# Hell's Kitchen, and it's viewers.

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 14, 2010, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hells-kitchen-and-its-viewers/557096 "2010-10-14T05:45:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2010, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hells-kitchen-and-its-viewers/557096/62 "2010-10-14T20:28:47Z")

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> [@Boyo\_Jim](#):
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> > [@DrDeth](#):
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> > Not\* knowing\* who Neil Gaiman is (as opposed to being a fan) does show a startling amount of cultural illiteracy by a poster who over all has seemed to generally have more than a modicum of intelligence.☹ Sorry dude.
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> Yeah, well… I started fading out on pop culture a long time ago, starting with music in the early 80s. There’s not a single broadcast TV series I watch.
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> I guess I’ll go look him up.
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> Interesting that you relate cultural literacy to intelligence.

Well, he’s a rather well known award winning author, not TV. A number of his books have been adpated for film, such as _Stardust_ and\* Coraline\*.

And I do relate the two to an extent. For example, I expect any intelligent person to \*know who \*Robert Heinlein is, even if they don’t read SF. Now, sure- to be able to name all his books and discuss film adaptations veers past simple cultural literacy towards geekness. I expect them to \*know who \*Ang Lee is, who Ringo Starr is, and so forth. That’s just part of being well read.

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