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“Smiling Friends,” Adult Swim

January 20, 2022 By Hannah Raisner, FSU '25

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“Charlie dies and is sent to the underworld to cheer up the devil, who has let hell freeze over. The imagery is straight from the Inferno. Faces frozen in ice, giants, Charlie scaling down to the bottom, God’s hidden face, etc.”

Contributed by Luis E. Sanchez, Florida State University ’22

Categories: Digital Media, Performing Arts
Tagged with: Adult Swim, American Television, Cartoon Network, Cartoons, Televison

Succession Season 3, Episode 6 – “What It Takes” (2021)

December 4, 2021 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

Succession-What-It-Takes-40th-Birthday-Party-ThemeIn Episode 6 of Season 3 of the HBO television series Succession, Kendall Roy describes the planned theme of his upcoming 40th birthday: “ End Times: Weimar meets Carthage meets Dante meets AI and antibiotic-resistant superbugs.”

Succession has been featured multiple times on our website: see another reference from Season 1 here and a promotional poster citing here.

Categories: Digital Media, Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2021, American Television, Black Comedy, Dante, Drama, HBO, Satire, Televison, United States

Seinfeld Season 3, Episode 10 – “The Stranded” (1991)

November 24, 2021 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

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“Seinfeld is an American sitcom television series created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld. It aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, over nine seasons and 180 episodes. It stars Seinfeld as a fictionalized version of himself and focuses on his personal life with three of his friends: George Costanza (Jason Alexander), former girlfriend Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), and his neighbor from across the hall, Cosmo Kramer (Michael Richards). It is set mostly in an apartment building in Manhattan’s Upper West Side in New York City. It has been described as ‘a show about nothing’, often focusing on the minutiae of daily life.”     —Wikipedia

In Season 3, Episode 10, entitled “The Stranded”, George remarks that his current office relationship makes it feel as though every day is a date to which Jerry replies, “That’s one of Dante’s nine stages of Hell, isn’t it?”

See our other post involving comedian Jerry Seinfeld here.

Categories: Digital Media, Performing Arts
Tagged with: 1991, 90s, American Television, Circles of Hell, Comedy, Hell, Inferno, Jokes, Sitcoms, Television, United States

Succession Season 1, Episode 8 – “Prague” (2018)

November 3, 2021 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

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“Succession is an HBO series created by Jesse Armstrong which showcases a fictional battle between four adult siblings to succeed their father, Logan Roy, as CEO of Waystar/Royco, a multibillion-dollar media conglomerate.

“In Season 1, Episode 8, entitled ‘Prague,’ Roman Roy, one of Logan Roy’s four adult children, recites a line from Canto 3 of Dante’s Inferno: ‘Abandon all hope, ye who enter.’ This is a variation of line 9 of this canto as translated into English by John Ciardi in 1954, the full line being ‘Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.'”    –Contributor Cesca Craig

See also the related post on HBO’s Succession here.

Photo and citing contributed by Cesca Craig (University of Arkansas, ’23)

Categories: Digital Media, Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2018, Abandon All Hope, American Television, Black Comedy, Canto 3, Drama, HBO, Inferno, Satire, Television, United States

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