You mean... all those minutes wasted watching the end of I Dream of Jeannie before the weekday repeats of ER weren't really wasted because it didn't exist?
That's, like, really reassuring. My TV-watching youth now feels justified! Huzzah!
The Star Trek/Knight Rider thing... The author of this article posts on the Warren Ellis board, and he explained there apparently that in the Knight Rider spinoff Team Knight Rider there's a character who then goes on to create an AI they faced off against in the original Star Trek series.
I love this kind of obscure connection stuff. My Eltingville membership is assured!
dude, this is like a convo we had before about how in Buffy they ref scooby doo and other stuff, we never figured out that st elswhere was the top of the chain