 Rogers continued to confer with McFarland about child development and early childhood education, however.In 1979, after an almost five-year hiatus, Rogers returned to producing the "Neighborhood"; King calls the new version "stronger and more sophisticated than ever".King writes that by the program's second run in the 1980s, it was "such a cultural touchstone that it had inspired numerous parodies", most notably Eddie Murphy's parody on "Saturday Night Live" in the early 1980s.