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Re: The Wonder Years
Haha, yeah that was a phenonenal show. Hard to watch though anymore, due to being alot older. There's a channel here (Pax or some smaller channel) which shows reruns.
Is that true about not being on DVD because they can't get the rights to songs, I didn't know that.
"Attention Customers: There is too much room in Kevin Arnolds crotch" haha
Also some otehr favs was the one where he plays in a band and the guitarist gets stagefright (it was at a girls 13th bday party or something. Really crappy band) and one where he meets a cool, bad kid and they go out to the woods and drink beer & smoke cigarettes (at around 14 or 15). The sister was so cool, I like one ep where he says in the beginning he never really knew his sister. She was some hippie who was a misfit in the family, they get closer in the epidode. The brother was hysterical as a jerk. Also, there was a good episode where a much older kid down the street was killed in Vietnam (funny, back then 19 seemed so old to me, now it seems so young). Reminded me of a friends older brother down the street I grew up on, he wasn't in any wars, but it would have been a strange feeling to experience if he was killed in a war. I think I would have looked at life alot different. Amazing show in those regards.
- NY Giants82
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Re: The Wonder Years
Yeah I have always heard that the obstacle to getting the show on dvd was the songs. It would cost a fortune to get the rights to all those songs, and the crazy price of course would then be given to us. I think it is similar to some of the "Married...With Children" seasons. They quit putting the "Love and Marriage" song on there as the theme because it was going to cost too much to get it, so they just put something generic on there. Of course, this would be very difficult to do with "The Wonder Years", since the songs are such a big part of the series.
Re: The Wonder Years
Haha, yeah that was a phenonenal show. Hard to watch though anymore, due to being alot older. There's a channel here (Pax or some smaller channel) which shows reruns.
Is that true about not being on DVD because they can't get the rights to songs, I didn't know that.
"Attention Customers: There is too much room in Kevin Arnolds crotch" haha
Also some otehr favs was the one where he plays in a band and the guitarist gets stagefright (it was at a girls 13th bday party or something. Really crappy band) and one where he meets a cool, bad kid and they go out to the woods and drink beer & smoke cigarettes (at around 14 or 15). The sister was so cool, I like one ep where he says in the beginning he never really knew his sister. She was some hippie who was a misfit in the family, they get closer in the epidode. The brother was hysterical as a jerk. Also, there was a good episode where a much older kid down the street was killed in Vietnam (funny, back then 19 seemed so old to me, now it seems so young). Reminded me of a friends older brother down the street I grew up on, he wasn't in any wars, but it would have been a strange feeling to experience if he was killed in a war. I think I would have looked at life alot different. Amazing show in those regards.
I kinda forgot about the brother. That dude played the dumb bully in a bunch of stuff around that time.
Still, great show that I haven't seen in forever.
Re: The Wonder Years
Fantastic show; it aired on CBC up here while I was growing up, so I was able to relate a lot to the Kevin character. Actually, it was still in syndication here up until last year some point and I watched it regularly. I had never thought Winnie Cooper was hot though, her teeth were always weird. She definitely got hot though.
That Wayne kid, yeah, I've been watching Diff'rent Strokes reruns lately and he was part of Arnold's gang of friends when he was in high school (along with the guy who played Weasel on Family Matters). Pretty funny to see that actor outside of the Wonder Years though. His career went no where after that.
Of course, as a kid, I related more to Fred Savage's little brother's Boy Meets World, just because it appealed more to my generation (and Topanga Lawrence pisses all over Winnie Cooper on the hotness radar) and it was more comedic. Nonetheless, I still think The Wonder Years was a fantastic show as it conquered real life issues we all faced in youth (much like Degrassi).
Re: The Wonder Years
I downloaded season 2 and 3 last week and have been watching episodes late at night when I get home. This show really packs an emotional punch. Its amazing they were actually able to pull it off with such authenticity. Its a kids show not meant for kids. Its told by writers nostalgic for that part of their lives, and the way you view it differently as an adult than you did as a kid/teen is one of the things that makes the series so magical.
For example, if you haven't watched this show in years, you probably remember Winnie as this innocent angel that can do no wrong and is worthy of Kevin's worship. Watching it through adult eyes, you begin to see how the Kevin/Winnie relationship really unfolds. Of course it starts out innocent since they are childhood friends, but quickly turns into Winnie manipulating Kevin at all angles and Kevin's infatuation with her, probably because she's his first love. The ONLY times that Winnie makes a move to salvage the friendship/relationship is when Kevin is about to sever the cord or willing to come to terms with reality that its never gonna work out. I haven't even got into the last half of the series where she is dating a ton of guys in high school, so this pattern is probably going to continue but on an even bigger scale.
On a side note, I don't think this Winnie character exists. As the series unfolds, you can tell she is really symbolic of the good and bad things to happen in the show creator's preteen/teen years and his yearning for the past, so that frustration is channeled into a general female character that just about everybody can relate to.
- Gunslinger
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Re: The Wonder Years
It was a really good series. Last time I watched that show I came away missing the simplicity of being a kid and what it's liike that one time in your life when things really are magic. Great writing made the Wonder Years a cut above. It definitely is different watching it now than it was when we were kids ourselves, well done show.
Stand By Me (the Stephen King movie) has that same sort of effect on me. Great writing that makes you wish you could go back to that magic time again.
Re: The Wonder Years
It was a really good series. Last time I watched that show I came away missing the simplicity of being a kid and what it's liike that one time in your life when things really are magic. Great writing made the Wonder Years a cut above. It definitely is different watching it now than it was when we were kids ourselves, well done show.
Stand By Me (the Stephen King movie) has that same sort of effect on me. Great writing that makes you wish you could go back to that magic time again.
You haven't lost the magic, just forgotten.;)
This was a decent show, yeah. Always struck me as odd when I was younger, but now I see.
