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Great Old One Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Total posts: 1091 Location: is everything! Age: 35 Gender: Male |
 Posted: 18-09-2013 20:25 Post subject: Are you a 70's or 80's child - Video nostalgia |
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This could have gone on the Good Things online thread but I didn't want anyone to miss it. This is such a trip dowm memory lane, presented by Derren Brown's writing partner, Andy Nyman (I'm not sure who originally did it).
I saw this a while ago and never got around to posting it. As he says himself, " Oh my god! If you were a child in the 70’s or 80’s be prepared to laugh, cry a bit & pine to go back in time to a wonderful world long gone. This is just brilliant.
Link to his page here
I miss my childhood.  |
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| marionXXX Un-Gnoing Joined: 03 Nov 2001 Total posts: 2922 Location: Keighley, W Yorks Age: 48 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 18-09-2013 21:10 Post subject: |
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| Maybe slightly later than 'my time'. I'd have put in Basil Brush, who shot JR?, Pan's People, Green Shield stamps, Vision On, flares with tartan turn ups...... |
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| DrWhiteface Great Old One Joined: 09 Jun 2010 Total posts: 356 Location: Head Fool, Fools Guild, Ankh-Morpork Age: 35 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 19-09-2013 03:14 Post subject: |
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The Never Ending Story, Goonies, The Princess Bride, Garbage Pail Kids, The Young Ones, yo-yos, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, He-Man, Knightrider, The A-Team, The Smurfs, Grange Hill (I could never work out what Ziggy was saying!), Space Invaders and Pac-Man,Sylvester McCoy as The Doctor...
sigh, those were the days! |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13561 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 19-09-2013 18:39 Post subject: |
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I'm all for nostalgia, but I hope I'm not alone in finding The Goonies difficult to endure. Even at the time I was thinking "Sit down and shut up!"
The Monster Squad, now there was a movie... |
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| Heckler20 The Sockpuppet of
Cthulhu's Prodigal Son Joined: 16 Jul 2004 Total posts: 4702 Location: In the Nostril of The Crawling Chaos Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 20-09-2013 08:44 Post subject: |
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| gncxx wrote: | I'm all for nostalgia, but I hope I'm not alone in finding The Goonies difficult to endure. Even at the time I was thinking "Sit down and shut up!"
The Monster Squad, now there was a movie... |
There are a number of movies that for American kids 'defined their generation' which when I watched them had no frame of reference for me and thus provoked a distinct 'meh' at the time.
Then again most of the 'Childrens' Film Foundation' nonsense produced over here provoked that response in me, maybe I was just a strange child. |
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| cherrybomb Skating the thin crust
Great Old One Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Total posts: 1005 Location: Sitting on the roof at dusk Gender: Female |
| Posted: 20-09-2013 15:03 Post subject: |
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| gncxx wrote: | I'm all for nostalgia, but I hope I'm not alone in finding The Goonies difficult to endure. Even at the time I was thinking "Sit down and shut up!"
The Monster Squad, now there was a movie... |
The Goonies terrified me as a kid and leaves me cold to this day....brrrrr. Black beauty on a Sunday night was much more my thing  |
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| theyithian Keeping the British end up
Joined: 29 Oct 2002 Total posts: 11704 Location: Vermilion Sands Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 20-09-2013 16:19 Post subject: |
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The chap that put that together must have shared a birthday with me; I don't think I missed a single reference there. Most satisfying.  |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13561 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 20-09-2013 18:03 Post subject: |
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| cherrybomb wrote: | | The Goonies terrified me as a kid and leaves me cold to this day....brrrrr. Black beauty on a Sunday night was much more my thing |
I think we can all agree with Alan Partridge when he said of the BB theme tune, "This is fantastic!" |
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| gncxx King-Size Canary
Great Old One Joined: 25 Aug 2001 Total posts: 13561 Location: Eh? Gender: Male |
| Posted: 20-09-2013 18:07 Post subject: |
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| Heckler20 wrote: | | Then again most of the 'Childrens' Film Foundation' nonsense produced over here provoked that response in me, maybe I was just a strange child. |
It was never really cool to like the CFF movies, they were like church, you had to sit through them as a rite of passage. That said, The Glitterball and Sammy's Super T-Shirt are still good fun. I remember seeing Mr Horatio Nibbles at school in the assembly hall, which was better than maths. |
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| 47Forteans Live Fortean And Prosper!
Great Old One Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Total posts: 1727 Location: In A World Gone Mad... Age: 35 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 24-09-2013 04:15 Post subject: |
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| I never understood that Puffenstuff show/movie - too weird for me at the time, and all too creepy! |
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| Pietro_Mercurios Heuristically Challenged
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| Posted: 24-09-2013 08:47 Post subject: |
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| 47Forteans wrote: | | I never understood that Puffenstuff show/movie - too weird for me at the time, and all too creepy! |
For some strange reason, some thought that titles like, HR Pufnstuf and Lidsville, were drug references.
Which the makers, the Krofft brothers, always denied.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.R._Pufnstuf#Claims_of_drug_references
I always thought it was an awful punishment for the Artful Dodger to get trapped there, though.
The Seventies, eh?  |
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| Mythopoeika Boring petty conservative
Joined: 18 Sep 2001 Total posts: 9109 Location: Not far from Bedford Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 24-09-2013 20:03 Post subject: |
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I loved HR Pufnstuf!  |
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| OneWingedBird Great Old One Joined: 19 Nov 2012 Total posts: 542 Location: Attice of blinkey lights Age: 44 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 24-09-2013 20:11 Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | That said, The Glitterball and Sammy's Super T-Shirt are still good fun. I remember seeing Mr Horatio Nibbles at school in the assembly hall, which was better than maths. |
Most of them were rubbish, but I really did love The Boy Who Turned Yellow.. it may still be up on youtube... what's not to love about a nutter on skis in a yellow suit who recharges by sticking his fingers in a plug socket while the light on top of his helmet flashes. 
Goonies wasn't that good, though strangely, I was in HMV in Manchester many years later when it was on the screens in the store, when it suddenly hit me that One Eyed Willie might mean more than one thing.  |
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| HenryFort Bad Craziness - Wide Asleep at the Wheel
Joined: 23 Oct 2005 Total posts: 927 Location: UK Again Age: 43 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 24-09-2013 21:26 Post subject: |
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| Mythopoeika wrote: | | I loved HR Pufnstuf! :D |
got some on vhs here ... classic |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Total posts: 17933 Location: Dublin Gender: Male |
| Posted: 24-09-2013 22:08 Post subject: |
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| Mythopoeika wrote: | | I loved HR Pufnstuf! |
Me too!
What was shouted when Witchie Poo was about to appear? | Quote: | | Make way for the forces of evil |
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