Having said that, tonight's episode of "The Daily Show" could be the greatest episode they have ever put together. It certainly wasn't the funniest, and probably not the most memorable, but that's fine. The esoteric references in this broadcast (side note: and you know that, like me, you love that seemingly-meaningless-but-actually-meaningful shit that only 10% of the people in the room understand (side note to the side note: hah-HAH Carter, people be talkin' bout some inside jokes and shit that only a handful of motherfuckers can appreciate (side note to the side note to the side note: I think this is the first post in which I have ever had two side notes to the side note, the Elias people would be proud (side note to the side note to the side note to the side note: the side notes are telescoping like the limit created by the 1/x curve on the XY plane, which is mind-blowingly ironic, since I am going to talk about limits, below (side note to the side note to the side note to the side note to the side note: still following along? very impressive!))))) surpass any I have seen before. In one single episode, Jon Stewart referred to each of the following:
- Atreyu
- Falcor
MC Escher (there was even a tailored version of this MC Escher photo, revised to make a joke about how the Bush administration used the same excuses for going into Iraq as they now use for why we can't leave)
- The Mobius Strip
- and (as foreshadowed above) . . . limits.
(Did you know that if you rotate a two-dimensional curve such as the one represented by the function f(x)=1/x around the x-axis you create a three-dimensional figure with a definite volume but an infinite area? Mind = blown. Is that right? Jerry? Joe? Help me out here.)
Think about that for a second . . . I didn't even wait around for the Jodie Foster interview (side note: if I hear "The Brave One" compared to "Taxi Driver" one more time, I am punching someone. OB, you're in the biz . . . can't you do something about this?), and I got five extraordinary references to shit you don't come across every day.
Bravo Mr. Stewart, bravo.