YMMV / Barney Miller S 6 E 16

• Harsher in Hindsight: Deitrich suggests turning Mr. Vogel's illicit arsenal over to the Afghans to evict the Soviet invaders^note The episode was written and filmed in the shadow of the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which ended up being a 10-year quagmire analogous to the US' involvement in Vietnam. When the US did something similar in Real Life it... turned out messy.