Friday, November 24, 2023

Shakespeare in FoxTrot's Think iFruity

Amend, Bill. Think iFruity. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 2000.

Moving one book forward in our push to cover all the Shakespeare in FoxTrot, we find two brief connections.

The first is the usual paraphrase (or, to be harsher, misquotation) of a passage from 1 Henry IV.  Late in that play, Falstaff says, "The better pat of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have sav'd my life" (V.iv.119-21). In FoxTrot, Andy tries to remind Jason that "Discretion is the better part of valor" when he's angry about his video game performance:


We also have Paige's overjoyed response to her completing her math exam:


Again, it's not quite as much Shakespeare as I'd like, but 'tis enough—'twill serve.
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