{"id":100,"date":"2005-06-04T22:26:45","date_gmt":"2005-06-05T02:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2005\/06\/04\/reclaiming-my-youth\/"},"modified":"2005-06-04T22:26:45","modified_gmt":"2005-06-05T02:26:45","slug":"reclaiming-my-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2005\/06\/04\/reclaiming-my-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Reclaiming My Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I had a great childhood. However, most adults my age have memories of the Muppets, Sesame Street, Electric Company, Mister Rogers and Zoom. I, on the other hand, have memories of the programs I watched with my family: Three’s Company, Love Boat, Solid Gold, Benny Hill and Sha Na Na.<\/P>
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As an adult, I’ve seen some episodes of those traditional children’s programs and, quite frankly, have not been impressed. I guess I’m glad my parents exposed me to those other campy shows.<\/P>
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So here I am on a Saturday night flipping stations between the network airing of Bambi and Cops. This is the first time I’ve ever seen Bambi in my life. I’ve concluded I’m simply not an animation fan. Well, at least I’m not a wholesome Disney animation type of guy. Befitting my childhood, I’m more of a Family Guy, South Park and Simpsons fan. <\/P>
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Anyway, the only reason I started watching Bambi was because I’ve heard people over the years talk about how they cried their eyes out when Bambi’s mother gets shot. I was expecting this to occur rather early in the movie but it took an hour and fifteen minutes (it didn’t help that there were commercials every eight minutes and there was 5 minutes of Disney babble before starting the movie again). <\/P>
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But I was quite disappointed that the death of Bambi’s mother was rather anti-climatic. I suppose I could have been traumatized as a kid. But there was no blood, no guts and no guns shown. You see them running, you hear a gunshot, and that’s it. Then Bambi meets up with the big male deer and it’s on to the next scene.<\/P>
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I was more disturbed when Chrissy was replaced with Cindy on Three’s Company. Or when Laverne and Shirley endured the earthquake upon moving to California.<\/P>
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This also probably explains why I was flipping back and forth between Bambi and Cops tonight. I never watch Cops…but I was getting so bored waiting for the big death scene that I had to do something. <\/P>
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HMMM – does this make me insensitive? I mean, the minute the mother was shot, I walked away from the movie and turned on the computer. I saw what I wanted to see and was ready to move on. Now I’m eagerly awaiting the finale of Popularity Contest. That’s more my speed – an entire community voting on who the most popular person in town is and then having the sheriff escort the least popular person away. THAT’S entertainment.<\/P>
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