The Big Generation X Nostalgia Thread

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Endless Flight said:
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When a trailer for a comedy doesnt make me smile even once, I tend to not have high expectations, but I'm most disappointed in that I saw the thumbnail and thought it was going to be a reunion movie. I would have liked that, even if nobody invited Screech
 
Remember that weird, dark trailer for a Friends reunion show that never came out?
 
TristramEvans said:
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I had this. The other side of it had a "tray return" slot. The employee figure could be slotted behind the register and moved back and forth to scroll the trays across the counter. Maybe I was just easily amused as a 4 year old, but that struck me as the most amazing action gimmick ever. I seem to recall that if you slid the employee fast enough it would launch the trays across the counter causing a very satisfying CLACK sound.

The bathroom doors shown on the side both led to the same alcove, which I found incredibly funny when I was 4.

I have absolutely no recollection of the mat it's shown on in the product picture. I do dimly recall everything else, even though I'm pretty sure I lost or broke almost all of it near immediately. I think the sign lingered around the toy box for years. I think it was a separate part, but it might have been part of the main building toy and broken off.

When I did end up working at McDonalds as an adult in my 20s, I often recalled this set and observed it prepared me for my adult working life.
 
speaking of preparing your kids for their futures...

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lol, my cousins had something like this, but it was just a generic kitchen, not a branded McDonalds thing
 
It's a little odd, I have no nostalgia for Friends, or Saved By the Bell, or Buffy, or much of anything on TV at that general time except maybe X-Files. I think I just spent a lot of my teen years not really watching TV. Having an (essentially) all-hours FLGS 15 minutes form your house will do that I guess.
 
Fenris-77 said:
It's a little odd, I have no nostalgia for Friends, or Saved By the Bell, or Buffy, or much of anything on TV at that general time except maybe X-Files. I think I just spent a lot of my teen years not really watching TV. Having an (essentially) all-hours FLGS 15 minutes form your house will do that I guess.
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I wasn't allowed to watch much TV as a kid, most of what I saw was saturday mornings before my parents got up, so when I was a teenager, I was suddenly consuming media at a rate that, looking back, barely seems humanly possible. Most of it wasn't very good, but it took a while for me to develope any taste over just a desire for consumption (I always picture Johnny Five going "Input! Input! Input!"). So, while I don't hold any particular affection for Saved by the Bell or Friends, I was aware of them, and saw a fair bit of them, so I have some level of investment in the characters. I was happy to see Zak and Kelly finally tie the knot in that TV movie years after I'd stopped watching. I was chuffed up at the final episode of Friends and that bittersweet end to a TV era. So, I have no expectations of a reboot or reunion this many years later, but it depresses me a little to see Friends reinterpreted as a deppressing Lifetime channel film, or Saved by the Bell with two of my least favourite characters and no Zak or Kelly in sight, complete with jokes that...well, probably are as bad as the jokes in the original, if I think about it, but still distancing me as targetted as a generation I'm not a part of.

Buffy...is something different. I was 18 when I started watching that show, and it's one I genuinelly appreciate to this day (at least the first three seasons). I don't really want to see a Middle Aged Xander or Willow though. It was of it's time, I'd prefer to leave it there.
 
Yeah, my TV nostalgia is all reserved for Saturday morning cartoons and whatnot. My teen years nostalgia is mostly for movies and music, at least the bits that aren't for gaming related stuff, which is massive. I don't really feel the pull of reboots generally, like, for example, GI Joe is a huge part of my childhood, both the toys, the comic, and the show, but I couldn't have cared less about the movies. On the other hand, I do recall sitting in the theater listening to the opening monologue of Fellowship and grinning like a moon-struck fool. I go where the nostalgia takes me I guess. :shade:
 
Zak is supposed to appear in three episodes as the Governor of California. They just hadn’t filmed Mark-Paul’s scenes before COVID hit.
 
Fenris-77 said:
I have no nostalgia for Friends, or Saved By the Bell, or Buffy, or much of anything on TV at that general time except maybe X-Files.
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Buffy and X-files definitely! Friends and especially Saved by the Bell definitely not!
 
I never liked Buffy. It felt like it was meant for the generation after mine.
 
3rik said:
Buffy and X-files definitely! Friends and especially Saved by the Bell definitely not!
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I loved Xfiles when it was on TV until around the film, when it became clear it wasnt going anywhere. Its one of the few series that I've never revisited. I'd like to go back and watch at least the first season to see if it holds up.
 
TristramEvans said:
I loved Xfiles when it was on TV until around the film, when it became clear it wasnt going anywhere. Its one of the few series that I've never revisited. I'd like to go back and watch at least the first season to see if it holds up.
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We got a boxset with the complete series on DVD, that is season 1-9, I never watched season 10. I enjoy even the conspiracy episodes that aren't going anywhere and the two movies. I also liked Millennium a lot, a show which doesn't get mentioned much at all anymore.

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My favorite show in the 90s might have been Lois and Clark. It was on from 1993-1997, so that’s about the time I would have been watching until I got into the X-Files in the last few seasons. I didn’t watch a lot of TV for a few years between 17-21 because I was always out with my friends.
 
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3rik said:
I also liked Millennium a lot, a show which doesn't get mentioned much at all anymore.
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I only remembered Millenium now that you mention it - Lance Hendrickson wasn't it? I can't remember anything about it. There seemed to be for a while a rotation of shows following Xfiles that I generally liked but none of which lasted very long - Brimstone and Strange Luck are the other two that come to mind.
 
Endless Flight said:
My favorite show in the 90s might have been Lois and Clark. It was on from 1993-1997, so that’s about the time I would have been watching until I got into the X-Files in the last few seasons. I didn’t watch a lot of TV for a few years between 17-21 because I was always out with my friends.
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I didn't like the recast of Jimmy and the disappearance of Cat and Lex Luthor from the show, but I generally enjoyed it, even if it felt a bit like it was aimed at an older audience than myself (there was a definite 30-something vibe about it, almost-but-not-quite a Soap Opera). I also really enjoyed the Superboy series that predated it by a few years. But my favourite superhero live action TV show in the 90s had to be Swamp Thing. It didn't last long, but it was really dipping it's toes into Vertigo comics territy, in the wake of Alan Moore's run on the comic.
 
Actually, my clearest memory of Lois & Clark is fighting with my friends at the time over watching that vs Seaquest, which I had ZERO interest in. Luckily that debate was over by the second season.
 
TristramEvans said:
I only remembered Millenium now that you mention it - Lance Hendrickson wasn't it? I can't remember anything about it. There seemed to be for a while a rotation of shows following Xfiles that I generally liked but none of which lasted very long - Brimstone and Strange Luck are the other two that come to mind.
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In fact, Millennium is a spin-off of The X-Files, and so is occasionally brought up in certain crossover-focused online communities. If I remember correctly, one of the later X-Files episodes also functioned as Millennium's finale.
 
Lois and Clark had one fantastic season and then died horribly. I'm not sure why but I'd guess it's because Lex Luthor, Jimmy Olsen, and Cat Grant made the show and with them gone or replaced it lost what made it so cool.

Friends had one thing going for it, the chemistry between Matt LeBlanc and Matthew Perry. These guys are like the modern day Abbot and Costello. Sure there's some pretty girls and a kind of comedic soap opera going on but mainly it's about this bromance between these two strange guys.
 
Jack of All Trades didn't last long enough. Same with Brisco County Jr (that was another one that used to be after the Xfiles, wasn't it?)
 
Never watched Friends or Saved by the Bell. I think I was too old for SbB and Friends is one of those mysteriously popular but very unfunny shows to me, as I recall one of the characters had a monkey in the early seasons and that level of desperation sealed the deal.

I do love Lisa Kudrow though for her filmwork and the short, very caustic TV series she did on HBO.
 
Voros said:
Never watched Friends or Saved by the Bell. I think I was too old for SbB and Friends is one of those mysteriously popular but very unfunny shows to me, as I recall one of the characters had a monkey in the early seasons and that level of desperation sealed the deal.

I do love Lisa Kudrow though for her filmwork and the short, very caustic TV series she did on HBO.
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I never got Friends - Seinfeld didn't do much for me either. Normally I'm quite hard to please with sitcoms; they don't often work for me. I think the funniest sitcom I've seen recently is actually Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom. It's one of those two level children's shows that's got something for adults as well. Although it's made by the same outfit that did Peppa Pig (and the animation is quite similar) it's much, much more clever and snarky.
 
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