• paddirn@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I don’t know what the Gilmore Girls is, but I do know that Star Trek: The Next Generation also ran for seven seasons. Hell, The Simpsons has been running for like 35 some odd seasons now and is a bigger part of our collective heritage (not just north or south) than almost anything else in American history. People have been born and died only ever knowing a world where the Simpsons was on TV.

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      8 months ago

      I mean, I’m sure there were plenty of people who were born and then died who only knew a country at war with the confederacy. Mortality rate of infants back then was pretty high compared to now.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      My brother and I were just arguing about The Simpsons. Did their reign begin in 1987 (when they debuted as shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show) or in 1989 (when they debuted as a half-hour primetime series)?

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        8 months ago

        I feel like it begins in 1989. The shorts on Tracey Ullman were more like proto-Simpsons and were only like what, a few minutes apiece? I remember watching them when they even came out and didn’t think too much of them other than they still seemed funny at the time. Those early shorts didn’t seem as “classic” as some of the first season episodes, I can vaguely even recall what happened in any of them and the character art was pretty rough then.

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      8 months ago

      The northern equivalent, the green mountain boys is still active. Talking a ceremonial role, but still a military.