[hotpotamus]

I showed that episode to my mother (who is a fairly avid seamstress) and she commented that he really needed to clean his fingernails. In the afterword he's added to his modern uploads of those episodes (which was fabulous of him to take on) he mentions that he received many letters telling him the same back when it originally aired.

[georgesimon]

Like he says, the sewing machine was the first machine that entered the home. It was at the forefront of a changing world. It probably changed his viewership in new and unexpected ways too!