The Time Warp
Oh hi. It's your friendly neighborhood insomniac here, to bring you ALL NEW and NEVER BEFORE SEEN rantings.
Today I spontaneously happened upon a kid on Youtube who was making acoustic covers of old school theme songs. Not like Batman, like Out of the Box. All that crazy stuff we watched when we were kids.
Videos of this sort, I found, contain a 99.99% ratio of comments saying:
OMG OMG I REMEMBER THIS SHOW I CRIED SOOO MUCH KIDS SHOWS TODAY SUCK WHY DOES PLAYHOUSE DISNEY SUCK ASS SO MUCH NOW
And I realized that frankly, our generation's idea of nostalgia is a bit scary.
Obviously our opinions of stuff we loved as kids is biased. Back then we didn't give two shits that the kids on the show couldn't act. We didn't know what acting was. And hell, we might as well march into the backyard and if we pretend hard enough, we can glue a bunch of boxes together and make a mansion. A GODDAMN MANSION, I SAY. WITH TWO STORIES, GLASS WINDOWS AND A SLIDE.
So when we see this stuff now, everyone goes "Ohh man, that was the greatest thing EVER and it can do NO WRONG!!! We're still seeing it through six-year-old eyes. And the same goes for new shows, we HAVEN'T seen them as kids, so naturally they are the most insipid things evar, like the acting is so bad and I think the hosts are pedophiles and there is no educational value and DUH. Little kids, however, see that differently.
What I think is kind of disturbing though, is how fiercely we defend this stuff. How we idolize our sugar-laden, glazed-eyed youth spent sitting in front of the tv for hours on Saturday morning to watch Vivian and that guy with the Brandy braids. I think he had a name. Go look it up yourself. Anyway, I think it's great that everyone holds onto their youth. Like, it's a beautiful thing to be able to retain some childlike innocence and playfulness. But I feel like we're at the age where it can just go terribly, terribly wrong. There's already an Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Later Years, where they're throwing weed into the fire instead of sand. Drunken singalongs can turn ugly very, very fast.
All I'm saying is, how much longer does this go on before it's just scary and wrong? Are we going to be 40 years old and tearfully howling the DuckTales theme song at parties while weeping over the state of cartoons today and the damn censors taking all the fun out of life? And then arguing about the implications that none of the characters wear pants and probably turning it into some sort of political conspiracy theory?
Because that would just be sad and more than slightly pathetic.
Duck Tales.
Woo-hoo.
Today I spontaneously happened upon a kid on Youtube who was making acoustic covers of old school theme songs. Not like Batman, like Out of the Box. All that crazy stuff we watched when we were kids.
Videos of this sort, I found, contain a 99.99% ratio of comments saying:
OMG OMG I REMEMBER THIS SHOW I CRIED SOOO MUCH KIDS SHOWS TODAY SUCK WHY DOES PLAYHOUSE DISNEY SUCK ASS SO MUCH NOW
And I realized that frankly, our generation's idea of nostalgia is a bit scary.
Obviously our opinions of stuff we loved as kids is biased. Back then we didn't give two shits that the kids on the show couldn't act. We didn't know what acting was. And hell, we might as well march into the backyard and if we pretend hard enough, we can glue a bunch of boxes together and make a mansion. A GODDAMN MANSION, I SAY. WITH TWO STORIES, GLASS WINDOWS AND A SLIDE.
So when we see this stuff now, everyone goes "Ohh man, that was the greatest thing EVER and it can do NO WRONG!!! We're still seeing it through six-year-old eyes. And the same goes for new shows, we HAVEN'T seen them as kids, so naturally they are the most insipid things evar, like the acting is so bad and I think the hosts are pedophiles and there is no educational value and DUH. Little kids, however, see that differently.
What I think is kind of disturbing though, is how fiercely we defend this stuff. How we idolize our sugar-laden, glazed-eyed youth spent sitting in front of the tv for hours on Saturday morning to watch Vivian and that guy with the Brandy braids. I think he had a name. Go look it up yourself. Anyway, I think it's great that everyone holds onto their youth. Like, it's a beautiful thing to be able to retain some childlike innocence and playfulness. But I feel like we're at the age where it can just go terribly, terribly wrong. There's already an Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Later Years, where they're throwing weed into the fire instead of sand. Drunken singalongs can turn ugly very, very fast.
All I'm saying is, how much longer does this go on before it's just scary and wrong? Are we going to be 40 years old and tearfully howling the DuckTales theme song at parties while weeping over the state of cartoons today and the damn censors taking all the fun out of life? And then arguing about the implications that none of the characters wear pants and probably turning it into some sort of political conspiracy theory?
Because that would just be sad and more than slightly pathetic.
Duck Tales.
Woo-hoo.