This is the next best thing to being able to go back in time and spend a day in sixth grade again.

What strikes me while watching is that I remember MTV being the network that launched the "second British Invasion" where at one point during 1983, more than half of the tracks on the US Top 40 were by non-US artists, which I don't think has happened before or since. You never knew what kind of crazy thing you were going to see, they seemed just desperate to fill 24 hours a day with content. But here, all I see is white, American meat-and-potatoes rock, albeit with loads of synthesizer and hairspray. Maybe it depended what time of day you were watching.

Anyone know where in the country this was taped? I've been watching for local cable commercials that would tip that off, but so far nothing.

Really entertaining. My favorite moment, outside of Jackie Gleason's and Carol Channing's antics, is when Richard Kiel, future James Bond and Superman II villain, is grabbing random people during the prison-wide LSD trip, saying, "Loretta! ... you ain't Loretta... Loretta!..."