When I was a kid I once had surgery and this was on in the background in the hospital room and so for some reason the audio got stuck in my head and would replay itself over and over for months afterwards. It was the episode where they go to Russia, and for some reason this subliminally made me want to learn how to speak the Russian language, though nothing ever came of that.

Something about the applause at the end strikes me as sarcastic and patronizing.

This lasted five years?

Under the category of "Television executives think children like to watch fictional children to mundane things that said real children have to begrudgingly do every day, and then sell it like it's edgy and exciting".

If there weren't phasers or space ships, I really wasn't interested. I probably still am not.

So it was "Welcome Back Kotter" with everything good drained from it?

Besides scamming (and getting beat up by) Mike Tyson, I think that this is the only job Robin Givens ever had.