Aykroyd once said in a 1978 interview (via The Tapes Archive) that the idea behind the “Coneheads” sketches partly came from his own curiosity about TV screen sizes. “I was intrigued by video.

Though the show is less of a TV-to-movie pipeline these days ... excitedly explain that Dan Aykroyd’s feature-length film Coneheads is pretty good, actually. In fact, as it happens, you ...