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Well, one of them, anyway...

Don't make promises we can't keep.

Promise margarine

But give them I Can't Believe It's Not Butter

In the early '80s there was a commercial for Promise margarine that featured a woman standing in a field of sunflowers singing:

There is a land of Promise,
A land of sun and showers,
And in that land that land of Promise,
We grow our golden sunflowers!

No wonder we never bought any of it.

The second driver on my morning bus route always has a bag of sunflower seeds with him.

When I worked in Downtown Houston, I rode the bus to work nearly every day. Now I rarely take public transit, and when I do, it's usually the MetroRail. I miss it, in a way, but Houston is a car city.

I'm just glad the damn air conditioning was working on all the buses today! [grumble] Fried temp is FRIED!!

I love Weird Al. I really do.

But I grew up in Cincinnati, and I couldn't listen to this particular couplet without wanting to beat the man senseless.

The "window of acceptable time elapsed before jokes commence" varies from consumer to consumer, I guess.

Factor in the nature of the event to that window as well.

It's really weird you mention this. For some reason today, I was thinking about a Steve Leialoha comic I used to have that was about the rock concert at Altamont.

That is odd.

Does the comic properly skewer the Grateful Dead for their part in things?

I wish I could remember. I think it was from an old Eclipse or Star*Reach anthology where the theme was the 1960s. Over the years, I've had to shed a whole lot of obscure books that now, in the age of scans and discussion boards, would probably be interesting to a whole lot of people besides me.

Whadaya' gonna' do?

I actually learned about that incident a few years after it happened from watching a WKRP rerun.

me, too. I thought WKRP did a good job on it.

They did. It was a good show in general: great cast, great writing. It deserved better treatment than the network gave it.

Very much so.

I wanted to buy the DVDs, but since they couldn't secure the rights, a lot of the music was changed.

That's interesting. Do they play different songs from the era or do they just play generic electric guitar music in the background?

While we're waiting for OM to provide an answer, I'll mention one of my favorite pieces of WKRP trivia:

The '90s version of the show ("The New WKRP") featured a bona fide rock singer in the cast: Michael Des Barres. In the '70s, Des Barres was a member of a band called Detective, which included two-time Yes keyboard player Tony Kaye and Steppenwolf's original guitarist, Michael Monarch.

IIRC, Des Barres also appeared in an episode of the original WKRP as a member of a British punk rock band, Scum of the Earth.

Michael Des Barres' ex, Pamela Des Barres, is one of my heroines. I, too, want to be famous for nothing special and have access to the best plastic surgeons so I can pretend to be young and beautiful forever.

He did.

It's one of the show's best episodes.

All this sitcom talk reminds me of the continuity wars going on in one of those other threads. Is it just me, or do a lot of beloved shows actually have mind-blowingly bad continuity? M*A*S*H* being the first example that pops into my head.