Trogdor the Burninator? Bag of Illusions? “Invoke a time flux”? OK, maybe there’s some serious homebrewing going on there… In the final episode “Chosen”, we find the characters supposedly talking climactic battle strategy before it’s revealed they’re actually playing what appears to be a game of Dungeons & Dragons.Īlthough, some of the details are highly questionable. It also features William Shatner, Joe Manganiello, Kevin Smith and basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as players in probably the starriest campaign the game has ever known. The final-season episode “The D&D Vortex”, doesn’t just guest-star Wil Wheaton as a Dungeon Master running a game. It’s no shock to find the massive hit sitcom outdoing everyone else with its big D&D moment, which came after numerous references to the game throughout the show’s lifetime. “Then I was slain by an elf.”Ĭome season 29, the medieval-fantasy episode “The Serfsons” would pop in another D&D-specific reference, with the inclusion of a gelatinous cube, an iconic monster from the game, which has dissolved the family cat.įor the final episode of Paul Feig and Judd Apatow’s cruelly cancelled high-school show, Dungeons & Dragons is featured as the means by which “freak” Daniel Desario (James Franco) finally connects with “geek” Sam Weir (John Francis Daley) and his friends, joining their game as “Carlos the Dwarf”.Īt the end, they wonder: “Does him wanting to play this again mean he’s turning into a geek, or we’re turning into cool guys?” The true answer, of course, is both. “We played Dungeons & Dragons for three hours,” he tells his family at the dinner table, revealing his newfound nerdiness. In the fifth episode, “Homer Goes To College”, the wannabe jock unwittingly winds up hanging out with his sworn enemies: nerds. Moss’s game is eventually revealed as a roaring success, with even his most dubious work colleagues absorbed into his imaginary world of unicorn men and wood fairies. “Ohh, is this something to do with sex?” she asks. “It’s kind of like a Dungeons & Dragons thing,” he tells Jen. As übergeek Moss, Richard Ayoade elaborately explains how his homebrewed role-playing game works in the fourth season episode “Jen the Fredo”.
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