When you watch reruns, the shows that are new to you are not necessarily the ones produced the most recently. What this means is that you can end up thinking Show A is really derivative of Show B, when in fact Show A is from a decade earlier. Impossible to fully untrain your brain to think this way.
I was having this at first regarding The Golden Girls …
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