Choices
June 6, 2012
“What you wanna watch now?” Billy Boy asked. “‘Real People’ or ‘WKRP?'”
“Either one. I don’t care.”
“Or there’s–” Billy fell silent as he tried to find his place in the television guide. When he finally found it, he read off the third choice, pronouncing it “Greatus Mercun Hee-ro.”
“You want that, huh, Head?” he asked.
“You decide.”
“That one is dumb, I think. The guy keeps forgettin’ how to fly. Christ, you’d think if a guy knew how to fly, he’d know how to fly. He wouldn’t keep forgettin’ it the way this asshole does.”
– Newton Thornburg, Dreamland (1983)
The Classic TV History Blog 
June 6, 2012 at 4:29 pm
Anyone who’d pass up WKRP in Cincinnati wouldn’t do much better on an I.Q. test than the “Greatus Mercun Hee-ro.”
June 6, 2012 at 7:40 pm
“As God is my witness I thought turkeys could fly”
Arthur C. Carlson, Great American
June 6, 2012 at 8:52 pm
I liked WKRP, but I’ve always thought people overrated it. It was a good show, but not THAT good. At the time (I was 11 or 12), I would’ve probably chosen Greatest American Hero.