I assumed the DJ.
One thing doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with the other. She could have been made a nonperson (or whatever “not existing” means) by the government because her computer skills made her too dangerous, or she went into witness protection or something. The thing they have in common is that the government denies their existence. If they both had superpowers, they’d have two things in common.
A few more things:
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[li]Why does anybody on Supernatural believe that Sam (Dean can at least pull it off) with his long VO% hot oil hair tresses is an FBI agent? - I mean FBI agents couldn’t have mustaches until after J. Edgar Hoover died and Sam has longer hair than most men.[/li]
[li]How did Cheers get so much business with only two fairly unattractive waitresses? - Face it…Rhea Pearlman and Shelley Long aren’t going pack them in unless they were located in a bar in a remote mining town.[/li][li]Why didn’t more agents want to work on The X-Files? - Mulder had an apparently unlimited travel budget, his own large office where his boss rarely stopped by, extremely limited oversightand sanction to do do almost whatever he wanted to. Why wouldn’t agents want to be in a unit like that?[/li][li]Why didn’t Uncle Charlie (or Bub for that matter) on My Three Sons have a girlfriend? - I mean even in the 1960s I would have to assume that older men still liked women. Why didn’t they show them having any female companionship? Were they closeted gay men? Or was it ED?[/li][li]Where did all of Thomas Magnum’s money come from? - It’s clear that Robin Masters was paying for teh gas in his vehicles and he stayed on teh estate in exchange for his security services. Where did he get the money for the beer and the dates that he went on? And the kayaks. His cases never seemed to pay that much….[/li][li]Why does an obviously under appreciated genius like Bobby Goren on Law and Order: Criminal Intent stay a cop? - He is clearly light years ahead of every other detective on the force, he has an ill mother and he is considered to be an oddball or a freak. Why does he remain with the police force?[/li][/ol]
For 2, I would guess that it’s the bar where they’ve always gone to (hence the opening credits lyrics). And I know it’s crazy to think, but none of my regular haunts have been chosen for the waitresses - they’ve been chosen for the booze 
It is nonetheless strongly implied.
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The economics back then were very different than now. You probably could survive if you had a handful of regulars and made $100 in sales a night.
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It’s probably what he wanted. That comes up over and over in these cop shows. This issue came up recently in both Monk and Criminal Minds episodes I saw in the past week. Basically, these geniuses find what they do personally fulfilling and wouldn’t dream of any other profession.
My questions: (sorry if they were asked/answered already):
- Why was Janet Jackson a minor character on Good Times? Weren’t her brothers already huge stars at the time? Didn’t she at least qualify for the role of Tootie or Willis’ girlfriend?
- Why was the Electric Company canceled?
- Who was Spiderman on the Electric Company?
- Why did Don Adams (Inspector Gadget, Tennessee Tuxedo) and later Phil Hartman (Simpsons, Futurama) do so much voiceover work when it seemed they were getting lots of live action work? It’s not like John Ratzenburger who couldn’t get regular roles and was forced to do voiceover, or Mila Kunis who started when she was a struggling actress.
Not sure about Hartman, but most of Don Adams work between Get Smart and Inspector Gadget was on Love Boat. I think he had plenty of time to branch into voice work.
Also, she was lying.
In the first place, 80s Shelley Long was all kinds of cute.
In the second place, a nice friendly neighborhood bar doesn’t have to have hot waitresses. I don’t drink much, but some of my friends do, and the fact that their favorite watering hole’s waitresses are all in their 50s has never stopped us from having a good time there or leaving good tips. Not every bar has to be Hooters, or should be.
Some people just have a voice that sounds better when it’s disconnected from their face. Probably the best example is Gilbert Gottfried. He’s voiced tons of cartoon characters, and he’s great at it, but in person he easily takes the title of Most Obnoxious Voice Ever Inflicted on a Long-Suffering Public. (Second place goes to Fran Drescher.)
Also, the bar was owned by an ex-Red Sox and staffed (at least until he died) by another guy who was associated with that team. Never underestimate the drawing power of two professional ball players in one place in Boston.
Also, I don’t think Sam cared about money either, it was never a plot point that I can remember.
By this time the Five were fading stars and Michael hadn’t rebooted his career yet. Janet was an unknown.
Frasier was well-to-do before the show. I’ll fanwank that his mother came from money (hence her very different tastes from Martin) and that she left her share of the family trust to her sons. Which wouldn’t have bothered Martin; in fact I expect he would have preferred it that way.
The Jacksons had a number of hits in the mid to late 1970s, both on the pop and R&B charts (Dancing Machine and Enjoy Yourself.). And Michael came out with Off The Wall in 1979 which everybody considered to be one the largest albums of all time until he out did himself three years later with Thriller.
Janet’s even starring on Good Times was a direct result of her brother’s fame at the time. While no expected to her to have the career that she did for a numbers of years from the 1980s to the early 2000s, she was cute and she could remember lines so they cast her.
He also did some commercials and some stand up as well. The commercials were a hit; the stand up not so much….
How many hours a day did George Jefferson work?
Did anybody ever have sex on Happy Days? I remember Ritchie caught mono once. I’m pretty sure Fonzie never kissed any of the “snap” girls either. Usually the Fonz would just put his arm around the girls and walk offscreen, does that mean he’s banging them in the hallway? He rode a motorcycle so he couldn’t have been banging them in the parking lot, and the bathrooms were the other direction. I’m also pretty sure he was over 18 and they were all high school students.
Was being gay actually less controversial than unmarried men and women sharing an apartment in 3’s company?
Was anything from Carridine’s Kung Fu actually martial arts, historical, or based on fact? To this day I still have no idea wtf his stupid bean bag slapper was.
It wasn’t about controversy, it was about what Mr. Roper would allow. He’d have pitched a fit if hanky-panky was happening in his apartments, and presumably Mrs. Roper wouldn’t have given a hoot. But she was liberal enough that she could shame him into being willing to let a gay guy share the place with the girls, and he wouldn’t have to worry about the hanky or the panky.
From the beginning, it was a “aren’t the 70s a crazy mix of yesterday’s moralism and today’s liberalism” kind of thing. Too bad every plot boiled down to mistaken identity.
But, they could bring dates over. It seemed to me that Mr. Roeper just didn’t want Jack having sex with Janet or Chrissy, but he was fine with Jack banging another dude.