This Young Generation Not Knowing Classics!
Decorating By ccr03 Updated 12 Sep 2008 , 1:54am by Deb_
My son-in-law, who is a VERY smart young man and well educated in many things, told his wife (my daughter) that he's learned more about WWII (you know ... The Big One? It was in all the papers.....) from us than he ever did in school. And I've gone head to head with more than one history teacher who tried (repeat .... TRIED
) to deduct points on my kids projects because the teacher was not as informed on WW2 as hubby and I are (we are big history buffs ... especially WW2 in the European theater).Hey Indy, are you per chance a COMBAT! fan??
(you young ones will just have to figure that one out!) 
I LOVED that show! I was preteen when it came out. "I" always was IN LOVE with the Lt. ( Jason Roberts) and my aunt (2 yrs older) loved Vic Morrow. We just DROOLED over them! LOL
Beth
Hey Indy, are you per chance a COMBAT! fan??
(you young ones will just have to figure that one out!)
I was about 7 ... it was my dad's favorite show!
One day at work, a manager was talking to me about a problem and he quipped "Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!" I laughed and said, "You DO realize that out of the 200 people in this room, I"m probably the only person old enough to understands what you just said!" 
I have a 9 month old baby and while I was pregnant we bought the real loony toons on dvd(some are in black and white) Old school Tom and Jerry . ect. We have to teach her whats actually funny.
okay, now I need to apologize for the people of my generation (I'm 27).
How can ANYONE not know who the Beatles are? Or Nancy Sinatra?
When I don't know some 'older' stuff I know it's because I'm first generation in this country, so I use that as an excuse 
Hey Indy, are you per chance a COMBAT! fan??
(you young ones will just have to figure that one out!) I was about 7 ... it was my dad's favorite show!
One day at work, a manager was talking to me about a problem and he quipped "Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!" I laughed and said, "You DO realize that out of the 200 people in this room, I"m probably the only person old enough to understands what you just said!"
Ahhhh, the days of Black and White Television! HORRIBLE special effects compared to today.....but THE BEST memories EVER!
Wow, it's so scary to realize how much younger people are so misinformed.
We are planning on making sure that our children are well versed in history, current affairs and a bit of everything.
This summer we found DVD's of old shows we used to watch. The original Batman with Adam West, the original Spideman TV shows and we are reading the original comics as well. The kids love them.
We are slowly introducing history that our children can grasp and understand. They are still so young.
We are having fun trying to explain that when we grew up there was no taping of TV shows, so when the commercials came on you got a snack and whatever. And no you could not pause the show and watch it later. Our 6 yr old get's it a bit. They are living in such a different time and there is so much happening so fast, it going to be up to us to teach them so much more than the schools can or will.
So sad to hear that someone thinks the Best Ever Band in the world was Paul McCartney's first back up band.
I use the sentence " Danger will Robinson" with our kids all the time, I keep on telling our boys that it's from a TV show. I hope to find a DVD of it soon.
This post is so cool. Thanks for the memories and the laught!
Good Luck.
When we got our dish TV, I like to catch up on old "Bonanza" episodes. When color TV first came out, we'd all load up in the car (our family had 10 people counting mom and dad) and drive to the neighbors a couple of miles away to visit on Sunday evenings just to see it in color. I loved Little Joe. He looked so cute in that green jacket. We had one of those b&w tvs that was shaped like a cube and the picture tube (remember those?) was a lot smaller than the box and had curved sides. I even watch "The Beverly Hillbillies". I don't care what you say....they are still funny.
Beth in KY-
Too funny....I was teaching an Intro to Sociology class the other day and I started to sing "Duck and Cover"...I looked up and saw 40 blank stares!!! I actually went to Youtube and showed them the clip in class...Too hilarious. They laughed so hard!!!
LP
My 15yo DS came to me a few months ago to tell me about a couple of new groups he had just heard - Def Leppard and Heart!! 
He also loves Earth Wind and Fire - his marching band's program last year featured their music. He discovered all these "new" groups thru Guitar Hero (video game). Now my 4 and 2 yo DS also know this music and these groups. My 4 yo hears the start of the new Honda Odyssey commercial on TV that plays Heart's "Barraduca" and he yells, "Mommy, Troy's Guitar Hero song!!" All my kids love Tom and Jerry cartoons. My 15 yo also knows Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite and ballet.
IndyDeb - I remember Nancy Sinatra and her boots. Growing up, there were 3 neighbor girls that were a little older than I was and they'd put on their boots and dance around to that record. I, of course, begged mom to buy me boots just like theirs so I could dance along with them! I had a record player and would play the song, "Sherry" by Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons. It was my most favorite song growing up and I would play it over and over.
I also remember mom had a washing machine with rollers - it was a treat for us when mom would let us crank it!! You "youngsters", would you believe that we rode our bikes without helmets, didn't wear kneepads to go rollerskating, and weren't strapped into a car seat/wear a seatbelt when riding in a car??! It's any wonder any of us survived those "barbaric" times!!
Brujalita-
This is THE TRUTH! Hubby and I were eating at a restaurant tonight and they were playing The Oldies Station, specifically
Sherry by Frank Vallie and The Four Seasons! I told my husband "I always LOVED this group and any song they recorded"! What about "Walk Like A Man"? Wasn't that the BEST!
Beth
Howie's been replaced by Frankie! Thank you!! Thank you!! 
I also sing "C is for COOKIE 'that's good enough for me'" by The Cookie Monster on Sesame Street. Can you tell me how to get, How to get to Sesame Streeeeet! LOL
"It's not easy, being green..."
My 4yo DD enjoys Sesame Street, but I felt a little sad when I had to go to YouTube to show her who Kermit the Frog was.
Don't feel too bad about the Taz thing though, some kids are just products of uptight parents who don't let them watch tv (uh, like me ) My DD has no idea who any of the WB cartoons are.
It's always strange to see which classics have endured; lots of kids in her preschool still love Scooby-Doo. She does too, even though she has no clue who he is LOL.
Not all us young-ins are so horribly misinformed! I'm 22 and I was definitely born in the wrong decade. My favorite movie is "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers." Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor inspired me to start dance lessons when I was 6 -- I quit when I realized I would not be learning to walk up walls. I HATE when they remake my classic movies! And when my friends refer to "Moulin Rouge" as a musical, a little part of me dies inside. Cary Grant is my Brad Pitt. I could go on and on...and on.
The Beatles thing is just soo wrong though. I mean, really? You don't know who the Beatles are?! Geez.. The Beatles are only the BEST band EVER!
P.S. Plop! Plop! Fizz! Fizz! Oh, what a relief it is! -- I love old commercials more than anything! Okay, nerdiness ending now....
We watch sooo much Hogans Heros at my house, its my 27 year old husbands favorite show.
The best way to teach tweens and young adults about anything old is to give them visuals to go with it. Visuals keep their attention longer.
PBS is a great source for music, film, theater, and history of different decades, especially during their fund-raising weekends.
Yes, I'm a member, and will continue to be one as long as I can.
Theresa
Around 10 years, I was working with a young woman (mid-20's) named Patricia and I felt so old around her, even though I'm only 9 or 10 years older. Then one day, Patricia said that she felt old. She had a teenage girl in the car with her and the girl was looking at her cassette tapes and said "Miss Patricia, who are Kool and the Gang?". 
I think parents have to have an active role in teaching their children. It's not only up to school teachers to teach them.
My kids 5,3, 1(he's not aware of these yet) love Johnny Cash and the Beatles. When my 5 year old starts talking to her friends about Johnny Cash they look at her like she came from another planet. It's all about educating your kids.
We plan on buying the Loony Tune cartoons on DVD so my kids can actually see what good cartoons are. They just don't make cartoons like they used to. I miss Loony Tunes, the Smurfs, etc.
Oh, Geez, most of you are babies compared to me. I was watching Looney Tunes when they were still making them!
Check out the listings for Cartoon Network before investing in DVDS of old cartoon shows. I know that late at night, they have on shows like Space Ghost, Johnny Quest, etc, so maybe Looney Tunes are there, too. If you have a DVD recorder, you can tape them yourself. And there's always June Bugs - around the 19th of June, they show a marathon of Bugs Bunny cartoons.
My favorite Looney Tune? Bugs, of course. My favorite cartoon? That's a toss-up. But the ones I quote most often are the Gremlin and Marvin the Martian, and Gossimer the Monster, ones.
Theresa
Oh, Geez, most of you are babies compared to me. I was watching Looney Tunes when they were still making them!
Check out the listings for Cartoon Network before investing in DVDS of old cartoon shows. I know that late at night, they have on shows like Space Ghost, Johnny Quest, etc, so maybe Looney Tunes are there, too. If you have a DVD recorder, you can tape them yourself. And there's always June Bugs - around the 19th of June, they show a marathon of Bugs Bunny cartoons.
My favorite Looney Tune? Bugs, of course. My favorite cartoon? That's a toss-up. But the ones I quote most often are the Gremlin and Marvin the Martian, and Gossimer the Monster, ones.
Theresa
Mine was "Robin Hood Daffy". (Actually it's a buck and a quarter quarter staff, but I'm not telling HIM that!)
I LOVE Loony Toons, and the ORIGINAL Muppets. Miss Piggy was ALWAYS my fave Disney also had a lot of good shows when I was younger, I enjoyed watching Steam-Boat Willie in B&W along with Goof Troop and Darkwing Duck. Smurfs were also a fave growing up along with TMNT (Ninja Turtles) I also hate remakes of songs and movies (although Moulin Rouge is pretty good).
I agree that parents must play a role in educating their children. Teachers can't do it all nor do they know it all.
Tonight, as I spend our mother-daughter-quality-time together with my 16 yr old, watching "Family Guy", I realize that many of the folks watching this show just won't get a lot of the story lines in The Simpsons and in Family Guy because they don't know history or old movies or where the quote came from, etc.
Tonight, Family Guy was doing a spoof on "North by Northwest", that great black-n-white, Jimmy Stewart movie. My daughter said "I really want to rent that movie and see it for real!" SHE knows it's from a JImmy Stewart movie.....most of her friends just think Peter is running from an airplane.
But I notice so many great gags and funny lines in these two shows will slide by unnoticed because "the kids just don't get it".
Im 22 yrs old i know what you guys are talking about my grandparents have a ton of old 45s and i listen to everything from dow wop to metal to opera, and my mom raised me on all her favorite tv shows like the original batman series and green hornet and i love love love love old classic movies and cartoons. so i guess that im lucky enough to have been raised by people that taught me to enjoy the classics that are truley worth watching.
julia
Tonight, Family Guy was doing a spoof on "North by Northwest", that great black-n-white, Jimmy Stewart movie.
Doug was such a gentleman and PM'd me that I mixed up a couple of movies here! North by Northwest was not only a color movie, but starred Cary Grant. I was confusing it with with the black-n-white Jimmy Stewart movie "Vertigo"! (ok look ... they were both good looking leading men! )
My three yearl old loves the Muppet Show! We've had the time life series for a while now and just bought the first and second seasons last Christmas.
Oh, and every once in a while we do catch "C is for Cookie" on S. Street.
Thought of another, how about Schoolhouse Rock?
Wow I am only 18 and I know nearly all about what ya'll are talking about. My parents raised me on Andy Griffith, Little house on the prairie, and Hogan's Heroes. Ooh and I can't forget the rifleman! Chuck Conners was one of the best! I'm glad there are still others who like what we do.
I was listening to the radio in the car with my 9 yr old DD and there was an Elvis song on the radio. She said "who sings this?" I told her it was Elvis and she just got this blank look on her face and said "Who?" I felt so old.
My three yearl old loves the Muppet Show! We've had the time life series for a while now and just bought the first and second seasons last Christmas.
Oh, and every once in a while we do catch "C is for Cookie" on S. Street.
Thought of another, how about Schoolhouse Rock?
"Conjunction Junction.....What's Your Function?" I know, you ALL think that all I've ever done with my life is sit in front of the television.....come on now....don't you? LOL
It's weird. My kids didn't watch THAT much television, but, because I am musical....I kind of "absorb" music! LOL
Beth in KY
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