# It's About Time - or - I have wasted my brain **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 7, 2019, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521 "2019-12-07T17:52:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/1 "2019-12-07T17:52:47Z")
I watched part of one episode fifty years ago but I was saying “Oh God, no,” in under three seconds. No warning. No ads telling me that crap was on this crappy channel. Not surprised that it was followed by My Mother the Car. What crap is clogging your brain? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/2 "2019-12-07T17:59:23Z")
Funny you should mention this series. I just realized after 50-odd years why they changed Imogene Coca’s name after the pilot episode (from “Shag” to “Shad”). **DUH!** :smack: “Shag—nag!” 😛 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/3 "2019-12-07T18:09:49Z")
Could be worse. CHCH in Toronto shows the \*\*\*Gilligan’s Island \*\*\*reboot _ **Dusty’s Trail** _ three or four times a year between 02:00 and 04:00. When I pull an all-nighter, I sometimes have to leave it on to keep from falling asleep. Man, they must really have a small collection of videos! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/4 "2019-12-07T19:51:48Z")
They’re trying to make up for it by showing the Maurice Sendak Nutcracker, but that needs Kirkland and Baryshnikov to be perfect. These dancers I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/5 "2019-12-07T19:54:39Z")
One thing I don’t get about _It’s About Time_. When Mac and Hec return to the present with the Gronk family, why are they sharing an apartment in _Los Angeles_. You’d expect astronauts to be based in Texas or Florida. And as officers, they’d be entitled to their own housing, not shacking up in an apartment. It makes my brain hurt just to think about it. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/6 "2019-12-07T19:58:56Z")
_It’s about time, It’s about space, It’s about two men In a very strange place._ :smack:Yeah, I still remember the theme song, or that bit of it, after 50 years. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/7 "2019-12-07T20:05:52Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > _It’s about time, > It’s about space…_ _It’s about time To slap your face!_ 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/8 "2019-12-07T20:13:17Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > One thing I don’t get about _It’s About Time_. When Mac and Hec return to the present with the Gronk family, why are they sharing an apartment in _Los Angeles_. You’d expect astronauts to be based in Texas or Florida. And as officers, they’d be entitled to their own housing, not shacking up in an apartment. It makes my brain hurt just to think about it. _That’s_ the bit of the premise you find unbelievable?😃 This said, the show was _slightly_ more plausible than _My Mother the Car._ ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/9 "2019-12-07T22:07:46Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > _It’s about time, > It’s about space, > It’s about two men > In a very strange place._ > > :smack:Yeah, I still remember the theme song, or that bit of it, after 50 years. …it’s about you and your ugly face! I thought I was the only person who watched/remember that show. It occupies a corner of my brain along with Captain Nice, Mr. Terrific, Rango, and Run, Buddy, Run. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/10 "2019-12-07T22:11:14Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Could be worse. CHCH in Toronto shows the \*\*\*Gilligan’s Island \*\*\*reboot _ **Dusty’s Trail** _ three or four times a year between 02:00 and 04:00. When I pull an all-nighter, I sometimes have to leave it on to keep from falling asleep. “Only the wagon master’s hand, keeps them a moving to the promised land - on Dusty’s Trail” ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/11 "2019-12-07T22:11:27Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > What crap is clogging your brain? When I was a young child in the '70s, my mom was a huge Barry Mannilow fan. As a result, many of his lyrics are permanently embedded in my brain. It’s such a waste of perfectly good brain cells. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/12 "2019-12-07T22:38:56Z")
What stuff is filling up my brain? Why useful stuff, of course. E.g., in an episode of _Mad Men_ the creepy kid was reading an early issue of _Metal Men_. I knew right away that wasn’t right. _Metal Men_ debuted after the time that episode took place. If that isn’t useful knowledge, what is? Regarding little watched episodes. I watch one episode of _Will & Grace_. Pass. But every time after that when an episode happened to be on (due to the DVR recording something on that channel earlier and going to live TV) it was that same crappy episode. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/13 "2019-12-07T22:50:07Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > E.g., in an episode of _Mad Men_ the creepy kid was reading an early issue of _Metal Men_. I knew right away that wasn’t right. _Metal Men_ debuted after the time that episode took place. Metal Men! What a great nerdy science comic! Learn the properties of the elements as our heroes combat the forces of evil! Noble Gold! Mighty Iron! Steady Lead! Wimpy Tin! Volatile Mercury (inaccurately colored red like an alcohol thermometer)! And lovely Platinum, the only female metal man! ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/14 "2019-12-07T22:56:10Z")
Aside from IAT, which I remember a lot, I also remember bits of shows and sometimes entire episodes that hard core TV fanatics might not remember. Run Buddy Run Police Surgeon (part of the basis for “Cop Lawyer, MD” parodies) in glorious video tape. From Canada, too. On The Rocks Arnie “Hi, I’m Glen Campbell!” Lassie on the log flume Which episodes the shots in the original Hawaii 5-0 credits come from, and what season they were added Festus: But I don’t want a lotta land!" It’s a blessing, and a curse. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/15 "2019-12-07T23:41:11Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Aside from IAT, which I remember a lot, I also remember bits of shows and sometimes entire episodes that hard core TV fanatics might not remember. > > Run Buddy Run > Police Surgeon (part of the basis for “Cop Lawyer, MD” parodies) in glorious video tape. From Canada, too. > On The Rocks > Arnie > “Hi, I’m Glen Campbell!” > Lassie on the log flume > Which episodes the shots in the original Hawaii 5-0 credits come from, and what season they were added > Festus: But I don’t want a lotta land!" > > It’s a blessing, and a curse. How about “Dusty” John Dusty? ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/16 "2019-12-07T23:45:02Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Not surprised that it was followed by My Mother the Car. Pardon the nitpick but My Mother the Car - the exemplar of TV idiocy from the 60s - debuted in 1965. It’s About Time was in 1966. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2019, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/17 "2019-12-08T00:08:31Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > One thing I don’t get about _It’s About Time_. When Mac and Hec return to the present with the Gronk family, why are they sharing an apartment in _Los Angeles_. You’d expect astronauts to be based in Texas or Florida. And as officers, they’d be entitled to their own housing, not shacking up in an apartment. It makes my brain hurt just to think about it. I’ve never watched a full episode of that program but Los Angeles is close to Edwards Air Force Base. I’m guessing that’s where Mac and Hec worked. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2019, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/18 "2019-12-08T00:28:28Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > _That’s_ the bit of the premise you find unbelievable?😃 > > This said, the show was _slightly_ more plausible than _My Mother the Car._ Well, that and the dinosaurs. Not to mention Sherwood Schwartz produced it, so they clearly recycled the sets from _Gilligan’s Island_. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2019, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/19 "2019-12-08T00:34:04Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Metal Men! What a great nerdy science comic! Learn the properties of the elements as our heroes combat the forces of evil! Noble Gold! Mighty Iron! Steady Lead! Wimpy Tin! Volatile Mercury (inaccurately colored red like an alcohol thermometer)! And lovely Platinum, the only female metal man! Tina! sproinnnngggggg! ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2019, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521/20 "2019-12-08T00:39:59Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > I’ve never watched a full episode of that program but Los Angeles is close to Edwards Air Force Base. I’m guessing that’s where Mac and Hec worked. _I Dream of Jeannie_ was a bit more plausible. Tony and Roger lived in Cocoa Beach, FL, near the Kennedy Space Center, in separate houses. Although to be more accurate, astronauts are trained in Houston. Also, NASA’s California launch site is at Vandenberg AFB, located between San Francisco and Los Angeles. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-about-time-or-i-have-wasted-my-brain/844521.md?page=2)