Yeah, The Love Boat went off the air when I had just turned 4; most of the syndication would have wrapped up before I was a teenager. I'm assuming that anyone younger than me won't recognize, but for older, it evokes a strong meaning. You can get away with doing that, like Sheriff Harry S. Truman in Twin Peaks. So it's a question of if I want to set up the cognitive dissonance and play with it, or just avoid it. I'm not seeing evidence of a Japanese release, so it's entirely possible no one in my group would know about it, but passengers would, it's L.A. after all. But it would be extra work for not much payoff, unless other people can think of jokes.
I have a wire-haired fox terrier named Shasta -- anyone from my grandparents' generation will pick up on the pun right away, but it goes over most people's heads (and they assume he's a bitch).
I have a wire-haired fox terrier named Shasta -- anyone from my grandparents' generation will pick up on the pun right away, but it goes over most people's heads (and they assume he's a bitch).
"Kitto daijoubu da yo." - Sakura Kinomoto