JCC The [again] New and Improved Post a Pic of Yourself Thread

Debatable, but for me it would be about seeing the Dodgers in, and winning a World Series!

 

There was some great stuff in the 80's, but there was a lot of awful, awful stuff that has not aged at all well.

 

Rubik's cube has made a huge comeback at the school at which I teach. Good to see!

 

Me and my daughter.


The kids hugging (after going at it with lightsabers )

 

I could do a Rubik's cube in less than 2 minutes. Cool, right?

 

I think i'll add that to my quotes. Full credit to you bud.

 

Surely no one is holding the torch for the television of the eighties. I mean, we can argue the movies, but we can all certainly agree that television in the eighties was awful.

 

What you talkin' about!

Seriously though, I'd have to agree with that. I'd also put in a good word for 90's music.

 

No? You can't make that a blanket statement...

 

I have a soft spot for Magnum PI. The show...

 

if you were the right age in the 80's you have a soft spot for a lot of those shows. it's how nostalgia works!

 

Maybe you could argue certain types of television are better now than in the 80s? HBO style larger production TV is in a very good place right now. But sitcoms are all but dead, largely replaced by reality TV. Sitcoms really peaked in the 90s.

 

man, i would totally disagree with that. sitcoms in the 90's were mostly a schlocky laugh tracked mess, with a few notable exceptions. sitcoms really started to peak in the 2000s with shows like the office, parks and rec, community, arrested development, it's always sunny, etc. and now there are still a lot of great options, though probably not on the major networks.

 

Reality TV has a lot to answer for!

 

That's a good point. I think it's because I mostly haven't followed what's been happening with that format since the 90s. So I should rephrase that: My interest in sitcoms peaked in the 90s.

 

There's the pre-Seinfeld and the post-Seinfeld sitcom really isn't there?

 

I would say post-Friends.

 

Here's one of me from a recent trip to Disney.

 

Pssshhhhhhhhh

 

We had all the reruns of 80s US television here in the 90s. I grew up to "the a-team" and 21 jump street , and bud spencer (rip) and terrence hill movies.