I get super emotional and come to tears almost when I see things from my childhood, like a warm feeling, a longing to go back, etc.... When I hear the opening theme songs to a lot of the old Nick Jr. cartoons I used to watch in the 80s and early 90s as a kid, I'll literally have tears. Sometimes even old nursery rymes do it, like the Cow Jumped Over the Moon, and there's nothing sad about it really :confused:

It just seems to take me back to such an innocent time that was so full of wonder and magic that you can never get back :(

All the time. Certain sounds, smells, TV shows and movies, going through old family photos. I want to go back to those times.

That happens to me occasionally. It's called nostalgia, and I imagine it only gets more intense as you get older.

I get choked-up over sentimental parts of movies, but not so much over my own past.

Seeing the "bad guy" knowing he is going to die, perform one final act of kindness, ...stuff like that chokes me up. And I never used to be such a softie...so yeah I think age is a factor.

Yep.

Definitely when watching an old show or movie I watched long ago, especially if I'd mostly forgotten it, or didn't even remember the title anymore.

I was recently in a bookstore and saw this book (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/A1wx+e0rJ2L.jpg), one of my first books. Instant nostalgia!

Even a certain smell, for example, can choke me up. I was walking through an old building not too long ago and smelled the same smell from one of the houses I lived in as a child. Wow!

No, I get too emotional about what is happening in our country right now....

The smell of air blowing from a window air-conditioner reminds me of childhood lol

And I swear every time I hear the Pinwheel House Theme song, I start crying

Growing up, every Saturday morning my dad would mow the lawn. So now when I hear the sound of a lawn mower in morning I get all nostalgic. My dad is gone now and I kind of get emotional.

The smell of air blowing from a window air-conditioner reminds me of childhood lol

And I swear every time I hear the Pinwheel House Theme song, I start crying

I remember Pinwheel. That was quite a special show for children of the late 1970s, early 1980s. Kinda spooky, with its fortune teller and creepy basement. Yet still comforting. Kind of like a dark Sesame Street. It is so weird that none of the over 250 episodes of the series were ever released on DVD. The series was still airing in 1990!

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I remember Pinwheel. That was quite a special show for children of the late 1970s, early 1980s. Kinda spooky, with its fortune teller and creepy basement. Yet still comforting. Kind of like a dark Sesame Street. It is so weird that none of the over 250 episodes of the series were ever released on DVD. The series was still airing in 1990!

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It was probably one of the first shows I ever watched, so maybe that's why it makes me emotional, it triggers literally when I became self-aware of life for the first time. The closing theme music is what really gets me with all the different pitches.

I know it was the show that basically launched Nickelodeon.... IMO Eureka's Castle was a total rip-off of Pinwheel, they all had a similar character... Eureka was like the fortune teller, there was a salesman, Bog and Quagmire were like the 2 lightning beetles

It was probably one of the first shows I ever watched, so maybe that's why it makes me emotional, it triggers literally when I became self-aware of life for the first time. The closing theme music is what really gets me with all the different pitches.

Yeah, totally! The closing theme sounds a bit more sad; it's saying "farewell for today". And of course the theme is a double-whammy of nostalgia: both the visuals and the audio. I can even get nostalgic about the stupid Chapi Chapo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjXr0UxVR9o) animations that ran on Pinwheel for many years.


I know it was the show that basically launched Nickelodeon....

Yeah, we just called channel C3 "Pinwheel". It was the only show on the channel. Imagine a TV channel which aired only one TV series 14 hours a day, every day, for two years! And at that time, there were NO commercials; those didn't start until 1983. TV was just so much simpler back then. You could have a cable channel which aired only one show, and the subscriber base paid for the program.


IMO Eureka's Castle was a total rip-off of Pinwheel, they all had a similar character... Eureka was like the fortune teller, there was a salesman, Bog and Quagmire were like the 2 lightning beetles

I never watched Eureeka's Castle, as I had moved on to You Can't Do That On Television and Hey Dude by then. But I don't doubt EC was a cheap clone. Nick's "splat" logo was stolen from YCDTOTV.

Sometimes when I see adorable children and their caring parents together, it makes me think, where did go wrong in not finding a love one and having a family.

Probably many or most of us have various things that trip the waterworks now and then. I know I do, too.

Last night I was watching a couple of episodes of Welcome Back, Kotter which trigger happy memories of my childhood.

Welcome Back, Kotter was responsible for making its star, John Travolta, a household name.

Back in 1978, when I was in the 3rd grade, a friend of mine had the soundtrack of the movie Grease (which starred Travolta); we literally played this album to death:crazy:

So, watching WBK last night made me a little emotional (in a happy way) seeing John Travolta and the memories of listening to him sing on the Grease soundtrack over and over and over again forty-three years ago. :)

Yes, for sure !! Hearing old songs, watching old TV shows or movies and looking at old family photos make me very nostalgic and sentimental for the "old days" !:);)

Last night I was watching a couple of episodes of Welcome Back, Kotter which trigger happy memories of my childhood.

Welcome Back, Kotter was responsible for making its star, John Travolta, a household name.

Back in 1978, when I was in the 3rd grade, a friend of mine had the soundtrack of the movie Grease (which starred Travolta); we literally played this album to death:crazy:

So, watching WBK last night made me a little emotional (in a happy way) seeing John Travolta and the memories of listening to him sing on the Grease soundtrack over and over and over again forty-three years ago. :)

Awww! I was never a big watcher of WBK, but that theme song sure feels nostalgic... "welcome back, welcome back, welcome back..."

Last night I was watching a couple of episodes of Welcome Back, Kotter which trigger happy memories of my childhood.

Welcome Back, Kotter was responsible for making its star, John Travolta, a household name.

Back in 1978, when I was in the 3rd grade, a friend of mine had the soundtrack of the movie Grease (which starred Travolta); we literally played this album to death:crazy:

So, watching WBK last night made me a little emotional (in a happy way) seeing John Travolta and the memories of listening to him sing on the Grease soundtrack over and over and over again forty-three years ago. :)

I get that too. I never watched WBK that much, BUT I watched Green Acres a lot around 10-11 years old and those were very happy years for me, so when I watch that show now, sometimes it invokes strong nostalgia