I would almost agree loving this sort of tv is primarily for nostalgia junkies, however…
I happened to catch a Nickelodeon sitcom yesterday, some routine x-mas family tv watching. The contrast is striking.
The “upper middle class” stench of current nickeodeon offerings is really striking compared to the network’s 90s crop. Salute your shorts, Hey Dude!, Pete and Pete, even Clarissa. Not diverse and rather suburban. But you at least every house, character and plot twist didn’t revolve around hiding a banal crisis from the hedge fund manager Dad before he watches it live on his ipad. The older shows at least poked fun at living in “middle America” and the act of being a consumer instead of worshiping it.
Krebstar 5000 everything!
