Let’s be cultural references that today’s kids would never get

I'm the full recipe that you can find in the booklet! In the booklet!

Where’s the beef?

Due to Me TV, kids know a lot more about old pop culture than you'd imagine. I even have students who are fans of The Golden Girls.

I’m saving green stamps to buy a set of stainless silverware.

"Ancient Chinese secret!"

R4 Surprisingly they lasted until 2020, though as an electronic loyalty program.

"Sock it to me!"

"Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven."

You think you're an Alexis, but you're more of a Caress.

"Here's a quarter, call someone who cares."

Loei Fuller

I'm in my late 40s and have no idea what OP's reference is about.

R10 I thought it was “Here’s a dime, call someone who cares.”

R12, it's a Golden Girls reference.

I'm Peter, being dropped off at home Christmas morning after a night at the baths to grind more beans.

Max and New Coke

I'm the TV Guide crossword puzzle.

I'm the Welcome Wagon.

Reach out , reach out and touch someone

The only hit that comes out of a Helen Lawson show is Helen Lawson, and that's ME, baby, remember?

R16 Even I didn't understand the New Coke thing for years, I was only 1 and a few months when they did it. But, I remember my family always telling me to ask for Coca-Cola Classic. And, sometimes I still add the classic, out of habit.

Cross at the Green NOT in between .In any language it's a way of LIFE

I recently used the phrase "she could sell a sows ear as a silk purse" in conversation with a Millennial. I had to explain it.

Fine Corinthian leather.

The Twinkie defense.

I'm Mac Tonight.

Baby Jessica

Board game night. A family interacts with one another without and electronic device, except Simon and Battleship.

drop a dime

Hang up, as with phones.

Only Nixon can go to China.

I soaked in it.

You can be sure if it’s Westinghouse.

I'd walk a mile for a Camel.

I’m the 6000 shoes of Imelda Marcos.

It's 10pm. Do you know where your children are?

I’m a litterbug. Don’t be me!

Let’s see what you have on - twirl like Loretta!

just say no

I’m a Ford Pinto. Stay off my rear - I’m explosive!

Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful.

Gosh, that is really an E Ticket ride!!

The Ice Capades the world's greatest entertainment.

This is your brain on drugs.

Hee haw!

You bet your bippy!

We’re the Funny Face powdered drink mixes of different flavor ethnicities, such as Injun Orange and Chinese Cherry. We’re just like Kool-Aid, except racist!

Injuns are orange?

How?

I’m Kirlian photography.

Dicker & Dicker of Beverly Hills

I'm the "ABC Sunday Night Movie."

I want to be Carol Merril today!!

Where is Alan Funt? Am I on “Candid Camera?”

Crying Indian

I'm the Seal of Good Practice.

I'm the Carol Lawrence commercial for "International Coffees."

I see you can still get the stickers, but the ancient Chinese secret of Mr. Yuk would have snowflakes melting faster than the wicked witch of the west.

Suits by Botany 500

When Coke brought us together.

Phil D. Basket

Look for the union label

Up with People!

"Bucky Dent"

"What do you get when you dent your Bucky?"

Coffee with character

Waiting until “the rates went down” to call a long distance friend or relative. (And getting to the point.)

“Call for Philip Morris”

The touch, the feel...of cotton..the fabric of our lives. Which I liked to mash up with C and H...C and H... pure cane sugar.

“Look for the Union label”

R69 - look for R62.

R69 That reminded me of R62 just a few short posts up

Oh, sorry I wasn’t specific

I meant this one

R69, Saturday Night Live's best skit was a parody of "Look For the Union Label" telling everyone to buy locally grown pot.

Next best skit was a parody of all of the afternoon drug commercials, "Ask your doctor about. . . to feel like yourself again." Substituting canines for people they did a riff on "puppy Uppers" for when your pooch is over tired, and "Doggy Downers" to come off a high.

Even Andy Roony did a segment on calling up a doctor to ask about a drug and how hard it was to do.

I'd rather fight than switch (man has a black eye which was acceptable TV in those days.)

Whenever I want to call my chick I just flick my bic. (deemed racist.)

Commercials where Hostess snack cakes were served on a silver platter for tea.

Cookie Puss

r72, yup, a perfect reference

Pollaner All Fruit

Until Family Guy spoofed it.

"See you next Tuesday"

I just can’t cope/ without my soap!

I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!

R23 I fear that you've confused the millennial with an inaccurate explanation.

The phrase (from Jonathan Swift) is "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear," not "sell" one.

You can't make one, that is, but Arthur D. Little could and did make two. He didn't try to sell them, though: he gave MIT one and the Smithsonian the other.

I'm a waffle whiffer!

About half the jokes in Airplane.

Last little billboard:

Burma Shave.

"It's like going to China with a sack of rice"

Fly me!

Manly, yes, but I like it too.

Look that up in your Funk & Wagnall’s.

L’eggo my Eggo!

"Finish your plate, there are starving children in . . . "

"Don't come home in a box."

I’m Sam & Diane!

I can't believe I ate the WHOLE thing !

Said with a very proper European accent, "Does anyone have any Grey Poupon?"

Later satirized in "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure."

R84, "Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is."

Just "Say Hello to Pan Am"

How would the kids know? We said good-bye to Pan Am 30 years ago.

78 records...and apparently the age of Diana Ross (not 90 as was guessed by youngster on Jeopardy).

Baseball

Hot Dogs

Apple Pie

and

Chevrolet

Hi,I'm Anita Bryant...I shill OJ on TV Commercials, I'm going to get a pie in the face in 1977.

You're soaking in it

It's a Sealy Posturepedic Morning- YEAH!

Don't trust anyone over 30.

Who shot JR?

I can bring home the bacon (Enjoli)

Fry it up in a pan (Enjoli)

And never never never let you forget you're a man

"Cause I'm a woman

"We really move our tail for you." (Later deemed sexist.)

"Duck and cover!"

R84 Well, it worked for Barbara Stanwyck!

Wiener Wrap a dog! Make him roll over! Teach an old dog a new trick!

Be kind. Rewind

Anthony! Anthony!

It's shake and bake, and I helped!

Crisco’ll do you proud everytime.

And all the lube jokes that followed.

Houdini

Like carrying coal to Newcastle.

"used cars" vs "previously owned"

Want a Walnetto?

OPEN WIDE FOR

CHUNKY!

How do you know Christa McAuliffe had dandruff? . . . . . They found her Head and Shoulders on the beach

I am a pair of lovely white shoes. I am never worn before Easter. Whatever would the neighbors think?

Reggie Bars

I can't believe I ate that whole thing.

Scratch and Sniff stickers

“I should’ve known you’d know where to find the boys and the booze!”

Blue movie

Rice queen

"The Joy of Sex"

Elvis from the waist up on Ed Sullivan

Gee! You’re hair smells terrific!

Who is that behind those Foster Grants?

I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!

Having a face to face conversation, in real life, with no devices in your hand. They have no idea what that even means.

Going to a payphone and using your "calling card" to call home to check for messages on your answering machine. Hang up quickly if it doesn't pick up on the 2nd ring!

$1 fee for failing to rewind

Odd and even days related to buying gas in CA.

You could only buy gas on odd numbered days if your license plate ended in an odd number. If it ended in an even number you could only buy gas on an even numbered day.

I recently referred to someone as acting like Ginger Grant.

They had no idea who she is.

Charge-a-plates.

Every store (that participated) in town took a metal card with notches in it to pay for one's purchases.

Not to be confused with a charge card. The balance on your Charge-a-plate account had to be paid in full each month.

The Chowchilla kidnapping were a school bus full of kids were abducted at gunpoint and buried alive.

R134, speaking of credit cards, the old school manual credit card swipers.

Clackers

Guaranteed to break a wrist or knock somebody upside the head.

I’m the card catalog in your local library.

I’m your grandma opening her yearly Christmas present of Jean Nate.

Jesus OP. I’m well into my 40’s and have no clue of your cultural reference.

1970s porn: the men’s underwear page of the Sears catalog.

Your mother: Why are you spending so much time in the bathroom?

You: Be out in a minute. (Fap, fap, fap).

And now I’m about 20 deep and still only have a couple that I vaguely know Who TF is Helen Lawson ? This thread should be renamed “no one under 65 would know “

I am stuck on Band-Aids because Band-Aid stuck on me.

R138 or the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature.

(Ding dong) Avon calling.

The cotton part of that is still used in commercials today r68.

Three on the tree.

No shirt, no shoes, no service.

Still used r148 in some not so fine establishments

Fuller Brush Man

Milk Delivery Man

Air-Mail Stamps

3-D post cards, originally from Japan

“You look Mah - velous!”

Josephine the Plumber.

“My bologna has a first name/It’s O-S-C-A-R….”

Don’t take any wooden nickels.

(You need to not only have heard it, but also know what it meant.)

I dialed *69 on yo phone, nigga- an yo ho answered!

“What’s all this fuss about Soviet jewelry?”

"There's always room for Jello™"

Geraldo Rivera’s broken nose

LSMFT.

Going downtown to see the talkie picture show.

Hey Mikey! He likes it!

cuz I'm a woman! Enjoli!

Al Capone's empty vault

Give a hoot - Don’t pollute

Drink the Kool Aid

I want my mtv.

Time for a Pudding Pop!

Time to make the donuts

To the moon!

r53, I did the gestures just as soon as I read your post.

Have it your way , have it your way at 🍔 👑

So many memories!

You're gonna hear a giant sucking sound.

You've got mail!

I'm an AOL installation disc. You must have Windows 95 or higher, a 4X CD-ROM drive, and a minimum of a 33.6 kbit/s modem

I'm the modem connecting sound that sometimes made you think your computer was going to blow up.

Where's the beef?

Dr. Ruth

And a years supply of Rice a roni, the San Francisco Treat!

I said this to a 39 year old who had no idea wtf I was talking about.

"a drink, or a dime to call your wife" r13

Ancient (rasict) Chinese secret!

Meow. Meow, meow, meow, - meow, meow, meow, meow meow. …..

Yes, Master

Just. Say. No.

When E.F. Hutton talks, people listen.

Mr. Yuk is green.

I'm 90% of the jokes on Family guy which seem to be designed for people born in the early 80s.

My pussy stinks.

Mommy!!!!!

Liberté, égalité, fraternité

Please deposit 25 cents for the next 5 minutes.

Paper or Plastic?

Can I check under the hood?

Prehistoric times when all gasoline stations were full service- in my area well into the 1980’s.

Alcohol on tv.

Smoking or non-smoking?

Can I have your soda bottle for the nickel deposit?

party lines

Television repairman

There’s a Ford in your future…

the bored Maytag repairman

dialing with a pencil

the B side

Don't squeeze the Charmin!

A little dab'll do ya.

Reach for a Camel Instead of a Sweet!

Cigarettes were once advertised as a way to lose weight.

Calgon, take me away!

"Don't use that greasy kid stuff!"

“Did you ever eat a pine tree?”

“Many parts *are* edible!”

Pearl drops!

Just the good ol' boys never meaning no harm.

Senor Wences. ...on the Ed Sullivan show

Take the Nestea plunge!

Do you have Prince Albert in a can?

Disco! Disco Duck!

My friends and I would take the Nestea plunge wearing our clothes in our backyard swimming pool. Jeans, tee-shirts, polo shirts, button down shirts and ties after church. Our mothers would get so mad.

[quote]Who TF is Helen Lawson ?

She's the creator of the very popular women's fragrance [italic]Helenesque[/italic]!

Katy Winters

Yes, Seńor Wences!

I loved him on Ed Sullivan. Fun facts, he lived around the corner from The Ed Sullivan Theater on Broadway in the West 50s. I wonder if they just called him when guests had to cancel, he could literally walk over in five minutes! He also lived to the age of 103!

Apparently Charles Nelson Reilly lived within walking distance of where NBC shot the Tonight Show. I recall him mentioning this once when he was on the show and joking about it.

“The devil made me buy this dress!”

R119, what were Christa McAuliffe’s last words? “Say, what does this button do?”

“I had to send my sandwich back to the kitchen. There was astronaut in the tuna.”

Can you imagine the Category 6 hurricane-level Twitter storm that would erupt if someone tried to jokes like that about a modern tragedy.

This thread makes me REALLY miss the 20th century.

Jessica McClure

Senor Wences

Staying up all night on New Year's Eve for the Casey Kasem countdown! It was repeat the next day but you wanted to start from #100.

Ethel, you shameless hussy!

Queen Helene Mint Julep Face Mask

Spoolies

You got your chocolate in my peanut butter!

“I learned it from you, Dad! From you!”

And you got your peanut butter in my chocolate, R221!

Mother, I can do it myself!!!

I went to the Brandi Carlile concert here at the Greek in LA a few weeks ago. Jodi Foster was there, right in front of me. After the concert, she and her wife were talking with a few people but we were walking out right beside her. At one point her wife just grabbed her and they took off running towards their car or ride or whatever. It looked like Jodi was kind of scared or something. I remarked to my 37 year old friend who went with me to the concert that I don't blame Jodi after John Hinkley Jr. and my friend had zero clue as to what I was talking about. So I had to tell her about the attempt on Reagan's life by Hinkley to impress Jodi. Friend also had never heard about the North Hollywood shoot out. I'm 52 so these were things I experienced but it was interesting to see that younger folks have no knowledge of things that at the time seemed huge.

She probably doesn't know who Squeaky Fromme is either, r225.

You have a collect call from Timmy. Do you accept the charges ?

I'd rather fight than switch.

Wouldn't you really have a Buick...a Buick...

I invented Post-Its.

Let's get Mikey to eat it. He'll eat anything!

"Turn Blue"

Yes we have no bananas. I learned this from my now-90 year old grandma. I am now 44 and I feel like last white rhino when I say it.

Leggs eggs

Sheer Energy!

“And they call it Charlie!”

Anyone dressed like that must be a siren!

Viennetta, bringing dessert to a higher level.

Lives in a van down by the river...

Jane, You Ignorant Slut!

Iodine and Baby Oil - peel your sunburn off in sheets.

I'm the Kollege of Musical Knowledge!

Is it bigger than a breadbox?

Will the mystery guest please sign in.

Gentlemen prefer Hanes.

Getting There is Half the Fun

She was a scamp, a camp and bit of tramp...

She was a V A M P.....

VAMP!

I’m a little bit Country!! I’m a little bit Rock and Roll!

Mrs. Olsen

Marsha !

Marsha !

Marsha !

Who’s Marsha?

"Mona?!?!"

Where have all the flowers gone?

Uncoupling

I’d like to buy the world a Coke

And keep it company….

Which twin has the Toni?

Spongeworthy.

Fahrvergnügen

Ooh, bless you, r257.

Here, let me get you some Kleenex.

5th grade exchange

"Wanna go race slot cars?"

"Nah, I got a new pogo stick."

🎶Conjunction Junction, what’s your function?

I'm just a bill. Yes, I'm only a bill. And I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill. ♪

Interplanet Janet, she’s a galaxy girl…🎵

I got a brand pair of roller skates, you got a brand new key!

Miss Vicki...

Giving your telephone number to the Radio Shack clerk when you buy your cassette answering machine.

"You can't drop out of college! You'll lose your student deferment and be I-A."

This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs.

"You're Mr Clean! Mr Clean! Mr Clean!"

"The ski-nosed comedian . . ."

"So, you're going to San Francisco? Be sure to wear a flower in your hair!"

"Let's delete that expletive, OK?"

"What a mess! It looks like Fibber McGee's closet."

Make-up!

Jock straps.

"Skip school and the truant officer will come looking for you!"

"What was the movie like? Who goes to a drive-in to watch the movie!"

"Chew some gum. It'll keep your ears from popping during the flight."

"Fill 'er up! And can you get the windshield, too?"

"Right away, sir!"

I think R275 might prove we've run out of shit.

R277 Says a guy who never flew on a DC-3. You young'uns don't know about unpressurized planes.

The gum isn't for unpressurized planes! You'd need an oxygen mask in an unpressurized plane.

R279 A post from someone who enjoys parading his complete ignorance.

Hey, Culligan Man!

"By 1940, DC-3's carried 80% of the world's airline traffic. . . Meal service included boxed lunches of fried chicken or ham, salad and cookies. Tall thermos jugs in the galley held coffee, soup, ice water and hot water for tea. Bottles of Coca-Cola were also available. Crackers and chewing gum helped prevent airsickness and ear problems in the unpressurized cabins."

What are we to make that the vast majority of the "cultural references" on this thread are tag lines for TV commercials from the 60s, 70s and 80s?

I suspect it is a combination of Datalounge being a magnet for those obsessed with midcentury television + the general death the the television commercial as a common touch point given that many of us most watch ad-free TV these days.

But it is fascinating what an outsized role television commercials played in midcentury American pop culture and how quickly it disappeared from the landscape.

[quote]the general death the the television commercial as a common touch point given that many of us most watch ad-free TV these days.

This. Definitely this.

And a shame that is.

The milkman as a meme for daytime dalliance.

R272 Jock straps as actual athletic supporters, but not as lingerie for Gay men.

Carnaby Street.

"No one will be admitted during the last ten minutes."

"Nattering nabobs of negativism."

Many of the ones not related to TV commercials are things we learned in history

Nattering nabobs is a Nixonism.

Though given most people sleep through history class and don't major in it, I suspect not that many people my age would know it

“High test”

93 octane gasoline

R288 actually the "nattering nabobs of negativity" is a quote from Spiro T. Agnew, Nixon's VP.

Madge

R290 Yes of course, and most youngsters won't get the connection if you use it today. Which is the point of this thread.

A sly reference to "Clyde Tolson's friend" would similarly draw a blank from most today.

R292 I was just pointing out it wasn't a Nixonism but and Agnewism.

To say of a politician, he's got a Chappaquiddick in his background.

Put a tiger in your tank!

Super Star power for more car power.

[quote]Carnaby Street.

I need to know.

Not familiar with this one.

Carnaby Street was (and still is) a street in London then known for its '60s-era fashion shops. When you think of young stylish fashion of the time you think Carnaby Street. And Twiggy!

Oh! Thanks, r297.

We wear short shorts

Call me, call me now.

You can hear a pin drop.

Reach out and touch someone.

(I almost got arrested for that once down in Chattanooga.)

"And tomorrow, we'll go Downtown, see the decorations, then let Santa put you on his lap."

Roll up your car windows (with a handle not a switch)

"Do you know the way to San Jose?" I had a young friend who moved there and I would ask him if he knew the way, but would just get a blank stare back.

"Oh no. Tomorrow's Friday. They're serving fish in the cafeteria."

"Well, that's what we always called 'em when I was a boy. Guess I can't say that anymore."

Take it off, take it all off

“Here take this - it is a list of all of the safe bathrooms and pay phones in the area. Always have change for a phone call.”

"It's a box imitating the sounds the phone makes when you drop coins in, fooling the operator."

"He spoke French to the counter-man. Imagine anybody speaking French to a counter-man at Schrafft's!"

R260

Dysfunction junction

"My first car was a doozy. All-black and four cylinders. But let me tell you, cranking that thing up on a cold winter morning was murder."

“I’ll take the centre square to block.”

r313. Did you have to pull the Choke knob on the dash?

Wrap foil on the rabbit ears - hopefully the snow will clear up.

Nanu nanu!

Haight-Ashbury

R216 That isn't completely lost. Foil can still help catch the signals with the new DTV indoor antennas.

“Oh Miss Crabtree, there’s something heavy on my heart!”

This thread is like something you’d see in AARP monthly.

Um, sort of the point.

Where do you think OP got the idea? Either AARP mag or Reader's Digest.

Someone should do the reverse thread:

"Let's be cultural references today's AARP members would never get."

When I cut myself, I bleed. Do you bleed?

romper stomper bomper boo

r324 They would have to develop a culture first and not just reboots.

Slowly I turn...

Step by step ….

The Sound. Even if you were in another room, you knew to high tail your fat ass back to the living room once you heard this thing.

I don't even need to click on it to hear it, r330.

Interpersonal relationships

Booksmart

Don't sweat the small stuff

Heeeeeere's Johnnnnny!

R282, ya dummy, cabins have been pressurized since 1946. There's a reason you had to go back to 1940 for your quote. No one today is chewing gun on airlines today because they are riding in unpressurized cabins.

So r336, it was a cultural reference you didn’t get.

Odd, huh

The NBC Peacock- The following program is in living color.

In the 60s when I was under 10 years old, my parents would let me buy eight or ten comic books for the drive to our vacation spot, usually going from Ohio to Florida. (Richie Rich, Casper the friendly ghost, Little Lotta, Chip and Dale...) I withheld myself from even peaking into the comic books before the trip. The books had lessons to be learned in the stories. They kept me occupied for five or six hours, usually between Knoxville and Chattanooga when we stopped for lunch.

R338 they still trot him out occasionally.

I forgot to say I-75 was built in sections in the 60s. We had to get off I-75 to a rural route until it reached the next completed section of I-75. This happened several times during the trip. I remember driving past houses where the washing machines were placed on the front porch, and the residents would wave at us. I truly miss this!

Put a tiger in your tank.

Happy Motoring !

Loose Lips Sink Ships

R339- Those are very GAY comic books

I can beat those, r345...

Holy Mackerel, Andy!

ZOOM - Z double O -M

Box 350- Boston Mass

0-2-1-3-4

Send it to ZOOM!

Within a year Tony Blair will have one of his own stooges fronting for him.

"Oh, Matron!"

"Don't worry. George will pull the bed down for you."

“And then we'll have to take the boat train into Paris."

"It was like going through Checkpoint Charlie."

"That was a burlesque house before they turned it into a place for talkies."

R336 Unpressurized DC-3s remained in service for decades. And the point of this thread you might recall is stuff that young people draw a blank on.

Anyway, you forfeited any chance to be taken seriously here when you said, "You'd need an oxygen mask in an unpressurized plane."

R336 The first pressurized commercial airliner was the Boeing 307 Super Stratoliner operated by TWA and introduced for passenger service in 1940. TWA’s fleet of five 307s was commandeered by the Army Air Force at the outset of WWII for use as military transports.

"Crisp and clean and no caffeine"

This is in stark contrast to the glut of energy drinks on the market these days. Do they still even make caffeine free Coke any more?

Ring my bell

Operator, Get me the police 👮‍♀️!

Get the hell out of Dodge.

Now we end another broadcast day

[quote]I withheld myself from even peaking into the comic books before the trip.

Oh, dear!

R353 Yes. I drink caffeine free Coca Cola all the time. The bottles and cans look just like regular coke with gold added to the label/logo.

You bet your bippy.

Ah, I remember it well.

Reading the back of a cereal box at breakfast, no phone, no tablet, no device – just the back of the cereal box.

Roll that beautiful baked bean footage!

Josephine the plumber

The father/daughter duo the Kendall’s having sex.

You are such a loser, even Susan Lucci thinks you're a loser.

Paging Mike Hunt!

Sock it to me! Sock it to me! Sock it to me!

R368 I think the clip of Nixon doing it is used in every documentary about him or the sixties.

The lovely Carol Merrill...

R369 So? The question is, do younger folk understand where it comes from?

We're not ones to go around spreading gossip. Why really we're just not the gossipy kind. You'll never hear one of us repeating gossip. So you better be sure and listen close the first time.

Just wanna add that in junior-high, we paged Mike Hunt at various restaurants.

We would call the busiest restaurants in town, and have them page Dr. Mike Hunt, claiming we were his emergency paging system, and adding that there was some sort of emergency at whatever hospital we claimed to be calling from.

We would laugh for hours on end, rolling around on the floor with glee.

Being a kid was so fun back then.

We did stupid, silly stuff, and prank calls were the BEST!

No one was running around, buying guns and going off on shooting sprees

We were silly.

Even ringing doorbells and then running and hiding was funny to us.

Technological advances are great, but they’ve basically erased a lot of the fun kids had back in the day. Now everyone has a ring doorbell system, so even that prank is out of the question.

I’m glad I was a kid before it all became so serious and dismal.

R371 Well it is usually referenced as the tv-variety show Laugh-In, so if they don't get it that's on them. Also, there really isn't a need to fully get references anymore, if a younger person hears something that they don't know they just google it.

It's like this vid was made for this thread.

the excitement was palpable.

One Ringy Dingy.

And that's the truth pfffft.

R369 and how familiar are today's kids with Nixon?

R378 I’m sure many of them have the Nixon in China opera soundtrack on heavy rotation on Spotify.

R369 And if they have to Google it, then it's precisely what this thread is about.

Martha Mitchell. That’s all I need to say.

My high school principal was "Dr. Hunt", though his first name was not "Mike".

But every time a student would say "Dr. Hunt", someone was sure to reply "Dr. Hunt? Dr. MIKE Hunt?"

Well, that was the week that was.

Next you're going to tell me Miss Kitty was just a saloonkeeper.

Oops, we're forgetting the format of the "Let's Be..." threads.

I'm "New Math."

R378 they still teach US history in school, if they aren’t familiar with Nixon that is a failure on their part and their teachers.

....

R386 The point of course is that whatever kids learn about Nixon from history class, they're unlikely to get enough grasp of his personality to understand why his Sock it to Me made such an impression.

Yes, that's the cultural reference of it.

Thank you R388 I think they're getting some information about Watergate, impeachment, the Vietnam War but I doubt much time is spent in history class talking about Laugh-In

R390 I had a very good AP US History teacher and I know she covered it and why it was such a cultural moment. I accept that other teachers aren't as good.

Did she also like to play Trivial Pursuit? R391

R392 No but she believed, as I do, that one cannot understand modern history if one leaves out the mass media culture that developed starting with Hollywood and Radio.

Someone shot my sister Sam

"Say the magic woid and win a hundred dollars"

Groucho selling DeSotos on "You Bet Your Life"

R393 you full of 💩💩💩💩give it up.

R396 Would you say you truly learned Roman history without including the culture of Ancient Rome, the arts and entertainments? Of course not. Well you cannot understand US history, especially from the 1920s-onward without including Hollywood movies, Radio, TV, and Music. They are our great art and our contribution to the culture of the world.

(^,.^)💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤💤

Sure, Jan

beating a dead horse

stuck on stupid

bore you blind

Hang up on the small things

Henny Penny

Running on empty

Not seeing the forest for the trees

Fifty Mile Hikes

Making a mountain out of a molehill

I'm what happens when you smell burnt toast.

zippless fuck

Male chauvinist pig

Kids today have the same personal impression of Richard Nixon that we had then of Woodrow Wilson. None.

Yoo hoo! Mrs Goldberg!

HOWDEEE!

My 24 yo nephew was looking at my rings. I held up my hand and said Liberace. He responded 'You got them in Italy?"

"She's a Gold-Star Mother."

That man, Grandpa couldn't stand him.

Non, je ne regrette rien!

Sears Christmas wish Book

Sally's

Monkey Ward's

The CBS Special Presentation announcement meant that it was time for a Charlie Brown cartoon in prime time.

"It's as formulaic as an old Road movie."

Before don't-ask don't-tell, the military had the so-called Queen for a Day policy.

“Bunny Marie - go home - come back on Friday - if you don’t lose three pounds by Friday’s weigh in you will be fired!”

Literally any line from any episode of Murphy Brown.

R425 I’m currently rewatching it and it was very topical. But I still love it. I was a majorly political kid though.

This is posted above. Anyway, go to 17:00

I can name that tune in six notes

Don’t take the car! You’ll kill yourself!

I can name it in three!

R413, you're speaking my language!

The original "Goldbergs" was the most popular TV show in its era, a New York Jewish family everyone could relate too.

R336 et al., many people’s ears still pop even on pressurized aircraft. The cabin is not pressurized to sea level. Most commercial airliners are pressurized to 8,000 feet. That’s a big pressure difference from most airport elevations, and your ears will feel it as the plane climbs and descends, especially if you have a cold or sinus problems. Chewing gum does help. I don’t know why anyone thinks this is a cultural reference no young person would get.

"... from Spiegel, Chicago 60609 Illinois"

I’m r377’s assistant, “We’re the phone company. We don’t have to care.”

(For you young ‘uns out there, there was only ONE phone company.)

“Wait Til Your Father Gets’s Home!”

Hey funny guy - who do you think you are? Neil Simon?

From my father:

“Why is every light in the house on? Who do you think we are, the Rockefellers?”

Ginger and Mary Ann

Meanwhile, back at the ranch...

Pardon me Miss, your slip is showing.

If you don't stop crying, I will give you something to cry about!

Baby cried the day the circus came to town, because she didn’t want parades just passing by her.

Goofus and Gallant

R434's assistant. We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company.

No one puts Baby in the corner!

Thanks for the correction, r444.

I thought mine seemed off when I typed it.

Mr Zip, 1963

“Book 'em, Danno. Murder One.”

"This tape will self destruct in 5 seconds."

Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!

"Joey, have you ever seen a grown man naked?"

The 2018 version of "Danger, Will Robinson" in the "Lost in Space" reboot was well done.

Keystone Cops

You're as tight as Scrooge McDuck.

If it weren't for the Feds, they'd still be using Maddox drumsticks down there.

Damn! They turned down my appeal for CO status.

"Judge Crater, call your office!"

Mess with those guys and they'll do a Jimmy Hoffa on you.

If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit!

I wonder if anyone under thirty even knows who Captain Kangaroo is?

"That's yesterdays' news!"

Vonda Kay Van Dyke

I went to school with a girl named Vonda Kay. My straight friend the exchange student said her ass was the nicest one he saw in America.

I wonder if she was named after Vonda Kay Van Dyke, r463.

Well, that's what I'm wondering, too, now.

"Careful what you say. This is a party line."

Vonda Kay Van Dyke was Miss America 1965.

She was a ventriloquist, and very popular when she appeared on talk shows that year and performed. All the women in my family thought she was adorable.

She’s a Breck Girl!

Don’t doodle on your new Pee Chee!

Take a nap on the davenport

A little dab'll do ya

condoms

"Fill it up with ethyl."

"Yabba-dabba doo!"

"Don't be afraid, dear. The police are your friends."

The Gay hanky code.

"Heading to a costume party? You look like Sergeant Preston of the Yukon in that get-up."

"YMCA" by the Village People as it appeared in the 1978 movie "Can't Stop the Music" with Bruce Jenner, Valerie Perrine and Steve Guttenberg.

The gayest thing you'll see today.

^ apologies, the film was released in 1980, not 1978

And awaaay we go!

We secretly replaced our regular coffee with Folger’s crystals.

Here come da judge, here come da judge!

Geraldine.

And while we're here, Bing Crosby.

R483 Der Bingel, that is.

Redrum

More Park sausages Ma, PLEASE !

On the playground of my elementary school ca. 1974

A fight

A fight

A ni--er

And a white

Why did Billie Jo Macallaster jump off the Tallahache Bridge?

R483 - specifically, "the DEVIL made me buy this dress!" I watched some Flip Wilson on Youtube a while ago; he really was very funny.

R480 - and, "mmm ... that's good COFFEEEEE!" My parents had to explain that one to me.

This entire cartoon

Based upon most of the responses in this thread, the definition of "kid," to most of you, is apparently anyone under 40.

Most of these cultural references I don't get, either. I'm an adult. Damn it.

"Jane, you ignorant slut."

This reminds me of when I played one of the older Trivia Pursuit games (manufactured in the early 80s) and couldn’t answer one single question.

The Gore Vidal vs. William F. Buckley television debates in the late 1960s.

Gore was a huge queen. Buckley was probably straight but effete.

Gore calls Vidal a crypto-Nazi in the clip below.

You sank my battleship !

Take human bites!

Am I weird? Naaah.

R491 Did it read "Kids and Only Kids"? No.

r497 No. And the title is arbitrary for that very reason considering the responses posted.

Well, it may be arbitrary, but at least it’s not random.

He's a little tutti fruity

"A little light in the loafers"

vs.

"Those loafers never touched the ground."

"Ask The Man Who Owns One."

Within this vale.

Of toil. And sin.

Your head grows bald.

But not your chin

A three hour tour

R498, and "never" is a little strong because it assume NO "kid under 40" has any knowledge of popular culture they didn't personally experience. That's kind of sad.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

“Yes, Professor?”

I saw an ad for the CBS News revival of the classic Edward R. Murrow interview show "Person to Person", and realized no one under 50 will get the reference of the show title. God forbid they ever remake "Information, Please."

“…and MaryAnne!” Or even worse “…and all the rest!”

There was a thread where Bill Clinton was being mentioned and a poster asked what the reference to the "blue dress" meant.

"Good Night, Gracie!"

"Aaay"

"You rang?"

"Is it live or is it memorex?"

"Tain't funny, McGee."

Mister Moose and the ping pong balls

R511, well done! References from the 1940s, '50s, '60s, '70s and '80s.

How many DLers - or living Americans, for that matter - actually remember Fibber McGee and Molly from having listened to it in real time? I'm old as fuck, but I only know the show from studying mid-century culture and references my parents made when I was kid.

Older Canadians will remember this.

George Burns and the Red Rose Rag (the gag was that he'd get stopped every time he tried to sing it).

I had a record of old radio shows including an episode of Fibber McGee and Molly and Fibber's closet.