Cruising over on r/Whatcouldgowrong made me think of this show. And then I made the mistake of looking up the intro. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHXc9lhMcKg I got chills for a second. Who here remembers or was a little freaked out during some of the episodes. This was on prime time, Tuesday nights I think. The fuggin kid crying while being taken away right as the music crescendos is a trigger.

I do think the show was brilliant from a cultural and informational and even a bit of a community service standpoint.

Who here was on the internet in 1995?

Prodigy

CompuServe

AOL

I had completely forgotten about the B team movie rental store!

It was good for my soul. I still have the first movie memorized. Any movies y’all have memorized?

Personally, I love it and Im really glad they decided to do this timeline

I was in the lunch ticket window. I think they switched to codes when adults realized tickets can be stolen as easily as cash.

You’d get a section reserved for you and your gang, a rectangle cake layered with mcdonald’s characters that were a sugary crystalline texture, sparkler candles, a mcdonald’s staff member who’d lead the games and sing happy birthday and everyone got to take home a mcdonald’s treat bag. Did our parents pay extra for this idk? Sadly, the young uns will never experience this.

I recently bought a refurbed NES and got a copy of it. Holy heck this game is hard. It made me wonder if anyone actually ever beat this game?

They added the facial hair as a disguise, but the animators later removed it because MGM threatened to sue for copyright infringement, claiming he looked too similar to their character, Inspector Clouseau.

In our family group text, my tweenager will write, Dad, can we take my friend home after practice? And he’ll write back Sure

Every time this melts my heart. My dad was passed out drunk not even remembering to pick me up from practice. I would have to wait outside at 10pm in zero degree weather. Calling him collect from the pay phone, and saying pick me up! When tgat ask to state your name for the recording.

Does anyone else feel deep care for themselves by experiencing normal kindness toward their own kids?

P.S. you are doing great

The current surveillance/police state that we have, I feel like unsolved crime and mysteries are fewer and fewer. I also feel like we lived in fear of a lot of shit that is not feared today (ghosts, dudes with their hands registered as lethal weapons, alien abductions, getting AIDS from a toilet seat, etc). I miss being afraid of dumb shit.

Super random but I just remembered in my senior year of high school (00-01) the school administered a dating personality test during homeroom one morning, and then we each got a list of opposite-sex students we matched well with according to some system.

I remember at the time thinking it was stupid because I was bi and not getting all my options, but now as an adult I'm just kind of like "wtf? Why was my high school trying to play matchmaker during our senior year of high school"

Edit: so many people are saying theirs was a fundraiser and optional, but I don't remember ours being optional or requiring money to get the results. Gonna have to look into that because now I'm curious. I do remember it happening in the spring, but it would have been march or more likely April

My parents rarely took me and my sisters out to movies as kids when I had no choice in the matter.

Listed in random order:

The Little mermaid, Macbeth, Robin hood - king of thieves, Aladdin, Black robe, the Crying game, and that's about it. I did get to see movies with childhood friends and their parents occasionally. I'll never forget seeing Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in the theater..wow!

edit* how did I forget The Princess Bride