Revisiting WKRP

Watching syndicated reruns of classic TV is always an exercise in nostalgia, but WKRP in Cincinnati provides a particular dilemma: the usage rights for a great deal of its background, incidental and occasionally plot-specific music evaporated, and rather than pay royalties, many of the episodes had sections redubbed, occasionally awfully, at least a few times to incomprehensibility. (This is the only reason I don't own the show on DVD; I thought the show was entertaining and implausible until I lived through it a few times.)

So I thought I'd catch up on some old friends, catch a few episodes this weekend, see how the redubs and the simple passage of time have left these almost thirty-year-old relics. ( The Americanization of Ivan, In Concert, The Doctor's Daughter, Les' Groupie )

Picspam Classic, by-request edition with expanded felinity

I believe in the therapeutic power of picspam, and it's in that vein I unleash these. A bunch are probably repeats, but...meh, it's been a while. Bear with me. And cats, a metric buttload of cats. Ganked from a million different places and no, I don't remember where. ( 59 images -- ya rly -- below.... )

I got'cher series of tubes *right here*

Sen. Ted Stevens guilty of corruption charges. I confess surprise.