Yeah, I think I recall that about Friends too. Though it's possible they had the phones we just never got to see them use them or being 30-something they were just late to latch on or, more likely, the show-creators just ignored cell-phones all together for plot reasons. Ditto. That's just makes one feel depressingly old because usually I associate NaN with I Love Lucy and Leave it to Beaver. Not Friends.
Lately I associate N@N with endless marathons of shows that weren't that good the first time around: the Nanny, George Lopez, My Wife and Kids, Family Matters.
Hey I liked Family Matters when it was originally on . It jumped the shark at times, but it's still better than a lot of the reality tv that's on now. Same with The Nanny. But I will say that a lot of the older shows that used to be on Nick at Nite were better.
I'm guessing you're a lot younger than me. My kids would watch Family Matters. THEY liked it. There was only one reason for me to watch more than thirty seconds of the Nanny and that was Fran in those short skirts. Then she'd open her mouth and it was time to change the channel.
Yep. And time does fly, I still remember when it aired on ABC. I see. I didn't mind the show that much. The View on the other hand . It's just an argument fest on that show . Can't stand it.
Me too. I was sitting at my cousins' house on Thanksgiving flipping through his satellite dish and was surprised when I found the Sci-Fi channel (or SyFY now) was showing the last two James Bond movies. The rest of their lineup had nothing to do with Sci-Fi either. The closest I got to science fiction was a TNG marathon on BBC America.
I just learned a scary tidbit. Ralph Macchio is now 51 years old, which means he is the same age Pat Morita was when they shot The Karate Kid.
Fran Drescher is approximately 55 so Macchio playing her boyfriend is more indicative of his actual age than not.
Hah, you kids. I saw 2001 and Planet of the Apes in the theaters . . . and Star Trek during its original run on NBC. (But my parents wouldn't let me see Rosemary's Baby or The Exorcist because they were too adult.) I was well past my college years when Back to the Future came out. What weirds me out is when I hear something that I still think of a "modern" movie, like, say, Back to the Future, spoken of as though it's some venerable classic . . . which I guess it is these days!
In a similar vein to the aforementioned Transformers movie, we've now passed all the years in which the "Future" UK comic stories that tied into/followed on from the film were set (with the exception of the odd centuries into the future flashforward).
A few years ago, I found myself feeling excited about picking up dvd season sets of old tv shows from the 1970's and 1980's. Watching these tv shows again (now as a middle aged adult), I eventually came to the realization how awful a lot of this stuff was. If such tv shows were from another era, I probably wouldn't have paid much attention to them in the first place
I found an atari 2600 emulator. The games are 5k and they wouldn't keep a modern 3 year old entertained.
Here's something really sad and pathetic. Last night I found myself feeling excited about watching "Saturday Night Fever". When I was a teenager, I always wanted to be "Tony Manero".
What makes me feel my age is when commenters on YouTube express amazement at some of the special effects in movies made before the advent of CGI. "And to think they did all that without computers!"