YMMV / Barney Miller S 7 E 17

• Harsher in Hindsight: Mr. Corbett is leaving the office in a pretty excited mood after learning that he might get to fly the shuttle after all. Dietrich, being a troll who loves to screw with people, says "And listen, don't worry about the tiles." He then explains that the thermal protection tiles are vulnerable to falling off and that "a few critically placed tiles" could fall off and cause the destruction of the whole spacecraft from the heat of re-entry. This actually happened on February 1, 2003. And if that's not good enough, it was Columbia, the spacecraft that made the first launch two weeks after this episode, that blew up 22 years later due to broken insulation tiles, killing seven astronauts.