I am thinking more the 6:30 or 10:30 (Central time) slots on local stations.  Those were prime spots where you saw a lot of re-runs.  This is before CBS had its own regular late-night lineup (I think they showed their own re-runs, which were pre-empted in my viewing area.)

This show did poorly in syndication.  Any guesses as to why?  Possible answers - Not funny enough compared to other shows.  The characters were realistic but arguably not specific enough to be as memorable as others.  The timidity of the show with Mary Richards as a character dated over time.  Any other ideas?

She's actually a horta.  Those round silicon nodules you've been collecting and destroying?  They're her eggs.

One thing I thought was a nice callback were Roger's concern about Don appearing as a hick.  An impression that would have been based on Don at his rawest, probably back in the mid-1950s.  The rural hick versus big city sophisticate was a very common trope through the 1950s, and more common before that.  I know the…

No transubstantiation controversies either.

I suppose the little people were better off without their "god", but having a huge decaying corpse laying around your city probably caused some sanitation issues.

Craig never leaves his apartment.

I actually think a mini-golf course isn't that much of a stretch for a parks and rec department.  My city has public golf courses run by the city.  My college had its own bowling alley and yes, mini golf course.  Why not?

Yeah, all of the cliches were great.  If I ever have to get together a team for some crazy mission, you can be damn sure I'll sift through my dossiers before hand.  Yes to the electronics expert… no to the guy in the fez.  Yes to Martin Landau…   no to Noam Pitlik.

There was an ep with both Flagg and Freedman in it.  Something was made of Freedman not signing his loyalty oath.  I can only imagine a draftee doing this.

Soccer has its own concussion issues from heading.

His lens grinder is the heel of his shoe.  Of course, his slippery shoes, who he just stole off a bum, will cause him to slip and he'll cut himself of the glass and die.

If you invite people to your house just to make them beg to save their lives, then yes, you are a creep for life.  He beat them all to the creep for life before they could tell him off.  It's not like he went back to his high school reunion after a life of good works and everyone still hated him.

No, Leslie does a full villain turn.  Chris and Ben die either because Leslie is vague about who the father is and goads them to a death duel, or her daughter kills them It's Alive style.

Last week I suggested that Ann carry Leslie's baby and that Ann, Chris, and Ben all die during the childbirth.  That would clear out some deadwood.

Yes, Donna Reed was always in B&W.  It was a rerun.  Many shows still would have been broadcast in B&W in 1967.

I mean that I feel the show emasculates Ben by having him do all the sacrificing, by having the story still be about Leslie when it's his hometown.  People should be equal partners in marriage, not one-sided in either direction.

Ann made sense in the first two seasons, but the show has sort of moved on without her.

There's actually a lot wrong with that.  Mrs. Ben Wyatt would have gone out around 1940.

This recap makes Ben sound like Mr. Leslie Knope.