Praising Shows You Don't Watch: Difference between revisions

* [[Shakespeare]] is so well known for being "the greatest author in the English language, and possibly any language," that many people will not hesitate to dump heaps of praise over his entire body of work and over all aspects of his writing. While some of his best-known plays are required reading in most high schools, Shakespeare wrote quite a few plays, and not all of them were works of staggering genius. Some plays are preserved only out of a [[Gotta Catch Em All]] sense of duty to study Shakespeare's entire body of work, rather than for their individual quality. Also, many people don't know that most of Shakespeare's plays were adaptations/rip-offs of previous works. Shakespeare punched up the plot and wrote the dialogue (the latter of which someone would argue is the ''point'' of reading Shakespeare), but did not himself invent the stories.

* Hunter and Jeff in ''[[Title of Show]]'' admit to doing this.

Hunter: I never saw it either but I have opinions about stuff I've never seen all the time. }}

* The works of Menander received loads of acclaim throughout history... despite ''all of his works'' existing solely as fragments from the ''eleventh century to the end of the nineteenth''. Since then, a few of his works were recovered (''Dyskolos, or The Grouch'', has been found in its entirety, and now about three-quarters of ''The Samian Woman'' are now known), leading to an inevitable [[Hype Backlash]].