What pop culture moment shines out most brightly from Gen-X’s childhood?

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Silver-Bobcat672@reddit

Is that ALIEN NATION or MAX the talking head? Both were iconic back then!

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lawtechie@reddit

Is that for Max Headroom the TV show or the signal hijack on 11/22/87?

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CodeNameFrumious@reddit

I think the biggest event for me in my childhood was the fall of televangelists like Jim Bakker. I was pretty young at the time, but that led me to think about religion in a whole new way.

Culturally, this came when I was 17, but the ending of Cheers was significant to me. I watched ther show with my parents as far back as I remember. Sam sayin "We're closed" at the end still gets to me sometimes.

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Imadethis23@reddit

Thank you for this. It was a wonderful walk down memory lane.

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FantasticStooge@reddit (OP)

Thank you for that!

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RoninRobot@reddit

Eddie Murphy Raw released on HBO. Every kid on the playground at recess was singing the ice cream song. Except that weird kid.

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Imadethis23@reddit

Can confirm. I was the weird kid.

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jumpinoutofmyflesh@reddit

“What the fuck is ‘goonie-goo-goo,’ Gus?!”

Or every time dad fired up the grill my I would say “Now that’s a fire!”

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RoninRobot@reddit

The whole thing is infinitely quotable.

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CanCanColleen@reddit

My husband and I saw that on our very first date 1/16/88 in the movies. We’d gone out to supper before and I had already had a big Sunday dinner at my parents so all I got was a salad. And that was how I became one of those salad eating bitches. We have the dvd and would rewatch it every 1/16. And here’s where I’ll break your heart, my husband passed away last year at 53 from colon cancer. He was simply the absolute best person ever….. we were married for 32 happy years. fuck cancer 💙💙

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Substantial_Layer_79@reddit

There are hundreds.
Standing in line for Star Wars with my brother and our friends, with our own money, we earned on our paper route, at age 9 is a good memory.

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Status_Iron_3706@reddit

Reagan shooting.

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Substantial_Layer_79@reddit

Three months after John Lennon. I was in 8th grade.

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qriousqestioner@reddit

Good one.

I was in elementary school and had no political mind. I didn't like him because he was old and so popular because he had been in movies and I couldn't connect with the enthusiasm.

I remember thinking I was glad he got shot. I was disappointed that he survived. My mind didn't catch up for a few years, but my gut has been fairly consistent.

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Comfortable_Club9051@reddit

I was home sick that day. Watched it over and over- just appalled.

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Gai_Daigoji@reddit

My first childhood TV memory was the Nixon Resignation. I couldn't understand why everyone was upset.

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FantasticStooge@reddit (OP)

I watched it live

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Substantial_Layer_79@reddit

And Watergate every afternoon

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speedincuzihave2poop@reddit

I think it depends on when you were born in our gen really. Some people were old enough to remember The moon landing, others wouldn't be born for more than another decade after. Those born at the very end were still around 10 when Desert Storm happened.

I would say these are probably the most common across our gen though besides what's mentioned above:

Fall of the Berlin Wall Challenger disaster Jonestown Personal computers Gaming consoles Cellular phones Blockbuster movies Watergate Lockerbie flight bombing Three Mile Island meltdown Rodney King beating Iranian hostage situation Exxon Valdez oil tanker spill Terrorism at Munich Olympics

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cardinalforce@reddit

Space shuttle disaster. It’s seared into our soul.

First day of MTV.

Star Wars.

Later: the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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NaturalForty@reddit

When my brother's best friend brought over "Floodland" by Sisters of Mercy and said, "it's not punk, it's...goth!"

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Creative_Class_1441@reddit

The episode of Family Ties where Alex grieves is best friend and he acts out scenes from his past and sings Come On Baby Light My Fire with the memory of his dead friend.

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Competitive-Isopod74@reddit

I learned about breast feeding from that show.

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Dull_Sense7928@reddit

I learned that you can get drunk off vanilla extract

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NaturalForty@reddit

The same episode where I learned that Tom Hanks could do drama.

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xefned@reddit

When Michael Jackson’s hair caught on fire.

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MrPrimalNumber@reddit

Battle of the Network Stars.

Don’t judge me.

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Gai_Daigoji@reddit

Surprisingly... when Joyce DeWitt was competing? I was immediately appreciative.

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FantasticStooge@reddit (OP)

Everybody loved the Battle of the Network Ts and As. And why not? The biggest Ts. The nicest As!

https://youtu.be/y0f1Ywnjq0A?si=u9kXX3x2WeFYfg5l

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deliaplum@reddit

Omg

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Fancy-Breadfruit-776@reddit

Michael Jackson performance on Motown 25

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rammer-jammer71@reddit

Pac-Man fever, Thriller, and Daniel Larusso gaslighting Johnny for an hour and a half.

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spsled@reddit

America’s Bicentennial. Urban Cowboy. MTV.

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badhoopty@reddit

when that woman ate the guinea pig in V.

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Limp_Ice_3248@reddit

Diana!!

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badhoopty@reddit

it freaked me the hell out!

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Limp_Ice_3248@reddit

Yes - and my sister and I both had Guinea pigs at the time. Father laughed but we were not amused. Her jaw sliding forward... 🤢

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stuck_behind_a_truck@reddit

Seeing a Star Trek movie, and as soon as it ended, getting back in line and getting tickets to see an Indiana Jones movie. Binge watching GenX style. The lines were long, the theaters were packed, and it was amazing.

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Organic_Tradition_94@reddit

You got back in line? We just snuck from theatre to theatre.

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stuck_behind_a_truck@reddit

I was with my mom

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Organic_Tradition_94@reddit

I too was with your mom. (Sorry, couldn’t resist the bait)

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stuck_behind_a_truck@reddit

Wouldn’t surprise me. I am the product of a one-night stand she had while married. I was told “you’re a mistake and only exist because the birth control failed”. But she and I had fun on that movie day.

I did find my dad and I probably have one of the most ideal outcomes in be could have from that.

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Organic_Tradition_94@reddit

Well that backfired for me. Haha.

I’m glad you had a happy ending.

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stuck_behind_a_truck@reddit

No worries! ;)

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jRok57@reddit

For me, it's the commercials. I still say, or sing them to this day.

Calgon, take me away

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speed_of_chill@reddit

Where’s the beef?

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badhoopty@reddit

thank you easter bunny!

BWAAK BWAAK!!

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Le_Mew_Le_Purr@reddit

I can bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan

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LaceyBloomers@reddit

‘And never ever forget you’re a man

Cause I’m a woman.

Enjoli.’

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Plenty_Cress_1359@reddit

Please don’t squeeze the Charmin!

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LaceyBloomers@reddit

‘Oh Mr. Whipple!’

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Plenty_Cress_1359@reddit

You’re soaking in it!

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LaceyBloomers@reddit

Palmolive!

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Plenty_Cress_1359@reddit

And I helped!!

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OliverClothesOff70@reddit

He likes it! Hey Mikey!

Honeycomb Hideout!

Time to make the donuts.

When E.F. Hutton talks, everyone listens.

Pardon me. Would you have any Grey Poupon?

I'd like to teach the world to sing...in perfect harmony.

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DisappointedDragon@reddit

Don’t forget Morris the cat!

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rpbm@reddit

My husband. Some hotshot.

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Great_Office_9553@reddit

We wear short shorts!

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cap_time_wear_it@reddit

Danger Will Robinson! At first that show was in black and white. That’s the first thing I remember on television.

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Upper_Economist7611@reddit

The debut of MTV. I was 11.

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time2sow@reddit

Omg yes

It would be a decade before my own family got cable but going into my friends parents bedroom to watch mtv for the first time changed. everything

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qriousqestioner@reddit

We never had MTV because it was premium channel and we were a "good Christian home." They had an hour of videos on network TV called "Friday Night Videos" and VHS tapes of that were really the only music videos we ever got.

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Pretty_Burd@reddit

First video. Video Killed the Radio Star.

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Weilerbach@reddit

I think the most accurate answer, but also most unfortunate, was the Challenger disaster. The other I’d pick is MJ’s moonwalk

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qriousqestioner@reddit

These were my first two.

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Electronic-Jury8825@reddit

The release of the Thriller video.

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qriousqestioner@reddit

The first thing I thought of was the live TV debut of the moonwalk!

here

I watch it occasionally and get a little thrill every time. The performance of "Billie Jean" is solid gold from the first minute. His dancing was so uncommon, in white society especially, and every time you saw him move it really felt like magic.

What I love about it most is that all his dancing is already unbelievable for the first three-plus minutes and then, when he does the walk, you can hear the crowd lose it! You can feel the energy in the audience, already enthralled, jump up a level in that instant.

It reminds me of a moment in time when millions of us saw that wonder for the first time and you know everyone EVERYONE who was watching (you saw it live and there was no way to see it again until someone broadcast a clip--if you missed it, you missed it for an indefinite period of time, then if someone had a video recording on tape, that part of the tape had less and less fidelity over time bc tape) was feeling the same thing!

It's like later when the Challenger exploded--my competing memory of seeing something that's instantly a moment that has landed as iconic, has changed or at least moved everyone in a similar way. There is now a significant development that has a before time. The great thing about this one is that it was a moment when watching another person do something felt like being on a thrill ride even though you were just sitting in front of a screen. And in that moment when the moonwalk happens, you know that the entire audience had that experience with you.

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NoeTellusom@reddit

For me, it was the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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Kind_Worry_9836@reddit

Totally. Those images from the news are burned into my brain. I understood what that meant back then. Truly a great period in the history of society with the fall of communism and the reunification of Germany.

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NoeTellusom@reddit

I was fortunate to visit Berlin the summer after the wall fell. Such an amazing energy.

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Johnny_Radar@reddit

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Witty-Atmosphere-211@reddit

I just found my VHS tapes of this show. They were sold individually back then.

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Johnny_Radar@reddit

Back in the day I worked night shift and couldn’t watch it on airing didn’t have a vcr but knew it would get a release one day and I could watch the whole thing. I finally got to watch the original show about four or five years ago.

After having spent DECADES of avoiding spoilers, especially “who killed Laura Palmer”.

Was surprised 😱

Need to watch the follow up show before I’m 90 😂

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Witty-Atmosphere-211@reddit

I have it on DVD as well. It was quite the thing when it aired on tv. I have two of the Funko pops.

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Fartina69@reddit

I feel like I know her, but sometimes my arms bend back.

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I_Died_Once@reddit

Watching the Challenger blow up, people getting killed... and being sent back to class where everything we just witnessed was outright ignored

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AlienRosie3667@reddit

I was just thinking about the Challenger last night. We watched it in school and went back to our lessons like it was nothing.

I don't even think many of us understood what had happened right away.

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Apart-Cream-4940@reddit

My teacher got so mad because kids were making really tasteless jokes about it

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Weary_Language_2825@reddit

“Did you know the teacher on the Challenger had blue eyes?”

“No”

“Yeah one blue this way and one blue that way”

Don’t hate me, I’m just the messenger.

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Apart-Cream-4940@reddit

That's the one I remember. Horrible

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VacationBackground43@reddit

Girl on the school bus home told me the one, "what does NASA stand for?" Like the fourth grade dork I was, I replied "National Aeronautics and Space Administration." She scowled and said, "no, it's Need Another Seven Astronauts."

I told my mother the joke ten minutes later and she sent me to my room.

For the record, I never found it funny, just thought "oh okay I guess we're joking about this." My mom had kept me home (the day before I heard the joke) to watch it. It was horrible and I was looking at the smoke formation wondering why the newscasters seemed hesitant to say what was obvious, that it blew up. They were saying stuff like "this appears to be abnormal but we are, uh, waiting to hear if the launch is continuing as planned."the

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Clear-Calligrapher69@reddit

My uncle told us one.
Why does NASA drink Pepsi?
They couldn’t get 7-UP.

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dustin91@reddit

I swear I heard a joke before I’d even heard what happened. I had no frame of reference, had no clue what my friend was talking about.

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Apart-Cream-4940@reddit

I don't know how they got around so fast

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AnyAtmosphere7149@reddit

Same. we watched it on a TV they rolled into the classroom on a cart. It exploded, and 30 seconds later they were unplugging it and wheeling it back out.

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badhoopty@reddit

did you know big bird was in consideration for the challenger flight? (it was the actor who plays big bird but im sure they woulda made it a big bird goin to space thing put of it)

can you imagine being a kid and havin your favorite sesame street character die like that?

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schmearcampain@reddit

That’s a national tragedy, not a pop culture event.

But if you wanna talk tragedies that affected us, even though none of us were born at the time, the Kennedy assassination was the moment that birthed our generation. The end of innocence for the Baby Boomers and the beginning of the cynicism that we were raised in. Vietnam, Watergate, pardoning Nixon… that’s the climate we stewed in. Gen X really ought to span the Kennedy assassination to the election of Ronald Reagan.

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Moist_Session@reddit

Good points. I believe that if JFK doesn't get assinated, gets re-elected, there would be no President Reagan in 1980.

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Pinkbeans1@reddit

Our teachers were so excited about the Challenger mission, one of them going to space, the selection process, all of it. It infected us too.

Now? I am so pumped about Artemis II. I am so terrified about Artemis II.

I think that sums up my feelings and memories of Challenger.

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regdunlop08@reddit

They just landed safely! But yeah, the anxiety at liftoff was very real. No one our age was watching that and not holding their breath at booster separation. Impossible not to think about Challenger in that moment.

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rpbm@reddit

Very true.

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Pinkbeans1@reddit

Fantastic!!

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Mammoth_Ad_483@reddit

It's funny because no one ever seemed to really talked about it in my 20s and 30s, but once it became a thing/meme, I found it amazing that so many people seemed to have the exact same experience as I did. Wheeling the TV in, watching it explode, then the teacher just turning it off and not saying another word.

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staplesgowhere@reddit

I am pretty sure we collectively blocked the traumatic memory, only to have it resurface with full intensity when reminded of it years later.

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Stiffwrists@reddit

Came to say this. We all gathered in the library, sat cross-legged on the floor, watched the explosion and just shrugged our shoulders and went back to multiplication.

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thusnewmexico@reddit

Brady Bunch episodes watched over and over after school. The 2 and 3 partners were the best: Hawaiian vacation with the tiki that cast evil spells; Travel to the Grand Canyon, etc. Also playing outside all day, often times going barefoot, in the summer into the night when the lightning bugs started to appear. Did anyone else's mom besides ours have to remind us to wash our grass-stained feet before going to bed?

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mslass@reddit

I recently learned that the Hawaii episodes were sponsored by the Hawaii tourism board to encourage middle class families to splurge on a Hawaii vacation. The entrance of the Boeing 747 into service, beginning flights to Hawaii in 1970, made the flight from the mainland affordable for those outside the “Jet Set,” and permanently altered the Hawaiian tourism industry.

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CobaltJade@reddit

It must have worked, because me and mom went to Hawaii mid-70s in a 747. They gave us the full tourist special! But not a lei when we came off the plane, our relatives gave us one. BTW Hawaii was a LOT more colorful, strange and exotic than what was shown on the show!

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Careless_Ocelot_4485@reddit

The “Greg smokes” episode was a favorite for us.

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deliaplum@reddit

Fonzi, jumping the shark

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Puzzleheaded_Bad6461@reddit

the soulful virtuosity of Milli Vanilli

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mslass@reddit

Daniel-san’s unstoppable stork kick to Johnny’s face at the All Valley Karate Tournament.

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No_Height_8075@reddit

Wizard of Oz airing every year, usually on a Sunday night.

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FantasticStooge@reddit (OP)

I have a story about that. My mother bought a color TV in 1968 so that her kids could watch WIZARD OF OZ in color, and before the broadcast, the TV got burglarized. And as a result, my mother took that as an omen would never buy another color TV in her life

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No_Height_8075@reddit

Wow, that's wild! What a bummer that must have been for you all. We looked forward to watching it every year.

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CountHonorius@reddit

Depends on where you were living, I guess. The fall of Chile's Allende government in 1973 was a shocker throughout Latin America, since Chile had never had a coup d'etat before. It received as much coverage as 9/11 in the century that followed.

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D00bage@reddit

It’s dangerous to go alone! Take This.

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rpbm@reddit

Link!!

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Cold_in_Lifes_Throes@reddit

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EnjoyingTheRide-0606@reddit

Camping out overnight for concert tickets!

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Build68@reddit

Watching concerts instead of holding your phone up in the air.

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Cold_in_Lifes_Throes@reddit

People held up lighters in the way back times. 🤣

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Woodythdog@reddit

I saw Tool last year, Cell Phones were banned. It was great not having everyone phone in the air.

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NetLumpy1818@reddit

Live Aid or the Royal Wedding

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UrsaMajor7th@reddit

Elvis dying, or the birth of the 'blockbusters' with Jaws and Star Wars.

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auntiecrow@reddit

Final episode of MASH.

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VegetableSquirrel@reddit

That and the episode when Henry went home. Then, while everyone was in surgery, Radar announcing that he was shot down while en route home. That episode had me in shock.

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auntiecrow@reddit

I didn't see that one, I don't think. I watched a lot with my grandfather growing up.

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VegetableSquirrel@reddit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwieiakHiaM

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auntiecrow@reddit

Oh wow thank you! Yeah that hits hard especially because they don't have time to mourn and process, they have to go right back to trying to save lives.

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VegetableSquirrel@reddit

I remember when Fred Morgan joined the cast. At the time, I knew him as the other cop in "Dragnet".

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auntiecrow@reddit

I didn't know him from anything. It took me a while to warm up to him, but I eventually learned to love him.

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VegetableSquirrel@reddit

Same.

His character in "Dragnet" was pretty flat and boring.

Colonel Potter was more lively and interesting. Less of a pushover for Hawkeye and the others.

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auntiecrow@reddit

He felt like a stern but fair father figure, once I got used to him.

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Soundtracklover72@reddit

For me it was saving my money to a buy a Colecovision so I could get the Cabbage Patch doll that came with it as a bundle. I was so damn excited.

Still have the Colecovision and still works.

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aethelberga@reddit

How could it be anything but Star Wars?

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bodhi471@reddit

Yes this. More influential than my, then 6 year old brain, could conceive of. ( I saw it in the theatre the year it was released) Star wars was used at church to illustrate good vs evil.

Star wars was my introduction to Joseph Campbell and archetypal psychology. Etc.

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Garguyal@reddit

This is the way.

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Average_Random_Bitch@reddit

Well, Jaws. In 3rd grade. It was a lot

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soonersaz@reddit

Saturday morning cartoons. Sunday afternoon/evening Cartoon Express on USA Network.

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Competitive-Isopod74@reddit

MeToons channel my friend.

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Fluffy_Journalist761@reddit

Terry Fox running across Canada.

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Zelig30@reddit

To play off the Happy Days theme: When Mork from Ork freezes the Fonz. But Fonzies thumb breaks the freeze and goes into a thumbs up!!

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thagor5@reddit

MTV launch. Or when we got an Atari

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analogpursuits@reddit

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who watched Mister Rogers, and those who didn't. Mister Rogers was an entire moment for all of us who watched. He made all of us just a little bit better, some of us a lot.

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Such-Huckleberry-107@reddit

No there was those who watched him and those who pretended they didn’t at school for fear of not appearing cool (but totally watched him)

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PeanutTimely6846@reddit

As a tween, my family lived in the woods of central Louisiana. Summer days were the best, running through the woods and fields, trying hard not to upset the cows too much.

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ericbrow@reddit

I broke my arm, and had to stay overnight in the hospital, missing the Dukes of Hazzard Demolition Derby special. Im still bitter about that.

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dysteach-MT@reddit

SNL’s Dana Carvey sketches.

Bush: Not Gonna Do it

Church Lady: Isn’t that special?

Garth: Party on Wayne

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obligatory-purgatory@reddit

When Michael caught fire.

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UncleMadness@reddit

Challenger

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AccurateCarry7954@reddit

Hard to upvote that, although it really was a moment I’ll never forget.

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ptindaho@reddit

Yeah

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nothingman38@reddit

Ferris Bueller, at the end of the movie playing/caterwauling the clarinet, "Not one lesson." I still say this alot, it fits more circumstances than you'd think. 🤔

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Away-Specific5361@reddit

Murder of John Lennon.

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Strong_Medium_6646@reddit

Yes, that was a big one!

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zuuzuu@reddit

A classmate of my 12 year old brother's heard it on the radio at like one in the morning and called our house, telling my mom "You have to wake him up. John Lennon's been murdered." Us kids were obsessed with the Beatles, and everyone knew it. We got the day off school and when mom called to tell them we wouldn't be in they were like "Oh, we weren't expecting them. Not today." She took us Christmas shopping all day as a distraction, but everywhere we went his music was playing, and people were talking about it. I've always associated his music with snow and Christmas ever since.

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1Fully1@reddit

Grease, The Watergate Hearings, Jaws, Getting HBO.

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syman67@reddit

Star Wars released in 77, I was 10 it changed my life in a good way

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cowmix@reddit

This

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rypien2clark@reddit

When ET came out, lines around the block!

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Celebration_This@reddit

I always wanted a “GO GO” shirt like in Wham’s video.

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ElsieDCow@reddit

You can buy yourself on now!

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CanCanColleen@reddit

Elvis and John Lennon dying, Reagan and Pope John Paul II getting shot Also the Pope’s visit to Boston, I was a 5th grader in Catholic school in a suburb just outside of Boston and I still have the scrapbook we all had to make in school. The level of coverage and the crowds lining the streets would put any current Boston sports parade to shame.

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VegetableSquirrel@reddit

A side reference on Elvis dying. There's a fun movie , fictional , about Elvis. 'Bubba Hotep', starring Bruce Campbell. See it.

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Moist_Session@reddit

The Iran hostage saga. Day after day.

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octoberhaiku@reddit

My pop culture moment for that victory was in May of the following year.

The day after the Mets won my jr. high made an announcement everyone wearing Mets gear come to the principal’s office. We lived in the Hudson Valley, so lots of kids.

They got everyone together for a few photos. They went in the yearbook with a little write up about the significance to our town and generation.

One kid in the pictures was a rabid Yankees fan, but wore a Mets T shirt the day after they won.

The next 6 weeks he got razzed so hard by everyone for being a Bandwagon guy. Mets fans, teachers, students, hall monitors, lunch ladies. Yankees fans disowned him - told him to take off his pinstripes.

He protested the whole time: “I wore it because they beat the Red Sox.”

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human8060@reddit

Same game, but different reason. I was a die hard, 10 year old Sox fan, whose dad had to pick her up off the floor, while I laid there sobbing. Nearly 20 years later and I was on the floor sobbing again because they finally won. 😂😂

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PurplePenguinCat@reddit

I was a huge Mets fan as a kid and watched every game of that series except, of course, the winner. I can't remember why we were out, but I heard it on the radio in the car and was so mad I didn't get to watch it!

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Think_Selection9571@reddit

Frankie says relax

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MaxDoor@reddit

*say

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Pretty_Burd@reddit

Don't do it

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Few-Might2630@reddit

Little Jessica fell down a well

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Genuine907@reddit

Trivial Pursuit.

That was my definition of being grown up: I’d get to sit with the adults and answer the questions in Trivial Pursuit. It was serious business in our circle of friends.

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2outhits@reddit

Moops!

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MaxDoor@reddit

It's Moors, you idiot!

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heyyabesties@reddit

The card says Moops!

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rangeo@reddit

Release of "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture" by Douglas Coupland '91.

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Pristine_Main_1224@reddit

Michael Jackson moonwalking at the Motown 25th.

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Figmetal@reddit

That was a huge moment. My friends and I had a watch party with pizza. It was an event and all that anyone talked about the next day.

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MaenHoffiCoffi@reddit

The Bill Grundy interview.

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Elliebell1024@reddit

End of The Breakfast Club, with "Don't you forget about me" playing off.

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EX1500@reddit

“Where’s the beef?”

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PurplePenguinCat@reddit

Living in New Jersey, the Baby M case was all over the news. Also, Lorena Bobbit castrating her cheating husband!

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Winter_Ratio_4831@reddit

Thriller

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crankgirl@reddit

Bobby getting out of the shower after being dead for a year.

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PurplePenguinCat@reddit

It was just a bad dream. 🤪

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lovelyb1ch66@reddit

The MAS*H finale. The whole family cried.

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saposguy@reddit

When that was set to air my whole town lost power. No one got to see it. Everyone was so disappointed. It was years before I saw it finally, worth the wait, but I had grown up with those characters, to see them all leaving was heartbreaking.

On top of that the spin offs weren't very good.

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PurplePenguinCat@reddit

Every few years, my husband and I watch MASH beginning to end, and I still get a little teary at the last episode. Well, that and when Henry Blake dies.

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Intrepid_Practice956@reddit

W#A#L#T#E#R

AfterMash

The only good spinoff was Trapper John MD.

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Secret-Function-2972@reddit

First thing that came to mind.

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DreamerofDreams67@reddit

Marsha Marsha Marsha

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LomentMomentum@reddit

We Are The World, 1985.

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idrathern0tsay@reddit

"You made a Time Machine, out of a Delorean?" - Marty McFly

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quantumsparq@reddit

I think one of the moments, like bigwomby, was the 84 Olympics. The torch came right down Woodman avenue in the San Fernando Valley. Right past our apartment. My dad parked our car right out front, and me and my friends just climbed on it and sat and watched the torch pass about 4 feet in front of us.

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PurplePenguinCat@reddit

That's a super cool memory!

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scaryassdad@reddit

Six Million Man vs Sasquatch.

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CanCanColleen@reddit

Or that Russian alien probe thing. That scared the crap out of me.

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Common_Scale5448@reddit

It was one of the original terminator, also Yul Brenner in Westworld.

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Great_Office_9553@reddit

Do you know what crept into my feed this morning? A Six Million Dollar Man/Bionic Woman movie, with Sandra Bullock! Do you know what I’m popping popcorn for tomorrow night?

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Build68@reddit

Damn, posted on this one a while back. I missed the second episode but tried to play it off like I saw it. Rough day on the playground.

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scaryassdad@reddit

Plot twist: Sasquatch was from Space!

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Build68@reddit

God dammit! A plot spoiler from a fifty-year-old show I still haven’t seen.

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MhojoRisin@reddit

The Venture Bros have a running storyline where the two of them are romantically involved.

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jakexcited45@reddit

Michael Jackson's hair catching on fire

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Stillmaineiac88@reddit

The miracle on ice

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DainasaurusRex@reddit

Yes!!

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cookiesandpunch@reddit

Late Night with David Letterman, the entire run

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WarPotential7349@reddit

Tonight's Top 10 list, fresh from Altoona PA.

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cookiesandpunch@reddit

Aaaaaaaaaayyyyeeeee, Hurricane Bob!

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allidyaj@reddit

Live Aid

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LizTruth@reddit

The Bicentennial for me.

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Redkris73@reddit

Live Aid. I remember watching the start of it live on TV with my family at the age of 11. Opening act was Status Quo playing Rockin All Over The World.

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Moist_Session@reddit

And Phil Collins playing in London and Philadelphia.

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CanCanColleen@reddit

The Day After

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Moist_Session@reddit

I had been the USAF for just over a year when this aired. Was watching at my gf house. After it was over I remember thinking "what have I gotten myself into?"

I was kinda shook for a few days.

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auntiecoagulent@reddit

I remember this and all the lead up and warnings about it. All the media and discussions. Who was going to be allowed to watch it. Who wasn't.

Then it was boring as hell.

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bendingoutward@reddit

And literally none of those warnings made it to our house.

Not that it would have mattered. The only media we weren't allowed to put on in the house was the evangelical sort.

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Fishfry12@reddit

+1 for The Day After…. Was terrifying

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Great_Office_9553@reddit

Oh. Oh, God.

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HollowpointNinja@reddit

Shared trauma. This and the shuttle shaped a lot of us

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luluislulu2520@reddit

One that comes to mind is the We Are The World performance. Also, Mary Lou Retton winning the Olympics

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rpbm@reddit

MLR was extra special to me, she’s from WV, as am I. We rarely get national attention for something positive.

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NotWorriedABunch@reddit

Seeing Star Wars in the theater!

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IronBallsMcChing@reddit

Some movie theaters played the original for over a year!

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paymerich@reddit

I easily saw the original movie about 25-30 times over the course of a year. Mom would drop me off at cinema and I would sit thru 2 shows.

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anotherspaceguy100@reddit

Not pop culture as such, but the fall of the Soviet Union. I remember one country after another being reported on TV over a matter of months, it was a really drawn out and dramatic affair.

As for pop culture, the moment with Theo and the monopoly money in The Cosby Show sticks in my head as it does with many, I'd think.

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BooRadley_Esq@reddit

Theo saying “Jammin on the one” to Stevie Wonder. I still have no idea what it means.

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DrKlahnsRightHandMan@reddit

Mt. Saint Helens erupting

Dudley getting molested by the bicycle guy

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Genuine907@reddit

Scholastic Book Fairs.

/wasn’t much for pop culture, I guess.

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jawshoeaw@reddit

I’m happy to report that I had little to no exposure to pop culture back in the 70s. that’s my fondest memory. no TV, no internet, almost no print media. plenty of crawdads though

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bendingoutward@reddit

Did you bring the line or the pole?

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Genuine907@reddit

I understood that reference. Thanks for the earworm!

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FantasticStooge@reddit (OP)

I hope those crawdads were some entertaining mofos! 😉

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NYCphilliesBlunt@reddit

How about seeing “Tommy” WAAAY too young 👀 And the relief, years later, at finding out acid doesn’t involve needles at all!

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goldenhourcocktails@reddit

Oh my God I had no idea that was a shared generational trauma!

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Jenniflower17@reddit

The Hoff singing at the fall of the Berlin Wall

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HenriettaCrump@reddit

Skylab. I remember worrying it was going to land on my home andkill my family. The world is still small to an eight-year-old's brain.

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Organic_Tradition_94@reddit

NASA still hasn’t paid their littering fine for when parts of Skylab fell on Western Australia.

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FantasticStooge@reddit (OP)

That’s a good one and reminds me of the Comet Kohoutek craze in late 1973/early 1974

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Intrepid_Practice956@reddit

The little brother of a friend made a t-shirt with a skylab target. We weren't really in the path...it wasn't IMPOSSIBLE but unlikely.

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RetroBerner@reddit

Maybe the Heal The World concert, it was huge in Europe anyways

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NewDayNewBurner@reddit

Madonna coming out of the cake at the MTV Music Video Awards.

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rinkidinkidoo@reddit

Came here to say this!

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S1nnah2@reddit

Live aid, surely?

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gypsysniper9@reddit

Michael Jackson on fire

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IamACautionaryTale@reddit

Thriller video on MTV

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cookiesandpunch@reddit

On Friday Night Videos on NBC

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Techelife@reddit

The Bicentennial was pretty huge in the years leading up to 1976.

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AvailableAd6071@reddit

Yes, it was huge. Parades and flags everywhere. It was a time that people could agree on one thing at least, we were proud of being an American. Whatever is happening today, whichever side you agree with, it's a shame that we can't all at least agree that shit could be a whole lot worse.

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AvailableAd6071@reddit

Reagan getting shot. It was like the innocence was gone. Or maybe just mine, but all of a sudden, the real world came in to my world.

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wkk3211@reddit

Tommy Lee's spinning drum set.

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Fit-Distribution2303@reddit

We Are the World and Live Aid. Also, the day MTV started. (📺🔪📻⭐️)

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SkweegeeS@reddit

We took our whole family to see Bohemian Rhapsody and I embarrassed the kids by weeping thru the whole film, especially the Live Aid scenes!

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Callahan333@reddit

This is the answer

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HenriettaCrump@reddit

I knew EXACTLY what those four icons were as I sang them in my head just now.

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sebastianrileyt2@reddit

It is so odd to think back that there was a time that if a certain event was televised - we all would be in our homes watching at the same time.

No phones would ring, no kids playing outside.... then the program ended and phones started ringing everywhere to talk to friends and family about what we just watched.

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Maleficent-Neat2964@reddit

John Travolta - Saturday Night Fever

Freddy Krueger - Nightmare on Elm Street

Nancy Kerrigan & Tonya Harding - 1994 Olympics

Rick Springfield - Jessies's Girl

He Likes it! Hey Mikie! - Life Cereal

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S-Hammond@reddit

Mt St Helens erupting

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Intrepid_Practice956@reddit

One of the preliminary explosions happened on a Saturday night. We were living on the east coast, so the announcement came during Saturday Night Live. The announcement said that a mushroom-cloud was rising over Washington State. My brother and I were convinced we weren't going to make it to Monday.

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face-mcsh00ty@reddit

Hands across America

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Intrepid_Practice956@reddit

Oh I wanted to be part of that so much! I dont think it came through our town.

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umeboshiplumpaste@reddit

"Whaaaat doessssss a yellllowwwww liiiiiiight meeeeeean?"

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the-largest-marge@reddit

Slow down?

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Great_Office_9553@reddit

Whhhhaaaat dooooooeeeesss aaaaa yyeeelllllow llllliiiiight mmmmmeeeeaaaanNnn?

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FantasticStooge@reddit (OP)

Comet Kohoutek

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Ill_Plankton_4225@reddit

The Chicago Bears music video

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labmanagerbill@reddit

The Super Bowl Shuffle!

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regdunlop08@reddit

Final episode of MAS*H was a really big deal. Even though I was too young to fully appreciate that show at the time, it was watched by more people than any sitcom ever and discussed ad nauseum.

Who Shot JR was similar, too young to appreciate the show but the discussion of it was EVERYWHERE.

More in my teens, definitely Live Aid. Also Madonna writhing on the stage in a wedding dress singing "Like a Virgin" was somehow scandalous. Michael Jackson's hair catching fire while filming a commercial (IIRC) was another thing we all talked about for weeks (I recall some tasteless jokes of course, but that's just how we rolled in junior high).

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belowaverageforprez@reddit

I remember crying my eyes out watching that episode as a young child, but I didn’t know it was the final episode till last year.

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schmearcampain@reddit

Michael Jackson’s moonwalk for Billie Jean at the Motown 25th show is probably it. Even people who didn’t like MJ were talking about it.

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regdunlop08@reddit

And the next day we all were trying to do it (took me a while but I figured it out).

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Casmicud@reddit

Metallica playing Moscow

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dustin91@reddit

It’s not a moment, but I think AIDS tainted our whole early-ish existence (jr and sr high for me). Ryan White in particular was such a poignant moment.

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in-a-microbus@reddit

The TV show "American Horror Story" called millennials people born between the birth of AIDS and 9/11.

I particularly like this definition because, although the AIDS pandemic did not impact the number of births I think it dramatically impacted the number of unprotected ONS that resulted in pregnancy

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Heretogetthingsdone@reddit

It was a moment. Too long of one.
I remember how the Reagan Administration down played it and how it fractured the nation. RENT was an amazing insight tying the times to history (la boheme).

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dustin91@reddit

One of my cousins I was somewhat close to as a kid (he’s 20 years older than me) is gay, and lived in San Francisco through the worst of it all. We got very close in the early 90s when I went to visit him in my early 20s, and it really opened my eyes to what people really went through if they weren’t straight (and obviously for some, even if they were). Even though I knew, he officially came out to me on that trip, and told me that all of the photos he had on his mantle were of friends who’d passed from it.

That’s what really drove it all home for me, how serious it all was when your community was being devastated… not just by the disease, but as you said, by the people elected to protect you.

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OneWanderingFool@reddit

Evel Kneivel jumping the Snake River Canyon.

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FantasticStooge@reddit (OP)

That event loomed large in my childhood because my family made a failed attempt to relocate to Lewiston, Idaho in 1977 and it was on our minds a lot

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DroidRGH@reddit

Michael Jackson Thriller was huge. That video was just huge, and the behind-the-scenes video about it fascinated me to no end. Terrified, also.

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Tommy_Roboto@reddit

And the moonwalk at Motown 25.

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JoeSicko@reddit

We had it on VHS.

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Silly-Shoulder-6257@reddit

I heard a joke just this year- so like 40 years later. We’re tough Gen Xers so I’m just gonna throw it out there. What’s the last thing Christa McAuliffe said before the challenger blew up?

“Hey, what does this button do?”

Forgive me to those who I offended.

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AnyAtmosphere7149@reddit

What did she say to her husband before she left? "You take care of the dog, I'll feed the fish."

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Express_Towel47@reddit

We started saying that within hours of the explosion! Never too soon for fifth graders. Our version was “I wonder what this button’s for?” Horrible.

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OliverClothesOff70@reddit

The worst one I heard was from a smartass at my high school the day after Challenger exploded: "What does NASA stand for?" "Need Another Seven Astronauts."

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MarchOk5420@reddit

Or the one about the Astronauts having dandruff because they found head and shoulders in the debris?

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thegreenmonkey69@reddit

Even I can laugh at this, and I watched that live on TV. And, yes, I remember that joke too.

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Few-Leadership8233@reddit

What color were Christa McAuliffe’s eyes?

Blue. One blew that way, the other blue that way

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Silly-Shoulder-6257@reddit

This was a response to the challenger section. It doesn’t make sense hear.

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GrayBeardBoardGamer@reddit

The shooting of JR.

Or, the season of Dallas that was only a dream.

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Coldfinger42@reddit

Or what about the epic theme music? I haven't watched Dallas since I was probably 10 and the song still lives rent free in my head

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Eldritch_Dread@reddit

Star Wars Christmas special.

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LiquidFur@reddit

So grateful it's on YouTube. I talked to people about it for years, and they had no idea what I was going on about. It's the most wonderfully awful thing ever.

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thereisnospoon-1312@reddit

That scene from Fast Times at Ridgemont High. You know the one.

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skip-spacegrass@reddit

Phoebe Cates though. Brad had no chance.

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MWoolf71@reddit

Make up your mind, Dude. Is he gonna shit, or is he gonna kill us?

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Equal_Year@reddit

Don't think that's what being referred.

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Bdowns_770@reddit

The premier of Thriller was a big deal. We went to my grandparents house because they had HBO

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mookypop@reddit

I thought it was on MTV 🤔

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ChiefinLasVegas@reddit

Live Aid

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ileentotheleft@reddit

That’s not even the biggest pop culture moment from Happy Days. I’d say the shark jumping was fairly iconic, but realistically it was the Mork episode.

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FantasticStooge@reddit (OP)

Given its current cultural cache, I think you’re right about the shark jumping episode.

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thisgirlnamedbree@reddit

Pac-Man fever. I had the Atari game, wore Pac-man shirts to school, ate Pac-Man Popsicles, watched the cartoon...you couldn't escape it in the early 80s.

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MWoolf71@reddit

Pac-Man cereal was pretty good.

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THENHAUS@reddit

Steve Martin performing A Christmas Wish on SNL

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MWoolf71@reddit

And King Tut!

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N46L3@reddit

I have 2600 moments that can all be summed up in one word: Atari.

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ksgar77@reddit

The moon walk. I remember seeing it the first time.

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lovebeinganasshole@reddit

For happy days I would have said Fonzie “jumping the shark” which spawned a whole saying.

But definitely Dallas and Who Shot Jr? I remember so many people talking about it all summer long.

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Dakota5176@reddit

I was proud when my teen daughter correctly answered an extra credit question that Kristin shot JR. I taught her well

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Not_a_fan_of_me@reddit

Live Aid

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Unhappy_Permit2571@reddit

MTV debut

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Fwumpy@reddit

Cindy Lauper being involved in WrestleMania!

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luluislulu2520@reddit

Cindi Lauper fan and I don’t remember that!

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Fwumpy@reddit

Really? She was awesome! There are wrestlers in a couple of her videos.

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luluislulu2520@reddit

Ha. When WWF was on, I left the room. My brother and dad loved it but I always thought it was so lame so I guess I missed all that.

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CanCanColleen@reddit

My Dad believed wrestling was real and to this day at 91, he still believes it. I’d say to him it’s no different than watching the Fall Guy and he’d get so angry.

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OliverClothesOff70@reddit

YouTube to the rescue! https://youtu.be/aOqt9dEwHmw

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luluislulu2520@reddit

Thanks!

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THENHAUS@reddit

Bob & Doug McKenzie’s record and movie

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coolmommytm@reddit

He’s not a hitchiker, eh! He’s my brother!

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Garguyal@reddit

"I gotta take a leak so bad I can taste it!"

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Average_Random_Bitch@reddit

Pink Floyd, The Wall

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Empty_Nestor@reddit

Refrigerator Perry.

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Heyolshan@reddit

Frampton Comes Alive. For me, that and the Bicentennial are intertwined.

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Empty_Nestor@reddit

I got to see him perform Do You Feel (Like I Do) at a Steve Miller concert about 10 years ago. It was like an out-of-body experience.

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lovemesomezombie@reddit

That was the first vinyl I bought. Saved up by returning bottles for five cents at the grocery store. I was 11.

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bigwomby@reddit

1984 Summer Olympics

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jumpinoutofmyflesh@reddit

When I Elvis died. Both of my parents had all of us sit around the big ass wooden cabinet tv/record player and watch the news. It was a big deal to them.

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beantownchamps@reddit

Hulk Hogan body slamming Andre the Giant!

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actual-trevor@reddit

I feel compelled to add this.

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thegreenmonkey69@reddit

Space shuttle Challenger explosion imo. Our space race was never the same after that.

I skipped school to watch it because my school decided not to show it, and when it just disintegrated shortly after liftoff was heartbreaking.

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saltkjot@reddit

That was traumatic. I saw it at school and then over and over again on the news (once my dad got home, it was time to watch the news). Im still a space nerd

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schmearcampain@reddit

Not really pop culture. That was more like our mini 9/11.

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thegreenmonkey69@reddit

Aye, but it's a moment that stands out, and it's been enough time I believe it qualifies as popular culture. Especially since there had not been a disaster like that in quite some time.

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ayjaytay22@reddit

It was on TV and we all watched. We’ll allow it

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THENHAUS@reddit

Andy Kaufman on David Letterman

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donaldtrumpshearts@reddit

The Super Bowl Shuffle

So ridiculous

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Secret-Function-2972@reddit

You meant to say So Awesome.

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Not_High_Maintenance@reddit

AIDS

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NatashaMuse@reddit

HIV

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moneyman74@reddit

Oh probably Micheal Jackson at the Grammys moonwalking. First event I remember everyone at school talking about the next day

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Heyolshan@reddit

We had it all figured out. A rope offstage too small to see was pulling him backwards.

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SaintStephen77@reddit

The premier of Thriller.

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KhunDavid@reddit

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Vincent Price and vampire Kermit.

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ayjaytay22@reddit

I was in 3rd grade when I first saw the Thriller video, and to this day I don’t think I’ve ever liked anything as much as 3rd grade me liked that video

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texachusetts@reddit

Not most brightly but Bernard Getz and the guardian angels came to mind.

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Queasy-Extension6465@reddit

1976 Bicentennial

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Cazmonster@reddit

I think the music video of Thriller was one of the biggest moments. All of my friends were excited. I had seen American Werewolf in London and knew what to expect from John Landis monsters. It was a perfect music video.

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budkynd@reddit

Michael Jackson catching on fire.

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bobbytoni@reddit

Princess Di - the wedding and the divorce.

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Static-Age01@reddit

Moonwalking

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Left-Thinker-5512@reddit

John Lennon being murdered. It shines for horrible reasons, not happy ones.

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RabbitsAteMySnowpeas@reddit

“We are the world”

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Bloody_Mabel@reddit

1980 "Miracle" on ice.

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vin4thewin@reddit

Jessica in the well.

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RelationshipBig6115@reddit

Just say “No”

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RiffRandellsBF@reddit

Who shot JR?

This bitch... and we loved her for it.

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Eaudebeau@reddit

MTV

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Not_High_Maintenance@reddit

This 🎤😊

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CosmicTurtle504@reddit

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Oxjrnine@reddit

Motown 25 MJ Moonwalk

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mmakire@reddit

Kind of small but it was the first thing that popped to mind - the (first) summer season of BH 90210.

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sarkastro75@reddit

Does the New Coke debacle qualify?

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Beginning-AD1992@reddit

and we've all finally acknowledged the fact that the whole ploy was a psychological ruse for CocaCola to adjust our taste buds so they could cut over to the cheaper corn syrup recipe?

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FantasticStooge@reddit (OP)

Sure! Definitely "pop" culture 😉

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sarkastro75@reddit

Damnit, I walked right into that one lol

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yanknga@reddit

The launch of MTV - August 1981.

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schmearcampain@reddit

I was gonna say that, but not that many people were watching the exact moment it started (OP asked for a moment, not a movement). That said, MTV was definitely the pop culture center of our universe.

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qbald1@reddit

Thriller.

Song and album.

So many pieces included with it. Michael super stardom. King of pop.

The video was ground breaking on the groundbreaking idea of MTV.

The video was a “stop what you’re doing and watch” moment.

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Telecommie@reddit

Yeah, after Off the Wall, we were primed for a new banger. No disappointment when it dropped. So many stoop parties that week! Dancing my little ass off!

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Quasigriz_@reddit

Also, the Pepsi Commercial.

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Candleforce-9728@reddit

Yes and then we watched The Making of Thriller over and over, where they showed Michael getting in the makeup and putting on those yellow contacts.

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Coop_4149@reddit

This is the answer. "Did you see the video last night?" was the talk the never day at school.

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Plenty_Cress_1359@reddit

It was the stay-at-home event! Nobody I knew went out that night! I’m going to add on the Motown 25 special where Michael moonwalked to Billie Jean and an entire viewing nation went ape!

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DetroitXL@reddit

Michael Jackson’s moon walk during the Motown show

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schmearcampain@reddit

The biggest star of the 80’s and that was his breakout moment. No question.

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h8movies@reddit

Ralphie Glick tapping on Mark Petrie's window.

Also Star Wars

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nixtarx@reddit

Those were some scary-ass vampires for a made-for-tv movie. Tobe Hooper ftw, I guess.

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Bear_Salary6976@reddit

It bit really a moment, but fall of '91, my Freshman year of high school, there were so many great albums that came out. This was right before grunge had taken over and killed metal. Rap started to be much more serious. Even country music was quickly evolving. In my small town, you could still go see lots of local bands that did not play cover tunes.

To me, that time is when music was in its anything goes era.

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SarahJaneB17@reddit

Live Aid.

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Normal_Removed@reddit

I woke up early to watch it all day.

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SarahJaneB17@reddit

Me too.

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belinck@reddit

I sold the we are the world singles door to door.

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northofwall@reddit

The final episode of MAS*H.

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Greedy_Blueberry420@reddit

Staying up as late as we could Saturday night of Labor Day weekend watching the Jerry Lewis Telethon. Ed McMahon " Timpani" with the turn of the numbers, Jerry trying to get through "You'll Never Walk Alone" at the end, waiting for Ed to interrupt him with one final "Timpani" that brought them over the top. That was the best TV.

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dogfaced_baby@reddit

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Federal-Membership-1@reddit

Luke and Laura Charles and Diana

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FantasticStooge@reddit (OP)

Hands Across America, 1985

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xAlice_Liddell@reddit

Super Mario Bros on the NES.

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Chibi-Skyler@reddit

Settling in for hours of Saturday morning cartoons, with whatever sugary cereal Mom bought that week (remember when they were called Sugar Crisp, Sugar Corn Pops, Sugar Smacks?).

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PeterPunksNip@reddit

Prince's concert in Syracuse broadcast world wide, that I watched live from Switzerland. It ended at 4 in the morning 😴😪. But I videotaped it all!

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Winter-eyed@reddit

Ghostbusters

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kellyjeanie@reddit

The release of the Thriller video

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rlr0718@reddit

Every single time diana prince spun around into Wonder Woman.

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Hands across America

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