Shows You Liked as a Kid: Do They Still Hold Up?

[Cavatt]

So as a kid i lived on Star Trek, and later Kung fu, the Carol Burnet Show, Mash, and the original SNL..

i rewatched kung fu, which was cringeworthy in terms of casting white guys to play Indians, and the first season fight scenes were pretty lame. But i liked the show anyway and was surprised by some early appearances by future stars ( Harrison Ford, jodie Foster)..

I will never tire of Star Trek original series.

Tim Conway was the funniest person alive and his old man routine still busts me up..

Mash, the Movie and the TV show were both awesome and remain so..

Star Wars defined my generation. I love the first three films..

I liked altered states at the time, but i dont think its special effects are passable by todays standards.

Pretty sure todays kids would look crosseyed at Satruday Night Fever..

Rocky is still solid.

A lot of the brat pack movies have lost their shine. I loved the Breakfast Club, but recently watched it with my nephews. Was ok, but a little over emotional and stereotyped and to be honest, no way that movie gets done today without any diversity. still love the music..

I should probably rewatch Apocolypse Now.. i always viewed that as the best of the vietnam era movies..

Blade Runner, Mad Max (original) are timeless.

I also still watch The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, or once upon a time in the west..

Oh and oh brother where art thou, casablanca, the big easy, have to be mentioned in the timeless category. Patton, battle of the bulge, Dirty Dozen were also pretty good..

I watched Saturday night fever recently, nad while the dancing is pretty amazing, it is a bonkers movie with no real plot, it is really more a bunch of what is going on culturally in Brooklyn at the time. Lots of the neighborhood ethnic gangs beating the shit out of each other. The one guys kills himself over getting his gf pregnant. Oh man it is a mess.

Good the bad and the ugly i will watch any time it comes on. Once upon a time is great, but not as good.

Apocalypse now is still good, but really disturbing of course. I feel like the scene where the guys want to surf is almost more politically relevant today. Our leaders just want to enjoy their millionaire lifestyles rather than do the work.

 

[KI4MVP]

Tim Conway was the funniest person alive and his old man routine still busts me up..

I remember when he got his own show, started out as an hour, didn't take long for the network to cut it to a half an hour. He said by the end of the year we'll be 15 minutes and next year we'll be a station break.

 

[KI4MVP]

I watched Saturday night fever recently, nad while the dancing is pretty amazing, it is a bonkers movie with no real plot, it is really more a bunch of what is going on culturally in Brooklyn at the time. Lots of the neighborhood ethnic gangs beating the shit out of each other. The one guys kills himself over getting his gf pregnant. Oh man it is a mess.

Best part about the movie is the Bee Gees soundtrack

 

[Cavatt]

Best part about the movie is the Bee Gees soundtrack

Jon Travolta as much as he isn't my favorite is an excellent dancer too. Yeah the music is very good. There is plenty to like about the movie, but like a lot of 70's movies, you can tell they were totally coked up when they wrote it.

 

[2 For The Brew]

THE THREE STOOGES !!!!!!!

 

[The Oi]

Best part about the movie is the Bee Gees soundtrack

Here you go again.

 

[The Oi]

Just want to comment that the Kellys remain in my fantasies. It’s not just the nostalgia. They were both smoking fucking hot.

Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead is still mildly entertaining just because Christina Applegate was at her peak in it. But it was also pretty funny.

Has anyone watched Beavis and Butthead recently? Does it hold up? I havent watched it since I was a kid. What made it good was the music and the edginess. It wouldnt be edgy now and music on tv isn't a thing anymore.

 

[TyGuy]

Has anyone watched Beavis and Butthead recently? Does it hold up? I havent watched it since I was a kid. What made it good was the music and the edginess. It wouldnt be edgy now and music on tv isn't a thing anymore.

The episode where they see how the Beverly hill billies got rich off of oil so they go digging for oil in their front yard but strike a sewer line instead, and then fill a garbage can with shit water and bring it door to door trying to sell it absolutely holds up.

 

[Sebastian]

Also played smear the queer with some buddies and a foam football we found down at the park. Holds up!

All that rough housing. You need a

 

[Sebastian]

I loved Taxi as a Kid. Christopher Lloyd was my favorite. Watching now, it is pretty obvious he was stoned teh whole time lol. I just thought he was a weirdo. The time he invites everyone to his apartment and he has like 5 tv's in a row is really weird for TV.

Mash was always on when I was kid. It looked yellow or something and i had a hard time watching it. Somehow it looked older than shows that were the same age. I also hated war military stuff, and it was hard to understand as a kid that MASH did too. Alda is a great actor.

I was a Nick at Night head as a young kid and I loved Donna Reed and My three sons. I have never seen those shows since. I can't imagine they are very good, but Bwitched was better than I dream of Jeanie. I know that.

I remember being terribly confused when Christopher Lloyd played the raging Klingon bastard in Star Trek III who killed Kirk's son. Good acting range.

 

[inliner311]

I feel like tv shows would hold up better if they went back and remastered them so they look better in HD. The wire was remastered and I think it help it get a second run with people who never watched it before.

Getting these subchannels from antenna stations to go to HD once ATSC 3.0 comes to the masses will hopefully push the studios to go back and remastered everything in their library.

 

[Sebastian]

I feel like tv shows would hold up better if they went back and remastered them so they look better in HD. The wire was remastered and I think it help it get a second run with people who never watched it before.

Getting these subchannels from antenna stations to go to HD once ATSC 3.0 comes to the masses will hopefully push the studios to go back and remastered everything in their library.

The remastered Star Trek does look much better.

They were clever in making the new FX in the same design of the time to not be intrusive.

 

[BigErieCavsFan]

Anybody watch one flew over the cuckoos nest lately? Me neither. I wonder how it holds up. From what I remember, I would think pretty well.

 

[Sebastian]

So as a kid i lived on Star Trek, and later Kung fu, the Carol Burnet Show, Mash, and the original SNL..

I will never tire of Star Trek original series.

McCoy was the best.

 

[The Oi]

All that rough housing. You need a

1) what the hell context could he possibly have said this in?

2) how did you recall this line being said?