The Book of Ryan

Brian Lynch showed us that 30 Rock is a rip-off of the Muppets, but the Tina Fey comedy is not the only show with bizarre parallels to another. J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels and Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, both released the same year, are eerily similar. The parallels cannot be intentional, but let me present the evidence and you can be the judge. What follows is a comparison of several major and minor characters in both the novels and the series describing the roles they play. Could so much similarity be coincidence?

Kali laughs; she sings; She cries of neglect or pain. The words are the same. While I was first surprised by my cat’s acrobatics, as she’s matured I’ve come to be amazed by her combination of being able to distinguish my car engine and tread from others, empathy when I’m sick or sad, and affinity for getting trapped [...]

Twin pines too distant to embrace, shade each other from the summer sun. Jill and I feel the same way about the way the Church continually interferes with politics. The issue seems similar to bad parent who as the government to monitor their kids’ TV watching for them. It seems like every time [...]

Pinot noir tempts Fruitfly into his delicious stemware coffin.

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