You probably don't remember a time before remote control, when children were the remote. Change the channel, turn up the volume, get out of the way I can't see the screen.
Omnipotent Dwarf - right! At least back then we only had channels 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11 and 13. Unless you ventured into the nether regions of UHF, which we did. My parents were immigrants and there was a channel on UHF in their language. It was like the AM of TV. Terrible reception and if you breathed or looked at he antenna the wineglass way it would go all snowy.
I recall a station actually doing something like that. I was watching some holiday cartoon with my niece and right after it was done it went directly into a show that opend up with a sex scene.
Old people have a tendency of being adverse to technology and claiming things were better back then, but this is another example of something that was bad back then, and now it's even worse. People are comparing this to iPads and RU-vid Kids, but at least television has standards, unlike RU-vid Kids, television channels won't just show South Park to kids thanks to faulty machine learning or show these gross Elsa videos.
If someone wrote a skit like this today,the tv would be replaced by an iPad with RU-vid kids playing on it. Technology changes, but irresponsible parents don’t.
@@Bartonovich52 Most of the time, the kids send each other messages through WhattsApp while sitting next to each other. At least you can start a normal conversation while staring at a TV screen.
@@uknownada Wow, really? I never knew that. It's funny I was watching both at the same time as a young kid. Actually started watching the Simpsons before Rugrats and Nickelodeon.
If you think playing Pokemon at 10 years old was as damaging to my mental health as giving a toddler the power of youtube, google and algorithms your perspective is off.
Not my comment, but worth reposting: "Why did the Baby Boomers become so narcissistic? They were the first or second generation abandoned by parents to daycare and public school. Being abandoned and discarded by parents produces a strong existential anxiety. The normal response it to extremely overestimate one's own value to compensate for not being valued at all. Parents were usually getting drunk as a skunk and told the kids to STFU and go watch TV which they did as their primary activity. The Boomers were taking in more J...sh propaganda than any other generation. Imagine 2-5 hours gay J.. propaganda for decades. All Boomers can sing you the "jingles" from TV commercials from a long time ago. As kids they were told to get under their school desk and kiss their ass goodbye. The world was going to explode from hoax nuclear bombs any minute. Then they became parents and repeated every possible mistake they could. Given all these forces, being hated by their parents, propagandized to shit, and taking an enormous amount of pharmaceutical drugs has obliterated their minds. They really would not know or care about anything real. They're on some other world pondering TV show plots policing the young about decades old sentiments." On aside, the video *"The Great Boomer Deception"* by Black Pilled is worth a watch
um...you were likely the parent or the kid of this episode its from 30 years ago but um...kids have ALWAYS grown up to be losers/violent hell in the past beating your wife drunk was seen as well wife should not have given the man lip
I went to go watch Simpsons from the very beginning (including the Tracy Ullman shorts) after watching through Season 1 of Disenchantment, back when that was the only season out. I nearly shat the bed when I saw Elfo here. Of all the Simpsons to stick with me over nearly 3 decades, I do NOT remember the elves. Makes you wonder when Matt Groening will bring back the Life in Hell rabbits.
This Ep was strange because it's a prime example of very early season weirdness I think they were teasing at a very early point in the show that Marge was a Self Destructive Alcoholic. This is never touched up on after this Ep. Funnily enough, they would make this Lois's character in Family Guy countless seasons later where they do the whole bit where Lois can't function unless she's hammered
When my son was about 11 years old he entered a Jaycee Relay Race. He’d never ran track before and didn’t know everybody wore shorts. He came in jeans, to everyone’s amusement. He ran the last leg for his team - and came away the fastest runner of the day, and made up considerable distance to win. This video made me think of that day. How I wish I had been able to see it, instead of only hear and read about it. I was a single mom and had to work. My son was an amazing athlete. ❤️
