How do you think all my Newswires get posted?

You could probably run through the whole cast of both shows if you stretch a little.

Scroll down to "Did You Know?"

You really need to cheat and go to YouTube and similar sites. Hulu only has the first season, and edited versions at that.

Honestly, there were so many great Venus-centered episodes, but I didn't want to do too many entries focusing on just one character. As it is, I had "Venus and the Man" in there at the last minute and swapped it out, because there are no other episodes on the list that focus on one character, so I didn't want to have…

In college, I was in a band called The Phone Cops, and we used to play samples from that episode in between songs. "I'll play the Carpenters, I'll play Barry Manilow, just hide me!"

I actually wrote that one up for the article, and then realized I had too much Venus and bumped it to the second ten.

The only reason I didn't reference that joke was that I couldn't figure out how to spell out Les' pronunciation phonetically. I wasted a lot of time trying.

That's it exactly. It's a great one, and now I'm kicking myself for not including it in the second group of ten. But it's very Herb-centric, not a lot of it takes place at the station — if you've never seen WKRP, that one's not going to give you any idea of what the show's about.

"And I'm the chips!"

It's really only the noncommercial dial, and even then you have to live in the right city. You could probably count on one hand the number of commercial rock stations that aren't owned by a conglomerate and using a computer-generated playlist.

Head writer Bill Dial did do the occasional cameo as gruff engineer Bucky Dornster.

I didn't have room for this in the article, but about half of the characters are based on specific people at an Atlanta station where Hugh Wilson had worked years earlier. I think it really helps that he, Dial, and Hesseman were familiar with that world — it helps the station feel lived-in and real, which is essential…

It was the late 70s/early 80s. She was actually in the mid-range of the bad hair spectrum.

I only read this after turning in the article, but Jennifer was only written as window-dressing initially. But the actress decided do one take where she read every line sarcastically. "Carlson's not in. Guy's never in." And that suggested her whole character — that behind the cleavage and the big hair, she's actually…

Sure, but the average American couldn't tell you that. I found that anything that acknowledged the South's racism got pretty well glossed over in history class. Back when I was in school it was Lincoln… Grant… look, everybody! World War I!

Rex, I wrote this one just for you!

I never realized that. I'll just go chain myself to the stone of shame for my lack of Simpsons knowledge.

I suspect that's true of a pretty large segment of the WWII generation.

Oh, it totally does. I'm always happy when the readership gives me suggestions. It makes my job slightly easier to have future entries to add to the list. Of course, left to my own devices, I'll just write about Nazis, food, and space exploration every week, and @KingOfTheMonstersSheltie:disqus gave me another Nazi…