# Arianna Grande's Halloween Costume **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 31, 2019, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arianna-grandes-halloween-costume/842810 "2019-10-31T23:44:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arianna-grandes-halloween-costume/842810/41 "2019-11-05T15:06:44Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > That’s true, of course, and it’s always been quite possible to be interested in things that happened before you were born. I’ve always been a huge fan of the Universal horror films of the '30s and '40s, for example, even though I was born in 1967. > > But I do know an awful lot of people of Ariana Grande’s age, and even older, who absolutely _will not watch_ anything that’s black and white. Just refuse, and wonder why anyone would want to. Heck, I think there have been people on this very board who claim that they “just can’t” watch black and white movies. > > So while it’s unfair to assume any particular young person might not be interested in _The Twilight Zone_, it’s not a completely unreasonable thing to wonder about, either. > [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > I don’t know how old she is, but the young to mid twenty-somethings in my office, while having heard of Twilight Zone and knowing what kind of show it is, haven’t watched it. Heck, many of if not most of my contemporaries over the years weren’t fans. The show is _iconic_, but is it as widely \*watched \*as that would imply? > [@Chronos](#): > > Heck, I’m forty-something, and while I’m certainly aware of _The Twilight Zone_, I’ve seen very few episodes. > > But then, in this era of streaming and media-on-demand, when anyone can find anything, it’s no longer possible to make any assumptions at all about what “kids these days” will be into. Thanks! I’m not sure why I’m being called out on assuming younger adults have not seen The Twilight Zone. I too have been told by more than one person younger than me that they would never watch anything in black & white. I’ve been asked, “how can you watch black & white movies?” Do you think many 20-somethings would know who or have ever watched Laurel & Hardy, Abbott & Costello, Boris Karloff in Frankenstein, Lon Chaney as the Werewolf? When I was a kid we only had 4 channels so we didn’t have many options. I watched these old movies when they played them on the 3:30 afternoon movie. After school was when they’d show reruns of Father Knows Best and Ozzie & Harriet. There was nothing else on so we watched it. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arianna-grandes-halloween-costume/842810/42 "2019-11-05T15:26:15Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **MrAtoz** : > > That’s true, of course, and it’s always been quite possible to be interested in things that happened before you were born. I’ve always been a huge fan of the Universal horror films of the '30s and '40s, for example, even though I was born in 1967. The difference is that you probably only ever got the chance to watch any of those when they happened to be on your local UHF station’s Saturday afternoon fill-the-airwaves-with-a-cheap-movie special, and if the station happened to not have copies of a couple, you’d never get the chance to see those at all. Nowadays, though, if someone happens across a clip of Lon Cheney on YouTube, and says “Wow, that guy was great”, they can binge his entire body of work with just a few clicks, if they want. Not everyone will, of course, but then, not everyone watched the Universal Studios monster movies back in the 40s, either. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arianna-grandes-halloween-costume/842810/43 "2019-11-05T15:33:52Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > I remember watching _Victorious_ with the kids and thinking she had to be a brilliant actress to play a ditz so well. I was glad to see she was able to shake off the Disney work without making too much of a mess (lookin’ at you Miley). She had a phenomenal voice even then, scary good. _Victorious_ is from Nickelodeon, so a better comparison would be someone like Amanda Bynes. Nickelodeon, while similar to Disney, seems to allow more freedom, and thus it seems they usually have fewer problems. Then again, Dan Sneider ran her show and was sexually inappropriate with her. Did Disney Channel have that problem? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arianna-grandes-halloween-costume/842810/44 "2019-11-05T15:44:04Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > When I was a kid we only had 4 channels so we didn’t have many options… After school was when they’d show reruns of Father Knows Best and Ozzie & Harriet. There was nothing else on so we watched it. When I was a kid we only had 3 channels, and we watched Father Knows Best and Ozzie & Harriet in their first runs. One night a week we rushed home to watch Twilight Zone. We didn’t know about reruns, and thought it was our only chance to ever see it. I pity people who won’t watch black and white. Someday there’ll be people who won’t watch 2D. Or people who won’t just _watch._ ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2019, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arianna-grandes-halloween-costume/842810/45 "2019-11-05T16:32:46Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Heck, I’m forty-something, and while I’m certainly aware of _The Twilight Zone_, I’ve seen very few episodes. > > But then, in this era of streaming and media-on-demand, when anyone can find anything, it’s no longer possible to make any assumptions at all about what “kids these days” will be into. This. My kid alone kicked off a Celtic music thing with her 7th-grade class by sharing YouTube videos, then a year later the 8th-grade went on a Sinatra revival (complete with record players and phonographs!)… and then, that same year, in my car the kids started singing along to Chicago’s _Hard to Say I’m Sorry_, a song 32 years old at the time (the 10th most popular song of 1982, [according to Billboard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1982)), the equivalent of me just belting out Kaye Keysers 1948 hit “On a Slow Boat to China” at the same age. While it’s a fair thing to say that the kids haven’t watched every episode - there’s only so much time in one’s life, after all - you can be sure that many, many of them are aware enough of the Twilight Zone to recognize Ariana’s costume. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2019, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arianna-grandes-halloween-costume/842810/46 "2019-11-06T00:19:20Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > I remember watching _Victorious_ with the kids and thinking she had to be a brilliant actress to play a ditz so well. I was glad to see she was able to shake off the Disney work without making too much of a mess (lookin’ at you Miley). She had a phenomenal voice even then, scary good. I heard a story on the radio this morning that _Victorious_ and _Sam and Cat_ are now available on Netflix, and are among the top most-binged series. So your kids will see it again someday, somehow (and probably their kids too). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arianna-grandes-halloween-costume/842810.md?page=2)