The Dr. Jacoby Similarities Can’t Be Ignored
Dr. Jacoby was based on the famous ethnobotanist Terrence McKenna. It’s literally impossible to ignore the similarities between the character and the living man. Not only do both of the men look strikingly similar, they were also both professors of the liberal arts.
McKenna and his wife also lived in Hawaii, the same location that Dr. Jacoby would visit on his holidays. In a more subtle homage, Dr. Jacoby owned a mushroom-shaped lamp. Fans of McKenna known that he wrote extensively about the popular psychedelic mushroom culture. It’s quite the geeky reference but one that fans caught onto after the show started airing.
