I think the show that he was watching was one that was shot in b&w, but his set could still be a color TV.

I have very fond memories of the Good Friday afternoon ("We need a couple of hours off to go to church, boss") that a friend and I spent with our boyfriends at our favorite corner bar, playing UNO.  I was losing big time, but got lucky on the last hand and was able to mess everybody else up with Skips, Reverses, and…

Wow.  I never made that connection at all.  Clearly that's where the title came from.  I suspect the plot was reminiscent of Waugh's, rather than based on it — the story called to mind the novel, which suggested the title.

Back around this time, on daytime soap operas, a woman in a slip was Secret Code for sex just having taken place.

I knew absolutely nothing about RDJ when he came on the show other than the lurid drug stuff.  He totally won me over, and then it was horrible how it all suddenly ended.  He was so good.

I loved the Denny/Alan love.  And I couldn't believe that ***SPOILERS*** American network television let two leading men get married, even if it was all platonic.  The show had absolutely cracktastic humor, Important Issues, and some truly heartwarming stuff along the way.

Who also played a character named Dick.

He had a twin brother named Dirk Rambo.  Also pretty badarse.

I read an article somewhere that talked about the types of categories that used to be common on the show: Ancient Rome, The Renaissance, 19th Century Literature.

Thank you, Don Pardo.  Thank you, friends.  Now let's play Jeopardy!

*hangs head*

Anybody else simply fast forward through the Dwight scenes?  I mean, if they were the best thing ever, I'd be left pouting because NBC didn't pick up the show.

I wonder if he's still writing sci-fi.

That's true!  And young Michael Shanks decided to go into acting after watching a MacGyver location shoot.

Yeah, not the knee, he broke his arm…and then he broke his other arm.  Them's the breaks!

Hey, leave Kent McCord out of this!

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I just picked up a Schell's (New Ulm, Minn) sampler: Dark, Emerald Rye, Snowstorm, Chimney Sweep, Pils, and Firebrick.  I know nothing about the brewer or these beers, but I like the names of the ones they actually bothered to give names!  These ought to get me through the 6-8 inches of snow that's heading my way.

You must be fun at funerals!

Guess they didn't want to pay to ship all the previous chefs up to Alaska?