In one episode “Cousin Patty”, tired of falling short next to her smarter, more sophisticated doppelganger, resolved that her kids, at least, would not suffer a similar fate. So she set out to snare the smartest boy in her high school. In one scene, she was impressed and delighted to hear one of the handsome jocks holding forth on matters scientific—until she learned that what he knew he got from reading comics books. She abandoned her pursuit of him in disgust.

“But he still knows what he knows,” I wailed at the TV.

I still feel the sting sixty years later!

Because of Stan I thought transistors were a power source and there was a mysterious “blue area” on the Moon.

Because of comics I spent many years thinking “cavemen” and dinosaurs existed at the same time.

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Yes, that would have been hilarious for the eight people who got it.