My kids will never know the stigma of having the entire world of popular people openly mock them for their fandoms and make them ashamed to reveal their true passions in public. I sometimes try to explain, but it doesn't really come across.

Of course to me a lot of this actually explains much of the "toxicity" in these fandoms that has emerged in the years since. When those same popular people who incessantly mocked you suddenly take ownership of the thing they mocked you over, it can't help but sometimes result in a bad reaction.

Yes, this sketch was "all in good fun" but I think its also a great example of things that were very much not done in good fun during that era.