Speed Racer. I loved the heck out of that show when I was a little kid, and it was my introduction to Japanese anime back before much of it had hit the US (along with Kimba the White Lion).
Tried watching it as an adult, and it’s…insipid. I still like the art (though it’s pretty basic by modern anime standards) but the dialog and voice acting…ugh. I felt my brain cells dribbling out my ears.
(These days I still like a lot of the anime art styles, but I’m still not a fan of many of the stories.)
I don’t remember that show as remotely scary. But I have never rewatched it and so maybe you’re right.
Me too. I sprinkle them on vanilla ice cream and then add chocolate syrup. Yumm!
Reminds me of a story about Charlie Duke - he is an Apollo era NASA astronaut, somehow he convinced the nutritionists that along with TANG and bite sized apricot squares and all that stuff that they should include hominy grits in the onboard mission menus. I guess he’s a little bit good ole boy. And they did. So he loved ‘em . . . And . . . nobody else did. The transcripts show this. They are 150,000 miles from earth, and Charlie is asking the crew “hey John, you gonna eat your grits?” “No!” “I’ll take ‘em.”
“I don’t remember that show as remotely scary. But I have never rewatched it and so maybe you’re right.”
Little kids remember. This wasn’t The Flintstones or The Jetsons or even Scooby Doo people were getting wacked, and evil scientists and the rest of it. The invisible monster created in a lab, and the one eyed spider were the two that seemed frightening as I recall.
Oh yes, the electric monster. It really scared me. Part of it I think was the soundtrack, rather similar to the sound you hear when the monster from the Id is coming, in Forbidden Planet.
Those are probably the two best episodes of Jonny Quest. The invisible monster was scary while it was invisible. Once they throw paint on it so you can see it, it honestly looks a little silly. That robot spider, though…it honestly gave me nightmares. That episode takes place entirely at night, and it’s wonderfully moody, with mysterious lights in the distance, unconscious guards with weird marks on their foreheads, and that robotic spider creeping around a lonely military base. I think the fact that the spider was utterly silent the whole time is what made it especially unnerving.
Miracle Whip and Republicans.
S. E. Hinton
We all read this schlock in American Lit in the 70’s and thought it was so cool that a teenager wrote it.
About 10 years ago (I was in my 50’s) I re-read “The Outsiders” and “That was Then This is Now”. Of course it reads like a kid wrote it now that I read it as an adult. They’re both terrible.
[Carnac the Magnificent] “Things that are white, nasty, and should be kept in a jar!”
Nothing but net!
Threadwinner.
Hostess went bankrupt and sold off the brand names. The twinkies now have a recipe altered to make it possible to make all in one factory, freeze, and then ship around as needed, where they used to be made in a local bakery for distribution. Thus the worse taste and texture.
They are still using “The Outsiders” in middle school Language Arts classes. I was astonished to find that many 21st century middle-schoolers love it (I thought it was kind of dated back in the 70s, when teachers assigned it to be hip and cool).
Wonder bread, marshmallow fluff, and bologna.
I still like Prydain, but I’ve had terrible rereading both a wrinkle in time and the phantom tollbooth.
Homemade aversion therapy!
I loved Twinkies when I was a kid. I ate one in my thirties, and it was awful. Did they change the recipe or did my tastes change? I think it’s a little of the former, and a lot of the latter.
ETA: I should have read the thread before posting, but, yeah, Twinkies did use to be good, right?
Better than now, anyway. One thing that is really good are Aldi or Walmart brand Swiss Rolls. Still great.
Never read Prydain, but I tried reading Phantom Tollbooth as an adult, because I missed it as a kid. Gawd, it was boring. I read maybe a third of it and stopped because I was just hate-reading it by that point… I love A Wrinkle in Time, but I loved all of Madeleine L’Engle’s books.
I think it’s probably fine for a kid who wants some introductory level fantasy, it’s just not for anybody else. Sort of like Daniel Tiger is great, but no reason to watch it if your over 4.
A few (probably) misremembered spoilers for a 60 year old children’s book:
Could someone explain this one?