Dr Marcus Welby’s sidekick? Peter McDermott, the manager of the St Gregory in ***Hotel ***(the TV series)? :dubious:
You ain’t kidding. What was my 13 year old’s favorite Christmas gift you ask? Why, her Pewdiepie pajama pants of course.
Mr. Barbra Streisand?
The guy from Westworld? Capricorn One? Okay…the guy who plays Pee-Wee in the movie based on Pee-Wees life. Come on…if he doesn’t get that…
I heard of Kevin Bacon because of the whole 6 degrees thing but if I’ve ever watched a movie with him in it I don’t remember it.
It was a year or more after I heard of Justin Bieber that I found out why he was famous.
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You ain’t kidding. What was my 13 year old’s favorite Christmas gift you ask? Why, her Pewdiepie pajama pants of course.
I really really hope I’m being whoosed. :eek:
Maybe it says something bad about me but I recognize all of the names mentioned so far in this thread (except for LA radio hosts Heidi and Frank).
It’s not you that this thread says something bad about. Only on the SDMB do people take pride in how unaware they are of entertainment and pop culture.
What the fuck is a Pewdiepie?
No, don’t bother. I don’t want to know.
Why? He’s a youtube celebrity, post videos of himself playing video games and making weird commentary.
Like many youtube celebrities, he often focuses on raising money for charity, and is, as far as I can tell, famous more or less entirely due to his own effort.
As celebrities go, youtubers like PewDiePie, the Green Brothers etc. are as inoffensive as they come.
The more recent a pop phenomenon, the greater the chance I know little or nothing about it.
When I was in my old neighborhood in Queens (guess which one!) a few weeks ago, my teenage nieces were thrilled to death because all the stars of Orange Is the New Black were hanging out at a nearby cafe (it’s taped at a studio just a few blocks from my Mom’s house). I have vaguely heard of the show, but don’t know the names or faces of ANYONE in it, save Laura Prepon. I could easily have sat down at a table next to them, and wouldn’t have paid them any mind.
Until my 11 year old son started listening to pop music 2 or 3 years back, I didn’t know who any of the current top 40 artists were. You could play me a Billboard #1 hit from, say, 2008, and I probably wouldn’t know it.
Heck, if you read me the names of the top 10 country artists on this week’s Billboard charts, I probably wouldn’t recognize most of their names.
I think you and I win; we first heard of this guy due to this thread.
I have to say… if that’s what’s popular with yoots today, our future is in sad shape. It’s like an unfunny MST3K style running commentary on video games by some Scandinavian doofus with an accent, bad mustache and weird pronunciations.
As I’ve said before…when South Park ends I will have no way of knowing what is ‘hip’ any more.
I’ll just fade away like Apollo is ST: TOS “Who Mourns for Adonis”
I don’t watch TV or cable. Haven’t for 20 years. So I am utterly clueless when it comes to modern pop culture.
My coworkers talk about The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Sons of Anarchy, Survivor, etc.
I have no idea what they’re talking about.
I just looked at Billboard’s Hot 100 for 2014. The only name I recognize is Taylor Swift, but only because I’ve seen some pop-up ads with her name in it.
I also looked at Billboard’s top money makers for 2014. I’ve never heard of Kenny Chesney, Justin Timberlake, Beyoncé, Maroon 5, Luke Bryan, or P!nk.
He’s no Game Grumps, that’s for sure.
…then he must be banned. 
Two things: LOTS of people take pride in how unaware they are of entertainment, but pop culture, and how are you so sure we aren’t lamenting our geriatric loss of cool? When you’ve been a pop culture maven for as long as many of us have your brain doesn’t have room left for new artists. Though I made room in “Hate Them!” for Pewdiepie and Game Grumps.
If by “whoosed” you mean I’m pulling legs, nope. Dead serious.
I hear you. I had to google at least half of them too. It felt a bit creepy to see most were former Disney Channel or Nickelodeon stars.
Guys, this is a very common phenomenon of getting older; you lose touch with current popular culture.
This has been going on forever and always will. Of course I know who Fred Astaire is, and I know some newer celebrities and musical acts because I have teenagers, but otherwise I would be totally clueless. I mean even more so than I am now.
ETA: Years ago I took my kids to see an Amy Adams movie where she was a fairy tale princess somehow dropped into the real world. She was breathtakingly beautiful and acted with much aplomb.
I knew who the naked Disney kids were because I am old.
You think I’m PROUD to know so little about current pop culture? I’m not! Heck, if I’d known more about current TV, I might have done a little better on ***Jeopardy! ***
In my case, I’m confessing (not bragging) that I am now as clueless about a lot of contemporary music as my Mom was about Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. I was born in 1961, and stayed very current on rock music until the late Nineties. By 2000, I’d look at the Billboard charts and think, “I don’t know who ANY of these people are!”
I’m sure there are people my age who know all the currently popular TV shows, movies and musical artists, but many others found their tastes ossifying years ago.