# Old pop culture hits different now that I'm older. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 28, 2019, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955 "2019-09-28T16:10:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2019, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/1 "2019-09-28T16:10:19Z")
Much, much older. I thought Steve Miller’s Take the Money and Run was a cool story of hip teenagers sticking it to the man. Nope, it’s the story of two thieves who kill a man who was doing the job everyone paid him to do. That song is all kinds of messed up. Thanks to The Brady Bunch, Hazel and Family Affair, I thought it was absolutely normal and right that white families with children have live-in housemaids. One of the very few reasons I ever wished I was white. And now that I have raised children, I wonder how many fucking times Joan Crawford told Christina not to put wire hangers in the closet before she lost her shit. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2019, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/2 "2019-09-29T00:32:40Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Thanks to The Brady Bunch, Hazel and Family Affair, I thought it was absolutely normal and right that white families with children have live-in housemaids. One of the very few reasons I ever wished I was white. Actually, before the advent of mechanical appliances, it was fairly common for those in the middle-class to have domestic help. They weren’t necessarily live-in servants, but cleaning ladies and laundry women were hired from agencies. Housework was extremely arduous, and those less well off would often pool their labor with their neighbors for strenuous jobs, or food preservation. “You help me beat my carpets, and I’ll help you with your canning.” ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2019, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/3 "2019-09-29T00:39:37Z")
Oh, and different views on television programs as I got older? Well, I think Michael Stivic definitely could’ve worked at least part-time to help the Bunker household. He certainly seemed to have a lot of free time. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2019, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/4 "2019-09-29T00:44:23Z")
Two words: Animal House. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2019, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/5 "2019-09-29T00:51:50Z")
I thought all cool kids at cool schools (Saved by the Bell)got to dress any way they pleased. When Jennifer came to my school dressed like a street walker she got sent home to change and detention. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2019, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/6 "2019-09-29T01:43:50Z")
Gary Puckett sang broken-heart ballads. Then those songs turned into male chauvanist pig anthems. Then those same songs became male chauvanist pig anthems which, did you notice, also targeted teenage girls. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2019, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/7 "2019-09-29T02:18:41Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > Gary Puckett sang broken-heart ballads. Those songs made me uncomfortable even as a tween back then! ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2019, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/8 "2019-09-29T11:59:01Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > Oh, and different views on television programs as I got older? Well, I think Michael Stivic definitely could’ve worked at least part-time to help the Bunker household. He certainly seemed to have a lot of free time. Yeah, my mom and dad met in college at The University of Chicago. Mom was from Chicago. They got married - he 19 and her 17 - and my grandfather (who owned a small business in Chicago) put dad to WORK. They got married? Great. Good for them. But according to my grandfather dad was going to WORK while he studied. He made doors and windows, delivered doors and windows and sold doors and windows until he could hand that degree on the wall. ---
**Author:** ![Hi\_Medlo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hi\_Medlo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hi_Medlo)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2019, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/9 "2019-09-29T13:30:32Z")
It has occurred to me that most of the sex that took place at Woodstock would now be considered rape, due to at least one of the parties being too impaired to provide informed consent. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2019, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/10 "2019-09-29T18:28:13Z")
I grew up on uncensored Looney Tunes and it never occurred to me back them that some of those jokes were racist. I still believe that taking the anvil jokes out is going too far, but YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2019, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/11 "2019-09-29T20:07:34Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > Two words: Animal House. I know, right? It just keeps getting better with age. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2019, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/12 "2019-09-29T20:13:05Z")
[ul] [/ul] > [@74westy](#): > > Two words: Animal House. Yeah. Also just about any of the ‘panty raid’ movies (revenge of the nerds, Porky’s, etc ) Lethal Weapon, a mentally unstable cop that plays by his own rules is just not a cool sympathetic character anymore. Antisemetic meltdown notwithstanding. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2019, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/13 "2019-09-29T21:01:50Z")
Never knowing as a kid that the Warner Bros. Chuck Jones cartoons ( ‘Looney Tunes’ et.al ) were made for and aimed at adults. Lots of dialogue and cultural references that I didn’t understand until I got older. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2019, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/14 "2019-09-29T22:14:18Z")
Zack Morris is a real jerk. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2019, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/15 "2019-09-29T22:31:14Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > Gary Puckett sang broken-heart ballads. > > Then those songs turned into male chauvanist pig anthems. > > Then those same songs became male chauvanist pig anthems which, did you notice, also targeted teenage girls. The video for J. Geils “Centerfold” HOT HOT HAWT then, creepy slimy dirty now. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2019, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/16 "2019-09-29T22:36:56Z")
ETA yep, after checking (watching the video) to make sure I wasn’t tellin a lie, that video kinda ruins the song, changing it from a dude reminising after seeing a girl he had a crush on in highschool to a girly mag to … something uncomfortably predatory and obsessed with teenaged girls. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2019, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/17 "2019-09-29T23:13:15Z")
You are my Sunshine seems a bit stalky to me: > [@](#): > > I’ll always love you and make you happy > If you will only say the same > But if you leave me and love another > You’ll regret it all some day ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2019, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/18 "2019-09-29T23:20:17Z")
I don’t know what it is but I couldn’t really “get” Stevie Nicks until I was in my 30s. I don’t know if it’s the content of her songs (including FM songs she sings) or if I couldn’t get in to her voice until I was mature enough. Now I really dig her. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2019, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/19 "2019-09-29T23:38:27Z")
Fonzie - snapped his fingers and girls came running. That character is so terribly dated today. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2019, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/20 "2019-09-30T00:02:45Z")
‘We’ll Sing In the Sunshine’ by Gale Garnett. A little cold, when you listen - a sweet sunny laid back ditty where the woman says, I will play house with you for one year - and then I’m outta here… It sounds more like something a swingin’ dick of a man would do, lol. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955.md?page=2)