I'm trying to remember what I would have seen during rerun time. I know the Brady Bunch was one of them, but it didn't click. I would write this off as almost nothing on TV that wasn't a game show or Looney Tunes didn't appeal to me. I remember Transformers and TMNT, but neither caught my eye, and I really wasn't much of a play toy person (board games for me, thank you).
::sigh:: My entire life is an edge case. On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 6:43 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Data point: I'm 40, and the only show that I think locked onto me due to >> reruns was Mash, mostly because I had enough of a taste from the end of the >> network run I was aware of it when it hit syndication. If you look at my >> episode TV collection, the only other series that comes close is Bob >> Newhart, but that really didn't hit the syndication market. >> >> I'm curious what ages you think this hits for. >> > > Of course my theory could just be all wet. > > If you are 40 then in my mind you are maybe just a little older than > Kevin, who I was assuming got hooked on Carol Brady in after school > syndication. Do you think there were no Brady Bunch reruns when you were a > 10 year old kid, or that they had them, but you just didn't watch them? > Lots of kids grow up in families that emphasize playing out doors in the > fresh air, engaging in imaginative and creative play indoors, reading, and > singing songs and conversation. Perhaps you were one of the unfortunate > ones to have grown up in such a healthy and normal family. > > Another thought - I don't remember the same systematic marketing assault > by toy companies using cheap cartoons when I was in elementary school, and > at least for whatever reasons I did not watch much of them, and instead > would watch syndicated sitcoms and selected dramas. If you were in middle > school in the 1980s (that is where I am guess you fit) you may have been a > prime target for shows like Transformers and the Turtles. If you were > captured by them, that might have taken you away from the syndicated rerun > market. > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
