Don’t miss the cameo by Elaine Showalter, who appears in this video to restage one of my favorite scenes in American film history. Comedy gold! (Via Sophylou at True Stories Backward.)
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Historiann 
“The important thing is that we just keep pretending to listen.” Priceless. Thanks for this, cowgirl. Love the Showalter cameo!
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Thought you would like that, Madwoman!
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Brilliant!
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As soon as I read “cameo by [academic], I *knew* what that scene would be. My pop cultural references are well trained! (Either that, or you and I just have eerily similar tastes, Historiann.)
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I have a feeling that a lot of other people guessed that reference, purely because I think that scene clicks with a lot of academic types who have been bored by know-it-alls (in and out of seminar rooms) like that. It’s like a footnote scolding an author, or something.
Plus, Fratguy and I say “you know nothing of my work. . . ” to each other at least twice a month.
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Please pretty please I want to be in on the joke! What’s the film reference?! (I hope my ignorance just comes from not having grown up in the US, and not from being, you know, uneducated…).
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Here you go!
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Thanks! I’d blanked on that reference.
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I thought I’d never get a film reference, but that indeed is the academic favorite…lthank you!
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Thats great!
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Mrs. James Wood! LMAO! Thanks, H.
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