One of my favorite threads here was when the always insightful Gerard posted a thread on disasters that Barnabas and Dr. Hoffman
might have prevented during their brief sojourn from PT 1970 to the year 1995.
I think that Gerard suggested Mr. B. and Dr. H. might have spared us all from such unpopular things as HMOs and the singing career, albeit brief as it actually was, of Roger Clinton. (I believe I suggested the futile hope that Barnabas and Dr. Hoffman might have also prevented the dawn of disco music, shortly after "Dark Shadows" left the air in 1971. Thank God that we never got to hear KC and the Sunshine Band, intoning "Disco Dark Shadows" on "The Midnight Special" with hosts Helen Reddy and "Wolfman" Jack!!!)
As to the recent sweeping congressional legislation, maybe the good Dr. Hoffman caught a glimpse of the somewhat voluminous bill when she and Barnabas were treading cautiously down (or up) Quentin I's Stairway-Through-Time?