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I don’t quite get what you’re saying.

Don’t expect Shakespeare. He’s just a rabbit.

He’s saying that Pop Culture is circular…I think…

It sounds like he’s dissing Magnum, P.I., but he wouldn’t do that, would he? If he does, he knows it’s GO TIME, because nobody disses Magnum!!!!!

I know the rabbit, he’s a good pal of mine, and he would never ever bash the ’stache!!!

He might take issue with writers being nostalgic over what TV show characters used to watch in the 80s, but not the TV show itself!!

That Rita’s discussion really stayed with the rabbit didn’t it?

Well, to be fair, the New Mutants watching Magnum was a Claremont recurring subplot. Claremont made it so important that we can’t forget it.

I’m nostalgic over that.

I think I watched Magnum, PI as a kid in the 80s solely because my favorite superheroes did as well.

In the next to last issue of the original New Mutants (#99), Sunspot mentions Magnum P.I. to Cannonball just before he leaves the show (in fact, Roberto mentions that Magnum is in reruns - poetic). Being a serious New Mutants fan, I was moved when I read it, at least in part because it was the end of an era, to use a cliche (and I hated what NM had become by then). What made it funny as well as sad, though, was that Sunspot’s Magnum fandom hadn’t been mentioned in the pages of The New Mutants for years by that point - pretty much not since Claremont stopped writing it. So the era I thought I was seeing the end of had really punched the clock a few years earlier. The Magnum name-drop in #99 was pratically a dollop of nostalgia for older fans.

Um, I meant left the team, obviously. Holy mixed terminology!