Stuff I didn't study for, unless you count learning how to code in Assembly, which I've never used. Mostly Teradata SQL & Microsoft VBA, a little MySQL. Might get a shot at GCP.
I was actually surprised to find out that the show originated from Minn. My guess is that they must have pulled in WGN 9 out of Chicago over the air, 'cause there was no way that they would have known all those otherwise.
Yeah, I remember it. But a lot of the stuff I remember was local & involved phone numbers where they used 2 letters at the beginning. Like "Call MO-hawk four-four one hundred, C E T for television". Part of the reason the early MST3K was fun to watch, they had many of the same commercials in their references.
Lots of them. Soda, beer, frozen foods, cigarettes (on tv), drag strips ("SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY!") - all sorts of stuff when I was a little kid in the 60s.
As someone who's been in retail since the late 60s, I can assure you that I can imagine.
Fun fact - Montgomery Wards also sold houses around the same time, and in the never ending battle to one up Sears, they named one of the house kits, "The Kenmore".