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Thoughts on re-watching "The Wonder Years"

Free month of Hulu and they have the whole series. I was ...
self-centered house
  02/07/20
i thought it was based in the midwest?
At-the-ready hell old irish cottage
  02/07/20
they never resolved that. in-show references to long island ...
self-centered house
  02/07/20
oh right. i thought they had some winter scenes tho?
At-the-ready hell old irish cottage
  02/07/20
no. even on christmas episodes the trees are in full leaf. ...
self-centered house
  02/07/20
I'm bawling right now
stirring maniacal rehab friendly grandma
  02/07/20
"IM OLD: the original airing was a LOT closer to 1968 t...
Harsh library codepig
  02/07/20
JFC.
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exhilarant lilac faggot firefighter locus
  07/29/24
holy shit. can you imagine being nostalgic for that era
self-centered house
  02/07/20
I don’t have to imagine, it was worlds better than our...
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self-centered house
  10/10/24
i liked the episodes where he dates Becky and pisses her off
At-the-ready hell old irish cottage
  02/07/20
Becky Slater was in my law school class. Her sister in rea...
mahogany zippy site doctorate
  02/07/20
ruh roh https://people.com/human-interest/crystal-mckella...
alcoholic corner
  02/07/20
lolling that the bitchy proto-shrew and the passive jewish w...
self-centered house
  02/07/20
Paul on the show also ended up going to law school -- Kevin ...
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racy sienna box office
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High-end cobalt heaven hominid
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Tried it. Doesn’t work. Too boring and a lot of the in...
Hot big step-uncle's house
  02/07/20
hope only exists for ppl like AOC and Ilhan Omar.
At-the-ready hell old irish cottage
  02/07/20
jfc
Curious stock car field
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Carnelian party of the first part
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Curious stock car field
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One of the best shows ever created. and yes, the demograp...
alcoholic corner
  02/07/20
and it was completely unnecessary
At-the-ready hell old irish cottage
  02/07/20
Who's to blame for this?
Federal Adventurous Dog Poop Sandwich
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and then one day, for no reason at all
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I watched this the other day and it freaked me out. https...
frum sapphire market
  07/08/20
I remember one episode only. He has a job working for a crot...
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alcoholic corner
  02/07/20
there were lots of hidden lessons in there, of course. he...
self-centered house
  02/07/20
as a prole from the sticks, this site sometimes blows me the...
hairraiser stage
  07/08/20
cr if he had just run the family business his dad would stil...
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  07/29/24
https://youtu.be/k3DMiRNvHj0
alcoholic corner
  02/07/20
devastating
Harsh library codepig
  02/07/20
although I'm pretty impressed with the accuracy of my 25 yea...
Harsh library codepig
  02/07/20
Weeping
self-centered house
  02/07/20
I'm going to make my son watch it when he's a little older
Federal Adventurous Dog Poop Sandwich
  02/07/20
*son throws laptop at you, sobbing uncontrollably* "wha...
self-centered house
  02/07/20
It's impossible for me to watch Wonder Years because we have...
Autistic amber reading party
  02/07/20
fair criticism. fwiw, I think the adult boomer narration doe...
self-centered house
  02/07/20
I also can't watch "Freaks and Geeks" because I ha...
Autistic amber reading party
  02/07/20
not a wonder years scholar, but i think freaks and geeks was...
Onyx native
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Onyx native
  02/07/20
freaks and geeks was a good show. you are right that it ende...
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Unhinged Overrated Gaping Partner
  02/07/20
good poast.
Onyx native
  02/07/20
Remember the episode with the tough math teacher who is push...
alcoholic corner
  02/07/20
Like an Azn Babe Ruth calling his shot.
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azure clown
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Fuck I remember this one
Abusive cuckold
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I remember 2 episodes. One, where they go to the shore and s...
Filthy parlor
  02/07/20
Lmao at this take. This is what middle class life is champ a...
Hot big step-uncle's house
  02/13/20
dad was a miserable middle class schlub
exhilarant lilac faggot firefighter locus
  07/29/24
I did this a few years ago. It's a good show still.
tan office pervert
  02/07/20
The Wonder Years on "Heroes" https://youtu.be/p...
alcoholic corner
  02/07/20
jack arnold was a working class hero that faggot kevin const...
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he eventually got it. that's part of growing up. you look at...
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  02/07/20
I think about that episode a lot. IIRC there's a scene where...
Carnelian party of the first part
  02/07/20
yeah its fraud that most of us arent practicing piano or get...
self-centered house
  02/07/20
This is prob the scene from the wonder years that i think ab...
Carnelian party of the first part
  02/07/20
jfc how Kevin, and us all really, didn’t see that a...
exhilarant lilac faggot firefighter locus
  07/29/24
that dude was a hero
hairraiser stage
  07/08/20
dang
Harsh library codepig
  02/07/20
freaks and geeks gives you the same kind of flashback value ...
Unhinged Overrated Gaping Partner
  02/07/20
(nerd who got stuffed in lockers)
massive exciting psychic institution
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this show sucked kevin didn't get with the french babe ma...
heady lake really tough guy yarmulke
  02/07/20
I remember when he kept asking the French girl if she wanted...
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  02/07/20
winnie sucked. madeleine was great. i also really dug the...
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massive exciting psychic institution
  02/07/20
Did he end up with Winnie I forgot
mind-boggling trailer park
  02/07/20
no Winnie went to France to study for 8 years and then Kevin...
alcoholic corner
  02/07/20
It was a good show to watch when you're about the same age a...
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  02/07/20
I remember going out with a 24 year old chick a few years ag...
Shivering Tanning Salon
  02/07/20
So when I try to think back to that time, I remember ABC's T...
Filthy parlor
  02/07/20
boy meets world yes, wonder years no (wonder years was nbc i...
Unhinged Overrated Gaping Partner
  02/07/20
WY was a wednesday 8PM show. the anchor of the night, but a ...
self-centered house
  02/11/20
There’s an episode where Kevin is a caddy for his dad ...
Filthy parlor
  02/11/20
ugh and his dad intentionally loses.
Carnelian party of the first part
  02/13/20
He does.
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Jack Arnold was 1800000
alcoholic corner
  02/13/20
He was.
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self-centered house
  07/08/20
And now they’re rebooting it with a black family in Mo...
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  07/08/20
Omg I SWORE this was flame
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Date: February 7th, 2020 11:39 AM
Author: self-centered house

Free month of Hulu and they have the whole series.

I was perfectly positioned in Gen X for the original airing to be a weekly event.

IM OLD: the original airing was a LOT closer to 1968 that it is to today. And relevant to XO tropes, it's startling to see an entirely white, homogenous Southern California. Suburbs where every mom stayed home. Fathers struggled with making money, but everyone owned their four bedroom and had two cars. None of that shocked in the late 80s, early 90s either. The only lib propaganda was satirized in dreary public school teachers making dramatic pronouncements about environmental degradation, which apparently is as old as the 60s.

If you're open to sentimentality and nostalgia, and I fucking am, it's still an amazing show, with even more effect given the background of how completely we lost the suburbs.

The production values are the second biggest shock: the film looks terrible and there are long pauses between dialogue, with no music filler, that modern tv would never allow for.

And despite the boomer porn, it wasnt nearly celebratory or exclusionary to Gen-X. That would come later.

This is from an episode I don't remember from the first go-round, in which Kevin quits piano lessons out of laziness. It's one of the few that ends with a truly bleak note:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbk4FrVf08A

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39557447)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 11:41 AM
Author: At-the-ready hell old irish cottage

i thought it was based in the midwest?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39557451)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 11:42 AM
Author: self-centered house

they never resolved that. in-show references to long island and new york (kevin's famous jets jersey and fandom), but obv shot in socal, with the mountains and neversnow

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39557463)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 11:43 AM
Author: At-the-ready hell old irish cottage

oh right. i thought they had some winter scenes tho?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39557469)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 11:50 AM
Author: self-centered house

no. even on christmas episodes the trees are in full leaf.

i dunno why they didnt just write it as californian, other than some jewish boomer indubitably insisted it mirror his NY childhood

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39557517)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 11:51 AM
Author: stirring maniacal rehab friendly grandma

I'm bawling right now

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39557527)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 12:08 PM
Author: Harsh library codepig

"IM OLD: the original airing was a LOT closer to 1968 that it is to today."

Not flame, the relative dates of the show are 2000-2005



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39557626)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 12:17 PM
Author: Onyx native

JFC.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39557687)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 12:21 PM
Author: crusty khaki bawdyhouse



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Date: July 29th, 2024 8:45 PM
Author: exhilarant lilac faggot firefighter locus



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Date: February 7th, 2020 2:51 PM
Author: self-centered house

holy shit. can you imagine being nostalgic for that era

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39558575)



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Date: July 8th, 2020 3:16 PM
Author: Silver Vigorous Fat Ankles

I don’t have to imagine, it was worlds better than our current hellscape.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#40568952)



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Date: July 8th, 2020 3:23 PM
Author: alcoholic corner



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Date: October 10th, 2024 2:42 PM
Author: self-centered house



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Date: February 7th, 2020 11:42 AM
Author: At-the-ready hell old irish cottage

i liked the episodes where he dates Becky and pisses her off

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39557460)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 2:33 PM
Author: mahogany zippy site doctorate

Becky Slater was in my law school class.

Her sister in real life is the girl who played Winnie Cooper

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39558476)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 2:43 PM
Author: alcoholic corner

ruh roh

https://people.com/human-interest/crystal-mckellar-peter-thiel-firm-lawsuit/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39558527)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 2:50 PM
Author: self-centered house

lolling that the bitchy proto-shrew and the passive jewish wimp on the show both ended up as irl lawyers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39558571)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 2:58 PM
Author: alcoholic corner

Paul on the show also ended up going to law school -- Kevin mentions it at the end of the last episode.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39558622)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 4:35 PM
Author: racy sienna box office



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Date: July 8th, 2020 5:45 PM
Author: High-end cobalt heaven hominid



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Date: February 7th, 2020 11:42 AM
Author: Hot big step-uncle's house

Tried it. Doesn’t work. Too boring and a lot of the interest when we were younger was the “hope” that it gave us and that we had a lot of good things to look forward too. Now that we’re older and realize that life is miserable flame, it has no value.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39557461)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 11:42 AM
Author: At-the-ready hell old irish cottage

hope only exists for ppl like AOC and Ilhan Omar.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39557465)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 11:42 AM
Author: Curious stock car field

jfc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39557467)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 2:53 PM
Author: Carnelian party of the first part



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Date: February 7th, 2020 11:42 AM
Author: Curious stock car field



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Date: February 7th, 2020 11:43 AM
Author: alcoholic corner

One of the best shows ever created.

and yes, the demographic and cultural change between 1970 and 2020 in america is nothing short of frightening.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39557473)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 11:46 AM
Author: At-the-ready hell old irish cottage

and it was completely unnecessary

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39557490)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 11:53 AM
Author: Federal Adventurous Dog Poop Sandwich

Who's to blame for this?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39557539)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 11:56 AM
Author: alcoholic corner

and then one day, for no reason at all

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39557549)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 12:05 PM
Author: Federal Adventurous Dog Poop Sandwich



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Date: July 29th, 2024 8:40 PM
Author: spruce knife turdskin



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Date: February 7th, 2020 12:19 PM
Author: Cordovan sanctuary milk



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Date: July 8th, 2020 5:42 PM
Author: frum sapphire market

I watched this the other day and it freaked me out.

https://youtu.be/r3kQlzOi27M

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#40569753)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 11:54 AM
Author: Harsh library codepig

I remember one episode only. He has a job working for a crotchety old man in a hardware store and has a chance to learn valuable carpentry skills. But he quits to work in the mall because it's cooler and he can meet chicks. In the last scene the crotchety old man lets down the facade and pleads with him to stay, offers him a raise, but he leaves anyway.

remembering it makes me so angry at boomers i could spit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39557540)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 11:55 AM
Author: alcoholic corner



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Date: February 7th, 2020 11:59 AM
Author: self-centered house

there were lots of hidden lessons in there, of course.

he abandoned his father's family business in the end and dad dies

he chased other girls until winnie gives up, goes to study in france

I learned none of them

edit: even in the link above, just abandoning our heritage to fuck around, until no one can even play pachelbel -- but we remember we once could

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39557567)



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Date: July 8th, 2020 5:48 PM
Author: hairraiser stage

as a prole from the sticks, this site sometimes blows me the fuck away. almost everyone here had so much more prestige than i did until at least grad school, but no one seems to have gotten a real cultural education and there's this sense of passivity about it, exactly like the jackass boomer kid in the show.

music lessons aren't free, but practicing is. foreign languages can be learned cheaply with textbooks from the library and duolingo and foreign radio stations. you can go on libgen for 5 minutes and have anything you want from world literature. you want to get good at math, you get some textbooks and annotate them and work through all the problems. adjusting for my local situation and the tech when i was a teenager, that's what i did, because i was sort of poor and extremely bored and i didn't want to be like the hicks and dorks i grew up around.

i think a big part of it is that doing this stuff doesn't actually make you prestigious; it won't directly help you to get a shiny resume for ivy UG or swing a swanky job after graduation. but the prestige ladder is leading more and more to bluecheck hellscapes and an elite that can't actually fucking do anything except status-jockey, spend down their trust funds and tweet about black trans lives.

maybe prestige is bullshit and we should just learn to do hard things. that's how you don't forget how to play pachelbel.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#40569785)



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Date: July 29th, 2024 8:55 PM
Author: exhilarant lilac faggot firefighter locus

cr if he had just run the family business his dad would still be alive today

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#47906912)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 12:23 PM
Author: alcoholic corner

https://youtu.be/k3DMiRNvHj0

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39557730)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 12:27 PM
Author: Harsh library codepig

devastating

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39557754)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 12:49 PM
Author: Harsh library codepig

although I'm pretty impressed with the accuracy of my 25 year old memory of a tv episode i watched once

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39557864)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 12:46 PM
Author: self-centered house

Weeping

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39557840)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 11:54 AM
Author: Federal Adventurous Dog Poop Sandwich

I'm going to make my son watch it when he's a little older

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39557542)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 12:05 PM
Author: self-centered house

*son throws laptop at you, sobbing uncontrollably* "what have you done?" he demands

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39557609)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 12:06 PM
Author: Autistic amber reading party

It's impossible for me to watch Wonder Years because we have already been saturated with so many boomer nostalgia films and TV shows that I react with illness towards anything in this genre I see. Perhaps this was not true at the time Wonder Years was on TV but it is true with any attempt to watch it now.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39557616)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 12:11 PM
Author: self-centered house

fair criticism. fwiw, I think the adult boomer narration does something delicate though. It didnt feel, at the time, like he was talking to other 45yo boomers, it felt like he was talking to current 13yos watching. There were no digs at "kids nowadays dont know X", and if anything the idea was the elites who hold power are always blowhards who fail to understand the real lives of adolescent white kids in the suburbs. Its made explicit in the first and last episodes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39557649)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 12:18 PM
Author: Autistic amber reading party

I also can't watch "Freaks and Geeks" because I have similarly been saturated with so many films and TV series about how hard it is to fit in during high school (especially high school in the 1990's). I understand that, similarly, this was not really the case when Freaks and Geeks first came out. Both of these shows, I was too young to be watching them when they first came out and saw them later on Netflix.

So many things in Wonder Years and Freaks and Geeks are now well-worn tropes that I'm sick of seeing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39557700)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 12:25 PM
Author: Onyx native

not a wonder years scholar, but i think freaks and geeks was a knowing exploration of well-worn tropes and expertly reused them in a way that underscored their universality.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39557739)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 3:40 PM
Author: Unhinged Overrated Gaping Partner



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Date: February 7th, 2020 12:25 PM
Author: Onyx native



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Date: February 7th, 2020 12:28 PM
Author: Fuchsia Kitty Cat Den

freaks and geeks was a good show. you are right that it ended up being a template for countless shitty shows/tropes that came after it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39557760)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 3:41 PM
Author: Unhinged Overrated Gaping Partner



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Date: February 7th, 2020 12:18 PM
Author: Onyx native

good poast.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39557699)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 12:23 PM
Author: alcoholic corner

Remember the episode with the tough math teacher who is pushing Kevin to do his best, and then Kevin purposely fails the test with joke answers? The teacher died over the weekend but didn't grade Kevin's test and the principal gave it to him as a second chance. Kevin finishes and tells the principal that he doesn't have to grade it, because it's an A.

https://youtu.be/brkOMhbY8rU

https://youtu.be/VOzuP_zjv7g

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39557729)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 12:26 PM
Author: odious slippery mental disorder

Like an Azn Babe Ruth calling his shot.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39557750)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 12:31 PM
Author: alcoholic corner



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39557780)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 2:24 PM
Author: self-centered house



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39558413)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 2:32 PM
Author: azure clown



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39558465)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 2:47 PM
Author: Abusive cuckold

Fuck I remember this one

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39558553)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 12:39 PM
Author: Filthy parlor

I remember 2 episodes. One, where they go to the shore and stay in a shoddy motel, and dad complains about how expensive it is and there is a feeling that they are chasing a dream vacation that they cannot recreate.

The second episode I remember is the same theme, but they’re trying to recreate a fishing trip, and they drive up to some pond that has become littered with refuse and is now polluted and stagnant.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39557808)



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Date: February 13th, 2020 10:25 AM
Author: Hot big step-uncle's house

Lmao at this take. This is what middle class life is champ and shore vacations in a shitty hotel/motel are amazing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39588256)



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Date: July 29th, 2024 9:02 PM
Author: exhilarant lilac faggot firefighter locus

dad was a miserable middle class schlub

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#47906942)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 12:40 PM
Author: tan office pervert

I did this a few years ago. It's a good show still.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39557814)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 1:57 PM
Author: alcoholic corner

The Wonder Years on "Heroes"

https://youtu.be/pwj7YgbIpKY?t=480

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Some heroes pass through your life and disappear in a flash.

You get over it. But the good ones, the real ones,

the ones who count - stay with you for the long haul.

The thing is, after all these years,

I couldn't tell you the score of that game.

What I remember is...sitting in that diner, up late...

being young... drinking coffee with the only real hero

I ever knew.

My Dad - Jack Arnold.

Number one.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39558244)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 2:40 PM
Author: supple piazza

jack arnold was a working class hero that faggot kevin constantly shat on

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39558501)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 4:56 PM
Author: massive exciting psychic institution



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39559084)



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Date: July 8th, 2020 3:22 PM
Author: alcoholic corner

he eventually got it. that's part of growing up. you look at all these famous people and think they are heroes, when in reality the real hero is the man at home

this is a great clip from the show. one of its best scenes

https://youtu.be/aB-DwHMQE1w

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#40568993)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 2:41 PM
Author: Fantasy-prone aqua ticket booth



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39558505)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 2:52 PM
Author: Carnelian party of the first part

I think about that episode a lot. IIRC there's a scene where the piano teacher tells Kevin he feels the music like it's in his heart even if he's not technically playing well. Whether she was bullshitting him is irrelevant. Kids need that kind of encouragement and the feeling that someone believes in them. Ultimately there is the let down when Kevin bails on the recital and rides by to peek in. It just reminds me of all the things i missed out on because i was afraid to try or afraid that i'd fail, and now it's just too late.

The quote from the beginning of the episode is something i think about a lot too:

When you're a little kid, you're a little bit of everything. Artist, scientist, athlete, scholar. Sometimes it seems like growing up is a process of giving those things up one by one. I guess we all have one thing that we regret giving up, one thing that we really miss, that we gave up because we were too lazy or we couldn't stick it out… or because we were afraid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjEGUMd-_Gs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39558589)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 2:58 PM
Author: self-centered house

yeah its fraud that most of us arent practicing piano or getting better at high dives or something. Last summer I posted after dropping my kid off at a summer camp at the U Miami campus. Around 7AM there was some dude out there, doing high dive after high dive, practicing, getting better. Probably woke up at the fucking crack of dawn to get to the pool

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39558623)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 2:59 PM
Author: Carnelian party of the first part

This is prob the scene from the wonder years that i think about almost as much as the one posted in the OP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNb3U22y87I

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39558628)



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Date: July 29th, 2024 9:16 PM
Author: exhilarant lilac faggot firefighter locus

jfc

how Kevin, and us all really, didn’t see that and decide right away never to rely on cunts like that for work is beyond me

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#47906980)



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Date: July 8th, 2020 5:50 PM
Author: hairraiser stage

that dude was a hero

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#40569798)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 3:00 PM
Author: Harsh library codepig

dang

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39558634)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 3:02 PM
Author: Unhinged Overrated Gaping Partner

freaks and geeks gives you the same kind of flashback value and is a lot more reflective on a moment to moment basis of what real life is like. also funnier. i recommend rewatching that instead.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39558647)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 4:55 PM
Author: massive exciting psychic institution

(nerd who got stuffed in lockers)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39559082)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 3:13 PM
Author: heady lake really tough guy yarmulke

this show sucked

kevin didn't get with the french babe madeline and went for winnie who consistently cheated on him and strung him along for years.

winnie was probably one of the biggest cunts on any tv show.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39558708)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 3:21 PM
Author: Honey-headed disturbing station

I remember when he kept asking the French girl if she wanted some butter . . .peak experience

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39558739)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 3:41 PM
Author: alcoholic corner

winnie sucked.

madeleine was great. i also really dug the chick from the lake, Cara. she was great

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39558819)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 4:55 PM
Author: massive exciting psychic institution



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39559083)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 3:24 PM
Author: mind-boggling trailer park

Did he end up with Winnie I forgot

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39558751)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 3:41 PM
Author: alcoholic corner

no Winnie went to France to study for 8 years and then Kevin met her at the airport to welcome her back, along with his wife and son

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39558814)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 4:58 PM
Author: Charismatic umber voyeur

It was a good show to watch when you're about the same age as Kevin (so like 12-20 or so) and can kind of relate to the issues.

Can't imagine watching it now. Both because it's a kids show and boomer nostalgia that has little portability to the post-ITE world.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39559099)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 7:54 PM
Author: Shivering Tanning Salon

I remember going out with a 24 year old chick a few years ago (I was a little older) and she didn't even know what Boy Meets World was, let alone the Wonder Years. It was at that moment that I realized a few interesting things.

First, that Savage brothers were responsible for the two definitive coming of age series' of the 80s and 90s, which is pretty incredible. Second, I don't think any show after Boy Meets World captured the level of magic it and the Wonder Years had, so younger millenials onward pretty much only had/have garbage TV with no appreciation for what it was like growing up in pre-9/11 America. Third, there is this sort of cliff of people born around 1993 and after where they don't know or care about nostalgic shit in the 80s and 90s - shows like Wonder Years and Boy Meets World, icons like Sylvestor Stallone and Jean Claude Van Damme, etc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39559731)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 8:21 PM
Author: Filthy parlor

So when I try to think back to that time, I remember ABC's TGIF night. It had like Family Matters and Step By Step. But I don't remember The Wonder Years or Boy Meets World being on that. Was it? I remember the shows, I just don't remember the full TGIF lineup.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39559866)



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Date: February 7th, 2020 8:22 PM
Author: Unhinged Overrated Gaping Partner

boy meets world yes, wonder years no (wonder years was nbc i think and not the same genre of "kids" show)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39559875)



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Date: February 11th, 2020 10:48 AM
Author: self-centered house

WY was a wednesday 8PM show. the anchor of the night, but a step less prestigious than thursday night, and apart from the kiddie shit that aired friday night for babysitting

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39576762)



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Date: February 11th, 2020 10:52 AM
Author: Filthy parlor

There’s an episode where Kevin is a caddy for his dad and his dad’s evil boss. The boss’ last name is “Stein.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39576809)



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Date: February 13th, 2020 10:30 AM
Author: Carnelian party of the first part

ugh and his dad intentionally loses.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39588288)



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Date: February 13th, 2020 10:32 AM
Author: Filthy parlor

He does.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39588304)



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Date: February 13th, 2020 10:33 AM
Author: alcoholic corner

Jack Arnold was 1800000

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39588309)



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Date: February 13th, 2020 12:18 PM
Author: Filthy parlor

He was.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#39589050)



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Date: July 8th, 2020 3:13 PM
Author: self-centered house



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#40568921)



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Date: July 8th, 2020 4:48 PM
Author: orchid razzmatazz plaza half-breed

And now they’re rebooting it with a black family in Montgomery Alabama!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#40569524)



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Date: July 8th, 2020 5:27 PM
Author: alcoholic corner

Omg I SWORE this was flame

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#40569675)



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Date: October 10th, 2024 2:47 PM
Author: bearded sinister wagecucks



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4440198&forum_id=2#48184500)