OT - Stuff from your youth that made you what you are today

[The Burgomaster]

* Fonzi saying, "Heyyyyyyyyyyyy!"

* Vinnie Barbarino singing, "Ba-ba-ba Ba-ba-barino"

* Platform shoes and leisure suits

* Making the peace sign with your fingers and saying, "Peace, man"

* Captain Kangaroo, Major Mudd, Willie Whistle, Bozo, and Rex Trailer

* Davey and Goliath on Sunday mornings

* Gumby

* Sid and Marty Krofft (see separate thread on this topic)

* Drive-in theaters

* "Morning has Broken," by Cat Stevens

* "Song Sung Blue," by Neil Diamond

* "American Pie," by Don McLean

* Speed Racer

* Ultraman (the original)

* Kimba, the white lion

* Silver and Bronze Age Marvel comics (and some D.C., too)

* Doc Savage pulp novels (I still read them . . . I have the entire collection except for one book)

* Creature Feature and Tales of the Unknown

* The Soupy Sales show

* The Dean Martin comedy roasts

* Let's Make a Deal, with Monty Hall

* Truth or Consequences, with Bob Barker

* Beat the Clock (I don't remember who the host was, but I had the home version of the game)

* Dark Shadows (a soap opera with vampires, werewolves, and witches . . . who would have believed it?)

* "Seasons in the Sun," by Terry Jacks

* "Delta Dawn," by Helen Reddy

* The Tony Orlando and Dawn TV show

* The Sonny and Cher TV show

* The Captain and Tenille TV show

* The Donnie and Marie TV show

* The Sha-na-na TV show (a Saturday evening favorite)

* All in the Family

* The Carol Burnett Show

* The Lawrence Welk Show (watched it with my parents)

Whew . . . I'm on a roll . . .

[LilCerberus]

For starters:
*Batman
*Hong Kong Fooey
*Cracker Jacks
*My Dad's Playboys
*WELL, EXCUSE ME! (Steve Martin)
*Disco Duck
*DynoMutt
*Sailer Bob
*Bowman Body
*Snoopy Vs, The Red Baron
*The Pop Shop
*Spike Jones & His City Slicker Band
*Meco's theme from Star Wars

[BeyondTheGrave]

*Aeon Flux
*Day of the Dead
*Ghostbusters
*X-Men Comics
*Godzilla
*Waynes World
*Resident Evil game
*Aliens
*Robocop
*My grandfather playboys
*Final Fantasy 7

[LilCerberus]

...
*The Incredible Hulk
*Wonder Woman
*Tinker Toys
*Slime
*Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom
*Ville Allegre
*Star Wars, the action figures, & everything else that emerged from that cash cow
*View Masters
...

[BeyondTheGrave]

*Simpsons
*Red Sonja
*Goth/punk girls
*X-Files
*Buffy the vampire Slayer
*Gen13
*Batman the animated series
*Grandmother B-Movie Collection
*GI Joe

[LilCerberus]

...
*Yo-Balls
*The Indian Guides
*Velcro
*Mad Max & Easy Rider
*Cable Television, The VCR, Video Rental stores & so on & so forth
*Underoos
*Sit 'n' Spin
*The Donnie & Marie show
*digital wristwatches

[loyal1]

-My biker parents

-Roller World

-Nick at Nite

-OUIJA BOARDS, Bloody Mary, Seances, and light as a feather stiff as a board

-Mad Movies by the LA Connection

-Wild World by Cat Stevens and Piano Man by Billy Joel (my mother's lullabies for me)

-King Kong, Godzilla and Elvis movies (introduced by my step father)

-my crazy artistic grandmother (my "kindred spirit")

-The Muppet Show

-Dr. Suess books

-Skinner's candy store

-One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest and The Godfather (my first "old" and classic films...it was the gateway to my true love for film)

-My uncle Mike (for getting me in trouble at school for repeating his jokes)

-Mrs. Edson and Hemmingway (my first love for the written word)

-Guys and Dolls (my first audition)

-Dancing

-Camping trips

-Monty Python movies

-old SNL

-BEER

-ummm, experimenting recreationally

-The Chill Pad and crew

-Poltergeist (my first favorite movie at the age of 7 or 8)

-Mel Brook's movies

-Tree forts

-VC Andrews novels
(Flowers in the Attic Series)

-Seinfeld (so many quotes!)

-All in the Family

-The Rat Pack

-Airplane!

-Metallica, Nirvana, Billy Holiday, and Beethoven

[daveblackeye15]

King Kong

Godzilla

Indiana Jones

Star Wars

Spider-Man

Fonzy

Just a start really

[Dr. Whom]

Early on
 
Dr. Who
The Addams Family
Star Wars!!!!!
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Space Invaders

a bit later
Batman
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[Derf]

Sunday School/church

Roger Miller (mostly "Dang Me")

Looney Toons

Batman

Star Wars

Gumby (as a kid and then again in college)

The Love Boat/Fantasy Island Saturday night double whammy

Captain Kangaroo

Johnny Cash

L. Frank Baum/Ruth Plumly Thompson (Wizard of Oz series)

The Wizard of Oz every year on CBS (loooong before video tapes)

Nancy Drew & the Hardy Boys mysteries

David Letterman (both his daytime show and then, later, his late-night show)

The Muppet Show

The Muppet Movie

Sonny & Cher, Donny & Marie, Shields & Yarnell, Tony Orlando & Dawn

Monty Python, Monty Python & the Holy Grail

Strange Brew

The Aristocats

The Ghost & Mr. Chicken

The Incredible Mr. Limpet

Godzilla

Dr. Seuss

Dinosaurs (not the tv show)

[ulthar]

My family.

No, seriously.  Most of the stuff that I like to do now (at 40) is based largely on influences from my parents and older sisters (I am quite younger than my sisters).

Got into movies because of my Dad.

Got into boats and fishing because we used to go out on my Dad's boat when I was little.

Got into camping because that is how we traveled as a family when I was little.

Etc.

[RCMerchant]

Waiting to watch "DRACULA" with Jack Palance,only to have it pre-empted by Nixon resigning.  Hitchhiking at the age of 16 from Lawton,Michigan (boonies) to NYC,with my brother Glenn(14) in 1979. Rat Fink bubblegum cards and stickers. UHF. Growing up around drunk Polish and Russian farmers. UFO mania. Heavy Metal. Punk Rock. Saturday double matinees (Yog-Monster from Outer Space and Goke-Body Snatchers from Hell. Digging for arrow heads in corn fields.Captain America comics drawn by Jack(King)Kirby.The 3 STOOGES!!!!! Being tortured by my sisters Bobby Sherman and Shaun Cassidy records. 8-track tapes of Golden Earring and Grand Funk Railroad. Iggy and the Stooges!!!! Where Monsters Dwell comics. Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos-YA-HOOO!!!! Two-Gun Kid,Kid Colt,Rawhide Kid (whatever happened to cowboy comics?).

[Mr_Vindictive]

- Grunge Rock (Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Alice In Chains)

- Atari 2600

- NES

- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Show and Movies)

- Godzilla films on cable

- Empire Of The Ants

- Food Of The Gods

- Comic Books

- Superman's Death

- X-Men

- Gameboy (especially Kid Icarus and Metriod on the GB)

- Cable TV (I remember having a strange switch box when we first got cable.  You had numbers assigned to each switch and then you would flip it to choose what channel you wanted.  The higher channels meant you had to flip numerous switches to make the variations)

- MST3K

- SNL

- Mad Magazine

- Arcades!  They were everywhere.  I actually saw one in a funeral home as a child.

- Anything "Mario"

- Skateboarding and the still visible wounds that were incurred while doing so.

- Simpsons

- Married With Children

- Beavis And Butthead

- Count Chocula, Boo Berry, Frankenberry cereals

- Portable Cassette players

- QBasic

- Computers

I have to stop.  This could go on forever.

[odinn7]

*Creature Feature
*Get Smart
*Twilight Zone
*Outer Limits
*The Match Game (with Gene Rayburn)
*Bob Newhart show
*The Jeffersons
*The Gong Show
*Godzilla and King Kong
*Planet of the Apes
*Clint Eastwood movies, especially Dirty Harry
*Road Warrior
*The Doors
*Valerie Giles (my first true love...aww...how sweet...)
*Comics- Horror, Dare Devil, Iron Man, Batman, and even a little bit of Spiderman and Superman
*Star Wars
*Close encounters of the 3rd Kind


Wow...I thought I would have trouble with this...I am going to have to stop like Skaboi did as there is just way too much...it's unbelieveable.

Great topic.

[loyal1]

I almost forgot The Muppet Show...and how could I forget Looney Tunes and Dr. Suess.  A huge part of my growing up.  what was I thinking??  I am going to add them now...and Mad Movies and Nick at Nite.

Thanks for the reminder