You're confusing "delayed gratification" with "laying in wait"

I won't lie to you, Internet.  I am watching Galactica 1980 as I type this.
I don't know what it was like watching sci-fi anywhere else in the world when you were young, but here in Northern Ireland, it was pretty much repeats of tosh from the 1970s like that Dukes Of Hazzard one with the robot, Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers, maybe short bursts of UFO or Space 1999 here and there - it was generally pretty barren in terms of genre fare, but for some reason Galactica 1980 was a popular show among my peers, but not the first season.  I am reasonably sure this was due to a combination of the flying bikes and brain damage.