Back before there were things like "ethics" and "responsibility" in psychological research, all the really good stuf happened. (Wait– haven't I talked about this before?) Like how a Stanford professor once rounded up a group of students to participate in a prison study that randomly assigned half of them to be guards and half of them to be prisoners while "in jail" in the basement of an academic building (as are most basements of academic buildings). Within hours of their assignments, the guards were pulling spectacular mind-fucks on their prisoners involving solitary confinement, sleep deprivation, and extreme humiliation, and the prisoners so completely lost their sense of identity that they began referring to themselves by their assigned numbers instead of names. The experiment had to be cut short after 6 days because it became so sadistic and effed up. People are constantly referencing it when discussing other crimes against humanity.

Even better: people are constantly referencing it in the CW writer's room, because a recreation of it showed up last night on Veronica Mars.

EVEN BETTER: Rider Strong played the student-turned-sadistic guard.

 Topanga? Yeah, I'd tap that.

I didn't think I could get more excited about an episode that so painfully and acutely parodied sorority rush (I devoted a year of my life "dress checking" my sisters and re-writing song lyrics so that they rhymed with "Gamma Phi," so I almost fell over when VMars got a rush invite requiring her to wear "tasteful florals" and walked into a house of singing chicks that looked like a Crest White Strips ad), but throw in some Boy Meets World alumni and a few outline points from Intro To Psych As A Social Science and I will be your slave for LIFE, Rob Thomas. A+!