There have been TWO more reference to Shakespeare in my favorite show, Brooklyn Nine-Nine! Do you know what this means?! It either means A. The writers know I watch this show. Or B. Shakespeare permeates our society at a very deep level.
I'm just going to say it's both.
So this is what happened!
FIRST: Gina decided to get Amy drunk because she's never seen six-drink Amy. She thinks she could be friends with this so-called six-drink Amy and refers to her as her Sasquatch.
Amy: Gina! You got to see the Sasquatch. Was it everything you drumpt?
Gina: It was the stuff drumpts are made of.
This is from The Tempest. It's not word for word, but that's my favorite part. The phrase "stuff dreams are made of" is a common enough phrase that it's just something people say. Just something people say FROM SHAKESPEARE! It gets me very excited.
The line is from a speech by Prospero in the tempest about fairies, pageants and visions.
You do look, my son, in a moved sort,
As if you were dismayed. Be cheerful, sir.
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air.
And like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself—
Yea, all which it inherit—shall dissolve,
And like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
Act 4 Scene 1
Prospero subtly references the very theater the original actors were performing in: "the great globe itself," as in the Globe Theater. It's lovely and falls in line with the idea of "All the world's a stage." We are made of such illusions.
What are your interpretations of the speech?
And SECOND: A phenomenal rethinking of the merits of having Romeo and Juliet as your romance role models.
Jake: We can make this work! We're Romeo and Juliet!
Sophia: It didn't work for Romeo and Juliet. That play ends in a tragic double suicide.
Jake: That's how it ends? Why do people like it so much?
Aaahh you speak my language, Jake! [See my previous post on JUST THIS ISSUE!]
Anywho, it looks like this is what I do with my time now. Here we are.
P.S. On a completely unrelated note, every since my grad class on Chaucer, I can't help but pronounce "two" the middle English way, if only to myself. (Chaucer's works are often misstated as being Old English - 'tis not so!) So what would that sound like? Well, like it's spelled, duh. Hint: it rhymes with grow.
Man, Jake is speaking my language.
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