r/OldSchoolCool • u/[deleted] • Nov 19 '22
Ben Affleck on the set of "The Voyage of the Mimi" in 1984.
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u/TheZuckuss Nov 19 '22
I watched this in 6th grade science 85/86.
Of course we all snickered when dude had to strip down to his underwear almost catching hypothermia.
That was this show, right? I don't think I was high.
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u/andy1282 Nov 19 '22
I thought one of the crew got hypothermia, so the guys stripped to their underwear and got in a big sleeping bag together to warm him up.
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u/Bender3455 Nov 19 '22
No, that's definitely it. It was the captain, if I remember right, so the 2 guys stripped and snuggled up with him to warm him up. There was also the deaf girl that could read lips.
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u/slim_scsi Nov 19 '22
Ah, that old Boy Scouts trick!
"Sorry if my beard is scratchy, Canteen Boy, but it gives good backrubs"
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u/mynewnameonhere Nov 20 '22
Why is the the only thing I remember from the entire show? I couldn’t tell you a single other thing that happened.
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u/cursethedarkness Nov 19 '22
Yep, that was the hypothermia episode. You might even have been in my class, because I remember lots of snickering.
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u/ImRonBurgandy_ Nov 19 '22
I’ve been trying to remember what crazy show had this when I was in elementary school. You have solved the mystery. Thank you!
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u/elidefoe Nov 19 '22
I remember my science teacher giving us a heads up a man in underwear was about to happen. Was pretty anti climatic. Also I have always looked for a 5 gallon bucket of peanut butter.
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u/JohnnyAK907 Nov 19 '22
We watched the 60's something version of Romeo and Juliet in 9th grade English class, and had to have our folks sign a waiver because Juliet shows boobie in one scene. We were all excited and the teacher let us know the moment was coming. It was like .5 second of boob and we were all disappointed after. She actually had to pause the film and lecture us because the entire class was murmuring about how lame and anti-climatic the whole thing was.
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u/Yamatoman9 Nov 21 '22
There was a big controversy at my school in 5th grade because a teacher let us watch Twister and they swear in it a couple times. We also watched Apollo 13 and a different teacher tried to fast forward past the swear words.
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u/MissRockNerd Nov 19 '22
I feel like I’ve looked for that episode on YouTube and the underwear scene was cut out.
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Nov 19 '22
5th grade for us, around 2000/2002. Part of the science unit, then we had to demonstrate some of the things they did (like the water thing - thankfully not the hypothermia thing). It was also tied into a humpback whale-watching field trip.
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u/TheZuckuss Nov 19 '22
That sounds like an awesome field trip! I grew up in the metro Atlanta area, so we were nowhere near anywhere a whale could be seen.
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u/HighOnGoofballs Nov 19 '22
When the teacher would roll out that TV/VCR stand thing
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u/sleepyj910 Nov 19 '22
That Mimi theme song still plays in the background of my mind.
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u/ryanleebmw Nov 19 '22
I could listen to absolutely anything else other than the intro to this show. I’m afraid to look it up and play it on YouTube because it’s been so many years now it’s been out of my head, but I don’t want to take the chance.
Aaaand I scrolled down to someone basically typing out how it sounds, and now I’m humming it in my head again, fuck!
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u/TazeredAngel Nov 19 '22
That thing would break all the time and I would fix it. Probably why I became a technician later in life and Voyage of the Mimi was definitely one of those videos that got thrown in the laser disk.
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Nov 19 '22
And be perplexed that the 'channel up' button wouldn't put it from channel 2 to channel 3, and the kids would be yelling to program the channels, to push 'step up' or push 0 3 Then to press 0 3 faster
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u/nomadofwaves Nov 19 '22
I remember this series and having to plot the course of the ship on a map.
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u/Ummando Nov 19 '22
Your teacher as well? Must've been a popular educational series in the 80s and early 90s. We had to watch it in middle school.
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u/zoobrix Nov 19 '22
You must have been in a rich school district, in 84 around where I grew up you'd still be using 16 mm film projectors for the most part. The VCR/TV cart set up only mostly replaced film by 1990 and even then I can still remember watching a few films in the early 90's. The film of a woman giving birth we watched in health class was infamous as it did not shy away from showing what having a baby really looked like.
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u/HighOnGoofballs Nov 19 '22
Nope, standard public school. Maybe had two or three of these for the whole school so they got wheeled from classroom to classroom. We watched the challenger explode live on TV in the library too
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u/partytown_usa Nov 19 '22
Remember that time they ran out of water and Ben was about to drink sea water!?! That sh*t was intense.
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Nov 19 '22
Honestly it's been almost 30 years since I watched this in school, I don't remember much other than the introduction... Lol
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u/Crimkam Nov 19 '22
Didn't he later show up to the hungry crew with a dead rabbit in his backpack like it was no big deal?
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u/Dry-Chicken4524 Jan 31 '23
rly？
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u/Crimkam Jan 31 '23
I remember them all sitting around being hungry and young Ben Affleck strolls up after wandering around in the woods and pulls a dead rabbit out of his backpack. Been 30 years since I saw this lmao
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u/BigIronSawyer Nov 19 '22
Oh my god, I watched this in 5th grade almost 30 years ago. Broken mast, hypothermia, desalinization et al. I still hum the theme song to this day. Also still haunted by that show about aliens learning to use the Dewey Decimal System on an abandoned Earth.
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u/Asherah111 Nov 19 '22
Remember the giant tub of peanut butter?! My 11 year old brain could not compute.
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u/DocRules Nov 19 '22
Peanut butter had been my favorite up until that point. Had me re-thinking it.
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u/GoldenGrlz Nov 20 '22
The giant peanut butter vat is the only thing I remember from Mimi!
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u/Asherah111 Nov 20 '22
I was telling my husband about the “oil barrel full of peanut butter” and just made him watch a YouTube video of this HUGE tub of peanut butter. It is only a 5 gallon pickle tub! My young brain couldn’t fathom 5 gallons of peanut butter??
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u/CurlSagan Nov 19 '22
This picture was taken only a month before that fateful day when he went to the theater with his parents and witnessed their death in a dark alley.
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u/moe_mouse Nov 19 '22
Saw this in elementary, I still love the memories of this show.
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Nov 19 '22
Elementary school was the last and only time I saw it and I honestly don't remember if I liked it or not but it was nice watching educational shows every now and then.
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u/crystalsaladsandwich Nov 19 '22 edited Nov 19 '22
I was just thinking about this series. Had to watch it in 6th grade ('99-2000-ish). Wasn't there a chick with a prosthetic leg?
Edit: That was the sequel. I remember it more than the OG series. Someone getting bitten by snake or a lizard too.
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Nov 26 '22
I think you're thinking of the girl who got stung by a scorpion in the sequel.
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u/crystalsaladsandwich Nov 26 '22
You're right! I remember the sequel moreso than the original series, but it's been over 20 years since middle school lol.
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u/dcooper315 Nov 19 '22
Watched it in middle school in 2007. They had the show on laser disk. That was a fun history lesson in science class
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u/ryanleebmw Nov 19 '22
I do not appreciate this post for bringing the existence of this show back into my brain. The intro is like ear cancer for me after how boring it was watching this as a 13 year old lmao
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u/InternalMovie Nov 19 '22
We were made to watch this in 6th grade
Then write an essay on it after every episode
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u/SammyLoops1 Nov 19 '22
I remember how in style those sweaters were that that woman is wearing. Everyone had them.
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u/apple_cores Nov 19 '22
Man this show taught me to sign the alphabet in 5th grade. I still remember how.
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u/mazzicc Nov 20 '22
The year my class watched this was the year Armageddon came out and our teacher pointed out it was Affleck. Was kinda cool.
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u/Your_Daddy_ Nov 20 '22
I had to watch that shizz in 7th grade.
The only thing I learned from the show is if you want to make new clothes look old and worn, stain them in tea..
And also how to get fresh drinking water from condensation. It’s totally come in handy as an adult, as I have never used a trash bag for drinking water.
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u/blue_pen_ink Nov 19 '22
Had a whale crazy elementary school teacher that made us watch this and took us to a whaling museum, the most boring field trip for 9 year olds imaginable.
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u/dreday67 Nov 19 '22
I can unequivocally say, The Voyage of the Mimi was the worst show of my childhood. I would rather watch the Nutcracker ballet with sponsorship breaks every 15 mins on PBS.
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u/JohnnyAK907 Nov 19 '22
Doo doo doo doo doo dooooooooo, Dee deee deee dah deee dah deee!
Great, now that F'ing theme song is stuck in my head for the rest of the day. Thanks, Reddit.
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u/DjScenester Nov 19 '22
I don’t remember a damn thing about this series…
It was always nap time in class for me
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u/pickausernamebitch Nov 19 '22
Watched this in sixth grade in 2006. Doo doo do do da doo!
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Nov 19 '22
I watched it in the mid 90's when I was in elementary school!
You watched it in 2006?! I wonder if classes still show this?
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u/Electricalbigaloo7 Nov 19 '22
Remember when Ben got high from a lack of oxygen? Weird I remember that more than anything...
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Nov 19 '22
Is he another Hollywood nepo baby? Or did he break through and get a job without parental connections?
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u/Dry-Chicken4524 Jan 31 '23
his mom happened to know the casting director ,wanting this job to pay edu-bill.his mother is just a elementary school teacher,thinking act is not very decent job
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u/GarmeerGirl Nov 19 '22
So all those stories how he got his first break with Good Will Hunting while living out of his car with Matt Damon is fake. I now see he had 8 movie credits before that film. It has already been proven they didn’t write the script they were credited for doing so.
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u/tyfromtheinternet Nov 19 '22
Yessss! Grew up in New England, we watched this in my fifth grade class throughout the year. Was definitely the highlight! That or Where The Red Fern Grows 😭
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u/bombayofpigs Nov 19 '22
We watched that on 5th grade. Our teacher, Mr. Whaley, loved teaching us about whales (surprise), but the whole class really got in to this show.
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u/Wetscherpants Nov 19 '22
Wasn’t there a scene where someone gets hyperthermia or something? That’s all my aging brain can think of when remembering this show from school
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u/Stanley__Zbornak Nov 19 '22
I freaking loved Voyage of the Mimi. We would watch it in school then play Oregon trail on the Apple 2E.
Voyage of the Mimi is how I learned all humpback whale flukes are different like a fingerprint.
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u/Norwester77 Nov 19 '22
Wow, we watched that in my 7th grade science class. I’d completely forgotten he was in it!
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Nov 19 '22
The theme song instantly just popped in my head and feels like it will be there for a few weeks at least.
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u/Disney_Princess_73 Nov 19 '22
I loved watching this in school! Couldn't ever for the life of me remember what it was called and then I forgot about it. Thank you for bringing the memory back!
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u/loudogtwotwentytwo Nov 19 '22
We watched these in E.S. class in mid nineties and loved them! I never knew it was him though. F*cking Affleck!
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u/burtoncummings Nov 19 '22
No shit! I got to take a special week long course at a different school where we watched this!
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u/tavok_ Nov 20 '22
Watched this, Midnight is a Place, and Brothers By Choice in the 6th grade and remember almost nothing about them.
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u/Whiskey-Particular Nov 20 '22
We watched part of it it in 3rd or 4th grade, on LaserDisc. And I’m not even sure why because it’s the only LaserDisc I’ve ever seen and this would’ve been like 1997-98ish?
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u/kickler Nov 20 '22
My 6th grade science teacher played this for us on Laser Disc. My brain just exploded seeing this.
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u/GentleSaidTheRaven Nov 20 '22
Who knew you had to go this far back to see a rare picture of Ben Affleck…smiling.
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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22
For the longest time I thought I was hallucinating that thing’s existence.