Yep, that’s it.
Also the core plot to the Star Wars prequels starting in 1999 where Padme looks about 16-17 and Anakin is a 10 year old, and by the next movie it’s 10 years later and they’re already married.
I was flipping through the channels and landed on NCIS:Origins. One of the characters was smoking indoors. When I looked it up it says the show is set in 1991. I know many no smoking laws came after that but I never once worked anywhere that allowed smoking indoors (restaurants certainly did). It makes the show seem older than 1991 to me.
The show is set in the early 21st century. 2005- 2010. Already by then it was very rude to smoke in anyone house unless they were Atlantic city banned almost all indoor smoking in 2006, except limited areas in casinos. So no, smoking inside would not have been a period thing. Now back in the 1970s? Sure.
It is sad to see an addiction in public like that.
It was on the way out, smoking was banned in Federal buildings a short time after. Was that the boss guy? He is I guess supposed to be an arrogant asshole.
Do many bald guys still wax their heads? Side question: did bald guys ever really wax their heads?
First thing I thought of 
As Weird Al put it:
“Did you see him hitting on the queen
Though he’s only nine, and she’s fourteen?
I guess he’ll probably marry her someday.”
But, to nitpick (because what would a Star Wars discussion be without pointless nitpicking?), Anakin and Padme are not “already” married in the next movie. They meet again after not having seen each other in years, and get secretly married at the end.
Granted I have only seen the first few episodes of season 1 but the smoking never stood out to me because it takes place in Las Vegas…where indoor smoking is reeeaaaaaalllly common.
I thought it was Atlantic City?
But even in Vegas, Smoking is only allowed in casinos.
It’s in Vegas (or Nevada at least) and smoking is allowed in most casinos and bars…and from the episodes I saw most of it takes place in bars and casinos.
The same thing happened at about the same time on Hill Street Blues. The guy who was infatuated was Howard Hunter. 
A twist on this was in Two and a Half Men, where one of Charlie’s old girlfriends turned up as a man (Chris O’Donnell). This time it was Evelyn (Charlie’s mother) who was infatuated.
A variation from The Jeffersons: Louise grows suspicious that George is seeing another woman under cover of visiting his old army pal who’s in town. Turns out that George WAS visiting his army buddy…with no idea she’d transitioned into a woman! Pretty darn daring for a sitcom in the 1970s/1980s.
Public awareness of transitioning dates all the way back to Christine Jorgensen in the 1950s, although it was vanishingly rare until more recently. I vaguely recall a 1970’s-era medical series one episode of which featured a transition.
Maybe the 1975 2 part episode of Medical Center - The Fourth Sex. Robert Reed, well known from the Brady Bunch, guest starred as surgeon looking for gender reassignment surgery.
Yep, that was it.
For awhile there were a lot of references to Ed McMahon, “you may already be a winner”, etc.
Publishers Clearing House (not to be confused with the McMahon-shilled American Family Publishers) used to be something of an “instant punchline” - guaranteed to get a laugh in one’s late-night monologue or National Lampoon humor piece. Then it just…stopped being that, even as the brand went on existing.
(See also: Gucci and Kaopectate.)
Somewhere or other, I heard it explained that ‘go boil some water’ was another/polite way of saying ‘you’re of no use here - stop fussing and leave us completely alone for 10 minutes’
Yeah. You never see them use the boiling water for anything.