Talk:Read It and Weep/@comment-206.45.17.188-20120204182458/@comment-4126310-20120204185108

I'm leaving it in for now, but I'd like to cast doubt upon the supposed Harry Potter reference. While this may surprise some of our younger visitors, the title structure "Character and something of stuff" wasn't invented by J.K. Rowling. The entire episode is an homage to the Indiana Jones series, which is itself an homage to the pre-television adventure serials which also often exhibited this title structure. The novel Indiana Jones and the Philosopher's Stone is from 1995. "Sapphire Stone" and "Griffon Goblet" were very probably chosen just for their alliterative qualities (though they may also be references to the Sankara Stones from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and the Holy Grail - i.e. the magical Jesus goblet - from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.