• zabadoh@ani.social
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    7 months ago

    Where would a young person even encounter Bewitched and actually watch it these days?

    It’s on various streaming services, and maybe that sitcom/classic TV channel on digital broadcast

    You’d actually have to seek it out to watch it, as opposed to coming across it when channel surfing.

    Another American cultural reference that will be lost to technology…

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      7 months ago

      Yeah it was different as a kid, I had Nick at nite before it was it’s own channel so the cartoons rolled into I dream of genie, bewitched, Mary tyler moore, dick van dyke. Welcome back cotter, happy days

      I’ve seen pretty much every episode of these shows even though they were an easy 20 years before my time.

      You can stumble across it on Pluto or tubi but who would bother when YouTube exists and these shows… I’m not sure they hold the test of time even though I look back on them fondly.

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      7 months ago

      Who even channel surfs anymore? You have to seek out everything now. I find myself watching Pluto just because you can find random shows without having to know about it already.

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      7 months ago

      I’ve never actually watched an episode but do know about the general premise somehow, I think through references to it in other media. I was able to figure out most of the joke even though I don’t know the character names.

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      7 months ago

      I think it’s on Tubi which is free and young people can figure it out. But they won’t stumble upon it like you said