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Name a popular culture icon or character from your childhood that is or is soon to be thought of as passe (if thought of at all). I think we've already exhausted School House Rock conversations and Smurfs are too popular an answer.
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Dick Gautier
Brett Somers
Charles Nelson Reilly
Paul Lynde
The Unknown Comic
Steve Martin's "getting small"
THe BeeGees before Saturday Night Fever
My mom's tinted sunglasses with the rhinestones with her intiitals from her visit to Caesars on my dad's business trip
Big Wheels
That big blue ball thing with the handles in the shape of an animals head (hippity hop????) that you would bounce up and down on that now resembles a stability ball without the horns.
slip n slide (the ultimate seventies suburban backyard accoutrement)
Devil Dogs and Little Debbies snackcakes (the most disgusting things ever- we kept buying em and hating em and then my dad would swoop in and say "these are disgusting" and proceed to eat the whole box- he had just quit smoking)
Benny Hill for hopeful peaks at TITS
But I will relay one story. I was at a bar and played Kids in America by Kim Wilde on the jukebox and this young lady told me she thought this song had its origins on the Clueless soundtrack.
