Here’s something interesting from B-Side to mull over before Heroes comes back on the air: series creator Tim Kring might have pulled more than a few little tricks from a previous NBC sci-fi series.

Not only that, but the sci-fi series in question was hilariously odd, including a musical number that turns into a firefight and some sort of confused silver astronaut guy.

Allow us to (re?)introduce the 1985 NBC series Misfits of Science. Keep an eye out for familiar faces and slogans:

Did you catch it? What the old man said to the tiny black man at the beginning?The show centered around a group of young, attractive people with supernatural powers, one of which was Courtney Cox, and this particular episode uses the tag phrase of: “Save Adele, save the world.”

That, of course, an eerily familiar echo of Heroes’ “Save the cheerleader, save the world.”

What makes this all more than happenstance is Tim Kring once served as a writer on Misfits of Science.

This might be the coolest thing we’ve read all day, and puts an interesting thought up in the old noggins.

Though if Peter Patrelli tells Claire he’s “givin’ the crew cuts a concert,” that’ll be a dead giveaway.