-offs. Slightly justified, as the DWEU is aimed at hard-core fans.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_2c7b78a6	comment	Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot got a title change because of this trope. The robot was originally called "giant" since he was compared to the rest of the characters in the setting but young readers informed author Dav Pilkey that since the setting is a Mouse World, the robot isn't actually a giant and requested the name be changed to the current. Pilkey has gone on record as being very impressed with this.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_2cd28570	comment	Serial Experiments Lain: The central theme revolves around highly technical aspects of computers and networking, and the series is a well-known member of the Anime Mind Screw Club. Several extended Jungian metaphors. "Lain's computer hardware is so cool. How come we don't get designs like those?" Lain lacks a plot at all until you do the research. The plot only emerges at all once you get to the point where you're looking at the patent file for Microwave Audio Induction and trying to figure out if on Schuuman Resonance frequencies it can be used to trigger individual action potentials (nb: Schumann resonance is actually a massive frequency range — the number given in the show of 7.83Hz is actually the median).
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_2f203125	comment	The Shin Megami Tensei franchise as a whole really does its research on world mythologies and religion. Your average player might be confused as to why Lucifer and Satan are two separate entities, and why you can find the latter chilling out with YHWH (the true name of God in Judaism) in Shin Megami Tensei 2...unless they know or find out that in certain interpretations, Satan is a separate character who basically acts as the devil on God's shoulder.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_3106477d	comment	The Phantom: Not all the time, but a lot of the stories told about past Phantoms are more enjoyable if you know your world history.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_3314d9a2	comment	Valkyria Chronicles II: Has a fun scene with Zeri and Julianna discussing Galia's world equivalent of Centrism.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_34b7ce64	comment	Very little of the plot of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is actually stated outright. Douglas Adams expects readers to connect several clues by themselves, to remember minor details from early in the book that suddenly become major plot points towards the end, and to be familiar with the life and work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The ending, in which Dirk Gently saves humanity from being erased from existence, is completely incomprehensible unless you know the story of Kubla Khan and the person from Porlock. Or you could have watched (or read or listened to) the Doctor Who serials "City of Death" and "Shada", since Adams basically reused their plots — even copying some of the dialogue verbatim. He gets forgiven since he was script writer, and the episodes he wrote initially didn't make it to air due to a strike at the BBC.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_37e3d2d	comment	Garry Kilworth's Welkin Weasels may suffer from this thanks to the rapid-fire Shout-Out rate. How many of the ten-year-old target audience will get references to Shelley, Coleridge, and Orwell, among others?
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_38c87187	comment	Similarly, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal frequently has high-level concepts mixed with dead baby and sacrilegious jokes for good measure.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_3953baf0	comment	The Hunchback of Notre Dame is packed with religious symbolism the average adult viewer, and certainly the average child, would not understand. Some examples that come to mind are Esmeralda's dance dress being the colors of the Whore of Babylon, Phoebus and the soldiers offering 30 pieces of silver to the gypsies in exchange for her location, and Frollo's song Hellfire (in which he insists his lust and obsession with Esmeralda is her fault and God's rather than his own) being sung to a confessional prayer to chants of Mea culpa (through my fault). Every time Frollo appears, a background chorus sings "Kyrie elison," meaning "Lord have mercy." The song in which he murders Quasimodo's mother also has a background choir singing Dies Irae, containing "beware the coming of the judge!" The damage that happens in the climax- broken gargoyles, etc- is actually real-life damage that has happened to the cathedral throughout history. Quasimodo's scene with the chains is reminiscent of Samson from the Bible.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_3b4153c8	comment	Paradise Lost is filled to the brim with allusions, intended to be read by an early modern Gentleman Snarker with an extensive library of contemporary and ancient works. Modern readers can substitute the library with Google and The Other Wiki.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_3b88d68c	comment	Any copy of The Divine Comedy that doesn't include extensive annotations becomes this within, quite literally, the first few stanzas. In the original context, Divine Comedy was well, a hit, since it was the first major serious work of literature in vernacular language rather than Latin and indeed the poem entered the common everyday language with many phrases becoming Memetic Mutation. Of course, for most of Inferno, you need mostly to understand the politics of Italy at the time. When it was written, it would be the equivalent of writing about Bush trotting through hell and seeing all the Democrats, Al Quaedans, and EU-eans being tortured. Though it might not have been obvious even to Dante's contemporaries who was who, since he often uses partial names, nicknames or descriptions. (The equivalent of writing "here's Nick, il Cavaliere and the boy from Eton" and letting your readers figure out that you mean Nicolas Sarkozy, Silvio Berlusconi and David Cameron.)
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_3ec5b7a6	comment	House of Leaves. The weird text alone is enough to confuse most people.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_3f3abe9	comment	Rick and Morty: When Morty's parents, Jerry and Beth, are gunning down monsters, Jerry tells Beth that he wishes her shotgun were his penis. Beth responds, "If it were, you could call me Ernest Hemingway!" This is a blowjob joke that will only be understood by people who know that Hemingway killed himself by putting a shotgun in his mouth. Naturally, Jerry doesn't get it.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_3f633fb4	comment	One of Cracked's reasons no one laughed at your joke is "They Didn't Have Enough Information to Get It". It states that the best practice for an In-Joke that relies on knowledge of something obscure like Rocky IV or Battlestar Galactica (1978) is to find a discreet way to explain the reference in the setup.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_3fbd173e	comment	Freefall is a lot more understandable if you have a working knowledge on physics, cybernetics, mathematics and philosophy. Among other subjects.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_4222ddd5	comment	The Devil's Dictionary: You need to be very well-educated in order to understand all the entries. There are several puns in Latin. Bierce makes a reference to the croaking chorus of The Frogs by Aristophanes. (Yes, the one referenced in the Major General Song.)
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_426a7572	comment	Full understanding of Animaniacs requires a game-show contestant's depth of knowledge in pop-cultural history, which many children at the time lacked. A fitting example would be the song entitled "When You're Traveling From Nantucket to Saint Paul." It's all about the relativity of time, our planet's closeness to the sun and when you'd arrive if you took a plane from one place to another. The difference is that the trio does not expect to be understood as evidenced by certain lyrics. Examples include: The last stanza of the song seals the deal even further:
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_42ffb88e	comment	SCP Foundation: While they can all be enjoyed on their own, many SCPs require the reader to be this in order to fully appreciate them. 1348, for example, requires a thorough understanding of Abrahamic culture and mythology. Even the Site Director's name is significant. Or 2280, which is plenty weird but makes more sense if you realize it's a creative reinterpretation of the Egyptian goddess Nut. SCP-2167 contains many advanced mathematical concepts and a reference to a real world document about acoustics. SCP-3966 excepts the reader to understand neuroscience and 4-D geometry to understand the true nature of the anomaly.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_4522fd1	comment	The Whateley Universe. Think about an 'ad' for a movie made based on Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum (which see)... as directed by noted conspiracy theorist Oliver Stone. Or a classroom discussion of Lucan's Pharsalia when one of the people in the room is actually the avatar of Juno. Those are pretty much all in the Phase stories, which can have all kinds of genius bonuses, down to the snarky humor and the longterm planning. It turns out that information about epics and Greek mythology in the fourth Ayla novel is important in saving the day in the seventh one.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_4646355c	comment	The Mirror: You need a pretty extensive knowledge of Russian literature and the ability to pay extremely close attention (the same actors play multiple characters in multiple timeframes; in the lead actor's case the two characters are even referred to by the same name to make it even more confusing) to make sense of it. It doesn't help that the subtitles on the Kino DVD don't translate or even mistranslate bits of dialogue.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld definitely counts. While some stories may appear to be even simple children's stories, every single novel in the series contains a VAST amount of parodies, references and allusions to many equally vastly different things. This ranges from history to quantum mechanics, and from popular culture to religion. Be it mythology, geography, Shakespeare, physics, popular culture or anything else, everything is discussed or parodied, and in order to understand all allusions one would be required to browse Wikipedia 24/7. However, the series is still easily accessible by those who do not have such knowledge, allowing the reader to enjoy it no matter how much he knows, but the more educated readers will still get a huge Genius Bonus. A guide to many of the references in Pratchett's books is here.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_47e018ee	comment	Brits have University Challenge. In a given episode, it's entirely possible for 80 questions to be asked and for a viewer to be able to correctly answer about nine. It's exactly this extreme difficulty that helps make it so popular, though.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_49a0a477	comment	In Snow Crash, Stephenson pauses about halfway through to ensure that the reader is brought up to speed on essential elements of ancient Sumerian mythology and human neurological development before continuing with the plot.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_4b187e74	comment	It should be noted: unlike with many other works on this page, Joyce was actually courteous enough to provide a guide to reading Ulysses, as he recognized that the novel might otherwise be a bit hard to follow. When he sent to the book to his friends Stuart Gilbert and Carlo Linati, he gave both of them rough outlines of its fundamental structure, pointing out some basic details of plot progression (like when and where each episode takes place, and which episodes are meant to parallel which chapters in The Odyssey), as well as listing some of the core symbols and themes in each episode, and laying out the central images and ideas of each episode (like which body parts, colors, and academic disciplines are supposed to figure into each episode). These outlines, now known as "The Gilbert Schema" and "The Linati Schema", are very helpful in making the novel a bit more accessible.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_4b47f278	comment	It requires intimate knowledge of the history of literature (especially English-language literature), geography of Dublin, history of Ireland and a genius ability at recognizing allusions. Finnegans Wake requires... surrendering the possibility of comprehension, which was perhaps the point.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_4dd09601	comment	The Genius is a shining example of Reality TV game show for smart people. Rules of elimination games are often extremely complex, requiring prolonged explanations of games and plays as they happen. Viewer will be required to keep track of happenings inside each episode (with flashbacks and flashforwards thrown in for good measure) and constantly evolving social standings, and that's on top the fact it's a subtitled Korean variety show with their own, unique sets of customs.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_4e45b093	comment	The Big Bang Theory, at its best, combines this trope with jokes that the average viewer might understand. In one Halloween episode Leonard uses several scientific references to insult Penny's ex, which can be funny if you understand them, though justified in that he didn't want the guy to realize he was being made fun of. Of course, this can fall flat when the writers try too hard to find a way of putting a line to qualify as a statement as a Genius Bonus, when it really just comes across as pretentious to anyone who has even a cursory knowledge of the notion.. On the latter seasons, they have fallen into reciting geek references and hoping you feel smart just because you "get it".
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_4e7bc558	comment	Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail throws in a lot about demons from the Ars Goetia that most people won't know on first glance. For instance, Chloe paints the seal of Marchosias for a scabbard on her donut holer Cheshire. Marchosias is a wolf-demon who wishes to one day ascend to heaven but is deceived in that hope. Symbolically, Chloe wishes to become friends with Goh again, but she realizes that it's not going to happen.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_4f40a9a2	comment	In Season 1 of "Invention Pioneers of Note", Winston Whitworth declares, "As you already know, Plato once said..." Any idea of the viewers possessing intelligence is dropped for the later seasons.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_4fc3c258	comment	Some people found Donnie Darko hard to follow, so a Director's Cut was released that basically went to the opposite side of the spectrum, replacing all the interesting ambiguity with a lot of flat explanation.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Andrew Hussie, on being accused of making Homestuck too convoluted to follow: During one off-hand flashback referencing something not all that memorable that did happen in a split second during a long, intense Flash presentation over 1500 pages back, the Lampshade Hanging could not be avoided:
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_52eb7183	comment	As do Irregular Webcomic! and Terror Island, but the more obscure topics are often explained in the annotations of both strips.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_530b6b18	comment	Justified in Madam & Eve. The strip is unafraid of leaning into its South African roots, frequently making jokes about local customs, using regional slang, and referring to local news and events. The comic will sometimes explain the most esoteric stuff for the benefit of outsiders, but readers not from South Africa will be challenged to understand the more subtle humor in the comic.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_56fa0ea4	comment	The Civilization series, especially the later games, generally requires you to know the history of a given civ to understand why they get certain benefits or why their AI act in certain ways. That's easy for some of the staple civs - Egypt gets bonuses to building Wonders because of how many of its ancient monuments remain, Montezuma is a warmonger because Aztec religion was big on Human Sacrifice, and so forth. But other entries are more obscure, like the Songhai of Civ V, so you'd have to know the importance of the Niger River to west African kingdoms to understand why Askia has the "River Warlords" ability. Historical knowledge can also add new enjoyment to old memes - the "Nuclear Gandhi" characterization is funny because of how out-of-character it is for Gandhi to be threatening to nuke his neighbors, but modern India is a nuclear power and has been one of the nations that has been more aggressive with its nuclear force in recent history.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick half averts this, half plays it straight — you can understand all the happenings in the plot without having any knowledge of Dungeons & Dragons, but many of the non-punchline jokes will be completely nonsensical. In fact, they're used so often, and so consistently and savvily, that people who didn't have a knowledge of D&D when they started reading the comic can acquire an understanding of the vernacular over the course of 750+ strips without once searching for D&D information elsewhere, in the manner of the dialect in A Clockwork Orange.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_58808436	comment	Higurashi: When They Cry fanfic Cicadas: Case of the Endless Dreamer. The entire story, due to often being told by a malicious Unreliable Narrator, relies on the reader managing to weave through the various red herrings present, pick up the small details, and determine exactly what is true and what is fiction. Otherwise, the reader has to deal with various inconsistencies with canon, contradictions, and will outright not have a clue what is going on in a good portion of the story.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_59091c4c	comment	Liar Game is happy to explain psychology and game theory to you, but it certainly helps if you're at least somewhat familiar with concepts (like the Prisoner's Dilemma).
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_5921531a	comment	The social link's tarot classifications show a shade of this. This comes from the fact that the dev team has produced one of the few instances where they did do the research on the actual meaning behind the major arcana of the Rider-Waite tarot deck. Persona 3 eventually tells the player some of the definitions of the various Arcana about 2/3 of the way through the game, in a long speech many would speed through without reading. Even if a player read the whole speech, most of the given interpretations only scratch the topmost layer of each social link. All the social links become a lot more meaningful if you have any sort of in depth knowledge of the major arcana.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_593ce7e4	comment	The Lost Bladesman (2011) assumes that viewers are already familiar with Romance of the Three Kingdoms, specifically the arc about Guan Yu's journey of "slaying six generals at five passes" along the way to returning to Liu Bei, despite the fact that the movie's actual plot is heavily divergent from that arc, with almost no attempt to explain the surrounding circumstances.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_5c56ced3	comment	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, to more of an extent than most talk shows, anyway; Stephen makes geeky and otherwise fairly obscure allusions in his comedy and tends to assume that his audience is familiar with recent political developments, government procedures, and historical events. While he has the usual rota of celebrities promoting their latest films, he's rarely content to stick to the usual talking points, and the celebrity guests are mixed with less famous but very influential political figures (including Joe Biden, Bill Clinton, Stephen Breyernote a Supreme Court justice, and the Secretary-General of the United Nations) and high-level business folk, including Wall Street analyst Ben Bernanke and multiple CEOs (including those of Apple, Uber, and Airbnb).
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_5c897f4a	comment	Schlock Mercenary invited readers to calculate the height of the "Hellavator" lunar space elevator on their own... only to find that sometimes, the viewers really are geniuses.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_5cb3196f	comment	You'll get a lot more out of The Diamond Age if you are already conversant with advanced concepts in nanotechnology and Asian geography.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_5ce51054	comment	The author of Frazz has actually stated that he believes his readers to be among the smartest in the world. Since he's the one getting the fan mail, we'll just have to take his word for it.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_5d354f8	comment	Some episodes of Red Dwarf, especially Series 5. Considering it's a comedy, a lot of people would probably just brush it off as Techno Babble.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_5f42d257	comment	Joker: One doesn't need an intimate knowledge of Batman's relationship with the Joker to understand the whole story, but it does explain certain moments, and can create a bit of Dramatic Irony as you watch Jonny Frost (Joker's latest henchman) believe that he's on top of the world with the Joker when nothing could be further from the truth. There are unexplained moments when Joker is looking around or asking others to look around for him, always commenting that someone is watching him. The very first time it happens, it appears as if he's staring back at Arkham Asylum as he is released. In reality, you can spot a hidden Batman among the gargoyles of Arkham, like much of his promotional art◊. The second time is harder to spot, in the shadows on a rooftop while Joker and Jonny drive below him. There's also a part where he shoots a man twice, and then starts talking to the sky about it not being bad enough before going on a shooting spree. The main character, Jonny, has no clue what he's talking about. He's wondering aloud why Batman hasn't confronted him yet, even though he's been watching him ever since he left Arkham.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_6059ad6b	comment	Nearly all xkcd strips make jokes about rather obscure topics. Fortunately, the xkcd fanbase does include plenty of geniuses, and they post explanations on the forums. Lampshaded in the comic's disclaimer: "Warning: this comic occasionally contains advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors)." And again in an early comic. This strip actually links to the appropriate Wikipedia article. Standard operating procedure for xkcd is generally that if you don't get Monday's strip, just wait a couple of days and you'll laugh at Wednesday's strip. Also, this comic has an obscure punchline, based on another joke. The last panel of this comic requires some knowledge of particle physics. Be warned, it'll ruin your life.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_60f02ddb	comment	American Dad! frequently relies on political history, much of which you would have to have studied the subject to know about. Roger (and to a lesser extent Greg and Terry) will also drop some references that you have to be Genre Savvy of gay culture and icons to understand.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_6196490	comment	Ghost in the Shell is pretty hard on the brain. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, for example, is an intertextual rumination on posthumanism that requires an understanding of the works of people like Hans Bellmer for proper comprehension. While being comparatively lightweight, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex discusses sociology and memes, and if you understood it fully the first time, you either already had an undergrad understanding of sociology, or earned one in the process of puzzling it out. It also has a tendency to have characters spout plot points (often convoluted political situations) at an accelerated clip. It then rarely, if ever, repeats itself. Example: in 2nd Gig, the full source of the title 'Individual Eleven' and its supposed contents are explained once, despite coming in in multiple episodes before and after the explanation. The extent of the subtleties in these conversations are enough to quickly lose all but astute political science majors the first time through, much more so than the sociology and philosophy references — not to mention ultimately being a Red Herring. Near the end of 2nd Gig, Kuze has a discussion with Yousuke Aramaki which requires a customary understanding of basic Marxist economic philosophy to piece together.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_624998ce	comment	Vince Russo's entire run in WCW was based on the idea that Viewers Are Smarks; the whole thing was extremely hard to follow unless you already had a general idea of how the wrestling business works and the goings-on backstage. The problem was, even if you were able to figure out what was going on, it still wasn't very coherent or engaging. In one example, he had Kevin Nash cut a promo alluding to a time in the past when a Canadian wrestler had allegedly refused to put Nash over (lose a match to him.) The intention was presumably to make WCW's dwindling audience think that Nash was talking about Bret Hart, since, apparently, Bret's the only wrestler to come out of Canada and/or the only Canadian wrestler who had ever refused to lose a match to someone. In fact, Nash was most likely referring to Pierre Carl Ouelette, who had been a 3x WWE World Tag Team Champion as a member of the Quebecers w/Jacques Rougeau in 1993-1994, but, aside from a meaningless cup of coffee with the WCW Hardcore Title, had not been involved in anything particularly relevant in years. One wrestling critic noted that Russo's problem was that he seemed to simultaneously believe that Viewers Are Morons and Viewers are Geniuses. It gets worse. Russo wrote for TNA, when Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Jeff Jarrett, Sting, and Eric Bischoff were all prominent talent. So, naturally, the focus of the main event TNA storyline is the "shadow politics" that were going on in WCW. Meaning, not only did you have to be a smark to know what's going on, you had to have been a smark FOR OVER 10 YEARS. And even then, there were bound to be references you didn't get, considering they're talking about everything up to and including private drunken phone calls from years ago. And no, none of this makes for halfway compelling, or even coherent, television. Russo believes that "all viewers are Smarks," and as far as his opinion goes, a smark is a moron who believes they're a genius. If you think of his logic this way, his entire career is basically spent in a massive attempt to outsmart the smarks. Unfortunately, the only real way to trick people in a story where they usually already know, at the very least, half of what's going to happen before it happens is to make the story incomprehensible with obscurities and inexplicable plot twists. Of course, Russo likely believes he himself is a genius, even when almost everyone else thinks he's a moron.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_641203c1	comment	Schitt's Creek: Like Frasier before it, the show's humor often derives from urbane people interacting with working class people and contains many silly jokes that most audience members would understand. However, the show's attention to detail, such as the Rose family wearing authentic designer clothing that was made before the Roses lost their wealth, and the way it often layers references into both plot and dialogue rewards viewers who pay careful attention and/or are keyed into various subcultures. David's ex-boyfriend is a spot-on parody of a specific kind of art world hipster, and the show expects the audience to catch on to his Grey Gardens style intentions to humiliate Moira. Moira is about four decades too old to play Patty Hearst and the wrong race to play Imelda Marcos, something which is never pointed out. Moira pitches an idea for an art park to the town council that sounds an awful lot like Donald Judd's Chinati Foundation. Alexis mentions that Jared Leto was her first kiss, and the character is supposed to be about two decades younger than the actor. David mocks Alexis's college in the following exchange:
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_66394ca4	comment	While they can still be enjoyed on a superficial level, William Gibson's novels (Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Idoru, etc.) rely on complex and multilayered metaphors, both pop culture and "learned" allusions, and a blurring of traditional concepts of "human," "life," "technology" and "reality", among others. On the other hand, Gibson admits in interviews that readers shouldn't look too deep into the technical aspects of computer science and cyberspace in his works, because he didn't even own a computer until well after he'd written Neuromancer and was profoundly disappointed with how mundane it was. However, he did do the research; he's known to keep track of "the invisible literature" — scientific research papers.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_68f45eab	comment	Idlewild by Nick Sagan and its sequels, several times. For instance, the character of Fantasia averts The Schizophrenia Conspiracy, but you're assumed to know what hebephrenic schizophrenia is.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_6a277a58	comment	Videodrome. A good understanding of Marshall McLuhan's media theory is required to really get it.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_6d27b424	comment	Alternative 3: A British documentary series decides to have a bit of fun and produces a Mockumentary about British scientists being taken to a secret base on Mars to protect them from a terrible disaster. Twenty years later, the show is now a central part of a great many conspiracy theories by those who failed to get the joke.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_6ef03be6	comment	Getting the most out of My Gym Partner's a Monkey requires knowing an encyclopedia's worth of animal physiology and behavior. Quite often, some character will behave in a certain way that doesn't make sense unless you already know the animal that character is based on really does act like that in similar circumstances. This may have been the reason the show was not as popular as it could have been. Luckily for its target audience, this was heavily toned down by the time the team did Littlest Pet Shop (2012).note Though it does happen from time to time—Pepper, a skunk, starts spraying recklessly and runs out within several seconds in "Books & Covers," which feels like an Ass Pull unless you know that skunks really CAN run out that quickly.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender often assumes that its target audience is a lot more familiar with Asian languages, mythology and history than the average 9-year-old is likely to be. This is probably what makes it so popular with college students.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_72508928	comment	Dresden Codak very much falls into this, frequently covering subjects such as Jungian philosophy and transhumanism. The Dungeons & Discourse comics in particular make a lot more sense if you have a decent knowledge of philosophy. A "Kierkeguardian" shouting "My existential dread won't affect them if they have no sense of self!" is highly amusing in context — trust us.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_7291539d	comment	Batman: Arkham City has an example of this with an Easter Egg. Using the Cryptographic Sequencer, one can find three hidden radio frequencies, each of which has a computer voice reading off a sequence of numbers. The first is a standard "letter number" cypher (1 = A, 2 = B, etc); easy enough. The second is an inverted letter number cypher with all the numbers shifted up by 3 (4 = Z, 5 = Y, etc); a bit tougher, but a reasonably clever player could figure it out. The last, however, requires the player to run the numbers through three separate cyphers (letter number, Atbash, and VigenÃ©re), including guessing the keyword for the latter ("Scarecrow") to decrypt it. Put together, the three messages (plus the aforementioned keyword) make up a giant Sequel Hook teasing Scarecrow being the Big Bad of the next game, Batman: Arkham Knight. The game's director Sefton Hill said that he never thought anyone would crack the codes, only for it to happen about two weeks later.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_72e7d7f6	comment	In Dorothy Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey story "The Entertaining Episode of the Article in Question," understanding the vital clue requires a knowledge of French grammar. The grammar point in question is quite elementary, but the clue is hidden in half a page of untranslated French dialogue. While most of Sayer's original audience would have learned French in school, it's still quite a demand to make of the reader.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_733fa603	comment	Hardly anyone understands all the vital plot points from The Descent first time 'round. Either they completely missed that Sarah went crazy or they didn't connect the dots and get that the crawlers were evolved from cavemen who stayed down in the cave or they would miss the subtext that Sarah possibly only imagined the crawlers or they would make a more simple mistake and forget the seemingly unimportant singular lines of dialogue which would explain things later on. To top it off, it's very difficult to tell who's who in the dark, and fans are still arguing over what the hell the ending means...
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_7460586f	comment	Archer often turns on a dime between sex jokes and references to obscure historical figures. Particularly in the earlier seasons, there would often be one character making obscure references that are funny with the requisite knowledge, then they would lampshade how unlikely anyone was to get the reference, making it more palatable for non-geniuses.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_753491f7	comment	Fantasia, Walt Disney's third animated film, was based mostly around the assumption that viewers liked and appreciated classical music and abstract imagery just as much as he did. Although the film has been Vindicated by History, at the time of its release it was a massive box office flop; even his brother/business partner Roy was skeptical of the film, claiming that there should have at least been some sequences in the film based on more popular forms of music. The studio's next music anthology Make Mine Music would feature a mostly pop-based soundtrack, while the sequences that were based on other forms of music like classical and opera (such as "Peter and the Wolf" and "The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met") had narrators and full story lines (both films are good in each merits).
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_755fadab	comment	Haruhi Suzumiya: What starts out as a healthy amount of Genius Bonuses later falls straight into this as they become pretty crucial to knowing what the hell is going on. There are as many throwaway references to astrophysics as there are to pop culture, a Time Travel incident reaches near-Primer levels of complexity, and one novel features an in-depth discussion of Euler's planar graph formula — which is necessary to resolve the current situation. There are diagrams.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_760ce135	comment	Blindsight is probably one of the biggest examples in existence. No, you will not read "radio signals were picked up". You will read — we kid you not — "Fourier transforms appeared".
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_76dcdf52	comment	The Packrat is impossible to get without fundamental knowledge of synthesizers. Fortunately, it is targeted at and hence only known to synth geeks.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_777f9c25	comment	Touken Ranbu is based around Japanese swords, figures and history, so to the fans who get drawn in by the Bishōnen or the anime adaptions it becomes an Unconventional Learning Experience.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_79620aaa	comment	Sandra and Woo has several examples so far. Of special mention: Comic number 338, a challenging comic. Apparently some readers complained that the comic wasn't challenging enough, so the author made a challenging comic. The text of the comic required people to translate Bahasa Indian, convert RGB values to ASCII characters, search the HTML source for a linked page, and be able to crack text ciphers. This was invoked though, and the author offered prizes for correct answers. Once all the correct answers were submitted, they posted a deciphered version for the non-genius readers. Comic number 500, titled "The book of woo", was based off of the Voynich manuscript. The author developed a custom set of symbols and text cipher for both English and German. Again invoked, there is a standing offer of cash prize for a correct translation. No one had managed it yet, And the page was posted 2013.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_7aaf9e41	comment	One doesn't need an intimate knowledge of Batman's relationship with the Joker to understand the whole story, but it does explain certain moments, and can create a bit of Dramatic Irony as you watch Jonny Frost (Joker's latest henchman) believe that he's on top of the world with the Joker when nothing could be further from the truth. There are unexplained moments when Joker is looking around or asking others to look around for him, always commenting that someone is watching him. The very first time it happens, it appears as if he's staring back at Arkham Asylum as he is released. In reality, you can spot a hidden Batman among the gargoyles of Arkham, like much of his promotional art◊. The second time is harder to spot, in the shadows on a rooftop while Joker and Jonny drive below him.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_7c48915b	comment	Gunnerkrigg Court, being a story that plays on the dichotomy between magic and science with an All Myths Are True premise, focuses on obscure world mythology and... chemical elements. Having a working knowledge of both may help hugely in figuring out its intricate plot. Case in point: the fandom, using a bare minimum of information, figured out that the character Brinnie's "Old Man" is Odin, and shortly after, that Brinnie herself is the Valkyrie Brynhild. The information they had: this page, and nothing more. There hadn't been a single mention of the Norse pantheon in the story so far. The caption for that comic, "mystery solved", was originally intended to be ironic because fans had been curious about a photo of this character for a long time, and this page explained so little about her. As it turns out, if your fanbase is smart enough, a little information is enough. Mystery solved, indeed.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_7e16bd87	comment	So, you want to start deciphering the plots of Sound Horizon's Concept Albums and Rock Operas? Well, better learn six languages and start scrutinizing Every. Single. Lyric. for a potential double meaning.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_7e1fd23f	comment	Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror of Shamballa: The creators of Conqueror of Shamballa showed their work in depicting Munich in 1923. The Thule Society was a real Nazi secret society trying to enter an unknown land called "Shamballa", and the Nazi meeting Edward stumbles into was based off the Munich Beer Putsch. However, much criticism of the movie accuses the film of perpetuating the All Germans Are Nazis stereotype, suggesting many Fullmetal Alchemist fans were not familiar with this period of German history or the references to it and thought the movie threw in Those Wacky Nazis for no good reason.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_7f82753b	comment	During Naruto Gaiden, Sasuke's daughter, Sarada, undergoes a DNA test to find, once and for all, if her real mother is Sasuke's former teammate, Karin. The test result comes out showing a perfect 100% match seemingly confirming it; however, those who know genetics will point out that a parent and child only share 50% of their DNA, one only has a 100% genetic match with oneself (or an identical twin), which fits with the reveal later that the umbilical cord used for the test belonged to Sarada and not Karin.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_7febe32	comment	Godslave has a tiny bit of foreshadowing that can be easily deciphered if you have more than just passing knowledge of Egyptian mythology. Set was a god of storms, which is how the Blacksmiths refer to the god who's supposed to be Anubis.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_82ef9ed9	comment	Pacific: World War II U.S. Navy Shipgirls: Its designs incorporate tons of tiny details about the original ships' history and their namesakes that are very likely to fly over the heads of people who aren't hardcore naval history buffs. While a few things are genuinely playing to fetishes, many of the design choices have historically authentic but obscure backing, without which one can be led to believe such-and-such was thrown together at random. The Japan-focused content is written by Sune, a native Japanese with IJA heritage and insight into ultranationalist thought, and requires an understanding of post-World War II Japanese conspiracy theories, culture, politics, religion and sociology to properly appreciate.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_8349fc53	comment	While Kingdom Come would seem to have Continuity Lockout due to a huge cast, the characters that the reader needs to know are sufficiently introduced. But to fully appreciate the story, the reader needs to be familiar with the general evolution of the genre over the last 4 or 5 decades, especially then-recent trends in characterization to understand what the story is commenting on and, in retrospect, its own place in changing the direction of the genre itself. The book is also replete with Biblical symbolism and imagery, and references to Christian theology. If you know that many Christian theologians consider Jesus to be fully God and fully human, and that this unique biology is essential to his self-sacrifice being meaningful, you appreciate Superman's speech to Captain Marvel a lot more (just as one "for instance").
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_856ca68d	comment	Foucault's Pendulum is a Deconstruction of conspiracy theories that spans forty years or so, is told nonlinearly using flashbacks and a frame story, and references hundreds of names and concepts related to politics, history, science, religion, and occultism.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_863b7825	comment	Yes, Minister is a British comedy series about a Politician, an Obstructive Bureaucrat, and a 3rd underling who answers to the second one. Even an adult who isn't well-acquainted with the detailed workings of British government, let alone a non-Brit trying to watch the series, would find himself pausing the video to look up things like "quangos" and "marginal constituencies" on That Other Wiki.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_876ac9fe	comment	Among the Chosen states this as part of its author's writing style. The basic introduction to the story may be read here. Among The Chosen gets confusing in a hurry. The mil-speak, the Technobabble, mythological references, and the tendency to mention important information exactly once all contributes to this.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_89bf8ce	comment	30 Rock plays with this a lot. A textbook example is when Cerie mentions how she's upset her fiancÃ© wants a Greek Orthodox wedding because she disagrees with the church's stance on Cyprus. The average American viewer is not going to understand this geopolitics reference, as it's rather niche knowledge to them.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_89fd748e	comment	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, especially now that most of the matter that the book satirizes (particularly children's poems) are known to the vast majority of people solely through this book. The Annotated Alice, edited by Martin Gardner, is both useful and entertaining for modern readers.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_8a39c411	comment	Hyperion does the same thing but this time with John Keats, Jack Vance, time travel, quantum mechanics (again), transhumanism (again), Internet sociology, The Wizard of Oz and the Canterbury Tales.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_8ad518ed	comment	C14 Dating: Hendrik's seldom-encountered sexual orientation is properly depicted, but said depiction assumes that the player is just as informed about it as the game's creators are: The recurring mentions of cake are a nod to a joke within the community that its members would rather eat cake than have sex with another person. The orientation's shortened name is "ace", but that only gets spelled out late in his romantic route, which causes some earlier scenes to be a little obscure for players who don't already know this. His obliviousness to both flirting (his own and that of other people) and the innuendos he makes while talking about geology are meant to be hints to the fact that sex is not a place his brain goes to easily. The mere fact that Hendrik is in love with Melissa, but also not attracted to her in a sexual way in his romantic route flies in the face of a common misconception about the orientation. Even dialogue from after Hendrik and Melissa become a couple beats around the bush when it comes to the orientation's defining element, which is a lacking or outright absent sexual attraction towards other people. The same happens with its most frequent direct consequence and the reason it's a potential issue in a romantic relationship: rarely to never being in the mood to engage in intercourse (even with a romantic partner), and most people considering the lack of sex in a romance a dealbreaker. Because of those things, Melissa's reaction to Hendrik booking them two nights in a high-end hotel catering to couples (which implies he's ready to have sex with her as an affectionate gesture), in his romantic route's epilogue can be hard to understand, as well.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_8b419fa5	comment	Lackadaisy has so many historical references regarding not just the prohibition, but pop culture, advertising, slang, and politics during The Roaring '20s (not to mention Rocky's ramblings on physics, mythology, and poetry) that the published first volume has an entire section in the back of the book explaining each and every one.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_8ba4613a	comment	A Death Note fanfic, apparently about random American civilians during Kira's reign, starts off with a Seinfeldian Conversation about how easy it is to do a feminist critique of classic literature, which further digresses into this exchange: If you knew without Googling or proceeding to the next chapter that this is supposed to mean that Character A is predisposed toward a particular side, well, it's a good thing that you came down from your terrifying ivory tower long enough to watch a cartoon, but... chances are you're the author.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_8ba82c3b	comment	Scary News out of Tokyo-3 is loaded not only with innumerable pop-culture Shout Outs, but with erudite quotes, obscure literary references, and scientific & pseudoscientific jargon.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_8cdf251	comment	Witchell: A Symphony has a suggested listening selection for each chapter. A great deal of the foreshadowing is in the music and in the (musical) descriptions of the characters' voices. For example, Tavin's older brother is suggested to be unallied by associating him with the piano, which can be very low (evil) or very high (good). Tavin himself is associated with the cello, solidifying him as the protagonist.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_8d817ccb	comment	While most of the more obscure stuff in Lost falls under Genius Bonus, it does fall under this trope when it comes to the plot, which has become increasingly complicated as the show has gone on, with innumerable callbacks to previous episodes, making it extremely hard for new viewers to understand what the heck is going on. Not to mention flash forwards. The finale requires the viewer to have knowledge of obscure, mostly dead Eastern philosophies (Gnosticism, Zoroastrianism, Stoicism, Manichaeism) or concepts that don't crop up a lot in America. Case in point: everyone knows Karma, but how many Americans know that "dharma" means a divine duty that leads to the "moksha", or "letting go", one of the show's Arc Words and a super-critical concept in the final season?
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_8d84363c	comment	When the BBC first aired Rome they felt that British viewers already knew a lot of the Roman history and so much of the exposition was redundant. As such they edited the first three episodes down to just two by trimming a lot of the politics scenes (without telling the director of the episodes). This is the official reasoning, though the fact that this placed much greater focus on the sex and violence may suggest the true motives skewed the other way.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_8dd0bbcc	comment	A Series of Unfortunate Events falls firmly into this category, particularly for a children's series. While this is partially lampshaded with the constant refrain of "a word which here means—" (which often is for words that are incredibly easy to understand), it still does not explain the constant references, particularly in character names (Esme Squalor, Nero the fiddle-playing principal, Frank and Earnest, Duncan and Isadora, Mr. Poe, etc.) or the convoluted plots and Mind Screw themes. While many kids around the age of 10 have enjoyed every minute of these books, they live and breathe this trope. This actually tremendously increases 'family value' of the books, because they can be very entertaining to kids and parents alike.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_8e68cca9	comment	The jokes in Digger are often pitched with the presumption the readers will know as much about geology, anthropology, comparative theology and pre-modern industry, cloth-dyeing/pigment use, lead-smelting, and healing as Ursula. As the comments show, a truly scary amount of the readers do know this stuff.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_8eda89ef	comment	Darker than Black never explains anything, and on the rare occasions it does, the source is usually less than trustworthy. Most of the background is left deliberately vague, and it ends with a Mind Screwy Gainax Ending. In short, if you want to sort out the overall plot (rather than the two-episode sub-arcs; those tend to be fairly self-contained), you'd better have a very good memory or be taking notes.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_8f165ac0	comment	Some readers of Mass Effect: Human Revolution have accused it of reaching this level, between the Gambit Pileup of clashing Magnificent Bastards fighting wannabes and conspiracies, mysticism In-Universe and out, Narrative Filigree and the Reference Overdosed.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_90304058	comment	That Hideous Strength: Downplayed, but in a few places, the book mentions concepts that the reader wouldn't understand unless they'd taken a college-level history of philosophy course: When discussing the history of Wither's mental breakdown, i.e. how he became more and more detached from objective physical reality, Lewis name-drops some philosophers and philosophies of western Europe: "He had passed from Hegel into Hume, thence through Pragmatism, and thence through Logical Positivism, and out at last into the complete void." When Ransom is explaining to Merlin how he was taken captive to Mars, he uses the phrases "enginry" and "natural philosophy" where we might use "technology" and "science". What we today call science really was once considered a branch of philosophy.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_9096e12c	comment	CarnivÃ le has Knights Templar and tarot card mythology, obscure symbolism, cultural references from The '30s, fabulous and expensive-looking recreations of the depression-era Midwest, and refusal to provide helpful exposition to the audience. It got cancelled after two seasons.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_90f42a9b	comment	Reading this series can be considered a dry run for Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time — with over 140 POV characters spread over fifteen books, 10,000 pages and if you were to sit down and listen to them non-stop, just over 19 days of audio. Whilst this could just be considered a colossal task on its own, any character could come back at any time, requiring readers to call back to previous books and remember what obscure phrase that was mentioned in passing could now mean in a revealing light.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_91209b29	comment	Ditto with Xenosaga. It includes numerous references to Jungian psychology, Gnosticism, classic Christianity, Kabbalah, quantum mechanics, etc. At least Xenosaga had the courtesy to include a massive in-game database (which they removed in Episode 2... for some bloody reason).
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_924b6d63	comment	Xenogears is mind-screwing, especially on the psychiatry and Kabbalah sides (with the multiple personalities, paradoxical split selves (see Lacan and Grahf), and overlapping selves that have postmodern and poststructuralist resonances). The plot is also impossibly convoluted. Ditto with Xenosaga. It includes numerous references to Jungian psychology, Gnosticism, classic Christianity, Kabbalah, quantum mechanics, etc. At least Xenosaga had the courtesy to include a massive in-game database (which they removed in Episode 2... for some bloody reason).
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_946775cd	comment	Primer was written by a math graduate who studied physics intensively to produce one of the most plausible Time Travel movies ever. In the words of one reviewer, "Anybody who claims they fully understand what's going on in Primer after seeing it just once is either a savant or a liar." Reportedly, writer-director Shane Carruth didn't think the movie would be too hard for the average viewer to figure out. Following the events that the audience (and main characters) can see happening is challenging, but possible. On the other hand, there's so much going on that either isn't shown directly or isn't what it seems that, by the end of the movie, even the two main characters end up completely baffled by the massive Gambit Pileup they've been playing against each other.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_94fecdbf	comment	Garkin's assorted belongings in Phil Foglio's comic adaptation of Myth Adventures include, among other things, a The King in Yellow paint-by-numbers book. (Talk about a Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book...)
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_95818d99	comment	Killer7 exists halfway between this and flat-out Mind Screw. Entire papers have been written analyzing every facet of the game and the underlying themes, such as a conflict between American and Japanese values.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_967347ea	comment	Revolutionary Girl Utena is confident that you won't be overwhelmed or turned off by its dense symbolism and many layers of meaning. It knows that you know - despite it's Trolling Creator (who's actually very helpful in the right circumstances) - that it has nothing to do with the Walrus being Paul, and that the curtains are never just blue. It knows that it is a jungle gym of symbols and it's inviting you in to hang by your knees, or do pull-ups, or just climb to the top and chat with friends. Whatever speaks to you. Utena is your experience.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_976efc02	comment	Mystery Science Theater 3000 jokes about everything, from obscure songs most people have forgotten to classical history and famous works of art. Of course the fun of the show is that the riffs are so frequent, you can miss one or two and still get the jokes. Their reference pool is so varied that they won a Peabody. However, they would also frequently indulge in in-jokes that only the writers could possibly get.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_9888f901	comment	Daria constantly made references to older literature and short stories, stuff that only someone who read a lot would know, and unlike most shows aimed at teenagers, it never assumed that the audience was stupid.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_9983eff5	comment	Captive State: Surprisingly little exposition, a large cast, and a lot of unanswered questions.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_999e5e75	comment	Scratches has a bottle in the master bedroom labelled Thalidomide. Most players may or may not notice the bottle and the player character can comment on it during the additional chapter, Last Visit. Those who do, will realize that said drug is known to ease morning pain for women, but can cause horrible birth defects, and is likely the reason for Catherine Blackwood's various pains during her pregnancy and why Robin has such horribly severe malformations.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_9a42142c	comment	If you're not American, or even just a politically-apathetic American, you might have some difficulty understanding the basic plot in The Ides of March as the way in US Presidential candidates are nominated is quite unique and unlike any other country's in the world. The basics of the process are largely glossed over and it's assumed the audience is already familiar with them.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_9a7088bc	comment	For assuming that viewers are geniuses, or at least reasonably intelligent, look no further than Star Trek: The Original Series. Gene Roddenberry endeared himself to millions of fans with this: "Star Trek started with the premise that the American television audience is a lot more intelligent and perceptive than the so-called 'experts' insist. We feel you can short-change that audience only at your own peril." He repeated this assertion for the rest of his life.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_9b2b2221	comment	Melodie Crookshank of Tyrannosaur Canyon is a lab geek who only interacts with one other character. Her perspective is peppered with technical names for equipment and tests as well as her interpretations of this data, with very few laymen's explanations.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire: The show may be complex, but George R.R. Martin's series is comprised of compressed paper bricks of characters, conflicts, locations, plotlines, motives, implications, deaths, twists, and revelations. There have been 24 major POV characters so far, narrating about as many distinct plotlines over half as many distinct locations, including over a hundred secondary characters. Not for the faint of attention span. Reading this series can be considered a dry run for Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time — with over 140 POV characters spread over fifteen books, 10,000 pages and if you were to sit down and listen to them non-stop, just over 19 days of audio. Whilst this could just be considered a colossal task on its own, any character could come back at any time, requiring readers to call back to previous books and remember what obscure phrase that was mentioned in passing could now mean in a revealing light.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_9e2f90f4	comment	While perfectly enjoyable without any such knowledge, only the biggest history buffs will get anywhere near all of One Piece's references to real-life pirates, their crews, their ships, and nautical terms and techniques during the real-life Age of Piracy. An instance of such knowledge being beneficial to understanding the series is that any pirate named after a real seafarer will play an important role in the series.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_9e876c22	comment	A Good Omens fic by A.A. Pessimal, based on the riff that The Devil Has All The Best Tunes, deals with Crowley and Aziraphale getting involved in the murky world of pop and rock music. The chapters include Black Sabbath getting a helping hand from Crowley, and the Four Motorcycle Riders of the Apocalypse each sponsoring trends in music that they are attracted to. note War gets Teddy boys to rip up seats in a London cinema; Famine is drawn to singers with interesting eating disorders; Pollution gravitates to Punk Rock, etc. The chapters become increasingly dense with references to sixties and seventies rock and pop music, and the last, where DEATH takes an interest in an obscure New York rock band with an intellectual edge and gets them to write his theme song, is so packed with obscure references the reader would need a degree level education in music trivia to get all the references. Even the author admits he might have overdone it a little. Pessimal generally deals in Discworld fics. The general opinion of readers is that he manages a very good Pratchett pastiche and that, as with the inspiration, the tales are loaded with references, allusions and background detail, right down to lots and lots of necessary footnotes.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama's writing staff had a combined 3 PHDs and 7 master's degrees, so it's only natural that they slipped in references to their fields of expertise from time to time. Topics such as mathematics, physics, and computer programming pop up from time to time in one-shot visual gags or dialogue. One DVD bonus feature had a mathematics "lecture" pointing out and explaining some of them. The writers also created two "alien" languages to be displayed in the show; reportedly, viewers were able to decipher these within 24 hours of first being shown. Taking the cake is an episode in which one of the writers slipped in his then-unsubmitted complete doctoral thesis in mathematics. In other words, that episode had the writer resolve its conflict by finding the answer to a previously unsolvable math problem.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_a32b6a64	comment	The West Wing: If you're not pretty damn well up-to-date on the workings of the United States government, good luck keeping up with some of the storylines, not to mention the jokes.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_a4420d22	comment	The Venture Bros. adores obscure references; from rarely-seen superheroes to ancient myths to 80's children's toy advertisments.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_a5549ed0	comment	Eyepiece, a play in Iowa City. If you're familiar with Shakespearian plays, Greek comedies, Modernistic plays (Death of a Salesman), postmodern plays (Waiting for Godot), puns, metaphor, pataphor, medical terminology, Greek culture, theater culture, "disabled" culture, Christian culture/the Bible, and for one particular scene the origins of Fascism and the real meaning of the word "faggot" (A bundle of burnt sticks that had been used to burn an offering), and you're observant, then the play will seem perfectly straightforward and understandable. If not, well, certain scenes will seem rather obscure.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_a5978a4e	comment	The Gaiad demands a knowledge of nearly every scientific discipline and literary tradition to understand, for example comparing DNA methylation to traditional Hebrew Calligraphy.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_a5b8b965	comment	One can only really understand Ilium and Olympos after studying The Iliad, The Odyssey, and Shakespeare's The Tempest; and be familiar with The Time Machine, the complete works of Marcel Proust, Shakespeare's sonnets, and Hans Moravec's writings; and should know a decent amount about quantum physics, the Voynich manuscript, terraforming, transhumanism, and biosphere theory. Then it might make sense. No guarantees. It helps that there are characters who love talking about Proust and The Iliad while much of the rest can be taken as "awesome magic stuff".
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_a6fb0678	comment	La-Mulana doesn't just expect you to know how to solve its increasingly complex puzzles, but also to understand references to ancient history, and MSX games, in order to solve its puzzles.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_a77c0823	comment	From Hell: The work is teeming with references to historical figures and events, a lengthy exchange on fourth dimensional theory, psychogeography, Masonic ritual and Pagan mysticism and the Illuminati. Reading the appendix is not just recommended. It's a necessity.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_a88418fd	comment	Many stage musicals with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim have this criticism levelled at them. Sondheim and his collaborators avoid pat sentimentality and create complex works of art — perhaps a setback when many audience members are expecting The Sound of Music. Just a few examples: Company is a mediation on contemporary marriage. The show has no plot and reduces character empathy to an absolute minimum; instead, it explores different aspects of marriage through a series of non-linear vignettes and songs. There's an emotional and intellectual journey to be had, but it requires the audience to really invest themselves in the material and pay attention. Pacific Overtures is a historical pageant detailing the opening of Japan to the West in the late 1800's. Again, personal involvement is kept to a minimum, and the events are viewed through a purposefully biased Japanese perspective. The score includes a 9-minute mini-opera detailing American, British, Dutch, Russian and French trading treaties with Japan, and a 7-minute Taoist meditation about observation and memory in which nothing happens. Sunday In The Park With George, despite its minimalist, Britten-like score, can still be enjoyed as a classic tale of an artist (Georges Seurat) who alienates his lover for the sake of his art. Until the end of Act I, at which point the action fast-forwards a whole century to focus on contemporary installation artist George, great-grandson of the original. Repeated viewings help tease out the direct, micro- and macrocosmic parallels between the two Acts to make the whole work serve as a treatise on art and posterity.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_a9e19ff0	comment	He is well known for leaving large amounts of his background and story as puzzles for the reader — particularly in the Book of the New Sun series. Important details like which characters are the lead character's close relatives and where (on earth) the story is set are left as puzzles for the reader — as are many obscure (but real) words used in the series.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_aa639666	comment	When Ransom is explaining to Merlin how he was taken captive to Mars, he uses the phrases "enginry" and "natural philosophy" where we might use "technology" and "science". What we today call science really was once considered a branch of philosophy.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_abc99084	comment	Superhero RPF is arguably not as bad as some of the other examples, but it still unintelligible without knowledge of the source material (Marvel Universe, especially its teen heroes), and fandom cultures (from livejournal to tumblr and beyond). No, it won't explain anything, if you can't guess the platform from the formatting, the people from the screen names, or the jargon goes over your head, too bad.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_ac1c3727	comment	One of the reasons why Johnny Dangerously has never caught on like other famous parody films from the same period (Airplane! and Top Secret! for example) was because it was parodying a genre (the 1930s gangster movie) that had faded from the public consciousness. Not only had 50 years passed since the genre was at its height, its place in the American collective unconscious had been supplanted by The Godfather and its derivatives. It's very strange to note that although the movie came out in 1984 and was a parody of gangster movies, that there wasn't a single reference to The Godfather in it.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_ac719b97	comment	In Stargate, the Egyptologist character figures out how to speak the language of the humans found beyond the stargate in about five minutes of dialog with the native girl he later has a romance with. When another character expresses amazement that he cracked the language so quickly, he observes modestly that he just had to get the vowels right. This is hilarious, but to catch the humor you need to know arcane details about how the vowels of Ancient Egyptian were reconstructed by modern scholars. In short: while we can read Ancient Egyptian, there is little data on how it was pronounced, and the sounds we assign the language today are probably off from what the actual language sounded like. That's exactly why you can hear Ra or Re used interchangeably, neither of which has been proven to be the genuine rendering of the god's original name (for all we know, it could just as well have been "Ro" or "Ri").
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_ad4d7d6a	comment	The Your Name side novel Another Side: Earthbound contains extensive discussions of Shinto in Yotsuha and Toshiki's sections that will fly over the heads of anyone who isn't well-versed in the faith.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_ad622d64	comment	Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen is quite possibly one of the most complex works of fantasy ever written. The main storylines of the series span four continents, every one of the ten Doorstopper books has a cast of hundreds, and the series' backstory covers hundreds of thousands of years. Viewpoint characters constantly change; there is extensive and deliberate use of Lost in Medias Res, obtuse in-world poetry used as chapter epigraphs, oblique dialogue, digressions as characters discuss or ponder philosophy, and complex prose. The first book, Gardens of the Moon, is infamously difficult for new readers to get into. This was done deliberately, as Erikson wanted to weed out readers without the patience to keep track of his vast numbers of characters and plot lines.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_aebd6f43	comment	Anathem speaks learnedly about subjects many readers may not even be able to pronounce let alone describe, including epistemology, ontology, orbital mechanics and the (theoretical) quantum-multiverse. Sensing a pattern...?
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_af566418	comment	Ultimate Alien makes accurate statements about biological structures and Darwin's natural selection theory when talking about the alien's artificial evolution and their DNA database system. Psychological issues, such as Stockholm Syndrome and personality disorders, are also current, though in a much lighter way due to the TV ratings. The series also references characters and lines from Greek and Hebrew myths, H.P. Lovercraft's books, and Richard Lovelace's poems, alongside other pop culture elements, the most (in)famous being the character Will Harangue, a journalist whose show is a Frankenstein's Monster of various Fox News programs and a spoof of "Steven Colbert's Colbert Nation".
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_af872a82	comment	Nearly every panel of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen features obscure references to English literature and/or comic art. The accompanying text-stories are, if anything, even worse/better.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_b187842f	comment	Southland Tales is drenched in references to literature and politics that range from punishingly obvious to downright impenetrable. Everyone watching the film can tell that it's certainly supposed to be about something, but what the hell is actually going on or what it's all supposed to mean in the end generally baffles most audiences. Ultimately the director certainly had a lot of faith in the audience that they'd be able to follow his thought processes. Or he just intended to make a longer film with more explanation, or thought more people would read the prequel comic. Though the longer cut at Cannes got similar, if not even more negative responses than the final cut.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_b1c94339	comment	Horatio Hornblower is another Wooden Ships and Iron Men series, with extremely detailed descriptions of nautical work. Sometimes, C.S. Forester will explain a particular term or operation. But if you don't know what halyards or mizzenmasts or hawse-holes are... well, good luck. (Oh, and a working knowledge of the game of whist will help you too.)
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_b2c5aa62	comment	Mr. Nobody. The concept of Old Nemo's Memories, fractally nesting, equally possible subplots are easy to understand as concept, even while the film is jumping back and forth between them like hell. The fact that the scenes of Adult Nemo in a checkered vest within a Mind Screw realm are littered amongst them does keeping track of the actual plot a little confusing at first. That they are in this exact weird way to shout out that they did never take place in any possible lifespan is not apparent to say the least. Old Nemo has no actual backstory, so they are merely fillers in the little boyâ€™s imagination, just like pretty much all of the film. The same effect occurs in the Gainax Ending, the fact that all these possible lives are just imagined is easy to digest, even that post-dream decision does make sense if you think about it afterwards, but to keep track of that metaphor with this whole Universe turnaround does only make sense if you're high or on your fifth run.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_b389ac77	comment	If you can't crack an output-feedback mode stream cipher before you read Cryptonomicon, you'll be able to by the time you finish. (There's even a handy Appendix to show you how!)
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_b4709254	comment	Some aspects of TV Tropes aren't exactly newcomer friendly. For instance, some tropes, trope names, and even rules of this wiki can be confusing to some people. This is also the reason why several tropes have their names changed. As an example, the trope "Dropped A Bridget On Him" had its name changed to the (admittedly less creative) Unsettling Gender-Reveal, largely because people who have never heard of the meme or Guilty Gear, where the meme comes from, or the trope Dropped a Bridge on Him would possibly have no clue what that trope is about until they open it. See Fan Myopia.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_b4816c2e	comment	The Legacy of Kain series has an enormously dense storyline. Even after playing all five games, you may not have any idea what's going on. It doesn't help that it involves time travel, multiple timelines, and the mechanics of both are explained in pieces over several games.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_b4963c9f	comment	Good Eats: Alton Brown usually calls the secret ingredient's scientific name in Iron Chef America when the timer starts ticking.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_b51b368d	comment	Ergo Proxy casually references Classical Mythology (Daedelus and Icarus, Theseus and the Minos maze), philosophy (Rene Descartes, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Alan Turing, among many others), film (The Battleship Potemkin, AKIRA, Blade Runner), Gnosticism, art (Michelangelo Buonarroti, John Everett Millais), history, and many other things, almost to the point of showing off to the audience how smart they are by cramming episodes with as many allusions as possible. While you may not need an understanding of any of the references to appreciate the concrete plot, how many people caught the City Lights bookstore (a real one located in San Francisco) and its importance to the beat poetry movement, or that Re-L's name was listed as "124C41+" in a computer database, referencing the 1925 science-fiction novel Ralph 124C41+ by Hugo Gernsback. Even Red Shirt characters have names from obscure ancient religions.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_b5a2b326	comment	The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind has the 36 Lessons of Vivec, a series of 36 sermons penned by the Physical God himself. At first glance, they seem like the scribblings of a mad man. However, if the books are cross-referenced with one another and deciphered, one finds a world of Metaphorical Truths, Breaking the Fourth Wall, Anviliciousness, Tropes Are Not Bad, and a sprinkling of In-Joke.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_b87b3b84	comment	Not limited to English; Tolstoy and his contemporaries pulled this kind of thing all the time. Translations of Anna Karenina, especially, are famous for retaining the French lines without bothering to so much as footnote them, making it doubly confusing by readers already confused by awkward translations of Russian idiom. However, in Russia and Europe of the 19th century, French was a common second language among the aristocracy and educated middle class so these references would have been understood and not necessarily fly over people's heads then as they might today.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_b9b796cf	comment	For a few examples: in Fate/stay night, the resolution of Saber's fight with Berserker is an absurd Deus ex Machina unless you've read Le Morte D Arthur and remember a few odd comments about how the magic system works from earlier in the story, and there's a couple of one-off lines in the Fate route that establish just how Kotomine survives in Heaven's Feel, and in Fate/hollow ataraxia the only person who can beat Bazett is Lancer because of a few odd details about how their powers interact — her invincible counterattack triggers when you start your attack; he starts his attack after he resolves it.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_ba084d45	comment	Hamilton is overflowing with references to other rap/hip-hop music and other Broadway shows, not to mention the subtle history puns like "I never thought I'd live past twenty/Where I come from some get half as many"—sung by the guy on the 10 dollar bill.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_bb9d6724	comment	Keith Giffen's Ambush Bug stories are very much like this, with damn near every page (and sometimes every panel) containing references to decades of comic book history, as well as famous people and trends in the industry. Combined with extreme Medium Awareness, the comics are truly incomprehensible to non-comic readers (and often a bit confusing to regular readers who just aren't up on their history lessons).
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_bca72091	comment	To collect the artworks for the museum in Animal Crossing, the player has to distinguish real pieces from the forgeries that Redd is selling, all of which are based on famous real life works. Since there's no side-by-side comparisons in-game, it requires the player to actually know the exact appearances of the real life artworks to distinguish if they are fake or not.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_bd4fd5e9	comment	The Familiar: Some lines are in untranslated (after the Narrative Construct gives up and says in a footnote: "I'm not your personal Google Translate, bitch") Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Armenian, Arabic, Hebrew, and C++.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_bf506044	comment	Much of Peter Greenaway's work fits this trope. For example, he commented in the DVD bonus features for The Draughtsman's Contract that he did not want to explain the plot and its ending within the film, feeling that the audience would understand what had happened. Many people disagree.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_c18bfdae	comment	In the Director's Cut and the Final Cut, Blade Runner's world is a complicated one with little to no flat explanation, a slow pace, and a lot of rumination on human nature. It requires a certain type of viewer to understand and enjoy it to its fullest. The theatrical cut, however, includes narration in a Viewers Are Morons move by the studio.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_c1a76652	comment	Parodied in Black Books. Bernard, to win a bet over writing a children's book in one night, writes a 1030 page book involving the Stalinist purges and a complex plot. When Manny points out this might be difficult for the 3-6 age range Bernard says "I don't think we should talk down to children."
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_c353ea41	comment	Think Jurassic Park is bad? Just try reading (or watching) The Andromeda Strain. A lot of technobabble (accurate, though) involving genetic mutations, diseases, and molecular level sciences.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: The show is generally pretty straight-forward, but the Seventh Doctor story "Ghost Light" is an involved meditation on the concept of evolution that probably requires two or three viewings to understand. It also uses literary and scientific allusions as a time-saving substitute for exposition. According to the DVD, "Ghost Light" had to be cut down from four episodes to three due to the show's run being cut. It's most likely that background and explanatory scenes were the first to suffer — something they might have got away with in some stories, but quite obviously didn't here. The E-Space Trilogy was, according to the DVD specials on "Full Circle," partly written to start the show including science that "wouldn't be laughed at" by legitimate scientists. This is especially true in "Warriors' Gate," which takes place in a shrinking universe at coordinate 0 and has some connection to the I-Ching and the nature of randomness. Adric's frequent coin-flipping? Yeah, it means something. Depending who you ask, Steven Moffat's major story arc involving River Song and the Silence is either this or just plain full of Plot Holes. There are fans who insist that everything you need to know about this storyline is obvious from the show, but get them discussing it in detail and it turns out they don't agree among themselves about anything but the broadest strokes of the plot, which isn't the part that confuses people. Most of the 2nd half of series 7 in 2013 is this because of the show's 50th anniversary. To fully understand the plots of many of the episodes, the viewer has to relate the current arc (drawing materials from the Matt Smith years) to various plots/characters/monsters from previous doctors, which means the viewer has to know a few episodes. A lot of "Doctor Who" in the 1980s suffers from this, as it involved a lot of continuity which required the viewers to have a very thorough knowledge of "Doctor Who", down to stories which as major plot points, involve stories from the 1960s. This is often blamed for the decline of the show. The Doctor Who Expanded Universe is notorious for this, often requiring a very good knowledge of "Doctor Who" history for this and referencing other parts of the EU, even if it may take place in a different continuity. Big Finish Doctor Who can be especially hard to follow with its mass of interconnected plots in a series that started in 1999 and has released a new audio every month, not counting the bonus releases and spin-offs. Slightly justified, as the DWEU is aimed at hard-core fans.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_c47e2217	comment	You probably would not believe that Strike Witches of all things can be planted here. Nonetheless, apart from its most obvious appeal, it delves into ideas about Alternate Universes, Alternate History, World War II technology, Historical In Jokes, Gun Safety, military organization, its takes about the conflict in Europe, the conflict in Africa and other stuff. Did you know that the real Hartmann accidentally (?) took Adolf Hitler's hat because his own was gone? This is the basis for the Panty Thief episode in season 1.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_c95e9d87	comment	Up: Carl and Russell are playing a car spotting game (red one, blue one). Dug looks off camera and says "Grey one" and a red one goes past. The "genius" part is that dogs are red/green colorblind, but the "fail" part is that they're not completely colorblind; Dug wouldn't be able to tell a red car from a green car, but he should be able to distinguish either from a grey car.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_ca08598f	comment	The Wire is one of the best examples of the new millennium. You're expected to keep up with multiple plot lines, a dozen-plus characters and their sub-stories, and all their field terminology with no Expospeak provided. It's often cited as one of the reasons for the show's low ratings and being subject to Award Snub despite its enormous critical acclaim.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_ca1f6145	comment	In The Pale King, Garrity's ghostly rants include references to Pascal, Marquise du Deffand, Latin, Greek, Metropolis, Kierkegaard, and philology.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_ca5d97f1	comment	Understanding much of the humor in Monty Python's Flying Circus (and much of their stagework and films) might involve vast knowledge of history, art, science, politics and/or British culture and customs, and in many cases, a lot of topical or cultural humor from the time the show was first aired. (1969-71) Knowing a good deal about British television and comedy shows of the day couldn't hurt, either—almost all of the members of the troupe began as TV comedy writers, and a great deal of the humor was spoofing, lampshading or subverting the customs and clichÃ©s of the genre.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_cbe9419f	comment	Last Res0rt — the concepts don't require much outside knowledge, but the plot is just that involved (The start of Volume Two, for instance, is complicated by a Reality Warper whose presence is only figured out well after they're raiding a ship and being affected by it), and the Art Evolution gives the comic an experimental feel that makes a few scenes harder to follow than they should be because of the way the camera jumps. About half the readers get it, and the other half will need some help, most likely from the Cast page and New Readers' pages.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_ceb33261	comment	Once Upon a Time in Hollywood assumes that the viewer is already familiar with the real life Charles Manson murders. If you go in blind, there are certain aspects about the film that will hold little or no significance to the viewer otherwise, especially with its ending.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_cfd860dd	comment	Nasuverse: Kinoko Nasu really, really loves winding philosophical debate, and he expects you to as well; his plots tend to get extremely complex, bringing up rules once or twice and then building stories based on them, and the rules governing the 'verse can get pretty complex as well, with a huge amount of Mr. Exposition giving Instructional Dialogue regarding borderline game-breaking abilities. Fate/stay night is particularly guilty. For example, several sections will be dedicated to explaining the minute details as to why imagining swords into being real is a stupid, useless form of magic, and then later it turns out that Shirou has a rare talent that turns it into a Game-Breaker. For a few examples: in Fate/stay night, the resolution of Saber's fight with Berserker is an absurd Deus ex Machina unless you've read Le Morte D Arthur and remember a few odd comments about how the magic system works from earlier in the story, and there's a couple of one-off lines in the Fate route that establish just how Kotomine survives in Heaven's Feel, and in Fate/hollow ataraxia the only person who can beat Bazett is Lancer because of a few odd details about how their powers interact — her invincible counterattack triggers when you start your attack; he starts his attack after he resolves it.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_d154285c	comment	It gets worse. Russo wrote for TNA, when Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Jeff Jarrett, Sting, and Eric Bischoff were all prominent talent. So, naturally, the focus of the main event TNA storyline is the "shadow politics" that were going on in WCW. Meaning, not only did you have to be a smark to know what's going on, you had to have been a smark FOR OVER 10 YEARS. And even then, there were bound to be references you didn't get, considering they're talking about everything up to and including private drunken phone calls from years ago. And no, none of this makes for halfway compelling, or even coherent, television.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_d3896703	comment	Starman (DC Comics) is full of references to obscure things. Lampshade Hanging in one issue:
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_d3ebc1d7	comment	Something Rotten! contains rapid-fire streams of references to other musicals in songs like "A Musical" as well as the titular song. Theatre-goers unfamiliar with the last fifty years of musical theatre may find little more than dick jokes left for them after so many references fall flat.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_d494343b	comment	Subverted by Iron Maiden, who often explain their literary and historical references in the lyrics or even the title alone. (Examples: "Rime of the Ancient Mariner," "Alexander the Great," and "The Trooper.") This is more Genius Bonus: If you know what the Crimean War is or who Tennyson was, all the better, but if not, hey, they still have kickass melodies and you can sing along to "Woah oh oh oh oh oh oh oh!"
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_d4fe015f	comment	QI turns it on its ear. Not only do the viewers generally not know the right answer, it's fairly rare that any of the "contestants" have any idea what's going on, even after the answer is explained. But that's kind of the point. For a show about comedians (and the odd political figure) talking about whatever happens to cross their mind, the show is extremely smart. Stephen Fry is a certified genius to begin with, then adding in questions that question common knowledge ("How many moons does the Earth have?"note It's still one, but science at the time classified other small, wide-orbiting bodies as moons to Earth as well, giving us officially "2", then later "4", before being reclassified so we are back to one), then the fact that the comedians are often specialized geniuses themselves.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_d537677b	comment	Unsong is full of multilingual puzzles and puns, as well as obscure trivia, history, poetry and kabbalah references. It may have an excuse: before writing it, the author surveyed his fanbase and found an average IQ of 139. Nevertheless, he's been disappointed by how many references people have missed.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_d5d98e35	comment	Among the reasons that Police Squad! only lasted one season was that ABC thought it was guilty of this trope. According to ABC, the show required the viewer to pay too much attention in order to understand the humor. TV Guide called this "the most stupid reason a network ever gave for ending a series".
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_d6c9c0a4	comment	While being comparatively lightweight, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex discusses sociology and memes, and if you understood it fully the first time, you either already had an undergrad understanding of sociology, or earned one in the process of puzzling it out. It also has a tendency to have characters spout plot points (often convoluted political situations) at an accelerated clip. It then rarely, if ever, repeats itself. Example: in 2nd Gig, the full source of the title 'Individual Eleven' and its supposed contents are explained once, despite coming in in multiple episodes before and after the explanation. The extent of the subtleties in these conversations are enough to quickly lose all but astute political science majors the first time through, much more so than the sociology and philosophy references — not to mention ultimately being a Red Herring.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_d7578cf3	comment	In The History Boys there is an entire scene spoken almost entirely in French. There is also a lot of jokes that are more funny if viewers understand the context behind it, from World War II to Nietzsche and from the Dissolution of the Monasteries to Brief Encounter to Thomas Hardy.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_d7c9f170	comment	The Architect scene from The Matrix Reloaded is an infamous example of this. It has commonly been mocked and parodied in pop culture because of his Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness delivery which much of the audience found hard to follow (and many that could follow it still found it pretentious). It also muddles the fact that his speech is a major Plot Twist for the whole series itself: that The One was really a controlled glitch in the Matrix to account for human choice, whose destiny was ultimately help the machines reboot the Matrix and prevent human extinction so that it does not lose its main power source, and the questions it brings up regarding whether free will is an illusion. The Wachowskis are aware of the negative reception of the scene, including the MTV parody of the scene in the DVD release of the movie, and including some Self-Deprecation on their part regarding their tendency to do this in The Matrix: Path of Neo.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_d908efc	comment	In Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, despite the series being a fairly simple and straightforward tale, the real nature of all elemental visuals accompanying the Breathing Styles' swordsmanship (as in, they aren't real) is presented in little key nods spread throughout the anime and manga, such as absolutely no character commenting, friend or foe, in the potential elemental damage that should be dealt by any of the demon slayers, whereas demons who actually have supernatural powers have had their elemental effects commented upon and warned against several times. However, these nods didnâ€™t seem enough for some people, so Gotoge had to outright confirm in the manga, volume 17, extras that indeed none of Breathing Styles manifest real elements out of thin air.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_d9c602eb	comment	The South Park first season episode "Damien" was about the final confrontation between Jesus and Satan. Early in the episode Damien proves his power by turning Kenny into a duck-billed platypus. The boys go to visit Jesus as he's training, and ask him if he will cure Kenny if he wins. Jesus gets indignant and says: "what do you mean IF I win?" This is a reference to an incident that only occurs in the Gospel of Mark, where Jesus gets angry when someone asks him to cure his daughter "if he can".
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_d9e61b7f	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions (particularly in the original Japanese script) assumes that the viewer is as versed in quantum mechanics as Kazuki Takahashi apparently became. The finer details about the abilities and philosophy of the Plana are rooted in quantum physics jargon, with only vague allusions to how knowing this stuff explains things like Kaibaâ€™s new Duel Disk system being able to counter their powers and summon Obelisk the Tormentor during his duel with Aigami. The movie-exclusive Artifact of Doom is not just called the Quantum Cube for pure Technobabble reasons.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_da1208fe	comment	Luhrmann and co. expect you to have some kind of familiarity with late 19th-century France if you're going to go see Moulin Rouge!. Some of its most common criticisms come from modern audiences not recognizing the discrepancies between modern society and the way things operated in 1899. For example, a common criticism is that Satine keeps saying she wants to be a real actress, but is already performing every night — no, no. What she's saying is the equivalent of a modern day porn star saying she wants to become a Hollywood actress. A deleted scene directly acknowledges another critique that can be explained with historical knowledge: Zidler needs the Duke to be his investor because, even in spite of the rich clientele, he's in debt from all he's spent on electricity. Instead, the viewer has to rely on prior knowledge and intuition, as well as a few side comments, to understand... Because it definitely wasn't cheap back then.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_dbde69cf	comment	The MARZENA series itself is based on a non-fiction book called Outlast the Machine, which is about explaining in understandable English the most intricate mysteries of the brain, and which likely started as a master thesis that decided to switch to the dark side. Transhuman Ambrosia is very pointy on its knowledge of neuroscience, and even comes up with its own theories of how the brain works by measuring the levels of brain activity using glial cells (exchanging bananas for bananas) and goes to great length to explain what consciousness is, how the brain creates it, and how that process could be artificially replicated and harnessed. The number of details is absolutely insane, and yet the book manages to keep things simplistic enough that you could just happily browse through it without realizing all the hidden scientific genius behind it.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_dbf18509	comment	Jeopardy!, which usually crams 61 clues into a single game, is probably one of the most demanding shows for those playing at home.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_dd9f7e5f	comment	2666: There are references to literary theory, geometry, mythology, psychology, philosophy, morality, art, religious symbolism, Dracula, Communism, Mexican, German, and Russian history and culture, World War II, and many others.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_ddad77ae	comment	Given the size of the cast in Astro City, many of the background characters receive little more than names and costumes. Kurt Busiek relies on the reader's knowledge of other comics to fill in the blanks, particularly with obvious Expy characters like Rex Zorus (The Thing), Samaritan (Superman), the N-Forcer (Iron Man), or Winged Victory (Wonder Woman). Such knowledge rounds out the setting considerably.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_e278316b	comment	The Prisoner (1967). Considering that the show only lasted one season, they managed to cram in enough esoterica that to list them here would require a separate page. And most of them happen in the last two episodes.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_e381e71f	comment	Digimon Tamers makes references to the history of computing, the Internet, and programming, being considered by some fans the most mature and well-written of the whole Digimon franchise.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_e4854c84	comment	Played with in Motohirou Katou's works, especially Q.E.D. and C.M.B.. The thing is, he always takes time to explains things that need explanation for most readers, but even with that, sometimes it still leaves us baffled (like Kana), especially things like mathematics and such.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_e5d9175c	comment	Kuon seems to apply, even though there is no full agreement in the fanbase about what the hell was going on there.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_e5da0fa0	comment	The first Myst game is like this. You're given no instructions, backstory or reason why you're on a lush yet deserted island, or even what you're supposed to be doing. This actually adds to the immersion of the game, as it encourages you to behave as you would if you inexplicably found yourself on the island in Real Life, and figure it out for yourself. Later games assume that you've completed the first one and become friends with Atrus.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_e5feb1e	comment	Ace Attorney has a few points where outside knowledge is required to point out a contradiction, such as the fact that a baseball glove is worn on the non-dominant hand, or that the driver's seat is on the right in a British car, or the general concepts of double jeopardy and extraterritoriality. Other times, the game does provide the information necessary to point out a contradiction, but the time between the information being presented and it becoming relevant makes it difficult for the player to remember it, especially with all the other information flying around. For example, one deduction in case 5 of the third game requires the player to remember a specific moment from case 3 which lasts all of 5 seconds.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_e7b2753f	comment	In order to even begin to understand what the death metal band Atheist plays, one would need a working knowledge of thrash metal, jazz, progressive rock, funk, and Latin music. Try listening to "Mother Man" from Unquestionable Presence if you don't believe me. To say nothing of what Psyopus and Dysrhytmia do. Indeed, this is by far one of Psyopus' most accessible songs, and it still sounds like complete aural insanity, in spite of being very much the opposite. Meshuggah is another good example. Enjoyment of their music almost requires knowledge of death / thrash metal, free jazz, progressive rock, polyrhythmic song structures, polymeters, and syncopes. Since 1993, they have produced exactly one song that relies on a consistent 4/4 timing, and are regarded as one of the most influential bands in the underground, despite having virtually nil in the way of mainstream recognition. The Dillinger Escape Plan's first record, Calculating Infinity, is definitely a good example of this, although there is a notable exception in the main riff of fan favorite, "43% Burnt," which was named by Decibel Magazine to be the 8th greatest riff of all time. Gorguts, starting with Obscura, are effectively the Technical Death Metal version of Captain Beefheart (see below). To understand their music properly it helps to have a working knowledge of death metal, Progressive Rock, Avant-Garde Music, twentieth-century Classical Music, and several other genres. A thorough background in music theory won't hurt either. (Bandleader Luc Lemay has acknowledged Dmitri Shostakovich and Krzysztof Penderecki as major influences on his writing, if that gives you any indication what you're in for.) To understand their lyrics, it helps to have a detailed understanding of history and various forms of mythology. Even with those under your belt, most of their albums won't even begin to make sense until you've listened to them at least ten times. They'll also be terrifying on the first several listens, even if you already have thorough familiarity with death metal. Similar to Gorguts (and probably influenced by them) are the French Black Metal band Deathspell Omega. Starting with the 75-minute Concept Album Si monumentum reqiures, circumspice, the band began a highly philosophical series of concept albums filled with absurdly complex musical and lyrical concepts. If you haven't made a thorough study of Christian theology and several major schools of philosophy such as existentialism, good luck understanding their lyrics. You'll probably also need to consult a dictionary to understand the English lyrics, and working knowledge of languages like French, Latin, and German won't hurt, either. Additionally, you'll need a thorough grounding in literature in several different languages to fully understand their lyrics, including writers like John Milton, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and especially Georges Bataille; they're fond of throwing in allusions to other authors' works with no indication that they are allusions, and if you don't recognise the allusions, they may make no sense whatsoever. Meanwhile, their songs, which often go on for as long as twenty-two minutes, bear little to no resemblance to traditional metal compositions. Again, working knowledge of genres like Progressive Rock, Avant-Garde Music and twentieth-century Classical Music will help, and again, their music will be terrifying on the first several listens even if you're already familiar with black metal. The fact that "Gorguts are the new Deathspell Omega" has become a Memetic Mutation probably tells you all you need to know about the similarity between the two bands.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_e7e37776	comment	Firefly, "Objects In Space". Most blatantly the opening, but the whole thing is a philosophical statement on (one kind of) existentialism. Joss Whedon's DVD Commentary might help the viewer to get the point (that objects have the meaning that people choose to give them).
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy eventually degenerated into nothing but this trope, then degenerated even further to the point of parodying itself for having degenerated into nothing but this trope.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_eb1a2ec5	comment	The Baroque Cycle books in particular go down much smoother if the reader has an undergraduate-level comprehension of economic theory, currency trading, securities investment, shipbuilding, counterfeiting, alchemy, high-seas piracy, and a graduate-level mastery European political machinations during the Renaissance era.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_eb3f769d	comment	The Aubrey-Maturin novels contain masses of unexplained early-nineteenth-century detail and language. There are now several companion books. On nautical matters, at least, the author has explanations addressed to Stephen Maturin as The Watson; but pay attention, because most things are explained only once, and will come up again in later books.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_eef69f10	comment	Unless you're quite familiar with the Sherlock Holmes stories (simply having seen film/TV adaptations won't help much) and the Cthulhu Mythos, Neil Gaiman's short story "A Study in Emerald" will require multiple readings to make sense. Despite this, it's one of his best loved short stories and won a Hugo Award. Most of Gaiman's other work (American Gods in particular) falls under Genius Bonus instead, as it will still mostly make sense if you don't have a thorough understanding of the background material (Norse Mythology in American Gods' case), but you'll appreciate it even more if you do.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_f197ea60	comment	Dinosaur Comics occasionally becomes this.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_f1f6c740	comment	Poland Ball requires a thorough knowledge of vexillology to even know who is suppose to be who. The jokes are based around the international relations of rather obscure countries as they are the more famous ones.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_f3ca4db9	comment	Concrete Revolutio: Choujin Gensou's use of Anachronic Order makes it difficult to follow the plot and characters through its timeline. Not only that, the show's timeline takes place in an Alternate History with each episode events playing out a specific event that occurred in post war Japan. Combined with its philosophies on justice, specifically Justice Will Prevail, and Grey-and-Gray Morality, you can see how it ended up on this list.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_f461ff66	comment	My Summer Car basically requires the player to be a Grease Monkey in order to identify all the parts you need, know how to assemble them, and diagnose issues should they arise, in order to get the Satsuma working let alone tuned to be licensed or raced. That's on top of the numerous survival needs, all of which can kill you if you don't pay attention to them. The dev does nothing but make the the game harder with each progressive update, to get as thoroughly realistic an experience as possible.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_f4abd380	comment	BlazBlue's plot is already pretty difficult to follow due to a "Groundhog Day" Loop, Alternate Timelines and one heck of a Timey-Wimey Ball, but that's just the beginning of your brain's struggle to keep up with the creators: Both characters and the lore include allusions to Christian, Classical, Norse and Japanese Mythology, history and legends. Taxonomies, character names, Significant Birth Dates and character crests all include some level of Genius Bonus and not even the command lists go safe what with the Theme Naming of the special moves (e.g., Mad Scientist-turned-Eldritch Abomination Arakune's command list consists entirely of references to advanced mathematics). Finally, there's also the importance of things like "Observers" and "Phenomena Intervention", which are allusions to Quantum Physics, most importantly stuff like Superposition, Wave Function Collapse, Quantum Entanglement, the SchrÃ¶dinger's Cat Paradox and the Many-Worlds Interpretation.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_f53c3049	comment	Masquerade (1979) is ostensibly a children's book in which the illustrations provided clues to the burial location of the jeweled golden hare featured in the story. Kit Williams, the writer, claimed that a child of ten with a good understanding of language, mathematics, and astronomy would be just as likely to solve the puzzle as an Oxbridge don. The puzzle remained unsolved for nearly three years, and the two people who finally cracked it were physics teachers.note Not that this was enough for them to win the contest; the actual contest winner had done so not by solving the puzzle, but by exploiting a chain of personal connections between Williams and himself. Even now that the method behind the solution has been thoroughly documented and published, it still leaves many readers scratching their heads, wondering "How was anyone supposed to solve this?"
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_f554e011	comment	Katawa Shoujo: Shizune's route has a very subtle narrative style that requires a lot of reading between the lines in order to truly understand, especially when it comes to the dynamics of Shizune and Hisao's relationship. It also helps to have a working understanding of the subtleties of how sign language works as a medium of communication and how it differs from spoken language. Unless they are really paying attention, a lot of this will go over most players' heads, leading to people complaining about the "lack of romance" in her route. Rin's route is as much a mediation on the nature of genius, philosophy of art, and the question of whether or not it is truly possible for two people to understand one another (as well as whether it really matters), as it is an eroge love story.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_f6216c2d	comment	The Dark Half has an in-universe example. The protagonist has written several highly intellectual novels with great reviews and poor sales. In the meantime he has also written under a pen name intentionally trashy books that engorge themselves on sex and violence which have gone on to become bestsellers. Stephen King wrote the book in part as a response to his pen name Richard Bachman becoming public knowledge. The stories he wrote under the pen name in turn tended to be less psychological than those with his own name on them.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_f6b79960	comment	In Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, several puzzles as well as aspects of the plot involve the use of hexadecimals and base36 in numbers. The first time a puzzle involving it comes up, you're given the chance to work everything out yourself, without the game even explaining how hexadecimals work. Although, if you need it, the game does give you a run down on the basics of it. However, there's a number of times when hexadecimals come up later on in the game after this point: At these moments you're expected to remember everything you learnt about it. If you don't, then you'll be forced to either go back and refresh yourself on it by starting a new playthrough, or research it yourself. Or just try everything until you eventually get it by luck. The game in general makes constant references to obscure scientific and historical trivia (i.e. Ice-9, polymorphic resonance, Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan.) Some of these are actually based on fiction and urban legends, but are treated as true anyway (Ice-9, for example, is a reference to a Kurt Vonnegut novel, but it's falsely claimed in-game that scientists eventually discovered it in real life*There's something called "Ice IX", but it's completely unrelated,) which can make descerning the actual Truth in Television bits from the made-up stuff difficult for those not already in the know.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_f7d93e4a	comment	Assassin's Creed is fairly accessible, and commercial success, but nonetheless a lot of the stuff depends on Historical Fiction and it's a special treat for History buffs of famous and obscure periods, architecture-buffs who will squee over their recreation of famous monuments and places, and conspiracy and trivia buffs who get the obscure references to various myths, symbols, legends and rumors and how it interweaves into the story.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_f8705c18	comment	Hellsing is positively dripping with Western symbolism. Only those familiar with Catholicism, Protestantism, the Reformation, and the cultural and religious conflicts between the two Christian branches will understand all of the references and subplots that litter the storyline. The same could also be said of the characters' backgrounds, which involve everything from the Ottoman Turks and collapse of the Eastern Roman Empire to the Nazis of World War II and the continued disputes about Northern Ireland. The plot literally requires viewers to possess at least a decent working knowledge of European history to grasp anywhere near all of the allusions that are made to real-life historical figures, their peoples, their religions, and their possible connection to supernatural creatures like vampires, werewolves, and other monsters. Many of the characters' and agency's names give hints about their nationality and roles in the plot, but don't expect anyone aside from those who are well-acquainted with European culture, Judeo-Christian religions, and fictional works to correctly deduce or identify the reasons behind their significance. Not to mention SchrÃ¶dinger, who is based on a thought concept of quantum physics that baffles even those in the sciences from time to time. Many viewers may never have even heard of the concept, which the show doesn't explain in great detail, either. Alucard's past is based on the events of Bram Stoker's original novel (and some of the Truer to the Text 1992 Bram Stoker's Dracula film) and the life, politics, and death of the historical Vlad III Dracula; NOT the distilled Hollywood Pop-Cultural Osmosis Dracula. Best to have a passing knowledge of these for random flashbacks and mentions of obscure details of his life to make sense.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_f9e75921	comment	Once Kenny Omega won the AEW world championship in late 2020, the main event arc pivoted to Omega, now a heel, trying to woo the babyface tag team The Young Bucks, his Bullet Club and The Elite cohorts from New Japan Pro Wrestling, back to his side. In tandem with that angle, Omega began his run as "The [Belt] Collector", pursuing multiple world titles from Japan, Mexico, and Impact Wrestling with long-time wrestling personality Don Callis as his manager. While this could be deeply rewarding to those with an extensive knowledge of the history of the aforementioned parties and the crossovers within — and AEW isn't shy about catering to hardcore smarks — those with a more casual AEW following were left wondering why the AEW world title picture now didn't seem to focus on AEW itself.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_fb7a5509	comment	The game in general makes constant references to obscure scientific and historical trivia (i.e. Ice-9, polymorphic resonance, Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan.) Some of these are actually based on fiction and urban legends, but are treated as true anyway (Ice-9, for example, is a reference to a Kurt Vonnegut novel, but it's falsely claimed in-game that scientists eventually discovered it in real life*There's something called "Ice IX", but it's completely unrelated,) which can make descerning the actual Truth in Television bits from the made-up stuff difficult for those not already in the know.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_fbf33963	comment	Inception. There's a lot to keep track of in this film, including dream rules and levels, and after the initial period of exposition and heist planning, Nolan expects you to figure it out for yourself. His next non-Batman movie Interstellar manages to go even well beyond that. Having some basic knowledge about general relativity, space-time, and exoplanet research goes a very long way in figuring out what's actually going on. And it might require some deeper understanding of the existentialist philosophy that underlies all of Nolan's movies to be able to figure out what anything of it might be supposed to mean.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_fc658ed1	comment	Mountain Time. Yikes. Aside from the blink-and-you'll-miss-them literary and philosophical references, you also face character and plot continuities spaced tens to hundreds of comics apart.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_fd440c77	comment	Godzilla: Singular Point's human plot revolves around complicated discussions of quantum and theoretical physics to explain how the mysterious Archetype element and the Kaiju connected to it defy all traditional logical views of how physics work.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_fdbace96	comment	Gravity Falls: It purposely leaves clues for its viewers to solve, sometimes years in advance. Some of the clues include cryptograms in the credits, backwards messages, and details hidden in the background. Creator Alex Hirsch has said that he did this so that if anyone was as weird as him, they would find what they're looking for. Regarding the cryptograms, Season 2's is written in a VigenÃ¨re cipher, an encoding process regarded as impenetrable for hundreds of years and which remains extremely difficult to break even in the present day without a key or a computer decryption program. Thankfully, said key is hidden within the episode, both as a word or phrase spoken by the characters and as text hidden within the background. The best known example of this is when Grunkle Stan rescued his twin brother, the author of the journals, from another dimension. Fans had guessed this twist nearly two years in advance of the episode's initial airing.
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Viewers Are Geniuses / int_ffbfaeb3	comment	Between Grayson, Omega Men, The Vision (2015) and Mister Miracle (2017), Tom King is known for going light on direct exposition, and expecting the reader to keep up with themes and character development that are hidden beneath the surface. Naturally, this gets backlash from readers who are completely missing the point.
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Ergo Proxy / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Fate/Grand Order - Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror of Shamballa / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Ghost in the Shell / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Ghost in the Shell (1995) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Noein / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Noir / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Psycho-Pass / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Rebellion / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Shirobako / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Zegapain / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Blogger Beware (Blog) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog (Blog) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Comics Curmudgeon (Blog) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Unshaved Mouse (Blog) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth (Comic Book) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Astro City (Comic Book) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Batwoman (Comic Book) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Batwoman (New 52) (Comic Book) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Civil War (2006) (Comic Book) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
DC Rebirth (Comic Book) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
De Cape et de Crocs (Comic Book) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth (Comic Book) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Joker (Comic Book) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
La Brigade Chimerique (Comic Book) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Monica's Gang (Comic Book) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Providence (Comic Book) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Comic Book) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Maze Agency (Comic Book) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Sandman (1989) (Comic Book) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Simpsons (Comic Book) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
FoxTrot (Comic Strip) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Frazz (Comic Strip) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Madam & Eve (Comic Strip) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Popeye (Comic Strip) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Sam's Strip (Comic Strip) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Far Side (Comic Strip) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Civil War / Comicbook / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
From Hell / Comicbook / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Hercules / Disney / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Aeon Entelechy Evangelion / Fan Fic / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Aeon Natum Engel / Fan Fic / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
GhostInTheEvangelion	seeAlso	Viewers Are Geniuses
Empathy (Fanfic) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Friendship is Failure (Fanfic) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
It's a Small World, After All (Fanfic) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Lost Tales of Fantasia (Fanfic) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Mass Effect: Human Revolution (Fanfic) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Past Sins MST (Fanfic) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
PokemonCoal	seeAlso	Viewers Are Geniuses
Superhero RPF (Fanfic) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Worm Protocol (Fanfic) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
A Serious Man / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
As Above, So Below / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Avalon / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Avalon (2001) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Baskın / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Black Hawk Down / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Black Panther (2018) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Captive State / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Carry On Up the Khyber / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Déjà Vu (2006) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
District 9 / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Downfall / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Downfall (2004) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Dr. Strangelove / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
8 Days to Live / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Errementari / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
(500) Days of Summer / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Full Metal Jacket / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Hail, Caesar! / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Hail the Judge / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Hudson Hawk / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
I'm Not There / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Inception / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Interstellar / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Kundun / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Man on the Moon / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Moulin Rouge! / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Mr. Jones (2019) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Mr. Nobody / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Nymphomaniac / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Ocean's Eleven / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Only Lovers Left Alive / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Outpost / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Remember Me / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Robin Hood (2010) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Southland Tales / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Spartan / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Sunshine / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Big Lebowski / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Brass Teapot / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Death of Stalin / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Descent / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Draughtsman's Contract / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Fountain / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Gamers: Dorkness Rising / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Ides of March / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Milky Way (1969) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Nun's Story / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Phantom (1996) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Revenant / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Trading Places / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Yves Saint Laurent / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Dune (Franchise) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Highlander (Franchise) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Slender Man Mythos (Franchise) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Online Warrior (Lets Play) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
A Series of Unfortunate Events / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
A Wrinkle in Time / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Alatriste / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Alex Rider / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
America Is Not the Heart / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
An Elegy for the Still-living / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Aquasilva	seeAlso	Viewers Are Geniuses
Black Blood Brothers / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Blindsight / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Book of Romans / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Book of the New Sun / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Cards on the Table / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Catch-22 / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Complete World Knowledge / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Cross and Poppy / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Deepgate Codex / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Dirk Gently / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Dracula / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Dune / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
11/22/63 / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Evensong / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Farmer Giles of Ham / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Foucault's Pendulum / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Generation Kill / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Hopscotch / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Horatio Hornblower / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
How NOT to Write a Novel / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Humanx Commonwealth / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Les Colombes du Roi-Soleil / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Maladie and Other Stories / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Malazan Book of the Fallen / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Masquerade (1979) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, as I Expected / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Neuromancer / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
NOS4A2 / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Orbital Lily / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Orthogonal / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Pale Fire / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Philo Vance / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Redwall / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Rivers of London / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Sailor Nothing / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Sound! Euphonium / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Summerland / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Swamp Story / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
That Hideous Strength / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Cassandra Project / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Codeless Code / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Cosmere / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Dark Half / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Devil's Dictionary / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Dogs / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Host / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Host (2008) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Iron Dream / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Kingkiller Chronicle / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Laundry Files / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Lost Fleet / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Many Horrors of being a Tokyo Waitress / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Nexus Series / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Pale King / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Phantom Tollbooth / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Princess Bride / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Quantum Thief / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Queen of Spades / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Queen's Thief / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Waste Land / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
To Kill a Mockingbird / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
2666 / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Ulysses / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Wayside School / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Welkin Weasels / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Without Bloodshed / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Spectator (Magazine) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
DaeKharEl	seeAlso	Viewers Are Geniuses
GentlemensDame883	seeAlso	Viewers Are Geniuses
HookerVerse	seeAlso	Viewers Are Geniuses
Hopscotch	seeAlso	Viewers Are Geniuses
HulksLaw	seeAlso	Viewers Are Geniuses
Lumine	seeAlso	Viewers Are Geniuses
MotohirouKatou	seeAlso	Viewers Are Geniuses
NyxCrossing	seeAlso	Viewers Are Geniuses
Patter Song / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
PattonOswalt	seeAlso	Viewers Are Geniuses
ThePragueCemetery	seeAlso	Viewers Are Geniuses
TheSavageDetectives	seeAlso	Viewers Are Geniuses
TrueArtIsComplex	seeAlso	Viewers Are Geniuses
ptitle4z9bga17ybyl	seeAlso	Viewers Are Geniuses
Chainsaw Man (Manga) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Chobits (Manga) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Eden: It's an Endless World! (Manga) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Hellsing (Manga) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Kids on the Slope (Manga) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Liar Game (Manga) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Q.E.D. (Manga) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Yagyu Ninja Scrolls (Manga) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
A Night at the Opera (1975) (Music) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Alestorm (Music) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer (Music) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Anaal Nathrakh (Music) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Atheist (Music) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Deadsy (Music) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Devil Without A Cause (Music) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Early Mornin' Stoned Pimp (Music) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Freak Out! (Music) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Freak Out! (Music) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Ghost Quartet (Music) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
GordianKnot	seeAlso	Viewers Are Geniuses
Guardians Inferno (Music) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Ludwig van Beethoven (Music) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Lumpy Gravy (Music) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
So (Music) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Sound Horizon (Music) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Charlie Daniels Band (Music) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Hold Steady (Music) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Therion (Music) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
TISM (Music) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
RiffTrax (Podcast) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Scathing Atheist (Podcast) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Says You! (Radio) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Frantics (Radio) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Scary News out of Tokyo-3 (Roleplay) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Black Sand Bar (Roleplay) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
A Touch of Cloth / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Black Books / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Blood Over Water / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Cheap Seats / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Chuck / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
ER / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Halt and Catch Fire / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Iron Chef / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Monday Night Football / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Monty Python's Flying Circus / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Ms. Marvel (2022) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Mystery Science Theater 3000 / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Portlandia / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Restaurant: Impossible / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Schitt's Creek / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Silicon Valley / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Slings & Arrows / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Station Eleven / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Succession / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Advisor's Alliance / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Empress of China / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Genius / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Legend of Dugu / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The O.C. / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Queen's Gambit / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The West Wing / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Young Pope / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Three Kingdoms / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Through the Wormhole / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Tiger King / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Treme / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Under the Banner of Heaven / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
University Challenge / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Vikings / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Welcome Back, Kotter / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Bunnies & Burrows (Tabletop Game) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Continuum (Tabletop Game)	seeAlso	Viewers Are Geniuses
C°ntinuum: roleplaying in The Yet (Tabletop Game) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Empire Builder (Tabletop Game) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Hollow Earth Expedition (Tabletop Game) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
RuneQuest (Tabletop Game) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Dracula Dossier (Tabletop Game) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Arcadia (Theatre) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Firebringer (Theatre) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Henry V (Theatre) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Patience (Theatre) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Princess Ida (Theatre) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
AdventureQuest (Video Game) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
America's Army (Video Game) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Blaster Mystery Series (Video Game) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
BloodNet (Video Game) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Final Fantasy XII (Video Game) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Haunting Ground (Video Game) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Immortals Fenyx Rising (Video Game) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
JumpStart Adventures 5th Grade: Jo Hammet, Kid Detective (Video Game) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
L.A. Noire (Video Game) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes (Video Game) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
La-Mulana (Video Game) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Legacy of Kain (Video Game) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Marathon (Video Game) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Mega Man Battle Network (Video Game) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (Video Game) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Nancy Drew (Video Game) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Poker Night 2 (Video Game) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Rock Band (Video Game) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Runaway: A Road Adventure (Video Game) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Scratches (Video Game) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Smite (Video Game) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Suzerain (Video Game) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Mirror Lied (Video Game)	seeAlso	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Secret World (Video Game) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Wizardry (Video Game) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Dead by Daylight / Videogame / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
C14 Dating (Visual Novel) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
CLANNAD	seeAlso	Viewers Are Geniuses
Lux-Pain (Visual Novel) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Justice For All (Visual Novel) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
SC2VN (Visual Novel) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Umineko: When They Cry (Visual Novel) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Virtue's Last Reward (Visual Novel) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Awesome Series (Web Animation) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Girl-chan in Paradise (Web Animation) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Broadcast Static (Web Video) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Crash Course (Web Video) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Epic Rap Battles of History (Web Video) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Familiar Faces (Web Video) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Noah Caldwell-Gervais (Web Video) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Nyx Crossing (Web Video)	seeAlso	Viewers Are Geniuses
VlogBrothers (Web Video) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Xonic S (Web Video) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Among the Chosen (Webcomic) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Digger (Webcomic) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Feast For A King (Webcomic) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Friendship Is 4komagic (Webcomic) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Irregular Webcomic! (Webcomic) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Nepetaquest 2011 (Webcomic) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Oglaf (Webcomic) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Polandball (Webcomic) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
qxlkbh (Webcomic) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Ruby Quest (Webcomic) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Sandra and Woo (Webcomic) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Sexy Losers (Webcomic) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Skin Horse (Webcomic) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Starslip (Webcomic) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Whiteboard (Webcomic) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Times Like This (Webcomic) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Unicorn Jelly (Webcomic) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
UnimportantConversations	seeAlso	Viewers Are Geniuses
Weapon Brown (Webcomic) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
xkcd (Webcomic) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Reddit (Website) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Smogon (Website) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Best Page in the Universe (Website) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Alice in Wonderland / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Blue's Clues / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Bubble Guppies / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Charade / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Cinderella / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Clone High / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Codename: Kids Next Door / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Coraline / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Freakazoid! / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Gargoyles / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Jake and the Never Land Pirates / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Mary Shelley's Frankenhole / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Flight of Dragons / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The King and the Mockingbird / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Little Drummer Boy / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Tick / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
The Venture Bros. / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Turtles Forever / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Up / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Alberto Del Rio (Wrestling) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Vince Russo (Wrestling) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Girls und Panzer / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Midnight in Paris / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Primer / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Castle Town Dandelion (Manga) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Hark! A Vagrant (Webcomic) / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses

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