Casey Johnson shocked us plenty during her lifetime, but I hope her death will bring about more than another wave of character indictments and vitriol about the rich behaving badly.
This episode, alongside "Lisa's Wedding", served as the seed of a wave of character changes and developments, beginning with "Lisa the Vegetarian", and continuing on for the rest of the series, finally laying to rest the creative team's original mantra of maintaining a timelessness between episodes.
The waves of characters in The Art of Translation come from the Greek and English adaptation of the first passages of the Odyssey.
The version of Shooting Stars seeded on torrent sites has a wave of boss characters called "Daft Premium", seemingly inspired by music duo Daft Punk.
According to a Facebook spokesperson, there's no basis to the rumor that child predators have spearheaded the wave of cartoon characters taking over Facebook profile pictures.
"A tidal wave of good character and cheer," he writes, "the perfect blend of basketball brainpower and abilities".
You've got this new wave of incredible female characters, like Charlize Theron in Mad Max, and Rebecca Ferguson in Mission: Impossible.
Typical tectonic earthquakes generate a succession of seismic waves of varying character and increasing amplitude: rumbling P (pressure) waves arrive first, followed by undulating S (shear) waves, then rolling surface waves, which cause the most destruction.
However, as the dimensions of objects and apertures approach the wavelength of light, the wave character of light cannot be disregarded.
