# TV show lines that have stuck with you for a very long time.

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**Created:** [February 20, 2010, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739 "2010-02-20T05:05:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-lines-that-have-stuck-with-you-for-a-very-long-time/529739/60 "2010-02-21T14:58:30Z")

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> [@Zeldar](#):
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> Seriously though, in the context of TV shows, and more precisely one’s memory of them, what is “a very long time”?

It’s a little frightening, really. [In another thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=550762) I realised I was listening to ‘oldies’:

> [@I listen to Oldies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-listen-to-oldies/527685/5):
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> Well, the newest CD of theirs [Green Day – JLA] I have is _Nimrod_, which was released in 1997. They released a CD last year, so they’re still current. But still, their ‘hits’ are over a decade old. Wait, let me check something…
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> Yep, my Save Ferris CD is 12-1/2 years old too. TMBG’s _Flood_ is 20 years old. _sigh_ I’ve got to pay more attention to the radio, and get some new stuff.

Sometimes I’ll watch an episode of _Star Trek: TNG_ or _Northern Exposure_ and look up an actor. Then I see that these shows were on 20 or more years ago! :eek: Yet to me, they’re not ‘old’. So when I see _Buffy_ lines, it’s a bit of a shock. (I’ve never watched the show, but I did like the original 1992 film.)

When I posted the OP, I was thinking specifically about TV shows before 1985. Those are ‘old’ to me. Culturally, I identify more closely with people in their 20s than in their 40s. They don’t have the ‘touchstones’ that 40-year-olds do; but I’ve never been married or raised a family, so I never got into the habit of ‘growing up’ and can’t really relate to many of the things my generation is into. Hearing things from the '90s being called ‘old’ makes me stop and say, ‘Whoa… Dude…’

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