Will our kids be this nostalgic about their shows?

[cbellamy]

I loved COEF as a kid and have been enjoying revisiting a lot of it through this website. COEF along with a few others of the same era are the shows I remember most vividly, even more so than some of the shows I've liked as an adult. I don't recall the shows I watched as a 6 or 7 year old, but the shows from when I was 10 or 12 really stuck with me. For those of you who have kids or nieces, nephews, students, etc., what shows are the 10- to 12-year-old set watching these days, and do you imagine they will be as fond of them 30 years from now as we are of COEF et al.?

[DarleneIllyria]

Hey-

I'm 17 and I love all the classic shows. I hardly watch any of the new shows that is on tv. I bet in the year 2010, I'll still be going on about The Andy Griffith Show, All in the Family, Sanford and Son, Leave it to Beaver, and Diff'rent Strokes. The classics are so much better than shows from today. Well, gotta go- talk to ya later.

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Originally Posted by cbellamy

I loved COEF as a kid and have been enjoying revisiting a lot of it through this website. COEF along with a few others of the same era are the shows I remember most vividly, even more so than some of the shows I've liked as an adult. I don't recall the shows I watched as a 6 or 7 year old, but the shows from when I was 10 or 12 really stuck with me. For those of you who have kids or nieces, nephews, students, etc., what shows are the 10- to 12-year-old set watching these days, and do you imagine they will be as fond of them 30 years from now as we are of COEF et al.?

I don't know if it's just me or if most "baby-boomers" feel this way. But it seems to me that the TV shows, music and even the comic books that we grew up with in the late 1950s and early 1960s had more quality and substance than most of the product today. But I guess that's why TV Land and Boomerang are my favorite television networks. But getting back to the new shows, I like a lot of what I've seen on the WB network, some of what I've seen on Fox, and a few of the UPN shows I've watched. Oddly enough, the three networks that I grew up with--NBC, ABC and CBS--I rarely watch anymore (with a few exceptions). I have no children but I do like a few of the same programs my nieces and nephews do (LIZZIE McGUIRE, THE SIMPSONS) as well as Disney's KIM POSSIBLE and such shows as SMALLVILLE, CHARMED, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, THE X-FILES, to name a few. I guess I enjoy a blend of the old and the new. There is some good writing and acting today; you just have to look for it.