27 Retro TV Facts to Help Scratch That Itch Left By the Most Abrasive Tweed Couch Known to Man

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27 Retro TV Facts to Help Scratch That Itch Left By the Most Abrasive Tweed Couch Known to Man
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If couch upholstery that could exfoliate a rhino was the texture of your childhood, you’re in the right place. We put together a list of classic TV facts that should bring you right back to those “cushions.”

That said, the feeling of peeling yourself off of that sweaty tweed is the one thing we happily left in the past. Well, admittedly, the imprint it left on our legs came with us. That’s probably there for life. 

Fawlty Towers

COMEDY NERD Fawlty Towers originally had a totally different theme song than the one you know. You can hear the original version only in the pilot-it got changed in the very next episode. CRACKED.COM

All in the Family

COMEDY NERD Archie Bunker from All In The Family was originally called Archie Justice. And the show was called And Justice For All-and that was just the first of the show's three pilots. CRACKED.COM

The Jeffersons

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM THE JEFFERSONS Spin-offs are often written off as money grabs, pushing comfort over substance. All In The Family spin-off The Jeffersons defies that characterization on every front. The Jeffersons was not only a success, but an incisive and fearless show, treading into topics that most current sitcoms would steer clear of.

Sabrina the Teenage Witch

Sabrina The Teenage Witch CRACKED.COM Sabrina hails from the Archie universe. She had her own animated series in the 70's, but her first appearance was as the new kid at Riverdale in 1968's The Archie Show.

John Ritter

John Ritter OI simple 8 rules CRACKED COM THREE'S COMPANY 8 SIMPLE RULES Ritter, the quintesential 70's sitcom lead, was 3 episodes deep in season 2 of 8 Simple Rules For Dating My Teenage Daughter when he suffered an acute heart ailment. After he passed, they quickly shoehorned David Spade into the cast, and the rest of the season turned into a show about a family mourning the sudden loss of their father.

Bob Newhart

Marcia Wallace CRACKED.COM THE BOB NEWHART SHOW THE SIMPSONS Wallace had battled breast cancer since before her 23-year stint on The Simpsons. They retired the character after she passed, which was especially tragic, as Mrs. Krabappel had recently married Ned and became a step-mother to the already orphanced Rod and Todd.

Gilligan’s Island

COMEDY NERD The Gilligan's Island theme song is totally different in the show's (unaired) pilot. It's a calypso song with lyrics like The captain is brave, he's a fearless maaan, and Gilligan helps him all that he caaan. CRACKED.COM

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The Colorization of I Love Lucy

CRACKED.COM A fan colorizes I Love Lucy better than CBS. When CBS started colorizing / Love Lucy, Lucille Ball's hair ended up looking like some radioactive carrot. Zach Smothers of Pop-colorture.com doesn't have CBS' budget, but he managed to get much better results.

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Lou Grant

CRACKED The Mary Tyler Moore Show If I don't like you, I'll fire you! If you don't like me, I'll fire you! LOU GRANT says - DIVROMOR what every boss is thinking.

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Happy Days Spin-offs

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM LAVERNE & SHIRLEY One of the many spin-offs of Happy Days (of which two make this list) is Penny Marshall & Cindy Williams' Laverne & Shirley. If you want to talk about successful spin-offs, in its second season, Laverne & Shirley was the most watched TV show in America. Ahead of another show called... Happy Days.

Source: ABC News

M*A*S*H

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM M*A*S*H M A S H H M*A*S*H's final episode aired in 1983. It remained the most-watched US TV broadcast until 2010, only ever beaten by SOME Super Bowls (and not the last 4). The show was so outrageously successful, the fact that it was a spin-off of a 1970 feature film of the same name sometimes goes forgotten.

Source: NPR

Mary Tyler Moore

MARY TYLER MOORE CRACKED FUNNY NOT FUNNY How funny was The The variety show Mary Tyler Moore wasn't quite dead by Show? Twenty-nine 1979, but The Mary Tyler Emmys funny, Moore Hour helped including three for pound the final nails in good ol' Mare the coffin

Laverne & Shirley Merch

LAVERNE & SHIRLEY SECRETARY SET 79- T Laverne E Shirley setretory seF CFN CRACKED.COM UEEEE SoT AA Laverne and Shirley worked at a brewery, which woul

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27 Retro TV Facts to Help Scratch That Itch Left By the Most Abrasive Tweed Couch Known to Man

Batman

In the 1960s Batman series, Batman and Robin buckled their seatbelts before taking off in the Batmobile. This occurred after a complaint by the Nation
Source: Ro, Ronin. Tales to Astonish: Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and the American Comic Book Revolution. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2004.

The Jetsons

THE JETSONS IS A FUTURISTIC BLONDIE. Meet a father with a thankless job, his wife, their two children, and their grey dog. When The Jetsons came BLOND

Sesame Street

Sesame Street teaches the alphabet and other kid stuff. It was banned in Mississippi when it came out. The problem? Sesame Street's portrayal of racia

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