My dad is too old to have an opinion about Aerosmith.

My dad is too old to have an opinion about Aerosmith.

Ted McGinley and the late Leslie Nielsen

Ted McGinley and the late Leslie Nielsen

Yes, Monty Python is "university" humour, as were Blackadder and The Young Ones. The British version of vaudeville was apparently "music hall", which the Pythons obviously draw on, but which is apparently more purely represented by Benny Hill.

Yes, Monty Python is "university" humour, as were Blackadder and The Young Ones. The British version of vaudeville was apparently "music hall", which the Pythons obviously draw on, but which is apparently more purely represented by Benny Hill.

@avclub-f7f8eb12e0f61a9321597157c0d61791:disqus Yes, they were cheap. When a show no longer had resale value overseas, they tended to wipe and reuse the videotape. I think maybe there was also something in their standard union contracts with performers that limited how many times they could rerun a show domestically.…

@avclub-f7f8eb12e0f61a9321597157c0d61791:disqus Yes, they were cheap. When a show no longer had resale value overseas, they tended to wipe and reuse the videotape. I think maybe there was also something in their standard union contracts with performers that limited how many times they could rerun a show domestically.…

There have been occasions where I found that what I thought was just absurdism had a political or social context (e.g. showing a picture of Edward Heath while saying something silly under it).

There have been occasions where I found that what I thought was just absurdism had a political or social context (e.g. showing a picture of Edward Heath while saying something silly under it).

Ken Clean-Air Systems

Ken Clean-Air Systems

KCPT, channel 19, Kansas City, ca. 1981. I stumbled across Python there, I think, or else at my grandma's house (in Oklahoma of all places). I became obsessed in junior high, along with Doctor Who, and then the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It took me a while to see the movies, as we were not early owners of a…

KCPT, channel 19, Kansas City, ca. 1981. I stumbled across Python there, I think, or else at my grandma's house (in Oklahoma of all places). I became obsessed in junior high, along with Doctor Who, and then the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It took me a while to see the movies, as we were not early owners of a…

DINSDALE!

DINSDALE!

Also wondering where Strickland comes from. It's clearly Jackson.

Also wondering where Strickland comes from. It's clearly Jackson.

Junior high, early 1980s (we didn't have "middle school" yet). GeoGreg enjoyed watching Monty Python and Doctor Who on PBS.

Junior high, early 1980s (we didn't have "middle school" yet). GeoGreg enjoyed watching Monty Python and Doctor Who on PBS.