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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 8496704" data-attributes="member: 85555"><p>I could be way off about the 90s. I didn't watch those kinds of shows in the 90s so I am just going by what my sister (who is ten years younger than me) says and what friends of mine who are that age say. But speaking to the 80s, we had a ton of very special episodes and "Learning is half the battle" style messaging in our shows. I don't know when it started exactly but you couldn't watch Different Strokes, Gimme a Break or Facts of Life without bumping into an episode like that at some point, and they were often proceeded by an actor explaining to the audience that this was a special episode that dealt with series issues.</p><p></p><p>For whatever reason I feel like were a little skeptical of them because they were so ham-fisted at times. They weren't as bad as refer madness, but they could get into that territory. And I think the exaggeration is where they really produced skepticism. One example is the Scott Baio movie about pot (where I think he almost kills his brother in a row boat because he is high on marijuana). And there was a similar anti-drug movie where the lead character kept his drugs in a hollowed out book, which his younger brother found, used then drowned in the pool. I also think part of the problem was you essentially had kid shows doing things that were generally better handled by school, church and other institutions in our lives at the time. The messaging at the end of GI Joe for example already felt simplistic even at like age 9 or 10. Just look at the result. They spent the entirety of the 80s telling us how bad and dangerous drugs were, and the 90s, for people my age at least, was an explosion of experimentation with drugs (and I think one reason those lessons failed wasn't because drugs don't have dangers but because they failed to accurately address the nuances of the dangers: i.e. you aren't likely to kill your brother with an oar after smoking a joint, maybe you lose concentration and motivation, and getting hooked on pain killers could lead you down a dark road, but you are not likely to die from a single pill).</p><p></p><p>EDIT: Apparently there is a wikepage on the topic: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_special_episode" target="_blank">Very special episode - Wikipedia</a> (it is interesting that I instantly liked Seinfeld from the first episode)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 8496704, member: 85555"] I could be way off about the 90s. I didn't watch those kinds of shows in the 90s so I am just going by what my sister (who is ten years younger than me) says and what friends of mine who are that age say. But speaking to the 80s, we had a ton of very special episodes and "Learning is half the battle" style messaging in our shows. I don't know when it started exactly but you couldn't watch Different Strokes, Gimme a Break or Facts of Life without bumping into an episode like that at some point, and they were often proceeded by an actor explaining to the audience that this was a special episode that dealt with series issues. For whatever reason I feel like were a little skeptical of them because they were so ham-fisted at times. They weren't as bad as refer madness, but they could get into that territory. And I think the exaggeration is where they really produced skepticism. One example is the Scott Baio movie about pot (where I think he almost kills his brother in a row boat because he is high on marijuana). And there was a similar anti-drug movie where the lead character kept his drugs in a hollowed out book, which his younger brother found, used then drowned in the pool. I also think part of the problem was you essentially had kid shows doing things that were generally better handled by school, church and other institutions in our lives at the time. The messaging at the end of GI Joe for example already felt simplistic even at like age 9 or 10. Just look at the result. They spent the entirety of the 80s telling us how bad and dangerous drugs were, and the 90s, for people my age at least, was an explosion of experimentation with drugs (and I think one reason those lessons failed wasn't because drugs don't have dangers but because they failed to accurately address the nuances of the dangers: i.e. you aren't likely to kill your brother with an oar after smoking a joint, maybe you lose concentration and motivation, and getting hooked on pain killers could lead you down a dark road, but you are not likely to die from a single pill). EDIT: Apparently there is a wikepage on the topic: [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_special_episode"]Very special episode - Wikipedia[/URL] (it is interesting that I instantly liked Seinfeld from the first episode) [/QUOTE]
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