In the old days, we would ls /usr/bin/ (sic,
there are several locations defined for apps) and either look at the man page (if it existed) for the items we saw, or just run the commands with a --help option to figure out what they did
It was so rarely funny though. I watched a few episodes and there was just nothing. No characters, nothing funny, no exciting plot... I just never came back.
As opposed to something like Community.
I think it was "having a good laugh at Samantha "