On one hand, all the streaming, YouTube, Twitch, TikTok... we just weren't able to distract ourselves with new content the same way kids are today. Same with music, really-- they have everything at their fingertips, and we only really had what was available.

There are certainly kids today who listen to way more music than I did and watch way more old movies than I did solely because of access too... but those kids are definitely the exception, not the rule.

That said, I bet most kids didn't know anything about MASH beyond "MASH was a TV show." And most of them had no idea what Barney Miller was or SOAP or some of the other monster shows from two decades prior. I do think relative ignorance of cultural touchstones is to be expected via the generation gap, even if our generation maybe had a *fraction* more awareness of at least the *existence* of those touchstones.

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