In celebration of the 40th Anniversary of Sesame Street, here is a classic moment you probably (definitely?) remember from your childhood.
MEMORIES! You are so old, Sesame Street! I got you a cake, and I covered it in icing gravestones, that is how old you are. The oldest. R.I.P.
Posted by Gabe at 1:30 PM in Nostalgia
Tags: Birthdays | Sesame Street
Yes, Internet, this is cute. Yes, Internet, we all love Mad Men. And yes, Internet, we are all at least somewhat nostalgic for our childhoods (Teddy told me that in Greek nostalgia literally means "pain from an old wound") to the point where combining something that we like now with something that we like then gets an instant Express Pass to our hearts. It's a deal! We'll have Ben Kosgrome draw up a contract.
But did this video make anyone else wonder what must have slipped by their young face when they actually watched Sesame Street? Clearly there must have been some FUCKED UP parodies (4 tha kids) when I actually watched this show as a target audience member*. Sesame Street presents Last Tango in Sesame Street or whatever. And not to be Professor Children's Television, but shouldn't they have been Glad Men at the end of this sketch? Or is it some kind of modern parenting trick? "When you're raising your children, it's all about the words you don't say."
Just kidding, of course, Internet! Everything about this is absolutely perfect. No one would ever dare criticize.
*Watched, of course, is a euphemism. I listened to this show. As a radio play. Huddled in the basement as our heroic war planes took off for Germany. The first time.
Posted by Gabe at 9:45 AM in Children's Television, Nostalgia, Parodies
Tags: Don Draper | Jim Henson | Jon Hamm | Mad Men | Sesame Street
This is the way the world once was. Full grown adults sitting around a conference table, not only talking about Beanie Babies, but providing other adults with "helpful" tips to ensure that their Beanie Babies were authentic. Never Forget. Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.
Posted by Gabe at 12:15 PM in Nostalgia
Tags: Beanie Babies
In the New York Times a couple weeks ago, there was an article about the much-anticipated DVD release of thirtysomething, a "groundbreaking" (not my word) television drama from the late '80s. By most measures, the show was not a huge success (according to that article, its highest ratings were during the first 15 minutes of a premiere), but it was a critical darling, and "thirtysomething" is now a word in the dictionary. But most importantly: when it came out, as far as I was concerned, it was a stupid-boring show for old people. Except that now I am one of those old people. And so, out of some misguided sense of curiosity, over the next few weeks, I will be recapping the first season of thirtysomething here. 2009, you guys. Anything can happen. There is no spoon.
Continue reading thirtysomething: Pilot Episode...
Posted by Gabe at 1:30 PM in Nostalgia, Science, Where Were They Then?
Tags: Edward Zwick | Ken Olin | Marshall Herskovitz | Mel Harris | Melanie Mayron | Patricia Wettig | Peter Horton | Polly Draper | thirtysomething | Timothy Busfield
Man, remember malls, you guys? They were really popular a billion years ago, before the Earth was covered in water. Remember when the Earth wasn't covered in water? Well, back then, there were these places where everyone used to come and shop, and also just hang out. You could grab a Cinnabon and wait for your friends by the fountain in the center of the mall. Teenagers would spend all day there! In the morning, old people came to the mall, and they did power-walks through the quiet corridors before the stores opened.
Before the Earth was covered in water, people even made movies about the mall because the mall was so interesting to people that they wanted to see a story take place there. There was Scenes from a Mall, and Mallrats, and Chopping Mall. Eventually, of course, people stopped going to the mall so much, and they stopped thinking about the mall. Then everyone spent most of their time trying to get on one of the governmental rescue "A.R.K.S." because we needed to preserve at least some of humanity from all this water everywhere.
Anyway, here is a time-lapse video of an ancient shopping mall.
Continue reading Meet You At The Food Court Of My Memories!...
Posted by Gabe at 9:30 AM in Nostalgia
Tags: 1980s | Arby's | Cinnabon | Killbots | Observe And Report | Shopping Mall
Last week, after his guest-stint as Jack's father on 30 Rock rekindled my Alan Alda obsession, I did some YouTube searches and found these charming Atari ads that Alan did for the gaming system's more practical features back in the early '80s. I love how Alan's public persona as an outspoken feminist was incorporated into the ads -- something you'd rarely see a celebrity do today.
Continue reading Alan Alda's Adorable Atari Ads...
Posted by Lindsay at 4:30 PM in Commercials, Nostalgia, Video Skeletons
Tags: 30 Rock | Alan Alda | Atari
On June 9th, it will be 20 years since the cult classic Dead Poets Society opened in theaters, but apparently the film's distributor, Disney, has no plans to package a special 20th Anniversary DVD with cast commentary and a publicity tour that reunites the cast on the Today Show or ANYTHING to celebrate this momentous anniversary. It's a tragedy! Is Disney being run by Neil Perry's dad or something?
Continue reading Where Is The Dead Poets Society 20th Anniversary DVD?...
Posted by Lindsay at 2:45 PM in Nostalgia
Tags: Dead Poets Society | Ethan Hawke | Gale Hansen | Josh Charles | Robert Sean Leonard | Robin Williams
If it isn't already, this should be a meme:
This is much less creepy than those scary Alf-rape ALF remixes. (Via The Daily What.)
Posted by Lindsay at 11:30 AM in Music Related Content, Nostalgia
Tags: Greg Brady | Notorious B.I.G. | The Brady Bunch
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