# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/61 "2019-10-01T00:10:51Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > Maybe I am misunderstanding your post, but what is racist, sexist, religionist, partisan, arrogant, elitist, or HATEFUL about fallout shelters??? 😕 I don’t know about racist or sexist, but for the rest, listen to this guy: [Let Me Die In My Footsteps](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXhKCohI49Q) ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/62 "2019-10-01T00:16:06Z")
> [@squidfood](#): > > In a game of charades (way back in the 1990s), all my friend had to do was mime being whacked in the face and holding his nose and both teams just instantly yelled “Brady Bunch!” I can’t think of anything else where a single miming action is so pop-culture embedded. How about making the “Live Long and Prosper” gesture? ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/63 "2019-10-01T00:19:15Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > I don’t know about racist or sexist, but for the rest, listen to this guy: > > [Let Me Die In My Footsteps](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXhKCohI49Q) Link doesn’t work. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/64 "2019-10-01T00:26:33Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > Link doesn’t work. Strange, works for me (maybe it’s a local restriction, I’m in Germany). It’s a youtube link to Bob Dylan’s song “Let Me Die In My Footsteps” from 1962 about the ridiculousness of nuclear bomb shelters in a time when that was really a concern. Remember “Duck and Cover”? Those times… Here [are the lyrics.](https://www.songtexte.com/songtext/bob-dylan/let-me-die-in-my-footsteps-3b96b01c.html) ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/65 "2019-10-01T01:02:28Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > I still believe that taking the anvil jokes out is going too far, but YMMV. One does wonder, are they concerned that youths have easy access to anvils and to the means of dropping them from great heights? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/66 "2019-10-01T01:47:14Z")
Been around a lot of old Mr. Ed recently. A heck of a lot of plots revolved around wives overspending their allowance. And Sheriff Andy Taylor was not only incredibly sexist (especially to Aunt Bea) but also lied quite a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Prize](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Sir\_Prize](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Prize)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/67 "2019-10-01T02:29:30Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > The Boys Are Back in Town, by Thin Lizzy. > I guess the first hundred times I heard it, I thought, all right! Par-tay! Now I hear > > And that time over at Johnny’s place, > Well, this chick got up and she slapped Johnny’s face > Man, we just fell about the place > If that chick don’t want to know, forget her > and I wonder what Johnny did to that girl. And if the boys wanna fight, you better let 'em. :rolleyes: The boys sound like a bunch of assholes to me. This one kills me because I love the song but they are definitely assholes. I think the song was inspired by the band’s fans. ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/68 "2019-10-01T03:27:42Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > Can we talk about Heinlein? Asimov, or SF writers if the era in general. > > Super sexist and misogynistic. Yes, most of them, even those attempting liberal notions, or collaborating with strong women. And even women writers who needed to make sales, pandering to survive. > [@NDP](#): > > (And to think, the Moral Majority and its supporters used to thunder that God was going to punish the US because of this show’s existence.) > [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > He did. > > He gave us trump and Pence. > > I bet you’re sorry now! Search for meme: TRUMP WAS SENT BY GOD! (He ran out of locusts.) OK, enough politics. Vaughn Meader and Dana Carey age poorly. But SPITTING IMAGE will be back. > [@D\_Anconia](#): > > Maybe I am misunderstanding your post, but what is racist, sexist, religionist, partisan, arrogant, elitist, or HATEFUL about fallout shelters??? 😕 Shelters fall under “hope they don’t return.” The rest remain with us. Ah, but shelters. Without bombs they’re costly waste-spaces or kinky playrooms. With bombs… A family shelter, stocked with supplies. Hope the doors can withstand frantic neighbors, militant thugs, radiant zombies, etc. Sounds hateful to me. And what world can you emerge into? Cue those mutants. ---
**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:** [October 1, 2019, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/69 "2019-10-01T04:30:25Z")
> [@RioRico](#): > > Shelters fall under “hope they don’t return.” The rest remain with us. Ah, but shelters. Without bombs they’re costly waste-spaces or kinky playrooms. With bombs… A family shelter, stocked with supplies. Hope the doors can withstand frantic neighbors, militant thugs, radiant zombies, etc. Sounds hateful to me. And what world can you emerge into? Cue those mutants. But when you were younger you thought this was cool, right? Because that’s what this thread is about. Thinking something was cool and then growing out of it. ---
**Author:** ![Hermione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cdc98d/32.png) [@Hermione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermione)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/70 "2019-10-01T05:04:25Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > Also: > > Me watching _Close Encounters_, 1977, age 9: Roy’s gotta follow his heart! He’s gotta seek out the aliens! > Me watching _Close Encounters_, 1987, age 19: Who chooses aliens over Teri Garr? _Rrroowwwr._ Spielberg’s said that he regrets having made Roy Neary ditch his family to go off with the aliens. He hadn’t become a parent at that point, and has said that if he made it today, after having kids, he wouldn’t have ended it quite like that. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/71 "2019-10-01T05:35:26Z")
> [@RioRico](#): > > Shelters fall under “hope they don’t return.” The rest remain with us. Ah, but shelters. Without bombs they’re costly waste-spaces or kinky playrooms. With bombs… A family shelter, stocked with supplies. Hope the doors can withstand frantic neighbors, militant thugs, radiant zombies, etc. Sounds hateful to me. And what world can you emerge into? Cue those mutants. Would you have been against air-raid shelters in the UK during WWII? Or family tornado shelters at people’s houses in the Great Plains? ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/72 "2019-10-01T07:27:33Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Make his body disappear and where is the case for murder? > > GI could also be the inspiration for a dark suspense film. The Howells brought millions in cash and items with them. They werent sharing. Slowly greed overcomes the other five castaways and they kill the Howells in their sleep. Now, down to five castaways, who will die next? Who will be the lone survivor? Isn’t that a Japanese game show? 🆒 Ferris Bueller was a little sociopath who pushed his best friend further further into delinquent behavior until, realizing the magnitude of what he had done, the friend fell into a catatonic state. But it’s OK, because the friend cops a look at Ferris’s naked and unsuspecting girlfriend so then he’s had his revenge and he’s fine again. The girlfriend is just happy to help. ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/73 "2019-10-01T07:29:36Z")
[quote=“Steve\_McQwark, post:60, topic:840955”] If you’re talking about the riddle where the doctor can’t operate on the patient because he’s their son, I’m afraid you’re being a bit optimistic. I told my son that riddle a few years ago. He’s 16 now and he told me recently that he has shared that riddle with friends many times and hardly anyone gets the correct. /QUOTE] True. I tried a few years ago and got guesses like “the doctor is his adoptive father”. 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/74 "2019-10-01T07:51:06Z")
On the other hand, I was told this at the age of 10 in the early 80s and instantly got it. By “instantly” I mean after a beat to make sure this wasn’t a trick question because the answer seemed too obvious. ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/75 "2019-10-01T08:00:36Z")
> [@DorkVader](#): > > The video for J. Geils “Centerfold” HOT HOT HAWT then, creepy slimy dirty now. How about **Talking in Your Sleep** by the Romantics or **Hot for Teacher** by Van Halen? ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/76 "2019-10-01T08:05:38Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > 117 episodes, but if you ask random people to describe an episode, more often than not the only one people remember is that one! It even got referenced during the NFL broadcast yesterday. I find that fascinating. > > I wonder if there are other shows like that. I usually to remember the “Time to Change” episode in which Peter’s voice cracked. Also the Don Drysdale episode. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/77 "2019-10-01T09:49:10Z")
> [@JpnDude](#): > > How about **Talking in Your Sleep** by the Romantics or **Hot for Teacher** by Van Halen? Talking in your sleep, never saw a video, I vaguely remember the song, but it didn’t register with me much. Hot for teacher, ok, I’m a primitive cave man bashing my prospective wife in the head and dragging her off by her hair. I get the creepy factor, but it’s still a fun song to me, even today after some female teachers famously acted out the fantasy depicted. ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/78 "2019-10-01T11:32:28Z")
On the All in the Family riddle, I found something where they asked kids the riddle. It said “most kids had no trouble figuring out the correct answer”. While I didn’t watch out the video it appears that an answer given was that the boy had two fathers - another thing that is more common now. > **[Gloria's Riddle Gets a New, Surprisingly Gay Answer](https://www.logotv.com/news/xmpbvd/glorias-riddle-gets-a-new-surprisingly-gay-answer)** > > The way schoolchildren are now answering a riddle first posed on \\All in the Family\\ nearly forty years ago says a lot about the future of gay rights.\\r ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ecks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bcef8e/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ecks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ecks)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2019, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/79 "2019-10-01T12:53:28Z")
When I was a kid I loved adventure stories where kids went and did heroic things- Narnia, Have Spacesuit, will travel, there are lots of time travel, spaceship and portal fantasies like that. As an adult, I realize that I would have been a helpless, crying mess at the first sign of real danger or violence. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955/80 "2019-10-03T17:11:53Z")
> [@JpnDude](#): > > How about **Talking in Your Sleep** by the Romantics or **Hot for Teacher** by Van Halen? How about ‘Wicked Game’ - Chris Isaak? Gorgeous song, artsy black and white photography, and it’s a pushing-it soft porn droolfest for Victoria’s Secret addicts. Turned me right off of the song and Chris Isaak, too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-pop-culture-hits-different-now-that-im-older/840955.md?page=5)