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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Aug 2021

    Working on a critique of how The Chair gets contemporary academia wrong but first want to finish my piece showing the huge gap between most desert island experiences and Gilligan's Island.

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      1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Aug 2021

        What I'm trying to say here is that sit coms are a stylization of reality and not bound by the rules of verisimilitude.

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      1. Anne Ward‏ @AnneCW 22 Aug 2021
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        That Gilligan's Island piece will be extremely important and very well-cited, I'm sure.

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      2. Patrick O'Brien‏ @pob5341 22 Aug 2021
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        The Harlem Globetrotters only show up on 85% of desert islands, rather than the 100% that Gilligan's Island implies

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      3. UWS Pete‏ @UWSPete 22 Aug 2021
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        Harlem Globetrotters defeating Martin Landau-owned robots on a desert island is more common than you think.

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      1. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm 22 Aug 2021
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        later highly over determined

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      1. WORLD PREMIERE JUNE 3!‏ @garrt 22 Aug 2021
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        The difference is no one argues Gilligan's Island presents a serious depiction of being shipwrecked

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      1. ProfOfIndefiniteArticles‏ @ProfThibodeau 22 Aug 2021
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        If you want a realistic representation of what it's like to be a chair, try the Green Knight.

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      1. Misgivings #3‏ @lacunalingua_3 22 Aug 2021
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        Heh

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      1. Martha Sharpe‏ @marthajsharpe 22 Aug 2021
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        Have not yet watched The Chair, but over pancakes this morning, @ErsatzSamizdat and I roughed out a Gilligan’s Island reboot/prequel, complete with cast, and so give us the piece please.

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      2. Josh is tired of all the atavism  🇺🇦  🌻‏ @JoshBeall10 22 Aug 2021
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        The Chair is a very funny satire of a particular conception of academia that exists largely in the public imaginary, but not in too many places outside of the northeast.

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      3. Saul Tobias‏ @SaulTobias01 22 Aug 2021
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        I can think of a few places out West that definitely fit the bill.

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