Strangely my mom once said something similar, now she hates the democrats with a fervor, and she voted for Clinton because of Gore and she absolutely loathes him now. People are strange... anyway I think we got cable by '83 or '84, possibly earlier but my memory is pretty questionable pre-84 and reruns make it pretty hard to remember if you actually remember something, like I 'remember' all the fuss about 'Who Shot J.R.?' in spite of having been born all of about a month or two before it was revealed, meaning I actually remember various reruns of people making a big deal about it or people mocking it being such a big deal a few years later but I do remember the 'all a dream' crap firsthand.



I recorded his final episode and still have it lying round somewhere, we'd just gotten our first VCR not long before that, I think it also has G&R's November Rain and Janie's Got a Gun on it. It's a pity in someways that talk shows don't really have a shelf-life, the jokes get stale and there's so much of them.



We're BSing about nostalgia, that's pretty much all tangent



31 year olds can only stomach so much Charlie Rose... I do remember that awful twinge of despair when younger during sans-cable phases when the anthem would start playing and I knew the late night crap was about to be replaced by static, but usually I did have cable and even then a lot of the stations would rerun Leno or whoever at 3 AM before the 5 AM 'absurdly low budget and abstract news' came on... farm reports or someone literally reading from a sheet of papers.




I hate every ape I see, from Chim-pan-A to Chim-pan-Z, no you'lll never make a monkey out of me... Oh my God! I was wrongm it was Earth... all along....

Yeah, I think I saw every poorly dubbed Japanese movie of turtles fighting rabbits with weird crap on in a train set that ever existed from those days.