Can you talk about humpback whales without thinking of this?
Posted by APOC_V@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 205 comments
I remember watching this every time it would come on PBS during the summer. Anytime whales come up as a topic this pops in my head. It also was one of Ben Affleck's first roles as a child actor.
devpuppy@reddit
I can't talk about hypothermia without thinking of this
PenisVanDyke@reddit
On laserdisc
trustme1maDR@reddit
Same, dude. Same.
idkmybffjill03@reddit
There it is.
AmadeusRockdMe@reddit
Thank you for mentioning this. I thought I was the only one that was horrified by this. That image is seared.
GrunchWeefer@reddit
Every time the subject of two grown men and a child all in their underwear sharing a sleeping bag comes up I think of Voyage of the Mimi.
Illustrious_Profile6@reddit
Considering I have no idea what that it, yes.
2099AD@reddit
I can't hear that theme without thinking about Super Doctor Astronaut Peter Corbeau (if ANYONE catches that reference, I'll be shocked!)
i_nobes_what_i_nobes@reddit
I can still remember the theme song
PsychologyOk5179@reddit
Duuuuuddddeee!!! OMG!!š¤š¾š±š
Firebolt164@reddit
Yup! We watched it in 4th grade on those enormous LaserDiscs from the late 80s and early 90s š
agent_uno@reddit
Did you watch on a projector? Or on the āenormousā 32ā tv strapped to a rolling cart?
Ahh, the nostalgiaā¦.
Firebolt164@reddit
Enormous tv strapped to rolling cart
sprinklesadded@reddit
Not living anywhere near an ocean, this carried our science class curriculum for a semester.
MossGobbo@reddit
Or dealing with hypothermia by strippin down and sharing a sleeping bag.
Impressive_Pin_1087@reddit
Nautical theme song immediately pops in my head
APOC_V@reddit (OP)
It's a banger!
lost_if_found@reddit
I still hum it to this day.
PapaTua@reddit
So do I, but it usually eventually mutates into the theme to Gillian's island.
burglar_buddy_pal@reddit
The only thing that stuck with me from the series is that theme songĀ
bascule@reddit
I remember them distilling water with a solar still and getting over hypothermia with some naked man love, but actually I came here to say that the theme song immediately popped in my head too
beck33ers@reddit
Saaaammmmeeee
3sclavamente@reddit
Shut up , you just named my only two memories of the show also. The ones that run through my head about 4 to 5 times a year. Tbh and TMI, it's what led to my repressed tween fantasy of a chilly Brad Pitt somehow needing me to be the one to offer a body heat transfer life-saving scenario. That's exactly how old I am.
nhorning@reddit
What about where they demonstrate hitting the hammer on the railing to get the deaf woman's attention.
blacktrufflesheep@reddit
I was in the 8th grade when we watched it during science class. One day, the boy who sat across from me said he heard that today's episode would have one of the guys get naked in bed with the Captain. I said, shut, up! You're such a pervert! Yep, it turned out to be the hypothermia episode.
jbenze@reddit
I think those are everyoneās memories of the show. I think also hanging the flag upside down for distress but I seem to remember that being the same hypothermia episode.
StuffedHobbes@reddit
For me it was the GIANT tub of peanut butter.
nahmahnahm@reddit
And it will now be in my head for the next three weeksā¦
gbroon@reddit
Usually its Star trek Voyage home that comes to mind.
elkniodaphs@reddit
Nuclear wessels.
DoveOnTheInternet@reddit
I think they're across the bay! In Alameda!
the_one_jt@reddit
If you know her story it's really mildly interesting.
blogsymcblogsalot@reddit
Thatās what I said, āAlamedaā
tomahawk66mtb@reddit
Crazy that transparent aluminium from the movie is now a real-life technology, often called Aluminum Oxynitride (AlON) or "transparent ceramic". It's a solid, transparent material made from aluminum, oxygen, and nitrogen, offering extreme durability for military armor and specialized, scratch- resistant windows.
Miami_Mice2087@reddit
til transparent aluminum started in TOS. riker says the windows are made of it on the Enterprise D in TNG.
agent_uno@reddit
Transparent ceramics (some with aluminum as a component) have been in existence since the 1960s, and variations of it have been used as windows on the space shuttle and various jets, as well as bullet resistant glass.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparent_ceramics
Banjo-Oz@reddit
"One, Two, Three, Four...
Just where is our future, the things we've done and said?
Let's just push the button, we'd be better off dead!
'Cause I hate you!
And I berate you!
And I can't wait to get to you!
The sins of all our fathers, being dumped on us: the sons.
The only choice we're given is how many megatons?
And I eschew you!
And I say, screw you!
And I hope you're blue, too.
We're all bloody worthless, just greedy human scum.
The numbers all add up to a negative sum.
'Cause I hate!
Yes I hate you!
And I hate you too!"
Scary how that parody song still fits the current day. :(
ScreenTricky4257@reddit
The punk on the bus was also the guy singing that.
Banjo-Oz@reddit
He wrote it too. Kirk Randolph Thatcher.
zenerNoodle@reddit
Just a shame it was a one-off. I could've used an EP of that silly vitriol.
hipkat13@reddit
Best Star Trek movie made! I will die on that hill.
Eledridan@reddit
Khan.
Negative-Wrap95@reddit
Negative-Wrap95@reddit
hamburgler26@reddit
II is the best, but II, III and IV really must exist together and I think IV is the most fun.
_FLostInParadise_@reddit
If you do it wont be alone.
ScreenTricky4257@reddit
I thought it was called Star Trek: The One With the Whales.
StChas77@reddit
"What did you say she had?"
"Cramps."
ScreenTricky4257@reddit
Immediate post-prandial upper-abdominal distention!
histprofdave@reddit
"Dialysis?! What is this, the dark ages?"
Shejidan@reddit
Doctor gave me a pill and I grew a new kidney!! Doctor gave me a pill and I grew a new kidney!!
APOC_V@reddit (OP)
Hello computer.
DoveOnTheInternet@reddit
A keyboard! How quaint.
HopelesslyHuman@reddit
I use this line way more than anyone should.
hamburgler26@reddit
I feel like I should just address every AI prompt as Montgomery Scott and see how it handles it.
hamburgler26@reddit
DavePeesThePool@reddit
There be whales here!
TrinityKilla82@reddit
Double dumbass on you
Tyenkrovy@reddit
"Do you guys like Italian?" "No." "Yes." "No." "No, Yes." "No." "Yes, I love Italian..." "And so do you." "Yes."
ranaldo20@reddit
The hell, your whales!
DramaticErraticism@reddit
I assumed that was the post, I do not know who this 'Mimi' is lol
zombie_overlord@reddit
https://i.redd.it/se79u2dvrkwg1.gif
TheSilverDahlia@reddit
They are not the hell your whales.
rafuzo2@reddit
"I think he did a little too much LDS"
missed_sla@reddit
I'm from Iowa, I only work in outer space.
CSWorldChamp@reddit
Panelak_Cadillac@reddit
This.
Yeeslander@reddit
"Humpback... people?"
"Whales, Mr. Scott--Whales!"
_R_A_@reddit
My immediate reaction was, "Wait... There's another??!!??"
Scrapla1@reddit
"Admiral, there be whales here!"
bacon_in_beard@reddit
double dumbass on you!
zxroKKR@reddit
Something about being able to determine the speed of the boat by dropping a slice of bread off the front of the boat or something.
singleguy79@reddit
Only things I remember watching on PBS were Mr. Rogers, Reading Rainbow and Sesame Street.
agent_uno@reddit
No 3-2-1 Contact? Mr Wizard (or was that Nickelodeon?)
rotorocker@reddit
Somewhere between 4th and 5th grade with the guys cuddling together were constant gay remarks. Not the fact of survival. That unfortunately is what I remember. And no I am straight, and saw it as a brilliant way to survive as well as the desalination process
agent_uno@reddit
Did you follow the Will Steeger/Antarctica expedition? Third grade for me. They did an episode where they also did this to warm up one of the guys on the team. But at least that was grown men, and not a 12yo boy.
Feralest_Baby@reddit
To this day I don't understand why we don't just build giant greenhouses to passively desalinate water instead of the energy-intensive plants that are used some places.
agent_uno@reddit
It takes a long time to produce a small amount of water. Like maybe a pint or two per day for a 10 foot ditch. Not very efficient for more than survival.
Mythbusters did it on one of their duct tape episodes and it yielded a very small amount of water.
spartag00se@reddit
We watched it with our kids recently and it holds up great. Thereās a second season about archaeology Iād never seen.
agent_uno@reddit
Please tell me itās available on YT???
DreamsAndSchemes@reddit
Can someone help me? Was there a scene where they purified salt water by using a plastic tent?
tvmediaguy@reddit
Yes. There wasā¦ as it is literally the ONLY thing I remember about that show.
trustme1maDR@reddit
This scene and the hypothermia scene
agent_uno@reddit
Also writing on the tops of cans with permanent marker in case the labels get wet and peel off.
Itās funny, for all of the āprepperā material on YT, I have yet to see a single one of them do this! In the case of a flood those idiots are gonna have a lot of mystery meals.
DreamsAndSchemes@reddit
THANK YOU. Same. I don't remember squat about the show, and that's been floating around for 30 years but I never remembered what it was from.
BlueBomber13@reddit
I always think of this when I see condensation.
Earth2Kim@reddit
Absolutely certain I could create drinkable water from saltwater thanks to this show!
MocapMistress@reddit
Absolutely gave me childhood delusions of adequacy about surviving on a desert island.
agent_uno@reddit
And when mythbusters did it for real on the duct tape island episode I was thinking āholy voyage of the mini, Batman!ā
s-multicellular@reddit
Since the 1970s, humpback whales have made it nearly back to estimated prewhaling numbers, like 93%. It feels easy to forget we can do good things as a species when we get together to do it.
APOC_V@reddit (OP)
I love this!
agent_uno@reddit
Same thing with bald eagles. As a child in the 80s, I could count on less than two hands the total number I had seen in my whole life up until around 2000. Now I can drive around the twin cities metro in MN and see that many in a single day. There are at least three pairs (that I know of) within 5 miles of my house.
drillbit7@reddit
I remember being pleased as punch when I saw the Regina Maris (one of the tall ships mentioned in the series) when my family passed through Greenport, NY.
It was years later that I learned CT/CJ(?) was a young Ben Affleck.
Dimplefrom-YA@reddit
my bro and casey affleck are good friends. and chris affleck was my cousinās teacher. i remember seeing ben and thinking heās so cool for being on tv despite him being bucktoothed.
wellā¦ heās no longer bucktooth and
Miami_Mice2087@reddit
oh this is pinging some very distant and buried memory...
Both-Tree@reddit
I think of Ocean Girl first
No_Cow_4544@reddit
Iām humming the song right now . Remember they used pennies in the fuse box because they didnāt have anymore fuses and it worked .
Late_Organization_56@reddit
Now thatās a flashback. Watched that in sixth grade before we went to cape cod for natures classroom.
Kind of hard when you think about that kid and you just go āthat kid is Ben Affleck?ā
Professional-Head83@reddit
What was this show about? I only remember the title.
beck33ers@reddit
We watched this in school! And there was a field trip because the actual Mimi boat came and docked in Philadelphia. The Mimi was the greatest, I wanted to be a marine biologist for a while because of if.
Appropriate-Food1757@reddit
Never seent it I have no idea what that is
superfizzlibrarian@reddit
It was something we watched in elementary and middle school in the 80s.
Appropriate-Food1757@reddit
Guessing it was better than Little House on the Prairie
superfizzlibrarian@reddit
Did you watch that in school?
Appropriate-Food1757@reddit
No it was on all the time on one of the 5 available channels
superfizzlibrarian@reddit
Ah, I watched it in school
Appropriate-Food1757@reddit
lol thatās terrible
APOC_V@reddit (OP)
In four words it's a "Boat show about whales". A lot of people watched it in science class in elementary school apparently. I just remember it being on PBS during the summer in the late 80's early 90's. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvz1Ey2JipI
anythingspossible45@reddit
This is how I learned to count in Mayen
K_Wolfenstien@reddit
Lol I actually rewatched this recently. I did not enjoy it as much as 12 year old me did.
GigaGeon@reddit
The theme lives rent free in my head, thanks for that Mr. Elias.
HighSeasArchivist@reddit
Holy shit core memory unlocked! I hadn't thought about this for decades. I adopted a whale, her name was Sod.
GoonieMcflyguy@reddit
I can still hear the theme and young Batfleck.
MartialBob@reddit
I saw the photos of when I saw the Mimi in person. We also met the captain as part of a school trip. My degrees of separation to Ben Affleck is 1.
CarolChanningDoll@reddit
my friends and i were OBSESSEDwith Sally Ruth!! mmmm peanut butter.
OppositeRun6503@reddit
We typically watched it during science class in middle school about 40 years ago.
IceCreamVariety@reddit
We watched this in school!
BrandyBunch805@reddit
5th grade. The vcr got brought in on the cart and we got to watch an episode a week! Loved it
SheWasAlwaysJody@reddit
I did a summer program entirely around this show with my school district. Good times. We cataloged whale flukes and learned maps and navigation, etc. such a great show.
al_rey503@reddit
This is where I first saw Ben Affleck as a kid and when I saw him as a Hollywood star years later my flabbers were gasted
superfizzlibrarian@reddit
Yes. It came out in 1984 and I watched it in 6th grade, it was a big deal because it had just been released.
DarksunDaFirst@reddit
Nope.
It was this series and our collective project in 7th grade that culminated in a whale watching trip, where we were fortunate to see them come close to the boat and do some stuff in a rather āpoeticā series, Iāll never forget it.
First we some some spouts in the distance and turned that way. Ā Whales got curious and approached us after we stopped. Ā They surfaced and looked right at us. Ā Did some flipper waves. Ā Then two of them did some full breaches with these humongous splashes. Ā Lastly they left while showing us the flukes.
And we knew all these terms and could talk about it in detail because of the project we all did.
I hated the writing component of it though. Ā Too artsy.Ā
Tenaciousgreen@reddit
OMG I forgot about this!
Flight_Not_Fancy@reddit
We watched this in my 4th grade class. What I remember most is learning how to sign the alphabet (and I still remember it 40 years later).
sterbo@reddit
We saw this in 6th grade. I liked it and actually drew little comics of the show when it was on in class. The other kids mostly derided it and would say how āgayā it was (the parlance of the times) but thinking back, the idea of going away on a trip on a sailboat and doing little science experiments sounds so attractive and cozy, like a total fantasy.
I remember the water collecting episode, the deaf(?) woman (maybe she was blind?), the bearded captain.
Ordinary_Aioli_7602@reddit
I can hear the song!
j-mac563@reddit
My science class had us watching that series. Good times.
JamesMattDillon@reddit
One of my favorite movies and for many years, I couldn't remember the name
freddbare@reddit
We took a 12 hour bus ride to Provincetown for a whale watch at 12y/o... All this shows fault. We did learn to map the seas...
teodocio@reddit
Was anyone else worried that the suction cups on the tracking devices were going to plug up the blow holes?!
jbott456@reddit
I could taste the salty air in my landlocked town middle school classroom watching this show
SpaceCadetEdelman@reddit
All I know about Humpbacks was when my first grade class adopted/named one.. we/someone came up with the name Humpfree..
robsterfish@reddit
This was Friday afternoon viewing in fifth grade. I still remember the solar desalination episode. Someday it might save me!
Mrzillydoo@reddit
Seeing this mid-elementary school myself and my friends couldn't keep from juvenile humor. A 4th grade boy can't be expected to treat getting nakie together in a sleeping bag to fight off hypothermia with any sort of seriousness. To this day I could reference "Voyage of the Mimi" to one of them if they at all mentioned being cold and we'd break out into laughter.
BLR-3M@reddit
My class had a video game that went with this show. A video game! That we could play in class on our one computer! Fourth grade mind blown.
performa62@reddit
It was the entirety 5th grade.
THX1184@reddit
Lol can't remember anything else but the theme song
...And it's epic
THX1184@reddit
Lol can't remember anything else but the theme song
...And it's epic
lakatos_intolerant@reddit
Such an ugly font and color for the title. Do not miss that style at all.
the_girl_racer@reddit
Can you be cold without thinking about this?
Lululemonparty_@reddit
We went out to see the ship when it was in a port in LI and met the captain for a school trip
jbenze@reddit
Oh my God, we did too! Memory unlocked.
DrVanderjuice@reddit
Saw the ship in Bridgeport, Ct on a 6th or 7th grade field trip.
Ok-Shame5542@reddit
They had it in Bridgeport too
APOC_V@reddit (OP)
Nice!
Lululemonparty_@reddit
He showed us how to tie knots. I knew them all from the cub scouts and people kept saying dorkass
MulberryEastern5010@reddit
I've never heard of this show
Tangletoe@reddit
Who's! We ate 5 gallons of peanut butter?
tvmediaguy@reddit
Well. A double dumbass on you!
bigsampsonite@reddit
Ben Affleck yo!
throwsplasticattrees@reddit
When we met Ben Affleck for the first time.
FractalClock@reddit
He peaked too soon.
myqool@reddit
He was the bomb in Phantoms though
quickstop_rstvideo@reddit
snoogins!
adjust_the_sails@reddit
Whatās up, Boo Boo Kitty Fuck?
GracieBooBugs@reddit
Phantoms like a MFer
ElectraFish@reddit
"Holy chickens! Is that all peanut butter?!"
Famous-Criticism1848@reddit
Came here to say this š¤£
Primary-Strawberry-5@reddit
Thatās the most unfortunate thing that happened
Banjo-Oz@reddit
I have no idea what that is, but I always think of Star Trek IV The Voyage Home whenever anyone mentions humpbacked whales. Every time.
IAppearMissing05@reddit
The origin of my crush on Ben Affleck š
chargoggagog@reddit
I got to visit the Mimi when I was a kid, it mustāve docked in Boston. I got a button that said, āI was on board the Mimi.ā
throwawayfromPA1701@reddit
We watched these in 5th grade. There also was a computer game that went along with it.
burjja@reddit
Did anyone else wonder what humpback whales had to do with Steve Urkel?
Before focusing on the picture, my brain was already filling in that this was about Family Matters based on the font and video quality.
Fun fact about Affleck, the sequel, The Second Voyage of the Mimi, took place in Mexico and is why Affleck could speak better Spanish than Jlo. Here's a video of Jlo admitting it with a clip of him speaking at the end.
https://youtube.com/shorts/JnzNjbeQLyc?si=NbIBbSfVWjOVNmL4
APOC_V@reddit (OP)
Lol. *pulls onion up on belt* That was the style of time!
burjja@reddit
Yup, that was the image my brain was preloading lol, thank you for the full download.
I have no interest in celebrity relationships. I know Jlo is super mean and Affleck has his own issues but damn, for some reason I was rooting for them to make it last.
I was a trainer at my previous job and after staring at my face for two weeks, new hires would tell me I kind of looked like Affleck. Romantically, I've always had the most interest from Latinas. I might also have issues. And that concludes my public therapy session of understanding my shipping for Bennifer.
ihatecats6@reddit
I went on it in fifth grade and we saw over 50 whales. They said it was the record at the time, I think it was 87 or 88. One breached right next to the boat literally like 10 feet away. It was like a building launching up. It made the oat rock like crazy and Randy puked all over the place
Reportersteven@reddit
I donāt know what this is. But my core memory is with George and Gracie in Star Trek 4.
RoiVampire@reddit
Same here. No clue about this but I know George and Gracie
Mrincognito1@reddit
Sally Ruth!
anOvenofWitches@reddit
The sequel taught me how to spot numbers in Mayan glyphs!
notsosecretshipper@reddit
Watched this and the sequel series in school. They're both on YouTube. I saved them to show my kids and then forgot about it, so thanks for this reminder!
NurseCait@reddit
This series was my first exposure to what happens when someone has hypothermia.
St3llavorynexia88@reddit
Every single time. Can't hear "whale" without that theme song starting up in my head like a sleeper agent.
UptonCharles@reddit
Yes.
Oaken_beard@reddit
I still remember to hammer nearby someone dead to get their attention, and to put a plastic tarp over a bucket of salt water so purified condensation can drip into a clean bucket
MightyCaseyStruckOut@reddit
This is one of the rare times where something is posted here and I have absolutely no idea what the hell it is.
BreakfastBeerz@reddit
I started watching it again a couple of weeks again. It holds rewatching value pretty well.
APOC_V@reddit (OP)
Found it on youtube and I think I'm going to have to settle in for a bit.
TheLastGenXer@reddit
ive never heard of thisā¦
is it worth a watch?
lsp2005@reddit
This is where my crush on Ben affleck occurred.
Fun_Theory3252@reddit
We watched this in my 4th grade gifted program. Loved it. I think it had a real impact on me majoring in biology, and then getting my PhD in biology, then working as a pharma scientist. Good job, Mimi!!
burglar_buddy_pal@reddit
Well you turned out much better as a gifted kid than I did.
Scrapla1@reddit
We got to visit the actual ship when it came into our local port. Unfortunately none of the cast were aboard. The only episode I remember if them on a beach making a solar still.
Wrenshimmers@reddit
I still get this theme song stuck i my head every so often. I don't remember much from school but I 100% remember watching this and it being the best part of the day.
Ill-Percentage-3276@reddit
When everyone wanted to be a marine biologist.
We went on a whale watch for a field trip, and that's when I learned that I get seasick.
jtteddy3@reddit
My 6th grade class watched this and we wanted to plan a trip to Boston to go whale watching. Unfortunately it was too far into the school year so we were told there wasn't enough time for fundraising. However the next year's class started immediately fundraising and THEY got to go! My sister's class š«¤ Ask me if I'm still a little salty about it!
JustAGreenDreamer@reddit
I loved this show. So many parts of it stick in my mind
Professional-Car9621@reddit
Take me back to 6th grade - 1992
Ok-Mention8170@reddit
I go to meet the captain when I was a kid and got to see his boat. It was a part of field trip since we lived close to where he lived.
APOC_V@reddit (OP)
That's awesome. Didn't grow up near the sea but this show convinced me that I should live on a boat!
Greedy_Street_891@reddit
This was like a project unit or something where we did the series with homework after. I remember there was a girl with a prosthetic leg and she said āHey CT pass me my leg.ā At that time we lost our minds lol when we heard that.
elevenmadison@reddit
Yup, it was an episode then an expedition!
Human-Acanthaceae749@reddit
The only series I ever watched on laserdisc
Icleanforheichou@reddit
Let me tell you everything about the Red Tide
Scrapla1@reddit
Watched in 6th grade science class! I can't remember if it was on VHS or a Laser Disc?
Osprey_Talon@reddit
The Mimi always reminds me that Laser Disc existed.
GearnTheDwarf@reddit
4th grade science class was always my favorite due to this.
The second round in 6th grade didn't land as well.
paf0@reddit
I only saw it in sixth grade science class. It was supposedly a reward at end of the year for trying hard or whatever, but it was totally not worth it.
crazycatlady331@reddit
My mom worked for one of the companies that did something with this (I forget what). We went on the set a few times.
APOC_V@reddit (OP)
That's awesome!
johnb300m@reddit
Oh snap. lol. We watched this on laserdisc!
bacon_in_beard@reddit
i think that is in alameda
Rude_Man_Who_Shushes@reddit
I think about Pepper's leg more often than I should
matthewshead@reddit
I still sign āI love whalesā