• Telorand@reddthat.com
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    6 months ago

    Also, were millennials into Different Strokes? Because I didn’t know a single person who watched that show. It ran from '78-86, a time when millennials were either non-existent or just being born (1981+). There’s a whole paragraph about it, and I feel like the author either had a unique experience growing up or thinks that’s what millennials were into.

    The Nokia got me, but only because it was hard to read, and I was expecting T9 mode. Manually typing each letter was only around for a couple years before T9 changed everything.

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      6 months ago

      Different Strokes might well be more of a Gen-X thing. I remember it being on TV (in England) when I was a kid and remember recognising Gary Coleman when he showed up in the '80s Buck Rogers TV series, but I was very young at the time. Pre-school age definitely.

      Also, the younger cast of Scrubs are Gen-Xers and they definitely threw in a few references to it.

      But let’s not forget that years-later re-runs were and still are a thing, even on the handful of channels that most people had back then, so there are bound to be some people younger than Gen-X who also grew up with those shows as their parents enjoyed them the second time around.

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      6 months ago

      I remember reruns on Nick at Night into the early 00s. The theme song and Gary Coleman were pretty iconic but different strokes isn’t a millenneal experience