Thoughts on re-watching "The Wonder Years"
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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