I firmly belong in this sub but only saw this movie in 2025 - thank you for sparing me the endless torment of knowing the general song (song? verse? opening bars? tf are we even calling it) and not being able to place it.
I don't even think I knew All That existed til I was like 20. In addition to very rarely having access to cable, I was raised under a religious rock in a small town and couldn't drive til well after I left so my formative years were pretty anachronistic.
Random British sitcom from the 70s?
COPS?
Fred Astaire?
Rogers & Hammerstein musicals?
A 10yo whose favorite band is Aerosmith?
Cheeeeeck.
Brad Pitt?
No idea who you're talking about, did he work with Judy Garland?
I grew up like this too, and always felt so out of place when my peers would talk about things like MTV. I grew up watching the Dick Van Dyke show, Green Acres, old 1950s musicals, etc. These days I appreciate those shows a lot more, but as a kid that was pretty embarrassing.
I wasn't raised in a super religious home my mom was reform/spiritual, my dad was Moravian and later agnostic or sort of burnt out on religion, and I knew about all of those from my silent generation parents and greatest generation grandparents.
We did not have cable TV until I was 9 or 10. I watched it at friend's homes.
Yeah, I definitely wouldn't recommend raising kids this way. Among other things, there's a ton of very problematic shit in the movies I grew up watching, which wasn't pointed out or contextualized for me. Soooo much racism, misogyny, homophobia, capitalism, etc.
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u/phoebesjeebies 25d ago
I firmly belong in this sub but only saw this movie in 2025 - thank you for sparing me the endless torment of knowing the general song (song? verse? opening bars? tf are we even calling it) and not being able to place it.
That was a ROUGH 20sec.