I think "cocaine" had a greater influence.

The guys who were writing Joe came from across the political spectrum, but they all seem to have a certain level of frustration with the system. There's episodes mocking pretty much every political trend of the era - backmasking and subliminal messages, telethons, "celebrity" journalists like Geraldo, etcetera.

By the end of the run for both GIJoe and Transformers, Marvel and Hasbro were both effectively looking the other way. As long as the new toys showed up for a panel or two, nobody gave a shit - so Larry Hama on Joe and Simon Furman on Transformers both basically went for broke. Joe ended up being a meditation on…

At least for a while, yes.

Wouldn't you?

Betty developing a close friendship with Anita Bryant.

Two words:

Yes. It's entirely likely that the show could end with a 95 year old Don.

He runs into Paul Kinsey, who is writing shitty 1980s kid-vid.

Peggy and Pete are my parents' age. Depending on a variety of lifestyle and genetic factors, they could be hale and hearty in their late 70s, or they could be long since gone.

I'd go so far as to say that Kiernan Shipka is the best thing to come out of MM, all things considered. She's excellent.

I have repeatedly suggested my desire to watch such a program. Faux-Kirby, Ditko, and Lee working at Faux-Marvel in the Swingin' Sixties? With flashbacks to Kirby's time as an advance scout in WW2? (Seriously - Jack Kirby was an infantry scout in the war - he'd go behind enemy lines, fucking *draw their…

Ken Cosgrove as a middle-aged English professor in the late 70s-early 80s would be a fun show, too.

That joke actually went down in an issue of "Slapstick" (who was Marvel's off-brand version of The Mask). Daredevil was not amused.

He's stuck in the USENET era, where every post was signed by the author, sometimes with snide comments at the end as a postscript.

The Beastmaster Station

the general Ironic Sci-Fi Outcome is that taking out Hitler only leads to someone more loathsome filling his particular ecological niche. Sure, Hitler grows up a harmless painter or whatever, but instead we get Schroeder or whoever and that dude's actually successful….

Well, I'm glad I caught it, then…

"Threads" is far far more disturbing than "The Day After", because while "TDA" ends on a "boy, we're screwed" note, "Threads" takes it to a "and so is all of civilization as we know it" level.

Yeah - in the "real world' that's an assassination tool. Here, I think it would have been too much too soon to have our erstwhile protagonists promise a grieving mother that they're going to give her son the antidote and then be all LOL NOPE PSYCH COMRADE. You need to bank up a lot more goodwill with the audience…