Tom Brown's School Days for the favourite in a horse race, Tom is deliberately burned in front of a fire. Tom and East defeat Flashman with the help of Diggs, a kind, comical, older boy. In their triumph they become unruly. In the second half of the book, Dr Thomas Arnold (1795–1842), the historical headmaster of the school at the time, gives Tom the care of George Arthur, a frail, pious, academically brilliant, gauche, and sensitive new boy. A fight that Tom gets into to protect Arthur, and Arthur's nearly dying of fever, are described in loving detail. Tom and Arthur help each other
Tom Tucker: The Man and His Dream Peter's favorite movie, "". Later, Peter offers to become Tucker's agent to get him famous, but Tom refuses until an inane news story makes him reconsider. Tucker stars as a minor character in an episode of "NCIS" playing a mechanic that Leroy Jethro Gibbs questions. After that minor appearance which Peter and Tom watch in their hotel room, thought-to-be-dead actor James Woods appears much to the surprise of Peter and Tom. James Woods reveals that after his death in "And Then There Were Fewer," his body was identified by a paramedic and rushed to a top secret science lab in