# The "Am I Old?" Test
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 17, 2022, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373 "2022-06-17T14:54:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 9
### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2022, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/161 "2022-06-26T00:38:04Z")
About 8. 9 if you count Peter Ustinov voicing a character in a Disney movie. Does that count? I think some of them were also on _Law & Order_.
---
### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2022, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/162 "2022-07-16T01:27:41Z")
I’m 67, and I recognize them all except for Charles Aznavour and Mummenschanz.
I do recollect hearing about the latter at one time or another but have no memory of who or what it was. A rock group, maybe?
---
### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2022, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/163 "2022-07-16T01:47:40Z")
From a quick scan of the list, I believe most do not recognize Kaye Ballard. She played one of the two titular characters on the NBC sitcom _ **The Mothers-in-Law** _ back in the '60s.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONClhbVxGRo)
She’s the brunette.
---
### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2022, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/164 "2022-07-16T02:01:49Z")
Never mind, I just made a better scan and see I was a bit hasty in my judgment. 🤭
---
### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2022, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/165 "2022-07-16T02:18:53Z")
> [@terentii](#):
>
> She’s the brunette.
And, her husband in the show, as shown in that clip, was played by Roger C. Carmel (Harry Mudd in _Star Trek_).
---
### Author:  [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2022, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/166 "2022-07-16T02:37:42Z")
Who was that short, neighbor who was so nosy on a sitcom long ago?
---
### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2022, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/167 "2022-07-16T02:48:02Z")
Do you mean Mrs. Kravitz from Bewitched?
[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NosyNeighbor](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NosyNeighbor)
---
### Author:  [@Tabco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabco)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2022, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/168 "2022-07-16T02:53:36Z")
Recognized about 7 names. I’m 37. I never watched _The Muppet Show_ and honestly would’ve been unlikely to recall the show ever existed in the first place. I primarily associate the Muppets with _Sesame Street._
---
### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2022, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/169 "2022-07-16T02:55:19Z")
In which sitcom? The one above?
The blonde in that clip is, BTW, Eve Arden, aka _ **Our Miss Brooks** _. She also had a memorable role alongside Joan Crawford in _ **Mildred Pierce** _.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/0TxIJbXYDZs?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=PLLWy7epZlAGbdZY7QCq-P3TAWRnP-bddN
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoOr_OoHbv4)
_ **Our Miss Brooks** _ also featured a very young Richard Crenna, John Rambo’s Col. Trautman.
Maybe the “short nosy neighbor” you’re thinking of is Don Knotts, aka Mr Furley on _ **Three’s Company** _? He was also Andy Griffith’s deputy/sidekick Barney Fife on Andy’s sitcom.
---
### Author:  [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2022, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/170 "2022-07-16T03:06:47Z")
That doesnt look like the actress. Sorry if Ive hijacked. Maybe it will come to me.
---
### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2022, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/171 "2022-07-16T03:09:02Z")
There were 2 Mrs. Kravitzes to make it tougher. Technically there was kind of a third, Abner’s sister came to help in a few episodes. She was a Miss Kravitz.
[https://images.app.goo.gl/knMmiwcWL8sS8w2P6](https://images.app.goo.gl/knMmiwcWL8sS8w2P6)
---
### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2022, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/172 "2022-07-16T03:47:05Z")
Alice Pearce, the first Mrs Kravitz, died from cancer during the second season of the show. She was replaced with Sandra Gould, who was never as funny. (Actually, I found her to be downright irritating.)
---
### Author:  [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2022, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/173 "2022-07-16T04:30:44Z")
Alice Ghostly! Thats it. Thank you.
---
### Author:  [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2022, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/174 "2022-07-16T11:26:54Z")
> [@Hampshire](#):
>
> I’m 52 and recognize a little over half of them. I also remember them being people that adults at the time thought were funny/talented but that I as a kid in the 70s thought were completely unfunny.
> Me as an 8 year-old watching the Muppet Show: “Who is this schmuck they have guest hosting? Somebody go get Mark Hamill.”
This for me as well.
---
### Author:  [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2022, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/175 "2022-07-16T12:04:56Z")
16 out of the list, and I’m 60.
I also was not/am not a huge movie or tv watcher. There are a few more names I recognize, but I couldn’t tell you what they’d done.
---
### Author:  [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2022, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/176 "2022-07-16T12:52:33Z")
Recognized 18.
Age 65.
---
### Author:  [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2022, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/177 "2022-07-16T13:08:25Z")
I’ve heard of only 2 of these people. I knew the occupation of one of them, but I’m not familiar with their work and I don’t know what they look like. So, none for me.
I’m 42.
---
### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2022, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/178 "2022-07-16T14:21:33Z")
> [@Bear\_Nenno](#):
>
> I’ve heard of only 2 of these people.
Now I’m curious: which two?
---
### Author:  [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2022, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/179 "2022-07-16T14:40:56Z")
Phillis Diller: I recognize the name as a past media personality, probably actress or possible a tv journalist. Couldn’t pick her face out of a line up.
Twiggy: I recognize the name as a skinny model. I wouldn’t have been able to identify her among a group of other skinny models and until I just looked her up, would never have guessed her age. I would have been at least 2 decades off.
ETA: Oh, I missed Ben Vereen on that list. I know who he is.
---
### Author:  [@Allthegood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Allthegood)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2022, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373/180 "2022-10-24T06:44:16Z")
20 of them.
I’m 66.
[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373.md?page=8)
[Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-am-i-old-test/966373.md?page=10)