I had them and was surrounded by people having them. Apparently I graduated before schools started banning them or even hearing any forms of complaints about them. They were a genuinely useful item apparently killed off unnaturally by schools, though, and not a pointless fad.
Same
Same.
I can still hear the sound it made when you opened the adhesive cover.
Damn, now I want one. (Googling tells me the generic name is zipper binder)
- I taught High School from 1995-2005, so I probably saw them but had no idea what they were called.
And by 1995 they weren’t nearly as popular. Even if a bunch of kids in the class had them, they wouldn’t have been talking about them that much.
I graduated high school in 1969 so I’ve never even seen a Trapper Keeper. I assumed they were a schmancier version of the PeeChees we had.
Closer to a three ring binder, I think.
It is a three-ring binder. Came bundled with folders. Different features but typically one side of the inside cover had a zipper pouch for pencils and things and the other a clipboard. Came with a variety of cover designs like lunchboxes of the era. Nothing remotely deserving the controversy that they eventually got.
My kids are asking for one of those creepy fucking things for Christmas/birthdays. The Stanley cups (@Darren_Garrison) and for a brief moment, Crocs/the McDonald’s toy version were a thing.
That’s it. But now I remember that SP didn’t do the Stanley Cup fad, they did a sports drink fad.
There’s a relatively recent meme showing a screencap of an article about a company introducing Labubu-shaped Dubai chocolates; it points out that the phrase “Dubai chocolate Labubu” would have made zero sense just a few years ago.
At my tiny elementary school in the late ‘80s - early ‘90s, many teachers banned Trapper Keepers from their classrooms. I don’t remember why. We were required to have simple 1” 3-ring binders though, and in one class we were graded on how well organized they were. A couple of my junior high teachers also did this; one even marked me down because another student vandalized my binder on grading day. 
Oh my god, they killed Charlie!
The newest episode seems really subdued. And tackles an issue that I’ve never heard of before.
This can’t be the episode that was scheduled for last week (Sept. 17) which they postponed because they said it hadn’t been completed. The Brandon Carr kerfuffle started that day so apparently they scrapped the episode they had and made this one. I guess when you have a billion and half dollars, you can do that. I wonder if we will ever see the scrapped one. Since they depend on timely content, probably not.
It wasn’t as funny as the first few episodes, maybe because it was rushed, but I do appreciate their dedication to free speech. I hope Carr liked it.
I didn’t get into scouting, but friends and my older brothers did. I thought I remembered the Webloes wore the “Fleur de lis” and am not sure if the “Boy Scouts” can include girls now.
I don’t mind Jesus - who does? - yet I cannot stand either Trump, the Veep or Satan. Hopefully James Comey gets the guillotine next week. SP needs to hit SCOTUS, not the Boy Scouts.
Trump will skip a lawsuit against Trey and Matt. They are scuril…scurrll.. really bad and should be locked up in a foreign country,
Yes, it can.
Great!
Dunno about the Webeloes. I reckon they bridge younger Cub Scouts in about 4th grade (as these kids are) into Boy Scouts a couple years older. If the gag was gender confusion it was pretty lame.
They did pretty good with Israel and Netanyahu. Kyle’s mom led the conflict with Canada 25 years ago. More BiBi, less Trump.
It seemed like an It’s Pat thing except 30 years late.
I suspect that the start of this show with the Webelo was salvaged from a scrapped episode that dealt with trans issues in some way. In light of the hate directed at the trans community following the Kirk killing and theories about the killer’s motivation, the producers (wisely) decided not to wade into that mess.
This season had some potential with Cartman’s dilemma with “woke is dead”
I can’t stand Trump or Tattoo/JD.
I don’t like Jesus in this show.
None of it is funny. Is humorous less than funny? Then it’s not that either.
It definitely looked like Matt & Trey wanted out of their Paramount contract - by being overtly controversial. Not out-rightly suckingly un-funny.
Who the fuck is Peter Thiel? He’s the guy we’re satirizing this week?
Is this show still written and produced by Matt & Trey? I hear their voice characterizations so they’re reading lines.
Worst Episode Ever. And I got the pun on the title “Twisted Christian” before watching it and was waiting for that shitty song to play. Even that bit at the end sucked.