I don't think I ever mentioned it in my blog, but ever since I started working on The Wizard of Oz this summer, references to the show have been haunting me. That wasn't exactly unexpected because it seems like every time I do a show, I become hyper-aware of things referring to it, and usually see some parody of it in Family Guy or something (i.e., when we did Brigadoon, somebody saw the episode with a reference to that on closing night). However, since Oz is such a well-known show, there are references to it everywhere. Especially in late night cartoons like Family Guy and Robot Chicken, which happened to be on right when I got back, so I would watch them. There are at least three episodes each that reference Oz. And then, I saw at least two comic strips in my paper with references. There was a point in time when I saw Oz references on a daily basis, and not even just during the show.
And even now, still, there are things about The Wizard of Oz everywhere. There is a poster downstairs with a drawing of Dorothy that says "There's no place like Prado..." (Prado is the name of my hall), and today I just signed up to audition for The Wiz. If I get into that, I think the references may never stop.
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