I grew up in the 1970s and associated single camera/laughtrack sitcoms with fluff like The Brady Bunch and Bewitched (MASH being an exception) while three camera/studio audience sitcoms were generally classier, like Norman Lear and MTM series. It took me a long time to appreciate The Andy Griffith Show because of this.

I grew up in the 1970s and associated single camera/laughtrack sitcoms with fluff like The Brady Bunch and Bewitched (MASH being an exception) while three camera/studio audience sitcoms were generally classier, like Norman Lear and MTM series. It took me a long time to appreciate The Andy Griffith Show because of this.

Jean Shepherd.

I believe the mayor of Milwaukee during Happy Days' run was the same mayor of Milwaukee in the 1950s-60s…

The Love American Style episode is interesting because it's set in the early 1950s — Richie and the kids at Arnold's are listening to the pop songs of the pre-rock era, such as "Mona Lisa" and "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening."

Yes. Everybody says that Happy Days was inspired by American Graffiti but it's almost vice versa — George Lucas saw that particular episode of Love American Style and cast Ron Howard as Steve in American Graffiti (with Cindy Williams, later of Laverne and Shirley, as his girlfriend). After that movie became a huge…

Reminds me of the lone funny moment in DC Cab. Charlie Barnett says, "My father came back from the Korean War with his brains so scrambled, he thought he was Jesus! They put him in a nuthouse for five years, when he came out, he didn't think he was Jesus no more, he thought he was God. Which made me Jesus! This shit…

THAT'LL make your bull run.

Maybe they used "Niles" because they knew Kelsey all too well.

Truly, there were monsters in the A/V Club comments section.

Or "blowhead fuckhard," whichever you prefer.

Grammer's high as kite, everybody, goofballs!

Well, I could stay a bit longer…

Yeah, he shares it with Bucky Dent.

CPO Sharkey, an NBC sitcom that ran two seasons starting in 1976 and was built around Rickles’ comic persona

And, in retrospect, very few liberals were upset by it. Let a B-list celebrity or anonymous college student insult Trump in a similar manner, however, and the conservative outrage machine never stops.

Bob Newhart was once asked why he was Don Rickles' best friend.

What a pisser!

One of the only non-Fox News people Ailes has praised is someone he couldn't bed — Rachel Maddow.

According to baseball old-timers, Frank "Home Run" Baker was the most endowed player of his era.