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.
I'll take *How's it going Mr Peterson?" for $1000.
"Poor"
Oh, I'm sorry to hear that!
"No, I mean pour."
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🎵..."
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.
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.
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