Ahh, nostalgia. When
we look back at the entertainment from our youth, it is most definitely
rose-colored. There are many critics of
this entertainment, most notably at Channel Awesome(tgwtg.com). They do a fantastic job of ripping to shreds
the terrible forms this entertainment took, and do it much better than I could
ever dream of doing. They take those
rose-colored glasses, and stomp on them til they are but a bump underfoot.
I however, want to look a bit more happily back at these
memories. There ARE exceptionally corny
moments, even in the movies and shows I look back on with fondness, but I like
to remember these show as the ones that shaped me, at least partially.
These are characters that we can quote even 20 years later,
and know someone, somewhere will get the joke.
“I got a dollar, I got a dollar, I got a dollar hey hey hey hey!” or “ToPANga!”
roll off our tongues like our best friends phone number…before cell phones did
it for us.
These are the happy memories of our youth, before
Nickelodeon changed, and Disney only saw dollar signs in the young starlets
they attempt to force down the throats of the youth of America…and seem to be
succeeding. I can just see the next
generation, all grown up, nostalgic for this crap, and it makes me a bit sad…but
I imagine our parents felt the same way.
To start off, starting next week, I will be looking at my
all time favorite show, Boy Meets World.
Oh, that Shawn, he’s sooo dreamy!
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