Our parents and their parents all tried to conform to a type of idyllic family stereotype that was never attainable. Family members were ignored and ostracized for behaving outside that stereotype. Excuses like “it’s a fad” started specifically because of the need to explain away the behavior without allowing any follow up questions.
It took a long time but we are finally able to embrace our differences and recognize what’s actually normal. Conservatives are still fighting to live that unattainable lifestyle and mad at everyone else cause they can’t.
I want to be stereotyped. I want to be classified.
See kids, what we have here is a top notch descendents reference. Often overlooked, but never unappreciated
I want a suburban home. I want to be a clone
All good man, nobody’s gonna kink shame
I love the kinks!
And could you imagine what that does to you mentally? Trying to square the circle? I’d imagine people that subscribe to that ideal have vastly higher domestic abuse rates. As long as they aren’t murdering small animals and hurting other people, your kids and family are growing fine.
This just screams MST3K PSA!
We required high levels of conformity to win the coming nuclear war.
No punks in the Wolverines!
Oh man a version of Wolverines set in a city where punks fight the Russians would be awesome
I’d watch it.
Best I can do is Buddy Holly fighting Russians with a samurai sword.
This picture looks like the basis for 1/4 of the Kids In The Hall’s skits.
I feel like Bruce McCulloch had a closet full of flannel shirts with the arms cut off.
fire fire fire, fire on my BRAIN
The Nelson’s are about to find out…
That their son used an entire bottle of Elmer’s glue and now sleeps face down to keep that mohawk standing up. They’ll spend time understanding his interests because they love him very much.
YouTube has several copies of this, here’s one:
That’s Bernie Kopell, aka Siegfried.
I think of him as Doc from The Love Boat, but that works too.
Oh, I thought it was the dad from ALF.
You were not alone in that belief. Someone else said the same thing. His name was Max Wright, incidentally. Sadly, he passed away in 2019. He is occasionally confused with Austin Pendleton, Max from The Muppet Movie, who has the same name as Max Wright, which doesn’t help. To make things even more confusing, they were once in the same movie- Simon*, which came out in 1980. Austin is, thankfully, still with us.
*It’s like K-PAX if the psychiatrist was the one who convinced the guy he was an alien.
My favorite role was Baron von Butcher.
Did some Googling and found he was in a sketch in a 1994 episode of Saturday Night Live that was a TNG / Love boat crossover.
But I can’t find a clip on YouTube!
Ten Forward needs this!
Wait what?! Which??
That kid’s moments away from flipping off Spock on a bus.
Starring… a de-aged Brad Douriff, in the role of a lifetime!
not “we”, only the squares among us.
I’d take them with me to the yearly punk rock festival. Duh.
And “ring around the collar”
*Gasp!*
