Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Family Guy, American Dad, The Cleveland Show, The Simpsons, South Park, King of the Hill, Archer, Bob's Burgers, Beavis and Butt-Head, The Boondocks, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Venture Bros., Smiling Friends, Rick and Morty, and Futurama.
Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Dante, Goethe, Homer, Tolstoy, Aristotle, Pushkin, Blake, Lermontov, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Cellini, Thucydides, Tacitus, Montaigne, Virgil, Shakespeare, Stendhal, Cellini, Machiavelli, Melville, Milton, Conrad, Rimbaud and Hölderlin.