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I have that sort of thing too.  “Mr. Big Stuff” the song brings me back into high school where we made these French videos.  Ours happened to be a satire on the teachers in the school.  We’re lucky the video was so well done we didn’t get in trouble. 

That’s just one of many.  Eighties movies always take me back to being a kid watching them in the dark with my parents and sister.  Oh and “The Wedding Singer” with my friends.

Very cute video and I have special memories with “Xanadu” too.

Goodness, Julie, you brought back some great memories for me here as I’m struggling with the project I’m working on, so I just took a mental vacation and thought of....

I Dream of Jeannie - my favorite show.  Jeannie was my role model.  She was nice, sweet and hospitable.  I found a genie-shaped perfume bottle years ago that was similar in shape to Jeannie’s (mine is white, though).  I collect perfume bottle and the genie bottle is one of my very favorites.

Here Come the Brides gave me my very first heartthrob - the delicious Bobby Sherman.  Those blue eyes and dimples made my knees weak.  He’s the only man to ever have his posters plastered on my bedroom walls.  I revered his birthday (July 12) and asked him to marry me in a birthday card that I sent him.  I was 13.  It was a sad, sad day for me when he married that awful Patti Carnel.  I still have his ‘45 of “Julie, Julie, Julie Do Ya Love Me/Seattle”.

"Book em, Dano” I don’t know how many times that was said in my house.  My Dad still says it.  Weird, Hawaii Five-O is not a show I ever see in syndication.

I just wanted to say Julie that your daughters are SO cute

We get AI here, although I think we are a couple of weeks behind the US...I like Melinda too! She has the most amazing voice! I also like Jordan, but if I could vote I’d vote for Melinda.

orannia

PS The NZ version of Dancing With The Stars has just started and we have one of the UK judges - YAH! This particular judge really critiques, which I love!

Seventies television, to me, the most nostalgic show was KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER. Loved the scary monsters, the humor, reporter Carl Kolchak running around in his straw hat, and his boss editor Tony Vincenzo shouting “KOLCHAK!!!!”

The PLANET OF THE APES TV show!

LAND OF THE LOST!

SPACE: 1999

Larry Rogers,
Space Ace

Oh my gawds that was just too funny, Julie your girls are so adorable.

As I’m writing this “Sanjaya Sanjaya” is running throught my head.

One of my favorite pop culture memory is the theme from Start Trek: The Next Generation.  Whenever I hear that opening theme I think of how when were kids my cousins and I would practically inhale our dinners so that we would be able to watch the show. I remember sitting on the floor and looking up at the t.v and just being in awe of the show.

Oh wow!  I vaguely remember marching around singing the Mickey Mouse song!  And the Star Trek song and opening shot of star fields is a very vivid memory. 
I guess for my almost 30 something dear sons it’ll be the TeenAged Mutant Ninja Turtles and the movie Goonies.

Oh and Julie, your kids are so cute.  And they are going to want to die of embarassment when they’re older.  Hang on to the clip; you’ve got great blackmail for when they are teenagers!

Angelica-- I remember Star Trek: NExt Generation as well only I was about three or four when it was on. It makes me think of being all clean (having been recently bathed, much to my displeasure) and bouncing around in my pajamas with my parents and younger brother asking if this one is Kirk or Picard. My parents started the nerd indoctrination young. Star Trek: Enterprise on the other hand makes me think of my girl scout troop as they all learned not to call our house (my mom was our leader) on Wednseday nights between 8 and 9.

I have a lot of memories tied to television shows actually. David the Gnome and Power rangers are tied to my grandmother, watching television in her bedroom before we went off to school.

My thesis is proved!  Pop culture is a much better trigger than smell!

Thanks for the kudos on my kids.  I think they’re pretty adorable (duh.  since I seem compelled to blog about them endlessly!)

About Hawaii Five-O, that was another of my dad’s shows!  And another that I’ve never seen in syndication or on DVD is the 6 Million Dollar Man.  That sound effect for the running.  It’s permeated culture!

And OMG, Land of the Lost!  The Sleestacks!  Ack, those things creeped me out.  And I would NOT go rafting for the longest time.  I was so afraid of ending up stuck in some netherworld. 

And yes, Star Trek is a huge memory tag for me (the original).  When I was in 5th grade, it showed on one of the UHF channels that we barely got.  I’d go to the den fifteen minutes early so I could set up the antennae with this elaborate configuration of an old car antennae and paperclips and tinfoil I’d concocted.  The worst picture imaginable, but I was soooo proud of myself for “catching” it!

OH My~! Your kids are soooooooooo adorable… and my 20 month old will dance in circles around the living room for only certain singers, and leave the room when others perform haha. She also sways and sings her own version of the AI songs. I am pretty sure our girls would get along hahaha.

Hmm, no I’d have to go with smells.  I’m sitting here trying to think of what rings bells for me (in terms of television) and other than Get Smart and the Muppet Show, I can’t think of much.

smells though!  Oh my goodness!  Grandma’s perfume, mom’s moisturizer, roast beef....  Sometimes I’ll smell something and it will bring back my childhood - hmm, freshly mown lawns