I remember when I was little about 8, my older cousin took me for a ride in his car one night and he put on sunglasses, and I ask him why he's wearing sunglasses at night and he says, "Just to be cool!" LOL reminds me of that lol
'Not sunglasses........Shaaaaaaaades! 😂 My father actually had a pair of seersucker pants just like Greg;s. Which he actually wore to work in the summer. I was really little, but I remember when teenagers actually talked like Greg was in this episode! LOL
@@nataliegillmore7436 You and jonnaking miss the point. It’s not about pouring it themselves. The point is, kids don’t choose milk as a drink. Milk is consumed at a meal or with a snack, not by itself.
I used to have a fringed vest like this back in the early 70's. What a dork. I hated that fake paneling and shag carpet ugh and seemed every house had it.
@@retroguy9494. . Mike wasn't wrong and no small amount of hippie garb was appropriated from Indigenous tribal culture. Some hippies had no problem with theft of any sort ( but oddly were against regular personal hygiene practices 🤬 and gainful employment).
@@msr1116 Yes, I remember all that. I was a little boy when the hippies were at their peak. I remember the first time I saw any in person. I was 5 years old and my father, who was a straight laced button down veteran who worked for the government took me to an Independence Day fireworks display. It was at a high school football field and we all sat on the field to watch. There were a group of hippies who were probably around 18 to 20 but to ME they looked old. They had the long hair and mustaches and beards and multi colored ponchos and John Lennon eyeglasses and beads, etc. I remember saying to my father 'Daddy look at the funny looking people!' He snapped back at me 'don't look at them they're bad people!'
Oh! I'm glad you explained it. I didn't really understand what was going on. I thought he had one of those parasitic brain worms. Your opinion is much funnier.
"Not sunglasseshades!" When he asked the senior girl for a date, and she replied, "Maybe next year.", being a Senior would mean that she would not be attending that school next year, and might be hundreds of miles away in College, maybe in another state.
I grew up in the 1970's. I was in Highschool started late 1979. I never tried to dress up like that to get a girl. I didn't talk like that either. Poor Greg.
That's because 1979 was basically the early 80s, different fashion different way of thinking, This show takes place in the late 60's early 70's it was the hippies era
@@corymiller536 I know that. The show ran from 1969-1974. Thankfully I was too young to be able to do that stuff that Greg did. I never did anything fancy to impress a girl when I was in school.
The 1979 equivalent would have been the punk rock look, right ? I wasn't into it but remember it as another rebellion upsetting parents and for good reason---it didn't seem to have a clear cause other than being shocking with a surly attitude.
.....I'm CONVINCED Greg's glasses.... - I mean- ...SHADES....accidentally slipped, and they left it in! (1:28) ..the 'cut' was re-arranged.....and, Carol has NEVER been so prophetic....(1:57) ....
0:28 Talk about subtext here. Not only is Marcia seeing something she likes; but Cindy notices Marcia looking at Greg like that. Say what you want, but something is going on there. Maybe Susan Olsen had already started noticing or feeling some vibes 😘😘😘
I went to school dressed like that after seeing this episode thinking I was really cool and was beaten up (by some guys from the chess club)...That was 40 years ago. I'm still saving up to take them to court - The American Broadcasting Company, not the Chess Club I took polaroids of the bruises but they're all faded now
Not in the public high schools by me but replacement of a damaged/destroyed book had to be purchased in some school districts. I went to private HS and we had to buy our books, new or used, each September for the entire school year.
The word Rapping goes back this far. Wikipedia even has a page on its 20th century use. And no, Carol, it isn't now nor was it ever illegal. PARENTS !!!!
Greg was still too young and immature to carry off this look. Being cool and hip back then required much more than just clothes and using current slang. It involved a self confidence, even if it was faked, acquired only by life experiences past high school. Everybody older recognized Greg as a poser in costume, playing dress up like a hippie wannabe.
Hey billhosko.... WHY are your replies under these videos so consistently negative, angry or bitter ? Don't YOU have a life ? You're that guy who walks into a party.... then everybody realizes Mr. Toxic has arrived and they quickly start moving away, desperate to avoid you. And Greg looked effing ridiculous ! He was still a dopey kid---I stand by my assessment.
Great episode. I’m so glad I went to school in the 80s. I mean the 70s were just whack my look in the 80s hold up man. I drove a British sports car. I had jeans Nikes my letter jacket. Everything holds up pretty good lol after 40 years, but those goddamn 70 I mean I was in like third grade here and those funky outfits are just horrible and I’ll tell you there’s no way when I was ninth grade you ask a girl who is in 11th or 12th no Chance, you’re ninth grade you go out at ninth graders if you’re super hot and built and you’re in 10th grade maybe you had a shot with 11th grader but seniors who went out with college kids I was 11th grader and I was getting close to a senior and she was dating a guy Yukon, even though I had a nice sports car lol
Yea well, if you saw the entire episode, you'd know that Greg found out that lesson when he got his comeuppance. The older guys that Greg thought he was going to hang out with and be like all gave him the brush off and he was all alone for the weekend. Until Mike came back to give Greg money and found out and spent the weekend with the family.
Greg lied,he told his dad he needed new clothes for highschool.He just wanted new clothes to impress that gal when she was already a senior and he was a freshman! Whata Waste Of Money,Poor Mike Greg just milks his money away!
We know.................. But if you know the series, Mike and Carol treated their step children as their own. In fact, there was even one episode that dealt with it when Bobby got it into his head that Carol was treating him different because he was only a step son. After a heartfelt talk with Bobby at the end of the episode, Carol says 'the only steps in this house are THOSE...the ones that lead up to your room.' My father grew up similar. He had half siblings in addition to his full brother. His mother and step father treated them all the same and to the day they all died (well, one is still living) they all treated each other equal.
It’s a fantasy how they functioned like an ideal, intact family. No awkwardness or resistance about calling a step-parent “Mom“ or “Dad“. And never any mention of the real mother and father. They were just conveniently gone.
@@genxx2724 While I agree with you in that there was never any mention of Carol's first husband, it was established from the beginning that Mike's first wife died and he was a widower. In fact, Mike had a very tender talk with Bobby about his real mother.
I wasn't even born yet not 🚫 until January of 1983 so I wasn't even in school yet i started kindergarten in September of 1989 and I went to high school in September of 1998 and I graduated from high school 🏫 in June of 2002.
