Remembering how excited everyone at school was knowing the new channel called MTV was starting up that day! First song, The Buggles, Video killed the radio star.
Most millenials should remember when MTV played music- TRL was the highlight of my afternoon when I came home from school in 6th and 7th grade. I also enjoyed watching VH1s pop up videos for all of the little trivia about the making of each music video.
I remember sitting underneath our television and getting up to change the channel. I look back on that now and realize that television could have completely squished me. It was at least 10x my size.
If you never heard the national anthem played on your television and then it turn to snow....for hours because that was ENOUGH TV for er body..SIT DOWN!
I remember waking up early, turning on the TV just before 7am, watching the snow turn to inspiring shots of beaches, waterfalls, etc as the national anthem played before my favorite cartoons started.
Pictures solid black cause lens cap left on, blurred out, 2 pictures blended together, a finger, your feet/ground by accident, bad lighting, so all you see are red eyes, a glowing head, but no background at all, and then telling the developing store you used that you don't want to pay for any pics from the list above! Oh yeah, and then finding a roll you forgot about 10-20 yrs later, so you know you lost some pictures, but can't remember what they could be!
Yes!! Walmart photo desk was the spot in our college town about a week back from spring break!! So many memories and seeing groups of people immediately thumbing through all their developed pics
And hated each other because one forgot to take the used up roll of film out, the other one forgot to check, if the roll was already finished, so we had regularly two events overlapping on one photo 😂 Why did those rolls even rewind and allowed to be photographed over again?
@@williambryan3346 Too expensive to get film for people living on peanut butter and jelly, and you got more than twice the pictures on 35mm! 110 cameras were cheap, with a built-in flash, also 35mm cameras were free, if the parents sat through a 90min seller's pitch for something they weren't going to buy!
Bahahaha! Oh my goodness! When this commercial was on in my childhood, one of my Dad's friends pulled up next to my mom at a stop light, honked his horn and rolled down his window. When my Mom noticed and rolled down her window, he said, "Pardon me Ma'am, do you have anything grey to poop on?" My younger brother and I lost it at that point and it has been a running family joke ever since. I even have my husband saying it these days. 😂
Having text books for every class AND having to use a brown paper bag to make your own book cover. Watching the tv channels come online every morning with the national anthem playing and watching the tv channels end their day with the national anthem and going to the test bars.
I used the brown paper bags, too. But as I got older, I got fancy. I would put the comics from the Sunday newspaper over them for some color. Then I could read them during class.😅
Saturday morning cartoons, into pro wrestling and then into American Sports Cavalcade on TNN to watch drag racing and NASCAR highlights. It will always be the Winston Cup to me.
We had a Ford Falcon station wagon and there was always a fight for the back seat (The Dickie Seat) on the trips to visit the Grandparents, who lived hours away!😂
With a big o'bowl of the best sugary cereal in the world. Fruity Pebbles, Cap'n Crunch, Fruit Loop..my list is endless. I take that back, wasn't a fan of Honey Smacks😂
Yep! And watched it pop on after midnight special. There might have been one other programming thing, but after that it was the pattern screen until the very next morning, waiting for the cartoons to come on. A typical Saturday morning went something like this for me: Cartoons, American Bandstand and Soul Train. I would switch back and forth throughout the hour. And then at night, Saturday night live or Monte python and midnight special hosted by wolfman Jack.
Movie times from a newspaper, hand cranks for car windows, taping tunes from the radio, buying your first CD, watching your first music video on MTV & VH1 and "Wheres the Beef?"
Oh, man, the Benny Hill Show! I loved that show! It came on after my bedtime, but my babysitter would let me stay up and watch it. The only condition was that we had to keep an eye out for my mom’s headlights coming up the driveway so I could dive into bed and pretend I was asleep. Ah, memories… 😊
And as we got older, our parents suffered as well😎 My brother and I were a year (+5 days) apart. We worship music and play drums and guitar. Grounding became more infrequent in favor of heavy-chore punishment.
If you never requested a song from a radio station and then waited to record said song on a cassette recorder, you can’t sit with us! 😂 Oh the memories! ❤ I can remember thinking, “this guy needs to stop talking so I get all of the song!” I didn’t need his intro or comments. 🤦🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️ Also, when Gen X left the home on a Friday or Saturday night either with us driving or our friends picking us up, our parents didn’t know where we went and couldn’t talk to us until we got home. No cell phones, no Life 360…and speaking of no cell phones, there were NO cameras to record us doing dumb stuff! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 PTL! 😂
I loved hearing it, bc I knew the good stuff was about to come on, my granny only had 4 channels, and my aunt was about to leave so I could hog her TV! Lol
For me, I felt it was more like, "Do you know where mom is at?" My sister & I were always home when it got dark. I was always in charge (doing all the work)
NOPE. I’m first wave GenX (1967) and the DARE program only came along in the mid 1980s after the “Just say No” program-I was in high school and had no use for that.
@badmother7615 Regan Era. Ugh! Mid '80s was the time when (xtascy) was an actual pharmaceutical. It was used for metal health, then couples therapy, then party drug, THEN it got shut down when the retirement homes started dosing Grandma and Grandpaw for family visit days.....js.
@@amydopson2946 I still remember having to take care of friends in the mid-80s who’d taken X recreationally at the gay bars. I already knew my brain was on the very edge of the abyss and my very few forays with substances (and some unfortunate issues with relatives’ really bad reactions) proved that it would not take much to push me over into the void. I knew I would be on my own there, so I took great care of my friends-picking them up and literally carrying them home, picking them up from jail, and watching over them during experiments with the harder stuff. Some never recovered their sanity or health. Some had been through nascent DARE programs; it came off as more of a “how-to” lecture with recipe ideas.
Born in 1985. I was starting to wonder where my car people are. I also remember my parents saying, “Get in the car. We’re leaving” after a family gathering in the middle of summer only to have to sit in that stuffy air for several more minutes while the parents still talked. Eventually, we learned to wait until the last second and keep the doors open.
@americasmomloveeveryonenoe7517 I had the cops called on me and they brought mine in to find me, so I taught her to grocery shop and I just let her do the shopping while I sat up front.
What do these items all have in common: house slippers, flip flops, wooden spoon and/or spatula, skinny long tree branches, fly swatters, and rolled up magazines/ newspapers.... not a comprehensive list here😆
Little House on The Prairie, the After school specials, boom box in the back of the school bus, the metal slides at the playground, perms, Auqua Net soo many good memories!
I've had children ask me if all my fingers are double jointed because I text so fast. Child, I'm 50. I learned a long time ago where all the letters are on the keyboard and can do it without looking.
🤣👍🏼 Thank You! 11. Playing outside All day until the street lights came on. 12. Riding our bikes with No Helmet. 13. Cramming as many people as we could in the back of the truck for the Drive In on Saturday Nights. 14. Bon Fires at the beach 15. Hokey Pokey on Roller Skates
I still remember my friends, parents phone number to this day. And my mom until just recently got rid of her landline that we’ve had since I was a kid and I don’t remember her cell phone number. But I still remember the landline number. Some of my old friends were still calling my mom‘s house when they couldn’t find me.
Being able to dial a phone number to listen to a recording say, "At the tone the time will be X:X" and staying on the line to listen to the temperature, forecast and school closures in cases of inclement weather.
Remember the video that made national news of the store manager standing on a display case, swinging a baseball bat to fight off the mob of moms? That was us, that was our Zare's store! Our mom's are epic!
I love this so much!!!! I feel like I found my tribe!!! Also, if you never had to make or receive a collect call, head home when the street lights came on or got up at the ass crack of dawn on Saturday morning to make a bowl of cereal and plop down in front of the TV to watch cartoons, access is denied!
(I feel like a broken record I'm so sorry haha). But millenials like moi - (like, solid millenials, not Zillenials), Did the "Wake up at 6am for Saturday morning cartoons" thing. Disney had some *fantastic* ones in the 90s. I vaguely remember the Little Mermaid tv series as well as Hercules, but the Aladdin series was my jam. There was an agreement that my brother would always be able to watch Blues Clues while I was always able to watch the Aladdin series. Otherwise my brother tended to get to the couch before me so he had control of the remote. As far as the others - I probably don't qualify for the "head home when the street lights came on," because while it sometimes happened, that was because i live on a quiet cul-de-sac where are street lights right in the middle of the circle. My parents could watch out the window and see us just fine. Otherwise it was very strict supervision. Make a collect call - if you wanna stretch it I did one by proxy XDDDD. I remember doing one in a hotel once or twice with my mom's guidance. My mom grew up in Long Island, so when we went down to visit my grandparents, we often did a day trip to Manhattan. So I also remember squeezing into one of the telephone booths in NYC with my family while my mom made a call to my grandparents house to say when we were going back. My brother and I would bicker about who could put the coins into the coin slot while my mom and dad were both warning us to NOT touch the walls for any reason lmao. i never questioned it because they were so disgusting and plastered with graffiti
@@princezzpuffypants6287 OMG I remember when the pop tarts started making Danish Go Rounds...the iceing was twice as thick and twice as much filling ..also reading the cereal box every morning and sometimes the cereal box even had a record on it that might play up to 4 times before it wore out.
She just reminded me… there was no counseling after challenger blew up. Nada just like, “well there’s some trauma for your life” don’t make it drama… keep it pushin’!
I remember my teacher quickly turned off the TV. They didn't acknowledge what happened at all. Our teacher was holding back tears and we got sent home from school early. My best friend who had the day off of school for an orthodontics appointment met me at the bus stop and that's how I found out that what we saw on tv was not only a burst of smoke but was the Challenger exploding and everyone on board dying. It was sad.
I had just gotten out of boot camp and saw it on the barracks TV. Yah I'm first wave Gen-X just like my Boomer parents were proper Boomers (Dad was born 9 months after VE day)
I had a tiny Strawberry Shortcake folding table with two little plastic folding chairs. That and my Care Bears tricycle were two of my most prized possessions
@@thisisme2476 🤣🤣🤣 my college roommate called in with a request and asked the DJ not to talk during the intro. The DJ laughed and hung up. Never played the song. The request was for “Jessie’s Girl,” by Rick Springfield.
Love it... It's 100% accurate. There are so many more... and a lot of them are commented below. There was also the phrase, "I brought you into this world, I can take you out and make another that looks just like you." LOL man. There is nothing that is going to beat growing up in the 70's through the 90's, It was one of the most magical times in American History for so many reasons.
Those were the days. Old commercials... Nair : " who wears short , shorts?...we wear short, shorts. Bandaid : " I am stuck on Band-Aid Brand cuz Band-Aids stuck on me" ! Oscar Mayer : " My bologna has a first name, its O-S-C-A-R...."
@@phoenixspirit9530 That is INSANE! I has just humming the band-aid jingle this morning over and over and then asked myself "why?" Spirit animal. . can you hear me!!??
If you have never owned a Walkman, played in the sand ash trays at the end of the grocery aisle or knew that Mikey would try anything. Please dont let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya.
Yep. Heck, I'm only a Xennial, but I was forced to go outside because my mom was a Boomer. And my brother is I guess solidly a Millennial? He's 1987. But he had the same experience. Our mom was emotionally negligent but I'm so grateful she made me put down my books and Barbies so I would have to experience life!
@kristinathomas5890 Haha yep. Raised Gen X, but I'm solidly Milennial age. Our rotary phone was mustard yellow - it was always a hit when I would have friends over. 😂 Also grew up in an area that didn't have area codes until I was almost in my teens. I didn't have to remember a 10 digit phone number until I was probably 12.
This actually made me chuckle.. I remember jumping from the upstairs to the landing to the downstairs and running into my room coming from the kitchen to save a tape.
@@stoopidbastid6420actually you can clean the pinch roller and the head in a cassette player using rubbing alcohol as long as it's 90% alcohol (less water in the stronger rubbing alcohol), swab with q-tips and let it air dry. The only time I experienced my tapes going crinkle cut French fry on me was when the cassettes themselves wore out, became tight (due to age, humidity chages, and repeated playing). I actually had some success salvaging some of my cassettes that became crinkled. I usually bought random cassettes, unscrewed them, switched out the spools, and labeled them, artist/album/year. It was tedious, sure. But those cassettes lasted me clear until 2012, then finally became oxidized due to their age. I managed to transfer a handful onto CD, then put them onto my MP3 players. I dubbed nearly all of my LP'S onto CD, then transferred those to MP3 and the same for my 8-track cartridge tapes, which by 85' those were being phased out entirely. They were a novelty to me and my hobby when I was 12 in grade school. 😊 Do I miss those tapes? You bet! I held onto my beloved Kiss 8 tracks, Alice Cooper and Black Sabbath. The only 8 track players I owned were LLoyds (crappy home units in all actuality), one Weltron space helmet, one Weltron "Aquatron" both units wore out completely though. I believe those were sold for looks back in the day and less about quality and performance. The best 8 track player I owned later on was a Panasonic Dynamite (plunger style) red portable one, and a home unit, Realistic. Those actually lasted me several years since I maintained them well. Most all of my stereo stuff was either given to me and others I'd buy from thrift shops. It was always like striking gold if I found anything by my favorite bands or found another 8-track tape that I didn't have already. My first 8-track tapes were: Alice Cooper- Goes to Hell (my mother's tape), Cheap Trick- In Color (still have this, belongs to my mom), Kiss- self-titled 1974 (contains Kissin' Time so it's not the extremely rare pressing), Kiss Alive!, Kiss- Love Gun (fixed this myself at 12 years old and it played okay), Kiss- Dynasty ( I bought this for a huge .25 cents in 89' from an overpriced junk store), Kiss- Alive II both vol. 1 and 2, ZZ Top- (truck stop bootleg album, black cartridge with a generic label), .38 Special, Jim Croce- best of hits. My favorite was always the first Kiss album on 8-track. I loved hearing the rich, full music from a pair of those clunky pillow cushion headphones. I also had the big adapter to hook up modern headphones too. In way of music, we had it! In fact, growing up we had good music. 😊
If you don't remember that feeling of giddy anticipation when the multicolored word "SPECIAL" swirled on the screen on CBS just before Frosty the Snowman/Rudolph the red nosed reindeer/Peanuts/Riki Tiki Tavi/etc, you can't get in. Oh also, if your father never yelled at you for turning the knob on the TV too fast while changing the channel, you're not in. 😂
If you ever watched M.A.S.H., All in the Family, or Andy Griffith show reruns over and over again because you had to watch what your dad watched or there was no TV because you only had one, and it was a 19" bubble screen from the 70s, and it was the only one your family had from the time you were born until you were in college... say "aye"! Oh...or was that just me? 😂
Mash. Yes. Andy was banned from our house but we watched a lot of Munsters, Lucy, Gilligan and Jeannie. Plus, my Dad and I can recite nearly the entire script of The Princess Bride.
Calling the movie theater and listening to a whole ass recording to find out a showtime. Or calling for the local Time and Temp 😂 I would call time and temp just because I was bored
We used to look in the back of the TV guide at what was showing on HBO or CINEMAX. Write a letter to our grandmother who lived out of state with our movie requests. She would record them on VHS and ship UPS to us. We had a massive library and all our friends wanted to know what new movies we got.
Honestly I heard a lot about 8 track and was familiar with it but never grew up with them. We had records and cassettes. I was born in 1975 my memories of the 70's is limited.
I remember cabbage patch but never had one. I do remember collecting garbage pale kid cards and stickers. I had them hidden! My mom would’ve been grossed out and disappointed. And then I would have been grounded.
The Challenger explosion traumatized me, deeply... for about 5 minutes. My uncle worked for NASA, and there was a brief period where my mind refused to differentiate between "astronaut" and "plumber", everything was lumped into " NASA." then it all clicked into place and I was just the same amount of traumatized everyone else was. And yes, the teacher really did just kinda go "Ok, class... Get out your vocabulary books...."
1966 here and no DARE program here. But my Gen Z daughter won the DARE essay contest in elementary school. I do remember "Scared Straight." But the one that really terrified me way "Stranger Danger".
100% right on.... That screeching sound of trying to hook up to the internet via landlines. Or getting kicked of line when somebody called. The art of making a collect call without having to pay, by saying"come pick me up" instead of your name. Sitting on your mom's lap when driving into town. Not being allowed in the house until after 5p.m. The taste of garden hose water in the summer. The sound of an icecream truck song(where you bought your candy cigarettes). Knowing how to spell words when paging a beeper. Knowing what a beeper/pager is😅. Learning to type on an electric typewriter. Knowing what "Be kind, rewind" meant. What the sound of a belt coming out of your dad's belt loops made just before you got it. Getting a "trapper" binder at the beginning of the school year. Not sure if your listening to the beginning of Ice Ice Baby, or Pressure. Sorry, got me remembering 😊
I was born in 1982 and remember all of this except the challenger. Here are a few more. All year round being told to wait in the car with the engine off and windows rolled up while your parents went shopping or visited or was at the bar having a drink. You will not only know what Noxzema is but now just thinking of it you can smell it. You have several pictures of when you were a child sitting on your parents lap while they were holding a cigarette or had one hanging out of their mouth. Being able to ride in the back of a pickup truck or a sit on your parents lap without a seatbelt. Tying your bike, skateboard or sled to the bumper and going for a ride. If you’ve ever heard “stop crying or I will give you something to cry about”. Saturday morning cartoons and lunchtime Flintstones. You know the phrase “not the mama” So many great memories lol
BAHAHAHAHAHA This is one of the best Gen X videos I've seen. I could totally relate to every single one. I remember when my mom's arm was the seatbelt whenever she had to hit the brakes. Ahhh, the good ole days. 🤣
We never had kids, but once my wife was driving, and she had to hit the brakes, so her right arm flew up in front of me, so I'm thinking it's in a woman's genes to be living seat belts!(?)😊😂
As a Gen Xer, I concur with this list. Awesome. Do not forget Cheech and Chong movies. Using straight up oil for sun tan lotion, jumping your friends on your bike with a ramp made of cinder blocks and plywood and M80's. If they do not know what an M80 is they have to leave the room. Great Job. Keep it up. Gen Xer's rock!
lol! my childhood, luv it. My dad had me light his cigarette on the stove. David Bowie, Nirvana, Hall and Oates, Prince, Michael Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, Duran Duran.
Spuds Makenzie, Budweiser frogs, headbangers ball, 2 cent bazooka bubble gum, the mini series V(crap had me scared for years), Crypt keeper, Elvira, “no wammies, big bucks, no wammies”, having to watch the news with your parents, Frogger and then my brothers trying to play it in real life, tire swings, catching lightening bugs, The Wonderful World of Disney Sunday Night (when it was still wonderful)……I could go on and on
This is hilarious! I remember every one of these things. Also, big teased hair, spandex pants under ripped jeans, the ugly nakedness trolls with colored hair and the cute little buttcheeks, the plastic pacifier Keychain or necklace, candy necklaces. Knowing who Mr. Rogers, Mr.T, Stevie Wonders are. The list goes on and on
I noticed that no one mentioned these..... Heard" do as I say, not as I do", watched... SHERA, PUNKY Brewster, STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE, The Snorkels, experienced all the below in one room, at the same time... Dinner, Grandpa in living room playing poker with buddies smoking cigars while as grandma in kitchen (living room and kitchen had no dividing walls) playing bridge (or yawtzee) with friends while also smoking while both yelling for grandkids to get papa, and friends beers and GMA and friends either ice waters or ice tea refills...or was that just me... Having a teddy rupskin and friends....with cassette tapes. Etc
That Challenger part...my 9th grade physics teacher was one of the top 100 finalists to be on that trip, and the tears in his eyes when it happened was heartwrenching. The tv sat in the front of the class while he cried.
Those were tears of guilt, because he probably wished he won, but then was grateful he didn't but sad he felt relief for being alive while others were not! What an emotional rollercoaster he must have went through in a matter of minutes.
She really nailed the Challenger explosion on the dot. The teachers just turned that sucker off, wheeled the TV A/V cart out of the room with a mortified silence, and just tried to move right on into the normally scheduled curriculum. They had zero idea how/what to say or feel. Just keep 'er movin.
Unfortunately, my third grade teacher did react. The moment when I looked to her in disbelief to find her sobbing in the dark is forever etched into my psyche
@@mamacypressour Middle school science teacher, Ms. Habel, was a semi- finalist backup (one of 113) to Christa McAuliffe as the teacher-astronaut to go into space on the Challenger mission.. Needless to say, there were emotions.
I actually missed the watch at school with that one. I was having one of my too-often Farris Bueller days and watched it at home. But had to keep my durn mouth shut about it when my mom got home from her factory job until having to act shocked/horrified at the news break on the tv once she was finally able to turn it on.
1. If you don't know what Villa Alegre or Electric Company were, sit down. 2. If you don't know what the definition of a 'Latch Key Kid' is, sit down. 3. If your TV screen didn't turn to snow at midnight and you didn't see the fighter jet 'touch the face of God' before it doing so, sit down. 4.If your curfew wasn't when the street lights came on, sit down. 5. If you don't know what an 8-track is, sit down. 6. If you don't know what a candy lady or cookie lady is, sit down. 7. If you've never seen a JC Penny Christmas Catalog, sit down. 8. If you don't know what a Magnavox Odyssey is, sit down. 9. If you didn't have a TV with dials for UHF and VHF channels, sit down. 10. If you don't know about the Kroft Supershow, Lance Lot Link, Zoom, Captain Kangaroo, Great Space Coaster, Land of the Lost, Sigmund the Sea Monster, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl or Far off Space Nuts then sit down. 🙂
Ooh! The JC Penny Christmas catalog was the BEST! I circled toys and dog eared pages for my parents for my Christmas list for Santa. Lol. And Land of the Lost was one of my favorites!
I take issue with number 4. It implies we had a curfew. Other than being called in for dinner, there was no such restriction on most my neighborhood's activities, once the kids hit double digits in age. Maybe be in bed by 9 or10-ish, but it was an increasingly loose suggestion as age got higher.
Magnavox Odyssey! That's a REAL O.G.! I didn't have anything like that, but my best friend's family had an Atari. Pong. Asteroids. Those were the days!
Great video. Last Sunday at a wedding I told 2 co-workers that our boss looked like Boy George. (She REALLY did) They had NO FU(KING IDEA who Boy George was. 🤯 😑
If you never heard the phrase, “I’m on long-distance!”
Only if you waited till after 9pm!!
YESSSSSS....."SIT DOWN, SHUT UP. CAN'T YOU SEE IM TALKING LONG DISTANCE!!!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
And had to pay for it!!
Or calling Person to Person.😅
Must know what a chat/party line is!
Remembering when MTV played music
Remembering how excited everyone at school was knowing the new channel called MTV was starting up that day! First song, The Buggles, Video killed the radio star.
Friday night videos before MTV and the video/tune Video Killed the Radio Star
Most millenials should remember when MTV played music- TRL was the highlight of my afternoon when I came home from school in 6th and 7th grade. I also enjoyed watching VH1s pop up videos for all of the little trivia about the making of each music video.
90 percent of the day😊
Remembering waiting for the first video....
Video killed the radio star!
Opening day for MTV.
If you were never your parents' remote control. Sit down.
@nopenoway1519 oh yes, good times. At one time, my neighbor actually translated to me what my dad was yelling to do. LMAO
😂😂👏👏👏🇦🇺👌loved cassettes and record player,still got my fleetwood mac,bay city rollers,Navana,beach Boys albums.😂😂👏👏was party time🎉
THIS!!! I wish I could upvote this more. As the youngest I was everyone's remote 😞😀
Thank God the only one I missed was the Challenger explosion and I’m counting that one as a good thing. I’m a Xennial half way between the two.
I remember sitting underneath our television and getting up to change the channel. I look back on that now and realize that television could have completely squished me. It was at least 10x my size.
" It's 10 PM Do you know where your children are?"
They literally played that on the TV every night to remind our parents that they had kids.
Yeah I thought it was for us but that commercial didn’t mean shit to them.
Must have heard the phrase “stop crying or I’ll give you something to cry about”! and experienced the phrase being enacted.
Or don't make me ask you!
“Go to your room and sit on the bed and wait for me.”
Scariest words I’ve ever heard.
Lol. They always gave me something to cry about until I learned it wasn't worth the belt.
Wait till your dad gets home, after my mom already chased me around with a fly swatter
My kids know that one
Must understand the significance of
" Nanu Nanu"
Amen! I ❤ Mork and Mindy!
RIP Robin Williams 😢👽👻
Could you imagine the material Robin would have these days?
😂😂😂
As an elder millennial I know all about Mork calling Orson.
If you never heard the national anthem played on your television and then it turn to snow....for hours because that was ENOUGH TV for er body..SIT DOWN!
I was explaining the happening to a current highschool senior, they thought I was crazy
Not one channel had a guy say... Why don't we just rerun the primetime lineup? Or even just put on 3 or 4 episodes of a show?
I was JUST telling someone about this & their minds were blown 😅
I barely remember this and I'm an early Xer...
I remember waking up early, turning on the TV just before 7am, watching the snow turn to inspiring shots of beaches, waterfalls, etc as the national anthem played before my favorite cartoons started.
If you never heard Casey Kasem play this week's countdown, your out!
And that Kasem was Teletraan I, Bluestreak, and Cliffjumper on Transformers
53 years old myself…don’t forget we had to wait for pictures to be developed, then laughing at what we took on those cameras, even disposable cameras!
Pictures solid black cause lens cap left on, blurred out, 2 pictures blended together, a finger, your feet/ground by accident, bad lighting, so all you see are red eyes, a glowing head, but no background at all, and then telling the developing store you used that you don't want to pay for any pics from the list above!
Oh yeah, and then finding a roll you forgot about 10-20 yrs later, so you know you lost some pictures, but can't remember what they could be!
Yes!! Walmart photo desk was the spot in our college town about a week back from spring break!! So many memories and seeing groups of people immediately thumbing through all their developed pics
And hated each other because one forgot to take the used up roll of film out, the other one forgot to check, if the roll was already finished, so we had regularly two events overlapping on one photo 😂 Why did those rolls even rewind and allowed to be photographed over again?
You didn’t have to wait if you had a Polaroid.
@@williambryan3346
Too expensive to get film for people living on peanut butter and jelly, and you got more than twice the pictures on 35mm!
110 cameras were cheap, with a built-in flash, also 35mm cameras were free, if the parents sat through a 90min seller's pitch for something they weren't going to buy!
Let's not forget what Mr. Whipple said,
"Don't squeeze the Charmin!"
Nor Mr. Winchell- "Time to make the doughnuts!" 🍩
Don't squeeze the Charmin, bc it's TIME TO MAKE THE DONUTS
I remember when Johnny 5 in Short Circuit said that line and I was so impressed at hearing a pop culture reference in a movie.
Where’s the beef?
If you saw Adam Savage from Mythbusters, in the commercial squeezing the Charmin…10 bonus points
“Pardon me, but do you have any Grey Poupon?”
"But of course"
Bahahahaha
😂 omg that commercial was always on
Also, “Where’s the beef!?”
Bahahaha! Oh my goodness! When this commercial was on in my childhood, one of my Dad's friends pulled up next to my mom at a stop light, honked his horn and rolled down his window. When my Mom noticed and rolled down her window, he said, "Pardon me Ma'am, do you have anything grey to poop on?"
My younger brother and I lost it at that point and it has been a running family joke ever since.
I even have my husband saying it these days. 😂
You had to memorize everyone's phone number too.
You had to have learned to use a big ass phone book also sometimes known as the yellow pages.
Yeah I don't do that one any more. BUT I still remember my phone number from when I was a kid
@@teresawalter8956 That's pretty darn good .
Or wrote it on the wall
Having text books for every class AND having to use a brown paper bag to make your own book cover. Watching the tv channels come online every morning with the national anthem playing and watching the tv channels end their day with the national anthem and going to the test bars.
Don't forget trapper keepers
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I used the brown paper bags, too. But as I got older, I got fancy. I would put the comics from the Sunday newspaper over them for some color. Then I could read them during class.😅
@@maranathaschraag5757Yep, mine was blue.
In the UK we often used wallpaper samples for school books.
Free and you could sometimes do more than one with any end of rolls they let you have!
If you never went to a restaurant with a smoking section, I'm afraid you are disqualified.
If you cant remember McDonalds having ashtrays
YUP! 🚬😗 💨
Or cars having ashtrays!!
Or when they make the Mall velvet rope, smoking exhibit.
@@MrMwmussel1 Or actual playgrounds with the merry-go-round
If Saturday morning cartoons were what you lived for, then youre in.
After these messages we'll be right back. jingle.
Cowabunga
Or if you tried to get up early enough to see Gigglesnort Hotel before the cartoons started!
Saturday morning cartoons, into pro wrestling and then into American Sports Cavalcade on TNN to watch drag racing and NASCAR highlights. It will always be the Winston Cup to me.
Bay City Rollers, H.R. Puffinstuff, Sigmond and the Sea monsters.
Anything by Sid & Marty Kroft.
If you didn't sing "Conjuction Junction" or "I'm Just A Bill" to help get you through tests you're out.
If people needed Seasame Street to get through school, they are morons.
It was the same repetitive shit for decades! So boring & stupid!
"We the People" literally helped me ace a pop quiz in my 12th grade Government class in 1980.
What's your function
@@NeilTruick I can't recite the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, but I can sing it!
Who remembers riding in the very backseat of a panel stationwagon that faced the traffic behind you?
THOSE WERE THE BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE. We just had a Ford Taurus, but our cousins had the station wagon and I always begged them to ride backwards!
We loved sitting back there on long trips and waving to all the people!
We had a Ford Falcon station wagon and there was always a fight for the back seat (The Dickie Seat) on the trips to visit the Grandparents, who lived hours away!😂
Bonus points if the window was rolled down so that you breathed in all the exhaust fumes!
We rode in the back back of a station wagon with no seat! We loved it!
Never watched a After-school Special, you don't qualify 😂😂😂
If you do not know “Open, Open, Open”. Go sit down.
I fell in love at least twice per year with some no name teenage actor from an after school special movie! Haaaa!! 😂
Or “The More You Know” PSA. 😂
School Specials
I was typically not allowed in the house after I got home from school. Dropped off my bag, changed clothes, and outside until 6.
Don't forget that square dancing for middle school P.E.
I said the same thing🤣
Did you guys live in Kansas? I remember learning square dancing in elementary school P.E. for Kansas Day, but that was about it.
Square dancing was what my high school did for PE in the last two weeks of the semester.
And fox trot and waltz in High School PE
Still happens
If the answer to your question from your parents was, “ BECAUSE I SAID SO”.. you’re in
and never Back Talk, you might have gone missing 😂😂😂😂
What you mean you dared to ask “why”??? Sheesh and I thought I was a rebel 😮
One more to add, getting up on Saturday morning to watch Saturday morning cartoons only to watch the test screen pattern until the station comes on.
😂😂😂 I remember that😂
With a big o'bowl of the best sugary cereal in the world. Fruity Pebbles, Cap'n Crunch, Fruit Loop..my list is endless. I take that back, wasn't a fan of Honey Smacks😂
Also the there was no 24 hour TV. Local stations shut down at night
Yep! And watched it pop on after midnight special. There might have been one other programming thing, but after that it was the pattern screen until the very next morning, waiting for the cartoons to come on. A typical Saturday morning went something like this for me: Cartoons, American Bandstand and Soul Train. I would switch back and forth throughout the hour. And then at night, Saturday night live or Monte python and midnight special hosted by wolfman Jack.
@@LisyCOBoo Berry, Count chocula and Frankenberry and my personal favorite, cookie crisp.
If you have never seen a native American crying because of litter. Sit down.
Omg, memory unlocked!! That's a good one!!
Or heard ‘only you can prevent forest fires! 🔥’
@@CarlaBuggs1-iz6gp yep!
@@CarlaBuggs1-iz6gp everyone knew Smoky!!!
Crying Eyes Cody!
If you don't know what "Gag me with a spoon" means...sit yo ass down!😂😂😂😂
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We always said…”with a wood chip”…hahaha! Lol!
SERIOUSLY 😂😂😂😂❤❤❤
Damn makin me miss Frank Zappa .
Yeah, but this was Moon Unit Zappa! Omg, I thought she was IT. Loved the whole valley girls thing. Ironically, of course 😂😂😂
I can't hear Moon or Dweezel and not think of their dad. I think I still have on of the knitted hats Moon was making around here some where.
Movie times from a newspaper, hand cranks for car windows, taping tunes from the radio, buying your first CD, watching your first music video on MTV & VH1 and "Wheres the Beef?"
You remember the excitement and awe when phones changed from rotary to touch tone, and you had EVERYBODY'S phone number memorized.
I *still* remember all those phone numbers! Barely know my own now. ;) I use the old ones as my PIN numbers lol.
I still remember some of my elementary school friends' phone numbers!
Touchstone phone's came out in 1963 but we didn't switch over our main kitchen phone ( you know the one with the mile long cord ) until 1989.
I was elated when we got our touch tone phone. Best thing since sliced bread.
@@jenbhikesgood idea!!!!
Benny Hill show! Carol Burnett show! Soul train! American Bandstand, Solid gold! 😆🤣
Oh, man, the Benny Hill Show! I loved that show! It came on after my bedtime, but my babysitter would let me stay up and watch it. The only condition was that we had to keep an eye out for my mom’s headlights coming up the driveway so I could dive into bed and pretend I was asleep. Ah, memories… 😊
Benny Hill was a mother!😅
OMG we watched Carol Burnett everynight
My mom definitely didn't want me watching Benny Hill
I wanted to be a solid gold dancer when I grew up!
Green stamps & the booklet from grocery purchases
Still have the plates and everything else my grandma bought me with the stamps.
And grocery stores used to be closed on Sundays
@@southernman8142That is so freaking cool
yesss
Which ties into... The Brady Bunch requirement, lol
Picking your Christmas presents from the Sears Wishbook.
Yes! And JcPenny X-Mas catalog! Awe man! Good times. 😊
My mom used Fingerhut!! For yearsss.
You must know that Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down
😂😂🙋🏾♀️
Lol me! And I'm Gen Z lol
Hell yeah!Gen X Jersey girl here.Weebles fucking rocked.When I got mad at my brother I would hut him with one.
How about salt and pepper in a bowl won't mix ....
The worst punishment parents could give you was being grounded from going outside!
Mom would send me to my room where my record player was, so not really much of a bummer to me!
Absolutely!!!
OMG... I'd rather get a beating than be stuck in the house!
And as we got older, our parents suffered as well😎
My brother and I were a year (+5 days) apart. We worship music and play drums and guitar.
Grounding became more infrequent in favor of heavy-chore punishment.
The worse punishment I could get was my Dad's belt on my backside. I would rather take the grounding.
To be Gen X, You have to stop caring about everything. It’s fking exhausting. We care about good music, cool cars, good food and that’s about it.
and good video games. 😁
And coffee. Don't forget coffee. Just black. Or with a splash of cold milk. Nothing fancy.
nah I just don't drink coffee stopped caring about it@@mariafranciscabertoglio6759
And not necessarily in that order. 😂😂😂
Yeah, that's about the speed of it.
Remembering when you went from a black-and-white TV to a color TV
This is your brain. This your brain on drugs. Any questions🤣
Back when they actually brought the drugs to school so we would know they looked like……
Nobody ever said I want to be a junkie when I grow up lmao
& The more you know........😂😂😂😂😂😂we took that literally and they didn't like that😂
I learned it from watching you ok 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yes, why are my brains on drugs soo tasty?
Ch-ch-ch Chia! Chia Pet. The gift that grows.
My late husband’s mother gave me one for the holidays one year. I should have known that relationship was doomed.
Don't forget sea monkeys!
still so weird
Watching Soul Train and Showtime at the Apollo. Awwww, snaps! And remembering Ice-T before he was a cop. Lol
💯
If this phrase, "Hey! Hey! Hey! It's Faaaaat Albert!" doesn’t remind you of Saturday afternoons as a child, then you cannot be Gen-X.
I have a portion of the show on dvd! 😁
literally no one cares. It's incredible how Gen X is just as lame as their parents. I guess age does that to you
@@pieterwillembotha6719 whoever’s kid this is, come and get him. He’s out here whining, again.
@@bellamin4549 too bad their's not an HR department for you to run and complain about me to xD
@@pieterwillembotha6719 that’s cute. GenX knows better than to go to HR.
If you never requested a song from a radio station and then waited to record said song on a cassette recorder, you can’t sit with us! 😂 Oh the memories! ❤ I can remember thinking, “this guy needs to stop talking so I get all of the song!” I didn’t need his intro or comments. 🤦🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
Also, when Gen X left the home on a Friday or Saturday night either with us driving or our friends picking us up, our parents didn’t know where we went and couldn’t talk to us until we got home. No cell phones, no Life 360…and speaking of no cell phones, there were NO cameras to record us doing dumb stuff! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 PTL! 😂
@@ThatEllen74 😂😂😂😂😂yes
"It's 10:00 p.m.. Do you know where your children are?"
If you never heard that PSA on Tv, sit down. Personally, i always found this PSA scary. 😅
I loved hearing it, bc I knew the good stuff was about to come on, my granny only had 4 channels, and my aunt was about to leave so I could hog her TV! Lol
Our parents had to be reminded they had kids. Lol
For me, I felt it was more like, "Do you know where mom is at?" My sister & I were always home when it got dark. I was always in charge (doing all the work)
I always loved it. Someone was looking out for me!
It was freaky. And so were the "this is only a test" Emergency Broadcast tones.
NOPE. I’m first wave GenX (1967) and the DARE program only came along in the mid 1980s after the “Just say No” program-I was in high school and had no use for that.
@badmother7615 Regan Era. Ugh! Mid '80s was the time when (xtascy) was an actual pharmaceutical. It was used for metal health, then couples therapy, then party drug, THEN it got shut down when the retirement homes started dosing Grandma and Grandpaw for family visit days.....js.
@@amydopson2946 I still remember having to take care of friends in the mid-80s who’d taken X recreationally at the gay bars. I already knew my brain was on the very edge of the abyss and my very few forays with substances (and some unfortunate issues with relatives’ really bad reactions) proved that it would not take much to push me over into the void. I knew I would be on my own there, so I took great care of my friends-picking them up and literally carrying them home, picking them up from jail, and watching over them during experiments with the harder stuff. Some never recovered their sanity or health. Some had been through nascent DARE programs; it came off as more of a “how-to” lecture with recipe ideas.
Being left in the car while your parents went in the grocery store
Being left at home while your parents went away for the weekend LOL
Born in 1985. I was starting to wonder where my car people are. I also remember my parents saying, “Get in the car. We’re leaving” after a family gathering in the middle of summer only to have to sit in that stuffy air for several more minutes while the parents still talked. Eventually, we learned to wait until the last second and keep the doors open.
Or the bar lol
Oooh dang, in the summertime, and hopefully with the windows down 😅
@americasmomloveeveryonenoe7517 I had the cops called on me and they brought mine in to find me, so I taught her to grocery shop and I just let her do the shopping while I sat up front.
What do these items all have in common: house slippers, flip flops, wooden spoon and/or spatula, skinny long tree branches, fly swatters, and rolled up magazines/ newspapers.... not a comprehensive list here😆
Items close by to be hit with!
Country goose wallpaper in the kitchen
Orange and brown furniture
Being left home alone at night so parents can go out.
Hairbrush
Beat yo ass equipment 😂😂😂😂
Hey!! That's what we got our asses whooped with when we deserved/earned it!
Been whooped with all of the above! Proud gen-xer, born in ‘76!
If you've never written in cursive. Sit down. 😂
My 9 year old is learning that now.
My kids could not fake a note from Mom, because mine were always cursive! Life hack! 😂
If you don't remember living with daily existential dread of being annihilated by nuclear weapons during the 80s cold war, sit down.
I was just discussing this with my kids!
Little House on The Prairie, the After school specials, boom box in the back of the school bus, the metal slides at the playground, perms, Auqua Net soo many good memories!
Gen Xer here. If you never owned the original Jelly shoes, a snap bracelet or Lisa Frank Trapper Keeper sit down.
Or an arm covered in black jelly bracelets and a stack of Garbage Pail Kid cards. I miss those days so much!
@@Certainlycaroline Me too girl! Me too! I wish I had a time machine.🤣
If you have never gone cross-eyed staring at a poster to figure out the hidden image....
1978 speaking: Loved, Loved, LOVED Lisa Frank! So pretty....😍
What about metal skates? Don’t let you sneaker get stuck 🤣
If you didn't take typing class on a typewriter or do all your school research papers using an encyclopedia, you're not a gen X
Some encyclopedia that was decades old and had been passed down multiple times, and was missing at least 2 books
One full year of typing drills now at 44 I'm thankful for this n ppl are amazed at my "skills"😂
I've had children ask me if all my fingers are double jointed because I text so fast.
Child, I'm 50. I learned a long time ago where all the letters are on the keyboard and can do it without looking.
We had the whole set....
I remember having typing classes on the typewriter while having computer classes
You can still remember your best friends phone number 49 years later!
@@sassy2215 isn’t that crazy and my friends parents still have that same number 🤭
Listen to the logon for AOL internet and hearing "You've got mail"❤❤❤😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉
Oh God the trauma of waiting forever for it to connect.
I remember when my mom found out you could charge the voice on there...She changed it to Kenny Chesney saying "You got love letters?" Smh
Word!! I STILL use my AOL email every day! Lmao!
Being excited to get free AOL cds
Dial up in general. Lol. The computer was like “let me sing you the song of my people”. You typed in the page, then had to wait again for it to load
🤣👍🏼
Thank You!
11. Playing outside All day until the street lights came on.
12. Riding our bikes with No Helmet.
13. Cramming as many people as we could in the back of the truck for the Drive In on Saturday Nights.
14. Bon Fires at the beach
15. Hokey Pokey on Roller Skates
YESSSS! Ahh, so few good memories from childhood and those are some of them!
I hated the hokey pokey on skates and I was always bullied into participating - and consequently falling breaking my ass
These! 💯
The Roller Garden, even if you didn't skate
No seatbelts too. How did we make it this far? Lol
You can definitely add the fact that we had everyone’s phone memorized😂
I still remember my friends, parents phone number to this day. And my mom until just recently got rid of her landline that we’ve had since I was a kid and I don’t remember her cell phone number. But I still remember the landline number. Some of my old friends were still calling my mom‘s house when they couldn’t find me.
Including Jenny's!!
🎉🎉😂😂
@@j348011 I still remember my old phone number from 40+ years ago.
Being able to dial a phone number to listen to a recording say, "At the tone the time will be X:X" and staying on the line to listen to the temperature, forecast and school closures in cases of inclement weather.
AMEN!
Black market Cabbage Patch dolls😂😂😂 Moms willing to go to jail to buy a doll in time for Christmas!
My cabbage patch dolls name was Jodi and I also had a koosa
Remember the video that made national news of the store manager standing on a display case, swinging a baseball bat to fight off the mob of moms? That was us, that was our Zare's store! Our mom's are epic!
My grandpa fought so hard to get me one and i didn't even like 'em....
Or had a homemade, hand stitched doll with a cabbage patch head.
My dad bought me one off a truck. Lol
I love this so much!!!! I feel like I found my tribe!!! Also, if you never had to make or receive a collect call, head home when the street lights came on or got up at the ass crack of dawn on Saturday morning to make a bowl of cereal and plop down in front of the TV to watch cartoons, access is denied!
I preferred pop tarts. Milk is messy.
(I feel like a broken record I'm so sorry haha). But millenials like moi - (like, solid millenials, not Zillenials), Did the "Wake up at 6am for Saturday morning cartoons" thing. Disney had some *fantastic* ones in the 90s. I vaguely remember the Little Mermaid tv series as well as Hercules, but the Aladdin series was my jam. There was an agreement that my brother would always be able to watch Blues Clues while I was always able to watch the Aladdin series. Otherwise my brother tended to get to the couch before me so he had control of the remote.
As far as the others - I probably don't qualify for the "head home when the street lights came on," because while it sometimes happened, that was because i live on a quiet cul-de-sac where are street lights right in the middle of the circle. My parents could watch out the window and see us just fine. Otherwise it was very strict supervision.
Make a collect call - if you wanna stretch it I did one by proxy XDDDD. I remember doing one in a hotel once or twice with my mom's guidance. My mom grew up in Long Island, so when we went down to visit my grandparents, we often did a day trip to Manhattan. So I also remember squeezing into one of the telephone booths in NYC with my family while my mom made a call to my grandparents house to say when we were going back. My brother and I would bicker about who could put the coins into the coin slot while my mom and dad were both warning us to NOT touch the walls for any reason lmao. i never questioned it because they were so disgusting and plastered with graffiti
@@princezzpuffypants6287 OMG I remember when the pop tarts started making Danish Go Rounds...the iceing was twice as thick and twice as much filling ..also reading the cereal box every morning and sometimes the cereal box even had a record on it that might play up to 4 times before it wore out.
Party Lines phones were not as much fun as they sound.
Coming home to watch an "After school special".
2 Mr. Bills. One on SNL and one on cartoon days to teach you about government.
She just reminded me… there was no counseling after challenger blew up. Nada just like, “well there’s some trauma for your life” don’t make it drama… keep it pushin’!
And we all survived
I remember my teacher quickly turned off the TV. They didn't acknowledge what happened at all. Our teacher was holding back tears and we got sent home from school early. My best friend who had the day off of school for an orthodontics appointment met me at the bus stop and that's how I found out that what we saw on tv was not only a burst of smoke but was the Challenger exploding and everyone on board dying. It was sad.
I had just gotten out of boot camp and saw it on the barracks TV. Yah I'm first wave Gen-X just like my Boomer parents were proper Boomers (Dad was born 9 months after VE day)
I watched it in the sky nearby in florida. What a nightmare. scarred forever. but…Ok everyone get to your next class now!”
Our school had an assembly the next day to talk about it and offer counseling. I don't think anybody said a word.
Who remembers Captain Kangaroo?
Yessss!!!!
Smacking the tv on the side so Gumby and pokey can be seen straight, and batteries in you pokets for the walkman 🤣
OMG totally forgot about carrying spare batteries around 😂😂
The smell of a strawberry shortcake doll. Or the cutest monchichi!
Omg yes! My mom collected them for my baby sister.
I had a Strawberry Shortcake birthday party! Such good memories ❤
I had a tiny Strawberry Shortcake folding table with two little plastic folding chairs. That and my Care Bears tricycle were two of my most prized possessions
My sister still has hers and her Raggedy ann and andy dolls i idk if i spelled the name right
I had a strawberry shortcake big wheel. The smell of fake strawberries still takes me back.
Couldn’t afford new albums so we waited by the radio for hours just to hit record when that new song got played.
And, got mad at the DJ who talk RIGHT up to the when the song started.
@@thisisme2476 🤣🤣🤣 my college roommate called in with a request and asked the DJ not to talk during the intro. The DJ laughed and hung up. Never played the song. The request was for “Jessie’s Girl,” by Rick Springfield.
Two words: Mix Tape.
@@thisisme2476 Or when the song ended.
I loved making mix tapes. I got really good at it too.
Me and my boom box.
Love it... It's 100% accurate.
There are so many more... and a lot of them are commented below.
There was also the phrase, "I brought you into this world, I can take you out and make another that looks just like you."
LOL man. There is nothing that is going to beat growing up in the 70's through the 90's, It was one of the most magical times in American History for so many reasons.
Yep, that was the best times ever
You forgot "Calgon take me away!" 😆
@TheBourbon88 " It's an ancient Chinese secret". Lol
What about a stick of margarine talking 💩 to somebody by saying "Parkay"
I say thst to this day.
Those were the days. Old commercials... Nair : " who wears short , shorts?...we wear short, shorts.
Bandaid : " I am stuck on Band-Aid Brand cuz Band-Aids stuck on me" !
Oscar Mayer : " My bologna has a first name, its O-S-C-A-R...."
@@phoenixspirit9530 That is INSANE! I has just humming the band-aid jingle this morning over and over and then asked myself "why?" Spirit animal. . can you hear me!!??
If you have never owned a Walkman, played in the sand ash trays at the end of the grocery aisle or knew that Mikey would try anything. Please dont let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya.
Mikey hated everything!
Mikey would try anything - good one!
Radio Shack
Smoking threw Kmart
Making a mix tape for someone special with your dual cassette deck and huge stereo system or boombox.
Having to record those songs from the radio station and timing the start JUST RIGHT!
Calling a radio station to make requests at a certain time to make sure your gear was cured up right: priceless.
But then being angry because the DJ wouldn’t shut up…or starting talking RIGHT AFTER you pressed record or RIGHT BEFORE you pressed stop. 😒
Don't forget "Pencil Wars" and "Hot Cinnamon Toothpicks!"
I miss those toothpicks!
Dang ! I haven't thought about those toothpicks for decades!!!
If you were never told "Sticks & stones can break your bones but, Words will never hurt you," you can't get in.
Or the version I learned in High School.'Sticks and Stones may break my Bones, but Whips and Chains excite me!"
Man I wish people would go back to that frame of mind!
or ennie meenie miny mo catch a tiger by it's toe
I'm rubber and you're glue. Anything you say will bounce off of me and stick to you.
(see 2020 riots) are merely oppressed people expressing themselves and is a perfectly valid form of "speech". Sickening
Drinking from a hose
Roof jumping
Having to go outside. Period. this one is MANDATORY!!!!!!!
Yep. Heck, I'm only a Xennial, but I was forced to go outside because my mom was a Boomer. And my brother is I guess solidly a Millennial? He's 1987. But he had the same experience. Our mom was emotionally negligent but I'm so grateful she made me put down my books and Barbies so I would have to experience life!
Mom used to lock the door behind me.
Getting locked out side
My middle name was outside.
@kristinathomas5890 Haha yep. Raised Gen X, but I'm solidly Milennial age. Our rotary phone was mustard yellow - it was always a hit when I would have friends over. 😂 Also grew up in an area that didn't have area codes until I was almost in my teens. I didn't have to remember a 10 digit phone number until I was probably 12.
That sound......when you notice your tape is being eaten up and you run to save the cassette 😂😂from across 3 rooms
ah the crinkle. I found out the hard way that you couldnt use rubbing alcohol to clean the pinch roller. Zeppelin 4 RIP
This actually made me chuckle.. I remember jumping from the upstairs to the landing to the downstairs and running into my room coming from the kitchen to save a tape.
Yeah, that noise burns into your SOUL!
@@stoopidbastid6420actually you can clean the pinch roller and the head in a cassette player using rubbing alcohol as long as it's 90% alcohol (less water in the stronger rubbing alcohol), swab with q-tips and let it air dry. The only time I experienced my tapes going crinkle cut French fry on me was when the cassettes themselves wore out, became tight (due to age, humidity chages, and repeated playing). I actually had some success salvaging some of my cassettes that became crinkled. I usually bought random cassettes, unscrewed them, switched out the spools, and labeled them, artist/album/year. It was tedious, sure. But those cassettes lasted me clear until 2012, then finally became oxidized due to their age.
I managed to transfer a handful onto CD, then put them onto my MP3 players. I dubbed nearly all of my LP'S onto CD, then transferred those to MP3 and the same for my 8-track cartridge tapes, which by 85' those were being phased out entirely. They were a novelty to me and my hobby when I was 12 in grade school. 😊 Do I miss those tapes? You bet! I held onto my beloved Kiss 8 tracks, Alice Cooper and Black Sabbath.
The only 8 track players I owned were LLoyds (crappy home units in all actuality), one Weltron space helmet, one Weltron "Aquatron" both units wore out completely though. I believe those were sold for looks back in the day and less about quality and performance. The best 8 track player I owned later on was a Panasonic Dynamite (plunger style) red portable one, and a home unit, Realistic. Those actually lasted me several years since I maintained them well. Most all of my stereo stuff was either given to me and others I'd buy from thrift shops. It was always like striking gold if I found anything by my favorite bands or found another 8-track tape that I didn't have already.
My first 8-track tapes were:
Alice Cooper- Goes to Hell (my mother's tape), Cheap Trick- In Color (still have this, belongs to my mom), Kiss- self-titled 1974 (contains Kissin' Time so it's not the extremely rare pressing), Kiss Alive!, Kiss- Love Gun (fixed this myself at 12 years old and it played okay), Kiss- Dynasty ( I bought this for a huge .25 cents in 89' from an overpriced junk store), Kiss- Alive II both vol. 1 and 2, ZZ Top- (truck stop bootleg album, black cartridge with a generic label), .38 Special, Jim Croce- best of hits. My favorite was always the first Kiss album on 8-track. I loved hearing the rich, full music from a pair of those clunky pillow cushion headphones. I also had the big adapter to hook up modern headphones too. In way of music, we had it! In fact, growing up we had good music. 😊
I learned how to take a 8 track and cassette apart to fix the mess it made when it got eaten up. Lol
If you don't remember that feeling of giddy anticipation when the multicolored word "SPECIAL" swirled on the screen on CBS just before Frosty the Snowman/Rudolph the red nosed reindeer/Peanuts/Riki Tiki Tavi/etc, you can't get in. Oh also, if your father never yelled at you for turning the knob on the TV too fast while changing the channel, you're not in. 😂
If you ever watched M.A.S.H., All in the Family, or Andy Griffith show reruns over and over again because you had to watch what your dad watched or there was no TV because you only had one, and it was a 19" bubble screen from the 70s, and it was the only one your family had from the time you were born until you were in college... say "aye"! Oh...or was that just me? 😂
Mash. Yes. Andy was banned from our house but we watched a lot of Munsters, Lucy, Gilligan and Jeannie. Plus, my Dad and I can recite nearly the entire script of The Princess Bride.
Not just you. It was M.A.S.H. and then Bob Newhart at my house growing up.
@@allisonsmith8025 Mine too. If you don't know the quote "This is my brother, Darryll; this is my other brother, Darryll," get out of the room.
Calling the movie theater and listening to a whole ass recording to find out a showtime. Or calling for the local Time and Temp 😂 I would call time and temp just because I was bored
Newspapers for the showtime listings.
😂, Sameee! Oh the memories!!😂
And then write the time down
Omg! You’re so epic for bringing that up! Not only were the movie and time listings 100 years long, but the wait to get to that point was as well!
Thanks for resuscitating that memory! Haven't thought about calling the theatre in a looooong time....
If you never danced in the living room while watching Soul Train 💃🎵
Nostalgia is getting me. Lack of parental supervision and support led to independence, self-reliance, and personal responsibility.
Or once a week you got a tv guide in the mail with listings of all the shows coming up the following week
Whoooo Hoooo Yeah!!! That was good reading!
We used to look in the back of the TV guide at what was showing on HBO or CINEMAX. Write a letter to our grandmother who lived out of state with our movie requests. She would record them on VHS and ship UPS to us. We had a massive library and all our friends wanted to know what new movies we got.
I had to explain this to a Gen Z the other day 😅 she looked at me like, "and what was it like going to school riding a dinosaur?"
@@rmcnally3645 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Some days that’s what it felt like
Oh ho! Ya'll was rich!
If you have no idea what an 8-track is. Goodbye. LOL.
Honestly I heard a lot about 8 track and was familiar with it but never grew up with them. We had records and cassettes. I was born in 1975 my memories of the 70's is limited.
Late 70's. We knew what they were but we never had or saw one.
1979 here. I was brought up on my mother's '60s-80s record collection
And if it wasn't an aftermarket install on the bottom of the dashboard, it doesn't count.
@@midwestchick187 exactly. LOL.
Gen x if remember the cabbage patch doll shortage at Christmas time.
😂 I learned mine came from a stolen truck 😮
My first one's name was kora. Got her in 1984 or 1985. Wish i still had her.
My mom had to actually make one because they were sold out! 😂 Me and my bobo Cabbage Patch doll😂
I remember cabbage patch but never had one. I do remember collecting garbage pale kid cards and stickers. I had them hidden! My mom would’ve been grossed out and disappointed. And then I would have been grounded.
My grandfather asked his best friend drive 2 hours to get me one. Still have it.
My first one came from Mexico. My grandparents bought it while they were on vacation. 😂
The Challenger explosion traumatized me, deeply... for about 5 minutes. My uncle worked for NASA, and there was a brief period where my mind refused to differentiate between "astronaut" and "plumber", everything was lumped into " NASA." then it all clicked into place and I was just the same amount of traumatized everyone else was. And yes, the teacher really did just kinda go "Ok, class... Get out your vocabulary books...."
Good point about them rolling out the TV for the Challenger. Those AV carts were classic
Very much remember that. Can't remember what grade though 8th I think
Leading edge GenXer here. I was in college, at the little college radio station where I did news, broadcasting the AP feed.
I was home sick that day. Turned on CNN when my dad came home and mentioned it.
I’m the oldest of Gen X, born in 1965 and no I did not go through the DARE program, but I was, “Scared Straight”!
1966 here and no DARE program here. But my Gen Z daughter won the DARE essay contest in elementary school. I do remember "Scared Straight." But the one that really terrified me way "Stranger Danger".
Technically we 1965 kids are the last of the Boomers. But we filled the roles of the first Gen X without breaking a sweat.
Me 2 😂❤❤
@jasonkelley2651 No, we are X. Starts in '65. My big sister is only a few years older than me, and the generational difference between us is stark.
Was it any better? I'm at the end of Gen X,1980. I snuck in right at the end, thankfully.
100% right on....
That screeching sound of trying to hook up to the internet via landlines. Or getting kicked of line when somebody called.
The art of making a collect call without having to pay, by saying"come pick me up" instead of your name.
Sitting on your mom's lap when driving into town.
Not being allowed in the house until after 5p.m.
The taste of garden hose water in the summer.
The sound of an icecream truck song(where you bought your candy cigarettes).
Knowing how to spell words when paging a beeper.
Knowing what a beeper/pager is😅.
Learning to type on an electric typewriter.
Knowing what "Be kind, rewind" meant.
What the sound of a belt coming out of your dad's belt loops made just before you got it.
Getting a "trapper" binder at the beginning of the school year.
Not sure if your listening to the beginning of Ice Ice Baby, or Pressure.
Sorry, got me remembering 😊
Woooooow....the garden hose 💧...😅Cuz if u go in the house, you staying in the house😂😂😂
@@CatrinaTeverbaugh-if2zr
Or....you weren't even allowed in the house till after 5p.m. these new generations wouldn't know what to do
I was two when the challenger exploded 😢
Shoot, we never even got internet at home. Sit down
Trapper Keepers!!!!!
Bonus points if your tv had a dial that clunk, clunk, clunked when you turned it.🤣🤣🤣
@@dixiecyrus8136 I can still hear the sound of the knob turning lol
Don't forget the Rainbow Bright or Jem!!!
I had a Rainbow Bright sleeping bag and a Jem coloring book!
@@angeliaisastar still have the doll AND the misfits.
And Strawberry Shortcake..the originals, not the crappy remakes.
Yesss
Well that is just Truly Outrageous!
I was born in 1982 and remember all of this except the challenger. Here are a few more. All year round being told to wait in the car with the engine off and windows rolled up while your parents went shopping or visited or was at the bar having a drink. You will not only know what Noxzema is but now just thinking of it you can smell it. You have several pictures of when you were a child sitting on your parents lap while they were holding a cigarette or had one hanging out of their mouth. Being able to ride in the back of a pickup truck or a sit on your parents lap without a seatbelt. Tying your bike, skateboard or sled to the bumper and going for a ride. If you’ve ever heard “stop crying or I will give you something to cry about”. Saturday morning cartoons and lunchtime Flintstones. You know the phrase “not the mama”
So many great memories lol
Hell my parents left us in the car with the keys so we could jam the tunes!!😂🙌
Ahhhh yeah! Riding in the back of a pickup! Yesss!
I was born in 82 too! I think we should be Gen X and NOT Millennials!
Riding in the back of a station wagon, widow down and feet hanging out while sitting on little lawn chairs.
@@patriciadenisecorbin7875 watching drive in movies from the roof of that station wagon as well!🙌
.... correlation between a cassette tape and a pencil 😂 yep!
And how to copy games on an Commodore 64 computer
How else can you put cassette tape back in?
Electronic Quarterback hand held game. That was my entire 79-80s.
BAHAHAHAHAHA This is one of the best Gen X videos I've seen. I could totally relate to every single one. I remember when my mom's arm was the seatbelt whenever she had to hit the brakes. Ahhh, the good ole days. 🤣
only hugs i ever got 😂
We never had kids, but once my wife was driving, and she had to hit the brakes, so her right arm flew up in front of me, so I'm thinking it's in a woman's genes to be living seat belts!(?)😊😂
"Where's the Beef"? Lol
siamese cat shaped avon bubble bath
virgin mary plug in night lights
vintage mounted doorbell's
Yup, right along with "time to make the donuts"
I've fallen and I can't get up!
OMG ALL THESE! 😂😂😂 YES! Check, check, check, and check!
YES!! And "punch it Margaret!"
As a Gen Xer, I concur with this list. Awesome. Do not forget Cheech and Chong movies. Using straight up oil for sun tan lotion, jumping your friends on your bike with a ramp made of cinder blocks and plywood and M80's. If they do not know what an M80 is they have to leave the room. Great Job. Keep it up. Gen Xer's rock!
lol! my childhood, luv it. My dad had me light his cigarette on the stove. David Bowie, Nirvana, Hall and Oates, Prince, Michael Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, Duran Duran.
Spuds Makenzie, Budweiser frogs, headbangers ball, 2 cent bazooka bubble gum, the mini series V(crap had me scared for years), Crypt keeper, Elvira, “no wammies, big bucks, no wammies”, having to watch the news with your parents, Frogger and then my brothers trying to play it in real life, tire swings, catching lightening bugs, The Wonderful World of Disney Sunday Night (when it was still wonderful)……I could go on and on
This is hilarious! I remember every one of these things. Also, big teased hair, spandex pants under ripped jeans, the ugly nakedness trolls with colored hair and the cute little buttcheeks, the plastic pacifier Keychain or necklace, candy necklaces. Knowing who Mr. Rogers, Mr.T, Stevie Wonders are. The list goes on and on
along with the pacifiers there was backwards jerseys, overalls with one strap undone, socks with Birkenstocks, hammer pants........
“WHAT YOU TALKING ABOUT WILLIS? “ . MUST IDENTIFY.😂😂😂
willis.
also: I love it when a plan comes together.
Sit down Mr Drummond...
Gotta say right, though, chin down, look up "Whatchu talkin bout, Willis."
Different Strokes Facts of Life
@@PhoenixRising82672 You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and then you have ...
I noticed that no one mentioned these..... Heard" do as I say, not as I do", watched... SHERA, PUNKY Brewster, STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE, The Snorkels, experienced all the below in one room, at the same time... Dinner, Grandpa in living room playing poker with buddies smoking cigars while as grandma in kitchen (living room and kitchen had no dividing walls) playing bridge (or yawtzee) with friends while also smoking while both yelling for grandkids to get papa, and friends beers and GMA and friends either ice waters or ice tea refills...or was that just me... Having a teddy rupskin and friends....with cassette tapes. Etc
That Challenger part...my 9th grade physics teacher was one of the top 100 finalists to be on that trip, and the tears in his eyes when it happened was heartwrenching. The tv sat in the front of the class while he cried.
😢
Wow!
Praise God he didn't go on that trip.
Almost forty years later and it bugs me the way everything happened, because of ear responsibility those people died.
Those were tears of guilt, because he probably wished he won, but then was grateful he didn't but sad he felt relief for being alive while others were not! What an emotional rollercoaster he must have went through in a matter of minutes.
@@WalburgisLuppus You're absolutely right.
She really nailed the Challenger explosion on the dot. The teachers just turned that sucker off, wheeled the TV A/V cart out of the room with a mortified silence, and just tried to move right on into the normally scheduled curriculum. They had zero idea how/what to say or feel. Just keep 'er movin.
Unfortunately, my third grade teacher did react. The moment when I looked to her in disbelief to find her sobbing in the dark is forever etched into my psyche
@@mamacypressour Middle school science teacher, Ms. Habel, was a semi- finalist backup (one of 113) to Christa McAuliffe as the teacher-astronaut to go into space on the Challenger mission.. Needless to say, there were emotions.
I actually missed the watch at school with that one. I was having one of my too-often Farris Bueller days and watched it at home. But had to keep my durn mouth shut about it when my mom got home from her factory job until having to act shocked/horrified at the news break on the tv once she was finally able to turn it on.
Swatch watch
And yet somehow we all survived
Remember McGruff the crime dog???? LMAO!!!
"Take a bite outa crime!"😂😂😂
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Scruff mcgruff Chicago Illinois 60652!!!
Roger ramjet?
Yep.
I’m fully in the club, remembering pay phones, big yellow pages and everything 🤣🤣🤣
"Surely you can't be serious!"
"I am, and don't call me Shirley!"
Bad day to quit cigarettes.
Ever been in a Turkish prison Timmy?
I picked the wrong day to quit sniffing glue.
You have clearance Clarence. What’s your vector Victor?
Watching Rocky and Bull Winkle while eating cereal, before walking 5 blocks to elementary school in the dark.
Yes! I didn't even like that show, But it's what was on.
1. If you don't know what Villa Alegre or Electric Company were, sit down.
2. If you don't know what the definition of a 'Latch Key Kid' is, sit down.
3. If your TV screen didn't turn to snow at midnight and you didn't see the fighter jet 'touch the face of God' before it doing so, sit down.
4.If your curfew wasn't when the street lights came on, sit down.
5. If you don't know what an 8-track is, sit down.
6. If you don't know what a candy lady or cookie lady is, sit down.
7. If you've never seen a JC Penny Christmas Catalog, sit down.
8. If you don't know what a Magnavox Odyssey is, sit down.
9. If you didn't have a TV with dials for UHF and VHF channels, sit down.
10. If you don't know about the Kroft Supershow, Lance Lot Link, Zoom, Captain Kangaroo, Great Space Coaster, Land of the Lost, Sigmund the Sea Monster, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl or Far off Space Nuts then sit down. 🙂
Ooh! The JC Penny Christmas catalog was the BEST! I circled toys and dog eared pages for my parents for my Christmas list for Santa. Lol.
And Land of the Lost was one of my favorites!
La la la la la la la la la la la la Allegre! 😂 🎡
They still do latch key kids
I take issue with number 4.
It implies we had a curfew.
Other than being called in for dinner, there was no such restriction on most my neighborhood's activities, once the kids hit double digits in age. Maybe be in bed by 9 or10-ish, but it was an increasingly loose suggestion as age got higher.
Magnavox Odyssey! That's a REAL O.G.! I didn't have anything like that, but my best friend's family had an Atari.
Pong. Asteroids. Those were the days!
If your television never signed off at midnight, please take several seats.
Tom Vu seminar, National Anthem, then static.
Great video. Last Sunday at a wedding I told 2 co-workers that our boss looked like Boy George. (She REALLY did) They had NO FU(KING IDEA who Boy George was. 🤯 😑
Crazy!
WTF 😳 ❓❓
I’m appalled!!
Shit! WE GEN X’er’s! LIVED!!!!!!
Omg...nooo! cries in Karma Chameleon 😭
I still envy how good Boy George's makeup lioked!
I had one ask me if Paul Newman did anything before he made spaghetti sauce.