I didn't want to think I could agree that an MSCL episode could go into the Nonac, but just listening to the Vic Racine character talk reminded me why I always felt so uncomfortable watching this episode when I was younger. I always related most to Brian here, and I felt bad about it--not for relating to Brian in general, as I love him as the flawed character he is, but because the show clearly wanted me to think that he was too much of a 'conformist' to really benefit from Vic's insipid everything. Though this episode was pretty terrible, I will say that I totally buy a bunch of high schoolers' fascination with Vic. And I have been that person (Brian), in college, wondering what the hell the other kids were smoking, when they would get enamored with the (usually philosophy) professor spouting absolute bull from the front of the lecture hall in the interest of being 'edgy.' The socks might've been a step too far, though; I feel like teens would be unimpressed on that front, at least.
