Blasts from the Past... circa 1969

Both of the kids have discovered a new favorite TV show recently, and just by coincidence, they are both from 1969!! Any guesses on what it may be? They are not related at all, except for the year!

For Zoey, it is The Brady Bunch!

Please cue the music,

"Here's a story, of a lovely lady..."

Her friend from school has the DVDs and started watching them, so she let Zoey borrow the first season. I honestly wasn't sure what she would think, but she has been enjoying them for the most part. She loves the episodes where the Brady's dog, Tiger, seems to get into trouble. And she makes funny comments like, "all the boys look exactly alike! Even the Dad, how weird!" And oh the Brady's, they were soooo NOT PC! The girls only cook and sew and the boys do sports and that is that! Zoey asks things like, "Only boys don't play baseball, right? That is just silly! Are they just joking? Girls can play too! Remember, we saw it on TV?" (She remembers the girls softball from the Olympics.) We are only watching the first season, when they are all young and cute. I don't know how far we will go from there. I do like the innocence of it, though. For the most part, there isn't much on the show that I don't want her to see... which is drastically different from TV today!

And for Max...Scooby Doo!! Also, 1969!! Again, I would not have thought he would have liked it too much because of the scary aspect and just in general it isn't quite like the stuff he normally likes, but then I got to thinking... Max loves, loves, loves that slapstick type of humor (like the Three Stooges, with the falling and bonking and stuff.) He just cracks up and has since he was a little baby watching older kids snowboard down a hill and falling!!

So after we went to a friends birthday party who had a Scooby cake and Max just kept talking about Scooby Doo, I thought I would find a show and let him see it. And then I remembered all the things that happen to Scooby and Shaggy that I knew Max would find funny! But what about the scary parts? I mean they are riding around in the Mystery Machine, looking for ghosts and zombies and witches, after all! Well, 1969 scary is not the same as 2009 scary in terms of TV! It doesn't even phase him really. He is just laughing at Scooby and Shaggy and all the shenanigans they get themselves into! And for the first day he just kept laughing to himself about Scooby and "Zaggy"! So Cute!


The funny thing for Ross and I, is that we totally remember the episodes and watching them ourselves! Ross was a Brady Bunch Scooby Doo fan!