Yes! Different Strokes did premier in 1978.

THE FUGITIVE GUY's Chris Elliott (new window)

BECK (at 2:23, new window)

STEWIE (new window)

I can't believe I haven't seen this before.

Wow, that really is the greatest moment of TV history.

The delivery of "Imissmywife" cracks me up every time.

It's as if someone videotaped the Sermon on the Mount.

William Shatner has been, is now, and shall be again.

Ninja_Pancakes: I can't believe I haven't seen this before.

Wow, that really is the greatest moment of TV history.

I didn't know it was possible to have not seen that video.

That. Was. AWESOME!

and by "awesome" I mean horrible.

Zap Brannigan applauds.

Janet Jackson's boobie?

Never saw that before...

Now I know what Stewie Griffin was doing on "Family Guy"

awesomeness

In defense of the era, most people were drunk or stoned back then...

Was that intended to be funny or serious?

I thot it was going to be the Johnny Carson hatchet-throw.

.

Ugh, stupid nanny filter. Anyone care to recap?

Dagamon: Ugh, stupid nanny filter. Anyone care to recap?

It's Shatner doing "Rocketman" kind of like beat poetry.

YouTube banned at work, but I'm going to go ahead and guess that it's Shatner doing "Rocket Man." Am I right?

ZOMG he was SMOKING on TV !!!111
/never saw that before

Somehow I knew before I clicked the link what you were talking about, subby.

/Then there's this:
The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins

Did the Fonz jump the shark? DNRTFA

Sigh ... guess I should refresh before posting.


/I'm a rock-et MAN
/In fact it's ... cold as Hell

Whisky.Tango.Foxtrot.


Pain...PAIN!

Sorry Subby, Reagan being shot was was less than 30 years ago.

yes, if by "the greatest moment in the history of televised entertainment" you mean horrifically painful to watch. And yet, it IS full of WIN!

How is it the audience isn't laughing him off the stage? Oh, wait, that's right, they were all high too.

terrible

And.......I........wannabeeeee.......hiiiiigh

Mars ain't no place to raise a kid, in fact it's cold as hell

'Rocket Man' has really bad lyrics.

Who else was afraid of a rickroll?

Watching this must be unbearable for Mr. Shatner. That REALLY sucked.

The Macintosh ad was in 1984. Who's that guy?

/No you can't be in the next movie, not yours.

Denny Crane!

Karen Black, wow what an obscure reference

Who's the man? That's right Bill is the man.

I love the producer's 70s sunglasses at night look. Who, me, coked up? Nahhhhh...

DamnYankees: Ninja_Pancakes: I can't believe I haven't seen this before.

Wow, that really is the greatest moment of TV history.

I didn't know it was possible to have not seen that video.

I thought it was just something you knew from birth... like the Konami code.

Wow. I don't know if I can watch it all.

rocinante721: THE FUGITIVE GUY's Chris Elliott (new window)

Nice. I've never seen that before.

Goldmaniac: Never saw that before...

Now I know what Stewie Griffin was doing on "Family Guy"

awesomeness

Was gonna say the same thing. Pretty obscure reference.

Exactly 30 years ago, the greatest moment in the history of televised entertainment was broadcast

You FAIL subby.

THIS was the greatest moment in TV history:

What the heck was he smoking, a wet newspaper? It was just billowing clouds of something...

I always assumed that was a tape of something that never aired or a complete joke.

It's even funnier that it wasn't a joke.

NYRBill: ZOMG he was SMOKING on TV !!!111
/never saw that before

Don't worry...he's not inhaling.

/seriously

I'm with Savage Belief. Will Farrell. Walken. Cow Bell. Easily the greatest moment in TV history. Hands down.

lao18503: How is it the audience isn't laughing him off the stage? Oh, wait, that's right, they were all high too.

This was the norm back then. Yes, most everybody was on something. If you think that was sappy, check out Lee Majors' singing (new window)

Ali_the_Cat: I'm with Savage Belief. Will Farrell. Walken. Cow Bell. Easily the greatest moment in TV history. Hands down.

It isn't THAT funny.

CaptainHairdo: Janet Jackson's boobie?

30 years ago Ms Jackson would have been 12.

I don't think her boobies were much to speak of then.

Karen Black, Bernie Taupin and The Shat!

Watching that clip, one gets the sense that LA in the late 70's had to have been one of the best places in history to live.

/so long as you were coked to the gills.

Actually, the greatest moment was broadcast closer to 30 months + 30 weeks + 30 days ago. Late September of 2004.

LOST premiere.

Without doing the math, 30 years was quite a few years ago!

I was ten when that happened. Rocket Man was one of my favorite songs at the time. I could have been scarred for life had I seen and heard that performance. Still, it's better than the time a record store played Golden Throats.