Heh. I learned the same thing from Babylon 5. (The episode “GROPOS” if anyone cares…)
From Family Ties: SCUBA is an acronym for Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apperatus.
From Facts of Life: The chemical symbol for silver is Ag, the chemical symbol for gold is Au, which you can remember by thinking “A u! Come back with my gold watch!”
Mystery Science Theater 3000, the earlier seasons (2-5 I think) had a “secret” word in the door opening/closing sequences. Next time you watch one of 'em, see if you can hear it.
The secret word is “pizza” and it’s on the third door.
The studios and offices for WKRP were located in the Flem Building.
The great turkey massacre took place at Pinedale shopping center.
The same factoid was also mentioned in an episode of Head of the Class.
WordMan, if you go to the Bull & Finch in Boston - the real Cheers - you can order a Screaming Viking. Sadly, cucumber is not one of the ingredients.
There’s a speech in a Law & Order episode between Shambala Green and DA Ben Stone. Green is defending a young black man who, incited by the anti-semitic ravings of a Farrakhan-like public figure, pulled a man from his car and killed him. Green is appalled at what she sees as Stone’s racism; Stone replies thusly:
When the episode is shown in syndication, the first sentence is lopped off; the speech begins with “I’m responsible for my actions” and you conclude that Stone is talking directly about himself instead of a hypothetical someone else. That change always bothered me and I can’t watch that episode without thinking of the elided remark.
Speaking of blernsball…
On one episode of “Futurama” they’re at a Yankee’s Blernsball game. Leela has her own scorecard of the players and you can quickly catch one of the player’s names: George Costanza (for a couple of seasons on “Seinfeld”, George worked for the Yankees). I love catching that whenever I see the episode.
“As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly…”
I have that clip as a WAV, and I use it as one of my regular computer sounds every now and then. 
Did you know the words to Gilligan’s Island can be sung to “Stairway To Heaven”?
My personal favorite is from an episode of “Josie and the Pussycats” cartoon. In the episode the villian brainwashes the dumb blonde (Valerie?) and all trough the episode whenebr he orders her to do something she says “Yes, Oh great Mustard”
Anybody remeber the Josie and the Pussycats episode where they team up with Scooby Doo and the Gang and everybody suddenly realizes than Alexander looks identical to Shaggy?
On Moonlighting, the Blue Moon Investigations office was in Suite 2016 of their building. Also, David Addison’s birthday is November 27. He points out that he shares the day with Jimi Hendrix, but leaves out me and Bruce Lee.
Alex Keaton once had a subscription to *Nixie * magazine. Grant College, where Mallory and Skippy attended, had dodgy academic standards so instead their brochures advertised the school’s “thick, juicy steaks”.
On The Dukes of Hazzard, an invitation to “listen to some country music” over the CB radio was a code that meant to switch over to channel 17 for a secret conversation.
My brain is full of junk.
The Powerpuff Girls - Maybe it just keeps getting lost amidst all the talk about “anime” and “strong girls”, but the trio often exercises really horrendous judgment.
Lessee…there was the time when Rainbow the Clown got turned into a vicious color-draining mime. But they were able to turn him back with an impromptu music session. And restore all the color to the city in the process. He expresses his thanks. They respond by beating him to a pulp, then tossing him in jail! I looked at it and asked myself, was there really any point to that? (Amd apparently nobody could even make anything stick to him, because he’s free to entertain at their birthday party a few weeks later. :rolleyes: )
And of course, the time where Big Billy freed them after they were completely helpless, and they rewarded him with…yep, a pounding.
Or how about the really old jewel thieves whom Blossom forbade the others from clobbering because of “respect for their elders”…not considering for a second any number of nonviolent means they could’ve used to apprehend the trio (even calling the cops would’ve worked, for crying out loud).
Wait, I have an even better one. Blossom, investigating an apparent string of murders, concludes that the bones dumped into the harbor were actually from a restauarant owned by the suspects…when, from their reaction, it’s plainly obvious that they were guilty after all. For the crime of MURDER, the get off with a littering fine. (Let’s not even mention the talking dog who deserved to get whaled on about 9,000,000,000,000 times more than Rainbow.)
Well, it’s just a cartoon, and they use deux ex machina all the time…I really shouldn’t be bothered by all this.
On “Bewitched” - Darren & Samantha Stephens live at 1164 Morning Glory, except for one episode in which their address becomes a plot point and becomes 96 Morning Glory (and astroturf that was supposed to be put on the lawn of 66 Morning Glory gets put on their lawn instead.)
Also on “Bewitched” - Samantha’s birthday is June 6th, albiet in an unspecified year (mainly because she didn’t want Darren to know that she was a LOT older, by hundreds of years, than she looked!)
Once more on "Bewitched’ - all the witches’ names ended with the letter ‘a’ - Samantha, Endora, Tabitha, Serena, Aunt Clara, etc.
…and Aunt Agatha[or Hagatha] played bt the inimitable Reta Shaw[she was the housekeeper on "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir]
What was the name of the witch played by Estelle Winwood? She and Agatha would arrive and depart in an old automobile named Hamish? Hamlet? Something like that.
I find it extremely hard to believe that a cartoon generally aimed at kids would deal with serial murder. Pouncing upon your description of “apparent string of murders,” I’m going to guess with some confidence that in the episode, it turned out that the bones were not from humans, but from cows or chickens or fish, and that the whole thing was a typical cartoon Misunderstanding <tm>.
On the G.I. Joe cartoon, there was an episode in which Barbecue gets a mysterious phone call from a raspy-voiced man who claims, “The viper is coming…” Thinking this is a Cobra assault, the Joes put together an enormous amount of soldiers, tanks and artillery outside Barbecue’s home.
At the end, a fragile old man walks up, past all the soldiers and weaponry, and tells Barbecue, “I’m the viper…the vindow viper.”
:rolleyes: groan
I also remember Duke, the de facto leader of the Joes, was born in St. Louis.
Enchantra.
These are some that I just remember for no reason. Since you can Google all of this, I’ll just fade the answers:
Who’s driver’s license address is 1060 West Addison, and what’s really there? Elwood Blues, Wrigley Field
Who lives at 1634 Racine? Jimmy Malone
What vehicle has the license plate BDR-529? The Bluesmobile
What vehicle has the license plate OUTTATIME? The DeLorean from Back To The Future
What’s the name of the airstrip from Wings? Tom Nevers Field
Who is the electrician for WKRP? Bucky Dornster
What’s the violin song that Les always had to practice, and that was playing in his head when he tried to catch that pop fly? Kruetzer’s Allegro Moderato
That reminds me of a quote from that show that I will never forget. Mona rows up one day to deliver the mail, and the gang asks, “Hey, where’s the regular mail guy?” Mona answers, very matter-of-factly, “He got crushed by dinosaurs.” That line always cracked me up, mostly because of her delivery. She goes on to explain that a box of brontosaurus stamps fell on him.
Other odd things I remember from that show: Donkey Lips’s real name is Eddie. Ug’s real name is Kevin Lee (Ug Lee… get it?).
Also, “Amazing Grace” can be sung to the theme from Gilligan’s Island.