I was thirty something when watching thirty something. That show was so accurate. I feel like they got me. I wish they would come back now and do a sixty something,…please🙏🏼
This was my Tuesday night staple. I told people to leave me alone on tuesday nights. I was just a 19-20 year old watching this show, but I understood it and loved it because it was real. My mother was into as well. I never got over it ending.
I was in my mid 20s, newly married, and watched this show every week. I was adjusting to being married and in my own home. My husband was still taking college courses so I was home by myself, and this show, as well as A Year In The Life which only lasted one season, are the shows that kept me company, and I liked them both.
I related to this show completely. I was the age and this was my life. I even had a thirtysomething t-shirt I used to wear to Saturday soccer games. Totally a 30something soccer mom!
Ken Olin was super hot at the time. He is still married to Patricia Wettig, the blonde and has been for years. He's on Twitter and is sort of on the radically political side. He's not offbase, just kind of on that topic a lot. The other guy, the redhaired one, is married to Melissa Gilbert in real life.
My best friend and I were in our mid-twenties but watched "thirtysomething" faithfully and discussed the show like it was real (we wished they'd kill off hope and find Michael a nicer wife and we cried when they killed off Gary) which we hadn't ever done with any show before or since. It was good but now that I'm sixty, it's amusing and interesting that we were so focused on it. It did end oddly; I expected another episode before Michael and Hope visited Elliott and Nancy in California because it seems like there would have been an episode about how Elliott and Nancy adjusted to life in California.
I loved that show. Me and my coworker watched it and talked about it. You don’t need ethic groups. Get real. I had no black friends ever. I don’t live by any.
Gee...I hope those exemplary math skills have taken you far. We cannot thank you enough for that deep, thought-provoking comment and for stating the obvious. 🙄
The show went on shortly after I turned 30. Not to diminish the show in any way, but there is truth to the criticism of the show being "whiney yuppies" and there is truth to that. The fact those people were 'middle class' and struggling to stay there. In the 2010's and beyond, even their lifestyles would now be for the rich. They'd either be (frankly) at best be living in a tiny apartment with all they could do just to pay the rent. The "children" would be a dog or cat, etc. etc. Because the basic, basic fundamentals are SO gone now, and I'm talking about equivalent 'white people' of today, there just isn't any connection with these people's issues on the shows of that time. It's a product of that time (as any show is) and frankly is also a "period piece" equally so to the 1950's, '20s etc., going further back. It needs to be viewed fairly, not harshly, AS the period piece it is, of THOSE people at THAT time. To try to compare it to (or in) the present is very unfair to the show, and wrong, because yeah: it IS so old fashioned and out of date. So is 'Father Knows Best' or any number of old shows. That doesn't diminish them in still being enjoyable to watch in the present. Same thing with the large-size monthly LIFE magazines from circa 1989 that were current when '30-something' was on. Still enjoyable to look at and read now even though the very idea of such a magazine even existing now is impossible to even imagine. Both are examples of "non-real" escapes from a very bygone time and century that have been re-cycled in the 21st century as a type of 'comfort' viewing and reading precisely for nostalgic reasons.
30 Something had some good jokes about its own pretentiousness. One episode: Ad-men characters Michael and Elliot did a focus group for commercial they wrote with actors playing the 2 of them, and the people in the focus group laughed about how much they hated the yuppie dudes. Then cut to their faces hearing these random strangers trashing them for being cringe. One episode, Gary's babymama's sarcasm about everyone saw Hope as the perfect mother: "she breastfed her kid until he begged her to stop". They knew they were privileged white ivy leaguers, and writers could poke fun at how obnoxious they were. My wife and i were attending city universities working to pay for school, living in apartment, didn't mingle at parties, took the subway - we watched the show to hate rich yuppies.
Good luck with that; they're going to need it. One of my relatives worked on the show in 1990, and the ratings were never very good. ABC kept it on as a "halo" show, meaning they were willing to take financial losses on it to have bragging rights they were doing something cutting-edge (for then) that no one else was. The more popular shows on the network helped offset these losses in ad revenue, but there was a limit. It was on long enough to make their point, so the plug was pulled on the indulgence.
I was thirty something when watching thirty something. That show was so accurate. I feel like they got me. I wish they would come back now and do a sixty something,…please🙏🏼
This was my Tuesday night staple. I told people to leave me alone on tuesday nights. I was just a 19-20 year old watching this show, but I understood it and loved it because it was real. My mother was into as well. I never got over it ending.
Same here! I was in my early 39s. God it was a great show
I was 5 and I loved watching it with my mom lol
I was in my mid 20s, newly married, and watched this show every week. I was adjusting to being married and in my own home. My husband was still taking college courses so I was home by myself, and this show, as well as A Year In The Life which only lasted one season, are the shows that kept me company, and I liked them both.
My favorite show back then . Wouldn’t miss an episode. Loved all the cast 💕💕
I related to this show completely. I was the age and this was my life. I even had a thirtysomething t-shirt I used to wear to Saturday soccer games. Totally a 30something soccer mom!
I loved this show!!! Never missed an episode
Easily one of the most HONEST shows ever on TV!
I was so in love with this show as a child and I fell in love with ken Olin. That’s when my parents realized.
Me too! So handsome
Lol yes he was so damn sexy, just his way of acting was so sexy
I’m straight but still thought, for maybe the first time, “that is a beautiful man.”
@@brianstorm5488 not just a gorgeous face but his whole persona , he just had such a sexy way about him
When your parents realized what?
Ken Olin was super hot at the time. He is still married to Patricia Wettig, the blonde and has been for years. He's on Twitter and is sort of on the radically political side. He's not offbase, just kind of on that topic a lot. The other guy, the redhaired one, is married to Melissa Gilbert in real life.
Ken is a liberal hater. He hates anyone on the right. Horrible man in real life.
I Have been thru all the networks just to see this aseries again!!! Wtf?? Seen them all want to see them again..why not????
My best friend and I were in our mid-twenties but watched "thirtysomething" faithfully and discussed the show like it was real (we wished they'd kill off hope and find Michael a nicer wife and we cried when they killed off Gary) which we hadn't ever done with any show before or since. It was good but now that I'm sixty, it's amusing and interesting that we were so focused on it. It did end oddly; I expected another episode before Michael and Hope visited Elliott and Nancy in California because it seems like there would have been an episode about how Elliott and Nancy adjusted to life in California.
“This is Us” is the new “thirty something”, which makes perfect sense as Ken Olin produced ( and directed?) the former.
Oh my I've never seen this. Thank you so much for posting!!! ❤ And look at Ed Zwick's hair 😄 hahaha!!!
I use to love to watch when Elliot told Nancy to shave her legs. He was not very attentive to his wife.But I liked him.Bring back Thirty something
Did she call this a “soap opera”??
Interesting upload, thanks
I loved that show. Me and my coworker watched it and talked about it. You don’t need ethic groups. Get real. I had no black friends ever. I don’t live by any.
One of the best shows ever!!! When will it be on? Its impossible to find this show.
I bought the DVD’s on line.
I only found season one and season four on Ebay.
It was a great show.😊
Now they are all senior citizens
It will happen to all of us unfortunately.
Middle age at worst
@@blackdragon6 The actors are, as of 2021, 63 to 69. Yes, they are senior citizens.
Gee...I hope those exemplary math skills have taken you far. We cannot thank you enough for that deep, thought-provoking comment and for stating the obvious. 🙄
I am too. I was their age when it aired and totally related to the show.
30 something now is like the new 16.
The show went on shortly after I turned 30. Not to diminish the show in any way, but there is truth to the criticism of the show being "whiney yuppies" and there is truth to that. The fact those people were 'middle class' and struggling to stay there. In the 2010's and beyond, even their lifestyles would now be for the rich. They'd either be (frankly) at best be living in a tiny apartment with all they could do just to pay the rent. The "children" would be a dog or cat, etc. etc. Because the basic, basic fundamentals are SO gone now, and I'm talking about equivalent 'white people' of today, there just isn't any connection with these people's issues on the shows of that time. It's a product of that time (as any show is) and frankly is also a "period piece" equally so to the 1950's, '20s etc., going further back. It needs to be viewed fairly, not harshly, AS the period piece it is, of THOSE people at THAT time. To try to compare it to (or in) the present is very unfair to the show, and wrong, because yeah: it IS so old fashioned and out of date. So is 'Father Knows Best' or any number of old shows. That doesn't diminish them in still being enjoyable to watch in the present. Same thing with the large-size monthly LIFE magazines from circa 1989 that were current when '30-something' was on. Still enjoyable to look at and read now even though the very idea of such a magazine even existing now is impossible to even imagine. Both are examples of "non-real" escapes from a very bygone time and century that have been re-cycled in the 21st century as a type of 'comfort' viewing and reading precisely for nostalgic reasons.
White people have white friends. Black people have black friends. Get real. We all stay with what we grow up with. It’s normal.
30 Something had some good jokes about its own pretentiousness.
One episode: Ad-men characters Michael and Elliot did a focus group for commercial they wrote with actors playing the 2 of them, and the people in the focus group laughed about how much they hated the yuppie dudes. Then cut to their faces hearing these random strangers trashing them for being cringe.
One episode, Gary's babymama's sarcasm about everyone saw Hope as the perfect mother: "she breastfed her kid until he begged her to stop".
They knew they were privileged white ivy leaguers, and writers could poke fun at how obnoxious they were. My wife and i were attending city universities working to pay for school, living in apartment, didn't mingle at parties, took the subway - we watched the show to hate rich yuppies.
S0show it again!!
Peter Horton, who played Gary, was once married to Michelle Pfeiffer.
He was indeed. He also reminded me of Bjorn Borg in his heyday.
ABC is rebooting the show.
Good luck with that; they're going to need it. One of my relatives worked on the show in 1990, and the ratings were never very good. ABC kept it on as a "halo" show, meaning they were willing to take financial losses on it to have bragging rights they were doing something cutting-edge (for then) that no one else was. The more popular shows on the network helped offset these losses in ad revenue, but there was a limit. It was on long enough to make their point, so the plug was pulled on the indulgence.
A big mistake if that happens...
It was scrapped due to covid. I think four original cast members were going to come back but the main cast was going to be their offspring?
Seventysomething
I wanted to marry Michael and live in thirty something but unfortunately I married and lived in Melrose Place…. Drama.
When this vid first started, for split second I assumed the woman was Polly Draper, until she started speaking with a British accent.
Well dressed middle class