Generational Trivia Thread

If you’re familiar with the term “Heavens to Murgatroyd”! you’re almost certainly a Boomer.

Holy Toledo!

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Gadzooks!

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Far OUT man…

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And it’s corollary, “Heavens to Betsy”.

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“Jiminy Crickets!”

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Jumpin Jehoshaphat!

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Groovy.

Penny wise, pound foolish.

Lucy, I’m home.

Roll em, roll em, roll em, …

Oh, Lou …

Marlboro man.

Brylcream, a little dab l do ya, …

The Giants win the pennant, the Giants win the pennant.

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Brylcreem, a little dab’l do ya
Brylcreem, you’ll look so debonair
Brylcreem, the girls’ll all pursue ya
They love to get their fingers in your hair.

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Mr Spacely from the Jetsons used that…

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Snagglepuss

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The Newbomb wins the prize.

Trivia: Murgatroyd was actually a place in England, named after a real person.

Now: What was the WABAC machine?

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it had a great theme song…

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SalUte nailed it.

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Where was Frostbite Falls and who came from there?

You’re on your honor not to Google or to do anything of the kind.

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The thing about many of those shows of that era is the dual significance of the humor. As kids, we didn’t understand anything about a place called Murgatroyd, or the in a time machine called WABAC at a time when Univac was the biggest computer around.

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Minnesota. Rocky and Bullwinkle.

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I loved the Tex Avery cartoons. There was one that took place in Coldernell, Alaska.

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Gee willikers Mr. Wilson!

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