If kids don't know The Brady Bunch, how will they enjoy the deep cultural nuance of Beastie Boys lyrics, "like Sam the Butcher bringing Alice the meat?"
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I hate to tell you another thing that the kids don't know
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That's actually an interesting prompt: What shows from older generations were core parts of your childhood. I was mainly thinking ones introduced by parents but if that's too thorny it can be something you just happened to get hooked on
For me it was Thunderbirds, my parents loved this show and introduced it to me at a young age. It has obviously aged poorly in several ways, but it offered thrills in a unique presentation and had an altruistic message about helping others.
Scooby Doo, the Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry, Hanna Barbara stuff (which even as a kid I thought didn't measure up), and other cartoons were ancient by the time I saw them, but they sure sat better than 90% of live action shows when I was very young. I'm trying to think of an old live action show that I DID like at that age... the announcer for Dragnet was really cool to me, for some reason. Didn't really keep my interest throughout, but the trappings (theme song, intros, etc.) struck me as baseline cool.
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For me, who watched way too much Nick-at-Nite as a kid, probably the combination of I Love Lucy, The Dick Van Dyke Show, and the Mary Tyler Moore show. All of those shows have several episodes that still hold up as perfect sitcom episodes. Lucy working at the chocolate factory, the Dick Van Dyke Show episode where Rob and Laura sabotage the game night with their friends after they overhear them talking shit about them, the MTMS episode about the death of Chuckles the clown.
That shit is all absolutely classic.
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
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man lately I've really been craving some quietly melancholy dystopian media ala The Leftovers
something that's like hey, this is pretty much the same world except for the weird and traumatic event in the background that kinda made it a bit worse but we're all kinda still just working through it
something I can just kinda chuck on and get a little bit drunk and teary about, that'd be perfect
While not quite up the same street, the Watchmen limited series that HBO did is kind of up this alley. Same head writer, different universe, similarly heavy themes, and it's got Jean Smart and Tim Blake Nelson! If you haven't seen it already, I quite recommend it. Just, uhhh, be ready for some heavy stuff. Not quite the same variety of heavy as The Leftovers, but close(ish).
The Leftovers being a fantastic Sad Times TV show from beginning to end (that only gets better as it goes along) is definitely one of its big selling points, but part of the trouble with it is that it's kind of hard to recommend it if you want to follow it up with something in the same vein/world. I don't know that I've ever seen another series like it where the big horrible background thing is simply the jumping-off point for exploring a world full of broken people grappling with it in their own ways. I'm sure there's another show like that out there, I just don't have the kind of comprehensive media literacy necessary to readily identify and recommend whatever it is. Probably some British series does it, I'd wager. I dunno.
Star Trek (it wasn't "the original series" yet) ended its first run shortly before I was born, but it was still around in syndication when I was a kid, and of course the cartoon, and then the movies...
And speaking of cartoons, I was watching them on Saturday mornings back when the original Looney Tunes were still in heavy rotation, along with all the old Hanna-Barbera stuff, Tom and Jerry, Woody Woodpecker, Rocky and Bullwinkle, etc.
For classic sitcoms, I pretty much had to wait for Nick at Nite to come along in the mid-80s. That was also the period when I was introduced to Dr. Who through PBS.
For me, who watched way too much Nick-at-Nite as a kid, probably the combination of I Love Lucy, The Dick Van Dyke Show, and the Mary Tyler Moore show. All of those shows have several episodes that still hold up as perfect sitcom episodes. Lucy working at the chocolate factory, the Dick Van Dyke Show episode where Rob and Laura sabotage the game night with their friends after they overhear them talking shit about them, the MTMS episode about the death of Chuckles the clown.
That shit is all absolutely classic.
I watched a ton of My Three Sons, Donna Reed and Green Acres growing up thanks to Nick at Night
I've been interested in checking out Pennyworth, but I wish someone would tell me how it relates to Batman, both in a relational and chronological sense
What a miracle. I watched the hell out of that after school in Middle and High School.
As for older shows, I watched a lot of Lassie when it was on mid-day on Nickelodeon. And Gilligan's Island was on after BTAS on our Fox affiliate so I watched a lot of that waiting for dinner. Once we got cable I had passing acquaintances with the A-Team and MacGuyver (Which was a trip cause prior to that I just thought it was a made up show for the Simpsons) Oh, and I suppose SciFi/SyFy had Trek TOS and Twilight Zone on enough that I got to know those fairly well.
I'd catch other sitcoms on occasion, but normally Nick at Nite coming on the TV was my signal to cede the remote to my grandparents and shuffle off to bed.
Cartoons-wise, I got Looney Tunes from like 3 different vectors (At first early morning, then ABC Saturday mornings, and then Nick in the afternoon) so I got the equivalent of an Associates in vaudeville and golden age Hollywood by the time I was 8. And then when we got cable I got to see all of Scooby Doo Where Are You over the course of a summer and it clicked why they kept trying to do Scooby Doo stuff.
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That's actually an interesting prompt: What shows from older generations were core parts of your childhood. I was mainly thinking ones introduced by parents but if that's too thorny it can be something you just happened to get hooked on
VHS tapes of Rocky and Bullwinkle and The Muppet Show from the library were regular viewing during my childhood.
Found myself musing on the Brady Bunch this morning
That show stayed in the pop culture zeitgeist for a long ass time. A long and successful run, two hit reboot movies, a franchise that managed to span generations. I never really got it, but it felt like it offered a lens into my mom and her world. Those characters, actors, storylines, catchphrases - they factored into how my mom talked TV, so I needed to have some knowledge just to orient.
But that show that was once everywhere, now... Isn't. The world it depicts is so foreign as to be unrecognizable, I can't even remember the last time I saw it referenced in anything. There's a good chance my daughter will never know what it was.
Now, take all of this and intensify it for shows that were basically clones of The Brady Bunch but didn't quite find its level of popularity.
If there's a good chance your daughter never knows about the Brady Bunch, it may as well be impossible for her to know about The Partridge Family.
The partridge family is like a thing I know of, but I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen here.
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
I watched a ton of Nick at Nite in the 90s, but yeah Get Smart was always my favorite
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My favorites via Nick at Nite were I Dream a Genie and Bewitched.
Two very fun shows!!
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In retrospect, it's amazing how much old-timey programming I got exposed to through Nick At Nite, a veritable smorgasbord of Peak Boomer Content. Understanding the references my parents would make to each other because they came from jokes in those shows helped me better understand them as people.
And now I do it with my own generation's TV shows. Without fail, every time I see a dental clinic anywhere in town, I almost immediately and unthinkingly say out loud "Lisa needs braces!" My brain has been thoroughly rotted by television and the internet. I will never be whole.
I was BIG into Welcome Back Kotter on Nick at Nite, and outside of that, Cartoon Network in the early, pre-Toonami days would show random old Hanna-Barbera shorts, both the comedies and the Saturday Morning Adventure shows.
This is how I learned a tremendous amount about The Herculoids, The Galaxy Trio, and Space Ghost, all of which probably primed me for The Venture Bros to come and truly get its hooks in me forever.
Oh right, Flintstones and Jetsons was usually on early in the morning growing up in the pre-Cartoon Network days, so yah I'll almost always have the time of day for Hanna-Barbera stuff.
"Go down, kick ass, and set yourselves up as gods, that's our Prime Directive!"
My favorite of the Hanna Barbera stuff was those massive crossover things where everyone got in a car and raced or something?
Wacky Races was such a delight.
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
Wacky Races was pretty good, but it was no Laff-a-lympics
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Star Trek Discovery update!
We have made it through the seventh episode and I continue to have thoughts!
-- Klingons finally spoke in English and HOLY SHIT was it immediately better than what we have been getting prior to this. A real night and day situation.
-- Stamets is now permanently on shrooms and he is here to remind you about it.
-- The way that Captain Lorca smashes a fortune cookie between his two hands is incredibly funny to me.
-- Ash Tyler has arrived. You know, classic cool kid energy.
-- Michael and Tyler need to F.U.C.K. badly
-- Tilly continues to rule, especially in her quest to get Michael laid.
-- Every single hint about Lorca is very funny, knowing what they are leading to on the horizon.
-- Harry Mudd, YOU PIECE OF SHIT! God damn, what a slimeball. A slimeball elevated by the casting of Rainn Wilson.
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I am the weird one here, but I really liked discovery’s klingons, they’re weird, and they feel very alien. It’s fun.
And it’s 100% fair to say, well make a new weird species, and that’s fair. But I also like the idea of taking a step back and imagine what the Klingons could be if you had a chance to step back and reset.
This is, and I accept very much the outlier opinion.
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For me it was Thunderbirds, my parents loved this show and introduced it to me at a young age. It has obviously aged poorly in several ways, but it offered thrills in a unique presentation and had an altruistic message about helping others.
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That shit is all absolutely classic.
While not quite up the same street, the Watchmen limited series that HBO did is kind of up this alley. Same head writer, different universe, similarly heavy themes, and it's got Jean Smart and Tim Blake Nelson! If you haven't seen it already, I quite recommend it. Just, uhhh, be ready for some heavy stuff. Not quite the same variety of heavy as The Leftovers, but close(ish).
The Leftovers being a fantastic Sad Times TV show from beginning to end (that only gets better as it goes along) is definitely one of its big selling points, but part of the trouble with it is that it's kind of hard to recommend it if you want to follow it up with something in the same vein/world. I don't know that I've ever seen another series like it where the big horrible background thing is simply the jumping-off point for exploring a world full of broken people grappling with it in their own ways. I'm sure there's another show like that out there, I just don't have the kind of comprehensive media literacy necessary to readily identify and recommend whatever it is. Probably some British series does it, I'd wager. I dunno.
And speaking of cartoons, I was watching them on Saturday mornings back when the original Looney Tunes were still in heavy rotation, along with all the old Hanna-Barbera stuff, Tom and Jerry, Woody Woodpecker, Rocky and Bullwinkle, etc.
For classic sitcoms, I pretty much had to wait for Nick at Nite to come along in the mid-80s. That was also the period when I was introduced to Dr. Who through PBS.
Sometimes I forget how effortlessly charming Jason Lee was in this.
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What a miracle. I watched the hell out of that after school in Middle and High School.
As for older shows, I watched a lot of Lassie when it was on mid-day on Nickelodeon. And Gilligan's Island was on after BTAS on our Fox affiliate so I watched a lot of that waiting for dinner. Once we got cable I had passing acquaintances with the A-Team and MacGuyver (Which was a trip cause prior to that I just thought it was a made up show for the Simpsons) Oh, and I suppose SciFi/SyFy had Trek TOS and Twilight Zone on enough that I got to know those fairly well.
I'd catch other sitcoms on occasion, but normally Nick at Nite coming on the TV was my signal to cede the remote to my grandparents and shuffle off to bed.
Cartoons-wise, I got Looney Tunes from like 3 different vectors (At first early morning, then ABC Saturday mornings, and then Nick in the afternoon) so I got the equivalent of an Associates in vaudeville and golden age Hollywood by the time I was 8. And then when we got cable I got to see all of Scooby Doo Where Are You over the course of a summer and it clicked why they kept trying to do Scooby Doo stuff.
VHS tapes of Rocky and Bullwinkle and The Muppet Show from the library were regular viewing during my childhood.
Get Smart was another big one, my dad would quote "Missed it by that much" when I was a kid a ton.
The partridge family is like a thing I know of, but I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen here.
Satans..... hints.....
Were they also a band? Or was that The Lighthouse Family?
That was the era when they were all bands, because musical variety shows were a whole thing.
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"What if the Brady Bunch was a band!"
That's it, that's the pitch.
And then they did exactly that.
Two very fun shows!!
And now I do it with my own generation's TV shows. Without fail, every time I see a dental clinic anywhere in town, I almost immediately and unthinkingly say out loud "Lisa needs braces!" My brain has been thoroughly rotted by television and the internet. I will never be whole.
This is how I learned a tremendous amount about The Herculoids, The Galaxy Trio, and Space Ghost, all of which probably primed me for The Venture Bros to come and truly get its hooks in me forever.
Wacky Races was such a delight.
We have made it through the seventh episode and I continue to have thoughts!
-- Klingons finally spoke in English and HOLY SHIT was it immediately better than what we have been getting prior to this. A real night and day situation.
-- Stamets is now permanently on shrooms and he is here to remind you about it.
-- The way that Captain Lorca smashes a fortune cookie between his two hands is incredibly funny to me.
-- Ash Tyler has arrived. You know, classic cool kid energy.
-- Michael and Tyler need to F.U.C.K. badly
-- Tilly continues to rule, especially in her quest to get Michael laid.
-- Every single hint about Lorca is very funny, knowing what they are leading to on the horizon.
-- Harry Mudd, YOU PIECE OF SHIT! God damn, what a slimeball. A slimeball elevated by the casting of Rainn Wilson.
Wacky Races holy shit!
And it’s 100% fair to say, well make a new weird species, and that’s fair. But I also like the idea of taking a step back and imagine what the Klingons could be if you had a chance to step back and reset.
This is, and I accept very much the outlier opinion.
Satans..... hints.....