History YMMV / RowanAndMartinsLaughIn

** Richard Crenna at the end of season four playing a commanding officer overseeing Alan Sues' lesser army character in a sketch foreshadows him playing Col. Sam Trautman in the ''Rambo'' films, as well.

** Charles Fleischer would later be known for playing a very screwy rabbit in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', but in season six's 17th episode he was first seen literally playing different sink pipes and hoses.

* SeasonalRot: The series suffered this in the '70s after many of its notable cast members left (Judy Carne, Jo Anne Worley, Creator/GoldieHawn, Arte Johnson, Henry Gibson, Alan Sues) and its once-cutting edge style quickly became dated. By its final season it was incorporating more traditional variety show elements in-between the rapid fire comedy.

* SeasonalRot: The series suffered this in the '70s after many of its notable cast members left (Judy Carne, Jo Anne Worley, Creator/GoldieHawn, Arte Johnson, Henry Gibson, Alan Sues) and its once-cutting edge style [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny quickly became dated]]. By its final season it was incorporating more traditional variety show elements in-between the rapid fire comedy.
* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: The show's rapid-fire humor and SmashCut pacing were groundbreaking in its day, but will probably seem downright stodgy to subsequent generations who've grown up with an entire pop culture immersed in that style. (And that's not even counting the dated topical content.)

** Johnny Brown portrayed an NBC news anchor for season four's 9th episode about the news, possibly predating Lester Holt's rise to the main anchor spot in NBC Nightly News by 50 years.

** Dick Martin mentions a ''Dr. Evil'' in the last episode of season four, which a certain [[Film/AustinPowers man of mystery]] would know.

* HarsherInHindsight:
** From their Cocktail Party segment: Judy Carne is kissing Robert Culp but doesn't know who he is. Robert gives her a hint by mentioning his ''Series/ISpy'' costar Creator/BillCosby, but Judy mistakes him for Music/BingCrosby by singing his song "White Christmas". Since then, the joke took on a whole new meaning.

** After two seasons, Judy Carne, who was married to Creator/BurtReynolds (1963-1965) and Robert Bergmann (1970-1971), in no small part due to being the show's primary ButtMonkey, was very tired of being the "Sock It To Me" girl and coupled with a few incidents of irascible fans dousing her with water off-show, decided that the show had become "a big, bloody bore", leaving at the end of season two while guesting in season three and appeared less often. Both of her marriages were childless and ended in divorce. In 1978, she was involved in a car accident with her second husband and recovered from a broken neck. She was later arrested for heroin possession, and in 1985, she released her autobiography ''Laughing on the Outside, Crying on the Inside: The Bittersweet Saga of the Sock-It-To-Me Girl'', chronicling her drug addictions, her failed marriage to Burt Reynolds, and her bisexuality.
** Dennis Allen did not fare much better himself, as after the show had ended he fell victim to his own drug addictions before returning to Kansas City and becoming a RecoveredAddict with religious help, settling down and spending the rest of his years there.

* SeasonalRot: The series suffered this in the '70s after many of its notable cast members left (Judy Carne, Jo Anne Worley, Creator/GoldieHawn, Arte Johnson, Henry Gibson, Alan Sues) and its once-cutting edge style [[WereStillRelevantDammit quickly became dated]]. By its final season it was incorporating more traditional variety show elements in-between the rapid fire comedy.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: From their Cocktail Party segment: Judy Carne is kissing Robert Culp but doesn't know who he is. Robert gives her a hint by mentioning his ''Series/ISpy'' costar Creator/BillCosby. Judy then mistakes him for Music/BingCrosby by singing his song "White Christmas". That joke since takes on a whole new meaning lately.

* In her guest appearance in season one, Creator/SallyField holds an Oscar and thanks the Academy, about a decade before [[Film/NormaRae she won an actual Oscar for Best Actress]].

** Charles Fleischer would later be known for playing a very screwy rabbit in ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'', but in season six's 17th episode he was first seen literally playing different sink pipes and hoses.

* SeasonalRot: The series suffered this in the '70s after many of its notable cast members left, such as Judy Carne, Jo Anne Worley, Goldie Hawn, Arte Johnson, Henry Gibson, and Alan Sues, and its once-cutting edge style [[WereStillRelevantDammit quickly became dated]]. By its final season it was incorporating more traditional variety show elements in-between the rapid fire comedy.