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.
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.
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?
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.
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), 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.
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).