Coneheads resemble Jonathan Ferro, "Late Philip J. Fry," episode, Tim White's illustrations of UFO pilots sculped in "Plascine", "Sixth Finger" episode, etc, "Science of Science Fiction" by Peter Nicholls and an article in "Science 82" published by American Association for Advancement of Science described how such scenarios became popular with a letter to the editor about American Popular Science fiction of comics and video. Being hairless with atrophied shriveled bones and muscles could allow me to avoid poverty causing sunlight.
"Ah, the evening meal. What has been prepared?" "Hunks of previously feathered flesh prepared in molten fat tissues of the same animal." "What?" "Fried chicken."
I have heard that this was a failed pilot for a saturday morning version. If they had been picked up I'm sure they would've dispensed with the consumption of the alcoholic consumables (stopped drinking beer!).And they would've canned the physical hormonal stimulation (stopped having sex!).
