Limitless Table Talk with Fern and Nat
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Limitless Table Talk with Fern and Nat
119 - The Movies & TV Shows That Raised Us!
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The one where Fern and Nat, we’re hitting rewind and diving into the 80s and 90’s… the golden era when bikes meant freedom, theme songs were mandatory sing-alongs, and every kids movie had at least one mildly traumatic moment.
We’re talking after-school TV marathons, unrealistic high school expectations, dramatic slow-motion scenes, and the shows that basically raised us. From chaotic nostalgia to hilarious reality checks, we’re breaking down what these movies and shows taught us… and what they definitely lied about.
Grab your favorite cup of coffee and join us for laughs, memories, and a little emotional damage from the entertainment that shaped our personalities.
Because if you grew up in the 80s and 90s… you’re part of this chaos too.
Welcome back to Limitless Table Talk, where you thought nostalgia was over, but it just piles on week to week and it keeps on growing. I'm Fern.
SPEAKER_00I'm Nat. Grab your favorite cup of coffee, your remote control that you refuse to throw away, and emotionally prepare. Because today we are diving into the movies and TV shows that basically raised us.
SPEAKER_02Raised us? Now let's let's be pretty clear on this. Some of these could be slightly traumatizing.
SPEAKER_00Listen, if you didn't grow up slightly confused and afraid of quicksand, did you even have a childhood?
SPEAKER_02Quicksand, the Bermuda Triangle, and strangers offering free candy. I thought survival was a full-time job back then.
SPEAKER_00Meanwhile, our parents were like, be home before the street lights come on. No phone, no GPS, just vibes, guys.
SPEAKER_02Just vibes and possibly abduction.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. But you know, good old times in the 80s and 90s.
SPEAKER_02The 80s and 90s, you know, where we weren't afraid of the little white van that drove by. Because we knew don't give it, don't go to the little white van that drives by.
SPEAKER_00I mean, I don't know how many white vans you saw, but I saw quite a lot. Oh no, not a lot.
SPEAKER_02I saw quite a lot. So the 80s were wild. Okay. The 90s a little less wild, but but but the 80s were super wild. Every kid had a movie that was in danger. And I'm talking about all these kids in these movies were in perilous life danger. Am I am I am I right? Like think of war games. Teenage boy who plays video games and now he's controlling the nuclear launch codes. You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_00Mm-hmm. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02How about Elliot? Elliot. In E.T.
SPEAKER_00In E.T.
SPEAKER_02First of all. Scary as all get out. E.T. E.T. is the creepiest. Really? Oh I I love E.T. because he's so creepy. He's so weird. He's he has a strange like look. Like it's a weird. It's not it is.
SPEAKER_00He was weird.
SPEAKER_02It's alien. Like duh.
SPEAKER_00Well, yeah. You know.
SPEAKER_02It's alien.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. I don't know how I would react if I saw an alien like that. Like Elliot was all like cool. Like, hey, come home with me. Let's go.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Elliot. Touch my finger. We show it. This is how we love. Um, and then Drew Barrymore. Um, but but even think Goonies. Goonies, my favorite. Hello. My favorite movie. Goonies, right? So these kids put themselves in danger. In danger. Because they're like, we gotta find one-eyed Wheelie's gold.
SPEAKER_00Yep.
SPEAKER_02With a booby tap.
SPEAKER_00And and as they put themselves in danger, they whip the butts of these adults, by the way.
SPEAKER_02Right? And we're talking like these adults were like, like, like the guy came out of prison.
SPEAKER_00And they still got a good one.
SPEAKER_02By the way, spoiler alert, if you haven't seen Goonies, go watch Goonies.
SPEAKER_00Listen, if you haven't seen Goonies, you've been hiding somewhere. Where you've been? I don't know.
SPEAKER_02Where you've been. Um, the guy broke out of prison in the beginning of the movie.
SPEAKER_00And he got his butt kicked by a bunch of kids.
SPEAKER_02Yes. And his brother.
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Sloth.
SPEAKER_00Yep.
SPEAKER_02Who was amazing. And you guys. With a little ear. Baby roof? Baby. Okay, amazing. Amazing. But think about that. And then here's another rando that a lot of people don't remember. Flight of the Navigator.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I don't know what that is.
SPEAKER_02Exactly. Not a lot of people remember Flight of the Navigator. Flight of the Navigator, this kid finds an alien ship and is now fighting the U.S. government in this alien ship because the alien ship is trying to find new life and new planet. And he ends up literally in a firefight with fighter jets.
SPEAKER_00You see, to me, we've named a couple of movies already. And it's like, why were we watching kids almost die every 15 minutes? But they didn't. Like they would survive, and like they had these skills that if I was put in that position at that age, I I forget it. I don't think I survived like that. So I don't understand how they did.
SPEAKER_02I I don't either. I don't eat and and you know what's weird is that in the 90s the the the kids uh leading movies completely changed. Because then you had three ninjas or the mighty ducks. The mighty ducks, you know, cool runnings, but cool runnings were not kids. But the point is that the 90s was like a complete culture shift of like kids, like now kids can't do things.
SPEAKER_00Okay, can we talk about in all these movies where kids are? Where are the parents in these movies? They're like always gone on vacation.
SPEAKER_02Because again, no supervision. No, none was unnecessary. We didn't need to be watched.
SPEAKER_00We were basically raised by bicycles and friendship at this point.
SPEAKER_02Yes.
SPEAKER_00And these kids, I was always like, I was always the rational thinker watching these shows, and I think I still do it now. Where the hell what the hell was that?
SPEAKER_02Was that an alien? It's the alien in my throat.
SPEAKER_00Anyways, um I do it now where it's like, where are those parents of these children?
SPEAKER_02Well, now the parents are always there. No, not always, most of the time.
SPEAKER_00Some because we've watched some shows now, and we're like, we never even saw a parent.
SPEAKER_02Because they're not cast, they didn't cast them. They're like whoops unnecessary.
SPEAKER_00So it's like these kids are roaming around. But that's because that's school spirit one. We just thought Okay.
SPEAKER_02But that's because the people that are writing these shows grew up in the 80s. So they're trying to but in the 90s, the people that were writing those shows grew up in the 70s. And in the Milo is going crazy today. Um so so that's what happens. You know, I think I think that because of the people that put these things together, you know, their their their experiences. Cause now I think there's a lot of throwback and nostalgia of the way the 80s were.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02So I think that a lot of those people um that are writing those shows are like, oh man, you know, we should make it a little more like the 80s.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Now I learned three things from watching sh movies, even shows, in the 80s. You want to know?
SPEAKER_02I am so curious.
SPEAKER_00Number one, ride bike everywhere.
SPEAKER_02I did it, and they did it, they did it too. They did it too.
SPEAKER_00Number two, trust your very weird friend with glasses always.
SPEAKER_02There's always that kid, right? There's always the kid, he's smart because that's how you knew he was smart.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. He had glasses. And yeah, in the 80s, that's how you knew. Right. And not saying that kids that don't wear glasses are not smart. We don't want to get attacked now.
SPEAKER_02We're not getting attacked. That's not what we mean. What we're saying is in the 80s it was a stereotype. It was designed like, oh, that's the smart kid.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. That kid knew everything. They they analyzed everything.
SPEAKER_02Unless you were in Santa Clara fighting vampires, and then you're the weird kid that wore the army jacket. He knew everything.
SPEAKER_00In the Goonies, there was none with glasses.
SPEAKER_02No, because there was data. Because he had the trench coat.
SPEAKER_00Right, he had the trench coat. But okay, so that's what I learned. And then number three, never ever, ever split up. Even though everyone always split up. Split up.
SPEAKER_02Split up. Split up. Ah, you can make fun of me. Ha ha. Now I did for you.
SPEAKER_00Even though everyone in these movies and shows, they split up. And it's like you would tell them don't. You wouldn't tell them, obviously, they don't hear you. You're talking to the TV. But I learned don't split up. So I learned that.
SPEAKER_02You know, um, that is a very common thing. In uh so Monster Squad, another great 80s uh comedy horror flick, right?
SPEAKER_00See, I didn't watch horror um comedy horror. But it was but it was a kids' movie.
SPEAKER_02It was a kid's movie.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, well, whatever you can say that, but it has the kids were the lead. Okay, but you're you can say all you want that. We're gonna watch Monster Squad after that.
SPEAKER_02I can't believe I can't believe that you have not seen Monster Squad. Monster Squad is one of my favorite movies of all time.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, no. Listen, I watched it. Monster Squad is amazing.
SPEAKER_02The kid has a TV shirt. Uh a t-shirt. TV shirt. You said Poltergeist. He had it, he had a a t-shirt that said Stephen King rules.
SPEAKER_00Okay. I didn't want to be asking.
SPEAKER_02And then when they split up when they split up in in the house, he couldn't get the. Wolfman pops up. And he starts, ah. He goes, ah. And then and then kick him in the nards. Kick him in the nards.
SPEAKER_00Listen.
SPEAKER_02And then they kick him in the nards, and Wolfman, you know, he he reacts to getting kicked in the nards. And they're like, oh, Wolfman's got nards. Come on, man.
SPEAKER_00I didn't want I never watched anything that was scary because I don't like scary movies, period.
SPEAKER_02But you love scary movies. No, I do not you love watching scary movies with me.
SPEAKER_00No, not all. We watch movies.
SPEAKER_02We watch movies all the time.
SPEAKER_00Yes, and Natasha will watch half of it with half her eyes closed and half open. Listen, I watched poltergeist as a child and I had just got embraces.
SPEAKER_02Spoiler alert.
SPEAKER_00If they haven't seen poltergeist by now, neither, that's a problem.
SPEAKER_02I'm just saying. I mean, they're they're 40-year-old movies.
SPEAKER_00Anyways, why what? Stop it.
SPEAKER_02They are. They're 30, 40-year-old.
SPEAKER_00Anyways. That scared me around the book.
SPEAKER_02Think about this. We just celebrated the anniversary of one of the greatest albums of all time.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_02It's 30 years old. Stone type of eyelids.
SPEAKER_00Okay, I didn't know that had anything to do with, anyways.
SPEAKER_02I was just saying, like that I just want to give you an idea of where things are. So what about the villains? The villains, terrifying. They had 0.0 redemption arc. They were just, I'm here to ruin your life.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that sounds like scary stuff.
SPEAKER_02But they're not always scary.
SPEAKER_00Oh listen, you're just talking about overall villains. Overall. The bad guy.
SPEAKER_02Villains in the in these movies, in the 80s movies. And the 90s movies. I always thought that the 90s movies you had the in the 90s movies you had a movie called Problem Child.
SPEAKER_00We'll go to the 90s now.
SPEAKER_02Where he is the villain. Okay.
SPEAKER_00Well, yeah, we'll go to the 90s now. But in the 80s, I felt like they just the villains were jokes. Because they were getting their butts kicked by children.
SPEAKER_02Yes.
SPEAKER_00So because the children knew things.
SPEAKER_02They knew things. They knew how to do things. Because in the 80s, you had to figure things out for yourself.
SPEAKER_00Just like you said E.T. Go back to E.T.
SPEAKER_02Yes, E.T. is another great example.
SPEAKER_00Elliot and whoever was that his sister, whoever drew Drew Barrymore.
SPEAKER_02Drew Barrymore, but the extremely young child.
SPEAKER_00But she didn't, her name wasn't Drew.
SPEAKER_02No, I don't remember her name.
SPEAKER_00In the movie, I mean. But anyways, them.
SPEAKER_02That's how few.
SPEAKER_00They outsmarted these people.
SPEAKER_02They did. They did. What about the dark crystal? Do you remember the dark crystal with the Skexies?
SPEAKER_00I don't know. I didn't watch it. No, I didn't watch it.
SPEAKER_02Okay, Dark Crystal, incredible. Go watch it. Um and Labyrinth, one of my faves. One of my faves of all time. Labyrinth.
SPEAKER_00I tried it.
SPEAKER_02Labyrinth?
SPEAKER_00I tried watching it. We're gonna watch it after we watch Monster Squad.
SPEAKER_02After we watch Monster Squad, we're gonna watch it. We're gonna watch Labyrinth again.
SPEAKER_00No, we're not.
SPEAKER_02Because I can watch Labyrinth nonstop.
SPEAKER_00No, I tried it.
SPEAKER_02Dance magic dance. It's David Bowie.
SPEAKER_00I tried watching it with you and like it.
SPEAKER_02And she's she's looking for her little brother who's lost in the labyrinth. Well, he's because he was stolen by the Goblin King.
SPEAKER_00Because he probably shouldn't have gone with them.
SPEAKER_02Gareth. David Bowie.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_02David Bowie.
SPEAKER_00It's not gonna make me want to watch it again.
SPEAKER_02Are you kidding? It's David Bowie.
SPEAKER_00We're gonna move on. Let's move on to the 90s. So what about oh no, we're back. Okay.
SPEAKER_02We're back. What about TV shows?
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_02From from this this 80s. Look, before we jump into before we go fast forward into the 90s, what about Alf?
SPEAKER_00I loved Alf.
SPEAKER_02Alien life form. That's what Alf standed for. He loved he had a craving for kittens.
SPEAKER_00Yep.
SPEAKER_02He had a craving for cats. The guy loved eating cats.
SPEAKER_00I loved Alf. I used to be a couple of things.
SPEAKER_02Which is pretty weird if you're a cat person, sorry.
SPEAKER_00I used to like run to Justin Watch when he was on.
SPEAKER_02Alf? Yes. He was funny.
SPEAKER_00I know. I loved and he was a Muppet. I don't care.
SPEAKER_02For me, I'm telling you, no, I'm telling you, he was a Muppet. For me? Because he was a Jim Henson. He was Jim Henson. And uh so you had Alf, you had what else? What else was great of Growing Pains? You had Growing Pains.
SPEAKER_00Um, I loved loved Night Court.
SPEAKER_02You did love Nightcourt. Like you still watch Night Court.
SPEAKER_00Whatever. Okay, fine. You ready? And I don't don't freak out. Are you ready?
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_00The Golden Girls.
SPEAKER_02Oh, oh, that is I can go on and on a special place in my heart. Golden girls have a girl. Golden Girls has a special place in my heart.
SPEAKER_00Alright, Sophia, calm down.
SPEAKER_02So so being raised by old people.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_02Like I was. Okay. On the summers, in the summers, um, me and the old people would go to Miami Beach. Okay, we would go spend the summer on the beach.
SPEAKER_00You were the golden girls.
SPEAKER_02And all that was there were old old people.
SPEAKER_00Older people?
SPEAKER_02Yes, older people. And they were so cool to hang out with and listen to their stories. Um, so I would just run around the hotel.
SPEAKER_00No, I love it.
SPEAKER_02Because it wasn't it was like uh like we would we would stay there for like the entire summer.
SPEAKER_00Okay. Like were you squatters?
SPEAKER_02No, no, like they would they had a they had they had an apartment there.
SPEAKER_00Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_02I thought you were squatters, and we would stay there for the whole summer. And um, you know, we we'd go to the beach, we'd I'd just hang out, play dominoes, whatever, play with the old people, run around and cause chaos. Because there was very few people my age there at that time. So Golden Girls has a very special place in my heart.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_02Family ties.
SPEAKER_00So I remember it was what, like five o'clock is when the shows would start.
SPEAKER_02What shows?
SPEAKER_00Shows would start at five and run like back to back. So I don't remember their orders, obviously, but I can tell you. I'll tell you the shows I would watch, and then if anything, you can tell us what you watched, and if not, you jump in and be like, I I watched that one.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_00So obviously, Golden Girls. We already said that.
SPEAKER_02Golden Girls.
SPEAKER_00Family Matters.
SPEAKER_02I didn't watch Family Matters.
SPEAKER_00Wow. Saved by the Bell.
SPEAKER_02That was always on on Saturdays after the cartoon block.
SPEAKER_00Okay. Cheers.
SPEAKER_02I watch Cheers once in a while. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Full House. Come on.
SPEAKER_02Once in a while I would watch Full House. It wasn't like a regular thing.
SPEAKER_00I I was never really not that I promote it now, but I used to watch the Cosby show.
SPEAKER_02The Cosby show was great. It was actually one of the top shows of the time.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Uh Married with Children.
SPEAKER_02So that was much later.
SPEAKER_00That was like late 80s. Yeah, because it was in the 80s.
SPEAKER_02It was in the 80s. And uh I loved Married with Children. Like I would make sure that I got was if if we didn't if we weren't uh playing sports or whatever, I would go and and watch Married with Children.
SPEAKER_00And then there was um Roseanne. I watched some of it, not all of it, but I would watch it.
SPEAKER_02I got nothing for you on that.
SPEAKER_00We already said Growing Pain.
SPEAKER_02How about Dinosaur?
SPEAKER_00Not the mama.
SPEAKER_02Not the mama. It's so good. So classic.
SPEAKER_00Mama's family. You used to watch that.
SPEAKER_02Yes. Mama's family. That was the um the what was her name? Was Vicky Lawrence?
SPEAKER_00I don't remember her name. I'm bad when names also remember.
SPEAKER_02Oh, that was good. Like Petticoat Junction. Mm-hmm. Like I would watch. Like, I guess they were on another.
SPEAKER_00I really wouldn't watch that that much.
SPEAKER_02I loved Petticoat Junction.
SPEAKER_00Doogie Hauser.
SPEAKER_02I never saw it. Like I remember it being around, but I never saw it.
SPEAKER_00I did watch I used to watch that with my parents.
SPEAKER_02Oh. Must be nice.
SPEAKER_00Anyways, whatever. The Simpsons.
SPEAKER_02Simpsons, yeah. That was that was later on.
SPEAKER_00That was later. But these were in the 80s. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't watch this, but I know you you I know for sure you didn't. My dad used to. Miami Vice.
SPEAKER_02Love Miami Vice. Love Miami Vice.
SPEAKER_00And Baywatch.
SPEAKER_02I never watched Baywatch.
SPEAKER_00You did not watch Baytchat.
SPEAKER_02I did not watch Baywatch. No. I did watch Magnum P.
SPEAKER_00Okay. And then if you were into like um soap operas, the Bode and the Beautiful.
SPEAKER_02No, don't know anything about that. Okay.
SPEAKER_00Designing Women. We used to watch that on Nick and Knight.
SPEAKER_02We used to watch that at Nick and Knight, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Um, what other one? A Different World?
SPEAKER_02A Different World was right after the Cosby's.
SPEAKER_00Perfect Strangers.
SPEAKER_02Oh. Coselari. Coselari. That was classic. That was great. I love Perfect Strangers.
SPEAKER_00Um, Family Ties.
SPEAKER_02Family Ties, yeah. Yeah. Alex P. Keaton.
SPEAKER_00I feel like they don't make shows like they used to.
SPEAKER_02They don't. They don't.
SPEAKER_00The A-Team?
SPEAKER_02The A-Team. Oh, yeah. Airwolf.
SPEAKER_00Mm-hmm. Um I didn't watch this that this much, but I know you did at some point. Punky Brewster.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_00I just put it out there. I know you watched it. I know you watched it.
SPEAKER_02I loved Punky Brewster. Oh my gosh. I always felt so connected to Punky Brewster. So connected because I felt like we were the same person.
SPEAKER_00Let's see. Um Charles in charge.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. I got nothing for you on that one. But yeah, Silver Spoons? Silver Spoons to get. Okay, I loved Silver Spoons.
SPEAKER_00The Wonder Years?
SPEAKER_02Because I always wished. Yeah. I always wish I was that kid.
SPEAKER_00I loved, loved. Who's the boss?
SPEAKER_02Who's the boss? Yes.
SPEAKER_00It's me. Yes. Night Rider.
SPEAKER_02Love Knight Rider. Of course you do. I still do. Of course. Still do.
SPEAKER_00I know we're missing some good ones. Some good ones. Is there any other ones that you remember? What about the Duke Dukes of Hazard?
SPEAKER_02Dukes of Hazard. One of the best shows ever to not last very long.
SPEAKER_00Three's Company, The Jeffersons.
SPEAKER_02But those were all like in the late 70s and early 80s.
SPEAKER_00So they were early 80s.
SPEAKER_02So we got to see a lot of that, a lot of that rerun stuff. And I actually re-reference this all the time is My Two Dads.
SPEAKER_00Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_02I reference My Two Dads all the time. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Little House on the Prairie.
SPEAKER_02That's uh 70s.
SPEAKER_00I feel like it was in the 80s.
SPEAKER_02It might have been the early 80s, but um.
SPEAKER_00I mean, I watched it at some point in the 80s for sure.
SPEAKER_02I don't disagree with you.
SPEAKER_00Um The Love Boat.
SPEAKER_02The Love Boat. Fantasy Island. Well Nanu Nanu. What was that one? Mork and Mindy.
SPEAKER_00Mork and Mindy, yes.
SPEAKER_02Mork and Mindy. Okay, so I think the qual I think that the quality of the shows um back then. What about the what about the weird one with Tom Hanks? Bosom Buddies. Did you ever see that one? No. Bosom Buddies was Tom Hanks and I forgot the other guy's name. They dressed as women because they couldn't get jobs.
SPEAKER_00That was a show?
SPEAKER_02Yes.
SPEAKER_00No. Yes. No. I'm no, I'm saying I don't know.
SPEAKER_02Yes. So they couldn't, they, they, it's these two roommates, and basically.
SPEAKER_00Like Laverne and Shirley?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, kind of like Laverne and Shirley. The thing is that they got fired. And then they got rehired at the same place. But they're just wearing uh they're basically in drag. They're they're wearing women's. They're taking the identity of a woman in the show.
SPEAKER_00No, never saw that.
SPEAKER_02And it was called bosom buddies because it's the joke is the bosom and the buddies, but they're buddies. Because they're dressing up as women.
SPEAKER_00Nope. Never saw that. Never, nope.
SPEAKER_02Oh man, that was a weird show, but it was really funny.
SPEAKER_00And then you moved on from the 80s, now that we've named all the good shows that we watched. That's our opinion.
SPEAKER_02And mind you, there's probably a bunch more.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, of course.
SPEAKER_02And we already covered cartoons. We're not gonna cover cartoons in this one.
SPEAKER_00No, no, no. We did cartoons already. We're gonna go now. Let's slide in. Slide into to the golden age of after school. The 90s. Peak television.
SPEAKER_02You think so?
SPEAKER_00You rushed home like it was the Olympics. And you throw your backpack across the room, just fling it across, run to grab your snacks, and sit very close to the TV where your parents or your grandparents would tell you you're gonna go blind.
SPEAKER_02Love it. Love it.
SPEAKER_00And then the theme song starts. You'd never skip them. We couldn't. We couldn't. We couldn't. We couldn't skip them.
SPEAKER_02The thing is, you couldn't skip them. And uh you knew them.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you would sing on them.
SPEAKER_02All these songs, all these themes were memorable.
SPEAKER_00You would sing them on.
SPEAKER_02You know, look, we you you know, you just mentioned one earlier, right? Silver spoons. And the moment you said I said silver spoons together, you know, because it was automatic. Boom.
SPEAKER_00Of course. And we would sing them every single word loudly and probably off key, because we were young.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Definitely off key.
SPEAKER_02The 90s were interesting because they were very different than the eighties. They taught us life lessons. Yeah like friendship, drama, crushes, and how to solve a problem in exactly 22 minutes.
SPEAKER_00There was also fashion. Questionable, but extremely questionable.
SPEAKER_02Extremely questionable. Extremely questionable.
SPEAKER_00You're actually gonna tell me that neon windbreakers weren't peak style.
SPEAKER_02You look like a highlighter with emotions.
SPEAKER_00Just saying.
SPEAKER_02I'm just think about think about the jackets. Because you know you had one.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I'm not saying I did.
SPEAKER_02I know I had one, right? Um here here's here's some of the stuff, right? You had Beverly Hills 90210.
SPEAKER_01Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_02Which later on it got followed up by Melrose Plays. Because, you know, they wanted the drama to be now adulty.
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_02Even though we were watching 30-year-olds play high schoolers.
SPEAKER_00I'm actually starting to think, I think Dinosaur was in the 90s.
SPEAKER_02Was it?
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_00Was it? I'm gonna have to Google it, but I wanna say yes.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. I'm gonna check in the time machine.
SPEAKER_00I'm going to.
SPEAKER_02But the movies that were designed for our time period were very different for our age. Right? They were very different than the 80s. Because now you had like problem child. Right?
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_02Where the villain in this movie is the kid.
SPEAKER_00Is the kid.
SPEAKER_02And you feel so bad for the dog. It was the nineties?
SPEAKER_00It was the nineties.
SPEAKER_02What was it?
SPEAKER_00I don't know. Was it really the 90s? It says it was the 90s. Oh my god. Yeah, but did it end in the 90s? I feel betrayed.
SPEAKER_02The thing is that.
SPEAKER_00No, it says in this 1990s sitcom.
SPEAKER_02The the technology for dinosaurs was so good. Those suits and stuff that those people that those 91 to 94. See 91, so it was close. It was close. Wow.
SPEAKER_00Sorry. It's just that.
SPEAKER_02The thing is the the like 91, 90, 91, 92 was still kind of the 80s. With the big shift, because I think that until Nirvana came out. Because that's how I tell time. I tell time by by when albums come out. When when Nirvana came out, I think everything changed. The 90s actually became the 90s, which was like 92.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_02So 92 was like peak 90s, like when the 90s became the 90s. I think.
SPEAKER_00Okay. For me. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Because before, before, never mind. It was still the 80s.
SPEAKER_00Listen, to me, I think 80s and 90s kind of like blend into each other in a way. Because a lot of these shows also continued. And we were younger in the 80s, but in the 90s, we were already like teenagers pretty much. So we probably remember most more of these shows in the 90s, for instance. Friends. I remember Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
SPEAKER_02This is a story all about how. Full House continued.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, it continued. Married with Children continued. Um I used to watch The Nanny.
SPEAKER_02Okay. That's the friend Rusher. I forgot how it went. She had like that annoying laugh.
SPEAKER_00Okay. Um, Boy Meets World was in the 90s.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_00I watched that.
SPEAKER_02I watched that too, because Tapanga.
SPEAKER_00The X-Files. I know you watched it.
SPEAKER_02You know I watched it. I know you watched it. I just started re-watching the X-Files. The X-Files is so good. So good.
SPEAKER_00I was not a fan of this. You were Buffy the Vampire.
SPEAKER_02I love Buffy. I still love I think Buffy is one of the greatest shows ever produced on TV.
SPEAKER_00Are you afraid of the dark?
SPEAKER_02Oh peak. I love it. I love Are You Afraid of the Dark?
SPEAKER_00And I know we well, home improvement. Definitely. Home improvement for the show. You never saw Mr. Wilson's face.
SPEAKER_02No, it was great.
SPEAKER_00That's that was you the other day with the neighbor behind our house. Backstory real quick. The their kids' um basketball or soccer ball fell into our yard.
SPEAKER_02Always.
SPEAKER_00And Fern was um picking up the yard and all that.
SPEAKER_02It's a constant.
SPEAKER_00And the neighbor, the guy behind us, the neighbor heard him, and all of a sudden he's standing over the fence. Hello, neighbor. For the ball. And all you see is like his eyes, and I was like, oh look, it's home improvement. You're Tim Allen now.
SPEAKER_02It was good.
SPEAKER_00And I know we said we wouldn't say cartoons, but I have to mention Rugrats.
SPEAKER_02Rugrats. Um, listen, the cartoons of the 90s honestly were incredible. The Disney Afternoon block was still, it's still to this day one of the best blocks of cartoons ever. Because you had tailspin. Oh my god, yes. You had dark winged duck, you had duck tails. But they they were on doing the week also. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Because I remember coming home from school.
SPEAKER_02This is the block. This is the after-school block.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah. And I would have my vanilla pudding. And don't look at me like that.
SPEAKER_01I am.
SPEAKER_00The vanilla pudding with the what are those crap, those cookies? The what it comes in that yellow box that sometimes I buy in your vanilla? Yeah, the Nilla cookies.
SPEAKER_02Vanilla cookies.
SPEAKER_00We used to get a handful of that. My cousin and I would get that pudding and a soda, and we would sit down.
SPEAKER_02And you would sit and watch Tailspin. Yes. Chit, chit, chit, chip and dale, rescue rangers. Okay. Um Tailspin, Chip and Dale, Rescue Ranger. DuckTales. Oh, yeah. Because life is like a hurricane here in Duckburg. Right. Again, memorable theme songs. Um Darkwinged Duck. Darkwinged Duck.
SPEAKER_00I wasn't that much of a fan, but I watched it. Dangerous.
SPEAKER_02Um you had Darkwing Duck. You had Bonkers.
SPEAKER_00Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_02He was like that weird cat.
SPEAKER_00It was like a weird orange cat.
SPEAKER_02Orange cat cop thing. And then you had Goof Troop.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02So you had six shows. Back to the show. And then after that, you had gargoyles, which I didn't watch because that came a little later on. But I remember everybody going crazy about gargoyles, saying, like, oh man, gargoyles.
SPEAKER_00I didn't watch it because at that point my parents were picking us up already.
SPEAKER_02Right. Yeah. They're like, can you please go home?
SPEAKER_00We had a sitter, so we would go to the sitter's house.
SPEAKER_02And then and then you also had like other stuff like Power Rangers, right? Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Which again, I liked. I liked it. I don't care. I liked it. I didn't see anything. I still do. I think it's it's classic. Whatever. If you don't like Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, or actually just Power Rangers in general, what's wrong with you? It's so good.
SPEAKER_00I guess. Anyways.
SPEAKER_02So you had all of that going on, and then you had Buffy, right? Which was incredible. One of the best shows on TV. X-Files. Again, one of the best shows on TV.
SPEAKER_00X-Files.
SPEAKER_02Twin Peaks was one of the greatest storylines ever. Ever. The Log Lady. I'll never forget The Log Lady. And um what else did what else was going on in the 90s? You had you had Fresh Prince, you had uh Family Matters.
SPEAKER_00I think I covered most of them.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. But you also had movies that were really impactful for some people, like me. I I was really good. I was so my gr my grandfather loved going to the movies. We never really went to the movies so much, so that's why I like I still like to I rather watch movies most of the time rather than shows because you get a complete a complete story in one in one sitting, right?
SPEAKER_00Right.
SPEAKER_02So um my grandfather, since we were young, since I was a kid, he would take me to the movies at least every other weekend. Right. We would go to the movies. So I I'm basically must be nice.
SPEAKER_00We never went to the movies that much.
SPEAKER_02Somebody had to do something with me at some point. I couldn't do anything. Um except live out in the wild like like the wild thorn berries out there. You know, just like just like you know, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't get killed out there, please. Just come back, you know. Um that was pretty much it. And uh my grandfather would love going to the movies. So in the 90s was great because I got a little older, so I got I I it didn't really matter my age because I watched inappropriate movies when I was uh in the 80s.
SPEAKER_00When I was learned you worked in a video store.
SPEAKER_02I worked in a video store, and I also watched movies that like I remember going to see Robocop and you know uh Predator and Commando and you know, and of course, like one of the big ones that really affected me when I was young was Return of the Jedi. When I saw that in the movie theater. Return of the Jedi, and then followed that up. My grandfather followed that up with Temple of Doom, which if you haven't seen Temple of Doom, there is one scene in the movie Kalima. Kalima. Frightening. If you've never seen this movie, watch it.
SPEAKER_00Listen, I was scared of poltergeist, so I understand.
SPEAKER_02Makes sense. So stop. So in the 90s, culture changed, movies changed, right?
SPEAKER_00Oh, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02I got to see Reservoir Dogs in the theater, which was probably not good for me to watch in the theater. I watched Pulp Fiction in the theater. The Crow. Okay, these were all movies that were very impactful to me. Right. The Nightmare Before Christmas. He did not want to go see this.
SPEAKER_00But he still took me to see the line there.
SPEAKER_02No, he still took me to see it. Um a movie I saw that was like and I and I sold it to him by tailing him, by telling him, like, hey, it was the guy that did Beetlejuice. He created this, and he was like, Ah, okay, doubting. Okay, let's go see it, you know. And then we ended up going to see it. Um, and he hated it, I'm sure. I'm sure he did.
SPEAKER_01Knowing him, he hated it.
SPEAKER_02Meanwhile, I was dancing and like I was singing the songs because you know, here comes Santa Claus with the mana dish. You know, uh it's it's one of my favorite. Uh if you haven't seen it, what's wrong with it?
SPEAKER_00I watched An Eye for an Eye and I never was the same again.
SPEAKER_02What is an eye for an eye?
SPEAKER_00You've never seen no, I wouldn't even watch have you watch it again. No, I couldn't do that.
SPEAKER_02What is that? Is that the Sally Fields movie? Is that what Sally Fields?
SPEAKER_00That's the one that her daughter's on the phone with her.
SPEAKER_02Okay. Let me let me let me tell you.
SPEAKER_00Let me just ask me what it was.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_00And her daughter's home alone, and they're on the phone, and she's stuck in traffic, and a guy breaks into the house, and the rest, whatever. I'm not gonna go through it, but you know, she hears everything over the phone.
SPEAKER_02It's not good.
SPEAKER_00Um I was traumatized.
SPEAKER_02I'm gonna tell you this. As a as a dude, I'm trying I was traumatized. I guarantee you, my grandfather was like, I'm not gonna see that.
SPEAKER_00No, it's just that I didn't know what it was. Because he was not he was not that type of at first, and then I watched it and I regretted it.
SPEAKER_02My grandfather liked action and action and pretty much action. So if if Stallone was in it, we were seeing it. If Schwarzenegger was in it, we were seeing it. Like last action hero. I got to see that.
SPEAKER_00Um I saw Twister.
SPEAKER_02Twister was good, but that was a little later. That was a little later.
SPEAKER_00Enemy of the state.
SPEAKER_02Enemy of the state. Oh, that's the Will Smith, but that was much later.
SPEAKER_00Listen, I don't have the exact dates. This was all like in the 90s.
SPEAKER_02Like when I think of 90s, I'm thinking like Don't be a menace. Don't be a menace to South Central while drinking your juice in the hood. Classic. We saw oh, so we saw the movies that that movie was based on.
SPEAKER_00Okay, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Which was uh Menace to Society.
SPEAKER_00Schindler's List.
SPEAKER_02Okay, you want to hear something traumatizing? I saw that in a field trip.
unknownWhat?
SPEAKER_02Yep. I was uh we were on a field trip to see Schindler's List.
SPEAKER_00I did see Basic Instinct. But anyways, you said Schindler's List on a field trip?
SPEAKER_02Yep. Yep.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_02That was weird, but yeah, we saw it on a field trip because it was a history.
SPEAKER_00Um our daughter, our oldest, liked it. Um What's Eating Gilbert Great? I think she read the book when she was young in elementary. Um did she really? Yeah.
SPEAKER_02I never knew that.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02And I know a lot about her.
SPEAKER_00Well, she was forced to read it in school.
SPEAKER_02I can't imagine it. I can't imagine her being like, Daddy, I I want to see what's eating Gilbert Grape again. I mean, it's a great movie. It's young Leo.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Very, very young Leo do in an incredible role with uh Johnny Depp.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was. Um Major Pain.
SPEAKER_02See, now you're talking about the movies.
SPEAKER_00The Goodfellas.
SPEAKER_02Goodfellas is one of the greatest movies of all time.
SPEAKER_00These are just the ones that I remember. Um, Air Force One.
SPEAKER_02Oh, that's the um Harrison Ford. And you know why I know what that is? Because of Gary Oldman. He's the villain in that movie. So so Gary Oldman movies were were like really big for me. So The Professional.
SPEAKER_01Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_02The Professional. Um what was the other one? True Romance. What was the other one? The Professional, True Romance, Dracula, Bram Stoker's Dracula, where he plays Dracula.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_02Willemia.
SPEAKER_00We can tell the type of different movies you and I watch based on what you mention and what I say. I watch Stepmom.
SPEAKER_02I don't even know what that is.
SPEAKER_00It's a sad movie.
SPEAKER_02Is it? Yeah. Who's in that? I'm horrible with the name.
SPEAKER_00Is that Kathleen Turner? I'm horrible with names.
SPEAKER_02Um, you know which one I'm thinking? I'm thinking I'm thinking um Serial Mom, which is Julia Roberts is in it. Oh, I wouldn't know what that is.
SPEAKER_00Where the the husband, well, the guy in the name of the Julia Roberts, there's only uh go ahead. They're divorced. And she's getting married, she's married to the she's getting married to the guy. So now she's gonna be the stepmom to these two kids, but their real mom is dying of cancer.
SPEAKER_01That sounds awful.
SPEAKER_00It was sad, but it's about it's about the relationship of the stepmom and the real mom. And I don't I don't want to give it all away because people may have not seen it.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, um if you want to see that, see it. I've I don't see I've never seen that. Um I'm not saying that it's not good, I'm just saying it's not my type of day, not my type of flick.
SPEAKER_00I kind of moved up anyways. I didn't really I think we saw this movie together, you and I. Um, and I might say it wrong. Dogma?
SPEAKER_02Dogma. I love dogma. So I love Kevin Smith films as well. Kevin Smith, he did dogma, he did, he did Mall Rats, he did Clerks.
SPEAKER_00Were those in the 90s?
SPEAKER_02Yes. Okay, and those were all movies that I watched at that time. You know, Dazed and Confused was another one from the 90s, which is incredible. If you know, again, a lot of these movies were were were Dangerous Minds. I loved Dangerous Minds.
SPEAKER_00I even still sing the song when it comes out.
SPEAKER_02I mean it's a good song. I don't remember the movie, but I do know the song.
SPEAKER_00Vegas Vacation.
SPEAKER_02Any of the vacations are incredible.
SPEAKER_00Oh, of course, for sure, for sure.
SPEAKER_02So so basically, this is what happens. We had in the 90s, you and I had two very different cinema tracks.
SPEAKER_00The only time it kind of aligns is after we met.
SPEAKER_02Yes.
SPEAKER_00And after we had our daughter. Yes.
SPEAKER_02Because that's And let's not forget Jurassic Park.
SPEAKER_00Well, yeah.
SPEAKER_02You know.
SPEAKER_00And I know you liked um House on Haunted Hill.
SPEAKER_02Yes.
SPEAKER_00The perfect murder.
SPEAKER_02Yes. The game was also then with uh Michael Douglas.
SPEAKER_00Searching for Bobby Fisher?
SPEAKER_02Nope. No, nope, that's the one where he's uh Bobby Fisher's a uh uh chess player.
SPEAKER_00Mm-hmm. Wasn't home alone in the 90s?
SPEAKER_02In the early 90s, yeah. Uh going back to a child, again, a child being alone and doing his thing. Um it was a very different time, you know, but also I see in the 90s we are very different movie people, and even TV show people, because I didn't really watch a lot of TV shows in the 90s. Um, but the ones that I did watch, you know, I was hooked on pretty good.
SPEAKER_00Mm-hmm. So before we end, because we really went on and on, right? I didn't even notice how how long we have been. Um I learned a lot of things about these shows and movies that lied to us.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_00I saw, and they lied, that high school would be fun.
SPEAKER_02False.
SPEAKER_00That adults have everything figured out.
SPEAKER_02Super false.
SPEAKER_00You have a big friend group forever.
SPEAKER_02And now we need two weeks' notice to meet for coffee, at least.
SPEAKER_00And someone still always can. And they're usually the one that planned it. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02They're the ones that are like, hey, you want to do coffee? You want to go have dinner or whatever? And then that same day is like, ah, I can't make it.
SPEAKER_00Okay. So it's like a kachau, but it's not. The unofficial awards.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_00Quick awards, ready? Most dramatic slow motion running scene.
SPEAKER_02Hold on. Every 90s show ever.
SPEAKER_00Okay. Best theme song you still remember.
SPEAKER_02Um, you know, that's gonna be all of them. My brain has no room for math or anything else for that matter, but it remembers lyrics from 1994.
SPEAKER_00Okay, that I can see that's true. I can't remember names of actors of a movie or show I just watched, but I can remember lyrics from cartoons and the 90s and shows. All right, most unrealistic movie moment.
SPEAKER_02People hanging up the phone without saying goodbye. What is wrong with you people?
SPEAKER_00It still bothers me till this day. Right?
SPEAKER_02How do they not like, all right, bye? Like, how do you not do that?
SPEAKER_00I've had people tell me on the phone, oh, I don't say goodbye.
SPEAKER_02Why?
SPEAKER_00Because I don't well, one person one person told me because it sounds too final. So I say, till next time, and I'm like, but I may never talk to you again.
SPEAKER_02Okay, either way. Either way, but just to yeah. That that at least is a end, right?
SPEAKER_00But there's people that just you'll be like, all right, bye, and the person just clicks.
SPEAKER_02Yes, it's so weird. It's so weird. You know, I think younger people do that because I've heard I've had conversations with all three of all all of my spawn, and some of them don't say bye, they just hang up.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02It's weird. Yes, it's weird. I think it's a generational thing, too.
SPEAKER_00I agree, I agree. All right. So these movies and TV shows and TV shows didn't just entertain us, no, they shaped our personalities.
SPEAKER_02Yes.
SPEAKER_00Explains a lot, actually.
SPEAKER_02I'm sure. Explains why we're dramatic and very, very suspicious of quicksand and why we still remember random lines nobody else remembers.
SPEAKER_00So if you grew up in the 80s and 90s, you're part of this chaos with us.
SPEAKER_02Yes, you are. Welcome to this craziness. So tell us what movies and TV shows made you and don't lie, we know we know you sang those theme songs. Yes, I know you did. So until next time.
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SPEAKER_00Of course. Why not share our chaos?
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Let other people in on the fun.
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