Walking Down Memory Lane...

dzheremi said:

I'm only in my mid-30s, so my memories for TV and movies and such don't really start until the latter half of the 80s, but there was still plenty of good stuff back then. Of course Sesame Street (and its Spanish-language version, Plaza Sesamo) was great, and I remember enjoying Fraggle Rock quite a bit, too, as well as DuckTales, and some early Nickelodeon shows like David the Gnome. For movies, I was raised to appreciate Mel Brooks and similar silliness from an early age thanks to my father, so I grew up with 70s comedies from slightly before my time like Young Frankenstein, The Jerk, etc., as well as all the things that were popular with kids at the time like the Labyrinth, Ghostbusters, The Princess Bride, The Dark Crystal (my absolute favorite as a kid), Beetlejuice, Flight of the Navigator, The Goonies, etc.

We didn't have MTV in the house as a kid, though, so I feel like I missed out on most popular music until I started getting old enough to explore some of it myself, in the very early 90s (when it wasn't very good, anyway; hahaha...sorry, fans of Nelson or C&C Music Factory or whatever). My parents liked all the music from their youth, so I grew up with the Beatles and the like, as well as some of the groups my father worked for at the time (my first concert was in 1982, when he was working for Hall & Oates...hey...they were popular then!). Huey Lewis and stuff like that.

Can't remember my first crush. It was probably somebody in the neighborhood, rather than a celebrity.

Here's a question for all: Have you ever tried to go back and watch/listen to/read some of this stuff you loved as a kid? If so, what did you think of it? Does it still hold up, or are you retroactively ashamed?

I could've sworn I had enjoyed the film Little Monsters as a kid (late 80s, with Fred Savage and Howie Mandel), but having watched it recently, I can't imagine why. It's mean-spirited, not funny or even remotely clever, and visually very harsh and ugly. I found it for $1 on DVD at a local pawn shop, and honestly felt kind of ripped off after I watched it. It immediately went into the $1 pile for my family's next garage sale, though I almost want to put a sticker on it that says "This film will give your children bad ideas about how to behave and is terrible, too", just to warn people who think it looks like it would be a fun kid's movie. What was 8 year old me thinking, if I ever liked this thing in the first place?! Yuck.

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Cute Tink said:

Some of it didn't really hold up over time, but iconic for sure though.

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