Regulating telecommunications… making sure the spectrum is allocated in a way that people aren't just constantly knocking each other off the air… universal phone service. Yeah, all a bunch of stupid bullshit, I guess.

Yes, the Rock and Roll Music number above is pretty representative of how dire and saccharine most of the musical performances were, and they made up a substantial part of the program.

Richard Simmons? Yeah, kinda.

But both sides get to get up on their high horses about it. We all win!

They didn't even have the dub-over-one-shot-at-a-time method that became the standard before computer editing. For Laugh-In they were literally hacking up the source tapes with a razor blade and taping them back together.

The two-tapings method is the way nearly all variety shows have been done since the 70s, including SNL. By some accounts, there was some tension near the end of the Burnett run because, as his corpse-inducing became more popular, Conway stopped asking for permission to go off script and just did whatever-the-hell he…

Burnett and Korman also left the show's creative team after the network run.

In the famous Siamese Elephant bit, even though Carol is breaking up, she's also begging Vicki Lawrence to move on to the next line to get Conway to shut up.
In the second part (which was taken from the second taping), you can see an expression on Carol's face when Tim gets started, as if to say, "God, here we go…

Evidently Lucy disagreed, because she was showing off her legs well into her 70s:
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You clearly haven't seen the worst of Carol Burnett.

By the final couple of years, it was becoming utterly ridiculous in its self-indulgence. I remember watching a Mr. Tudball sketch (the joke being that Tim Conway speaks in a weird accent and gets frustrated at his secretary) that went on for ten minutes. If I remember correctly, the Family sketch that included the…

I don't know about that rule specifically, but Lorne is known for insisting on things being done his way whether it makes sense or not, which is why they still have all-night writing sessions, preposterously overbook the dress rehearsal, and are completely dark on off weeks rather than working ahead. I used to think…

Todd Fisher signs off.

Half of the radio recordings, minus one:
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Season ends with Burgess Meredith dropping the only Betamax deck left on Earth.

Prologue: "Hey everybody, I just found another tape! With another 13 reasons why!"

Reasons are 13, Going on 14

Raping women, perhaps?

Be careful about getting your legal analysis from VentureBeat.

Actually, the FCC technically fined Fox owned-and-operated stations that aired the Golden Globes that year because they can't fine the network directly. The Fox network is a distributor, not a television station, so it's not directly licensed by the FCC. But even those fines were eventually overturned by the Supreme…