We as a species are not ready for 10-15 yrs from now when gen-z memes and culture start being resurrected as nostalgia bait in media. I don't know if imma be able to do this again guys fr fr
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My “you’re old” moment was WKUK references
Also, as a millennial; my parents (boomers) watched Cheers, not I.
I watched cheers and I quit at the start of season 2 when I realised they abandoned the premise to make the Sam and Diane Show.
Is this from Wicked?
Yup it was a deleted scene. They briefly debated doing Wicked/Marval crossover musical with Starlord in the role of Fiyero Tigelaar.
Audiences were incredibly confused and so we got the Wicked that was released.
You think that's wild?
Wait till you see the Taylor Sheradon cut that the studios tried to bury.
*Mervel
GoTG: Vol 2
Uh, Cheers is GenX, not millenials. 1982-93. Not a lot of babies to 10yo watching Cheers.
I had been thinking that very thing.
That said (and I know I'm an outlier because I've been this way since childhood but) I don't understand these seeming resistance to avoid the culture signifiers on periods past.
I always loved being familiar with cultural touchstones of the past (I've been working on putting All in the Family on our home media center, recently), especially because it creates a deeper understanding and because as you see how they influenced the ones you grew up with.
Culture is yet another way humans tell stories and how we relate with each other and I truly love that.
That's not how TV in the 80s and 90s worked. Most of the TV we watched as kids in the 80s would have been reruns of things in syndication. Millenials born in 82 would have grown up watching reruns of Cheers for their entire childhood and likely have memories of watching even some of the later episodes live.
My three year old can sing part of the theme song. I'm so proud.
🎶Sometimes you want to go, where everybody knows your name...🎶
It's also sung by the Ice King on Adventure Time more than once.
In our case it's because her mom and I watch Cheers as one of our "default" shows (i.e. there's nothing else to watch).
Be sure to give Taxi a shot, too. And MASH, if you're brave. 🥲
MASH is a little heavy for a 3 year old.
The theme song was written by a 13yr old and the lyrics are dark AF, but yeah. 3's a bit early for "🎶suicide is painless🎵..."
I'll take *How's it going Mr Peterson?" for $1000.
"Poor"
Oh, I'm sorry to hear that!
"No, I mean pour."
The single most impressive, and lasting legacy of this show is Woody Harrelson's carrier. Can anybody else think of a regular sit-com actor who broke into Hollywood? Bruce Willis is the only other one I can think of, and he never broke type.
Helen Hunt, Michael J. Fox, Ryan Reynolds, Aubrey Plaza, Jennifer Aniston, Will Smith, Danny DeVito, Steve Carell, Jennifer Lawrence, Zendaya.
Other than them, though...
Christopher Lloyd, Kirstie Alley, Adam Driver, Robin Williams, John Goodman...
Fuck. It's almost like it was a recognized -- if admittedly challenging -- career path.
I wonder what that Leonardo DiCaprio kid from Growing Pains is up to these days?
John Travolta from Welcome back cotter. Turned that success into Saturday Night Fever and then Grease a year after that. Michael J Fox from Family ties, turned that success into Teen Wolf and back to the future in the same year. And theres a fuck load more that I cant be bothered typing out.
The single most impressive thing about Cheers is that its still funny all these years later, with a great bunch of characters. You can sit down and watch any episode, and have fun. More than that, it spun off a character into a show that is considered by many to be the best sitcom of all time. Frasier. The only TV show with a better spin off record is JAG, which spawned NCIS. Which isnt bad for a tv show that was cancelled after 1 year, picked up by another network, and is still on the air now, racking in millions of viewers. The JAG/NCIS universe is 30 years old this year.
Bryan Cranston kind-of? He had some minor movie roles before television and then larger movie roles after.
Will Ferrell, technically. Plus most of the other SNL actors who started there and did films later (though many of those were based on SNL skits). Tina Fey, though, plays it straight. She started as a writer, joined the cast of SNL, and did TV and movies later. Granted, I wouldn't call any of them "movie stars".
Who carried him, exactly?
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How the hell do you show up at a God-damned honky-tonk/Western bar and not know what The Wild Horse Saloon is!? That one is NOT on me, regardless of how she looked at me.
That is without a doubt Norm's best line. Change my mind. :-)
Yeah, a little too Raph...