Veteran TV director John Rich (The Dick Van Dyke Show), who had the opportunity to work on the pilots of both shows, chose AITF because it was an extraordinary ?experiment,? particularly in its use of the language. This episode proved him right. ... Roger has just returned with pictures from a vacation in England (?a fag country,? Archie tells ?Meathead? Mike), and it looks like he's raided every shop on Carnaby Street. It's all too much for Archie, who's glad to get away ...
All I can do is feel the pain of it all wash past me. I don't know these boys, but I do. I know boys (and men who were once boys, and women who are now boys, and all kinds of ways to configure that sentence that defy gender and biology) ...