“The Princess and the Pear,” last Thursday’s episode of the Fox show Bones, opened with a group of eighth graders dressed like wizards and warriors playing Dungeons & Dragons in a sewer.
And my first thought was, “Oh, God, here we go again with the tired stereotypes of fantasy enthusiasts!”
The kids soon find a decomposed corpse dressed like a princess — which makes sense, of course, because it’s only RPGers who root around in sewers, never football players or rodeo riders.