Fun fact: both Slappy and I lived, at one point or another, in Cincinnati, Ohio.  (Fun fact II: we both moved away).  Cincinnati is known as the “Queen City.”  Home to its own kind of chili, flying pigs, decent beer, and a bitchin’ late-90s karaoke scene.  Also the town to which Mark Twain reportedly said he would move in the event of national disaster, because “everything there happens 10 years late.”

And for a smallish metropolis, Cincinnati has had two TV shows named after it.  The successful 70s sitcom, WKRP in Cincinnati, home to Loni Anderson, Howard Hessmann, and others.  Also, the ill-fated, short-lived, Luke Perry HBO vehicle John From Cincinnati. (John wasn’t).

So speaking of that first, more successful TV show, a low-rent TV station in the Queen City - WBQC TV - has changed its call letters (on an honorary basis only) to WKRP.  It’s a gimmick, it’s a stunt, it’s pretty lame considering the last episode of WKRP aired in 1982.  Not to mention that the real WKRP was a radio station and this is television.  Formally a UPN affiliate, WBQC now shows Matlock and Cops reruns in prime time.

But hey, it’s a sh*tty economy.  People have to try something for recognition.

Watch out for falling turkeys,

Lucy Glib

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