I used to program in 360/370 Assembler language. These were application programs, that had to run fast on the equipment of the time, and assembler with customized macros) was faster than FORTRAN or COBOL. Back then we used to debug by crashing the programs conditionally and then looking at core dumps.

Ensemble cast comedies with a central character who is the only "sane" person were not unusual, whether it was Mary Tyler Moore, Seinfeld, Barney Miller, Taxi, Happy Days. Really funny comic characters need someone to work opposite. Mork needed a Mindy (and when it was mostly Robin Williams and Jonathan Winters in the…

Yeah… I probably saw every one of them.

Yeah… from Joan's perspective, was trusting in Pete really a good option?

On a drug note, considering I used to do probably all the drugs featured on this show, and more, I don't think of hash as being that type of hallucinogen that would make you see people who weren't there, etc.

Interesting take.

Yeah, especially since there's still about a year to go before the Tate murder.

I wonder if the Chicago 7 trial works its way into a future episode. Too bad they didn't broadcast trials on TV back then. That one would have been classic to watch, with the defendants having turned it into guerrilla theater.

Yeah, I'd love to know where that is going. Does pot make him less or more of a douchebag?

In fact, watching the moon landing in color was one of the reasons my parents finally sprang for the color set. (In retrospect, it really wasn't that colorful of a telecast). It was a big piece of furniture with a 19" screen in it, and it had tubes.

Yep. You can't apply today's standards to it. It was still considered a pretty big thing back then.

The Super Bowl was certainly not the big deal it is today back then but it was still a thing. As a kid I watched the first 2 Super Bowls, we went over to my Aunt and Uncle's house because they had the big Color TV to watch. We didn't have a Color TV in our place until 1969.

A dog, a plan, a canal: pagoda!

A dog, a plan, a canal: pagoda!

"Shot to nothing" is a snooker term. But it didn't look like that was what he was playing.

"Shot to nothing" is a snooker term. But it didn't look like that was what he was playing.

There's a bunch of red balls in snooker, at least when I've seen it

There's a bunch of red balls in snooker, at least when I've seen it

I don't think we know yet

I don't think we know yet