I’ve never seen it. They may have a more comprehensive stock of images than the Flintstones, Japanese animation was almost always done that way, they didn’t have the history of high quality animation like that of Disney, Warner Bros. and others. Early productions like Astro Boy could never have been done on schedule without heavy reuse. But in the end it turns out to be stories and characters that drive animation success more than the quality of the artwork or the animation. I don’t know how many new frames per episode they produce for South Park but there’s not much to them at all, the show is all about story and characters.
On the first SNL episode, there was a Weekend Update joke about Hoffa (when it was a fairly fresh story). The Teamsters, supposedly regretting his disappearance, said “He’ll always be a cornerstone of the organization.” 
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I have no idea when Wait ‘Til Your Father Gets Home was broadcast. But Dad ain’t so bad… I saw a couple episodes when I was wee tacked on to other old cartoons. Not sure why I remember some of the theme song.
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Anchovies on pizza are the shizzle. Wish more places had them. I keep some in the fridge to add my own, sometimes. If the pizza place mushed up anchovies in the sauce so they were invisible, people would say how great that sauce is. Lots of people don’t like them for the same reason people don’t like creamed broccoli or opera. (Indoctrination).
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A successful lawyer is cheating on his wife with the secretary many years ago. He is mortified when she becomes pregnant. He is scared his wife will discover his infidelity. So he gives a lot of money to the secretary on condition that she travel to Italy for the pregnancy and delivery. The secretary agrees, but since there is no Internet or phone, wants to know how she can discreetly contact him after the delivery. “Send me a post card”, he says. “Write ‘spaghetti’ on it, and this will be our code for a successful delivery.”
Nine months later, the lawyer’s wife sees a post card in the mail. She gives it to her husband, who becomes flushed and starts complaining of chest pain. Scared, she calls an ambulance. At the hospital, the intern asks her what caused the heart attack.
“I’ve no idea. He was resting and I gave him a post card. It didn’t make any sense to me. On the postcard was written ‘spaghetti, spaghetti, spaghetti, spaghetti, spaghetti, spaghetti. Three with sausage and meatballs, and three with clams.”
? Is this a candidate for the thread topic collection or did you just feel like telling the joke? Because AFAICT, although the joke’s a bit old-fashioned, there’s absolutely nothing in it that requires explaining to a modern audience.
I was laughing at the joke, and never noticed that it had nothing to do with the topic until you mentioned it.
Oh… unless it’s referring to the tangent of “Yes, boss having sex with secretary was a meme back then.”
Or, “what the hell is a postcard?”
I have literally never seen “spaghetti with clams” offered at a restaurant in Canada. In my mind it is an old fashioned dish. The joke does not need explanation but “alla vongole” might? And postcards might be just e-versions?
That’s the “old-fashioned” aspect? I dunno about Canada, but at least in New York pasta with some variety of clam sauce is one of the standard menu items in Italian restaurants.
Just pumping out ideas. The old fashioned aspect was the secretary meme and the post card. I’ll admit both are pretty weak and the joke is not that hard to understand, though.
Except for why sextuplets weren’t international news.
Early 1970s. After “All in the Family” - before “Happy Days.” Insanely catchy theme…
If that was the way they learned it, why was the “reveal” necessary?
New Math didn’t improve understanding and it decimated basic arithmetic skills. And “trying to improve” is not necessarily the same as actually improving. To avoid further discussion of this subject in this thread, here’s the discussion from 4 years ago. Explain this 'new math'
Postcards?
Pretty passe, except for tourism.
Here’s another:
No one in that clip is intimidated into anything.
It was a clip from a bad comedy film*, where the waiter made fun of their inability to understand french.
- sequelitis, since the original had some great moments.
He doesn’t intimidate them but neither is the waiter interested in their order and tells them what he will bring them which is mostly awful stuff to which they all happily agree to.
I’d say more broadly it is the trope that Americans will be mistreated in some fashion by waiters when in a restaurant in France.
I got news for you: Americans are treated badly by French Canadians in Montreal. 
Here’s a joke I just heard on Married … with Children:
“She’s so ugly, she’d make Schwartzkopf wave a white flag!”
People all over the area are probably now going “Who the hell is Schwartzkopf?”
Yes, that is indeed the trope.
I was watching an episode of Wings last night. While flying they saw (or thought they saw) a UFO streaking across the sky. One of them joked that the UFO had a bumper sticker that said, “55,000 miles per hour, it’s a law we can live with”.