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091 - Kids These Days
Jul. 5th, 2016 11:58 amI signed up for the latest batch of The Reddit Gift Exchanges because that's the kind of guy I am - I love giving and getting suprises in the mail :) One of the Gift Exchanges going on is all about Your Favorite Decade - Tell your person all about your favorite decade, they'll get you an apropriate gift reminiscent of that decade!
I wrote:
They replied:
I clutched my shawl around my shoulders, refilled my hot water bottle, grabbed a new sheet of paper and replied:
...I had to stop and check Wikipedia to see when Pokemon started airing in the United States. Obviously this CHILD, maybe 10 years old or so, had wiggled their way into the Gift Exchange and had no grasp of a time before their own lifespan, right?
1998.
If this "kid" was even just 18 years old, Pokemon would have been on TV for their ENTIRE LIFE. Pokemon would be something that just always has been and always will be on TV. Pikachu is to this person, as Yogi Bear is to me; there wasn't a time before Yogi Bear. There just wasn't.
I took another glug from my bottle of Geritol and finished my reply, hitting send. Somehow I know that in a week or so I'm going to receive a mystery package in the mail full of old-fashioned DVD's full of Pokemon episodes. Ah, physical media... now THAT takes me back to The Good Old Days :)
I wrote:
"I'm a HUGE fan of the late 1970's/early 1980's era of Animation, especially the stuff from Hannah Barbera in that era. Scooby Doo, Wacky Races, Yogi's Gang, Stop The Pigeon, Laff-A-Lympics, Jabber Jaw, Grape Ape... I love everything about them! I also really love all the Sid & Marty Krofft stuff from that era as well, from Land Of The Lost to Wonderbug! Kids shows of that era just really speak to me. I also love the "Soft Rock" of that era rather than the Disco or Rock that you might usually associate with the 1970's. Give me Barry Manilow and Air Supply any day and I'm a happy camper!"
They replied:
"So U like old cartoons like Pokemon?"
I clutched my shawl around my shoulders, refilled my hot water bottle, grabbed a new sheet of paper and replied:
"My daughter enjoys Pokemon, we've watched every episode and she has a HUGE collection of Pokemon stuff. Tons of the cards, too, though we never play. But as for ME, my tastes are a bit older than that. The stuff I like is from the 1970's, and Pokemon didn't start till - "
...I had to stop and check Wikipedia to see when Pokemon started airing in the United States. Obviously this CHILD, maybe 10 years old or so, had wiggled their way into the Gift Exchange and had no grasp of a time before their own lifespan, right?
1998.
If this "kid" was even just 18 years old, Pokemon would have been on TV for their ENTIRE LIFE. Pokemon would be something that just always has been and always will be on TV. Pikachu is to this person, as Yogi Bear is to me; there wasn't a time before Yogi Bear. There just wasn't.
I took another glug from my bottle of Geritol and finished my reply, hitting send. Somehow I know that in a week or so I'm going to receive a mystery package in the mail full of old-fashioned DVD's full of Pokemon episodes. Ah, physical media... now THAT takes me back to The Good Old Days :)
