A lot of modern popular culture was invented in the 60s, 70s and 80s, and so us millennials born in the 80s and 90s emerged into a world where all the adults had Star Wars and Star Trek and Indiana Jones and Jaws and such on their minds, so the adults making kids shows wrote them as references to media we didn’t have time to watch yet. So by the time I was old enough to sit down and watch Star Wars, I knew the plot already. We kinda got pop culture backwards.
I didn’t grow up with Care Bears, I was raised on a steady diet of Sesame Street and Eureka’s Castle, so this specific instance is news to me but this kind of thing happened a lot. Does it still?
This is the kind of stuff producers throw into their children’s media aimed at parents watching along. It’s why movies like Shrek have so many innuendos and other things older people will pick up on.
Is there a name for this phenomenon?
A lot of modern popular culture was invented in the 60s, 70s and 80s, and so us millennials born in the 80s and 90s emerged into a world where all the adults had Star Wars and Star Trek and Indiana Jones and Jaws and such on their minds, so the adults making kids shows wrote them as references to media we didn’t have time to watch yet. So by the time I was old enough to sit down and watch Star Wars, I knew the plot already. We kinda got pop culture backwards.
I didn’t grow up with Care Bears, I was raised on a steady diet of Sesame Street and Eureka’s Castle, so this specific instance is news to me but this kind of thing happened a lot. Does it still?
This is the kind of stuff producers throw into their children’s media aimed at parents watching along. It’s why movies like Shrek have so many innuendos and other things older people will pick up on.