Description: The title of the show was a play on the 1960s Hippie culture "love-ins" or the Counterculture "be-ins", terms derived from the "sit-ins" common in protests associated with civil rights and antiwar demonstrations of the time. In the pilot episode, Dan Rowan explained the show's approach: "Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to television's first Laugh-In. Now for the past few years, we have all been hearing an awful lot about the various 'ins'. This is a laugh-in and a laugh-in is a frame of mind.
