Welcome to class two! Some housekeeping notes:

• Auditing student Jefferson Pinkerton has dropped the course!
• His departure makes the course MUCH better.
• Unfortunately, this episode is MUCH worse than the last one.
• That's because Jeff's departure coincides with the arrival of a new auditing student, Xavier Dupree III, AKA "Tre."

Professor and students soldier on by attempting to discuss the 1933 Marx Brothers classic Duck Soup, #211 on the Sight and Sound list of the best films of all time.

Making things difficult is Darren's insistence on comparing Duck Soup to the 2004 film White Chicks starring Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans.

Professor Wiener does his best to stimulate a discussion about readings by Plato, Bakhtin, Rabelais, Musgrave, and Gehring. This ...