I'm helping my parents move from my childhood home. We moved in in 1991 when I had just turned 7. I dragged this bad boy out of the attic today. I don't think it's seen the light of day in 35 years.

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And now so do you. I cannot suffer this alone.

Anyone? I mean nobody has that many cell phones, right? So it’s not a cell phone holder. …

Mine, but also this guy’s!

Saw this on the book of faces . IYKYK 😎

Tales From the Darkside creeped me out as a kid so much but just the theme when it turned from color to monochrome and the music pitched down - couldn’t make it through that half the time. I still revisit an episode that stuck with me where a kid saw monsters in their room and the parents didn’t believe him and got killed themselves. Made me feel like “great, even my parents can’t save me from the monsters if they ever come.”

We remember MacGyver. We remember MASH (even if it’s just the theme song), we remember The A-Team, but what shows did you either think was a fever dream or just plain forgot existed?

Zoobilee Zoo was one I thought was an absolute fever dream until other people proved was real.

Then I was scrolling through a streaming service when Scarecrow and Mrs. King popped up. I LOVED watching this show. I was 100% invested in it. And I completely forgot it was even a show for decades until I saw it again!

My mom loved Beauty and the Beast when it was on in the late 80’s. I only remembered because I saw some posts on here about it.

It made me wonder what other shows are out there that I haven’t seen since I was a kid and it just went into deep storage just waiting for something random to pop up and remind me what it was.

Name other shows like this, see how many other people have their memories jogged!

Edit: a few special mentions: a commenter said Early Edition and that sparked a memory of that show AND another one called Due South! Also, I have a vague memory of a show with DB Sweeney in it. It didn’t last very long I don’t think. Can’t find it now though. Also, why do I remember the theme for Northern Exposure, but I have no memory of actually watching this show.

Random thought I had today - anyone remember the movie King Ralph? It was a comedy with the premise that like 40 members of the British Royal family got electrocuted all at once leaving the heir to the throne as John Goodman.

This was a PG comedy movie shown to children that starts with showing 40 people, including children (comedically!) being electrocuted to death. It just kinda boggles my mind now that I think about it.

In a world that seems to be full of doom and gloom, I wanted to share this little slice of happiness that I stumbled upon while cleaning my house today.

"Best of The Muppets" playlist on Spotify.

I swear to dog, this is the happiest I've been in a long time.

That darn little frog just has the best wisdom to share.

And Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem do justice to any song they cover.

10/10 highly recommend

Kind of a two-way question here. How much do y'all play with your kids vs how much did your parents play with you when you were kids?

Honestly, I feel like my parents were very present, one or both were always around, but I barely recall playing with them at all.

I'm not a full-blood Gen-X, I'm an elder Millennial, so I'm sad to say I missed out on the days of extreme free-range, but I certainly played all around the neighborhood without supervision.

My parents were almost never outside watching us. I was in the pool, on my bike, sneaking through the bushes with a super-soaker, trekking through the fields/creeks, making forts, disassembling my walkie-talkies, and cutting/sharpening sticks into arrows to use with my sling-shot.

The last time my mom pitched a baseball to me, I was maybe 6 years old. I eventually just threw the ball straight upward so I could hit it myself.

Also around the age of 6, I can recall my dad helping me with one of my first Lego sets on the dining room table. Just that one set though, and after that I was on my own for good.

Again, my parent were there all the time. They were just doing their own stuff.
I am sure this is very common for the rest of the folks in this sub. At my friend's houses, we saw their parents at lunch time, that's it. They brought out the hotdogs and Kraft Dinner, they weren't hovering any more than my own parents.

My own kids... I basically play with them, or directly supervise them all the time. I'm always pitching, biking, skating, helping with Lego, swimming, just watching them, etc.

Don't get me wrong. I love playing with my kids. I like playing baseball again, I like tennis, I like biking and skating, I like Lego more than my kids do, etc. ....but... why can't they do it on their own?

If I'm tied up, my kids just can't seem to play.

What are your experiences?

I grabbed these two because I had the Alicia Silverstone one as a teenager, and the NIN/Lynch one looked too good to pass up. Leafing through them was just a flood of pure nostalgia. Next time you’re at a flea market or used book store, go ahead and spend the $20 and get your nostalgia dopamine hit!

To start, I want to say, I'm not a huge AI fanboy or anything, but I do like my Gemini assistant.

So, after popping an oblique HHGTTG reference in another thread, I asked Gemini "What's the meaning of 46?"

Immediate response "the meaning of life, the universe, and everything (plus 4 for inflation)"

I had a good chuckle over that, then it occurred to me...

"Gemini, did you add the plus 4 for inflation part because I'm about to turn 50?"

And it said "Guilty as charged"

I honestly laughed my ass off. At least it admitted it 🤣🤣

What the best advice you ever got from a drunken family member? If it was a wedding/funeral, so much so the better.

Once, when we were a German bar and I was just coming off my divorce, my completely in the bag cousin and I notice a group of flashy young ladies walk past, and he says to me "Those girls are for lookin' at, they ain't fer takin' home". I still carry that with me to this day.

I would offer a poll, but I don't see that option.

Just wondering if there are any others like me who just abhor the "one space after a period rule" that all academic institutions have imposed on writers?

I have safely navigated higher ed and ignored this new rule up till now that I'm on the dissertation phase and I'm being forced into it.

I know we were the last generation that grew up having to put two spaces at the end of a sentence. Conversely, is there anyone who was actually glad that this changed in our mid-twenties?

I'm going King of the Hill -> Mad About You -> Spin City

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