It just isn’t the same
Welcome back!
I’m pretty sure that I’ve mentioned before that we don’t generally watch network television these days. Instead, we buy the DVD releases of shows from 20 or 30 years ago and give them to each other as Christmas gifts. That way, between the eight of us we can spend just about the whole year watching stuff like Three’s Company, Mork & Mindy, Sliders, and MASH, to name a few.
Some of those shows really take me back, but it just isn’t the same in a lot of ways. Back then I would stretch out in front of the television on the wood flooring in the den. These days, however, I live in a house with a concrete slab under the carpet and I have a case of arthritis that would prevent me from getting up after an hour or two on that cold floor.
It also takes something away from the experience when, A) I see an actor I recognize and mention his name. Then I have to miss the next 10 minutes of the show while I explain who he is, or B) someone on the show mentions the name of a person who was in the news when the show was being made (like O. J. Simpson) and then the kids look up at me and go, “Who?” Again, there goes the next 10 minutes.
If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!
That’s funny.
So true. My wife pulls the same stuff. Funny.
hehehe.. had that same experience. I now give up watching such shows if introductions and bio about the people on films had to be made. I just sneak in a film or two when no one’s around. Hmmm, come to think of think.. maybe I am missing a whole buch of films then..
Hey, that is a great idea you have here, thanks for sharing, it´s a king of nostalgy you are having. you also teach history, nice!
Cheers, eva
hehe I can see how explaining old actors is annoying..i ask my dad “whose that” in all the old films.