Child o' the Eighties

Apr 02, 2011 10:45

Yep. I grew up on Reading Rainbow, Electric Company, 3-2-1 Contact, Square One- and also Disney Afternoon. (Gummi Bears, Duck Tails, Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers, Tale Spin, Darkwing Duck, Gargoyles....) Oh, happy memories. Of course, this was well before the days of my family having a VCR- and also well before the days of buying seasons of tv ( Read more... )

my eighties childhood

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mountain_born April 2 2011, 19:54:34 UTC
I'll still occasionally get the Reading Rainbow theme stuck in my head. It's amazing how those little bits of music embed themselves in your brain.

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bookelfe April 2 2011, 20:07:07 UTC
. . . that is glorious. OH, THE EIGHTIES.

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crazedcrusader April 2 2011, 23:29:14 UTC
I saw DVDs of Tailspin, Duck Tails, Rescue Rangers and Darkwing in Costco today! I squeaked a lot.

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cupenny April 3 2011, 19:09:28 UTC
Oooh. *teeeempted*

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batyatoon April 3 2011, 01:04:39 UTC
... now I have the Reading Rainbow theme in my head. DAMN YOOOOOOU

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batyatoon April 3 2011, 01:05:27 UTC
(also Darkwing Duck and Gargoyles weren't until the nineties.)

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cupenny April 3 2011, 19:10:24 UTC
True! Still such a part of my childhood, though. (I only turned 10 in '88, so early ninties was still a formative part.)

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oneechan19 April 3 2011, 18:47:38 UTC
I don't know Electric Company, but I remember all the rest. Oh, the eighties/early nineties.

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