I've been watching old episodes of Moonlighting lately. For the most part, this 24-year old show holds up amazingly well. For the most part. And then Bruce Willis wrestles with an evil scientist who's holding a laser, causing the laser beam to lurch around the room and make everything spark and smoke.
We also have that great mainstay of the 70s and 80s Mad Scientist Laboratory: the mainframe! With the panel of endlessly blinking lights! Where the blinking pattern never changes, so you know it's a really powerful computer thingie!
I tried to remember what we all thought those lights were for, but I couldn't.