The Hoard Potato: Of Munks and Morons

[athelind]

Of the previews currently showing in the theaters, the one that fills me with the most looming dread is the one for Alvin and the Chipmunks.

Oh, I don't dread the movie itself. It looks kinda cute.

I dread the inevitable parade of bitching and moaning from twenty- and thirty-somethings who grew up with the 1980s Alvin and the Chipmunks cartoon.

Comments

[circuit_four]

Ohhhhh, god, I'd forgotten about the Get Along Gang until you mentioned them. The same is, the original pilot, while hardly brilliant, was spirited and... actually kinda fun when I was eight years old. :) But even then, I could tell the CBS series was insipid

[athelind]

A lot of this pop-culture purism is just people clinging to their own generation's nostalgia -- and I'm not really comfortable, myself, with how much of that nostalgia was hand-chosen for us by commercial interests.

Zigackly!!