• butter@midwest.social
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    15 hours ago

    Drive in theaters use your car radio now instead of those little speakers. Though overall the niche was replaced with movie theaters.

    Fountain drinks are probably about the same. Though some places can do things like chilling the line. Again, the niche was largely replaced with cans and bottles. For their shortcomings, they keep fizz in much better than fountain.

    They might have us beat on happy days. I didn’t watch it.

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      3 hours ago

      Happy Days was fine when there wasn’t much on. The Golden Age of TV was much more recent though. People born in the '90s probably had the best TV at the right age. In 20 years they’ll be nostalgic for some really good shows

      Those of us from the '70s and early '80s probably had the best movies and the most disappointment in their remakes and sequels (what’s the thought process? “We’ll get in on this movie nostalgia and redo this movie from the '80s. Let’s optimise it for 10 year olds”)

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      11 hours ago

      You aren’t missing much on Happy Days, it’s pretty boring and generic.

      The main contribution to society was probably the phrase “jumping the shark”.