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Hey, it's Mike Waters.
What are my favorite days this morning?
Throwback Thursday, and we were talking about the most impactful TV moments.
My dad, who was in Vietnam, he told all our kids, my brother and my sister, that he's had a surprise for us on the last episode of MASH.
Yeah.
And so we're all sitting downstairs waiting.
I was 10 at the time.
My brother was eight, but just for a six.
And he come downstairs in his army uniform.
And I'll have kids being 10, eight, and six.
We go, what's the surprise, Dad?
Darn kids.
But he was he was really proud of that.
Have you ever seen him in his uniform?
So what did he say when you didn't quite understand what the surprise was?
Well now
you know how great that surprise was putting on his army uniform to watch the last episode of match with his kids.
I think that's awesome.
I remember growing up, I was watching Dallas with my parents,
and
Who Shot JR was big in our house.
And I remember everybody talking about it.
Yeah, what was it?
Summer of 1980, I think.
It was everywhere.
Because you had to wait the entire summer until the next season to find out Who Shot JR.
And there were Who Shot JR t-shirts and buttons.
Talk about a
pot.
Everybody wanted him dead.
Yeah, everybody did.
I think the only one who wasn't a suspect was JR himself.
Great man JR Ewing.
He was a very positive role model for Little Mikey Waters back in 1980.
Yes, Mr. Waters.
Hello.
Good morning.
Good morning to you.
Impactful TV event.
Yes.
I think I have three that might be on the list.
Okay, let's hear them.
Retired teacher here.
So I'm pretty sure that 9-11, I was teaching that day.
I remember it was absolutely something to watch the class.
Second of all, the moon landing.
And as a young child, I can remember very distinctly the events of John Kennedy's assassination.
The moon landing number
Number one, World Trade Center 9-11, the live coverage of the terrorist attacks.
That is number two, and Kennedy is number five, so you got three of the top five.
Were you a history teacher?
Actually, I taught special education, but I really liked history a lot.
I'm a big history buff myself, but yeah, good job on three of the top five.
I thank you for calling.
Thank you.
The last episode of Do Heart, and it was all a dream.
And he woke up in his
Previous television show, which was brilliant.
Yeah, it was off.
Yeah, it was one of the most brilliant moments in TV.
That was great.
you.
How impactful it was when they aired the miniseries route.
Extremely impactful.
That was number four on the list.
The whole series, the whole miniseries.
You know, you learn about it in school, a lot of the books, but just see it.
Yeah.
just the most horrifying thing
right and for the author Alex Haley his family had gone through it so he had done all of this research on his family learning his roots and came up with all of that so true to life and horrifying I still remember I was like 12 I don't know how old you were but I
think I was I was trying to think I think I was in about sixth grade
yeah
and I feel like every household watching it and then we would talk about it in school the next day the episode
the show
was supposed to air once a week.
ABC didn't think it'd be successful, and they just wanted to get it out of the way.
Yeah.
We
were just talking about that, so I thought I'd call.
They shuttle challenger.
Oh, if you were around then, how could you possibly forget that image of it blowing up shortly after the takeoff?
Yeah.
And knowing the teacher was on board.
Right,
Kristen McCullough, I think is.
Yeah.
Yep.
And that's not in the top 10.
Wow.
of people including myself were watching it live and it was oh my god
yeah we watched it live like we're sitting there in sixth grade and wow yeah
yeah I think we were watching it in class as well because it was such a big moment that we were watching the launch and then you saw it explodes like oh my god there was just uh it just took all the air out of the room mouth hanging wide open you would think that'd be in the top 10 I'm sure it's
the 75 somewhere.
I'm gonna try, I'm gonna find the whole list and check it.
But
for me,
I was sitting in front of the television and I watched it.
Yeah.
And for me, that's the most impactful.
I saw it later, probably when I was a teenager.
Oh my god, that was on live television.
Yeah, right.
Okay, and I don't know if somebody heard it, Steph, but it still cracks me up.
The episode of Carol Burnett, the gone with the wind when she comes down the steps with the curtains on her
I just
saw it in the window and I couldn't resist.
You know, it's one of those episodes.
still still does today when they'll replay it on something and I just Well,
yeah The first funny part is the visual I mean she sees the curtains and then she has this idea and then she comes out and there's the curtain rod You know sticking out from her from her shoulders and and that was great all by itself But when she said I just saw in the window I remember the audience laughed and laughed and laughed and
laughed
And how they could keep a straight face with something like that just.
They gathered, it was kind of a last minute surprise thing too that she came up with.
That even makes it funnier that the rest of the cast members of that kind of did get a little bit of a surprise
there.
It
was
awesome.
Went with the Wind was the name of the parody.
Went with the Wind.
Obviously you liked it too.
I did.
That was actually one I had thought of originally because I remember seeing that when it was on.
and I remember how hard I laughed and everybody laughed because everybody knows the expression.
I just saw it in the window.
So I was just, it was brilliant.
It was.
Good morning, Mike.
How are you?
Who is
this?
You be
careful.
It is.
I'm sorry.
I know.
Do you have a bit of a thing going on?
What's happening?
Are you going through puberty?
No.
The voice seems a little...
Deeper, like Peter from the Brady Bunch.
Oh, I see.
Should I sing for you then?
Yes, please.
When it's time to change.
Oh, my
goodness.
How you
doing?
I'm
good.
How are you doing?
And we got to figure you out first.
What's happening with you?
I was really through you.
There is a different quality to your voice that I had to I had to ask because I didn't want to say somebody else Hey, it's Gary from Dicer.
No, this is Marge because you kind of sound like a Marge today.
Oh
goodness.
Yeah, sorry.
That's
alright.
A little bit under the weather, but I'm actually on the upside of it.
So we're doing good.
All right.
Well, I hope that clears up, but let's talk about most impactful moment.
Well, there's two of them and of course everybody has brought up Carol Burnett because it's just been, I mean, it doesn't matter really what scene you played.
was all that was funny.
It was hilarious.
Amazing, amazing team and amazing show for sure, but...
The one that always sticks out in my mind is all in the family.
Oh.
With Archie and Sammy
David Jr.
The main kiss on the lips.
Was it on the lips?
It was on the lips.
Oh, it was on the cheek.
Big old kiss.
No, I think it was on the cheek.
I think it was too, because I think Archie had turned his head and then Sammy planted one.
I always thought that was just hilarious.
And of course,
The generation now would be totally offended, but that's what made it so funny is because...
Because Archie was who he was.
That's all you need to say.
Yeah, it was
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