The Childhood Nostalgia Thread

“With the blasphemy of Willy Wonka being redone and Treebeard’s gay childhood hero Tigger (why was he always jumping on everybody?)kicking the bucket (joke tree beard, settle down) it made me wonder; what were the greatest movies or tv shows from your childhood? Here’s my far to partial list:

Movies:

Wizard of Oz
Bed Knobs and Broomsticks
Marry Poppins
Willy Wonka


TV:

Sigund and the Sea Monsters
Land of the Lost
R.J. Puffinstuff
Looney tunes
Little Rascles”

“Beany & Cecil
Romper Room






(......sheepishly..."Showing my age."”

“When I was growing up we played with sticks and rocks - and we liked it!”

“im still in my childhood :)”

“Romper Room, I remember that. And of course we had Sesemea Street and Electric Company and that crazy old sweaty science guy on PBS (believe it or not they still run his shows on PBS).”

“lol @ Nigal!

Movies:

[Gotta go with Nigal on] Mary Poppins
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein
House On Haunted Hill
The Great Race
Aladdin
Jason And The Argonauts(I had an odd variety of tastes)



TV:

Superman
Three Stooges
Abbott And Costello Show
Looney Tunes
Sandy Becker Show
Wonderama (With Sonny Fox)
Popeye”

“Popeye
Sinbad
Hercules
Saturday Matinees (usually some movie with lots of Ray Harryhausen stop-motion animation)
Capt. Kangaroo”

“Long John Silver (it wasnt the title) and Richard Greene's Robin Hood.”

“Capt. Kangaroo should have been on my list too.

Ray Harryhausen rocked!”

“movie

Swiss Family Robinson, Benji”

“TV

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Gentle Ben
Flipper
Petrocelli

Movies

Love Bug
Vanishing Point
Big Jake”

“Romper Room was the best


I loved Miss Mary Ann”

“Kung Foo Theater rawked too.”

“yup loved little grasshoper too
:)”

“no idea what you people are talking about.

Where are the Clangers
Magic Roundabout,
Captain Pugwash,
Ivor the Engine?”

“"There's children here. I can smell them!"

”

“none of these are ringing a bell...”

“What the hell did Y2 just say? LOL!”

“I remember lots of the ones you guys mentioned.

Also on TV:

321 Contact
Speedracer”

“aside from sticks a few would include ...

Movies:
King Kong
Nutty Professor
Computer who wore Tennis Shoes
Frankenstein

TV:
Land of the Lost
Planet of the Apes
Buck Rogers
Space 1999
Battlestar Galactica

TV from even younger:
Romper Room
Captain Kangaroo
Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
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“Movies:
Wizard of Oz
Clash of the Titans
Gremlins (even though it scared the crap out of me when I first saw it)
Back to the Future

TV:
Dukes of Hazard
A Team
Transformers
GI Joe”

“Ya know what show still fascinates me too this day from pbs? The ones where they show how things are made. They go into factories and you get to see how stuff like soap and toothpaste are made. It’s really interesting.”

“oh i saw gremlins too! And it scared me #&%!$less LOL

Cant forget ET!
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“I think some of the people here may be a little younger than me.

LOL, some of these I remember watching while getting high.”

“Notice how they never show how potted meat is made?”

“WTH is potted meat?”

“LOL Chili

Try watching Dumbo while getting high. The scene where he inadvertantly gets drunk is like an acid trip. (not that I would know what that's like)”

“Potted meat is spreadable meat in a can, similar to Deviled Ham.”

“wow I have not thought of some of these shows.
brings back some good feelings

great thread nigal(and thank you tree starting this idea)”

“All the bits that can't go into sausage and can't be made into glue, go into potted meat.

Yum, yum!”

“The first interview I had coming out of undergraduate school was at a meat processing company. They took me to the kill floor and explained every executive in the company started there in some capacity.

I went over to the trough were the "remains" were going down what looked like a garbage disposal.

I said, what do you do with the scraps? Dog Food?

The said with a very straight face...."Potted Meat".

I didn't take the job.”

“Basiclly anything too nasty to go into a hotdog becomes potted meat. [turning green]”

“Then again, if ya press all that crap into any kind shape like a Vienna sausgae and we're all over that. LOL!”

“Grem are you thinking of "Treasure Island"?

My childhood shows were pretty much the same as everyone else's except I wasn't allowed to watch Popeye or Flinstones (had to sneak over to the neighbor kids' for those shows).

But what about Brady Bunch, Dukes of Hazzard, A-Team and the Waltons and Little House? I can remember vividly laying on the scarlet shag carpeting in front of the console TV with my brother watching all those shows while mom and dad sat on the mustard yellow, cream and red sofa eatting real popcorn with real butter and drinking real coke out of a glass bottles. Man, I miss pop out of glass bottles.”

“console TV sass? We had a black and white sitting on top of a broken console tv when I was a kid. LOL!”

“Yeah but we had a console TV until 2001!”

“Oh, OK then. I had to wait until I was 12 to get an Atari 2600 and I never had cabel until I got married. It's a wonder I survived to adulthood.

what's the first tv show you rememebr watching? I can remember Truth or Consequences with Bob Barker in B&W.”

“sesame street
I belonged the the Fan club
I still have the album 1970
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“:)
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“whatever dude, i heard Roald Dahl hated the first Willy Wonka, and that the new one is supposed to be a lot spookier! boo ya.

and, what Ruby was talking about reminded me...have any of you guys seen Wonder Showzen on like MTV2 or something? OH MY GOD!!! it's the funniest thing i've ever seen. i think if i ever watched it while on any drugs, i would be permanently damaged.”

“Movies:

Wizard of Oz
The Planet of the Apes
Willy Wonka
The Sound of Music
Easy Rider
The Ten Commandments
Ben Hur
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Robinson Caruso on Mars
Soylent Green
Fantastic Voyage


TV

Speed Racer
Astro Boy
Marine Boy
Space Giants
Ultra Man
The Three Stooges
Honeymooners
The Partridge Family
Brady Bunch
Gomer Pyle
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Lippy the Lion and Hardy Har Har
Gene London
Mission: Impossible
Mod Squad
Squiddly Diddly
Wally Gator
Room 222
The White Shadow”

“stratus - One of your favorite childhood movies was "Easy Rider"?

Whoa!”

“Sarge...yeah...I had alot of influence from hanging around older dudes....like my cousins.....my one cousin had this really cool "black light" poster in his room of Peter Fonda on his ride but didn't no what it was about at the time....I just thought it was cool....and then a short while after that I saw the movie and.....boom!!...put 2 and 2 together....the movie came out in '69 but I didn't see it until later on....I was maybe 11 or 12....”

“She was 5 foot, four, and two-fifteen!


Get Smart!

but the true question which must be answered....
Mary Ann or Ellie May??????? (or the gal on F-Troop”

“We had black and white TV and only three channels so I saw a lot of the same rocks and sticks that Sarge did (and we were thankful too) but I do remember The Brady Bunch and Planet of the Apes on television, as well as Captain Kangaroo and Land of the Lost. We'd also occasionally get a medley of Mr MaGoo cartoons after the afternoon movie. (Remember his politically incorrect Asian housekeeper, Charlie? Always calling him "Missuh MaGloo.")
Only movie I remember seeing at the theater was 101 Dalmations.”

“I think the first tv show I remember watching was Romper Room. Then in kindergarten, every day after school I got to watch Bozo's Circus. I even got to attend the show once. After Bozo was nap time.

The first movie I saw in the theater was Benjii. That damn dog never stopped running! The first time I got to go to a movie with an adult chaperone was ..... hmmmmm, I can't remember the name. It's on the tip of my tongue. Help me out here. It's not been mentioned yet, but it came out around the time of Herbie. Something with "gang" in the title? Was Ben Knotts in it? I can't remember exactly, but as soon as someone says the title, I'll know it. There was lots of slapstick humor.


Now this is starting to bug me.”

“The Apple Dumpling Gang?”

“YES! That's it!

Thank you.”

“I remember that one and The Shaggy D.A. The only other movie I saw at the theater was Moby Dick and we were all shocked (but felt really old and cool) because at the end of the movie the captain said the word "damn" before he went under, LOL. (sheltered life)”