As someone hitting 54 this year, I had a ton of Gen X summers. This is 💯 on point, I did all these things and so much more. Running on rooftops & jumping between them, Shooting off unsafe fireworks, jumping on sketchy ramps, Playing our parents stereo at max loudness when they where at work, opening up manhole covers, Sneaking out the window at 3 am to do even more dangerous random stuff. Ran wild in the streets. Rock on Gen X, Self-reliance for the win. ❤🤘
OMG it’s so true I said something to a 16 year old about going over to their friends house and they told me they can’t do that unless they call. They said people that don’t call or text and just show up are weirdos. Do you remember when people would just ring the doorbell? We used to love it when somebody would just randomly come over and my mom would open that coffee cake and we would drink international coffee (from the rectangle can), just add water
Amy Murphy broke her arm playing on our jungle gym while we were away. I found out about it Monday at school. No one sued us, or anything. Her parents were like, “Well, maybe next time you won’t do that.”
Ha my friend and I went to his best friend's place to use the pool. The kid was in summer camp, but he knew where the key was and said it would be fine, so I went with it. The mom came home, found us and was just like "who is your little friend?" and made us sandwiches and lemonade. hahaha I forgot about that until just now! My mother is German, so she was horrified when I got home and told her what happened. She was fine with people dropping in, but not when the owners were away. :D
This is quite possibly the best summary of my 80's childhood. Couldn't stop laughing. Our parents didn't know where we were, all day. We trespassed through peoples yards all the time to get to our friends houses. We roamed from friends house to friends house and piled our bikes in the yard (the piles of bikes were how you knew where everybody was).
Yep. The only warning I'd get from my parents was "watch out for clothesline poles". Eventually you knew which little old ladies had the really low clotheslines.
Funniest show on the web. So much is dismal, but these guys are pretty humorous. But isn't Michael Jackson the formative influence? And MTV? But I've never understood these later generations. Being Silent Generation.
This was so hilarious because honestly every generation Xer understands everything about this song. Yes I really truly wish we could have a Gen X Summer. 1978 in the House.
Only thing that is missing is having one of those flavored ice things in the plastic that would cut the sides of your mouth when you tried to get the ice out 🙂
@@beckyfrechette4439 well I definitely had the full sugar and E-numbers versions, but kids these days have ones made with sweetener and fruit&veg extracts 😂
Hope everyone has a great weekend. Here's a fun one to share on a Friday afternoon: Anyone who was BORN between 1965 & 1979, we are the last generation that played outside until dark. We are the FIRST to play video games & the LAST to record songs off the radio onto a cassette tape, we loved roller skating on Friday and Saturday nights. We survived the 80’s with big hair and the era of extravagant everything. We took walks with friends without worry of being taken, we watched cartoons on Saturday mornings while eating a bowl of cereal... we programmed the VCR before anyone else... we remember learning how to use a computer for the first time, we played Atari & Nintendo. We are the generation of Soul Train, Gilligan’s Island, Dukes of Hazard, Scooby-Doo, Charlie’s Angels, Wonder Woman, Little House on the Prairie, Happy Days, & Good Times... We traveled in cars w/o seat belts or airbags, rode in the backs of pick ups & lived without cell phones. We did not have flat screens, surround sound, I-Pads, Facebook and Twitter...But we had a GREAT time ALL 👏 THE 👏 TIME 👏 with each other! We are definitely a different breed. 😘 Copied & Pasted
And Knight Rider and WKRP in Cincinnati. Gilligan's Island after playing and swimming all afternoon every weekday in the summer - watched it every day at 5pm right before dinner. And Smurfs, Looney Toons, Schmoo, and Hong Kong Fooey for Saturday morning cartoons - in addition to Scooby Doo of course! And some show with the terrifying Sleestacks and the red headed kid from All in the Family. While eating cereal like Quisp, Giggles Laughs and Guffaws, Captain Crunch and CW Post granola. And playing with toys like Light Brite and Creepy Crawlers. 😂
A lot of thats true. And a lot of it was awesome. Thankfully we were the last to be beaten by our peers for non conformity with the tacit approval of our teachers and families. We were the last generation forced to pray if we didn't want to, or go to a church we didn't believe in. We were the last generation to have to sit in a reeking cloud of second hand smoke everywhere we went. We were the last generation to have to breath air tainted with leaded car exhaust. Love the past, but don't give it a halo, it was a good past, and in 25 years the kids will say the same about their past.
GeN Xer here. Hearing any sing the moment I want to hear it and I don't even have to touch anything? Just tell the car stereo what my groove is? Are you kidding? Waiting to hit the record button, missing the beginning of a song and having a DJ talk over the end? It was terrible!
We had to record a top 40 station for a couple of hours to ensure our favorite songs were recorded, because if we tried to just catch that favorite song, the beginning would be cut off due to slow reaction!
This is so accurate. I wish my kids could have had a childhood like mine. It was not all roses, of course, but it still rocked. I’d totally do it again if I could.
@@barefootrealist246 haha we spent our bus money at the store and walked all the way home while eating/drinking our slurpees, mike and Ike’s, bottle caps and hostess chips
Our town didn’t have a pool but they’re taking down my old elementary school and one of the proposals for the site is a municipal pool! That’s what I’m strongly pushing for, you couldn’t get us out of my cousin’s town pool when we visited them - it was bliss!
Water fights, freeze tag, hide-n-seek (late at night was the best!), making our own bike jumps, skateboarding down the longest, steepest hill we could find, the list goes on and on…we had the BEST childhoods!
That was my summer in the 60s. No cell phones. Ride our bikes all day, came home when the street lights came on. If you wanted to play with a friend, you biked over & knocked on the door.
But kids are not allowed to have them in school because they could hide a weapon or contraband in it. ☹ not like when we were kids. I loved mine, at one point I even had one with straps!
This was our summers in the 70s and 80s! We went to the park all day, played hide and seek in the museum. Stayed out after dark running up and down the alley with all the neighborhood kids playing games. Went to the library and read books outside under the trees. McDonalds Doritos Donuts. Life was joyful!!
90s kids had much the same experience. Trapper keepers were still a thing and instead of Atari we had Golden Eye on game cube or Doom on the Windows 95 computer. Of course, only on kid in the neighborhood had those, the one with the absent father, LOL. No cell phones and internet was in its infancy. I'm almost forty now and still sneak a drink from the hose when I am watering my plants.
I wish I could do this as gen z. Now I can’t go anywhere (as a 15 year old) without my parents or another adult. Good luck having multiple people who’s parent let them wander around or play outside alone. Even if they let me, museums, movies, theme parks, etc don’t normally let unaccompanied minors in. If they do it costs tons of money and you have to find someone to drive because there’s not much in biking distance.
@@jasonh5547 Oh, I will never bash the internet. I absolutely love having all the information I need at my fingertips. But sometimes I do think the state of being literally unable to communicate with work or school afterhours was a blessing.
How did you just nail every part of a 45-year-old's childhood in one song? 100% did ALL of these things (except that the trampoline was at Jay and Courtney's house, not Jennifer's).
Honestly, even as a 90s kid, this also perfectly described my summers. I feel so bad for the children growing up in today’s world. They will never understand just how blissful, enjoyable and simplistic (in the best way possible) a summer (and overall childhood) like this was, and how much of a blessing and privilege it seems like when compared to the everyday lives of children today.
I grew up in a poor area of town. No one was friends with anyone who even knew any kind of senator, so the only trampolines we knew were those really small ones people kept in their house for exercise. However, my family was the first in the neighborhood to have a VCR and to get cable. At 4:05 every afternoon for the better part of a year (i think), everyone wanted to be at my house to watch Michael Jackson perform Thriller on MTV. Also, Atari at my house! PacMan was the crowd favorite, of course.
EXACTLY MY LIFE!! And I'm here to tell you.... IT WAS GREAT. I feel sorry for the kids today being raised by cell phones. We Rocked the GenX so much they're making re makes of all our stuff from the days past. THAT says it all. WE STILL ROCK. Great video.
70's & 80's man those were the days. Totally forgot about the note from mom saying when SHE would be home. Hahahaha. We would hurry to get home about 20 minutes before her and rush to get our chores done.
"Which Jennifer, we know 7 Jennifers" Oh that is so true. 😆 I'm an Xennial but most of this still applies. My mom used to give me a list of chores to do while she was at work, but I could do them whenever I wanted in the day. I still could bike down to the Subway for lunch (with no helmet of course) or to my friends house. And kick the can with the neighborhood kids in the evenings. Good times.
That reminds me of my freshman year in High School. We had a Sadie Hawkins dance (where the girls ask the guys to the dance) and I got a call from someone. I asked who it was and they said “it’s me” (not very helpful). I said “who’s me?” And they said “it’s Jennifer”. I knew 4 Jennifer’s at our High School, and I have no idea which one it is. Unfortunately our family was going out of town that weekend, so I had to tell her that I couldn’t go. To this day I have no idea which Jennifer asked me to that dance.
The stopping by without scheduling, I would circle the block for hours on my bike waiting for my friends to get home some days, and when the garage door was finally open, it felt like victory. That would never happen today. Also, way to commit on the rope swing Penn!
Actually, it’s a giant hot dog that was sliced. ;~) At least that’s what I thought it was (and really, not that far off the mark!) back in 1970-something.
I loved the 80's. I still play New Wave music when I'm cleaning. Remember roller rinks, and playing outside (and running back in when you got bullied). When all my girlfriends had a cabbage patch doll, and all the guys I knew had a Yoda or Gizmo. Everyone played paper football and the school champion of double -dutch and tetherball were held in high regard. Everyone wore jelly bracelets or braided friendship bracelets and you worried that if you kissed your crush you might get stuck together because you both had braces. Amazing memories. and good times.
Oh man I forgot about double Dutch and tetherball! And the rubber band game when you had to jump over it and we held it up to our shoulders! Loved that game.
80s were the best time…… I remember the slip and slide and drinking straight from the hose. If I got hungry, I would nuke a hotdog and place it on a piece of Wonder Bread. Fun times. Thanks for bringing back so many memories!
I miss those days. It seemed like it was a kids world back then. All the marketing campaigns for restaurants were focused on kids, there were dozens and dozens of kids channels, and there were more toy aisles in the store sometimes than almost anything else. And then all those kids grew up and took over the business world and now, unsurprisingly, nostalgia is BIG business. 🙂
YES! Went out when we woke up. Came home when street lights came on. I used look for soda bottles to return to the store so I could by freezies or Popsicles at the store. Spend way too much money on arcade games. LOVED Galaga. When Kim was playing it on this video, I laughed so hard because that was the stance you needed if you wanted to play well. And Lola was right, the opening credits in the movies were way too long. But it allowed us to be a few minutes late for the movies. 🤣 Thank you for the trip down memory lane.
This took me back, for sure. We did have to be home each night....we had to come in when the street lights came on, LOL. But we could call home from a friend's and ask to stay over last minute and it was almost always OK. Now you practically need a police check before the other parent says yes, LOL. (Born in late 70's) Also, the bologna sandwich needs to have a square of fake cheese...and can we talk about how each bite would stick to the roof of your mouth? And we drank bucket loads of Kool Aid as well as from the hose.
I think it stuck to our mouths because we ran all over the place all day long and probably didn't stay hydrated enough 🤣 we would sneak some water thru a hose on the side of the house and drink kool-aid or some other fruity sugary drink. Those were the days💯 Too funny ! I typed my response before reading your last sentence. That's how we know it's true🤣🤣🤣
This is so spot on. So glad I grew up in the 70s and 80s. Great song remember the food and the crimped hair on the girls. You're right about the trampolines now I laugh when I see the safety nets. My next door neighbor had one and we bounced off onto tree roots, huge rocks, or whatever was in the yard.
Isn't it so funny how we didn't think about the dangers at all🤣 just living life not caring at all. Even when we fell off our bikes and skinned a knee or something many of us didn't whine about it. We just got back on and did it again
@@markjustice7894 We would ride in the back of pick up trucks all over town and the country side🤣 several of us kids just bouncing around with every turn. I grew up in Oklahoma
I spent my teen years in the early 70's. You depicted my life! In the summer I would leave the house early in the morning and my mother would tell me to be home in time for supper. She had no clue where I was all day. I was out in the neighborhood riding bikes with my friends, getting into minor trouble and eating junk food. It was glorious! And yes, I had bologna sandwiches everyday too! I loved them. Now I can't stand them. LOL!
I was laughing the entire way through. You nailed it! My son actually had friends over the other day and I suggested they watch one of "our" movies. They were seriously talking and laughing about how long the credits were at the beginning of the movie 🤣
OMG I love this!!! I still remember a summer vacation where I stayed at different friends' houses for like 3 weeks before my parents realized they hadn't seen me at all, finally tracked me down and I still spent another week bumming around before heading home again lol. (I was 10 at the time and that was all my parents did was call around to my friends, got a hold of me, "alive" "yep" "okay")
Too funny!! I totally remember not being home for weeks at a time also. I mean I had to call my mom and get her approval but yeah during summer months I would easily have sleepovers booked for sometimes weeks in a row at different friends homes. We truly are the nomad generation.
I like how the whole video is about living without concerns we have today, doing what you want and the last clip, don’t go in the water it looks dirty. Straight to the shower. Shows the difference best.
This was so much fun to watch! The 70's and 80's were the bomb... I mean those decades were totally awesome! I use to go rollerskating or walk around the nieghborhood in the summertime with my friends carrying a boombox :)
Ooh, the boombox! A bunch of us piled into this old white 4 door Dodge pickup we had (8 foot bed and a clutch too!) and went to the drive in theater, one of those nights that you paid by car not how many people were in it. My brother loved messing around with electronics so we had this little white boombox that he made sound a lot better. Most people around us were on the hood of their cars or in the back of their pickup trucks, everyone turned their radios off and listened to our boombox! 🤣😁
@@jerrkyd i'm guilty of still writing numbers on my arm and anything else majorly important I need to remember. I get looks of confusion from Gen Z and looks nods of approval from other Gen X'ers.
For me you only really needed to know the last 4 numbers.. As anyone I wanted to call was in the Area code was long distance and never got used for day to day chatting... Then 3 numbers for city code, we all shared that, then dash and home number so the 4 where key...
My memories: jumping off the bridge into the river, laying on the water raft. I had to work all day on the family farm to earn the time off to hang out with my friends.
Just like summers in the 60"s. But instead of arcade games, we were out collecting pop bottles to get the money for returning them. Thanks for the memories.
The "you are going right away into the shower" outed you... 😆😆 there is only so much endless summer one can take before one is ordered into the shower....
Perfect ... except Kim should have been wearing either Reebok hi-tops with three layered pairs of scrunchy socks (even in the middle of summer), Keds without the laces, or jelly shoes with lots of blisters.
You nailed it. This brought it all back and gave me warm fuzzies. But made me sad for my own kids at the same time that they don’t have these experiences and only care about their phones.
And they like to complain there's nothing to watch 🤷♀️ they have over a million more channels to watch than the 80s kids ever did🤣 we used to find a movie we really liked on HBO when it was just 1 channel😳 and we could watch that same movie all day long at various times😆
Same here. The first time I drank hose water infront of my son he looked at me and said..."You can do that?!" I said: Yep. Want some? My son(as it was already cool water)took a curious sip and went "Yum!" Then I got a call from a neighbor who was in an absolute fit because she saw my son drink from the hose. You would've thought by their reaction he was drinking cyanide or smoking meth! Then again we let our son ride his bike and walk alone(within reason)and ppl thought it was something to call the police over. The police spend 2hours trying to explain it's not illegal for a 10yr old to ride their bike and play in the front yard with supervision. Our son had his phone, ID, and 15$ and we would check on him so it wasn't a crime. Thankfully we've moved into the counrty and it's heaven!
Omfg! I graduated high school in 1996 so I remember these summers. I was more of a city kid, so my uncle had that huge wrench to open the fire hydrant. Taking our bikes to the corner store for penny candies made you feel like a baller!
Oh yeah I remember riding to the store, I lived in the suburbs but we had a deli that sold the penny candies, they also had video games! Could go there with just a couple of dollars, play a few games, and come home with a bag of candy!
I laughed out loud through this whole thing. So many truths and good times. I wouldn’t wanna be a kid these days for nothing. We had so much more freedom. That was not always a good thing, but neither is being tracked all the time . . . . Sidenote: Galaga is the 💩!
I love how Kim's dressed. I totally dressed same way when I was a teenager. I remember going to arcade, library, mall, beach, and I was the friend people would always show up to at my house unannounced (it was because I had a pool). Great job guys.
I have to tell you, I haven’t watched one of your videos that I didn’t like. I don’t think anyone on earth deserved the million dollars more! You guys are awesome, funny, relatable, and what a lot of people need to get though their days.
I’m an early millennial, and I can relate to a lot of this! “We know 7 Jennifers,” riding my bike to a friend’s house unannounced, making a fort, and jumping in a dirty lake are all things I can relate to. Also, I loved your colorful notebook. The only thing I would add is spending time at the neighborhood pool.
Yes!! This was my life. Except my Mom let us eat hot dogs (no buns) with blue box Kraft most days, since I could make that for me and my brothers by myself. Lol!
@@theholdernessfamily I think I was nine the first time I made it...and it was a fellow nine year old teaching me to make it, lol. We got distracted and ruined the pan when it burned dry
Great job y'all that was awesome and those were the days. No cell phones, no real rules just be home before dark. When prank calls could be done easily, now you gotta be slick to call someone and them not know who you are. I would have jumped in the water as well, grew up in creeks and rivers in Missouri, I'd prefer a moving stream over a public pool anyday.
If someone told you back then you could have had a Walkman that played all your music and your movies too, AND videogames??? you would have been all over that shit. I'm so glad that being old does not fill me with this level of denial.
Boomer here, I laughed so hard at the end bloopers where Penn was filmed getting out of the yucky river and was told he was going to take a shower asap. I used to come home so dirty, my family called me "pig pen" Of course I was also almost abducted a couple of times by a dark car with dark windows, but fortunately I was trained to know where all the Red M (safe houses which stood for safe houses) houses were and ran into those. And then I also have several dents and symptoms of brain damage from landing head first off of mini bikes and other bikes without a helmet. I grew up in the 60's and 70's - those were really fun days, says the queen of prank phone calls. I really loved doing those. I would still be doing them if not for caller I.D.
Yes! I grew up in the 60s/70s also! I have great memories of my childhood! I once rode my bicycle into the back of a parked car because I was looking at the cute new neighbor boy that had just moved in!😂
I was doing Gen X summers in the 70s as a late boomer. Latch key kids. Paper route for cash. Swim lessons at the school across town. Nok Hockey and Lanyards at the elementary school playground. Ride bikes up and down the street looking for someone to play with sitting on the porch. Trying to pick the house lock with a twig because you lost your key. All great fun and independence. Free range kids before helicopter parents were invented.
Good times. Remember that old B&W movie about the teens making prank phone calls. It was called something like “I Saw What You Did and I Know Who You Are.”
@@normadacrema3483 ok, I admit, we also did some of those after that movie - I had partners in crime and that's what we did on boring summer days when it was way too hot outside to even go swimming
Hilarious, as always! I loved the crimping in Kim’s hair and that determined look she got playing the video game. I’d worry about that brown, still water having brain destroying amoebas instead of the hose water having flesh eating bacteria. I figure you can get carcinogens from drinking hose water - especially if you don’t let it run until it cools down. Even though I’m a boomer I can relate to the freedom of summers back in the day. So much fun!
I am so glad I found your channel. I am a 71 year old male with a 16 year old daughter and can’t wait to show her these videos. Love the phone/refrigerator call remember it well. Thanks for all the work you put into this but look like you both have fun doing it. My wife 23 younger than me been married almost 18 years and we still love hanging out with each other.
I was a 90s baby and this was also my life. I couldn't go home because mom was at work. So had to play outside till the street lights came on at 9-10 pm. Lol! God I miss childhood
This is what my life is missing, I need to be singing throughout the day. Plus, I really need to revert to my youth. ;-) I was born in 1959, but the period that defines Gen X 1965-1980 is my youth, 6-21. This brought back so many memories, thank you so much. Last comment, the worry of Penn jumping into that pond (?) is spot on. In our youth we never thought anything about doing that. Nowadays I keep reading of brain-eating bacteria from lakes or ponds. I'd be scared to even dip my toes in that water. Good idea on sending him to the showers right afterwards. Stay healthy you two! :-)
“Oh, my gosh. You’re going right away into a shower.” We survived though! Kim, you are so cute. You put on those clothes, and you BECOME the 80s, yet here it is 2022. How you BE ALL DECADES??!? And talk about Penn and those gnarly jumping abilities - ! Radical, man! Totally tubular
Can we talk about Kim's crimped hair!!! OMG it's fabulous! This made me dig out my old crimping iron and Aqua Net! I'm sad there was no use of Zinca(neon colored zinc oxide paste)across nose and under eyes like warpaint(girl's also used it as lipbalm). Gen X summers were the freaking best! Pack a sandwhich, quaters, books, and hop on your bike. Just be home by the time the street lights come on.
This was one of your BEST! So relatable!! Loved the prank call to Steve!! Every part of this vid was spot on & you gotta wonder how anyone ever survived!!!! Love you two! Y’all are geniuses!!! ❤️😂
Yes. No caller ID back then. I'm so glad that we have it now, but unfortunately, nowadays, when people try to circumvent Caller ID, they have some nefarious purpose, and they don't want to play a silly prank.
Loved when Kim told Penn he needed a shower right away after he got out of the yucky-looking water. I guess if you were really acting as kids you would either have walked or ridden bikes there. As your adult selves though, I would have thought Kim would make you stand behind a huge beach towel or blanket to take off those yucky wet clothes before getting back into your car. 😁
Tomorrow is my 40th Birthday!! Does that make me a Millennial or Gen X Dunno… but this all screams my summers! Watched it twice already! Love you guys!
Lola commenting on the long credits. . .LOL! So glad she's joining you in these again. Loved her also in your recent video about parents trying (failing badly) to use their kids' slang. She has really grown up! Hope you all have an excellent summer! You bring us all such joy! Thank you very, very much!
I watched a couple 80s and 90s movies with my son and he asked if I started it at the beginning or if it was replaying from the end... That was when you could walk into the theater twenty minutes late for a movie and it would just be starting.
Growing up in the 80s and 90 was awesome. I remember I lived out in the country roads, and my BFF lived in town. We walk and meet each other half way, every day in the summer. Took us forever to get to each other, and then we walk would walk around town and go to the arcade. Miss those days
You forgot the ice cream man coming down the road and all the kids chasing the ice cream truck with change from their houses. The candy "cigarettes" for sale 😂😂😂
Pretty sure that Ferrari poster is a Corvette. Also, the paranoia about Penn falling in that water was pretty hilarious. Also, everything in this is 100% accurate to my Millennial childhood cause I'm an early Millennial.
OMG...you had me at fried baloney. I used to have that when I was a kid, even into high school. That is so comfort food. Now that actually sounds good.
OMG 😂 the credits at the beginning of movies, yep. Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Ladyhawke, come on that was the life, and the Never Ending Story soundtrack was my dreams coming true. Come on.
I hope y'all experienced the joy of putting an old school sprinkler under the trampoline so that the water came up through it as you jumped. Best. Summers. Ever.
I always look forward to your videos that have any reference to our generation! I was a kid in the 70’s and high school/college occupied the 80’s (81-89). I remember as a kid in the 70’s we’d go out to play after breakfast and not be home till dinner! Great memories. Thanks again!
Wow, you two…more than any other video you NAILED this one! 😆 Fun baloney story - when I was a kid I flipped some slices up on to the ceiling. Decades later when my parents moved out of that house there was still circular stains from them! 🤮
I love how Kim is trying to describe what’s in bolonge. No one actually know’s. Now I feel old lol. I have a headlight and flashing tail light on my pedal bike now. No more riding around without a helmet.
I'm a 90s kid, and I just barely caught the tail end of some of what you're describing. The older I get the more I wish we could go back to those times.
You hit the nail on the head! I remember one summer day my friend and I were out wandering the neighborhood, and we found this injured Canada goose. So we caught it and put it in the garage, because what else are you going to do on a summer day? Lol. My parents were not thrilled when they got home 😆 I think the thought was we'd take it to a vet, but alas my parents wanted nothing to do with it.
As someone hitting 54 this year, I had a ton of Gen X summers. This is 💯 on point, I did all these things and so much more. Running on rooftops & jumping between them, Shooting off unsafe fireworks, jumping on sketchy ramps, Playing our parents stereo at max loudness when they where at work, opening up manhole covers, Sneaking out the window at 3 am to do even more dangerous random stuff. Ran wild in the streets. Rock on Gen X, Self-reliance for the win. ❤🤘
I’m 55. I wasn’t that dangerous but it does resonate😂
Hey hey!!! Fellow Xer Dog here!!! Born 1970 year of the dog!!❤❤❤
Geez...I thought I had a unique childhood...those perceptions shattered...Buehler... Buehler.
I want to retire and have gen x summers every day....but this time with my own house and pocket money.
Show up at your friends house without calling and hanging out in their yard if they weren't home = ACCURATE
OMG it’s so true I said something to a 16 year old about going over to their friends house and they told me they can’t do that unless they call. They said people that don’t call or text and just show up are weirdos. Do you remember when people would just ring the doorbell? We used to love it when somebody would just randomly come over and my mom would open that coffee cake and we would drink international coffee (from the rectangle can), just add water
Amy Murphy broke her arm playing on our jungle gym while we were away. I found out about it Monday at school.
No one sued us, or anything. Her parents were like, “Well, maybe next time you won’t do that.”
@@llamasugar5478 haha when I read "well maybe next time you won't do that", I totally heard it in my mom's voice! 😂
@@susana7968 😂
Ha my friend and I went to his best friend's place to use the pool. The kid was in summer camp, but he knew where the key was and said it would be fine, so I went with it. The mom came home, found us and was just like "who is your little friend?" and made us sandwiches and lemonade. hahaha I forgot about that until just now! My mother is German, so she was horrified when I got home and told her what happened. She was fine with people dropping in, but not when the owners were away. :D
This is quite possibly the best summary of my 80's childhood. Couldn't stop laughing. Our parents didn't know where we were, all day. We trespassed through peoples yards all the time to get to our friends houses. We roamed from friends house to friends house and piled our bikes in the yard (the piles of bikes were how you knew where everybody was).
Yep. The only warning I'd get from my parents was "watch out for clothesline poles". Eventually you knew which little old ladies had the really low clotheslines.
we had a friend who had a hot tub, he wasnt home and neither were his parents....oh well party was on!
For food we would raid the couch for random change or eat wild rhubarb and apples from the tree.
Best times
Funniest show on the web. So much is dismal, but these guys are pretty humorous. But isn't Michael Jackson the formative influence? And MTV? But I've never understood these later generations. Being Silent Generation.
This was so hilarious because honestly every generation Xer understands everything about this song. Yes I really truly wish we could have a Gen X Summer. 1978 in the House.
79er’s represent the ass end! Dirty Kurt.,can’t wash him off! ❤
76 here!
78er here!
Only thing that is missing is having one of those flavored ice things in the plastic that would cut the sides of your mouth when you tried to get the ice out 🙂
OTTER POPSSSS
Yes! I hated that but it was a necessary evil for the goodness inside! Lol
@@hopecox too fancy, our didn't have names and they were definitely full of food coloring! How else do you know the flavor? ;)
Yeah, but they’re still just as popular today, though.
@@beckyfrechette4439 well I definitely had the full sugar and E-numbers versions, but kids these days have ones made with sweetener and fruit&veg extracts 😂
Hope everyone has a great weekend. Here's a fun one to share on a Friday afternoon:
Anyone who was BORN between 1965 & 1979, we are the last generation that played outside until dark. We are the FIRST to play video games & the LAST to record songs off the radio onto a cassette tape, we loved roller skating on Friday and Saturday nights. We survived the 80’s with big hair and the era of extravagant everything. We took walks with friends without worry of being taken, we watched cartoons on Saturday mornings while eating a bowl of cereal... we programmed the VCR before anyone else... we remember learning how to use a computer for the first time, we played Atari & Nintendo. We are the generation of Soul Train, Gilligan’s Island, Dukes of Hazard, Scooby-Doo, Charlie’s Angels, Wonder Woman, Little House on the Prairie, Happy Days, & Good Times... We traveled in cars w/o seat belts or airbags, rode in the backs of pick ups & lived without cell phones. We did not have flat screens, surround sound, I-Pads, Facebook and Twitter...But we had a GREAT time ALL 👏 THE 👏 TIME 👏 with each other!
We are definitely a different breed. 😘
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Love this! Pretty sure the females would also be the last generation to “tan” with tin foil and baby oil and to put Sun-In in our hair!
And Knight Rider and WKRP in Cincinnati. Gilligan's Island after playing and swimming all afternoon every weekday in the summer - watched it every day at 5pm right before dinner. And Smurfs, Looney Toons, Schmoo, and Hong Kong Fooey for Saturday morning cartoons - in addition to Scooby Doo of course! And some show with the terrifying Sleestacks and the red headed kid from All in the Family. While eating cereal like Quisp, Giggles Laughs and Guffaws, Captain Crunch and CW Post granola. And playing with toys like Light Brite and Creepy Crawlers. 😂
A lot of thats true. And a lot of it was awesome. Thankfully we were the last to be beaten by our peers for non conformity with the tacit approval of our teachers and families. We were the last generation forced to pray if we didn't want to, or go to a church we didn't believe in. We were the last generation to have to sit in a reeking cloud of second hand smoke everywhere we went. We were the last generation to have to breath air tainted with leaded car exhaust. Love the past, but don't give it a halo, it was a good past, and in 25 years the kids will say the same about their past.
@@tinaperez7393 Land of the Lost had the Sleestacks. 👍
@@huflpuf5034 😸
80’s kid, 90’s teen here. Oh, the memories this brought back. Well done!
Same! No cell phones. No social media. Heck, not even internet. Wouldn't change it for the world.
Same thinking 2022
Yeeeeessssssssss!
Same!
#xenial
You had me at the "4 way retractable pen"!!!! 😂😂😂❤️❤️❤️❤️
I still use those pens 😂
Ooooh THE pen to own.😢
I saw a Trapper Keeper, I'm sold
We bought those pens for the office recently and had to explain to our Millennial coworker 😂.
Waiting on the radio to play a song, so you can record it before choreographing a dance for it🤗🥰.....the good ole days🤣🤣
GeN Xer here. Hearing any sing the moment I want to hear it and I don't even have to touch anything? Just tell the car stereo what my groove is? Are you kidding? Waiting to hit the record button, missing the beginning of a song and having a DJ talk over the end? It was terrible!
I thought the same thing…
@@DanaTheInsane It sure kept us busy.
I still have some of my old mixed tapes.
We had to record a top 40 station for a couple of hours to ensure our favorite songs were recorded, because if we tried to just catch that favorite song, the beginning would be cut off due to slow reaction!
This is so accurate. I wish my kids could have had a childhood like mine. It was not all roses, of course, but it still rocked. I’d totally do it again if I could.
Omg yes! Only thing y'all forgot was mom dropping us off at the city pool and telling us she'd be back in 5 hours.
LOL. YES! We could often been seen sopping wet walking home because we couldn't wait that long.
@@barefootrealist246 and burnt to a crisp bc sunscreen wasn't a big deal
@@barefootrealist246 haha we spent our bus money at the store and walked all the way home while eating/drinking our slurpees, mike and Ike’s, bottle caps and hostess chips
@@lisafraser2313 Bottle caps!!! Yes! My husband still looks for those around Halloween time. 😂 He is so excited when he finds them.
Our town didn’t have a pool but they’re taking down my old elementary school and one of the proposals for the site is a municipal pool! That’s what I’m strongly pushing for, you couldn’t get us out of my cousin’s town pool when we visited them - it was bliss!
Water fights, freeze tag, hide-n-seek (late at night was the best!), making our own bike jumps, skateboarding down the longest, steepest hill we could find, the list goes on and on…we had the BEST childhoods!
That was my summer in the 60s. No cell phones. Ride our bikes all day, came home when the street lights came on. If you wanted to play with a friend, you biked over & knocked on the door.
Penn dumping into that stream is real commitment to his art. I respect that.
You mentioned the checklist, but not the fact that it was in a TRAPPER KEEPER?! 😂 Amazing video as usual!
How else did we keep ourselves organized? 😆
Yep, you've got a point there! I would love to own a Trapper Keeper again!
@@amyeaton882 they actually sell them. Especially during back to school!
We have that same one! 😁
But kids are not allowed to have them in school because they could hide a weapon or contraband in it. ☹ not like when we were kids. I loved mine, at one point I even had one with straps!
OH man I miss those days! So much nostalgia...and we thought it would always be that way... amazing the emotions it brings back! Thanks y'all.
This was our summers in the 70s and 80s! We went to the park all day, played hide and seek in the museum. Stayed out after dark running up and down the alley with all the neighborhood kids playing games. Went to the library and read books outside under the trees. McDonalds Doritos Donuts. Life was joyful!!
90s kids had much the same experience. Trapper keepers were still a thing and instead of Atari we had Golden Eye on game cube or Doom on the Windows 95 computer. Of course, only on kid in the neighborhood had those, the one with the absent father, LOL. No cell phones and internet was in its infancy. I'm almost forty now and still sneak a drink from the hose when I am watering my plants.
I wish I could do this as gen z. Now I can’t go anywhere (as a 15 year old) without my parents or another adult. Good luck having multiple people who’s parent let them wander around or play outside alone. Even if they let me, museums, movies, theme parks, etc don’t normally let unaccompanied minors in. If they do it costs tons of money and you have to find someone to drive because there’s not much in biking distance.
@@elizamay590 same! At least the neighbors are nice =) There’s 2 parks a 10 minute walk away and I haven’t been alone. The freedom disappeared.
@@dedhampster4730 The internet in its infancy was still a mega step up from having no internet.
@@jasonh5547 Oh, I will never bash the internet. I absolutely love having all the information I need at my fingertips. But sometimes I do think the state of being literally unable to communicate with work or school afterhours was a blessing.
How did you just nail every part of a 45-year-old's childhood in one song? 100% did ALL of these things (except that the trampoline was at Jay and Courtney's house, not Jennifer's).
I remember needing a permission slip to jump on the trampoline at school during gym class because it had NO net🤪 we were living dangerously
Honestly, even as a 90s kid, this also perfectly described my summers. I feel so bad for the children growing up in today’s world. They will never understand just how blissful, enjoyable and simplistic (in the best way possible) a summer (and overall childhood) like this was, and how much of a blessing and privilege it seems like when compared to the everyday lives of children today.
Girl Courtney or boy Courtney
Every other girl was named Jennifer or Jessica where I lived.
I grew up in a poor area of town. No one was friends with anyone who even knew any kind of senator, so the only trampolines we knew were those really small ones people kept in their house for exercise. However, my family was the first in the neighborhood to have a VCR and to get cable. At 4:05 every afternoon for the better part of a year (i think), everyone wanted to be at my house to watch Michael Jackson perform Thriller on MTV. Also, Atari at my house! PacMan was the crowd favorite, of course.
EXACTLY MY LIFE!! And I'm here to tell you.... IT WAS GREAT. I feel sorry for the kids today being raised by cell phones. We Rocked the GenX so much they're making re makes of all our stuff from the days past. THAT says it all. WE STILL ROCK. Great video.
thanks for watching
I just wanna know where they found that Trapper Keeper!?! 😲
I'm a millennial and we did this too. Loved my trapper keeper.
@@meghoughton562 well, since Kim is the Target queen. . .
Right! I wish our kids were living our childhood.
70's & 80's man those were the days. Totally forgot about the note from mom saying when SHE would be home. Hahahaha. We would hurry to get home about 20 minutes before her and rush to get our chores done.
"Which Jennifer, we know 7 Jennifers" Oh that is so true. 😆 I'm an Xennial but most of this still applies. My mom used to give me a list of chores to do while she was at work, but I could do them whenever I wanted in the day. I still could bike down to the Subway for lunch (with no helmet of course) or to my friends house. And kick the can with the neighborhood kids in the evenings. Good times.
That reminds me of my freshman year in High School. We had a Sadie Hawkins dance (where the girls ask the guys to the dance) and I got a call from someone. I asked who it was and they said “it’s me” (not very helpful). I said “who’s me?” And they said “it’s Jennifer”. I knew 4 Jennifer’s at our High School, and I have no idea which one it is. Unfortunately our family was going out of town that weekend, so I had to tell her that I couldn’t go. To this day I have no idea which Jennifer asked me to that dance.
@@PaulNelson392 😆 That's hilarious. I knew so many Jennifers and Jessicas. Not that Sarah was uncommon, but not nearly as common as those two.
I still get my exact same subway order from the 80’s bike trips
And I’m a Jennifer
Lots of Jennifers, Heathers Kimberlys
I can totally relate to this song as a Gen Xer. It was a different world back then. Hang out all day with your friends, be home by sunset.
Definitely nailed it. I wish my kids could experience summers the way I did.
The CRIMPED hair! OMG Couldn't wait to get a crimping iron so I could crimp my hair. I loved it. Best look ever!
One of your best for those who grew up in the 80's.
AAALLLLLL of the Jennifers!! LOL!! This was superb. Thank you. Every other generation ignores us. We'll make our own fun.
OMG prank calling friends' houses and choreographing dances. The best! I also loved rollerskating around the neighborhood.
We choreographed dances in our roller skates too! Good times.
Yes!! I roller skated all over the house.
@@jolaineliupakka9619 same. My mom did not like that.
@@missnaomi613 My mom was pretty laid back but she didn't like me climbing the flight of stairs in them. 😲🤦♀️
Wow. Definitely wasn’t ready for my emotional reaction to this-reminiscing and very much missing the simpler days! 😭 Funny as always, of course!
The stopping by without scheduling, I would circle the block for hours on my bike waiting for my friends to get home some days, and when the garage door was finally open, it felt like victory. That would never happen today. Also, way to commit on the rope swing Penn!
Oh that was such a thing!
We didn't have play dates or play groups. We just played with the kids in our neighborhood.
I miss these days so much. I loved being a free range and people were so much more chill.
Bologna is a hotdog that went through a flat iron.
Actually, it’s a giant hot dog that was sliced. ;~)
At least that’s what I thought it was (and really, not that far off the mark!) back in 1970-something.
I loved the 80's. I still play New Wave music when I'm cleaning. Remember roller rinks, and playing outside (and running back in when you got bullied). When all my girlfriends had a cabbage patch doll, and all the guys I knew had a Yoda or Gizmo. Everyone played paper football and the school champion of double -dutch and tetherball were held in high regard. Everyone wore jelly bracelets or braided friendship bracelets and you worried that if you kissed your crush you might get stuck together because you both had braces. Amazing memories. and good times.
Tetherball!!! Yes🤣💯👍
Oh man I forgot about double Dutch and tetherball! And the rubber band game when you had to jump over it and we held it up to our shoulders! Loved that game.
Oh man, the roller rink!!!! Those were the days!
I miss roller rinks.
@@hanab837 same! Skating around to "I swear" 😂
80s were the best time…… I remember the slip and slide and drinking straight from the hose. If I got hungry, I would nuke a hotdog and place it on a piece of Wonder Bread. Fun times. Thanks for bringing back so many memories!
I'm a millennial and did this to loo
I miss those days. It seemed like it was a kids world back then. All the marketing campaigns for restaurants were focused on kids, there were dozens and dozens of kids channels, and there were more toy aisles in the store sometimes than almost anything else. And then all those kids grew up and took over the business world and now, unsurprisingly, nostalgia is BIG business. 🙂
YES! Went out when we woke up. Came home when street lights came on. I used look for soda bottles to return to the store so I could by freezies or Popsicles at the store. Spend way too much money on arcade games. LOVED Galaga. When Kim was playing it on this video, I laughed so hard because that was the stance you needed if you wanted to play well. And Lola was right, the opening credits in the movies were way too long. But it allowed us to be a few minutes late for the movies. 🤣 Thank you for the trip down memory lane.
Yeah -- I remember waiting for "Directed by" since that was always the last credit before the damned thing would finally start.
This took me back, for sure. We did have to be home each night....we had to come in when the street lights came on, LOL. But we could call home from a friend's and ask to stay over last minute and it was almost always OK. Now you practically need a police check before the other parent says yes, LOL. (Born in late 70's) Also, the bologna sandwich needs to have a square of fake cheese...and can we talk about how each bite would stick to the roof of your mouth? And we drank bucket loads of Kool Aid as well as from the hose.
I think it stuck to our mouths because we ran all over the place all day long and probably didn't stay hydrated enough 🤣 we would sneak some water thru a hose on the side of the house and drink kool-aid or some other fruity sugary drink. Those were the days💯
Too funny ! I typed my response before reading your last sentence. That's how we know it's true🤣🤣🤣
Fried bologna for the win!!! Lol! All of it - so true! Long live Gen X!
This is so spot on. So glad I grew up in the 70s and 80s. Great song remember the food and the crimped hair on the girls. You're right about the trampolines now I laugh when I see the safety nets. My next door neighbor had one and we bounced off onto tree roots, huge rocks, or whatever was in the yard.
Isn't it so funny how we didn't think about the dangers at all🤣 just living life not caring at all. Even when we fell off our bikes and skinned a knee or something many of us didn't whine about it. We just got back on and did it again
Yes absolutely. Rode in the back of station wagons with no seats or seat belts. The jeep I drove in high school didn't have seat belts at all.
@@markjustice7894 We would ride in the back of pick up trucks all over town and the country side🤣 several of us kids just bouncing around with every turn. I grew up in Oklahoma
Yes we rode in plenty of pickup trucks in Alabama too. Don't see too much of that now.
@@markjustice7894 I'm in Arizona the few times I've seen it. It's often men probably heading home from work. Never kids
You nailed a Gen X summer. The endless bike riding and baloney. Good times.
I always preferred PB&J with chocolate milk. Hated baloney.
As an Xr myself, that brought back so many memories. Your parents probably used rabbit ears before you got cable...or bribed the cable guy 😆
I spent my teen years in the early 70's. You depicted my life! In the summer I would leave the house early in the morning and my mother would tell me to be home in time for supper. She had no clue where I was all day. I was out in the neighborhood riding bikes with my friends, getting into minor trouble and eating junk food. It was glorious! And yes, I had bologna sandwiches everyday too! I loved them. Now I can't stand them. LOL!
I was laughing the entire way through. You nailed it! My son actually had friends over the other day and I suggested they watch one of "our" movies. They were seriously talking and laughing about how long the credits were at the beginning of the movie 🤣
OMG I love this!!! I still remember a summer vacation where I stayed at different friends' houses for like 3 weeks before my parents realized they hadn't seen me at all, finally tracked me down and I still spent another week bumming around before heading home again lol.
(I was 10 at the time and that was all my parents did was call around to my friends, got a hold of me, "alive" "yep" "okay")
Too funny!! I totally remember not being home for weeks at a time also. I mean I had to call my mom and get her approval but yeah during summer months I would easily have sleepovers booked for sometimes weeks in a row at different friends homes. We truly are the nomad generation.
Epic!
I love that joke is your refrigerator running so cool truth
I like how the whole video is about living without concerns we have today, doing what you want and the last clip, don’t go in the water it looks dirty. Straight to the shower. Shows the difference best.
This was so much fun to watch! The 70's and 80's were the bomb... I mean those decades were totally awesome! I use to go rollerskating or walk around the nieghborhood in the summertime with my friends carrying a boombox :)
Ooh, the boombox! A bunch of us piled into this old white 4 door Dodge pickup we had (8 foot bed and a clutch too!) and went to the drive in theater, one of those nights that you paid by car not how many people were in it. My brother loved messing around with electronics so we had this little white boombox that he made sound a lot better. Most people around us were on the hood of their cars or in the back of their pickup trucks, everyone turned their radios off and listened to our boombox! 🤣😁
we called it a ghetto blaster
This was my summer exactly. Add in roller skating at the roller rink. My best friend and I choreographed a dance to A Horse with no Name. 😂😂
A Horse With No Name🤣🤣
That's great!
IKR
I love it when Kim crimps her hair. 😄 I'm going right away to show my son this perfect example of my childhood.
I love that you said perfect example🤣💯👍
Well, there are no videos taping everything soooooo watch these two and just pretend it's a young me and your dad. 🤣
Happy we 90s kids got a bit of it too 😄
Omg u two are amazing brought back so many memories...does everyone remember having like 100 phone numbers on their head?
I easily had 100 phone numbers in my head yet I don't even know my kid's phone numbers today.
I still remember so many numbers from the 80's and 90's!
I'm so tempted to call them all!
@@jerrkyd i'm guilty of still writing numbers on my arm and anything else majorly important I need to remember. I get looks of confusion from Gen Z and looks nods of approval from other Gen X'ers.
For me you only really needed to know the last 4 numbers.. As anyone I wanted to call was in the Area code was long distance and never got used for day to day chatting... Then 3 numbers for city code, we all shared that, then dash and home number so the 4 where key...
The numbers are still in my head I just don't know who's they are anymore the names fell out 😂
This brings back lots of fun 80s memories. You both are the greatest.
thanks for being here with us
@@theholdernessfamily Gen X ROCKS!
My memories: jumping off the bridge into the river, laying on the water raft. I had to work all day on the family farm to earn the time off to hang out with my friends.
Just like summers in the 60"s. But instead of arcade games, we were out collecting pop bottles to get the money for returning them. Thanks for the memories.
There was pinball.
Can collecing was a huge part of my Gen X summers for the same reasons.
The "you are going right away into the shower" outed you... 😆😆 there is only so much endless summer one can take before one is ordered into the shower....
Your wife is a gem. She completes you
Ok, that was a-mazing! So true I almost cried... for the joyful nostalgia, but also from sadness over how different things are for our kids today.
Perfect ... except Kim should have been wearing either Reebok hi-tops with three layered pairs of scrunchy socks (even in the middle of summer), Keds without the laces, or jelly shoes with lots of blisters.
And overall Jean shorts!
Huh, I didn't know scrunchy socks existed .Thank you for sending me down that rabbit hole. LOL
@@joenunya8449 With only one strap fastened
@@gwenschott Exactly!! Totally Cool!
Yes!! I said something similar!
You nailed it. This brought it all back and gave me warm fuzzies. But made me sad for my own kids at the same time that they don’t have these experiences and only care about their phones.
And they like to complain there's nothing to watch 🤷♀️ they have over a million more channels to watch than the 80s kids ever did🤣 we used to find a movie we really liked on HBO when it was just 1 channel😳 and we could watch that same movie all day long at various times😆
That last comment on the B roll is the reason why our kids have completely different summers than we did.
True. Makes ya wonder how we got to this way of thinking...
Just turned 52...damn i miss the 80s...arcades and much of what was in this song :)
This is so true! We never came home till the street lights came on. The best time in our life!
Not unless you needed snacks or gasoline!
@@joenunya8449 didn’t need gasoline it was bikes for days and snacks what was that we just stopped at a house of who we were with got food and left 😂😂
@@angelastone9005 Yep. We were on bikes too.
We were boys. We had other uses for gasoline.
... physics, yeah, that's what it was.
Awesome times!!! Just turned 48 a few weeks ago. So much fun!!!
Right after watering my garden, I will still get a drink from the hose. So cool and refreshing.
Same here.
The first time I drank hose water infront of my son he looked at me and said..."You can do that?!" I said: Yep. Want some?
My son(as it was already cool water)took a curious sip and went "Yum!"
Then I got a call from a neighbor who was in an absolute fit because she saw my son drink from the hose. You would've thought by their reaction he was drinking cyanide or smoking meth! Then again we let our son ride his bike and walk alone(within reason)and ppl thought it was something to call the police over. The police spend 2hours trying to explain it's not illegal for a 10yr old to ride their bike and play in the front yard with supervision. Our son had his phone, ID, and 15$ and we would check on him so it wasn't a crime.
Thankfully we've moved into the counrty and it's heaven!
Omfg! I graduated high school in 1996 so I remember these summers. I was more of a city kid, so my uncle had that huge wrench to open the fire hydrant. Taking our bikes to the corner store for penny candies made you feel like a baller!
Oh yeah I remember riding to the store, I lived in the suburbs but we had a deli that sold the penny candies, they also had video games! Could go there with just a couple of dollars, play a few games, and come home with a bag of candy!
@@susana7968 That's sounds like a great day!
@@jenniferbates2811 it was!
Amen, Gen X peeps…those were the days! Leave at dawn on your bike and nobody gave a crap where you were until dark. 💪
I laughed out loud through this whole thing. So many truths and good times. I wouldn’t wanna be a kid these days for nothing. We had so much more freedom. That was not always a good thing, but neither is being tracked all the time . . . . Sidenote: Galaga is the 💩!
I was thinking the same thing...freedom.
I love how Kim's dressed. I totally dressed same way when I was a teenager. I remember going to arcade, library, mall, beach, and I was the friend people would always show up to at my house unannounced (it was because I had a pool). Great job guys.
And her crimped hair🤣
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I have to tell you, I haven’t watched one of your videos that I didn’t like. I don’t think anyone on earth deserved the million dollars more! You guys are awesome, funny, relatable, and what a lot of people need to get though their days.
I’m an early millennial, and I can relate to a lot of this! “We know 7 Jennifers,” riding my bike to a friend’s house unannounced, making a fort, and jumping in a dirty lake are all things I can relate to. Also, I loved your colorful notebook. The only thing I would add is spending time at the neighborhood pool.
Yes!! This was my life. Except my Mom let us eat hot dogs (no buns) with blue box Kraft most days, since I could make that for me and my brothers by myself. Lol!
Kraft mac n cheese was one of the first things every Gen X kid learned how to cook. 😅
@@theholdernessfamily I think I was nine the first time I made it...and it was a fellow nine year old teaching me to make it, lol.
We got distracted and ruined the pan when it burned dry
Great job y'all that was awesome and those were the days. No cell phones, no real rules just be home before dark. When prank calls could be done easily, now you gotta be slick to call someone and them not know who you are. I would have jumped in the water as well, grew up in creeks and rivers in Missouri, I'd prefer a moving stream over a public pool anyday.
If someone told you back then you could have had a Walkman that played all your music and your movies too, AND videogames??? you would have been all over that shit. I'm so glad that being old does not fill me with this level of denial.
I spent my summers at Roubidoux Spring in Missouri. Still would rather have fresh spring fed water than a pool any day of the week. ;)
Boomer here, I laughed so hard at the end bloopers where Penn was filmed getting out of the yucky river and was told he was going to take a shower asap. I used to come home so dirty, my family called me "pig pen" Of course I was also almost abducted a couple of times by a dark car with dark windows, but fortunately I was trained to know where all the Red M (safe houses which stood for safe houses) houses were and ran into those. And then I also have several dents and symptoms of brain damage from landing head first off of mini bikes and other bikes without a helmet. I grew up in the 60's and 70's - those were really fun days, says the queen of prank phone calls. I really loved doing those. I would still be doing them if not for caller I.D.
Yes! I grew up in the 60s/70s also! I have great memories of my childhood! I once rode my bicycle into the back of a parked car because I was looking at the cute new neighbor boy that had just moved in!😂
I was doing Gen X summers in the 70s as a late boomer. Latch key kids. Paper route for cash. Swim lessons at the school across town. Nok Hockey and Lanyards at the elementary school playground. Ride bikes up and down the street looking for someone to play with sitting on the porch. Trying to pick the house lock with a twig because you lost your key. All great fun and independence. Free range kids before helicopter parents were invented.
🤣🤣🤣
Good times. Remember that old B&W movie about the teens making prank phone calls. It was called something like “I Saw What You Did and I Know Who You Are.”
@@normadacrema3483 ok, I admit, we also did some of those after that movie - I had partners in crime and that's what we did on boring summer days when it was way too hot outside to even go swimming
OMG. Literally hit the nail on the head with this one. Only missing pogo balls and Jams. And sooooo many Jennifer’s. And Kate/Katie’s
Graduating class of 75 kids, we had three Jennifers and six Brians.
Hilarious, as always! I loved the crimping in Kim’s hair and that determined look she got playing the video game. I’d worry about that brown, still water having brain destroying amoebas instead of the hose water having flesh eating bacteria. I figure you can get carcinogens from drinking hose water - especially if you don’t let it run until it cools down.
Even though I’m a boomer I can relate to the freedom of summers back in the day. So much fun!
I am so glad I found your channel. I am a 71 year old male with a 16 year old daughter and can’t wait to show her these videos. Love the phone/refrigerator call remember it well. Thanks for all the work you put into this but look like you both have fun doing it. My wife 23 younger than me been married almost 18 years and we still love hanging out with each other.
I was a 90s baby and this was also my life. I couldn't go home because mom was at work. So had to play outside till the street lights came on at 9-10 pm. Lol! God I miss childhood
This is what my life is missing, I need to be singing throughout the day. Plus, I really need to revert to my youth. ;-) I was born in 1959, but the period that defines Gen X 1965-1980 is my youth, 6-21. This brought back so many memories, thank you so much.
Last comment, the worry of Penn jumping into that pond (?) is spot on. In our youth we never thought anything about doing that. Nowadays I keep reading of brain-eating bacteria from lakes or ponds. I'd be scared to even dip my toes in that water. Good idea on sending him to the showers right afterwards. Stay healthy you two! :-)
If we'd been born just a few years later we'd be GenXers.
“Oh, my gosh. You’re going right away into a shower.” We survived though!
Kim, you are so cute. You put on those clothes, and you BECOME the 80s, yet here it is 2022. How you BE ALL DECADES??!?
And talk about Penn and those gnarly jumping abilities - ! Radical, man! Totally tubular
Can we talk about Kim's crimped hair!!!
OMG it's fabulous! This made me dig out my old crimping iron and Aqua Net! I'm sad there was no use of Zinca(neon colored zinc oxide paste)across nose and under eyes like warpaint(girl's also used it as lipbalm).
Gen X summers were the freaking best! Pack a sandwhich, quaters, books, and hop on your bike. Just be home by the time the street lights come on.
This was one of your BEST! So relatable!! Loved the prank call to Steve!! Every part of this vid was spot on & you gotta wonder how anyone ever survived!!!! Love you two! Y’all are geniuses!!! ❤️😂
Seriously!
Yes. No caller ID back then. I'm so glad that we have it now, but unfortunately, nowadays, when people try to circumvent Caller ID, they have some nefarious purpose, and they don't want to play a silly prank.
our summers were the greatest no generations summer can compare to ours
Loved when Kim told Penn he needed a shower right away after he got out of the yucky-looking water. I guess if you were really acting as kids you would either have walked or ridden bikes there. As your adult selves though, I would have thought Kim would make you stand behind a huge beach towel or blanket to take off those yucky wet clothes before getting back into your car. 😁
My Dad would have made us wet muddy kids get in the back of the truck. Totally not legal nowadays. 😆
Yes, I laughed so hard at that
Neighbors didn’t care if you cut through yards to chase the ice cream truck down. 🤣
Facts!!!!!
Tomorrow is my 40th Birthday!!
Does that make me a Millennial or Gen X
Dunno… but this all screams my summers!
Watched it twice already!
Love you guys!
You’re one of the oldest millennials technically speaking, but I would consider 40 year olds to be on the cusp of generation x and millennials.
You guys NAILED IT AS ALWAYS! I was born in 1965 and grew up in the 70's! Best summers of my life! Thank you for making me smile as always!
Lola commenting on the long credits. . .LOL! So glad she's joining you in these again. Loved her also in your recent video about parents trying (failing badly) to use their kids' slang. She has really grown up! Hope you all have an excellent summer! You bring us all such joy! Thank you very, very much!
I watched a couple 80s and 90s movies with my son and he asked if I started it at the beginning or if it was replaying from the end...
That was when you could walk into the theater twenty minutes late for a movie and it would just be starting.
@@joenunya8449 As opposed to waiting for 15 minutes after the movie ends to see a 5 second snip of the next sequel.
Growing up in the 80s and 90 was awesome. I remember I lived out in the country roads, and my BFF lived in town. We walk and meet each other half way, every day in the summer. Took us forever to get to each other, and then we walk would walk around town and go to the arcade. Miss those days
2020's summer.... " Oh my gosh! you're going right into a shower. " best line🌸
You forgot the ice cream man coming down the road and all the kids chasing the ice cream truck with change from their houses. The candy "cigarettes" for sale 😂😂😂
This was so much like the summers I used to have and still want to have!
Brought a tear to my eye😊
Pretty sure that Ferrari poster is a Corvette. Also, the paranoia about Penn falling in that water was pretty hilarious. Also, everything in this is 100% accurate to my Millennial childhood cause I'm an early Millennial.
“We know 7 Jennifers” 😂 So true!
Jen A, Jen B, and Jen Z 😮💨
OMG...you had me at fried baloney. I used to have that when I was a kid, even into high school. That is so comfort food. Now that actually sounds good.
Mine were unfriend with mustard. I was a weird kid
OMG 😂 the credits at the beginning of movies, yep. Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Ladyhawke, come on that was the life, and the Never Ending Story soundtrack was my dreams coming true. Come on.
Still love Dark Crystal!
I hope y'all experienced the joy of putting an old school sprinkler under the trampoline so that the water came up through it as you jumped. Best. Summers. Ever.
I always look forward to your videos that have any reference to our generation! I was a kid in the 70’s and high school/college occupied the 80’s (81-89). I remember as a kid in the 70’s we’d go out to play after breakfast and not be home till dinner! Great memories. Thanks again!
Wow, you two…more than any other video you NAILED this one! 😆
Fun baloney story - when I was a kid I flipped some slices up on to the ceiling. Decades later when my parents moved out of that house there was still circular stains from them! 🤮
I love how Kim is trying to describe what’s in bolonge. No one actually know’s. Now I feel old lol. I have a headlight and flashing tail light on my pedal bike now. No more riding around without a helmet.
I'm a 90s kid, and I just barely caught the tail end of some of what you're describing. The older I get the more I wish we could go back to those times.
You hit the nail on the head! I remember one summer day my friend and I were out wandering the neighborhood, and we found this injured Canada goose. So we caught it and put it in the garage, because what else are you going to do on a summer day? Lol. My parents were not thrilled when they got home 😆 I think the thought was we'd take it to a vet, but alas my parents wanted nothing to do with it.