Why Kim Richards Will Always Be Awesome

And why her sister Kyle is just a "hater"
(as the Young People Of Today like to say).

Kim was in both seasons of NBC's spectacular drek called Hello, Larry.

Yes, McLean Stevenson left M*A*S*H* to do this show.
(I would say "fire your agent," but I hate M*A*S*H*, so in my book, this was the right career move.)






As you can see, the two seasons are quite different. Between them, the show underwent quite a retooling.

The swapped out The Funny Fat Guy for The Funny Old Guy.

They added a bratty kid and Meadowlark Lemon to the cast.

And the dark-haired sister was recast because Donna Wilkes, the original, was caught with a pocket full of 'ludes on the L.A. party circuit. Her replacement was Krista Errickson, best known for playing Cinder in 1980's Little Darlings.

Kim Richards, you are awesome. You are always one of the shiniest of stars here at ATOTW.

This Early Seventies PSA Just Makes Me Want To Do Drugs Even More

I mean, isn't the point of this clip that drugs will cause you to star in your own super-groovy episode of Scooby Doo, along with Mama Cass and The Harlem Globetrotters?

Or Don Knotts? Or Jerry Reed?



Christ, I need a Scooby Snack. Where's the peppermint bark (get it? bark? Scooby Doo was a dog? No?) I bought the other day?

From 1977: Tootsie Rolls Extolled As An Effective Antidepressant And Possible Mild Hallucinogen

Sing along, Seventies Kids! I know you know every word to this jingle!

And okay, was there ANY facet to our shared existence in The Seventies where drug use did not play a significant role? Even something as innocuous as Tootsie Rolls, possibly the most delicious of all Halloween treats, was advertised with cartoon children tripping out on chocolaty goodness, seeing airplanes and tree trunks and even an errant whale in a lake turning into Tootsie Rolls!

"The world looks mighty good to me...I'll claim it's the Tootsie Rolls that I am eating, but it's really because of the two Quaaludes I stole from my big sister's purse this morning before I left for school..."

Edited to add: look at the slogan at the very end of the commercial, with the sort-of Lincoln Log structure of Tootsie Rolls. How times have changed. I think that the intention was for it to read as if someone was making a "yummy" noise, and then excitedly mentioning that "it's from Tootsie Roll." Instead, I initially read it with a Chandler Bing-type sarcastic bent. "Ummm...it's from Tootsie Roll (you moron)?!!?"

"A Sleep-Through Night." And The Following Morning. And The Afternoon.

A fantastic double-clicker, this one.

From 1971.