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Sycophant
Manage episode 299856416 series 2899241
What do Uriah Heep (Great Expectations), Dr. Jeffrey Steadman (Scrubs), and Waylon Smithers (The Simpsons) have in common? They're all sycophants. This week, Meg chats all about them and the strange scatological, homosocial ties that emerge out of sycophancy (sycophantism???) - from the word's ancient Greek roots to its modern English significance.
37 episodes
Manage episode 299856416 series 2899241
What do Uriah Heep (Great Expectations), Dr. Jeffrey Steadman (Scrubs), and Waylon Smithers (The Simpsons) have in common? They're all sycophants. This week, Meg chats all about them and the strange scatological, homosocial ties that emerge out of sycophancy (sycophantism???) - from the word's ancient Greek roots to its modern English significance.
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