Since he's been with the group, he's come a long way towards developing a sense of humanity, yet still on occasions such as this, that old Jeff pops back up. He's used to getting by on his looks, being able to say anything he wants without consequence. Jeff is, or was, a lawyer, widely mocked as one of the most ironically askew professions in existence. That's how much I loved " Advanced Dungeons and Dragons."Īlthough, I did, for a moment, mistake Chang for the X-Men hero Nightcrawler, I knew we were in for a classic based on the narrator's description of each character alone: Jeff the Liar, Son of William the Barely known Annie, The Day Planner Troy, The Obtuse Shirley, The Cloying Abed, The Undiagnosable Britta, the Needlessly Defiant and Pierce, The Insensitive, known also as Pierce, The Dickish and Grandfather Flatulent. My lack of understanding of the game in no way, however, diminishes my love for what I believe is the episode that comes closest to trumping the pinnacle "paintball" episode, at least from my perspective. I begin this review with the admission that I know not a single thing about Dungeons and Dragons, except that back in high school the nerdier kids, even nerdier than myself, used to get together in the back of the library surrounded by a mountain of D&D books and other sort of paraphernalia which I always found both odd and unsettling.