We mostly know bitumen here in North America from all the times it seems to spill (like Nexen's spill in Fort McMurray this summer).

I wanted to add that only a decade-ish before this episode, Yukio Mishima had committed seppeku. Add to this the sudden rise of interest in Japanese subjects, like ninjas & samurai (possibly driven by the success of the SHOGUN mini-series the previous year), and the portrayal of Japanese people ...

I remember my Dad coming home with a Beta VCR around 1980, and we ended up renting a bunch of crappy movies from the local store and binge-watched them all in amazement (Lazerblast, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Flesh Gordon, and Kentucky Fried Movie stand out in my memory of that first weekend). N...

Another aside, Wing Chun is the martial art Bruce Lee studied before developing his own Jeet Kune Do. Bruce Lee was still a thing at the time, Game of Death having been released only a couple years earlier, and at least in my young man teen circles, this was a bit of what would later be known as an ...

Just as a note, I always assumed Rick's club kind of failed after reports of the owner gunning down a customer outside on the street with an Uzi. That kind of thing kind of kills business. And then Higgin's arranged for Rick to manage the Club Kamehameha to pay of the favour he owed. That's my head ...

Being alive and watching Magnum back when it first aired, I have vague memories of some of this. The Delta thing was kind of big around then, thanks to the botched rescue attempt of the Iran Hostages which was when we all first heard about Delta Force (who were involved). This was also around the ti...