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Some information about this episode

Our heroes didn’t actually visit a historical event, but I thought I’d point out most of the 80s references featured in this episode.

The A-Team

867-5309 Jenny – Tommy Tutone (some interesting facts about the “real” phone number at that link)

(Keep Feeling) Fascination – The Human League

Don’t You Want Me – The Human League

Jeopardy – The Greg Kihn Band

Manimal

Diff’rent Strokes (Nancy Reagan appears in a “Very Special Episode“)

Crimson and Clover – Joan Jett & the Blackhearts

Rick Springfield

Parachute Pants (Mistakenly referred to as Parachute Pants, they are really “Hammer Pants”)

“Flashdance”

“Staying Alive”

Ms. Pac-Man

Galaga

Olivia Newton-John

Mirror Mission

We talk about Wyatt’s plan to steal the Lifeboat to change history in order to stop the murder of his wife, and how it almost literally copies the way Flynn started his mission in the show’s pilot. All the way down to the scene where Wyatt fake-forces Rufus into the time-pod for the cameras sake.

I mention how I learned how to watch television from the TV show Farscape, and it’s 100% true. I can’t talk that show up enough – I highly recommend it if you’re looking for a show to binge and enjoy Sci-Fi. That show, start to finish, was an elaborate story – and it contained a lot of symbolism and brilliant directing.

The R-Dad

We’ve started calling the “R-Dude” the “R-Dad” for reasons that are apparent. Lucy sees a picture of the guy behind the team’s manipulation, and she knows him as her father. She confronts him near the end of the episode, and his response is enigmatic and fairly sinister. We can’t wait to see how things progress with this dynamic, and what this means for Lucy and Rufus.

A Strange Bruhl

Anthony decides that he’s gone as far as he can go with Flynn, and he wants to put an end to Flynn’s madness. It doesn’t seem to matter that he hasn’t really fleshed out his plan, but he recruits Lucy to help him – at gunpoint – and then he goes off to do it by himself. *headtilt*

Oh Anthony… Flynn has a new pilot. Have you not learned ANYTHING from all those genre shows on which Matt Frewer has starred? tsk tsk. Expiration date anyone? Although it is a time-travel show. Dead doesn’t necessarily mean dead.

On March 19

“Return of the Swallow”, annual observance of the swallows‘ return to Mission San Juan Capistrano in California.

1918 – The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.

1931 – Gambling is legalized in Nevada.

1941 – World War II: The 99th Pursuit Squadron also known as the Tuskegee Airmen, the first all-black unit of the US Army Air Corps, is activated.

1954 – Willie Mosconi sets a world record by running 526 consecutive balls without a miss during a straight pool exhibition at East High Billiard Club in Springfield, Ohio. The record still stands today.

1962 – Highly influential artist, Bob Dylan releases his first album, Bob Dylan, for Columbia Records.

1979 – The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.

1987 – Televangelist Jim Bakker resigns as head of the PTL Club due to a brewing sex scandal; he hands over control to Jerry Falwell.

2008 – GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed.

Notable Births:

1813 – David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and explorer

1821 – Richard Francis Burton, English soldier, geographer, and diplomat

1848 – Wyatt Earp, American police officer

1860 – William Jennings Bryan, American lawyer and politician, 41st United States Secretary of State

1891 – Earl Warren, American lieutenant, jurist, and politician, 14th Chief Justice of the United States

1894 – Moms Mabley, American comedian, actress, and singer

1900 – Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (Husband to Irène Joliot-Curie, daughter of Marie & Pierre Curie)

1916 – Irving Wallace, American journalist, author, and screenwriter

1928 – Patrick McGoohan, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (The Prisoner, Braveheart)

1933 – Renée Taylor, American actress, producer, and screenwriter (The Nanny)

1936 – Ursula Andress, Swiss model and actress

1947 – Glenn Close, American actress, singer, and producer

1952 – Harvey Weinstein, American director and producer, co-founded Miramax Films and The Weinstein Company

1955 – Bruce Willis, American actor and producer

1958 – Andy Reid, American football player and coach

Notable Deaths:

235 – Severus Alexander, Roman emperor

1238 – Henry the Bearded, Polish son of Bolesław I the Tall

1914 – Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian priest, geologist, and volcanologist

1930 – Arthur Balfour, Scottish-English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1942 – Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist, ornithologist, and entomologist

1950 – Edgar Rice Burroughs, American soldier and author

2005 – John DeLorean, American engineer and businessman, founded the DeLorean Motor Company

2008 – Arthur C. Clarke, British science fiction writer

2008 – Paul Scofield, English actor

2014 – Fred Phelps, American lawyer, pastor, and activist, founded the Westboro Baptist Church

2014 – Robert S. Strauss, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Russia

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