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On January 12th, 1997 the Simpsons aired its 10th episode of season 8, a crossover with fellow Fox network hit The X Files. Titled The Springfield Files, the episode includes an eyewitness news segment

where Ankerman Kent Brockman speaks with a man who woke up after 23 years in a coma.

Man, do Sunny and Cher still have that stupid show?

Kent Brockman. No, she won an Oscar and he's a congressman.

Man, good night! She won an Oscar and he's a congressman.

Man, good night!

The man then flatlines in his hospital bed and dies.

The scene would no doubt baffle Zoomers and millennials today, as it did to young Gen Xers in 1997.

All too young to experience the cultural ubiquity of the Sunny and Share Comedy Hour, a variety show that

aired from 1971 to 1974 and was briefly revived in

1976.

Hosted by Married Musical Act Sunny and Cher Bono, the series may have been corny and dismissed by

tastemakers, but it was popular with ordinary Americans and helped launch the

careers of young cast members Steve Martin and Super Dave Bob Einstein.

But Sunny and Cher might never have met in the first place if not for a candy shop.

In 1963, 16-year-old dropout Cheryl and Sarkizian was supporting herself working at a Los Angeles location of a chain chocolate store when she met 27 year old record executive bono.

Some accounts say as a customer, others say at a party, others still at a coffee shop double date.

But in all tellings, the recently separated Bono soon offered the teenager a new job as his live-in housekeeper, which she readily accepted.

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