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TGIF Throwback: Full House, Family Matters & Friday Night Nostalgia · D-constructing Topics

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  What's going on, everybody? That's what you need to do.
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  Well, boy, the legend of the host of the legend of the podcast,
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  the Deconstructing Topic Podcast.
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  And what's going on today? Today we got fun one.
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  For those of my beautiful people that remember, long time ago,
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  channel ABC network, work.
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  Here in New York City was Channel 7. I had a Friday night lineup of comedy shows,
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  funny family comedy shows.
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  And the lineup was very legendary because it was called the TGIF.
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  Yes, TGIF lineup, Family Matters, Full House. We're going to be talking a little bit of it all.
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  And we're going to get a little tidbit. But once again, hit that like,
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  Oh yeah, we're going to have a good one TGIF, it is not Friday as I'm recording
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  this And yes, a lot of people And I'm going to say this For those people who
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  remember these shows as the Full House,
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  Family Matters Do you remember Family Matters, Urku? Did I do that?
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  My goodness Wow TGIF Friday,
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  Shows Actually, TGIF I'm going
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  to give you a little something that's going to blow your mind
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  tgif in that concept
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  of these tv shows actually stood for thank goodness is funny yes people was
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  like what i thought it was thank god it's friday you could say it is but it
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  was more knock on board on play with thank god it's friday but it's actually
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  thank goodness is funny and i believe that these commercials in the beginning of the late 80s,
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  where it says, thank goodness, it's funny.
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  Because it is something that I grew up in growing up here in the United States.
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  It's one of those things as a kid. I always look forward for Friday. Yeah, it's Friday.
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  And in a time where they just say for the young folks out there,
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  for those people who might not have, you know, cable was not a thing in people's
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  household. We have to put the little antenna, you know, the team antenna, whatever it is.
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  And then Fridays was always that thing as a young kid. You couldn't wait until Fridays.
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  You just want to just go to sleep late, then wake up early to watch the Saturday
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  cartoons. But what better way to start?
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  But then the TGIF TV lineup of ABC, ABC Network, and what a lineup.
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  And me growing up once again in the United States in the late 80s.
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  I couldn't look forward for these uh shows especially
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  you know channel seven in my part i don't know
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  where if you're listening to this i'm not sure what abc or what channel it was
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  in your uh town city or whatever it is but those tgif friday let's go my goodness
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  and let's start the show shall we let's get it Yes, yes, yes.
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  Oh, I heard it so, guys, and now.
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  I love, I love, I love, I love, I love, I love the plate on the story
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  but we make it happen but perfect
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  strangers now perfect strangers was the uh show
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  of these two perfect strangers from shi town
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  chicago it was a good show we had a couple
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  of people there you know doing that thing thing or whatever
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  it is but yeah i do remember one of them name is bulky which is the squirt quirky
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  european i believe individual so it was these two men who decided to live together
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  and they were strangers whatever it is it was a good show and it was the first show in the lineup,
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  That I remember in the TGF Friday. I really enjoyed Perfect Strangers.
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  Followed by. So now Perfect Stranger would be the 8 o'clock.
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  Then followed by Full House.
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  Full House. You already know that Full House started bobsagging.
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  And a lot of folks out there. You already know.
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  You got the. What's his name? Is it Joey?
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  Cut it out. I think that's it. You guys remember. You know. Cut it out. The uncle. You know.
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  You know. Full House. It was that show because it was a single father.
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  You know what I mean? I raised him as daughters.
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  And then you have the uncle, the cool uncle, the other cool uncle, kind of funny guy.
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  You know, you had the daughters and so on. And then you had the twins where
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  we playing the character one, the Olsen twins.
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  Full House was a beautiful show. It was a cool show. It was learning.
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  You know, sometimes as a young kid, you know, watching those shows,
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  you'd be like, oh, my goodness.
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  And Full House was one of those shows in the second that you would be like, oh, this is so cool.
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  Then followed by Mr. Belvedere. Now I'm looking at a list of when and where these things came out.
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  Mr. Belvedere was interesting because Mr. Belvedere was a butler.
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  I mean, he was from England, I believe. And it was not bad, but,
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  you know, the character was a funny dude, Mr.
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  Belvedere. You know, I think at this point I'm like, okay.
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  But in the late 80s, once again, you got Full House.
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  And then for those people out there
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  who remember now keep in mind it's
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  this for those people out there who remember family
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  matters oh erku oh my goodness erku is erku the legendary erku played by jaleel
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  white i believe his name is and it was an interesting show you know my understanding
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  when it comes to family matters you know because i was doing a little bit of kind of search,
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  you know, research on these kind of, you know, these little wonderful,
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  beautiful episodes, that's why you got to hit that like, comment, and feel free to share.
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  My name is David, and I'm your boy, your legendary.
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  But Family Matters, my understanding is that the show became the Urkel show
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  for those people out there who know the character Urkel.
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  He stands because he's this quirky, nerdy kid, you know, with the pants all
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  the way up to his belly button and so on.
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  So it's an interesting show because my understanding is that the show was not about him.
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  It was supposed to be about, you know, the cop car. I believe that's his name.
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  You know, the wife and the family could just be an extra neighbor, whatever.
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  But then the whole show kind of shifted to him. And the rest is history.
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  Family Matters was one of those shows that I really, really, really enjoyed.
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  Part of it because you have Full House and you have Family Matters.
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  And then, you know, obviously Perfect Strangers. Now, there's one that just said just the 10 of us.
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  And I'm trying to remember as well. So even though I'm trying to remember,
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  you know, because a lot of these shows, I can top of my head to be like,
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  oh, man, I kind of forgot the name.
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  Or maybe I do remember the name. I just do remember the premise.
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  So just the 10 of us is another one.
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  It's interesting because also the famous, the famous TV show.
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  I can ask a new show or whatever report in 2020 was on Friday.
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  And guess where I got a lot of my smartness from? 2020.
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  2020 had that interesting thing for those people out there. You already know
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  that 2020 meets perfect vision.
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  So 2020 was kind of part of the block, even though it was not comedy.
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  It was the news kind of, you know, reports and so on.
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  So 2020 was a very legendary show for me as well. So once again,
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  you know, these shows as time and we're talking about early 90s,
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  there was a one that it was called Going Places. I might not remember.
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  Baby Talk was one that I do recall.
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  And it was OK. That was the one with a baby talking baby. And I believe Tony
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  Johnson did the voice of the baby.
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  But the show didn't last that long. So I'm kind of a little interesting step
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  by step. because then at this time, I believe Full House was moved to a Tuesday,
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  you know, because Full House became ABC's number one show, if I'm not mistaken.
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  So it was put in like kind of in a Tuesday or Wednesday and then Step by Step came in.
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  Step by Step is like stepsisters, brothers, whatever, step family.
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  So it's one of those things, it's kind of like a, you can say a little modern
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  version of Brady Bunch perhaps, perhaps.
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  But that's one of those things that I kind of enjoy that show.
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  You have Kent Wilder Was another one But the one that was kind of odd And I
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  kind of enjoyed it But did not last long Was Dinosaurs So Dinosaurs.
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  It's basically, excuse me, a show of dinosaurs. You know, it was kind of puppets or whatever it is.
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  And they had this little baby, you know, who's your mama? Who's your baby?
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  Something like that. For those people who remember out there, dinosaurs.
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  And I always kind of remember, you know, because the show didn't last long.
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  And, you know, it was a show that was kind of, how can I say it to you?
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  You know, it was a family show, but it was kind of like hard to like,
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  okay, what can we do next?
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  You know what I mean? a bunch of people dressed in dinosaur costumes,
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  you know, kind of like the Flintstones in a sense, but just you got to watch
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  the show. It's kind of interesting.
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  If you ever see dinosaurs, put it in Dinosaurs TV show.
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  And I always kind of remember the last episode because it was a little bit interesting
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  because, you know, it is dinosaurs, but, you know, the show,
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  whatever, you know, with the storyline of a family.
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  But the end of the show, it looks like the father's looking out the
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  window and they see the meter and basically they
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  just say well i guess this is the end you know what i
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  mean so that's an interesting one as well
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  as we continue continue continue with the tgif friday block for those out there
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  boy meets what boy beats what was another classic show you know kids cool school
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  kids whatever it is you know i know and i think that they were made one with
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  Girl Meets Were, I think,
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  recently with, you know, with the kids or something to that effect.
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  Sister, Sister, obviously, was another one. Hanging with Mr.
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  Cooper. I enjoy hanging with Mr. Cooper.
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  That's the one with the basketball guy. I think he was a basketball player,
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  and then he decided to be a, I kind of forget.
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  Sometimes I forget the premises of some of these shows, and people be like,
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  well, I thought he was doing research on it.
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  You know, I love to do research, but at the same time, I love to kind of just
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  go deep to my memory bank and say, wow, I remember, I do remember hanging with Mr. Cooper.
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  I believe I went to another different network after that.
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  And, you know, as you get older, once again, step by step, hanging with Mr.
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  Cooper, we're talking about in the mid-90s.
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  By the time that, let's say, in the late 90s to at least 96,
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  97 is when I'm a teenager. Then I also was a homeless teen.
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  You know, so I didn't watch that much. I know that Sabrina the Teenage Witch was a big show.
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  Clueless, based on the movie. You know, for those girls out there,
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  you know, that remember Clueless, basically.
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  You know, girls that are clueless, but funny. boy meets world
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  once again but you know boy meets where it's it's going
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  a little bit different because now the kids are becoming looking more
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  little like young adults than just teens
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  so they kind of change the time of that step by step i know step by steps last
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  a while sabrina the teenage witch teenager i don't know and boy it's funny because
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  boy meets world and i believe that Supreme of the Teenage Witch.
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  As time passed because these shows being
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  on TV for like two or three years again this is a time where these teenagers
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  are turning to young adults then the TV shows start to change the theme of kind
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  of like from teenage issues to kind of like young adult issues so definitely
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  kind of interested but for me that's what I remember the most.
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  They had two guys, a girl, and a pizza place by this time I'm You know,
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  I'm done. The Hugelys, that's another show, you know, the old Hugely.
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  But once again, at this time, it's like TGF Friday for me. It's like whatever.
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  But I do remember Family Matters, again, Full House. And for those people out
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  there who grew up in the 90s, late 80s, 90s. Yes, yes.
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  Indeed, ABC looking forward for those Friday nights, 10, 11, 12 years old.
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  Oh, my goodness. And then sometimes, you know, I have my mother or somebody
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  would give me like $5 and I'll rack up $5 on candies,
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  I was next to, I was living next to where there was three bodegas where I was living.
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  Three, next three bodegas next to each other. And they all specialize on something.
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  Now, the one that was what I would call, or what we call the middle,
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  was the candy store. Was the one that had all the candies.
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  It was smaller of the other two, but they just basically had a lot of candies.
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  And that's when I rack up the now ladies, the Jolly Ranchers, the Chico's thing.
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  Oh, the sunflower seeds. I mean, my table, this is what I would do.
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  Friday night, my table, I had this table, was piled up with candies, drunk sugar.
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  Jesus Christ, I don't know why I did that, but I did that. That was me on a Friday night.
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  And then sometimes I got to sleep at 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning.
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  Keep in mind, we're talking about in a time that there was no internet,
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  no nothing, just straight up TV.
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  But TV was good. But TV was, how can I say to you? It was very informative.
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  You learn something, even with these shows.
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  2020, you know, I geeked for 2020.
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  Investigated, you know, journalism. That's the name I'm looking for.
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  And then, you know, once again, it started changing.
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  Obviously, TGIF was not the same after the 2000s. Because, you know,
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  2000, it just, once again, cable became a thing.
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  Friday, more like, because keep in mind, this block of ABC shows that were competing.
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  Again, there were other shows which I would love to talk about.
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  CBS and NBC was trying to compete as well, trying to get into the fight.
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  Because look, in a time back then, again, TV was more instrumental.
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  And it was something where at least TV and TV shows put family together.
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  That's why they had these family shows.
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  So even me, hey, listen, I watched it with a couple of my, you know,
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  my sister, my brother at one time, but it was more for the most part because I'm the youngest.
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  It was me alone watching these shows, racking up on all those,
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  racking up on those candies. Oh, let's go.
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  Sorry about that. I had to take a little bit of water here as I'm doing this beautiful podcast.
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  But indeed, if you out there, what was your favorite TV show of this ABC TGI
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  Friday lineup? I don't know which one I would pick.
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  I would say that. How can I say to you?
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  Full House Family Matters is probably the two most that I remember.
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  Obviously, 2020, even though it's not a comedy show, but Full House and Family
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  Matters and Perfect Strangers, the ones that kind of I gravitated to.
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  Dinosaurs, because of how unique it was. I always remember Dinosaurs because
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  it was definitely a unique show. So hanging with Mr.
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  Cooper and Sister Sisters was kind of me as I can growing up.
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  I'm trying my best to watch. But, you know, my fighters was a little bit different as a teenager.
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  But, hey, listen, make a comment. Hit me up if you did not know also that TGIF
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  on that lineup actually stand for.
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  Thank goodness is funny.
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  Ooh, let's get it. You already know. Holla at your boy. It's the legendary Deconstructing Topic Podcast.
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  And I'm out once again.
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  Make it happen enjoy all the good stuff and go back to the youtube and watch
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  all these shows and give you that nostalgia feeling like hey my goodness my
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  fridays was so cool friday was definitely cool but anyways i'm out of here my
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  folks take care and i'm out peace i'm out.