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    Really? They used the Laughing Record for the credits?

    The record is from 1923, which totally makes sense that they used it in a series about 1970s standup comedy....

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    Let's just enjoy this sentence from David T. Cole again:

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    "I watched three episodes, because I could not change the channel, because the remote was behind a guy's head, and he was sleeping... and I really wasn't comfortable getting anywhere near him, because he was old, and... y'know, something would've happened..."

    This sounds so much like something Kim Reed would say that I think he was possessed by Kim when he said this.

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    Not only were there magazines dedicated to code, kids, there were ENTIRE BOOKS containing listings of game programs, usually in BASIC. While this forced everyone to type in the game for him/herself, pretty much every home computer in the 1980s ran BASIC, so the games, if they didn't use computer-specific code, could be ported (and modified to one's content) to pretty much any random home computer brand. 

    Here's an example: the first in the BASIC Computer Games series put out by Creative Computing. If the name David H. Ahl means anything to you, then you most likely have a well-worn copy of this book stashed somewhere in your basement. http://atariarchives.org/basicgames/

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    More nitpicking with Game Time: "Larry of Los Angeles" is actually referring to the actor Larry Wilcox, not his character, which would be Jonathan of House Baker.

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    Another good choice for an important dance: David Brent's hideous dance from the UK Office. An appropriate description from the BFI's companion book about the series is worth quoting here:

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    While Brent's routine is funny in itself, it takes on its car-crash compulsion because of the gulf between the ferocious conviction of brilliance burning in his eyes and the befuddlement and slight fear creeping over the faces of his spectators -- spectators whose attention he demands by wagging a finger around the room as he powers up, upper teeth firmly clamped over his lower lip as he grunts the opening bars of 'Disco Inferno' -- a song whose hellish title has surely never found more apt application. Then, legs bowed and arms spinning at the elbow, he squats and jives like some kind of disco hobgoblin, either possessed or constipated. Pointing at the camera as he concludes confirms the horrible group responsibility into which we viewers have been coerced along with those in the room.

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    I'm totally expecting to see this topic come up again sometime in the Minis, since there are so many excellent theme songs to choose from. ("Diff'rent Strokes.")

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