90s Nostalgia

[crushingpetal]

I think they were just targets for cigarette marketing

Fuck joe the camel.

Yesterday I was actually thinking about how fucked up it was that Spuds MacKenzie was created to sell beer.

 

[narad]

@narad

Half my adolescence in this place eating 2-meats 2-non-meats from Chinese Gourmet

 

[High Plains Drifter]

Man, I almost want an 80's nostalgia thread, as that's the decade I grew up in, but it got me thinking; not a whole lot of childhood pop culture from the 70's. I wonder how folks with childhood memories of the 70's relate to older media; I kinda feel like the 80's kids were the first generation to be so aggressively marketed to, with so much targeted pop culture. 70's kids were, like, riding bikes or something.

A noticeable difference for me was that so much more was controlled by my parents in the 70's. Around Christmas I'd hand my parents the Sears or Montgomery Ward catalog ( a million pages weighing 50 lbs) with 100 items circled and I'd be lucky to get one or two of those items. And I don't guess that I actually expected more than that.

In the 80's I was hitting jr. high and I HAD to have stuff like Polo cologne, parachute pants, Nike's, etc ( or one year I would have killed my grandma for a pair of Asics Tigers). It wasn't about toys anymore... It was all about that status crap. And in the 80's my friends and I were going to malls to buy posters and shit at Spencer's and to gawk at girls. In the 70's if I went to a mall it was with my parents for whatever purpose of theirs and I was just tagging along... super lucky if they caved and we hit up a Wendy's or something... very rare.

And at least in my case that 80's Birthday/ Christmas money wasn't controlled by my parents either. Plus I was working summers and getting a little spending money. Any paltry allowance that I was lucky enough to fall backwards into in the 70's didn't seem to make it into my pockets. I think that the most money I spent on myself in the 70's was for Hot Wheels and model cars and stuff. In the 80's that money hit like I was working two jobs and had a mortgage to pay.

Funny... When I was in the 3rd grade I had a major crush on this girl that loved whatever that gum was with the liquid center.... "Fresh" something probably. And I'd steal money out of the collection plate at church each week to be able to sneak to the store and grab her a pack. Man she thought I was all kinds of suave lol... little petty criminal smh.

 

[USMarine75]

One of the best cartoons ever featured the best intro theme ever…

 

[nightflameauto]

Fuck joe the camel.

Yesterday I was actually thinking about how fucked up it was that Spuds MacKenzie was created to sell beer.

Bob Goldthwait had the best joke about that. "It's like they got together and went, 'Kids like ta drink! How 'bout a cute dog!'"

 

[crushingpetal]

Bob Goldthwait had the best joke about that. "It's like they got together and went, 'Kids like ta drink! How 'bout a cute dog!'"

Bobcat was a maniac. I can still vividly recall his character in Police Academy.

 

[nightflameauto]

Bobcat was a maniac. I can still vividly recall his character in Police Academy.

His standup was wild back in the day. He'd go back and forth between talking like a normal person and that over the top screamy stuff he did in the Police Academy movies while jabbing every public figure he could think of. He also did a ridiculously on-point impression of Bono.

 

[Dumple Stilzkin]

"KIDS SEATS JUST 5 BUCKS"

GRAVEDIGGERRRRR.