Hello and welcome to Why is Mr. Feeneakar? This millennial's secret banana splitting,

Dirty Safari tripping, underage wine sipping guide to the very special episodes of yesteryear.

I'm Jay McCain with me as a Ron Hubbard how you doing

a Ron I'm do I'm doing good this is this is a very very special episode this is this is some this is some rough choppy waters we're motoring out into Jay.

We are navigating some choppy waters indeed. I'm in chalk a little bit. If you are a

gen exer or an elder millennial there's no fucking way you don't know about this

episode the bicycle man of different strokes the

smash TV hit from the late 70s early 80s this perhaps be season 5

episode 16 and 17.

Too much special for just one episode.

And I will say this, all jokes aside, I think this is one of the more successful very special

episodes. I don't know if it succeeds as a sitcom, but I think it does a pretty good job at putting down things for people to pick up.

I agree I don't want to spoil anything but on that basic premise yes I agree with you.

You know this is well yeah we'll we'll get into it if you if you

don't know if you haven't been scarred by this episode or perhaps preventively

vaccinated by this episode.

The subject matter will become clear over time.

I gotta know, is this the first time you've been exposed to different strokes?

As far as I can tell, I'm sure I've watched an episode or two of it in the past when I was a kid, just channel surfing.

But this is the first time I've sat down and like purposely watched an episode from start to finish.

Yeah, this is, uh, this is, this show came from the Norman Lear brain trust.

Uh, Norman Lear's name is this incredibly kind of progressive showrunner, producer.

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