I am really addicted to this group on Facebook caled "If you remember this you grew up in the 90's". It is a cool place where people from the Gen-X and early Gen-Y can just talk about the stuff they grew up with.It has brought back a whole bunch a cool memories.
There are a few things I find interesting. First thing, alot of people are fixated with the original pink Power Ranger. What gives people? She's like forty now.
The other thing is that alot of shows I grew up watching on Nick and Disney were only made for a couple seasons and then just put in reruns for a really long time. I've looked alot of them up on Wikipedia and most of them had shorter runs then I remembered.Was I really that dumb as a kid that I was fooled into not noticing that I was just watching the same show over and over again? Probably not. The networks knew that most kids have no idea how a TV show is made. They just made the show cheap for a season or two and put it on reruns knowing that most kids wouldn't even notice. And It worked.
We just loved the shows so much that we didn't care how many times we had seen it. I didn't care that I had seen every episode of "The Adventure of Pete and Pete" it was such a cool show that it suited me just fine if there were only 50 episodes or however many where made.
Also, I think that the people who made childrens shows back then knew their audience. Kid shows were just so much better then. Today's kids shows suck ass and are so unenjoyable. The shows play down to kids. I think (and this may be me wearing rose-colored glasses) shows back then were made as if they were being made for little adults. I also think that back then producers knew that parents watched these show with their children and put in some subtle winks and nods for them.
I just loved those old shows and wish that they were still on TV. Someone should make a cable chanel that just shows those old kids shows like "Pete and Pete" or "Ghostwriter" for us big kids who miss them. Or put them all on DVD. If they realeased all of the epidodes of "Rocko's Modern Life" I would buy them up in a heartbeat. The shows for kids were just so much better when I was a growing up.
Thanks for Reading,
Mark M.
