Price is Right on a sick day was my jam, what was your sick day routine?

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PatrickRsGhost@reddit

I don't remember watching Price is Right or any of the soap operas unless I was staying with my great-grandparents for a week during the Summer.

When I would get sick, I'd often ask my mom to go to Blockbuster or whatever local video store we used and she'd rent a couple of horror movies and I'd always pick out the 1951 Disney adaptation of Alice in Wonderland. Something about running a high fever and having taken a tablespoon of the chalky, pink, bubblegum-flavored amoxicillin made it way more enjoyable.

When I was older and was left home alone while sick, with my mom or dad calling every hour or so to check in, I'd put on Nickelodeon and watch David the Gnome and Little Koala. Or I might put one of the Disney movies we had on video.

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PlantMystic@reddit

General Hospital and other soaps.

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memymomeddit@reddit

PBS in the morning, Price Is Right midday, Gilligan's Island reruns in the afternoon.

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Cheetah_15@reddit

Card Sharks!!

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prettyish-wilderness@reddit

Old British reruns of Whose Line is it Anyway 😄

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TripMaster478@reddit

Love Boat -> Fantasy Island -> Price Is Right -> Flintstones -> soaps.

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classicsat@reddit

My local station aired it a 5PM. At least the early part of the 80s.

I wasn't really home sick often to remember what we watched, other than my parent's afternoon soaps.

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EloquentBacon@reddit

Some mix of the Price is Right, Let’s Make a Deal, Sale of the Century, Joker’s Wild, Supermarket Sweep, a nap and then the People’s Court, Donahue and if you were lucky, an afternoon special.

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pmramirezjr@reddit

Jer-ry! Jer-ry! Jer-ry!

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OhSusannah@reddit

I didn't watch TV when sick. Instead I listened to records or the radio. I was a big fan of the Jesus Christ Superstar soundtrack. "Everything's alright, yes everything's fine."

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Spiritualy-Salty@reddit

An hour of The Twilight Zone from noon to 1:00

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PollutionZero@reddit

I got CRAZY sick in elementary school once. I think it was bronchitis that turned into walking pneumonia? IDK, I remember being given codeine cough syrup. Crazy shit. I was out for like a month? 6 weeks? A long fucking time.

I'd wake up around 9 or so instead of 7 and go out to the family room with my blanket and make myself a nest on the couch and turn on the TV. I ended up getting hooked on Days of our Lives and General Hospital. I remember when John Delancey was known for Eugine on Days, not Q from Star Trek.

The gameshows were after the soaps. Price is Right, Gong Show, NO WHAMMIES!!!!

I'd pass out from the meds at some point and wake up to PBS Kids time and watch Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, Reading Rainbow.

Good times.

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Tinsie167@reddit

No Captain Kangaroo fans here?

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WhyLie2me18@reddit

After The Price Is Right and The Flintstones and Leave It To Beaver were the soap operas. A whole afternoon of drama.

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freshcoffeegrounds@reddit

I faked being sick all the time just so I could watch The Price is Right.

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ProgressPractical848@reddit

Beverly Hillbillies, ADAM 12, Emergency!

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bendingoutward@reddit

Three Stooges, the Flame and the Arrow, Bowery Boys

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mutt_butt@reddit

The Twilight Zone and I Love Lucy

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labretirementhome@reddit

Got sick. Managed to get sucked into the Luke and Laura arc on General Hospital.

I'm a guy and I have never watched before or since any kind of soap opera.

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treelovingaytheist@reddit

Luke and Laura transcended everything. In my 8th grade class, everyone was talking about it.

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merrryone1124@reddit

Edge of Night - All My Children - One Life To Live - General Hospital

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ButterflyOld8220@reddit

Yep. Game shows and reruns were my sick day shows. Never got into the soap operas.

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Sea_Brush4156@reddit

Three's Company, One Day at a Time, Price is Right, It's a Living

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Mouse-Direct@reddit

My Pentecostal grandma considered Price is Right gambling. All My Children and General Hospital were “feeding on the world” and “Hell was going to be full of it,” but I know she was following Erica’s and Luke & Laura’s storylines.

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CawlinAlcarz@reddit

McHales Navy

Hogan's Heroes

Gilligan's Island

Gomer Pyle

Andy Griffith

Beverly Hillbillies

Green Acres

This was late 70s and early 80s UHF network broadcast TV (channels 17, 29, and 48 in southeastern PA)

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Hib3rnian@reddit

My man, 215 in the house. I do recall some F Troop and Banana Splits in the mix as well.

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CawlinAlcarz@reddit

Jeez. F-troop forgot about that one. Banana splits came on in the afternoon if I recall, and by then one of my patents was home, hassling me about watching TV when I was "home sick."

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don_teegee@reddit

I would just flip through the channels and watch whatever looked good.

In my 20s and 30s I would put on my comfort movie, Smokey and the Bandit.

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DLR817@reddit

Once The Price Is Right went off, it was nap time.

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wolfysworld@reddit

Price is right Jokers wild The “no whammy” game show Big Valley I don’t remember what order but remember these were my options when sick.

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omnired44@reddit

Press Your Luck. It was one of my favorites. I remember Tic Tac Dough. Jokers Wild. Card Sharks. It changed over the years what the game shows were leading up to The Price is Right.

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wolfysworld@reddit

To this day when I am wanting something to work out I say, No Whammies no whammies!”
I finally had to find a clip so I could show my kids why I say it. They weren’t really impressed but they have no idea what limited entertainment means.

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LevelPerception4@reddit

I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, My Favorite Martian.

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Open_Gur_6204@reddit

Get Smart

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freerangeXkid@reddit

After my youngest brother was born my mom quit working as childcare for two kids under 3 was more than she made (I'm several years older so I'd go home after school as a latchkey kid).

Once she became a stay at home mom my sick days did not involve TV. I was told "If you're sick you stay in your room in bed all day". So all I would have is my comic books, record player, or tape player to entertain myself. That sounds heavenly to me today

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Independent-Dark-955@reddit

Beverly Hillbillies, Munsters, Emergency, Hogans Heroes, Lost in Space, etc, etc.

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Hopfrogg@reddit

Price is Right and then some Japanese monster movie on a different channel... Godzilla v Mothra kinda stuff.... geez just thinking back on it, those were special days. Rare moments of peace in a hectic childhood. Thankfully I can experience that kind of peace all the time now :)

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LadyNorbert@reddit

I could watch The Price is Right (and usually did), but once it was over I had to surrender the television to Mom for All My Children and One Life to Live. She literally watched AMC every day of its existence, from the premiere to the finale. I didn't care for soaps back then, though they grew on me when I was older, so at that point I'd usually go to my room and read.

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The_Man_in_Black_19@reddit

Hogan's Heroes and then McHale's Navy.

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JRSmall74@reddit

I mean, there's always The Price is Right...but if you didn't make time for Kiana Tom....why did you even stay home?

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Breklin76@reddit

Same. Got into Guiding Light during the afternoon to pre-3 o’clock tv lulls. Lots of Andy Griffith and Beverley Hillbillies reruns.

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rosesforthemonsters@reddit

Laying on my grandma's couch with her beagle. We'd watch game shows in the morning, soap operas all afternoon.

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MaisieDay@reddit

Same, except for the beagle!

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heldaway@reddit

People’s Court with Judge Wapner.

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73rd-virgin@reddit

Space Giants on WTCG (later WTBS). I lived in the Central Time, Atlanta was an hour ahead of where I lived. That meant it was on while I was in school. Come summer, they would pull it off the schedule, which meant the only time I got to see Space Giants was if I was sick at home.

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cagirlinoh@reddit

Price is Right, definitely …. Young and the Restless after and then a nap 😴

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mspuffins@reddit

i hated that young and restless song. i never hung around for that.

my mom would iron during y n r

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ww_adh77@reddit

Really? I loved the Y&R theme as a kid (a.k.a. Nadia's Theme...a.a.k.a. Cotton's Dream). I learned how to play it on the piano.

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mspuffins@reddit

my mom gave me a music box with that theme, that song always depressed me for some reason.

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CK_CoffeeCat@reddit

Books.

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Substantial_Hold529@reddit

I dream of Jeanie and Bewitched

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Born_Joke@reddit

What are these "sick days" you speak of?

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burzmali@reddit

Price is Right and a host of Hanna Barbera cartoons, Underdog, Deputy Dawg in the afternoon.

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Ray_The_Engineer@reddit

Price is Right, Wild Wild West, any number of shows that I haven't seen in decades. Good stuff.

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Chicagoj1563@reddit

Green Acres and Beverly Hillbilies was probably what I saw the most. I love lucy was always on, so I would see episodes.

And of course, for anyone from the Chicago area, there was the Victory Auto Wreckers commercial. It was a classic for anyone who knows it.

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Vanman04@reddit

Ponderosa, Big valley, Wild Wild West.

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RevToy@reddit

Same. It made my heart happy when I did an office call for a client and they were playing old Price is Right episodes. Like Bob Barker in the prime days of TPIR.

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FoofooFluff@reddit

Price is Right, Young and the Restless, As The World Turns, and finally Guiding Light.

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Round-Public435@reddit

Sesame Street or Electric Company
Price is Right
TV off when the soaps came on (mom refused to let me watch "that trash")
Blankets and pillows under a card table draped with a blanket, combined with a vaporizer that had Vicks Vapor Rub in the little cup so it would scent the steam as it came out of the vaporizer. My own personal sauna/steam tent.

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shitty_advice_BDD@reddit

Big bucks no wammies and I dream of genie.

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Chibi-Skyler@reddit

Game shows (Price is Right, Card Sharks, Pyramid, Press Your Luck) in the morning. Then lunch, a nap, and cartoons (Jetsons, Flintstones, Bugs Bunny).

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OkCalbrat@reddit

After Price is Right was Jerry Springer! 😆

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Federal-Membership-1@reddit

Add in Leave it to Beaver

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poss-um@reddit

Donohue

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Zipstser257@reddit

Mine were the same as yours. There as also the Twilight Zone for a while. The Love Boat was also in syndication at like 10 or 11am for some of those years too

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ww_adh77@reddit

LOL. Nice. I watched a lot of game shows too and I especially loved The Price is Right (a NEW CAR!!! WOOOOO!!!!). Although I'd never thought I'd like soap operas, one day when I was maybe 8 or 9, I just left the CBS affiliate channel on after TPIR and started into The Young and the Restless. I found it strangely fascinating. Who was this older woman doing target practice with a "person" target (spoiler, it was Katherine Chancellor, but I didn't now that yet!). Lucky for me, I was sick for 3 days in a row and got to see Kay's nemesis--Jill Foster Abbott--get shot. But was Kay REALLY the shooter? Needless to say, I was hooked for years.

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eggs_erroneous@reddit

The Price is Right along with "Do you want to make more money? Sure, we ALL do..."

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AZPeakBagger@reddit

Grew up with parents that had a weird rule about not watching game shows. Luckily grew up close enough to Canada that I could pick up their stations. My shows as a child were all Canadian.

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Dramatic_Channel52@reddit

Are Soaps even on TV these days?

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youngkpepper@reddit

A handful are still going...I've seen General Hospital on the gym TV on occasion

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kittyshakedown@reddit

Little house on the prairie

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CantankerousButtocks@reddit

Before cable: Price is Right at 10am Lunch and watch soaps with mom 11-1pm 1pm was for more mature audiences, like Dick Van Dyke and Andy Griffith 2pm was Gilligan’s island and Bewitched 3pm was Brady bunch for like 2 hours, my jam

After cable: HBO all day, which was great to sleep to

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Treehouse_Dweller@reddit

The Waltons, followed by the Fall Guy, and then it was game shows. And I would play with my GI Joes setting up epic battles in the family room.

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let-it-rain-sunshine@reddit

I'd watch daytime reruns of the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. . and of course Price Is Right

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Intstnlfortitude@reddit

Price is Right, Just the Ten of Us reruns on USA, Jerry in the 90s. In. the 80’s Square One w Mathnet at 4

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Intrep1d_F0X@reddit

I don't remember what I watched but it always involved a boloney, cheese, mustard and mayo sandwich (cheap white bread of course).

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ancientastronaut2@reddit

You were allowed to watch tv when you stayed home sick?

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DonnyDiddledIvanka@reddit

Yeah game shows in the morning were great.....once we got past noon and we had to opt for things like "Love, American Style" I knew the best parts of the day were gone.

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belligerent_tortoise@reddit

Sleep as much as humanly possible

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DimensionX@reddit

Bewitched.

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Key-Introduction-126@reddit

Guiding light, Days of Our Lives, Price is Right and I think it was the $25000 pyramid or something like that?

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EmbarrassedAge7612@reddit

Morning nap, Price is Right, lunch because someone would stop home to check on me. Then video games until He-Man or Thundercats came on.

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onemorebutfaster_74@reddit

Same. Price is Right, order a pizza, eat pizza, post-lunch old timey re-runs - Beverly Hillbillies, Leave It to Beaver, Dick van Dyke Show, Gomer Pyle, Andy Griffith Show - then afternoon cartoons - Flintstones (two episodes) then maybe turn on a trashy talk show til mom got home.

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