- Hey, welcome to Geek This. My name is Dave, and with me is David. - Hello everybody. Welcome back to another wonderful episode. Gee, - By wonderful you mean something that we definitely didn't just pull out of our rear ends in the last 20 minutes. - Hey, you know what? Sometimes those are the best episodes. - So yeah, life's been life in. So David came up with a great idea.
We're gonna just do a little bit of a nostalgia, road trip freeform, talking about TV shows, movies, you know, the the, the stuff that we were geeking out about before we realized we were geeking out about it. Maybe that's a good way to put it. - Yeah, so like, I was born in eighty nine, eighty seven - Maybe You - Were born, what? 80? - Yeah, 87. - Seven. Yeah.
So we, we both, you know, we grew up in the, the nineties, so, you know, anything that we watched as kids that sort of helped form what we might enjoy as in the future. - Yeah, it was, it was funny 'cause before we hit record, David was like, here, I'm gonna send you this list. And immediately, uh, just, it was TV shows and like, nostalgia washed over me and I was like, I feel really old looking at some of this stuff. So, yeah, I mean, we could, we could start with tv.
Were you, so I feel like at least with most of my friends, you kind of fell in one of two camps. You either a Nickelodeon kid or you were a Disney kid. Which one did you fall on? - So, I mean, I watched a little bit of both. I probably watched more Disney. We didn't have cable at home, so what I caught was normally like either at Friend's house or at grandparents' house. Yeah. I would probably lean more towards Disney than Yeah, - The Nickelodeon.
Yeah. I was a, I was a Nickelodeon kid, which, you know, based on certain documentaries that have come out in the last couple of months could be a good or bad thing. So yeah, a lot of, a lot of what I grew up with was on Disney, which is, it's wild to me growing up in the conservative home that I grew up in. The fact that my parents would be okay with probably 95% of what was on Nickelodeon.
They were only, like, there's only really one show that I remember being told I absolutely could not watch. Um, and that was Rocco's Modern Life. Yeah. - Oh, really? - There was a specific episode, which I could understand that a specific episode Yeah. That came on and I'm not gonna get into it, but my parents saw that and they were like, Nope, nope, we don't agree with that.
Nope. Can't watch that. So, yeah, but - See, I, my mom, you know, I grew up in a very, a very strict Christian household with a single mom who was just trying to do her best, you know? So there were certain things that I couldn't watch just because our pastor at the time told my mom that was evil. You know, like, like Pokemon, you know, I, I started watching Pokemon when I was like, when it first came out, but then not long after that, my mom was convinced that it was the devil.
- Yeah. I, I don't think I've really had any issues with that so much. I think the only thing that got banned in my house along those lines were the Harry Potter books. So, um, yeah. That my parents messed me up because of that. Now, I guess , but yeah. Going back to kinda what we were talking about Nick, Nickelodeon, Disney or whatever, what were, what were some of like the standout shows where, uh, you were always excited if it was on?
Or, or were you just kind of excited to watch anything that was on kind of cable? - So I think if we're going to talk about like, shows Mm-Hmm. that were on in the nineties, the big ones we have to hit are the superhero shows that came out back then. You know, we, uh, you have Spider-Man, the animated series X-Men, the animated series, Batman, the Animated series, you know, those are those. And, and then like the Ninja Turtle Yes.
Show, oh man, you know, that started in the eighties, but went into the nineties. Uh, so many of those shows, you know, like formed Geek Culture. And I think like those, those were the early introductions to me to Yeah. Superheroes. Yeah. You know, without, I didn't read comics, you know, we, we didn't have money for me to, you know, buy comics and the internet existed Yeah. But barely back then. So with these, these shows, that really showed me, oh wow.
Look at this whole, you know, superhero world. Mm-Hmm. that's out there. And without them, I don't know if I would be the geek - Guy today. Yeah. I would, I would agree. Those, those shows, I wanna say both Spider-Man and X-Men were both on Fox Kids, right? I think, - Yeah. - I'm trying to think of some of the other, like, there were some other superhero shows, like you had Captain Planet Street Sharks, uh, biker Mice from Mars. Do you remember that one?
- Yeah. Not as much as Street Sharks, but I loved Street Sharks mainly be, I knew I had Toys of the Street Sharks before I knew that it was a TV show, which the TV show was actually made. Right. Mainly to sell the toys. - Yeah. We, that's one thing that like our kids will not understand is the, the word for it is called Toy, but basically where you have the concept for a toy and in order to sell the toy, you make the TV show. And it's not the other way around.
We grew up in like the, the pinnacle of that era. I, I would say that a lot of the shows that we probably watched were probably toy inspired first. I mean, that was more like mid eighties, but we, we were in a lot of that. Yeah. - Yeah. I feel like, uh, that probably started with like Transformers. - Yeah. Uh, there is actually a great series. I think it's on Netflix called The Toys That Made Us Definitely something Worth Yeah.
Watching. I think there's a, a few seasons out there, but they go through all of that stuff. I remember Street Sharks though, because we have the toys and my, uh, I, I made my immediately younger brother Rick, I made him mad at me. He's actually the same age as you. I made him mad and he chased me around my mom's house with this street shark that he had. And I hid under a blanket and he smashed my nose in with, with his street shark .
I just saw that they're re-releasing like the street shark toys because I guess there's rumors of a movie or something like that happening. And see, - I hadn't heard about that, but I, I did. Oh, did you - Order the New Street Sharks? Oh, I, I - Need to get, because yeah, they were some of, sorry. They were some of my favorite toys growing up, . So when I heard they were releasing new ones, like, I have to get these for my son now if he's going
to appreciate them at all. Probably not. But - Yeah, I, I wanna, I wanna figure out which street sharks my brother and I had. 'cause we only had one each, but I remember, I swear they must have had like a lead core in them. 'cause they were heavy as all get out, especially when it's hitting your nose. Um, they were, but yeah. - Do you have any idea which ones - You guys had? Uh, you know, if I looked them up, I would, I would know.
I had, whichever, whichever shark was, I think he was supposed to be like the great white shark - With the leather jacket. - I think so. Yeah. The blue one. So I, well, there's two blue ones. Yeah. Yeah. I'll have to like look through here. - So I, I remember having three, I think I might've had more, but there are three that I remember in particular. One was the, the shark that had, that had the leather jacket on one was like, he looked like kinda like a, a stingray.
He had this like, vampire look almost. He like had his arms out to the side and had like a cape looking thing, but I think it was supposed to be like a stingray shark. Oh, - Interesting. - And then I had a, like a, a whale. - Okay. Yeah. I've, I've seen the killer whale one. I think we might have had, just looking at like the original artwork. Not even looking at the original toys you had. I think they called him streaks. He was like the, the roller blade shark.
'cause you had to have one, one of those in your nineties TV shows. Somebody had to use roller blades. I think that's the one I had. Right. And I think my brother might have had the hammerhead shark, no pun intended. Like, that's not meant to be a joke. I legitimately think he had the brown hammerhead shark figure. That's crazy. So, yeah, I think those are, I'll have to get those. And hopefully I don't get bashed in the head with those in my, you know, to late thirties now, .
But yeah, I do remember a lot of like, weird TV shows. And those were generally on Fox. I remember watching Earthworm Gym on, on, I think it was Fox, which was a, it was a Warner Brothers cartoon that I think was like a spinoff or something from like an maniacs. It actually, I think it shared like a style with Batman, the animated series. I don't know if you ever watched Freakazoid. - I, I remember it. Like I am, I can like picture it, but I don't think I ever really watched it.
- Okay. Yeah. It was created by Bruce Tim and Paul Dini, which would explain why it looked like Batman, the animated series. That was another superhero kind of thing. It was like, what if Jim Carrey was a superhero is the best way I would put it. Right. Um, I just like, I just remember a lot of weird Yeah. Gargoyles Gargoyles was one that I was never told I couldn't watch.
But you could, you could almost sense mom or grandma or somebody was getting ready to walk in the room as soon as the credits started rolling on that show. So I didn't watch a lot of it. - Yeah. I mean, they do kind of look like demons if you're not, like, if you don't know what you're watching. So I could see some elderly people being taken - Aback. - Like, what are you watching this demon show? - . Yeah. - Did you watch any of the, did you watch any like anime?
- I think the closest when you were younger? Think the closest thing I ever got to anime was Pokemon. Maybe, maybe some Digimon. But yeah, I was not a fan of Yugi o at the time. 'cause that was becoming popular the older I got. And I was just like, oh, don't know. That's weird. - Yeah. It wasn't really until I got into like middle school is when it like Mm-Hmm. really started to take it off, take off.
But for some reason, even though my mom wouldn't let me watch Pokemon, uh, you know, I kind of got away with watching other things. You know, like Yugi O and Digimon. You would think that they would all be kind of like covered under the same like blanket. Yeah. Don't watch that. But for some reason, - Yeah, I don't know, - Like had no issue probably because the pastor didn't come out and say, don't let - Them watch. That. I think was the one where I was like, it felt a lot darker to me.
Like, oh, this is the, this is the, yeah, this is the adult card game and I should never play this or watch it or whatever. But I was all in on Pokemon at one point. - Yeah. I, I definitely remember vividly in like seventh or eighth grade having, so I had a collection of Yugio cards because I had a, a couple friends that would also play. And one of my good friends, his dad drank Crown Royal. Well, he had these bags that the Crown Royal came in. So I Mm-Hmm. , he gave me one.
So I kept my Yugio cards in a Crown Royal bag because I thought they are cool. So Cool. - Did, did something bad happen to that - Bag being a kid? Like - ? Okay. No, - No, but like, I don't think, my mom, my mom doesn't drink. Oh, okay. So she didn't know what the bag was. She just thought it was a purple. Well, that's good. Purple bag. But, um, I had no idea that it came from an alcohol bottle. Like, I was like, oh, this is a neat bag. So, but I'm sure everywhere I went that I pulled that out.
Right. What is this kid doing with this Crown Royal bag? - Yeah. That's funny. Obviously. - So you, you said you were more No, go ahead. Oh, go ahead. I was just gonna say, you said you were more of a, a Nickelodeon kid now saying that. So you, I assume you watched all the, all that and Amanda show. - Oh yeah. I watched a lot of, like, the, the li the, I guess you'd call it live action comedy stuff. Yeah. All that. Keenan and Kel, the Amanda Show, Drake and Josh.
Uh, and then I loved, I think, so it was funny, my, my dad used to watch Runin Stimpy, which is clearly not a show made for children, but it would air with other shows that were for children. Um, you know, we could go from watching Renin Stimpy really early in the morning to an hour later. We're watching Doug, which was one of the most wholesome cartoons on Nickelodeon at the time.
I, I was in love with the TV show, Doug, uh, because I, I don't know, like they made him just perfectly relatable to me. I always wanted to have a band like Doug wanted to have with Skeeter, you know, it was a tribute band to the beats. But, uh, I, and I also wanted to be a superhero, like Quail Man.
But man, I watched, I, I think I started phasing out of Nickelodeon probably in high school, probably my later years in high school, because I think it was about that time, maybe a little before that they got rid of sncc, which was kind of their shorthand for Saturday Night Nick. And like, that was, everybody talks a lot about like TGIF, which we can talk about too. But Snick was one of those magic things because depending on what was playing, my parents would let me stay up.
Usually they did not like me to stay up too late. But like, we used to watch Kenan and Kel and then maybe Bla I think was on SNCC at one time. And then Are you afraid of the dark? And, uh, they would always monitor Are are you afraid of the Dark? Because I was afraid of the dark and they knew that, uh, as a a younger child, I suffered from night terrors, so.
- Wow. So maybe that - Show you, it was one of those - - I could, my parents watched it with me and when they were like, not this is too much. That was it. We were done. It got shut off. But man, I remember, I, I feel like I am one of the last vestiges of people that will remember the iconic Orange Nickelodeon couch, you know? Uh, and actually being there for it. I always wanted that couch. I wanted to sit on that couch. But yeah, I was definitely a Nickelodeon kid.
- Do they have anything like that for kids anymore? I mean, what do kids even watch these days besides like YouTube and TikTok? - I mean, I will say my kids are not a good judge. Yeah. - And Bluey, - My kids are not really a good judge of what do kids in Double Digits watch? Because on one hand I have a 10-year-old who will watch a lot of YouTube kids and lets watches a lot of like, creative stuff. Not really any shows necessarily, but she watches a lot of artists and stuff.
And then I have a 15-year-old that she's kinda mature for a 15-year-old, you know, this. So I've kind of loosened the reins a little bit. And she's watching stuff like, I think right now she's watching IZO on Netflix. She'll go sometimes and she'll go and binge watch Modern Family or Friends or something like that. So she's just a, a weird one when it, when it comes to being a teenager and watching tv. Uh, but I think like, they have like Teen Nick channels.
They have like a Teen Nick category on Paramount Plus. So I don't, I don't know. Mm-Hmm. , that's maybe a great question to ask a bunch of teenagers in a not creepy way. - I, I mean, like, my son is three and a half, so I know like some of the shows that he watches. But as far as non toddlers, yeah, it's like, I, I don't even know what, what kids watch these days once they get past, you know, PJ Mask and Paul. - Yeah. I like, I don't, I don't know either.
And it's not that I don't know what my kids watch, it's just they are not the norm and I know that they're not the norm. - And I guess with, with what, what is, I mean, what is the norm That's true these days? Because with streaming, with streaming Mm-Hmm. , everything is at our fingertips. So it's not like it was back then where you watched what was on tv. You know, it's not like you could just sit down and watch any show that's ever existed.
- Yeah. If it was, if it was, you know, eight 30 and, you know, they were pulling out the orange couch for sncc, if you weren't there, you were missing something. Um, and I don't know, like there's part of me that I kinda wish that I was able to give my kids that experience because we definitely live in a society that's like, I want it, I need it now. I can't wait for it. Um, you know, that, that FOMO mentality, that fear of missing out and, uh, it's, I don't know.
I, I, - Okay. I, I feel like with like the do the death of Cable, which is, I, there might be a couple nails left to put in that coffin, but I feel like it's pretty much dead. There's less and less Mm-Hmm. Appointment television where, where you like, oh, did you catch the new episode of this that dropped last night? Right. Yeah. - Now it's more like, oh, hey look, they dropped an entire season of Fallout. Uh, did you watch it in one day? Or did you spend a whole week watching every episode?
Um, and, you know, two weeks later it's probably not as relevant anymore. Uh, which is what makes this show so hard to do. . - So I I feel like unless it's like the biggest show, like a Game of Throne Show or something like that where everyone is like watching it. Yeah. The night it drops, uh, there's just not much TV like that anymore. And it, it makes me kinda sad. - Yeah. I mean, I know for, actually I will, I can kinda speak to that a little bit. So there is, uh, a service I subscribe to.
It is called Dropout. And I don't know if you have heard of or remember College Humor at all. So, uh, yeah, college Humor was a comedy network and they actually, I think they went under and they got bought by a guy named Sam Reich who turned college humor into Dropout. And that, like, that's a whole thing. But I subscribe to it and it's like $7 a month, 6 99, and holy cow, there's some great content on that platform. One show that Wendy and I, it comes out every other Monday, actually.
It's every Monday, but it's like one new episode on Monday and then the following Monday, the Do a Behind the Scenes. But it's a show called Game Changer. And the concept is you have generally three contestants and every time they come onto the platform, they have no idea what kind of game show they're gonna be on. It changes every single episode. And I don't wanna go into too much, but I definitely look it up on YouTube. It's not, it's not necessary. It's not a family friendly thing.
So, you know, be advised, but it's hilarious. And like that is kind of the only quote unquote appointment television that, that we watch at, at this point. You know, any, like, if it's Monday, either I'm telling Wendy, Hey, there's a new episode of Game Changer. Or she's asking me, do we get a new episode this week? Or is it behind the scenes?
And they have other, other shows like that too, like Make Some Noise and Dirty Laundry, which is, is a fun kind of like social deduction rumor, mill style interview show. It's, it's fun. But yeah, if you, if you have $7 to Spare, try Dropout for a month. And I'm sure you'll find something that you like. So there's my plug. I'll go talk to Sam for money. - Well, we did sort of take a, a detour on this episode. We went from talking about nostalgia to Yeah. The current state of television .
But our, I'm sure whoever's listening to this that they know us by now, they, they know for sure. We don't always take the direct path to, - But I mean, we can jump back onto that. That's cool. We were talking about tv. Do you wanna transition to movies or, okay, sure. Um, - Sure. - What, like, did you have any movies? 'cause again, we're VCR generation. Did you have any movies that you like maybe had on tape that you just probably ruined by watching them So much.
- So I will say, you know, in the nineties it was the, the big push for like Disney collectible movies where they always came out with, oh, this is the one that has the, the Black Diamond on it. And that like, um, we had a lot of VHSs Yeah. Of the Disney movies and, and we got, got a lot of 'em from Goodwill. I remember that. Because back then used to be able to go to go, go to Goodwill and they had a bunch of Yeah.
Like cool stuff. And now I feel like you got the Goodwill and it's - Just, it's not good stuff. - Not the same - , - But maybe it Right, right. It's bad Will, but maybe that's just, you know, looking at Goodwill through a kid's eyes. You'd think Everyth is so cool. - Yeah. My, my best Tad - Probably toy, sorry, toy Story. - Think you're just talking over each other. Go - Ahead. No, you're fine. Probably Toy Toy Story was my number one really movie that I watched
over and over and over back then. Wow. - That's, that's wild. My best friend Tad had, I mean, up until, I don't know, sometime in high school, I think he literally had every single Disney movie that came out on VHS. So, yeah. Oh, wow. So it was pretty wild. Um, didn't rewatch a lot of Disney movies. I think we only actually owned a couple. I think we owned The Lion King and Aladdin. 'cause they were my two favorites. Maybe Pocahontas, I don't remember.
Uh, but the movie that I, I just burned up was Batman from 1989. That was, that is one of the very few movies that I can quote from start to finish as I'm watching it. You know, I got, I got my girls just rolling on the floor because I don't ever do that. Like, I do that with a couple of Christmas movies and that's about it. Yeah. With, with Batman, they're just like, holy cow, you really do know this movie Inside and out, don't you?
And I was like, yeah, yeah. My parents still have that pH - So knowing that, knowing that I'm gonna have to go back and listen to our episode on Oh yeah. That Batman movie Li listen through that to to hear your take again. 'cause that was, that - Was a long time - Ago. A long time ago that we recorded that. Yeah. I'll have, - I'll have to go back and listen to - It. So I'd be interested to, to hear, hear what your thoughts were on that knowing.
Yeah. How many times you watched that now, because I don't think I realized that I, - It's one of those things that I didn't realize how much I had watched it until probably about a month ago. It was, I just saw it on one of the streaming services and I was like, have girls ever watched this? And Grace is like, maybe I don't remember it. And Leigh's like, I don't think I've ever watched it. And I was like, hold on. We're going in the way back machine.
- Are there any movies from the nineties that, that you remember loving that may have been not as popular, that weren't like the biggest movies ever? - I think the one that stands out to me is Small Soldiers. Do you remember that movie? I don't know how popular it was because I didn't care how popular it was when I was younger, but that was a movie that, yeah, I remember watching it and I'm like, how did they do this?
I want all of my toys to be alive, but I also don't need them to be shooting me and murdering each other. Um, but yeah, I think Small Soldiers was a big one for me that I don't, I don't know if it was as popular as I know, like they had like deals with like Burger King and stuff, but I don't know if that necessarily makes anything popular, but I'm trying to think. If you have something, go right ahead. I'm, I'm trying to think of less popular movies. - I really enjoyed Ending In The Cupboard.
I feel like that one, that one, like while it was, you know, it was, well it was like known, but I feel like that's one that Mm-Hmm. kind of gets forgotten about. - Yeah. Actually I almost said that, but I think I've only watched it twice ever. Yeah. - Oh really? Oh, we should do a, we should do a watch. That'd be fun. A rewatch of that, because that's a really good movie and it has some very heart heartwarming moments on that. Man, - I'm writing that down.
- And that almost said a, a never ending story, but that actually the eighties, - Another movie that, yeah. I don't, man, I can't, I'm having a hard time thinking of like, not popular movies from the nineties. - Yeah. I mean, back then a lot of what we digested, you know, was going to be like the more popular stuff. It was harder to find the, the small, is it niche? - Niche, niche. I always say niche. Niche - . Yeah. Find those little things that no one else knows about.
Because before the internet you, like, you saw commercials for stuff and that was the stuff that you - Yeah. Oh, that you, uh, page Master. The Page Master with McCulley Culligan and - Oh, that's a good one. - Christopher Lloyd. Yeah. Like, that's one of those lesser knowns. The Sandlot, I think that's becoming more popular. Like, 'cause it's that nostalgia thing. Um, oh, I just had another one. Oh, Dennis the Menace.
Did you ever watch the Dennis the Menace, the movie with Walter Mattau as Mr. Wilson? - Yeah. I mean, I, I think I did. It's not one that like jumps out to me like, oh yeah, I I remember loving that. Also, - Fern Gully. I was in love with Fern Gully. Um, also one of the movies that like made me realize as I thought back about, like, to my childhood thinking, what movies should I introduce my kids to?
I was scared a lot as a kid because Fern Gully was great until Hexis shows up and then it's a terrifying movie. And I didn't want anything to do with any kind of rainforest. All I wanted to do was save Batty and get out. That, that was it. - , oh, I, I've got one for you. One of the, the lesser watched Disney movies, James and The Giant Peach. - Yep. Yep. That was one. I think I've only seen that once or twice.
I think we watched it in school, uh, when it was like new on, on VHSI think that's the only time I've ever watched it. Uh, did you ever watch Tall Tale? It was a Disney - Movie. Yeah. Yeah. I really like with Pepi and - Paul Bunion. - Who was - The, uh, John, - John Henry Paul Bunion, and j was it John? John Henry? I almost said John Wayne. I was like, - Different - John. A different John. - Yeah. Yep. That was one that I, I don't know why, but I really enjoyed it.
I watched it a a couple times. Oh. - I used to quote that all the time. You know, like, I'm the root Mises cowboy. I - Didn't even realize that was from that movie. I - Can - Wow. That's wild. - It's like, I, I can draw faster. . Like, he had a whole That's funny. Spiel, man. Thi this is just making me wanna - What's watch on this movie? What's your opinion? - Well, are we just gonna turn into like a, a nineties - Rewatch podcast?
I mean, if only there was one of those that Mike Riva hosted and would maybe make more episodes for, that'd be awesome. I need to know, what is your opinion on the All Dogs Go to Heaven movies? - Did - You say movies? Yeah. There were at least two plural. - Oh, well, I, I enjoyed the first one. I didn't guess, I didn't realize there were more. - Yeah, I hate both of them. . I hate both of them.
- Yeah. They're, they're not movies that I like hold dear, but I like, I enjoyed the first one, I think. - Yeah. I don't know why I don't so much. Don't know. I, I, it is one of those things that's like, something must have happened to me as a kid that I don't remember, which surprised that's most of my childhood. Um, something happened and it's related to that movie, but I hate both of those movies. I, I will never bring myself to watch them ever.
Oh, Tom and Huck with Jonathan Taylor Thomas and what's his name? Brad Renfro. Did you ever watch that? 1995? - I can picture it, but I, I don't - Remember anything about it. Yeah, my sister, so I have a sister who is the same age as my wife, so she's, uh, double digit, that's higher than mine. And , my sister was just, I mean, 95, that was like the era of Jonathan Taylor Thomas.
And so when Tom and Huck came out, like she was gaga over this, and I think she bought that with her own money when it came out on VHS. And I loved that movie a whole heck of a lot. I'll have to see if I can find that somewhere. I, I don't know if it was a Disney movie. It was, it was a Disney movie, but I bet it's not on Disney Plus because there's probably something, uh oh. Are you losing me? - You're waking up. - Well then I guess I'll quit using the internet. - Oh, you're, you're good now.
- I'll quit using the internet. You're good now. That's it. I'm done. That's all it was. I was just, I had multiple tabs open. Yeah. Wow. What a, what a trip. Yeah. - Is is there anything else that jumps out from your childhood that that really stands out? Okay, let, let's go to, we talked about this a little bit before we started recording. There's a lot of, you know, reboots and sequels and things that are coming out.
Is there anything from our childhood that you wish would get a sequel or a reboot? - So I would, I would like to see And Are You Afraid of The Dark Reboot? Which I know that they did, and I don't know if it's still going or not. Uh, I think they did like a movie version or a couple of movies and they were just not great. But I would love to see some, some, I'm making a mess over here. Uh, I would like to see like an act like actual, like horror movie people, Jordan Peele.
Um, oh geez, I just had somebody else's name in my head. Um, anyway, I would love to see those horror veterans, you know, people that are actually working in it, work on a new version of that series. I would also like to maybe see Doug come back.
I think that would be, that would be fun because, and it would be timely too, because Doug was about, you know, you had like diverse people in Doug and it wasn't so on the nose and it didn't feel like it was being, you know, a phrase that I hate, but, you know, shoved down my throat. But, you know, it showed diversity in a really good way and it, it wasn't an impediment to the show.
And I don't know, I think that maybe it would be cool to, to see that come out, you know, just a new version of that. - Yeah. I think, I think I knew Doug like reframed for Current Day could be cool. - What about you? - I'm, I'd be curious if, if, you know, kids these days would gravitate towards something like that, or if it would mainly be like people our age who grew up in the nineties.
- I mean, possibly. I, I think, I think it would have to probably be done kind of in the style of like Stephen Universe or, uh, I can't remember what they call that animation style, but something a little wacky just to get attention. Uh, because Doug's pretty tame. Uh, I know that that Disney Mm-Hmm. Disney actually got it, I think a, B, C or something. They got it at some point and you had like, you know, knew Doug and it was, it was not the same.
I don't know. I mean, even if it was just something with that spirit, I think that would be really, really cool. - So if saying that, if you would've asked me like a couple years ago, I would've said X many and Made series. But if you have listened, if you've been listening to us, then we just had an episode about that X-Men 97, which is, you know, the, the sequel. Mm-Hmm. reboot, not reboot, like, but the continuation of the old X-Men series.
So since that one is already actually done, I think I'm going to go with something like all that, you know, if there was like a kid's version of SNL that that was kind of the hole that Yeah. All that filled. - Yeah. And also I think if Keenan Thompson would come back to produce it, executive produce, uh, be the showrunner something, I think that that could be really, really successful.
And, you know, we could, uh, it, it could bring on a whole new group of comedians, which I think that we're, we're kinda lacking in that. Like so many of the comedians that we have right now are, oh, they were on Vine, or they're on TikTok, or they're Instagram famous or whatever. But like, putting these people in like a skit situation, I think, I think that would just be hilarious. Because SNL hasn't been funny in a long time.
They succeeded with the Beavis and Butthead Skid, but they have, they haven't been great. - I, they, I don't know they have hit or miss episodes. I, I watch it pretty regularly and there are, there are some episodes I watch the entire thing. Yeah. And don't laugh once, but then there are some episodes that have me laughing through the whole thing. So it really depends on, I think a lot of it depends on the host and how, how well they mingle with Yeah. The - Cast. Yeah. For sure.
- But yeah, that's, that's the one I think I would like to - See. Yeah, that's a good one. - That or, you know, just more sitcoms. I feel like, you know, the, the sitcom has sort of died out on tv. You don't see many anymore. Yeah. - And a lot of them just seem like they're kind of sequels or spinoffs of something for a nostalgia's sake. Yeah. Which I guess is fine, but I don't know. There's some, there's, there's a magic missing.
I don't know. I don't feel like there's a lot of entertainment that we consume now that hits the way that it did when we were younger. And maybe it's just because we're older. I'm sure our parents could tell us the same thing. - Yeah. And I feel like it, I guess with sitcoms, even ones that are made, they have a harder time finding an audience because of the lack of, you know, that cable.
Mm-Hmm. television format, you know, because, because before, you know, if it was, you know, eight o'clock, you could turn on any random channel and there's probably a sitcom on, - Or, you know, you knew what was on at eight o'clock. You know, I remember, I remember being in high school and House was on House md and that was one of those things that we had picked up a couple of episodes here and there and it clicked and it became like a family thing.
We would all sit down and watch the latest episode of House. And we, I mean, we don't really do that too much. Like our family will do something like that. Like, we'll watch Taskmaster on YouTube, um, and we'll watch maybe one or two episodes Mm-Hmm. during dinner or something like that. But we don't really have any, oh, it's Monday, let's watch it.
- Yeah. We don't what, so the, I guess the closest thing we have to something like that now is the wife and I, we watch Ava Elementary together and we used to watch, you know, new Girl and Brooklyn Nine Nine. Like, all the shows that we used to watch together are over, um, most of them. So it, yeah, I don't know it, I guess we will see what the future of television brings it. It's definitely a different environment than it used to be. I think if we're Oh yeah, we sum up for sure our episode.
- Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we don't consume TV the way we used to. Our kids will never consume it the way we used to. It's interesting to be at this age, uh, and, and see how much it's changed and some, some for the better, some for the worst, you know. But I'm glad that we'll always be able to, you know, have that nostalgia of Oh, street sharks. Heck yeah. You know, Jos 'em, - Right. Yeah. I, it's crazy.
Like our generation, how much has changed, you know, not just in television, but with just technology in general. And I feel like we're like the, the prime generation to see the changes because we, you know, we, we, in our early years, we caught like right before the technology boom where everyone had a personal - Computer.
Yeah. Well, I think we're kind of the only generation that watched it change so rapidly, but also embrace it as it changed, you know, like the generation that we are, you know, like my dad told me, he was like, you were like two years old and you understood how to use the VCR player. You know, like you knew that when it was over that you would stop it and you would rewind it so you could watch it again.
That was at two, you know, and then like I've, I've always been a big adopter of new technologies and things like that. I'm always very curious about it. I, when the idea of cord cutting came along in the early aughts, I was like, this would be cool because I don't have, you know, $150 a month to spend on Direct TV where I'm gonna spend six hours looking for something to watch rather than watch it.
And now let's fast forward 20 years, I'm spending 40, 50 bucks a month still trying to figure out what to watch , you know? So yeah. It's, it's interesting. And it don't know John Hodgman, he's a comedian, does a great podcast called the Judge Sean Hodgman podcast. He does not talk very highly about, uh, nostalgia because essentially nostalgia is a liar. And it is, but dang, it's such a good liar. You know, like nothing is ever gonna be as great as we remember it.
But I like to remember things as great as I remember them, you know? - Yeah. That's why maybe there are some things we shouldn't revisit, right? - Like, I'm trying to think, there's gotta be something - Like, like Batman and Robin. Like we, we probably should have never revisited that. - Oh yeah, that's true. - . - Yikes. So that was kind of a, a little impromptu trip down memory lane for us. Hopefully it was for you guys as well.
If you have anything that you'd like to share with us about your own nostalgia, 'cause some of y'all are older than us, some of y'all are younger than us, uh, you know, what are shows that you used to watch that you don't watch anymore, that kind of thing. Now, just let us know. Uh, David, do you have anything else you wanna add? - If there's one show that you would like to have rebooted or have a sequel to, let us know.
Just put it, put in the comments on Facebook or send us a message or something and give us some feedback for the next episode. - Yeah, so that all said, thank you guys so much for listening. You can go to geek this podcast.com to find all of our other episodes and find us on social media. And until then, you know, enjoy whatever you're enjoying. Bye . Bye. We still don't know how to do this after how many episodes? All right, we'll talk to you guys next up.