Marta bought this movie for me on laserdisc
This is a quick effort by the fading Big Guy to rub the Dump's nose in yet another luxury he enjoyed that's beyond their means.
Laserdisc players came out in the late '70s and were very expensive, around $3000 in today's dollars.
They quickly disappeared with the huge success of VHS.
it's just another tiny part of why the Big Guy will leave his wife to an impoverished widowhood.
Some vestige of that laserdisc player's cost is probably still buried somewhere in the huge balance on one of the Big Guy's credit cards.