That is a business model that would have been doomed to failure in my neighborhood, when I was young.
Huge bump, but there were a lot of “bits” that were punctuated by a flushing toilet. First that comes to mind is the flashback to Mike and Gloria’s wedding. Edith is playing (badly) the Wedding March, then calls, “Gloooooriaaaaa!”
“I’ll be right down — I’m waiting for Daddy!” “FLUSHHHHHHHHHHHH.”
And more than once, the question “Is Archie/Daddy home yet?” was answered by a “FLUSHHHHHHHHHHHH”. And when Edith finally got the same flu bug she’d been nursing everyone else through, that was made clear by her fleeing upstairs, followed by a “FLUSHHHHHHHHHHHH”.
Also, the later seasons of The Brady Bunch were concurrent with AITF. In the final BB season, when Greg was in the attic, Peter and Bobby were squabbling in the room they still shared, leading to a masking-tape line dividing the floor. Bobby taunts Peter: “And you know what else?..The bathroom’s on MY side of no-man’s-land!” Stomp stomp stomp…FLUSHHHHHHHHHHHH.
(Just how powerful was the Bunkers’ toilet, anyway? Sounded like someone could lose a limb if they weren’t well clear of it when they pushed to flush.)
The phantom flush? Ghost toilet?? 
Yeah, invisible but audible!
Also, I remember watching Kramer vs. Kramer on cable with my parents. The first morning after Joanna leaves, we see Ted (dad) get up, walk into the bathroom, then immediately exit. Son Billy gets up, same thing. My dad commented on how he wished he could be that fast, getting ready in the morning! Clearly a device to show they both did something in the bathroom, but the audience didn’t need to know exactly what.
I dislike the dangerous hillbilly/country guy trope. I guess it dates back to Deliverance.
I recently watched an old Jag episode. Harm’s vintage plane makes an emergency landing in a meadow. He and Mac hike out for aid.
This is tv and of course Mac and Harm encounter three dangerous men who just shot and killed a game warden. The men even borrow bloodhounds from a friend to track Mac and Harm.
Real life, they would have been welcomed into a rural home, given hot coffee, and then a 30 minute ride into town. Most country people look after each other. It’s a necessity when someone lives 25 miles from emergency services.
Even long before Deliverance there was the trope of the rural property owner (and, quite frequently, moonshiner) armed with a shotgun and prepared to repel “trespassers” at the drop of a pin.
Today it is the illegal marijuana dealer more often. And yeah in some places in CA, you might not get a nice welcome.
Revenoors, most often!
Man accused of shooting wildfire-fighting plane says he was crow hunting
May 21, 2026 — The 48-year-old claimed he was not aiming at the aircraft, but neighbors said shots were heard every time the planes passed.
And Speed.
When I was in Boy Scouts, we went on a hike out in the hell-and-gone. We came across an area that had been crudely fenced off, which had not been so indicated on our scoutmaster’s map. While we were deciding which direction to head off to next, an unsavory individual, wearing a gunbelt and overalls, came out and loudly informed us that this was private property and we should leave. Now. We thanked him and skedaddled as fast as decorum permitted. Talking about it later, we were pretty sure we stumbled onto a pot farm.
Here in Oklahoma, the pot farms are easily identifiable because their fences are much better than any other agricultural farms.
Bars serving beer in a can or bottle isn’t uncommon. Generally (by law I think) they have to open the can for you. Sometimes (but not always) they pour it into a glass.
If it makes you feel any better, we learn in the latest MI film that the CIA analyst who was responsible for protecting the data Ethan Hunt stole was banished to some Cold War Arctic radar outpost for 30 years because of it. Right, like it’s the data nerd’s fault and not the HVAC duct contractor. Or the laser web guy.
Seriously! Who designs these security systems? Sure, we could have put it in a heavy metal vault with a combination lock that’s anchored to the foundation of a building full of armed guards and conventional motion sensing alarms.
Instead, we went with the contractor who for a little more can install an intricate system of laser only an acrobat can flip through, thermal sensors next to the unguarded thermostat that can raise the room temperature to make the sensors ineffective, some fail-safe electronic locks (we actually meant to order “fail-secure”. Fail-safe means they open when the power is cut.) A complex electrical grid that can be disabled if you overload it or disable the backups in just the right way. Ventilation ducks large enough for the cleaning staff to keep the dust away. We can save money by having the cameras sweep back and forth in a regular pattern. Maybe a key consisting of a combination of 5 pieces of jewelry and odd electronic parts that we can hide around the world and assemble when we want to access the vault.
So really, unless you have a 5 person team consisting of a gymnast, race car driver, autistic math genius, an electrician, and someone not afraid of dark, kind of enclosed spaces, there is no way anyone is getting into this vault!
THAT bothered me more than the original theft. What I posted in the movie thread:
This guy has been “assigned” to this remote station for 29 years? He couldn’t you know, quit? Does he still get paid? Where does he spend his money? How does he get supplies? Can he take his 4 weeks a year vacation? When did he have time to learn…whatever language his wife spoke? Where did he meet her? Where was the wedding?
And what exactly does he do, if no one gets all the data he is collecting? And he’s keeping it on 12 inch floppy discs!
I would think that in a restaurant that people occasionally do little glances around the room. It would probably stand out if it shows people in the background glancing towards the table with the actors.
I heard of some guys that were sent to rather undesirable posts. Yes, you can quit. Yes, you still get paid. The base is supplied on a regular basis. Yes vacations, etc. But 30 years is a wrong amount, since we can assume he had been working for some time before, (at least five years) and you can retire at age 50 and 20 years in. So, whoever wrote that didnt bother to fact check.
But yeah, some posts are not happy places, I know if you were sent to Bishop CA, that was considered to be a punishment. But some people liked it (skiing was supposedly good).
Don’t forget the wild and crazy campus scene:
In the CHP, the threat was to get sent to Needles, CA.
Two wild and crazy guys!
About the same level of “fun.” 
As Mark Twain put it- “Fun? yes, but of a mild sort.”