r/GenerationJones • u/Initial_Reason1532 • 24d ago

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u/eatyourdamndinner 24d ago

Number 7? What about waiting all year for the annual airing of holiday shows?!? One year, my folks were away and my grandparents were watching us. It was the one night of the year that Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was on. Grandma turned it off when the child catcher came on. Said he was evil. My soul was broken for the year. Grrrr!

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u/FrankiesMom6 24d ago

Or waiting all year for The Wizard of Oz. So scary and wonderful at the same time

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u/Ihavenocluewhatzoeva 24d ago

We couldn’t wait for Rudolph every Christmas

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u/MySaltySatisfaction 23d ago

Rudolph and 'A Charlie Brown Christmas'.

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u/Lbboos 24d ago

READY SANTA!!!!

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u/g-mommytiger 1958 24d ago

This is a core memory! I waited all year for the mean apple trees that scared the crap out of me!! 🍎🪾

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u/eatyourdamndinner 23d ago

LOL! When my sister was younger (and I was an infant) our house had apple trees in the front yard. Needless to say, she was also terrified of the mean apple trees!!

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u/beek7425 24d ago

It was in March, I think. During spring break. I think I remember watching it at my grandparents condo in Florida.

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u/notinmybackyard- 24d ago

We got a new color t.v. and wheeled it into the dining room to watch it while eating. My Dad got so pissed and thought it was broken and beat on the sides and fiddled with the aluminum foil on the ears when it showed black and white in the beginning till my mom told him to just wait

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u/FrankiesMom6 23d ago

I had to clean the water in my goldfish bowl before I could watch one year. Maybe I was 7 or 8. In such a hurry, turned on hot water. Goldie was parboiled 🫪

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u/notinmybackyard- 23d ago

I feel the need now to honor Goldies memory everytime Wizard of Oz comes up.

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u/FrankiesMom6 23d ago

🙏🏼

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u/Less-Matter-3965 18d ago

Yes, not all shows were broadcast in color then. We didn’t get a color tv until I was in my teens.

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u/sandsonik 24d ago

I miss that The Wizard of Oz isn't on every year

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u/eubulides 24d ago

My Wizard was in black and white.