• Hyacin (He/Him)
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    49 hours ago

    Holy crap, I forgot this was even a thing … I was awash with memories and feelings as soon as I read the title.

    It was M.A.S.H. for me … parents watching reruns, I think, as I’m not that old.

  • @Odo
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    38 hours ago

    Cheers. Every weeknight, walking down the hallway to the sound of “Making your way in the world today takes everything you’ve got…”

    • @tpyo
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      17 hours ago

      I’m not familiar with M.A.S.H. (though I know of the show) to know that song. So I read it to myself to the tune of this beaut

  • @[email protected]B
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    17 hours ago

    This question reminds me of the early '70s, in Italy, when only a state-owned TV channel was broadcasting, and without ads. Except between 8:30 and 9:00 pm, in a special time where the spots were like little show, the children were watching them with their eyes glued to the screen, and then… bedtime! It was “Carosello”, and for the whole Italy: “the children to bed after Carosello”!

  • @[email protected]
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    3015 hours ago

    Not always bedtime but the stopwatch to start 60 Minutes was a weekly reminder that the party is over and school is imminent.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      515 hours ago

      Damn, I felt that. 😩

      That ominous stopwatch ticking every morning meant that it was time to get on the school bus and that the party was over.

      • @Spiralvortexisalie
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        14 hours ago

        Wait what? You watched 60 Minutes everyday? It was always Sunday evenings from my memories, during winter usually right after a Football game, don’t remember the exact timing tho.

  • lemmy689
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    310 hours ago

    Not really a show, but Im familiar with the old CBC (canada) sign-off. Wasn’t really my bed time either, I have insomnia disorder, I would just read books after the tv went off-air for the night. I’m also familiar with the CBC sign-on, and the first program on in the morning was 100 Huntley Street, followed by the PTL Club, before Jim and Tammy Faye went to jail.

    • @Today
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      514 hours ago

      Hey Willie!

    • nocturne
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      915 hours ago

      My bed was in view of the living room TV, as long as I kept my head under the covers and pretended to be asleep I could watch MASH.

    • @[email protected]
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      515 hours ago

      For me that meant that dinner was half an hour away. That tune always makes me hungry now.

  • @[email protected]
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    413 hours ago

    i love lucy.

    we would all drop what we were doing; get together on the couch and watch it every weeknight when my parents starting enforcing a bedtime to help get them more sleep out of their working schedules.

    • Lucy :3
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      17 hours ago

      Context: A German show which plays after all other shows, and the song is about the children falling asleep.

      Also, if you then heard Bernd, you obviously stayed up too long (but that was kinda the point, I love Bernd)