"Oh, the memories..."

My daughters have really been enjoying some of the shows my wife and i watched as kids... We catch them watching "Nick at Nite" when they should be sleeping all the time... They really like old episodes of "Fresh Prince", but i'm pretty sure their all time favorite is currently "Full House."
We have a subscription to Blockbuster Online, which is great, because even though we have about a thousand channels through our local cable company, its hard to find anything good on TV anymore.. We got "Degrassi Junior High, Season 1 Disk 1" today.. Our son is staying at a friend's tonight, so we decided to give the girls the full eighties experience! We sat down and fired up the dvd player with excitement! It's been years since i last watched this show.. My sister and i used to watch it every Sunday on PBS.. Where we lived, there was no cable, so all we had was a handful of local channels, the best of which was typically whatever was on public television..
Needless to say, our girls loved the show. I didn't remember how much material was covered on this show! Everything from cheating on schoolwork and lying to parents, all the way up to drinking and drug use. Amazing how "back in my day," this kind of subject matter was presented in a way that showed it as something negative.. Yes, some of the kids did some bad things in the show, but it was always resolved the very same episode and was never glorified... Man, this was REALLY a good show!
I think i'm gonna go and get me some skin tight acid washed blue jeans , put 'em on and tight roll the bottoms until i can no longer feel my feet, rummage through the attic and find my old "Members Only" jacket, put on some 80's music, and dance to the beat of the rhythm of the night right now!
...and if you actually have any clue what i just said, you must be old too....

later,
-myk