Didja Know? A Tongue in Cheek Look at Pop Culture

Everyone's got a head full of useless information.  For some, it's knowing about every nuance of the history of postage stamps.  Big yawn, I know - unless you're a philatelist (just fancy speak for stamp collector).  A guy I used to work with at the IRS was a stereoscopic photographer and knew all about the technology made famous by View Master Reels.  But that's the fun of living in a world filled with so many things - there's something trivial for almost everyone to get passionate about.

Here are just some of the things I take pride in knowing . . . . 

Didja know that the first time the Wonder Woman character appeared on television in any format (live action or animated) was as a guest star on the Brady Bunch's Saturday morning cartoon, "The Brady Kids"?  In a great twist on the classic Marcia, Marcia, Marcia rivalry between the two oldest Brady girls, Marcia believes brawn is more important than brain but Jan believes brain is more important than brawn.  Wonder Woman's belief in both (expressed simplistically as the brain being more important to secret identity Diana Prince and the brawn being more important to the star-spangled super-amazon) brings the Brady girls to a truce.  

Oh and all this takes place after the Brady's magical minah bird has accidentally transported the whole gang and Wonder Woman to ancient Greece at the site of the first Olympics.  Trippy stuff.  And they did these wacky guest shots with Superman and the Long Ranger as well.  Actually, the Superman and Wonder Woman guest shots and the Batman guest shots on "The New Scooby Doo Movies" at around the same time was really ABC testing the waters for the "Superfriends" which debuted a year later.

Didja know that Richie Cunningham's brother, Chuck, who disappaered and was never mentioned again on "Happy Days" after the first season was played by two actors, and the second one played a drunk factory security guard and foil for Clark Kent in 1983's "Superman III".