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the unbridgeable velvet gap between generation x and generation 5 year old

Me: So, guess what they’re showing on a huge movie screen at Dolores Park tonight?
Ada: Ooh, what?
Me: [TRIUMPHANTLY] The muppets! Want to go?
Ada: Oh god.
Me: What?
Ada: Is it the Muppet show?
Me: No, the Muppet movie!
Ada: Oh man. That’s even worse.
Me: What, you don’t want to see the muppets?
Ada: No I do not! You know what I do when people put on the muppet show for kids to watch?
Me: What?
Ada: I pretend to watch it and when they’re gone I go do something else.
Me: But… but… the muppets are great!
Ada: Hmmph.
Me: You’re a kid, Ada, how can you not like the muppets?
Ada: Because they are scary monsters that talk. [ FOLDS ARMS ]

Meanwhile, all the grown-ups I knew were sneaking off work early to get a good seat.

I fear this will be the splinter issue the boomers will use to pry us away from the millenials.

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5 Responses to “the unbridgeable velvet gap between generation x and generation 5 year old”

  1. Lee Maguire Says:
    October 10th, 2008 at 2:34 am

    I’ve always assumed the younglings were stouter than us in the matter of monsters. Certainly I’ve found it difficult to imagine the current generation cowering behind a sofa when the Daleks appear.

  2. Cory Doctorow Says:
    October 10th, 2008 at 2:46 pm

    Are you sure she’s related to me?

  3. Danny O'Brien Says:
    October 10th, 2008 at 3:14 pm

    I don’t think she’s scared of them, per se. I think she’s just insulted that she should be asked to fraternize with them. It’s a sort of “what do you think you are teaching the children of today ie me?”

  4. Faintdreams Says:
    October 15th, 2008 at 5:00 am

    Perhaps the 5 year old wasn’t exposed to the muppets at an early enough age?

    My 3 year old niece loves them but she’s grown up watching sesame street educatonal dvd’s, and hearing me read Where the Wild things are, and Cat in the Hat.

    Has she ever seen Disney’s Monsters Inc? If she liked that I can’t see a major difference between that and the muppets..,

  5. Ali Says:
    October 19th, 2008 at 5:08 am

    Me: Scott, do you like the muppets?
    Scott: Who are the muppets?
    Me: You know, the muppets Christmas Carol?
    Scott: Oh no, they’re really creepy, why? …

    I think you might be right xx

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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