We Are All So Adult Now - but Remember When We Weren't

[JustMeMike]

Yes - we are grownups and we spend a lot of time here talking about breasts and bras and cup sizes.

And some of us even still talk about removing those bras off the the girls wearing them.

But maybe you can recall when a bra-strap was something to tease a girl by yanking, sort of like a wedgie - except you yanked the strap and then ran - instead of yanking the guys underpants up and then stood around laughing as the guy had to undo the wedgie.

This has nothing to do with anything but brought back a lot of memories for me and maybe for others to.....when we didnt have a care in the world.

Take a moment to go back in time... Before the Internet or the MAC. Before semi automatics, heroin and crack Before SEGA or SuperNintendo...

Way back.... I'm talking about hide and seek at dusk. One potato, two potato, three potato, four. Red light, green light.
Hopscotch, kiss chasey, elastics, jacks, kickball, dodgeball.

The Corner Sweet Shoppe

Mother May I?
Hula Hoops.
Running through the sprinkler.
Milk moustaches.
An ice cream cone on a warm summer night- chocolate or vanilla or strawberry.

Watching Saturday morning tv... Hey Hey its Saturday, Marty Monster, Fat Albert, The Groovy Goolies, Gigantor, Road Runner, Penelope Pitstop and Bugs Bunny.

Short, 15 second commercials on TV.

A million mosquito bites around your ankles from that day in the woods.

Sticky fingers - from eating cotton candy.

Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, Zorro. Climbing trees.

Walking to school, no matter what the weather.
Running till you were out of breath.
Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt.
Jumping on the bed. Pillow fights.
Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles.
Being tired from playing.... remember that?

The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
War was a card game.
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon.

Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle.
Eating Cheerios right from the box.

Remember when there were two types of sneakers for girls and boys and
the only time you wore them at school, was for "Phys.Ed.", also known as 'gym class'.

It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.
When nobody owned a purebred dog.
When twenty cents was decent pocket money, and another twenty cents a miracle.
When milk went up one cent and everyone talked about it for weeks?
When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.

When you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gasoline pumped, without asking, for free, every time.

When nearly everyone's Mum was at home when the [censored] got there.
It was magic when dad would "remove" his thumb.
When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents.

When any parent could discipline any kid, or use him to carry groceries,
and nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.

When they threatened to keep [censored] back a grade if they failed ..and did! When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving student at home.

Basically, we were in fear for our lives - you just wait until your father comes home, when he finds out what you did - but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! And some of us
are still afraid of them!!!

Decisions were made by going "Eeny-meeny-miney-mo".
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "Do over!".

"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in Monopoly.
Worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was "germs".

Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot.
Nobody was prettier than Mum.
Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better.
Taking drugs meant orange-flavoured chewable aspirin.
Ice cream was considered a basic food group.

Abilities were discovered because of a "double-dare".

Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest  protectors.

If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED!!!!

Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their own "grown up" life...

I DOUBLE DARE YA!!

This is JustMeMike  

[RobertaFan]

Cheers, JMM. It reconfirms that I wouldn't trade places with these younger bucks for anything. I wouldn't want to be younger. I'll gladly take my older age; my memories, many written above, unfortunately have not been experienced by those who are younger.....

kids seem to have a harder time trying to be "kids" these days......

RF

[JJ]

.........very nice & enjoyable piece JMM!

JJ

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hmm, on my paper route it was $0.76 for a cheeseburger, fries and small coke at McDonalds. If I just got the coke, or a hot chocolate season pending it was $0.22 Oh yeah, at the time all there was was an awening and some picnic tables.

Life was simpler, but if you talk to someone who grew up in the 50's and not 70's as me, you'll get the same.

[sheber]

You forgot to mention cooties.  

[homevintner]

You read my mind sheber. Very nice piece, JMM, you hit it right on.                 How about mowing lawns for a few bucks, filling a 2 gallon gas can and getting change back from a dollar. Catching fireflies, pickup football and baseball in the school yard Saturday afternoons, or mom being the cub den mother?

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Gigantor...  Gigantor...  Gigantor...

Is that the cartoon with the kid who has a space pod that he flies around in, then uses it to land in the head of a giant robot whose main weapon is fists that rocketed off and acted like homing missile?  The cartoon where one of his friends had her own robot that was pink and shot off her breasts in much the same way as the fists?

If it's not, does ANYone remember that cartoon and its name?  I've been going nuts for the last five years searching for the name of that show, but I've only found one person who even remembers watching that cartoon.  It aired somewhere between '80 and '82.

HEEEEEEELLLLLLP!

[Craig_Mercer]

Tranzor-Z aired in 1985 at the height of the Transformers/ Go-Bots phenomenon it was notable mostly for the extremely awkward way the title robot ran into battle and for the odd erotic touch of the femme robot with missle tits. Just another way that Japanese fetishism and other oddities invaded the states via seemingly innocent cartoon culture
take Pokemon Kissmee (?) for example it's plainly a "Black Mammy" creature complete with bug eyes and oversized breasts.

[sheber]

Ooh! Ooh! I've got one! "Clackers"! Anyone else remember them? Ahem. Okay, I'm better now. Thanks JMM, for the nostalgia. You brought back many fond memories.

[Commish]

Luvtyger,

You can get some info and screenshots of Gigantor at yesterdayland.com that might help.  It's a pretty neat site when you want a small dose of the past.
http://www.yesterdayland.com/popopedia/shows/saturday/sa1062.php

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Thanks guys. I appreciate the help.  Tranzor Z doesn't ring the bell, though.  I think it was before Transformers and Go-bots.  It's definitely NOT Gigantor. 85' would have put me in fourth grade and it was much earlier than that. Around 82' (first-grade) seems to me to be the appropriate time.  I just remember sitting in class drawing my (simple) version of the robots with thunder in the background.  Huh.  I guess I don't get those brain cells back yet.  Thanks, anyway.  Hmmm...  What was that... (sigh)

[Goldeneye]

I loved your post, Mike.  I, quite young, was never imagined back then, but being a lover of things past and nostalgic and tending to snub modern times over days of old, I could feel the things you talked about in my heart as if I'd lived them.  And I have indeed done more of those things than most my age, so as a Gen-Xer, I'll consider myself having lived.      That sounds like something that would be forwarded through e-mail from office to office.  Did you write that yourself?  It was very good.

Commish, I envy you for beating me to the Yesterdayland link.    However, Luvtygre, even if the link Commish provided didn't lead to any answers, I think the site still may be of some help to you.  Go back to Yesterdayland.  Sign up for a Yesterdayland ID (free, like Yahoo, only friendlier and fairer).  Go to one of the many forums, probably the Lost and Found forum, and describe as much as you can of the memory of the cartoon you mentioned.  Yesterdayland just edges out the BEarchive as the friendliest and most eagerly helpful community of people I've ever seen online; they know their TV too, and I've no doubt you'll have a reply in no time.

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Thanks for the nostalgia, JMM. Trouble is semi-automatics in the hands of the general citizenry pre-date my father, so I can't go back that far.  Most of the rest was very universal and quite a trip. For those of you hung up on Gigantor just substitute your favorite kid's show.  Like Captain Cody, Space Rangers, Space Angel, Clutch Cargo, Ruff & Ready, Johnny Quest, Tom Terrific, Sky King, Supercar, Stingray, Fireball Xl-5, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in Space,  and for all you Trekkers that were younger than 14 when Star Trek first appeared in 1967 just pick your favorite franchise.  JMM, see what you started?

[**DONOTDELETE**]

What a Difference 30 Years Can Make!

1970: Long Hair
2000: Longing for hair

1970: The perfect high
2000: The perfect high yield mutual fund

1970: KEG
2000: EKG

1970: Acid rock
2000: Acid reflux

1970: Moving to Calif. because it's cool
2000: Moving to Calif. because it's warm

1970: Growing pot
2000: Growing pot belly

1970: Watching John Glenn's historic flight with
  your parents
2000: Watching John Glenn's historic flight with
   your kids

1970: Trying to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor
2000: Trying NOT to look like Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor

1970: Seeds and stems
2000: Roughage

1970: Popping pills,Smoking Joints
2000: Popping Joints

1970: Our President's struggle with Fidel
2000: Our President's struggle with fidelity

1970: Paar
2000: AARP

1970: Killer weed
2000: Weedkiller

1970: Hoping for a BMW
2000: Hoping for a BM

1970: The Grateful Dead
2000: Dr. Kevorkian

1970: Getting out to a new, hip joint
2000: Receiving a new hip joint

1970: Rolling Stones
2000: Kidney stones

1970: Being called into the principal's office
2000: Calling the principal's office

1970: Screw the system
2000: Upgrade the system

1970: Peace sign
2000: Mercedes logo

1970: Parents begging you to get your hair cut
2000: Children begging you to get their heads shaved

1970: Taking acid
2000: Taking antacid

1970: Passing the drivers test
2000: Passing the vision test

1970: Whatever
2000: Depends

[JustMeMike]

Thanks guys - feel free to compile your own additions into this thread. to eDD - Your post was originally posted by me here on the BEA last year. But as long as we are dealing with nostalgic thoughts no problem. Except you left off my last one:

Breasts Out To Here
Breasts Down to There

JustMeMike  

[ July 30, 2001: Message edited by: JustMeMike ]

[JJ]

These just sent to me by a friend:

Thought you might like to see these!!!
                                 Comments made in the year 1957:

                   ”I’ll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it’s going
                          to be impossible to buy a week’s groceries for $20.”

                    ”Have you seen the new cars coming out next year?  It won’t be long
                               before $5000 will only buy a used one.”

                         ”If cigarettes keep going up in price, I’m going to quit.
                                   A quarter a pack is ridiculous..”

                   ”Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just to
                                         mail a letter?”

                    ”If they raise the minimum wage to $1, nobody will be able to hire
                                    outside help at the store.”

                     ”When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would
                                            someday
                    cost 29 cents a gallon.  Guess we’d be better off leaving the car in
                                          the garage.”

                       ”Kids today are impossible. Those ducktail haircuts make it
                                           impossible
                   to stay groomed.  Next thing you know, boys will be wearing their hair
                                       as long as the girls.”

                   ”I’m afraid to send my [censored] to the movies any more.. Ever since they
                    let Clark Gable get by with saying ‘damn’ in ‘Gone With The Wind,’ it
                         seems every new movie has either “hell” or “damn” in it.

                   ”I read the other day where some scientist thinks it’s possible to put
                    a man on the moon by the end of   the century.  They even have some
                       fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas.”

                    ”Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for
                                           $75,000
                   a year just to play ball?  It wouldn’t surprise me if someday they’ll be
                                  making more than the president.”

                    ”I never thought I’d see the day all our kitchen appliances would be
                                           electric..
                           They are even making electric typewriters now.”

                      ”It’s too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few
                         married women are having to work to make ends meet.”

                      ”It won’t be long before young couples are going to have to hire
                          someone to watch their [censored] so they can both work.”

                     ”Marriage doesn’t mean a thing any more; those Hollywood stars
                                            seem to
                              be getting divorced at the drop of a hat.”

                     ”I’m just afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a
                                   whole lot of foreign business.”

                    ”Thank goodness I won’t live to see the day when the Government
                                         takes half our
                     income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best
                                       people to congress.”

                       ”The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I
                               seriously doubt they will ever catch on.”

                   ”There is no sense going to Lincoln or Omaha anymore for a weekend.
                             It costs nearly $15 a night to stay in a hotel.”

                    ”No one can afford to be sick any more; $35 a day in the hospital is
                                      too rich for my blood.”

                        ”If they think I’ll pay 50 cents for a hair cut, forget it.”

[ July 31, 2001: Message edited by: JJ ]

[Vermillion]

In the good ol' days when you could get a comic book for 10-50 cents instead of the 3 dollar and higher price tag they have now....

When no one thought coke would be called classic coke and some weird hybrid would be called new coke.

Rubik's cubes, hula hoops and star wars figures were entertaining in the good ol' days instead of the pokeman and magic the gathering crap.

Using clearly understandable slang like "cool" instead of this confusing slang like "cutty". What is this "cutty" crap anyway?

In the good ol' days parents actually acted like parents instead of irresponsible children.

Back when i was young you'd never would have seen a 13 year old mother/father because they would actually be behaving like children rather than try to be adults prematurely.

Good ol' times were when you could get into a movie with a drink and snacks for under $10.  

Good ol' times were when you could leave your house and not worry about locking your doors.

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Checked it out at yesterdayland.  Craig Mercer's right.  It looks like that's our show, even though the name still doesn't turn the light on.  The pictures look right, but the name sounds odd.  All the memories indicate it's the show.

The blurb about it says it was "syndicated" in 1985.  It was on before then, around '82.  I'm dead sure of it.  It definitely came before Transformers in my chronology of toys-I-had-to-have.  Maybe the show had to be on for a long time before syndication because it was an import (a RACY import at that, according to the description).

Thanks for all the help.  That's one less thing in my head.  That's the trouble with being a lazy writer.  The mind never stops coming up with great stories and--if they're never written--they build up over time... and novels take up a LOT of memory.

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Y'all forgot several of the greatest points of my "childhood". The music the neighborhood ice cream truck ALWAYS played, the joy of discovering a neighbor got a new appliance to get the box it came in. "Borrowing" stuff from houses under construction to build a tree fort. Catching pollywogs. Road rash from wiping out on your bicycle (or some other contraption you made). Finding out you can not fly on wings you made from garbage bags and some plastic tubing...

I know I skipped more than a few skinned knees in this, but...

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Just after I posted my last message, this came in my e-mail: Paul Harvey Writes:

We tried so hard to make things better for our [censored] that we made them worse.

For my grandchildren, I'd like better.

I'd really like for them to know about hand me down clothes and homemade ice cream and leftover meat  loaf sandwiches, I really would.

I hope you learn humility by being humiliated, and that you learn honesty by being cheated.

I hope you learn to make your own bed and mow the lawn and wash the car. And  I really hope nobody gives you a brand new car when you are sixteen.

It will be good if at least one time you can see puppies born and your old dog put to sleep.

I hope you get a black eye fighting for something you believe in, I hope you have to share a bedroom with your younger brother. And it's all right if
you have to draw a line down the middle of the room, but when he wants to crawl under the covers with you because he's scared, I hope you let him.

When you want to see a movie and your little brother wants to tag  along, I hope you'll let him.

I hope you have to walk uphill to school with your friends and that you live in a town where you can do it safely. On rainy days when you have to catch
a ride, I hope you don't ask your driver to drop you two blocks away so you won't be seen riding with someone as uncool as your Mom.

If you want a slingshot, I hope your Dad teaches you how to make one instead of buying one.

I hope you learn to dig in the dirt and read books.

When you learn to use computers, I hope you also learn to add and subtract in your head.

I hope you get teased by your friends when you have your first crush on a girl, and when you talk back to your mother that you learn what ivory
soap tastes like.

May you skin your knee climbing a mountain, burn your hand on a stove and stick your tongue on a frozen flagpole.

I don't care if you try a beer once, but I hope you don't like it.  And if a friend offers you dope or a joint, I hope you realize he is not your friend.

I sure hope you make time to sit on a porch with your Grandpa and go fishing with your Uncle.

May you feel sorrow at a funeral and joy during the holidays.

I hope your mother punishes you when you throw a baseball through your neighbor's window and that she hugs you and kisses you at Christmas
time when you give her a plaster mold of your hand.

These things I wish for you - tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness.  To me, it's the only way to appreciate life.

Written with a pen.  Sealed with a kiss.  I'm here for you

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Forgot one last childhood fovorite - Peanut Butter and Marshmellow Fluff Sanwiches!

[Hoogleboogle]

Remember when, indeed, sir.  

[L_C_R_ANT]

WOW... boy do I count myself as lucky... I think I can honestly say I grew up right on the hairy edge of the end of that era.  I can remember doing a lot of those things myself JMM, and I wasn't even born until 82  I grew up around video games and computers, but I had and played with a rubics cube, and the two or three other [censored] in the neighborhood around us, we all played with plastic swords and dart guns, and toy action figures and played some sports.  We would get into lots of trouble all the time.  And while my father did work, he worked at home.  So there was no "Wait until your father gets home!", my punishment was waiting for me as soon as I walked through the door, and whats worse I would get it again when my mother got home that evening!  

I can remember my father letting my play around in his electronics shop at home while he worked, and just wandering around, playing with an old spare Oscilloscope he had (like I really even knew what it was for ), looking at all the old and seemingly ancient electronics trying to imagine what they were, and what they did, and who might have used them before they became parts in my father's spare parts stock.

I can remember being so excited every week when it was time to mow the grass cause it ment that I could get my allowence and go buy a new toy or game or candy.  And I can remember enjoying doing the physical activity (boy there's a term that needs to be used more often ) of mowing the lawn.  That was one of many highlights of the week cause I got to drive the riding mower and there was 2 acres to mow.  And doing the week whacking round the trees to trim the grass around them was the same way.

I can remember picking up hedge apples around the property for a penny a hedge apple and being more than happy to do it, even though most times I maybe got $5 from an entire afternoon.

I can remember watching Empire Strikes back and Return of the Jedi when they aired it on TV.  Watching movies like The Last Starfighter, Tron, Star Trek 1-3 (I can remember seeing 4 in the theaters) and crying my eyes out when Spock died ( I still get choaked up when I see that capsule going into the torpeado tube and hearing Scotty playing Amazing Grace on the bag pipes).  

I can remember watching the Disney 2000 Legues Under The Sea as a kid and thinking how cool Captin Nemo and the Nautilus were.  I can remember watching Terminator as a kid! T2 was the first R rated film my parents let me see.  They had a habbit of recording almost any movie that ever aired on TV, so a lot of my days as a little kid were spent watching the sci-fi movies and fantasy movies that we had.  

I can remember watching The Dark Crystal and being conviced that the characters were really people.  I can remember watching the Disney Robin Hood (the one with the animals) and thinking that it was the greatest movie ever.

I can remember watching Alien at the age of ... 8-10 and REALLY feeling afraid. (It to this day is the only movie that will STILL make me jump).  And then seeing Alien 2 and thinking how cool Ripley looked in the loader at the end.

I can remember seeing the Princess Bride for the first time on TV and thinking THAT was the coolest movie ever.

I can remember playing Four Square and doing hot potato, Cherry Bombs, frogsies, and many others.  Can remember having to do Addition, subtraction, division, multiplication, fractions, and simple powers with out calculators even though we had them in class .  Doing Science fair projects.  Being in the school plays.  All sorts of stuff.

I can remember trying to play base ball with 4 people, (Me, my brother, my father, and my mother) and never really having it work, but was still fun as heck.

I can remember when heck was a naughty word!

I can remember when Pepsi AND mountian dew were in glass bottles.  And I can remember the bottle return and carrying the carttons of bottles in every time we went to the grocery.  Goin to the Dairy Queen for a coney and drink on a cool summer evening.  Waking up to watch the care bears, The Popples, Droids, The Ewoks, Dungeons and Dragons, Transformers, TMNT, Reboot, Captian N, Merry Melodies at 11:00 AM to noon every saturday on ABC.

I can remember when fried ballogna sandwiches WERE lunch and hot dogs WERE dinner.  And on saturday and sunday were family night where we had a big sit down meal together as a family, and watching Life Goes On.

Waking up every morning and being so excited when 11:00 AM rolled around, because my father would come in from the shop for lunch and we would watch The Price Is Right every Monday through Friday while we ate lunch.

Ah that was fun.... Thanks for bringing up all that old stuff. I enjoyed that.      

[Bizarro_Penguin]

Wish I was a kid back in that era.. Sadly I missed it by quite some years. Oh well, childhood had it's shitty moments but it left a lot to learn from and stuff to remember.

I remember when hearing "Hell" was an "OMMMMM!!!" moment.. or when a kiss on the cheek or holding hands was something worthy of getting a whole classroom "Oooo!"ing at til your face wanted to burst into flame from the intense blushing..

Damn [censored] today! They no nothing of imagination or work or.. any of that stuff that childhood is really about. Most [censored] these days just know that mommy and daddy have money, and they want something because someone else suggested it.. bleh.

..Was that on topic? Hope so, that seemed kinda mean.. *Shrug, penguin noise*

I remember, back in the "old days".. Viewing a playboy was a Momentous, incredible feat that left you confused, feeling queasy.. and a sore ass if you got caught.  

[Blax12]

   I am born in 1975. So I crossed the 2 eras. Then I have grown in a suburban area of a small city.

When I was a kid, we used to get out of home in summer mornings, leaving our home doors open. We stayed out all day long, with a small break just for eating something at mid-day.

My mother says at evening any mother used to pick up a number of [censored] even to the number of [censored] she had at the morning, wash'em then they checked if they were their own [censored] . If a kid got hurted while playing, nobody got sued. You didn't make "sports", you just played. And the balls were like they had an engine in them. There was a soccer field: the game started at 10 am and used to keep on 'till evening, almost without a stop.

I also remember when giving a girl a kiss was something you can tell your friends, and everyone was asking you for hours how it was. Best friends and great loves could last one day, then leave, then come back.

At 13-14 (so I am talking about the beginning of the 90's) everything changed. I started frequenting the high-school in the city center. I don't know if it was only my life or the whole world which changed.  I just know I couldn't ever adapt to that thing: young guys wearing Armani, people looking at you like an alien if you eat a ham sandwich and not a yogurth for breakfast.

Blax12    

[TittyMan]

Great post man. I can't relate to all of it because I'm a young guy (18), but some of the childhood games and fear of ass whoppings are the same. In that sense, not much has changed between 1960 and 1990. Those were the good 'ol days.  

[Prophet_Tenebrae]

Yo, L_C_R_ANT - 80s [censored] unite! The reason for the decline in society can clearly be linked to the lack of good cartoons (although of late that situation has improved). But after the awesomeness of Transformers, He-Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and so on - the early to mid-90s were a barren wasteland of nonsense.

Plus, none of them had the moral at the end of the show like He-Man did.

[McAngus]

"I remember when hearing "Hell" was an "OMMMMM!!!" moment"

I had a comedy show on some east coast TV stations in 1982, and I couldn't say "hell" on air.  I did one episode in a cave that was supposedly in hell, so I had to call it "h-e-double toothpicks."  In fact, that was one of the first colour episodes on those stations, as they had just gone colour that year, but only the location stuff.  The studio segments of the first season of my show were in black-and-white!    

[MunchWolf]

oooh ... I was living on the east coast in 82 ... what show?

-Munch "loved that channel 13" Wolf

[Wolfman1066]

The only thing I remember from that point in my life is Calvin and Hobbes.

[Demolition_Man]

I've got to hand it to you Hoogleboogle, you sure brought this thread back from the crypt!
 

[Hoogleboogle]

 
"And there's a million of us just like me
who cuss like me; who just don't give a fuck like me
who dress like me; walk, talk and act like me
and just might be the next best thing but not quite me!"



 

[L_C_R_ANT]

uhhhhh....................
NO!

[L_C_R_ANT]

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Yo, L_C_R_ANT - 80s [censored] unite! The reason for the decline in society can clearly be linked to the lack of good cartoons (although of late that situation has improved). But after the awesomeness of Transformers, He-Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and so on - the early to mid-90s were a barren wasteland of nonsense.

Plus, none of them had the moral at the end of the show like He-Man did.  

I say Power rangers is what took it down hill!  That and ABC taking the old looney toones off the saturday morning lineup.  You remember a show that used to be on ABC called Bump In The Night?  was a claymation with a main character named, Mr. Bumpy who was the little green monster that went bump in the night, lived under your bed, and ate dirty socks.  And his friend Squishy.  Was never quite sure what he was supposed to be but he was blue, kind of jello looking lived in the toilet tank and was a neat freek.

Speaking of morals, G.I. Joe should be in there, "Now we know.  And knowing is half the battle!"

The more you learn, the more you know.
And knowlegde is power!
With school house Rocky, he's a chip off the block.  
All your fravorite school house, School House Rock!

or at least I think that's how it went...

[rtpoe]

I remember Saturday night baths, then having an ice cream soda while watching the Jackie Gleason Show in my pajamas...

"Can it be that it was all so simple then?
Or has time re-written every line?
If we had the chance to do it all again
Tell me, would we? Could we?"

--- "The Way We Were", Bergman, Bergman & Hamlisch


rtpoe