Will's geeky glee is a good change of pace for him.

When I was in my college Science Fiction Club, finding a responsible club librarian was a real concern. The way the meetings broke up into individual conversations was truer of some presidencies than of others, and the cries of "Show the movie" are also drawn from life.

Most of my pop-culture references managed to avoid dating the series too quickly, but there's no way around that Al Gore joke. I was disappointed: I had hoped it would be good for another four or eight years after 2000. If you get what I mean.