It’s witty, at least, even today. The “American Cousin” is a bit of a rube, except he’s the only true gentleman, and the only voice of wisdom, in the play. It’s rather a sweet play (I’ve read it, never seen it performed, but I’d love to!)
I checked upthread, in their online ordering menu Domino’s doesn’t offer them, but Papa John’s does.
I seem to recall a common joke, in various media, where somebody would sniff or taste something that somebody else was cooking, and they’d offer the suggestion, “Needs more oregano.”
Rush did a short, comedic film to introduce a song in concert a number of years back. Geddy Lee played Gershon, proprietor of Gershon’s House of Sausage. Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart played his customers, “Slobovich” and “O’Malley”, respectively. After Slobovich makes a claim that he is a genius, Gershon replies, “To me, you’re a genius. To O’Malley, you’re a genius. But to a genius, you’re no genius”.
There was also a parody of Ice Ice Baby called Rice Rice Baby which had a line, ‘My dinner is cooking like Connie Chung’ https://youtu.be/mC4jkyg6DzA
And it also has the hungry again in an hour line
It was a MAD magazine feature. Each strip illustrated men of different age groups experiencing the same situation. In this case, each one had been interacting with the same waiter. The panel you discussed represented the 35-yo man, who was hiding behind his menu in embarrassment. The panel before it had a 20-yo hippie who had asked if the restaurant employees were “exploited migrant workers,” and the panel after that was a chubby 50-yo who had asked for the calorie count of some kind of exotic dessert dish. The 70-yo in the last panel had asked if the poached eggs were digestible.
It’s amazing how much useless information I remember.
My theory is that limburger cheese was used in cartoon pranks, like where the mischief maker stuffs limburger cheese into a hidden part of somebody’s room to make them gag when they entered. Limburger cheese would have been safer and less gross than actual poo, so it became the icon of stink at the time.
There was also the running gag of accidentally provoking a skunk into stink-attacking some hapless victim. I don’t that’s used much any more.
Actually, it’s more like this is a hick town that’s so behind the times, it considers oregano fancy and exotic. Southern cooking didn’t have oregano. The usual cuisine was fried chicken, mashed potatoes with gravy, and garden vegetables that were usually boiled. You gotta remember there’s an entire country outside of NYC. 
Actually, Bentsen was saying he had more in common with JFK than Quayle did. Quayle had just compared himself to JFK, and Bensten hit back with “I knew Jack Kennedy and we were great friends, and you sir, are no Jack Kennedy!” I remember watching that debate, and Bentsten pretty much destroyed Quayle the entire night. A lot of conservatives at the time were wary of supporting Quayle for vice president, and secretly wished for Bentsen instead.
Connie Chung was pretty much the hot chick TV reporter of the late seventies and beyond. The implication was that all the other female reporters were jealous of her and considered her a sellout slut.
I thought Tritia Toyota was hotter. Would’ve liked to have been stuck in a pagoda with her.
Who?
(remember, there’s an entire country outside of Los Angeles as well)
Hmm. I’m just going to invent a bad joke.
I love my new Palm Pilot! In fact, I just became friends with Rick Astley on MySpace! He has a bigger movie collection than Blockbuster and offered to give me one. With one exception. He’s never going to give me Up.
(Anachronism provided free of charge.)
Huh. I never thought Bentsen was doing anything other than cutting Quayle down, and not just to size.
IIRC, the line was “Senator, I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. And you, Senator, are no Jack Kennedy.”
Sounds like he let you down.
It seemed that a planned moment. Quayle was young - so he would be expected to defend himself against the charge of being too young, by comparing himself with a guy who had been President when even younger than Quayle. Bentsen was ready for that one and gave it to him.
Connie Chung and Tritia Toyota were on the local news at the same time, though on different channels. If you’ve not heard of Tritia Toyota, listen to The Dickies. 
I think Connie Chung and Tritia Toyota started off the trend of having non-European journalists on TV – which was often parodied on The Family Guy.
He knows the rules and so do I.
I remember Dan Quayle’s expression when Bentsen said this; he was pissed. (And it was no off-the-cuff remark; they suspected that Quayle would make that comparison and Bentsen had the line ready.)
Right, just the way Mondale was waiting for Reagan to use “There you go again!” in the 1984 debate.