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[–] 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I will see your all of the above, and raise you:

Even at the time I could not believe that this was indeed a thing that happened. Insert Doug Walker meme here: It's for kids!

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I will see your call, and raise.

    1000002135

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I have a fan back chair very similar to hers. It was my mom’s. She always referred to it as the morticia chair. She was big on Halloween and Adam’s family and stuff (married my dad on Halloween dressed as Frankenstein and the bride of Frankenstein)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Doesn’t that show suggest a romantic relationship between the preteen Lydia and the adult(?) Beetlejuice?

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Is this trolling? You have potentially 80s, 90s, and 00s mixed up, and then whatever the lower left is.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    But are you old enough to Have you ever, ever felt like this?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I recognize the Richie Rich cartoon on the top right. Don't know the others.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago*

    The guy at the bottom is M.A.D. (Music Art Dance) my Indian colleague watches it in background like all 8 hours he is in office.

    I'm guessing it's Indian.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Lower right is MXC

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2mS2aSRoBc

    Kenny Blankenship, Vic Romano and Captain Teneal

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Why does that Richie Rich image look like someone took that frame from an episode and asked AI to redraw it? The eyes kinda look nightmare fuel.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Bottom right could as well be Olimpiadas do Faustão

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    And you're that american, probably.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    OP is probably Indian or at least from a Hindi speaking household.

    As another commenter here pointed out the show in the bottom left is M.A.D. (music, art, and dance). It was produced in India and originally in Hindi, starting in 2005. I can't find any information about international syndication for that show but it would have been weird for it to be on TV in the US at that time.

    The Richie Rich cartoon in the top right first aired in the US from 1982-84 according to IMDB. I can't be certain if there were repeats (or "reruns") of it shown in the US but if there were its unlikely to have been a big part of kids' childhoods in the mid '00s. One thing I did find was a bunch of Hindi dubs of the show when I searched "Richie Rich India" so its more likely a Hindi language channel would have been broadcasting those dubs around the time that M.A.D. was on the air.

    Rahul is also a popular name in India and the username Rahuliy is probably some variation of that.

    Don't get me wrong I understand the frustration around the US centric nature of a lot of platforms and some of the communities here on Lemmy but that probably isn't the case here.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Takeshi's Castle is Japanese, kthx.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yes, and it was televised even in Germany. But that's not the point. The post is US defaultism par excellence, not because it depicts US-american TV shows but because it defaults to a US-american perspective and audience on an international platform.

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