Six Million Dollar F-up
Posted by Pippi-ki-yay@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 217 comments
We found The Six Million Dollar Man on Roku and despite having watched it in the 70s, I had never seen the first episode.
The fact that he was trying to fly a B-52 bomber to the moon supported by technology that looked like reel to reel stereo tapes and Lite Brites explains a lot.
And the dad from A Christmas Story was the head of NASA, so he shouldn't have been trusted. He can't even fix a furnace
scienceisright1965@reddit
Tell me again why he had to fight Bigfoot?
Wonderful_Adagio9346@reddit
To sell toys.
Unclebuck129@reddit
Back in the 70s we all expected Bigfoot to play a much more central role in our lives than he turned out to. Quicksand, killer bees and native headhunters were also expected to be a much bigger threat than they actually were.
erictiso@reddit
[Insert howler monkey noises so we know we're in a jungle setting]
TheSwedishEagle@reddit
And peacocks
StrangeCrimes@reddit
Don't forget The Bermuda Triangle! I blame Leonard Nimoy.
Unclebuck129@reddit
Oh man, the Bermuda Triangle. How could I forget that? I used to wonder why have teams from NASA with huge government budgets working on that threat around the clock.
listenup-yall@reddit
You had to leave out ring around the collar?
ElleRyder@reddit
Quicksand & killer bees are an everyday thing here. I was in quicksand last night.
Pippi-ki-yay@reddit (OP)
I recently saw some people walking with a guide in the quicksand near Mont Saint Michel. I took a picture and said to myself "those people clearly did not watch enough Scooby-Doo as children."
ConsistentWeird2564@reddit
“My friend knew this girl that was laying out on the beach”………
RAWR_Orree@reddit
The truth of this made me laugh out loud.
couchwarmer@reddit
And extraterrestrials.
OcotilloWells@reddit
UFOs as well. I can't believe they canceled that British documentary about them.
jeexbit@reddit
I still believe.
eggs_erroneous@reddit
[ saxophone solo ]
Wonderful_Adagio9346@reddit
You know what would have been really cool?
If there had been a Six Million Dollar Man cartoon!!!
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Grreatdog@reddit
Having a pretty solid grasp of Newtonian physics made me completely unable to watch that show.
Unicron3@reddit
Maybe that's the problem. At 6MM dollars, maybe Newtonian physics breaks down and you are now in the realm of quantum physics where anything goes.
Wonderful_Adagio9346@reddit
Yes, and no.
EveryoneGoesToRicks@reddit
Maybe back then…but that is what billionaires think now…
OcotilloWells@reddit
Besides tearing the meat part of his body apart, he was always holding things down. Does he weigh several tons?
StrangeCrimes@reddit
It was those sons a bitches Bumpusses.
tigers692@reddit
This is the show, that ruined Hollywood for me. I don’t remember the episode, but I remember the scene. Steve Austin was flying a black Cessna over Africa, I knew it was over Africa because on the screen it said something like “meanwhile over Africa” or something like that, it was the first season, but far enough in that I really liked the show.
Anyway my Grandfather walked in and this was as it was starting, and said “hey look they are in Mojave”. Now, Grandpa ended up retiring after working for the studio as a driver and location scout for forty years. So, I looked at him and said “Grandpa, that’s Africa, see the words?” He said “those are Joshua trees, only in Mojave, he’s not in Africa.” And boom, every movie and TV show ruined, soon I saw Joshua Trees in everything, or Saguaro cactus and knew they were in Arizona or Mexico, and Yucca plants.
Yep, still watched the show, but that sure sucked. :-) I think he like jump started the plane later with his arm.
Koss424@reddit
what if I told you, Steve Austin didn't actually have robotic enhancement in his body..... I am sorry.
ConsistentWeird2564@reddit
This guy probably ruined Christmas for all his siblings…
tigers692@reddit
It did as a kid. I got to meet Mr T and lots of cool stuff, met the guy that was the driver on Kitt, sat in the General. Once I did, I started seeing the guy in Kitt’s seat, he was hidden in there driving the thing. Or noticing the set on dukes where they used crashed cars as cars parked, so some episodes would have like ten generals, some spray painted and some still painted like the general parked at the bank or something. Some times now I see it, less prevent then back then. It pulls me out sometimes even now. :-)
SnowblindAlbino@reddit
Did you notice that every A-Team episode had the "construction sequence" at 40:00 past the hour, and when the final action scene/showdown happened there was always a car that hit a ramp on two wheels and tipped over?
tigers692@reddit
Very formulaic back then, lean into what works. And I was always happy when a plan came together.
Double-Quote3@reddit
That’s just wrong.. Why would you say this?!?
montemason@reddit
Wait, what!!!
UmbertoEcoTheDolphin@reddit
It all took place in a differently-abled boy's snow globe.
Become_Pneuma462@reddit
You monster!
MorrowPlotting@reddit
I remember running around my yard, making “the sound effect” every time I’d jump or slow-motion run or lift something that looked heavy but wasn’t.
Good times.
dperiod@reddit
You don’t still make the noise? Come on, admit it….you do!
lcplscary@reddit
My wife had her eardrum rebuilt. As soon as the bandage came off, it's the first sound I made. Her surgeon laughed his ass off.
CitizenChatt@reddit
Busted 😁
sev45day@reddit
We all do
ACrazyDog@reddit
Quintessential GenX
dperiod@reddit
Exactly! Throwing twigs and small branches into the brush pile nets me all sorts of bionic power that only comes with the sound.
bigtakeoff@reddit
how'd it go...
duh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh?
SomeLevel8419@reddit
I liked the sound effect when he would punch something/someone in slow motion.
Chika chika chika chika chika chika chika POW wow wow wow wow wow wow
ACrazyDog@reddit
I can still make that sound effect, and I was a girl
centralnm@reddit
The sound effect is now stuck in my brain!
Moist-Meat-Popsicle@reddit
Buhnanananananana……
centralnm@reddit
Nooooo! Lol. Now I hear it as I am walking. In slow motion.
respondwithevidence@reddit
When I was in preschool, the teachers contacted my parents because I was always moving in slow motion. They thought there was something wrong with me.
justinchina@reddit
And always had one eyebrow bent up/down because that was how Lee Majors did it.
CypressRootsMe@reddit
I never watched it as a kid but it was one of my husband’s favorites. We watched the first episode. It was pretty bad. I think we need to skip ahead to Sasquatch.
We also watched his very favorite, Emergency!, which I loved and watched all the episodes.
SnowblindAlbino@reddit
I watch Emergency! in our home gym while on the bike and treadmill. Loved that show in the 70s, as did my wife, so we've always made references to specific emergencies we saw there as kids. "Be careful, or you'll get your toe stuck in the tub spout!"
Koss424@reddit
Fucking Emergency!
tgrantt@reddit
Chicago Fire has squad 51
thejohnykat@reddit
Ha. Emergency! was required watching when I was on paramedic school. Instructors used to sneak questions about the show onto tests.
jdg0928@reddit
In today's dollars, he's be the $40,227,792.65 man.
theobaldhuan@reddit
🫵 math good
jdg0928@reddit
Federal Reserve of Minneapolis is clutch for nerdy inflation calculations!
https://www.minneapolisfed.org/about-us/monetary-policy/inflation-calculator
Holy_Toast@reddit
That really rolls off the tongue.
Ultravod@reddit
Woah woah, spoilers, dude! The show only came out 53 years ago!
MinusGovernment@reddit
My mom watched that show. I don't remember much of it at all but I remember sitting on the couch with my mom watching it (with dad snoring in the recliner).
KRAKA-THOOOM@reddit
I was alone in the car the other day and for some reason found myself singing the theme song to this show. “Been set on fire for Cheryl Tiegs, blown up for Raquel Welch, and when I wind up in the hay, it’s only hay! Hey, hey!” - ok I looked it up and I’m mixing two verses, it’s “set on fire with Sally Field” and “gotten burned over Cheryl Tiegs” but you get it.
tspoon-99@reddit
Fra-gi-le … must be Italian
Frankjc3rd@reddit
I still want Oscar Goldman's fancy desk!
SnowblindAlbino@reddit
Didn't he have a phone in a wooden box too?
WhisperedSoul@reddit
Omg. Oscar Goldman. What a name.
Sixstringthings@reddit
He probably came over in Operation Paperclip
Eleutherlothario@reddit
It's a wonder this hasn't been remade yet
ConsistentAd8495@reddit
There was a remake for Bionic Woman in the early 2000s I think. Katee Sackhoff had a reoccurring role as the prototype Bionic Woman who clashed with the heroic new Bionic Woman. Only had one season?
SnowblindAlbino@reddit
Yeah, it was bad. As a big fan of the original I had high hopes for that remake, but it was almost unwatchable...they missed the entire point of the original show AND failed to make it into anything modern at the same time.
AnotherAnonymousA@reddit
Legalities! I remember it being a big deal when a box set was offered on QVC and Lee Majors was there to endorse it. I think mark wahlberg had optioned it, but was unable to get it made after 10yrs maybe?
Sharp-Echo1797@reddit
The 6 Billion Dollar Man. They were working on it forever.
tgrantt@reddit
Started watching The Bionic Woman. Lindsay Wagner was a better actress than I remembered.
WaterwingsDavid@reddit
I liked this series. The episodes with the Fembots scared me as a kid.
MrMcGibblets86@reddit
Absolutely. I had nightmares from those fembots.
WaterwingsDavid@reddit
The part when their face fell off!!
SnowblindAlbino@reddit
Loved that show as a kid in the 70s, more than the 6M$M. Especially because of Max, the bionic dog. I not only own the entire series on DVD, but I have a 33rpm LP audio version of the first episode as well.
Traditional_Fan_2655@reddit
Waot Oscar was the dad from Christmas Story? Or was there an actor switch? I need to go back and watch these again!
JustMe-male@reddit
And the actor who played the doctor is still alive. Alan Oppenheimer is 96.
SnowblindAlbino@reddit
Rudy Wells shows up in TONS of shows and movies from the 1970s and early 1980s. So recognizable.
lcplscary@reddit
Oscar was the head of the OSI. They funded and trained Steve Austin after his crash with NASA that led to them saying "we can rebuild him. Better. Stronger. Faster."
Traditional_Fan_2655@reddit
That makes sense. I remember the quote, but always thought it had been the same agency. Honestly, My kid self did not notice or accept that all the agencies weren't the same.
Pippi-ki-yay@reddit (OP)
No, Oscar comes in later.
Traditional_Fan_2655@reddit
Ahh! It has been so very long ago.
Turkzillas_gobble@reddit
If you have a super strong robot arm, and a regular arm, can you grab a chain with both hands and break it?
premiumdude@reddit
Asking the real questions 🤔
cab1024@reddit
They could hve done it too if they'd used chrome tape.
wdatkinson@reddit
It's funny. The wife and I are into watching older shows. Outer Limits, Star Trek TOS, Six Million Dollar Man, Baa Baa Black Sheep, etc.
We find them infinitly more entertaining than anything coming out of Hollyweird.
Guess I suspended disbelieve a little too much?
MissouriOzarker@reddit
The old shows had plots with characters and scenes. As best as I can tell, modern shows have a lot of cuts around weird special effects and poorly written dialogue.
tkkana@reddit
Oh, I am going to check roku for bionic woman and kojak...
SnowblindAlbino@reddit
Grew up on all of those and we still watch them too. Recently I've been watching the Battle of the Network Stars from the late 70s, so all the recognizable celebs from those shows (and many others) were at Pepperdine competing in silly events in the sun. Simpler times.
No-Win-2741@reddit
I feel like you have to suspend disbelief to deal with some of these new TV shows. I love the old shows.
RetroactiveRecursion@reddit
Years ago this came on cubo or something and when I was watching my kid (then 7 or 8 I think) came in and I excitedly told her it was my favorite show when I was her age and filled her in on a couple key points. She watched a few minutes then asked "was this before they had laugh tracks?" I was crushed.
Rough-Patience-2435@reddit
If she wants laugh tracks, show her MASH.
Lampwick@reddit
I recently rewatched MASH, but the version broadcast outside the US, without a laugh track. It doesn't need one, and is actually much better without.
JapanDave@reddit
I remember renting the dvd of one of the seasons and a few episodes had the option for no laugh track. Maybe all did? I don’t remember. But anyway, I agree, it is much better without the laugh track.
Lampwick@reddit
One of the interesting things about the MASH vs dumb shows like Big Bang Theory is that if you remove the laugh track from the latter, you see the shoddy workmanship of the script underneath. The jokes don't land, and there are huge pauses in the middle of conversations to insert the artificial cackling. The writing and directing on MASH was so good that the "pauses" for the laughter were built into the action, so nobody was ever just standing there doing nothing. Gelbart and Reynolds were completely against the use of a laugh track, but CBS insisted, so they apparently did their best to make it optional.
mrsdigi@reddit
Damn kids are brutal. 🤣
Pippi-ki-yay@reddit (OP)
I admit I have been sitting here cackling through the whole thing.
Fishtoart@reddit
Im pretty sure that most heads of nasa couldn’t fix a furnace.
Sometimes_I_Do_That@reddit
Adult Ralphie: In the heat of battle, my father wove a tapestry of obscenity... that as far as we know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.
RG450@reddit
In the aftermath of the crash, the head of NASA wove a tapestry of obscenities that as far as we know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.
jenorama_CA@reddit
Steve Austin must have been Italian because he was fragile.
Frozty23@reddit
NASA didn't use up all the glue. Checkmate, Russkies.
Jasong222@reddit
Boy, six million today would only get you a knee replacement, two stents and a couple moles removed.
longagofaraway@reddit
today he would be the 6 million dollar copay man who just found out his claim was rejected by united health.
thePRMenace@reddit
It's easy to overlook all that with the amazing "bionic jump" sound effects
atomlowe@reddit
I'm still trying to figure out how Wunderbug changes for a rusty pile of junk with a hood that doesn't stay on into a candy red dune buggy that smiles
Why-did-i-reas-this@reddit
Drugs, lots of drugs.
A_Tom_McWedgie@reddit
Buddy, do not disrespect Darrin McGavin.
He solved many supernatural mysteries.
Gokubi@reddit
Came here for the Night Stalker reference. Crazy show, it inspired Twin Peaks.
A_Tom_McWedgie@reddit
I have it on DVD.
Some episodes hold up - some are pretty bad.
correct_use_of_soap@reddit
That was a freaky show for its time
bigtakeoff@reddit
Lite Brites!!! lol
jdg0928@reddit
That killed me as well. 🤣
Fudloe@reddit
Hey! Don't you ever speak that way of Kolchak!
Former-Wish-8228@reddit
Was going to say…”the dad from. Christmas Story” was a special features reporter who had a rather grim beat.
Fudloe@reddit
And you would be correct!!
Rough-Patience-2435@reddit
The Night Stalker. A few nightmares as a child, but worth it to learn how to kill different demons.
Fudloe@reddit
TOTALLY!
Sir_midi@reddit
In first grade, I brought my Bionic Man action figure for show and tell. I ended up getting in trouble when I pulled his pants down and announced to the class that he had bionic underwear.
XScottMorrisseyX@reddit
Imagine if you'd said he had a bionic dick... Coulda been worse!
UniqueIndividual3579@reddit
Now I can hear it making the jumping sound effect.
Pippi-ki-yay@reddit (OP)
Boi-yoi-yoi-yoi-yoinnnnggg!
badhoopty@reddit
ROBOCOCK ACTIVATE!
FergusonTEA1950@reddit
I wasn't afraid of the dark until I saw the Sasquatch episode. 😳
TalkOk4096@reddit
Wasn’t there a UFO involved in this? Am I remembering this right?
Snarkapotomus@reddit
Haven't seen it since the 70s but I think so? And Sasquatch was an alien robot guarding their base.
Now I have to find and re-watch the Sasquatch episodes...
Pippi-ki-yay@reddit (OP)
I think I repressed the memory, but I do remember he looked very disheveled and maybe had red bags under his eyes, like a wino Sasquatch.
Snarkapotomus@reddit
Well now I have to find it.
Pippi-ki-yay@reddit (OP)
OMG you're not kidding. Sasquatch and the fembots gave me my first feelings of true horror. Evil Hulk only slightly less so.
FergusonTEA1950@reddit
I forgot about the Fembots! Scary as hell!!
Pippi-ki-yay@reddit (OP)
I remember having an unexpected visceral reaction and feeling of dread seeing the fembots in Austin Powers.
jenorama_CA@reddit
The Venture Bros does a good spoof of Steve Austin and Sasquatch.
banjono@reddit
It wasn't a B-52 bomber, and he wasn't going to the moon (though he does in a later episode); rather, he was test-flying an experimental plane. Namely, this one. From the National Air and Space Museum's website: "On that day in 1967, a NASA research aircraft, the wingless M2-F2 lifting body, crashed in the California desert. A film clip of the crash opened the popular weekly show about the gravely injured fictional pilot, Steve Austin, played by Lee Majors"
Sorry, I was a huge fan of the show and obsessed about it.
EyelanderSam@reddit
As kids we would mimic the sound of him using his bionic powers
Nnnnnn.... something like that😁🤷🏽
OreoSpeedwaggon@reddit
Hell, I have a bionic leg and I can't even jump with it at all.
Pippi-ki-yay@reddit (OP)
Can open a beer bottle with it? That qualifies as a super power.
OreoSpeedwaggon@reddit
I wish, but no.
crewsctrl@reddit
Chevy Chase was making that sound in this scene, too.
Pippi-ki-yay@reddit (OP)
Episode 2 - Bionic Boogaloo - he has now managed to make a fist with his new bionic hand, and his lovely nurse is perched on the edge of his bed. My adult insight presumes that was to stop him from rubbing his wiener down to a nub. He may have been able to score a bionic ding-ding, but I guess they had already blown through the budget.
DoctorEmilio_Lizardo@reddit
There’s an episode of Silicon Valley where they give a bionic arm to a monkey, and you’ll never believe what he does with it…
Pippi-ki-yay@reddit (OP)
Oh I am very familiar with Silicon Valley. Their similarly-themed scheme to win over investors at a conference that morphed into a way to process data faster was top-shelf.
DoctorEmilio_Lizardo@reddit
It’s incredible the effort they put into making middle-out compression seem mathematically plausible. If you haven’t seen it, this is the “paper” discussing their compression algorithm.
https://ia601904.us.archive.org/13/items/pdfy-tG1MuMpwvrML6QD0/228831637-Optimal-Tip-to-Tip-Efficiency.pdf
That episode is hilarious (as is most of the series).
Pippi-ki-yay@reddit (OP)
Oh man this is incredible! I'm dying at the figures labeled "D". Fun fact: the actor who played Gilfoyle was also on Freaks and Geeks.
DoctorEmilio_Lizardo@reddit
I forgot about that! Gilfoyle is a great character (though I’m convinced Big Head is the real hero).
So many great actors came out of Freaks and Geeks. I wish it lasted longer. (If only because it was ridiculously similar to my middle/high school experience.)
WhisperedSoul@reddit
Omg. I’m out eating breakfast right now and they’re about to call the paramedics on me, I’m laughing so hard I cannot BREATHE.
The comment section does not disappoint. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Russian_Doll_888@reddit
I just want to say how much I appreciate that Breakin' 2 reference! 😂 Every time there is a follow up project in my life, it gets that addendum to the title. I'm currently working on "Fee referendum part 2, revenue boogaloo". Love that it goes over everyone's head!
Individual-Trick3310@reddit
Laught all you want, Light brites are immune to cosmic radiation.
S'why the Soviets used them extensively.
Practical-Vanilla-41@reddit
It gets more surreal.
After the first tv movie, Glen Larson (Battlestar Galactica, Hardy Boys) took over as producer for two tv movies. Larson saw Steve as a super James Bond wearing a tuxedo and going to casinos. There's a theme song (sung by Dusty Springfield) "He's the Man, the Six Million Dollar Maaaannn". I am NOT making this up..
Finally, Harve Bennett became the producer for the weekly series we all know and love.
Pippi-ki-yay@reddit (OP)
I named my 5G WiFi channel Battlestar Galactica.
RainbowDarter@reddit
You are in fact telling the truth.
https://youtu.be/mesmff44FpA
I need to go listen to Allstar to get that song out of my head.
Starkville@reddit
I KNOW we weren’t the only ones who mimicked the ch-ch-ch-ch-ch sound effect when we were playing Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman….
Pippi-ki-yay@reddit (OP)
And the booop booop boop for the Bionic Woman's ear.
ajaxthelesser@reddit
I think you’ll find it was “ boop-di-doop di boop boop boooop”
Pippi-ki-yay@reddit (OP)
Oh that's much better. The squelch is tough to spell out phonetically.
__redruM@reddit
It’s funny what does and doesn’t hold up on a rewatch. I couldn’t imagine the $6M man holding up. Just Binged Simon & Simon, and was entertained.
Tralfaz1138@reddit
Heh. I actually just wrapped up rewatching Simon & Simon. I just have the reunion movie to watch. For my next rematch I was torn between Six Million Dollar Man and Miami Vice. I rewatched a few episodes of Six Million Dollar Man a while ago and it mostly held up. Sure the bionic scenes and sound effects are cheesy now, but the rest wasn't too bad.
littlefire_2004@reddit
My brother's 6 million dollar man was a WAY better boyfriend to my Barbie than that lame Ken ever was.
It's not a doll.... it's an action figure lol.
Pippi-ki-yay@reddit (OP)
Six Million Dollar man moved in with my Barbie in her dream house. He had some trouble fitting in the elevator, but overall a good experience. He also drove her Corvette sometimes. They eventually raised a family of Weebles together.
sev45day@reddit
Word is they wobbled but never fell down.
somewhatslowly@reddit
I tried to watch Magnum PI a few years back. I don’t think I made it through the first episode.
JayMac1915@reddit
Their theme song!
calmneil@reddit
Then comes the 7 million dollar man.
Pippi-ki-yay@reddit (OP)
Get out of here, Patrick Duffy. We all know your bionics are inferior and you'll end up as Scuzzlebutt's leg to balance his celery arm.
Fatbloke-66@reddit
Yeah, back to Atlantis with you.
enderjaca@reddit
Six million?! Nah nah, seven is the number. Think about it. You need help, you see a six million dollar man sittin' there, there's 7-Million dollar man right beside it. Which one are you gonna pick, man?
And we guarantee just as good a TV show as the other. If you're not happy with the first six million, you get the 7th million for free!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0129387/characters/nm0005558/
MachineGunTeacher@reddit
CitizenChatt@reddit
Yeah but....we HAD the technology
ParisGreenGretsch@reddit
Did we though? I was also told that M&Ms don't melt in your hand, and that just wasn't true at all.
Pippi-ki-yay@reddit (OP)
They definitely melted on your dashboard.
Poultrygeist74@reddit
That’s gonna up the resale value
Sea_Measurement_1654@reddit
Those opening credits though....🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃♂️
RonPossible@reddit
The crash was the Northrop M2-F2 Lifting-Body aircraft. I used to keep a picture of it on my cubical wall, sitting upside-down on the dry lake bed.
Bart457_Gansett@reddit
First episode had a lot of BRoll of the science guy pondering stuff, eh? Got better tho.
typicalamericanbasta@reddit
The Bumpass hounds caused Col. Austin to crash.
WhisperedSoul@reddit
Omg I’m HOWLING over here.
Pippi-ki-yay@reddit (OP)
They may have gotten their ears caught in the hatch.
Z_e_e_e_G@reddit
Sonsabitches!
correct_use_of_soap@reddit
This thread makes me so happy. Yesterday I was sad that I had just decided a childhood reference* and had no one to share it with...
*Reading a biography of director John Boorman (Deliverance , Excalibur) who mentions working with Robin Day in early UK TV. My mind immediately called up a Monty Python line: "Robin Day's got a hedgehog named Frank..."
RezRising@reddit
I can still feel the rubber skin on his arm on the action figure.
W0gg0@reddit
And the fascination with the removable circuitry encased in high tech polymer.
RezRising@reddit
Fascination is the 100% right word.
WorthConfusion9786@reddit
That must’ve been back when Six Million dollars was a lot of cash?
AnyManufacturer8275@reddit
Almost $40 million. Still not bad for super agent!
teachthisdognewtrick@reddit
A new Cadillac was under $10k, a new Ferrari was around $30k. Only really expensive homes were over $100k, mostly about 1/2 that. Rent was $100/month maybe.
Pippi-ki-yay@reddit (OP)
Dr Evil from roughly the same era was good with holding the world for ransom for only one million dollars, so yes, that was a lot of cabbage.
mcmcc@reddit
Head of NASA: Fra-GEE-lay! It must be French!
blondvet@reddit
I have 4 boys. When they were overstimulated toddlers, they would be over the top happy then a tiny disappointment would send them crashing to the bottom of an emotional pit. We always describe that teetering on the edge joy as being Fra-gee-lay. I loved a Christmas Story.
littlefire_2004@reddit
No Etalian
mneptok@reddit
HOSTICLEPFEIFFER!
HailLeroy@reddit
FWIW, the B-52 is a mothership to a test vehicle. The footage they use is real and shows the m2-F2 lifting body craft (the Shuttle was also a lifting body as is Dreamchaser)
Apparently they rebuilt the plane after the crash (probably cost more than 6m for that) and it’s on display at the Air&Space Museum in DC
More_Pineapple3585@reddit
93195@reddit
The actual Apollo missions to the moon were supported by technology that looked like reel to reel stereo tapes and Lite Brites.
The Apollo Guidance Computer had a 2 MHz processor and 4 kB (not mega, kilo) of RAM.
The phone I’m holding in my hand right now had a 4 GHz processor and 8 GB of RAM.
So 2,000x the processing speed and 2 million times the RAM.
geodebug@reddit
The ROM (72kB) that held the OS and mission programs was interesting:
All programmed in hand-optimized assembly code.
JayMac1915@reddit
The graphing calculator I bought for my son in middle school had more processing power!
Woodbutcher1234@reddit
That's the best part of streaming TV. Always a fan of Andy Griffith, I finally got to watch the first episode. The same with many more of my old favorites.
NectarineNo4312@reddit
Richard Nixon said that’s the best six million bucks he ever spent.
dab70@reddit
Thanks for the heads up on this. I haven't seen that show in decades and only watched clips from the Big Foot episode recently to prove to someone that that episode absolutely happened.
Veggyhed@reddit
Lol. I thoroughly enjoyed that show when I was a kid.
YousAPenguinLookinMF@reddit
Word. And the action figures.
Absotivly_Posolutly@reddit
Woah, Woah, Woah, WOAH!
Christmas Story Dad could change a tire like he was in the Indy 500! Certainly he’s qualified enough to lead NASA!
666ForMySorrow@reddit
Don't forget, he also won a major award!
MNVixen@reddit
Pippi-ki-yay@reddit (OP)
Well, that's a good point. I suspect his crippling addiction to turkey may have contributed to his poor choices.
Absotivly_Posolutly@reddit
Tryptophan is a helluva drug…
jeffnorris@reddit
I haven't watched that in forever
Techchick_Somewhere@reddit
That was the BEST SHOW!!!
DaddyOhMy@reddit
I'd run in slow motion to show off how fast I could run (and of course the music was playing in my head).
WhoMe28332@reddit
To 8yo me Oscar Goldman was the coolest MFer who ever lived.
Bobby_Globule@reddit
The exploding briefcase. Enough said.
Significant_Bet_2195@reddit
I remember running back to the house when 6 MDM was about to come on.
CADmonkeez@reddit
He only had one bionic leg as well and they never explained why he didn't just hop in super-speed.
What a jerk
daryen83@reddit
He had both legs. However, they only went up to the top of his thigh. How did his normal human hips and hip muscles manage this super speed? It doesn't work.
Same with the arm. The shoulder was normal. His supposed strength would have no leverage. Sure, his hand might be a vise grip, but his lifting power would be normal.
Lesson: don't think too hard; just enjoy the stories!
Starkville@reddit
This made me LOL.
Pippi-ki-yay@reddit (OP)
Oh no, my friend he had TWO bionic legs! Plus the arm and eye.
slade797@reddit
Or run very fast in a circlr
infinitynull@reddit
I used to make my mom drive the car at 60 miles per hour so I could look out the window and imagine I was running that fast.
SunflowerIslandQueen@reddit
😆