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Professor Phipps’s accent; the final UNLEARN title card as homage or imitation

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  • Professor Phipps's accent is variously heard as Caribbean, West African, or broadly diasporic and judged inconsistent.
  • The UNLEARN end card is questioned as either an excessive Spike Lee-style device or an affectionate homage.
  • The group concludes it is both homage and imitation while joking that Spike Lee has made even more emphatic endings. — Van Lathan
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