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I always liked this sketch. It hilariously showed the ideal of a self-absorbed Western entertainer trying to "play off" of every person or situation they encounter. I also liked the fact that Mother Teresa was treated with such respect by the writers - the target of the humor was Lola.

When this video was first shown on the national news, there were a couple of extra seconds of video. As the dust cleared, the police car rolled closer to the S-10 pickup. The S-10 front and right side were then facing the police car. The front of the S-10 was nearly intact, but the cab and bed...

There were some songs in the early 1980s that followed this song: Eddie Money's "I Think I'm In Love" and Sammy Hagar's "Your Love Is Driving Me Crazy". However, Hagar's wrote a song very similar to this one the same year, "I've Done Everything For You" which was recorded by Rick Springfield tha...

@lamesurfer101 The Road Warrior, AKA Mad Max 2, had this. Opening scene has Max finding the corpse of a road gang member in an abandoned truck. The corpse falls out, and Max discovers a still-working music box in its hand. Macross was 1982, so RW/MM2 probably beat it by a year.

One recurring theme in these is that all people are flawed, but even seemingly bad characters like Kyle can get things right once in a while. One was when he comforted Gloval after he broke down when telling the civilians they had to stay on board. The other is here where he participates in Exe...

Dr. Bellows is not going to be pleased with this, not to mention Jeannie.

I vaguely recall another commercial where the characters sang, in sort of a country drawl, "Leggo my Eggo, set it free, don't break up our family."

Sure, the charts in 1976 were a little "soft", but not to worry. Things would get back on track in 1977, with Shaun Cassidy and the Bee Gees.

The guy with glasses looks like he could have joined the Buggles a few years later.

I think I see the famous "dolly zoom" effect at the end of the first commercial, used by Hitchcock in "Vertigo" and later by Spielberg in "Jaws".

10:53 - Rick shows he REALLY liked Sonny Corleone's death scene in "The Godfather".

At 6:23 - "AHA! I knew all those lessons at Inspector Clouseau's School of Fencing would pay off!"

I've not heard of this before, but it appears to have stunts from other movies. The Cadillac jumping out of the concrete pipe is from "Speedtrap", and I think I also saw "Eleanor" from the original "Gone in 60 Seconds".

The Moody Blues and the Marshall Tucker Band both had prominent flautists.

I'm sorry, Dr. Warfield, I did misunderstand. I get carried away, what with the music. It was a toe-tapper, I must admit. It's rare to hear instrumentation these

days, what with folk singers, etc...

I recall chuckling, at the time, how Jack Arute rushed to interview Mario through his helmet and balaclava because ABC had another sports show next. But this has bothered me though the years how TV always gives short shrift to auto racing in general; always rushing it off or interrupting it to g...

John Yaeger's appearances were nearly always accompanied by dialog flubs and prop malfunctions, such as at 0:01, 1:00, and 2:19. The switchblade cane was once a well-functioning prop. In another scene(not shown here) at the bar at 2:19, he had set the cane on a table with the "hook" hanging off...

I think that Ford's idea in this generation of truck was that the "crumple zone" would be "whatever the truck is hitting at the time".

Some preschooler is going to be very upset when he sees that a passing Mercedes has pulverized his "Little Tikes" coupe.

@m27grimsby Correct; it was the U.S. Escort. Though based on the European Escort body shell, they shared few parts other than basic metric attachment hardware.

Those kids from "Hooray For Everything" have such good attitudes!

The "radar range" joke references Amana's line of microwave ovens that were heavily advertised in the 1970s - the Radarange. Though there still is an Amana Radarange, Amana is now just a brand name under the Whirlpool umbrella and there's little difference between today's Radarages and Whirlpool...

I like this song and video, but I recall seeing another version that had a monkey at a switchboard during the bridge instrumental.

The jazz band animation here is similar to that in the 1962 Disney short "A Symposium On Popular Songs".

On the DVD, the "Holiday Tubas" tape actually plays the original tuba music, not the synth music this version has.

I never noticed before what those guys at the gas station were doing when

Drebin tells them to "fill 'er up".