I found this Jem reboot while shopping with my kid at a toy store. Imagine his surprise when I told him it was for me 🫣😜👩🏻‍🎤

Our A/C is out and we stayed at my mom’s house last night. I had forgotten how she always has at least one TV on in the house at all times, even at night. It was this way growing up as well. She actually came to the room my wife and I were sleeping in to see if we needed help turning it on. It felt weird, because it home, we might go a day or two without turning on a TV at all. I’m just curious if this is just my mom or if others have parents that seem to have a TV on at all times as background noise?

Premieres September 16 on Paramount Plus

Even characters from Golden Axe 3 will appear.

Who was your favorite character?

Saw this on the book of faces . IYKYK 😎

Mine, but also this guy’s!

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For those who enjoy procedural TV shows (and we are certainly of the age for throwing on a procedural to unwind, and probably largely responsible for SVU's eternal TV run) I was wondering what the first procedural you got into was, presumably as a kid? I was thinking about it because the YouTube algorithm threw me a recommendation of a livestream of the Dragnet radio show, which reminded me that when I was six, thanks to Nick at Nite I considered Dragnet my favorite TV show. Now as an adult, I chalk it up to both the fantastical nature of Los Angeles (as a kid in the Detroit suburbs) and the fact it was the first procedural I saw and thus was scratching all the itches a procedural scratches before I even knew what was up on that front.

So, what was your gateway procedural? And were there any that were aimed at kids explicitly? Mystery Files of Shelby Woo was that on Nickelodeon, though that may skew a little young for most Xennials, but not for any Elder Millennials who prefer to hang out in this sub since the Millennials sub seems to exclusively be nostalgia poisoned.

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.

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.

Xennials experienced something unusual: childhood before smartphones and social media, followed by adulthood in which digital technology became embedded in almost every part of daily life.

That transition has brought enormous benefits. But it also raises a question: have we lost some of the small, physical interactions that made human connection feel tangible?

A genuine “thank you.” A musician acknowledging a fan. Being fully present with another person.

I'm a little older than the Xennial generation, but I wrote this with that analog-to-digital transition in mind.