# Do you get the opposite of nostalgia with stuff you liked as a kid? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 18, 2021, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-the-opposite-of-nostalgia-with-stuff-you-liked-as-a-kid/930769 "2021-01-18T02:51:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![tricoteuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tricoteuse/32/4334_2.png) [@tricoteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tricoteuse)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2021, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-the-opposite-of-nostalgia-with-stuff-you-liked-as-a-kid/930769/61 "2021-01-27T14:26:31Z")
Oh, the Suck Fairy. That bitch has gotten into so many books I used to love, Spellsinger and pretty much everything else by Alan Dean Foster, Redwall, Hitchhiker’s Guide, Piers Anthony… You suck, Suck Fairy! ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2021, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-the-opposite-of-nostalgia-with-stuff-you-liked-as-a-kid/930769/62 "2021-01-27T20:33:57Z")
I’ve found my opinion on shows to change multiple times as I get older. When I was a child, I watched the old Adam West Batman show and I loved it. By 1989, at the ripe old age of 13, I decided those old shows were lame and couldn’t figure out why I liked them. I was probably in my 30s when I reassessed Adam West’s Batman and decided to appreciate for what it was. It was good campy fun. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2021, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-the-opposite-of-nostalgia-with-stuff-you-liked-as-a-kid/930769/63 "2021-01-27T22:20:25Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > I am curious if _MacGyver_ held up, haven’t glimpsed that one. Somehow, I doubt it. I first watched it as an adult, and didn’t have a problem with it. I thought it was a decent episodic show. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-the-opposite-of-nostalgia-with-stuff-you-liked-as-a-kid/930769/64 "2021-01-28T00:01:28Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Good lord, I used to watch _CHIPS_ , _Knight Rider_ , _Airwolf_ and _The A-Team_ religiously. Great theme songs, though! ---
**Author:** ![bmoak1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f4b2a3/32.png) [@bmoak1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak1)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-the-opposite-of-nostalgia-with-stuff-you-liked-as-a-kid/930769/65 "2021-01-28T01:50:42Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > I loved Robert Asprin’s Myth series as a teen. There is no way that I am going to go back and read them now, as I am pretty sure that I would find them annoying. The Myth books hold up better than other things by Asprin, though even the Myth books went way downhill after the first few. The graphic novel adaptations by Phil Foglio of the first few are better than the books and hold up. ---
**Author:** ![bmoak1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f4b2a3/32.png) [@bmoak1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak1)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-the-opposite-of-nostalgia-with-stuff-you-liked-as-a-kid/930769/66 "2021-01-28T02:23:54Z")
> [@themapleleaf](#): > > Quite the contrary. I have a lot of downloads from Youtube of cartoons (and commercials and other TV shows) from my childhood (stuff that was broadcast in the 1980s and early 1990s). Watching this gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. > > That said, I do tend to think critically today of some of the animation. A lot of the cartoons I watched (notably the Sunbow / DIC-produced ones, like Transformers, G.I. Joe, or Jem) were animated in Japan, where the quality of animation in the 80s was often sketchy and introduced Anime elements (and I don’t care for Anime) in Western cartoons. But it’s not something on which I lose a lot of sleep. Considering almost all the action/adventure shows in the 80s were animated in Japan (although Tokyo Movie Shinsa shows seemed to have the best quality), I wonder what you would consider good 80s animation not done in Japan. Filmation? Hanna-Barbera? Saturday morning network shows with a fraction of the budget of the syndicated toy advertisement shows? ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-the-opposite-of-nostalgia-with-stuff-you-liked-as-a-kid/930769/67 "2021-01-28T06:13:22Z")
And Julie Newmar. ---
**Author:** ![themapleleaf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/themapleleaf/32/14349_2.png) [@themapleleaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/themapleleaf)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-the-opposite-of-nostalgia-with-stuff-you-liked-as-a-kid/930769/68 "2021-01-28T09:08:42Z")
> [@bmoak1](#): > > > [@themapleleaf](#): > > > > Quite the contrary. I have a lot of downloads from Youtube of cartoons (and commercials and other TV shows) from my childhood (stuff that was broadcast in the 1980s and early 1990s). Watching this gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. > > > > That said, I do tend to think critically today of some of the animation. A lot of the cartoons I watched (notably the Sunbow / DIC-produced ones, like Transformers, G.I. Joe, or Jem) were animated in Japan, where the quality of animation in the 80s was often sketchy and introduced Anime elements (and I don’t care for Anime) in Western cartoons. But it’s not something on which I lose a lot of sleep. > > Considering almost all the action/adventure shows in the 80s were animated in Japan (although Tokyo Movie Shinsa shows seemed to have the best quality), I wonder what you would consider good 80s animation not done in Japan. Filmation? Hanna-Barbera? Saturday morning network shows with a fraction of the budget of the syndicated toy advertisement shows? I quite like Filmation. I know there was a lot of use of stock footage and recycled cels, but the lines were bold (not like the grainy ones coming out of many Japanese studios), the backgrounds were very well done, the colors were bright and varied (especially in “Bravestarr”), and there was a clear in-house style with characters with distinctive facial features. ---
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-the-opposite-of-nostalgia-with-stuff-you-liked-as-a-kid/930769/69 "2021-01-28T10:45:40Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > I am curious if _MacGyver_ held up, haven’t glimpsed that one. Somehow, I doubt it. McGyver is still pretty watchable, with a dose of nostalgia to help. A little naive, a little cliched, but hey, it was 35 years ago. Way better than Knight Rider etc. ---
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-the-opposite-of-nostalgia-with-stuff-you-liked-as-a-kid/930769/70 "2021-02-15T07:35:26Z")
1: One of the movies that really scared me when I was a kid was Puppet Master. I rewatched some of the best scenes and, though some of them are creepy, they’re mainly funny now. 2: For some reason, songs and intro videos of kids’ TV shows can still get me. I get flashes of myself in childhood and it awakens the same state of mind as I had then. I’m finding myself being as impressed by the TMNT intro as when I was a kid. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-the-opposite-of-nostalgia-with-stuff-you-liked-as-a-kid/930769/71 "2021-02-15T15:51:46Z")
TMNT? Adding useless content to satisfy Discourse. Lorem ipsum discobot sucutus maximus. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-the-opposite-of-nostalgia-with-stuff-you-liked-as-a-kid/930769/72 "2021-02-15T16:46:22Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > TMNT? Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles! Well, in the UK (and SA, for some seasons), anyway. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-the-opposite-of-nostalgia-with-stuff-you-liked-as-a-kid/930769/73 "2021-02-16T04:42:49Z")
I KNEW it! Loved that series as a teenager. Came back to them a few short years later and, not as good. I would like to give his book “Steppe” another try though. I only ever read it once, but the idea of teaching history via a gigantic, society defining, modernized, interstellar, reenactment has stuck with me ever since. Yes, there were a lot of plot holes, as I remember it. But the basic idea, I wonder if it would make a good movie ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-the-opposite-of-nostalgia-with-stuff-you-liked-as-a-kid/930769/74 "2021-02-16T07:01:49Z")
I read the hell out of R.A. Salvatore’s Drizzt novels in my early 20s. I imagine I’d find them incredibly cliched and lazy today. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-the-opposite-of-nostalgia-with-stuff-you-liked-as-a-kid/930769.md?page=3)