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Bill S. juxtaposes archaic and contemporary diction to insult Theodore G.

It’s super effective!

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Double entendre: He can cause a Hummer SUV to overturn with his waves of gunfire, but also can sell or “flip” a Hummer’s worth of cocaine. The Hummer H2’s MSRP is around 53,000, which is almost exactly three times the street price of a kilo of cocaine: $17,500.

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Just as producers continually make similar-sounding beats based on what sells, rappers must adhere to a proven, commercially successful formula in order to be heard on a widespread basis.

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After watching every single TV Christmas special, he knows everything there is to know about the way Christmas should be.

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To quote Leo in his role as Howard Hughes in The Aviator: “Show me all the blueprints. Show me all the blueprints. Show me all the blueprints… show me all the blueprints… show me all the blueprints… show me all the blueprints… ”

His repetitious tic reflects Abed’s suspected Asperger syndrome.

The reference to blueprints also takes into account Abed’s encyclopedic knowledge of pop culture, and his ability to seemingly predict future events because he knows every possible story arc.

The blueprint of a building depicts the outline and structure, so in a way Abed knows all the plot blueprints for the show he’s in.

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Abed is strongly implied to have Asperger Syndrome, an autism spectrum condition.

Although nearly every aspect of his character points to it, an Asperger diagnosis has never been explicitly stated.

This article explores the nature of characters with Asperger Syndrome. It discusses both the officially diagnosed characters and the ones in whom the condition is implied.

Included in the latter category, along with Abed, is Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory.

The characters are very similar in a number of ways, and the shows' respective writers have both stated that they prefer to withhold any direct reference to Aspergers so that Abed and Sheldon can develop on their own terms rather than be beholden to labels and diagnoses.

This line could be considered Abed’s response to those who want an official diagnosis for the character. It suits him well, since he is well-known to withdraw from the immediate plotline of the show and play jump rope with the fourth wall.

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The Bard’s use of the phrase ‘It’s a castle, I’m a boss’ may refer to many video games, in which a castle generally represents the end of a level, while ‘boss’ refers to the ultimate foe of a particular stage.

His comparison of himself to Parliament is pretty self-explanatory.

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He’ll shoot him in the back, and blow a hole straight through the middle of his torso.

A slug is also a unit used to measure weight in the English system. 1 slug = 514.784777 ounces, and a common punishment in Shakespeare’s time was to bend someone over at the waist pin their arms outstretched to the sides and place a weight between their shoulder blades. Taken with the next line it could mean hes going to punish him until he has a good idea.

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Shakespeare’s verse, as with many of his plays and poems, is written in iambic pentameter. It is considered a classic meter, and pretty rare in the rap world.

Most of Watsky’s lines in the first verse are in iambic pentameter (5 stressed/5 unstressed syllables alternating). In the video Watsky counts to 5 stressed syllables. This is how most of Shakespeare’s work is written.

Here (watch Shakespeare’s hand in the video), he is saying he’ll use all five fingers of his hand to whup Seuss’s ass.

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After blasting Seuss in the aforementioned manner, Shakespeare will watch the sunlight shine straight through the hole in his body.

It’s a take on one of Romeo and Juliet’s best-known stanzas.

But soft, what light through yonder window breaks,
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already pale and sick with grief
That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she.

Shakespeare will destroy Seuss, and the gaping hole in him will (in Shakespeare’s opinion) be more interesting than any of his written work.

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