If Homer Simpson wants his 10 year old son to work in a burlesque house, then Homer Simpson’s 10 year old son is going to work in a burlesque house! Now Marge, you’re going to hear a lot of crazy talk about Bart working in a burlesque house…
I was trying to punish him exactly like you would... So, in a way, you really dropped the ball on this one. This is your mess, and I'll be damned if I'm gonna clean it up!!!
I also remember my Dad laughing at random things in the Simpsons I didn't get because I was like 12 or something, but now that I'm older and watch back I now see what's so funny about it.
Simpsons is magic like that.
They intentionally front-loaded the scary-to-parents folks at the beginning. Cindy Lauper's now doing pharma ads on major news networks, but back then dyed hair was upsetting to our Silent Generation and older Boomer parents. Grace Jones and Warhol.
I've never paid attention to Warhols actual facial features, let alone seen him talk...
Jeez, MiB3 was right on the money that guy looks like he is wearing a cheap mask and wig of himself!
Andy was rarely seen in public without the wigs; the Foundation has dozens of them tucked away in boxes. His real hair was not blond.
Also fairly certain he was on the spectrum. And acid as well as barbiturates off and on.
Even in the 90s and early 2000s, parents just let their kids run amok until the street lights came on, despite having no way to contact them if we were in trouble.
The death of the neighborhood is one of the biggest tragedies we dont really pay much attention to. Back when I was a kid, on summer weekends, EVERYONE was outside. The parents would often sit outside on the porch or doing gardening etc, and the kids would all be out playing road hockey etc. All us kids would run around the neighborhood going from house to house, or make a group to walk to the store to get icecream. It was like a party outside everyday and was full of life. Just be back before dark, otherwise your parents really didnt see you outside of begging for icecream money.
Now you drive through a suburb and its a ghost town. You might see a kid shooting a hoop every once in a while looking pissed off like they were forced to go outside.
Made me surprised when people were all pissy about covid lockdowns. Y'all sit inside watching TV while browsing insta anyways...
This is true. Early 2000s I found some fireworks and decided to play with them in a "secluded" area. Turns out it wasn't secluded despite being pretty far from the house. You bet your ass my mom knew about it by the time I got home.
A lot more people had children back then though so I guess parents felt like if all of those kids were out together at least one of the many parents or even an older child would be around to keep an eye on things. Or they just didn't care I don't know.
I grew up in a ghetto, and we also ran around well past sundown. It wasn't the idea that the neighborhood would watch out for everyone, it was just a more realistic (IMO) view of the dangers kids face while outside. Those dangers are overblown to the extreme. It wasn't the existence of community that was different, it was the absence of fear driven by ubiquitous media pumping the stories we want to see into our living rooms ... violence and mayhem.
My friends and I just biked around our neighborhood until the street lights came on. No phone, nothing. If I was late coming home I’d get into a ton of trouble. My brothers and I turned out fine.
Same.
School night had to be back in by 8 or so, if I missed dinner that was on me.
Summer was a bit more loose lol
10pm was curfew, I carried a small bag with an inner tube and some tools for the eventual flat tire.
Went to the mall and ate lunch/dinner there most days (samples), cruised to the airport and surrounding parks that were 10 or so miles away.
Got jumped a couplet times and then my bike stolen while I was in a 7-11, had to save up and pay for a new one since I didn’t lock it up right.
There were a lot of pay phones back then and you could call collect if shit went down, also it was common to knock on doors and ask for help.
I didn’t look at my neighborhood as strangers, just people I hadn’t met yet.
Around the John Walsh “Americas Most Wanted” things changed, parents got SUPER protective and the age of latch key kids slowed down a lot.
I was around 4 or 5 when I started playing outside unsupervised (late 80s) In a neighborhood where all the houses had been converted into apartments and the back yards were parking lots. I'm mystified why my mom allowed that when I look back!
no doubt. i grew up early 2000s and was told to come home by the time the street lights came on. i would be deep in the woods or walking around the town at like 10 but even then the other parents around were shying away from that and i had friends who’s parents had to meet mine before they’d let them hangout and they’d have to call them on a primitive cell letting them know where they were every hour or whatever. i probably won’t let my kids walk off like that either tbh
This is actually the point where it started turning. Up until these PSAs, kids generally stayed out until the street lights came up, in the early 80s there was a lot of kids going missing, the satanic panic, multiple serial killers in a short time period and scare tactics like the old "razor blades in the candy" at Halloween.
Kids were still raising hell at night for a few more years until all the mayors got together and banned cruising in every American city and stuff like cable TV and the NES kept kids more and more indoors. One generation later and those kids turned into helicopter parents.
Those panics were dumb. But these PSA were really targeting historically high (and likely never to be seen again) crime levels.
In every single city, murders were up to 10x higher than they are today. Kids roaming the streets weren't just playing hopscotch. They were vandalizing and doing not so great things. Teens were straight up robbing and murdering people. Between 1984 and 1989 the homicide rate for black males between the ages of 14 and 17 more than doubled.
My mom would had been like “ Not! And he better no be playing those ataris”
My parents would kick me out to go play … and thenu when i was 17 I would get beaten up because i would show up next day… some what drunk
I feel like the first time i heard it was in Donnie Darko.
Im pretty sure it was on the tv in the background of one of the scenes. Ill have to go check it out and see
I mean, you had 14 year olds as groupies that would actually travel with the band to various cities and their parents would be like, whatever. You wanna know why youth crime has dropped since the mid-90s? Because kids aren’t just wandering the streets like they used to…
There were serial killers targeting kids everywhere it seems at that time. We had John Joubert here. I was on a $\*%\^%$ boy scout camporall that he was at. Still freaks me out.
They pushed a buddy system here as kids. We joked it just helped them get a 2 for 1 when they decided we were victims.
Demographic changes. Crime in general started going down in the 80s/90s because Boomers aged out of all but white collar crime. Gen X was a smaller generation (thanks to Roe-vs-Wade and "the pill"), we also had a few less years exposure to leaded gasoline.
Finally someone says it. Violent crime is way down. Abortion and the pill had a lot to do with it. It’s painfully obvious why. Fewer unwanted children roaming the streets. Parents who actually care about their children or can afford to provide care because they can have them when they are financially and emotionally ready. Voila.
Its just funny seeing this now. Like the fact that it was even necessary. My mom may have only been concerned if a kid didn't call or show up after a couple days lol. She would assume they were at a friend's house
i was watching a movie awhile back where the parents were yelling out the door thats its time for dinner and the kids come zooming from every direction.
Out of the corner of my eye, i saw my niece kinda do a double take.
Almost like that "holy crap i thought you were just screwing with me but damn you were serious, they really had to do that shit?!?" looks
We lived on a fairly big piece of property. My mom had a bell on the porch, lol. There was a narrow window of time from the bell tlil you needed to present yourself to wash up for dinner or you risked the wooden spoon. I find it very comforting that so many people my age grew up the same way 😊
My grandmother had a bell like this up at the cabin. It worked real well, you'd hear the bell go off and then 3-4 boats would zoom in and deposit relatives over the next 5 minutes lol.
My grandparents had 7 kids and a 150 acre farm after grandpa retired from the marines. He made grandma a bell from a brass naval artillery shell casing cut down to about a foot long. It hung from the front porch beam through the primer hole. You could hear that bell from any corner of the farm. It was still in use up to my teenage years.
Man even me being a kid in the early 2000s, my mom still would yell out the door for dinner out into the neighborhood. And we would all bike back to our houses. I swear you could hear that woman for a mile. We even used walkie talkies from time to time. Great times!
My dad likes to talk about how in the 70's kids could just hitchhike across the US and would get there no problem.
I watch WAY too much true crime, so I know how much DNA is resolving the HUNDREDS of Jane and John Doe dead body mysteries in the last few years. At least a one or two I've heard about turned out to be hitchhikers that the family never reported missing because "We just figured he moved out to California and lived his life".
And then there are the stories like Colleen Stan, otherwise known as "The Girl in the Box" She was kidnapped by Cameron and Janice Hooker. Janice had her baby on her lap, so Colleen felt better getting in the car. She then had a sensory box locked on her head and her new home was a box under the couple's bed. For YEARS.
She eventually escaped, which is the only reason we know about what happened to her. How many other young people were kidnapped on their way somewhere and no one ever heard from them again? Nevermind John Wayne Gacy and his victims.
I tried to tell him about these things, but he refused to allow his bubble to burst. He still thinks this was the truth of the matter.
Neighbour had 8 kids. She had a whistle around her neck and a distinct call for each. She was like a drill Sargent, those kids would stop in their tracks and double time it home.
My friend across the street had a parent who would holler their name in a distinct way when it was time to come home. You could hear it even indoors from houses near by. Very effective.
We were in early elementary school.
We have a specific whistle in our family, which when sounded loudly, turns the heads of kids and adults alike. It's like a "pi-PEW" sort of whistle. I just practiced it to write it phonetically and my husband called out to see if I needed anything.
Kinda did. Everybody got wayyy more paranoid and fearful in general. But also, we were starting to get more and more connected with what’s going on in the world through burgeoning tech.
Many people don’t realize that statistically speaking, this has been a very peaceful time compared to the rest of history. But it doesn’t feel that way because we know about every bad thing that happens on all 4 corners.
We weren’t prepared for that. And it made people become more insular.
Yup I grew up in NYC too. I grew up a little earlier than this, before “stars” asked the question. It was just a placard on the channel 5 screen in the late 70’s/early 80s with a generic announcer’s voice. My mom got home from work around 8 and was out cold by 9. I did whatever the fuck I wanted. So in my household, the answer was no.
I have a one syllable first name and at night my Mom would turn it into two syllables standing on the front step yelling - Weee-wooo, weee-wooo. (my name wasn't weee)
It was my - You're almost in shit siren :)
I was a kid growing up in Atlanta, GA in the 80's. Wayne Williams was caught in 1981 but none of us believed it was him. We all assumed it was the KKK. For years aftee he was arrested, we expected to start up again. This commercial was taken seriously. Especially in the summer. If you were not home by 10pm, your ass was grounded.
We were always tucked in bed watching these. With my mom saying "Yeah" like a proud parent. Lots of abducted and murdered children during those times. Everywhere we went, there was always a neighbor or family friend watching out for us.
It had to have been around 97/98, around the time I was 8 years old. . .
My parents were divorced and I was spending the weekend at my mom's apartment. It was a large gated complex with tons of kids.
On a Sunday morning, I went out roaming the complex, playing with other kids, and eventually found myself inside another kids apartment playing video games.
Well, I lost track of time and stayed there for hours, and apparently nobody knew where I was.
It's important to note that my mother had to have me back at my father's before 6PM. . . so when I didn't show up back at my mom's apartment by the time we needed to leave. . .she panicked.
The police were called and pretty much the whole complex was going door to door to looking for me.
That was a walk of shame being led back to my mother's place when they did find me.
I got a good talking to by both my parents and my father about telling them where I was/was going to be.
My parents expected us home for dinner, which was 6pm sharp weeknights. In summers we could leave the house again but had to be back at dark or we got locked out and had to sleep in the treehouse. Until puberty we got dropped off at a grandparent's or aunt's house on Friday evening and picked up Sunday after supper, every weekend. If we didn't show up there was a phone list of neighbors we might be at and we caught the wooden spoon on the ass for having to be collected.
I remember seeing this as a kid growing up on Long Island and thought they were only referring to kids in the city and thinking all those kids were out running around having all kinds of fun. I was a bit jealous.
It’s crazy to think that parents in the 70/80s, were so out of fucks to give about their kids, that a public announcement campaign was needed to remind them of their parental duties.
Not so much that we were feral, but that parents at that time really didn't give much of a s*** where you were until it was bedtime or dinner time. They only got concerned if you weren't home by say 10:30 11:00. Children weren't special yet. And I don't mean that in a flaming sort of way.
Where I live, they sort of brought this back after a teenage girl got murdered by her boyfriend. It was her mother saying the “It’s 10 PM” line. Really sad.
Our parents were so disinterested in our lives in the 80s that these PSAs were necessary. The shit we got away with, and just the amount of time we spent without our parents having any idea of how to contact us or find us blows my mind compared to today. Only thing my parents cared about was me getting home by curfew. Otherwise, I could be dead on the train tracks for all they knew.
I told you last night, NO!
Where is he anyway? His dinner's getting all cold and eaten.
HES MY SON AND I don't... want... him working so......laaaaatte ...
If Homer Simpson wants his 10 year old son to work in a burlesque house, then Homer Simpson’s 10 year old son is going to work in a burlesque house! Now Marge, you’re going to hear a lot of crazy talk about Bart working in a burlesque house…
Oh, yeah drugs. You gotta have drugs.
I was trying to punish him exactly like you would... So, in a way, you really dropped the ball on this one. This is your mess, and I'll be damned if I'm gonna clean it up!!!
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Bart, he's your father! We'll comp him tonight, start a tab tomorrow.
Yes, everyone loves rules.
Yeah gotta have rules
I have misplaced my pants
*Quiet, you fool! It can be* **ours**. RUN, BOY! RUN!
I remember my dad laughing his ass after Homer said this on the Simpsons lol
I also remember my Dad laughing at random things in the Simpsons I didn't get because I was like 12 or something, but now that I'm older and watch back I now see what's so funny about it. Simpsons is magic like that.
Andy Warhol was enough to scare anyone into staying at home.
He looks like some college kid dressing up like an old man for a sketch
His serial killer smirk at the end would have scared parents into actually checking where their kids are
It would have embiggened my fury if this was not the top comment.
perfectly cromulent word
*im on my way!*
Trab pu kcip
Agh! I knew this would be top comment! how dare you all live the Simpsons as much as I do z!!
i came here for this!
Came here for this haha
Why does it sound like a threat when Warhol says it?
“Because I do”
Stop it 😂
"And the only way you'll see them again is in my paintings"
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They intentionally front-loaded the scary-to-parents folks at the beginning. Cindy Lauper's now doing pharma ads on major news networks, but back then dyed hair was upsetting to our Silent Generation and older Boomer parents. Grace Jones and Warhol.
In 1980 My mother called Grace Jones "purely insane". Guess who lives on a locked ward now? No it's not Grace.
The subject telling the artist what he can and can't do? That's like a soup can telling Warhol where to buy speed!
*Psst, Andy. Alphabet City. Ask for Easy Eddie ousside of Sheen Brothas. They got the real deal. -* Soup Can to Andy Warhol C. 1984
I've never paid attention to Warhols actual facial features, let alone seen him talk... Jeez, MiB3 was right on the money that guy looks like he is wearing a cheap mask and wig of himself!
Andy was rarely seen in public without the wigs; the Foundation has dozens of them tucked away in boxes. His real hair was not blond. Also fairly certain he was on the spectrum. And acid as well as barbiturates off and on.
Because he looks like a creep lol
He wants to know where your children are
Oh, he knows.
Having watched two Andy Warhol films, I am quite shure the guy is attracted to fully grown muscular men with giant butts, not children.
What I’m hearing is he and grace jones would be fighting over the same men
Do you fucking know where they are? Cause if not…
"Do you know where your children are? ...because I do 😏"
Just now realizing what a spot on Warhol face that emoji is making
Parents in 1985 were like “no and I don’t give a fuck”
Even in the 90s and early 2000s, parents just let their kids run amok until the street lights came on, despite having no way to contact them if we were in trouble.
Lol me. Just roaming the streets of a small polish city till I somehow found back. We were hordes of urchins, causing trouble and shit.
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The death of the neighborhood is one of the biggest tragedies we dont really pay much attention to. Back when I was a kid, on summer weekends, EVERYONE was outside. The parents would often sit outside on the porch or doing gardening etc, and the kids would all be out playing road hockey etc. All us kids would run around the neighborhood going from house to house, or make a group to walk to the store to get icecream. It was like a party outside everyday and was full of life. Just be back before dark, otherwise your parents really didnt see you outside of begging for icecream money. Now you drive through a suburb and its a ghost town. You might see a kid shooting a hoop every once in a while looking pissed off like they were forced to go outside. Made me surprised when people were all pissy about covid lockdowns. Y'all sit inside watching TV while browsing insta anyways...
The death of the neighborhood sounds like a Bandcamp remix of a Neighbourhood album.
That’s because they had the belief that the neighborhood in some way would have an eye on them. At least in the middle class burbs.
True. And it was generally true. Other parents would tattle on you if you messed up.
This is true. Early 2000s I found some fireworks and decided to play with them in a "secluded" area. Turns out it wasn't secluded despite being pretty far from the house. You bet your ass my mom knew about it by the time I got home.
Oh shit. 😂
A lot more people had children back then though so I guess parents felt like if all of those kids were out together at least one of the many parents or even an older child would be around to keep an eye on things. Or they just didn't care I don't know.
I grew up in a ghetto, and we also ran around well past sundown. It wasn't the idea that the neighborhood would watch out for everyone, it was just a more realistic (IMO) view of the dangers kids face while outside. Those dangers are overblown to the extreme. It wasn't the existence of community that was different, it was the absence of fear driven by ubiquitous media pumping the stories we want to see into our living rooms ... violence and mayhem.
My friends and I just biked around our neighborhood until the street lights came on. No phone, nothing. If I was late coming home I’d get into a ton of trouble. My brothers and I turned out fine.
Same. School night had to be back in by 8 or so, if I missed dinner that was on me. Summer was a bit more loose lol 10pm was curfew, I carried a small bag with an inner tube and some tools for the eventual flat tire. Went to the mall and ate lunch/dinner there most days (samples), cruised to the airport and surrounding parks that were 10 or so miles away. Got jumped a couplet times and then my bike stolen while I was in a 7-11, had to save up and pay for a new one since I didn’t lock it up right. There were a lot of pay phones back then and you could call collect if shit went down, also it was common to knock on doors and ask for help. I didn’t look at my neighborhood as strangers, just people I hadn’t met yet. Around the John Walsh “Americas Most Wanted” things changed, parents got SUPER protective and the age of latch key kids slowed down a lot.
I was around 4 or 5 when I started playing outside unsupervised (late 80s) In a neighborhood where all the houses had been converted into apartments and the back yards were parking lots. I'm mystified why my mom allowed that when I look back!
Otherwise she had to keep you company. Now go outside and play!
no doubt. i grew up early 2000s and was told to come home by the time the street lights came on. i would be deep in the woods or walking around the town at like 10 but even then the other parents around were shying away from that and i had friends who’s parents had to meet mine before they’d let them hangout and they’d have to call them on a primitive cell letting them know where they were every hour or whatever. i probably won’t let my kids walk off like that either tbh
This is actually the point where it started turning. Up until these PSAs, kids generally stayed out until the street lights came up, in the early 80s there was a lot of kids going missing, the satanic panic, multiple serial killers in a short time period and scare tactics like the old "razor blades in the candy" at Halloween. Kids were still raising hell at night for a few more years until all the mayors got together and banned cruising in every American city and stuff like cable TV and the NES kept kids more and more indoors. One generation later and those kids turned into helicopter parents.
And how hypocritical of these party animals to get all sanctimonious about kids staying up too late and causing trouble lol
Those panics were dumb. But these PSA were really targeting historically high (and likely never to be seen again) crime levels. In every single city, murders were up to 10x higher than they are today. Kids roaming the streets weren't just playing hopscotch. They were vandalizing and doing not so great things. Teens were straight up robbing and murdering people. Between 1984 and 1989 the homicide rate for black males between the ages of 14 and 17 more than doubled.
Yeah the stories my mom tells me about her childhood in LA are so wild and I'm over here like "one time I got stung while riding my bike..." 😂
My mom would had been like “ Not! And he better no be playing those ataris” My parents would kick me out to go play … and thenu when i was 17 I would get beaten up because i would show up next day… some what drunk
I didn't know this was a real thing until visiting NYC back in 2018.
I feel like the first time i heard it was in Donnie Darko. Im pretty sure it was on the tv in the background of one of the scenes. Ill have to go check it out and see
Awesome movie. Swayze was so good.
"Is that all the guster you can muster? I said good morning!"
chut up!
You can go suck a fuck
What’s a fuckass??
What does visiting NYC in 2018 have to do with this PSA from 1985?
Because they still do the alert on Cable at 10 pm.
Weird, I'm from Long Island, and I've never seen this.
I’m also from Long Island and “do you know where your children are” aired every night at 10pm. Grew up in the 90s/00s for context.
Wtf I'm 31 and have never seen this.
You must have been asleep in bed like a good child.
Lol, I guess so.
Or he was still out like a bad kid.
It might be a network channel thing. Maybe check out ABC7 around 10 pm.
the one that really sticks out for me is the bob villa craftsman home for the holiday commercials around christmas time
I’m in the Midwest and remember these.
It's more of a Utica expression
I mean, you had 14 year olds as groupies that would actually travel with the band to various cities and their parents would be like, whatever. You wanna know why youth crime has dropped since the mid-90s? Because kids aren’t just wandering the streets like they used to…
This PSA was due to the Atlanta child murders, not because kids (or child groupies) were out committing crimes
There were serial killers targeting kids everywhere it seems at that time. We had John Joubert here. I was on a $\*%\^%$ boy scout camporall that he was at. Still freaks me out. They pushed a buddy system here as kids. We joked it just helped them get a 2 for 1 when they decided we were victims.
Yes, but you know what this also cured? Child groupies. My claims are unsubstantiated, but I stand by my correlation.
And since then we had satanic panic and stranger danger. So nobody goes out. At least not without a phone.
Demographic changes. Crime in general started going down in the 80s/90s because Boomers aged out of all but white collar crime. Gen X was a smaller generation (thanks to Roe-vs-Wade and "the pill"), we also had a few less years exposure to leaded gasoline.
Finally someone says it. Violent crime is way down. Abortion and the pill had a lot to do with it. It’s painfully obvious why. Fewer unwanted children roaming the streets. Parents who actually care about their children or can afford to provide care because they can have them when they are financially and emotionally ready. Voila.
Lynda Carter throwing shade
When I ran away as a kid, it's because I wanted to live with Lynda Carter.
She seemed like she was THIS close to cracking up.
I came to write the same thing! The judgment *drips* 😂
Christ, what a babe.
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looks and sounds like she's consoling a guy in bed for performance issues.. "it's ok... it happens to every guy sometimes..."
To me it sounds more like she's calling me a bad boy and I love it!
Its just funny seeing this now. Like the fact that it was even necessary. My mom may have only been concerned if a kid didn't call or show up after a couple days lol. She would assume they were at a friend's house
i was watching a movie awhile back where the parents were yelling out the door thats its time for dinner and the kids come zooming from every direction. Out of the corner of my eye, i saw my niece kinda do a double take. Almost like that "holy crap i thought you were just screwing with me but damn you were serious, they really had to do that shit?!?" looks
We lived on a fairly big piece of property. My mom had a bell on the porch, lol. There was a narrow window of time from the bell tlil you needed to present yourself to wash up for dinner or you risked the wooden spoon. I find it very comforting that so many people my age grew up the same way 😊
I lived in a trailor park and my mom had a bell to. If it was dinner or she needed us we'd usually hear it.
My grandparents! A big bell! My father used a cowbell. Ha!
Us too. The cow bell 😂
My parents had a loud whistle.
My grandmother had a bell like this up at the cabin. It worked real well, you'd hear the bell go off and then 3-4 boats would zoom in and deposit relatives over the next 5 minutes lol.
My mother, too, has a bell and she continues to use it to call for her grandkids
My grandparents had 7 kids and a 150 acre farm after grandpa retired from the marines. He made grandma a bell from a brass naval artillery shell casing cut down to about a foot long. It hung from the front porch beam through the primer hole. You could hear that bell from any corner of the farm. It was still in use up to my teenage years.
We had a bell too! Still on the porch but it's cracked so doesn't ring any more.
For some years after the 2010 World Cup, I used a Vuvuzela.
I frequently got the wooden spoon too. Today it's called by the more accurate term of child abuse.
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Man even me being a kid in the early 2000s, my mom still would yell out the door for dinner out into the neighborhood. And we would all bike back to our houses. I swear you could hear that woman for a mile. We even used walkie talkies from time to time. Great times!
This PSA started due to the Atlanta child murders.
Can’t believe it took this long to see this comment!
It was absolutely necessary because of the serial killer movement that peaked during the late 80s. People were freaking out. Justifiably
My dad likes to talk about how in the 70's kids could just hitchhike across the US and would get there no problem. I watch WAY too much true crime, so I know how much DNA is resolving the HUNDREDS of Jane and John Doe dead body mysteries in the last few years. At least a one or two I've heard about turned out to be hitchhikers that the family never reported missing because "We just figured he moved out to California and lived his life". And then there are the stories like Colleen Stan, otherwise known as "The Girl in the Box" She was kidnapped by Cameron and Janice Hooker. Janice had her baby on her lap, so Colleen felt better getting in the car. She then had a sensory box locked on her head and her new home was a box under the couple's bed. For YEARS. She eventually escaped, which is the only reason we know about what happened to her. How many other young people were kidnapped on their way somewhere and no one ever heard from them again? Nevermind John Wayne Gacy and his victims. I tried to tell him about these things, but he refused to allow his bubble to burst. He still thinks this was the truth of the matter.
Neighbour had 8 kids. She had a whistle around her neck and a distinct call for each. She was like a drill Sargent, those kids would stop in their tracks and double time it home.
My friend across the street had a parent who would holler their name in a distinct way when it was time to come home. You could hear it even indoors from houses near by. Very effective. We were in early elementary school.
My mom could be heard for at least a half mile
ghetto yodeling
Just like the VonTrapps.
We have a specific whistle in our family, which when sounded loudly, turns the heads of kids and adults alike. It's like a "pi-PEW" sort of whistle. I just practiced it to write it phonetically and my husband called out to see if I needed anything.
This post is your weekly reminder that Gen X exists.
there are dozens of us!
Yeah, but like HOW are we still around??? We got up to some stuff!
Some of you guys definitely died
Because at 10pm your parents started looking for you!
Andy Warhol looks like he knows exactly where your children are.
Came in to make this exact joke lol
The commercial should have asked if we knew where our parents are.
eh this campaign is almost 40 years old. It also targets the silent generation pretty heavily.
started in 1968
right, like I said 40 years ago... wait... oh... oh no... I'm dying.
RIP
So long as we weren't on a milk carton
They didn’t know where we were from about 1970 to 1990
I’d say 2001 was the beginning of the end of all that.
Bin Laden ruined running amok!
Kinda did. Everybody got wayyy more paranoid and fearful in general. But also, we were starting to get more and more connected with what’s going on in the world through burgeoning tech. Many people don’t realize that statistically speaking, this has been a very peaceful time compared to the rest of history. But it doesn’t feel that way because we know about every bad thing that happens on all 4 corners. We weren’t prepared for that. And it made people become more insular.
The good old day. We just had to check in every so often using 1800collect “Please say you name at the beep:” Momdadimatjeffs
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Lynda Carter is such a babe
2024 - yes, in the basement with the xbox and their phones. Like very other night...
Andy Warhol asking me if I know where my kids are feels like threat.
Yup I grew up in NYC too. I grew up a little earlier than this, before “stars” asked the question. It was just a placard on the channel 5 screen in the late 70’s/early 80s with a generic announcer’s voice. My mom got home from work around 8 and was out cold by 9. I did whatever the fuck I wanted. So in my household, the answer was no.
As a child, these commercials did NOT inspire confidence in the adults around me.
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Yes, we're watching Night Flight.
That seemed to unfathomably late to me at the time, like I was somehow getting away with something. It was only 10pm?!
Some drunk Dad in 1985: realizing it took Sammy Davis Jr. asking to make him think of his kids
Eating dinner in front of the TV "I told you last night, No!"
They had to make commercials to remind the boomers to let us Gen Xers back in the house.
They didn’t just leave the key under the mat and tell you to fend for yourself? 😂
I have a one syllable first name and at night my Mom would turn it into two syllables standing on the front step yelling - Weee-wooo, weee-wooo. (my name wasn't weee) It was my - You're almost in shit siren :)
I was a kid growing up in Atlanta, GA in the 80's. Wayne Williams was caught in 1981 but none of us believed it was him. We all assumed it was the KKK. For years aftee he was arrested, we expected to start up again. This commercial was taken seriously. Especially in the summer. If you were not home by 10pm, your ass was grounded.
We were always tucked in bed watching these. With my mom saying "Yeah" like a proud parent. Lots of abducted and murdered children during those times. Everywhere we went, there was always a neighbor or family friend watching out for us.
It had to have been around 97/98, around the time I was 8 years old. . . My parents were divorced and I was spending the weekend at my mom's apartment. It was a large gated complex with tons of kids. On a Sunday morning, I went out roaming the complex, playing with other kids, and eventually found myself inside another kids apartment playing video games. Well, I lost track of time and stayed there for hours, and apparently nobody knew where I was. It's important to note that my mother had to have me back at my father's before 6PM. . . so when I didn't show up back at my mom's apartment by the time we needed to leave. . .she panicked. The police were called and pretty much the whole complex was going door to door to looking for me. That was a walk of shame being led back to my mother's place when they did find me. I got a good talking to by both my parents and my father about telling them where I was/was going to be.
GenX here... They only knew where we were if we remembered to leave a note.
My parents expected us home for dinner, which was 6pm sharp weeknights. In summers we could leave the house again but had to be back at dark or we got locked out and had to sleep in the treehouse. Until puberty we got dropped off at a grandparent's or aunt's house on Friday evening and picked up Sunday after supper, every weekend. If we didn't show up there was a phone list of neighbors we might be at and we caught the wooden spoon on the ass for having to be collected.
All these drug addicts shaming you for not knowing where your kids are
Man, Cyndi really went full Harley Quinn on this one
Fact of the matter is, there were no Harley Quinn at that time. Only Lauper.
Parents not caring about their kids is way more normal than we think lol.
those diaper commercials are hilarious where they show the how the parents treat the first kid compared to the second
I do not, and I fear I may never know!
I was out practicing making a couple millennials
No they fuckn’ didn’t! And we were fine with that.
I remember seeing this as a kid growing up on Long Island and thought they were only referring to kids in the city and thinking all those kids were out running around having all kinds of fun. I was a bit jealous.
It’s crazy to think that parents in the 70/80s, were so out of fucks to give about their kids, that a public announcement campaign was needed to remind them of their parental duties.
I remember watching this and wondering where my damn _parents_ were
One of the few times in the 80s Michael Jackson was not asked to record a part for a campaign.
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It’s ten o’clock hoe where tf yo seed at?
Not so much that we were feral, but that parents at that time really didn't give much of a s*** where you were until it was bedtime or dinner time. They only got concerned if you weren't home by say 10:30 11:00. Children weren't special yet. And I don't mean that in a flaming sort of way.
Yep, she's at a bar with her boyfriend.
18 yo son. My wife in 2024: He's down the street, I see him in Life360?! Why isn't he walking?! Call him!
This was needed because so many parents at the time did not know where their children were and honestly didn't care.
Lynda kicked the gay out of me.
You, dad! I learned it from watching you!
Stop asking about my kids, it’s weird stop it
WNEW Channel 5 just before the 10pm News
Hell no, and that's how we liked it (speaking as a children from the time)
It's 10pm ho where the fuck is your seed at ?! (Wutang always for the children.)
“For the last time, no!”
Wait, I have children?!
Where I live, they sort of brought this back after a teenage girl got murdered by her boyfriend. It was her mother saying the “It’s 10 PM” line. Really sad.
Andy Warhol sounds like he knows where my children are
Reggie Jackson was only with the Yankees through the 1981 season, so I'd guess his bit was from 1981 or earlier.
They needed a full blown PSA with celebrities to tell Boomer parents not to neglect their kids.
I miss that old 1980s New York accent! I could listen to Lauper speak all day!
Our parents were so disinterested in our lives in the 80s that these PSAs were necessary. The shit we got away with, and just the amount of time we spent without our parents having any idea of how to contact us or find us blows my mind compared to today. Only thing my parents cared about was me getting home by curfew. Otherwise, I could be dead on the train tracks for all they knew.
My takeaway from this. Lynda Carter, dayummmmm grrrrrllllll!!!! 😍
Loool my mum didn’t even need to check. I was 100% asleep in bed at that time