Gene Gene the Dancing Machine

Making every teenager check the locks before going to sleep.

And don't even get me started on The Gong Show, where Chuck Beres created a world where a stagehand named Gene Gene the Dancing Machine could save a terrible performance just by jiving to a tune.

Throw in Johnny Carson making late night television his personal living room and Star Trek beaming us up into a future of miniskirts and intergalactic relationships and you have yourself the recipe for pure comedy.

You weren't as funny as you were before, but that's okay, Veronica.