“Happy Days” portrayed the 1950s when the 1950s weren’t even 20 years in the past. Last week saw the premieres of two new series, “Quantum Leap” and “Reboot,” that explore similar territory.
FWIW, the Fonz’s Saturday Morning Cartoon introduced time travel, and the original timeline for the Fonz was given as 1957 Milwaukee. So it might even be a bit younger than you were originally thinking.
Also, “Step Right Up” seems to exist in that strange place between “Step By Step” and the easily-forgotten “Step Up” movies. I say “strange” because it seems to be fertile ground for a Shazaam/Kazaam Mandela Effect instance. Bet ya a sawbuck that people start claiming “Step Right Up” actually existed.
I love this. I did remember the Saturday morning cartoon, but there was already too much shoe horned into that newsletter. 1957 is pretty late for the live action Happy Days given that they were several seasons deep before they started talking about the 60s. The original season was deliberately vague about the actual year.
The amazing part to me is this: if we were having this conversation in 1974 about media from as far back then as Happy Days is now, we'd be talking about 1926. Yikes.
FWIW, the Fonz’s Saturday Morning Cartoon introduced time travel, and the original timeline for the Fonz was given as 1957 Milwaukee. So it might even be a bit younger than you were originally thinking.
Also, “Step Right Up” seems to exist in that strange place between “Step By Step” and the easily-forgotten “Step Up” movies. I say “strange” because it seems to be fertile ground for a Shazaam/Kazaam Mandela Effect instance. Bet ya a sawbuck that people start claiming “Step Right Up” actually existed.
I love this. I did remember the Saturday morning cartoon, but there was already too much shoe horned into that newsletter. 1957 is pretty late for the live action Happy Days given that they were several seasons deep before they started talking about the 60s. The original season was deliberately vague about the actual year.
The amazing part to me is this: if we were having this conversation in 1974 about media from as far back then as Happy Days is now, we'd be talking about 1926. Yikes.
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