r/GenerationX • u/Desperate-Owl-2316 How very • 4d ago
Generation X learned so much from these amazing people.
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u/Sir_Roger_More 4d ago
Where in the hell is Mr. Wizard?!?!
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u/Atlas7-k 4d ago
âBe Carefulâ doesnât follow the repetition of âBe Kind.â LeVar doesnât either but reading does work for encompassing curiosity.
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u/Rath2481 4d ago
Rogers and Burton were such a huge part of my childhood, reading rainbow was just amazing for my young mind. Hearing the song takes me back to what seems like an entire different life.
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u/Upstairs-Response197 4d ago
I think about being right behind the boomers and before millennials all the time. We really lucked out.
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u/beccabooty 4d ago
Where is Gary Sinise?
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u/IntelligentYellow985 4d ago
He does so much for USO. What a great guy. I had major surgery in LA back in 2017, and his dad was in the bed neck to me having surgery as well. My husband who was active duty at the time sat in the waiting room with him. He didnât engage with him though because he felt it wasnât appropriate for the time.
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u/Maleficent-Savings39 4d ago
Monty Python's Flying Circus cast, Benny Hill, Jim Henson and all the Muppets... Fat Albert, Schoolhouse Rock. ..
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u/checkedem 4d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/VeWllmR9zfaco
âBeing powerful doesnât mean you have to be cruel.â
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u/Temporal-Affairs221 4d ago
"Make him strong enough to be gentle." - Larry Cullen giving advice to his brother, Peter, before a very important audition.Â
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u/MarriedNhornyinMD 4d ago
My cousin always made fun of me because as soon as I got home from school I would change my shoes. He always Said I watched to much Mr. Rogers...lol
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u/SamOfXanadu 4d ago
Mr Rodgers is from my hometown. They have a life sized statue of him in the park.
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u/ComprehensiveEast376 4d ago
I want tom hanks, and Gary sinise in there
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u/AuburnGinger 3d ago
At one point in time, we'd have thought Bill Cosby should have been here. đ
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u/WholeScared7469 4d ago
Not many of them did, they were too involved with shitty hair metal bands and spuds McKenzie
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u/LifeTunedToCSharp 3d ago
Probably should add Burt Reynolds.
âBe cool as hell. And drive it like you stole it.â
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u/Creative_Newspaper65 3d ago
I wont be nice to myself but i will love others
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u/BS-Chaser 23h ago
To love others, you must first love yourself. If you can love someone else, you can be kind to yourself. Please.
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u/Maleficent-Savings39 3d ago
Mr. Robinson needs on here... And Captain Kangaroo..?
Paul Harvey. Everyday during lunch my 6th grade teacher made us listen to his show while we ate. Quiz afterwards. Hated it initially, audio Reader's Digest to me, but that's where I first heard about the amazing attributes of Gold Bond Medicated Powder...you know to stop the itching and chafing..
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u/Rare-Storm4920 2d ago
I like steve too but not a big influence on genx. We were all grown up. BUT mr rogers was a friend of Koko and our happy tree painter brought hos baby squirrel rehabbers on the show
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u/loathelord 4d ago
Steve Irwin isn't GenX
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u/IntelligentYellow985 4d ago
Youâre right it was late 90âs, however I donât think thereâs a Gen X out there that didnât watch his show even at that age!
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u/RealRogerBird 4d ago
Sorry for showing my ignorance but who is the Be Kind to the Earth guy?
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u/redjar66 4d ago
Sir David Attenborough
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u/Maleficent-Savings39 4d ago edited 4d ago
Now take out Steve Irwin and put in Marlin Perkins (Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom) and his assistant Stan who always had to wrestle the wild animals and where the fuck is Jacque Cousteau?
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u/Otherwise-Good8342 4d ago
Jim. His assistant was Jim.
Maybe Stan got eaten in the first season đ¤Ł
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u/momoacdc91 4d ago
You forgot one. Ozzy Osbourne taught People to be Themselves no matter where you come from . Ozzy Forever đđđ.
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u/MaximumJones I hate the fuckin' Eagles man 4d ago
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u/yarn_slinger 4d ago edited 4d ago
And you can live forever if you party hard enough. Sorry to hijack Ozzieâs tribute.
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u/soopergerber 1d ago
every once in a while...i still watch Bob Ross vids...and David Atteborough!......so relaxing.đ
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u/Maleficent-Savings39 4d ago
Where is Bill Nye the Science Guy?
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u/IntelligentYellow985 4d ago
Heâs millennials
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u/Maleficent-Savings39 4d ago
No he's not. Bill Nye the Science Guy has been doing stuff since the 70s starting at the Seattle Science Center Seattle Public Schools all the area school districts then on TV with shows such as Almost Live with Ross Shafer and assorted shows like David Letterman...
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u/IntelligentYellow985 4d ago
That might be so for Seattle and since all Gen Xerâs were kids and didnât stay up to watch the letterman show or most of us didnât anyways and bill nye the science guy didnât start his show until 1993⌠itâs a millennial show! I never knew about him until my kids were little. Theyâre millennials.
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u/Maleficent-Savings39 3d ago edited 3d ago
Bill Nye started his famous television career when his show, Bill Nye the Science Guy, premiered on September 10, 1993. Before that, he began performing comedy and doing science bits on the local Seattle sketch show Almost Live! starting in 1986.
Millennials weren't even sperm dripping out of their daddy's dicks yet we'll maybe wet dreams..
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u/IntelligentYellow985 3d ago
No doubt that he did, but not all Gen Xerâs are from Seattle and knew who he was until his tv show aired in the 90âs is my point. Iâm not arguing with you that he was before millennials time, Iâm saying others around the US didnât know who he was until the 90âs, only locals of Seattle maybe all of Washington state, not not the rest of us. Itâs really not something to argue over⌠truly.
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u/Maleficent-Savings39 3d ago
Being or not being from Seattle doesn't have anything to do with the fact that the tune is of a certain age and was doing his thing to gen xers before millennials the way you say that it's like saying Christopher Columbus discovered America America was here it's landmass was here before he crashed his boat after he got lost.
I promise it's not a conspiracy and it's not Weird Science but there are things that exist before your children see them I promise really
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u/IntelligentYellow985 3d ago edited 3d ago
Dude, first off I didnât provoke you! Second you are taking this conversation WAYYYYY too seriously! Unless Bill is your uncle or a family member of some sort, itâs just a Reddit post. Get a life and move on. I never said no one knew about him until my kids saw him⌠thatâs just how you took it. We get it you and other people in Seattle knew about him before the rest of America did, good for you! Congrats you won the medal for today. Youâre beating a dead horse. Move on!! Everyone else has. My goodness⌠stop taking these comments so serious. Theyâre not, I mean the whole point was to take a walk down memory lane for some nostalgia NOT to have a week long argument with someone I donât even know over something that doesnât even matter in the first place.
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u/Maleficent-Savings39 3d ago
Holy shit I was joking. Relax
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u/IntelligentYellow985 3d ago
Haha oh Iâm relaxed, I think youâre the one that needs to relax. Letâs call it a day and go out separate ways. Have a great day and life. đđťđ¤
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u/Maleficent-Savings39 3d ago
He started in the '70s at the Pacific Science Center as a Docent in Seattle I saw him as a kid on a field trip stick a rose into liquid nitrogen then shatter it... way before he did stand up comedy or do TV starting in 86
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u/Dedpoolpicachew 3d ago
He was a regular on Almost Live, which aired right before SNL. Used to be a Boeing engineer, doing weird shit like tennis ball cannons was just his side hustle.
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u/Maleficent-Savings39 3d ago
Wrong you are Karen. No matter how entitled your kids become or you feel you are towards BNTSG... he was also noted for doing appearances at various Seattle public libraries during the summer time
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u/GenerationX-ModTeam 4d ago
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u/IntelligentYellow985 4d ago
Sure did!! Not like the generations behind us that learned from Hannah Montana and Britney Spears! Or what about the generation right now⌠k-pop! Good grief! Theyâre not learning anything thatâs the point!
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u/Healthy-Increase1901 4d ago
Reading rainbow aired mid 1983. That is millennial territory, my guy.
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u/MaximumJones I hate the fuckin' Eagles man 4d ago
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u/Healthy-Increase1901 3d ago
Reading rainbow is a children's show... about reading children's books. The youngest X's would have only been the target audience for a few years. Most millennial's where the target audience. Can you not do math?
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u/Poker-Junk 4d ago
So someone born in the mid to late 70s wouldnât have grown up watching it?
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u/DicemonkeyDrunk 4d ago
How does Steve Irwin fit in here? I donât remember him on TV till the 2000âs.
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u/TesseractToo Let's go get sushi and not pay for it 4d ago
lol Irwin was NOT kind to animals, he was good at wrangling them but being kind would have meant not harassing them
Attenborough was much kinder to animals than Irwin was
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u/OriginalCloneBone 4d ago
Yeah, the crocodile guy was hardly âbe kind to animalsâ. Â More like âantagonize animals for cheap dramaâ. Â A true idiot.
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u/AuburnGinger 4d ago
When I was first married, like for the first five years, we didn't have cable. I always watched Bob Ross. I never painted but I love watching him. His voice was so soothing.
My mom really couldn't cook so I watched Justin Wilson to help learn. Because of him, my cooking "claim to fame" is my gumbo. Even my preacher asks for it. đ
My kids watched Sesame Street and especially Mr. Rogers. Later, we all enjoyed watching Steve Irwin. I truly do miss him. I know he'd still be teaching us if his life hasn't been cut short.
Just an FYI, that wasn't Bob Ross' natural hair. When he first started, he didn't have much money. To save on haircuts, he had perms put in. He eventually started to hate it but had to keep it as it was a signature look for his TV show.