Epic Win: The Wonder Years
Submitted by A Mlay
It’s probably a good thing this show isn’t out on DVD, or we’d leave the house less than we do already. The reason the show isn’t out on DVD-except for a couple “best of” DVDs, which don’t count in our book-has to do with the cost of securing the music rights. The Wonder Years always did have a great soundtrack, starting with the opening credits:
Pay up, production people! Or stop being greedy, record labels (har)! We LIKE staying at home with good TV!
What happened to Kevin, Winnie, Paul and the rest of the Arnolds after the jump:
First…woo hoo
Did you know that singing in falsetto at least once a week reduces your chance of colon cancer?
is that so? not that i don’t believe you, but where did you read or hear about this at?
I answer all “first” trolls with a fake health PSA. That way, I’ve written something that’s as stupid as their comment.
ROTFL!
Then I’m never getting colon cancer. Ever. Because I not only watched this show darn near religiously, I just spent three hours on YouTube browsing what’s out there for the Wonder Years and singing loudly to my empty apartment. The cats hid.
It was a touching moment.
This is strictly a win site except for friday fails (Strictly friday fails!) Now. Bow your head in shame and go crawling back to failblog where you belong!!!
I’ll admit it, I used to watch this show every week.
I did too! I was totally in love with Fred Savage (and Wil Wheaton) growing up.
I’ll admit the same. I also taped every episode… Aaahhh… just a young lil child droolin over “that nerdy kid right there” cus I never could remember his name.. but I knew… ‘For a nerd.. that kid sure is hot….’
Daria’s another show that isn’t on DVD because of music rights, and another one I’d snap up in a heartbeat if it was. *sigh*.
Ya, same with WKRP. Paying a cheaper licensing fee that expired in 10 years. I heard some where they are trying to release WKRP season by season, dubbing over the original music with new music they recorded in their own studio.
Look on eBay….
I have the entire series on DVD.
I submitted this WAYYYY before this person did and didn’t even get credit for it……
oh no! you should sue somebody for this…
or alternately, kwitcherbitchin.
Winnie was so pretty. I envied her hair.
She’s now a highly lauded mathematician.
She’s HAWT.
She’s hot and has a giant brain. We loves us some wimen like that.
ha! i loved this show. i’d buy it on dvd.
watching the credits reminded me of an argument i had with my ex-husband about the song. he vehemently argued that the beatles COVERED this song and that joe cocker actually wrote the song and performed it first. what a maroon! we never resolved this argument, either (this was in the days before google). he probably still thinks this is a joe cocker original.
one of the many many reasons he’s now my EX-husband.
“What a maroon!”
I think I love you. Yay for old Bugs Bunny quotes! Sorry that you had a stubborn ex-hubby. Don’t you hate how they have to be right on every insignificant matter?
i’m glad someone got the bugs quote and didn’t correct me for spelling ‘moron’ incorrectly!
Oh man. If they’d done that I woulda had it screencapped and submitted to Failblog faster than the MAROON could blink.
My sister’s pathetic baby daddy’s claim to fame is he was Savage’s stunt double. Err…the back of his head…
Loved this show. But It bummed me out why Winnie and Kevin could never stay together.
So glad to hear that she’s so educated. She even wrote a book, Math Doesn’t Suck: How to Survive Middle-School Math Without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail
Yay!
I was a tad too young for this show when it first came out but I loved to watch it any chance I could (I believe when it was in syndication)
I loved this show. It was one of the shows that my brother and I would watch together. I’m not sure when it first came out, but I just remember watching it. I’m an ‘87 baby so I’m guessing I was probably seeing re-runs when I was little.
Still an awesome show though. Has M*A*S*H been on here yet? I love that show too. I have the first 6 seasons on dvd, and want to get the rest.
Damn it, even though I never watch this show (knew of it though) I still got a tear watching the last video. Emotional heartwarming stuff.
Never watched this. Avoided it as a romanticized depiction of a time that was horribly painful for me personally. And that’s an understatement. You puppies don’t know what a horror the 70’s were for some. Not to mention the so-called “liberated” 60’s. The militarists say “Freedom isn’t free.” I say freedom isn’t as real as THEY would have you believe. And if you can’t tell who THEY are you’re probably one of them.
Always someone around to try and sh*t on someone elses memories. You make your own life, go play the victim somewhere else, douche.
What memories? It was a TV show. I loved it too, but I also know fiction from reality.
Uh….yeah. I watched it because it was entertaining, not because it claimed to be a historically accurate representation of societal issues and movements. But thanks anyway…
Did you take your meds today, by the way? And are you wearing your tin foil hat or not? I’m guessing not!
You didn’t need a tinfoil hat back then. I was born in ‘74 but I’ve talked to people who actually lived it when they were old enough to remember. Of course, this TV family was in the ‘burbs and we all know suburban life’s one big bubble in the first place… I loved the show too but IT WAS A TV SHOW.
i rememeber the first epasode came on after the super bowl. my parents let me stay up and watch it. one of my favorite shows of all time.
The ending reminded me alot of the end of Stand By Me. Daniel Stern (Voice of the older Kevin) was the perfect voice to reflect on Kevin’s life.
Tuesday night on Leverage, the dad in this was the mobster they were conning…and I could not for the life of me remember the name of the show!
Hi,
I had completely forgotten this one. Phew! But, I used to love watching it. Thanks for reminding me of this.
Oh, also the popular media debut of Alicia Silverstone as Mysterious Chick at Drive-In Theater, in a couple episodes in the final season.
Winnie was my first girl-crush.
While I didn’t see this show on its original run, I did see it on Nick@Nite when they use to have good shows on it. Anyway, I loved this show. It was sort of like The Adventures of Pete & Pete. But more serious.
Winnie’s actress is now a super-mathematician and is a part of a team that developed some important equation together; her name is in the name of the equation. She also wrote a math book for middle- and high-school girls.
I really want to buy it, even though I’m quite sure it’d make no difference with me. (I’m the biggest math-idiot on the planet.)
Actually, you CAN buy the whole series on DVD on eBay. It’s just copies of the episodes that someone must have taped off their TV long ago, but it’s commercial free and complete. You just have to look at a tiny “Family Channel” logo on the bottom of the screen. Probably not terribly legal, but what can you do.
I would watch this show every chance I got, I was born in ‘82. Looking back, I miss the late 80’s early 90’s.
Danica McKellar went on to get her degree in mathematics, including publishing a paper that got her an Erdos number (4). With her Bacon number of 2, that gives her the Erdos-Bacon number 6.
Go Winnie!
I know I’m a little late to this party, but does any else find it amusing that we’re reminiscing about about a show from the 80’s that was reminiscing about the 60’s?
I hate that my mother was right about everything old being new again…
i loved this show
wasnt there a funky rumor going around that paul was amrilyn manson? lol
i loved this show
wasnt there a funky rumor going around that paul was marilyn manson? lol
this show was very annoying, snotty attitudes, i thought.